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Reply | When was intent removed from the laws of the game?
at 15:39 29 Apr 2025
I watched Partick Thistle v Fakirk on BBC Scotland via iPlayer on Friday night. We don't have Sky and I saw a rare opportunity for me to watch a FTA game so did.
First half ref booked a Partick player for a meaty tackle, then sent him off for a ridiculously soft foul 10 minutes later.
Second half with 11 minutes to go a Falkirk player commits an identical foul to the Partick's first half yellow - straight red, mainly it seemed because the ref got mobbed by Partick players, insane decision. |
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Reply | Sky Sports Breaking News
at 15:03 29 Apr 2025
How's Hammarby's current manager doing? Maybe if he's any good after Marti goes we can pinch him, then the same after etc, and in effect treat Hammarby as our de facto recruiters. |
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Reply | Furlong
at 14:30 29 Apr 2025
In another footballing era Darnell would have played 400+ games for us across his whole career as Captain and one-club man.
Alas those days are gone but he'd still be excellent at this level, just a shame we've missed his best year's. |
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Reply | Subbuteo - Playing out from the back
at 14:27 29 Apr 2025
I'm at the age where Subbuteo was starting to come to the end of it's time as the video game took over but I has it.
I also had a cricket one where the batsman had his bat on a piece of string you pulled and the fielders all were open handed/legged and that's how you got out. I can't remember how the bowling worked though. Anyone have that? |
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Reply | National League Conundrum ?
at 14:22 29 Apr 2025
I've also known them as Merthyr Tydfil/Merthyr Town, when did the letters swap over?! |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 13:44 27 Apr 2025
Paul Heckingbottom's having a good go at it at the moment at Preston...seems to be going well for him... |
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Reply | Sheepsh*ggers down
at 21:05 26 Apr 2025
Painful.
To be fair though, when was the last time we had one that people could attend? Not sure I remember us having one for quite some time now. |
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Reply | Consolation Prize
at 20:42 26 Apr 2025
Its a real decline of a managerial career, he made a good managerial name for himself at Blackburn and even that one year at Fulham, but its been pretty disastrous since then. I can't imagine any other top flight manager of the last 20 years who's dropped down to manage in the fourth tier. I suppose Ian Holloway counts but he's not a "name" in the same way Hughes is.
In a sense fair play to him because I suppose money wise he doesn't have to. |
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Reply | Political Flag in the Q Block
at 17:27 26 Apr 2025
I like the Trevor Francis one.
Non-flag question but something I've always wondered...where does the Captain Jack song come from? It sounds a bit hooligany but never really known for sure or how it came to be. |
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Reply | Our away end
at 15:28 26 Apr 2025
I read relatively recently that us and Sheffield Wednesday are the only current FL clubs to have not built either a new stand, or new stadium, in the past 40 years. |
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 14:45 25 Apr 2025
I dunno, financial institutions are always very keen to point out that past performance is not indicative of future performance... |
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Reply | Bonkers conspiracy theory involving Man City and us
at 14:44 25 Apr 2025
Rooney is definitely being tongue in cheek but I'm sure there are sad little incels on Twitter and the like that still bleat on about it to this day.
13 years on now...man...get a life. |
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 11:08 25 Apr 2025
I pretty much agree with everything you've said Dave, and I think it shows ultimately to be truly successful in football, certainly in this league/country, it simply comes down to how much money you spend on your main squad of 20, and everything else is ultimately irrelevant.
For some clubs that's been by the buy-low-sell-high model, but actually very few clubs have achieved success that way. Brentford/Brighton sure...Bristol City this year but its taken them years and they've still had near misses the other way several times.
For the vast majority - its just rich owners ploughing money in and hoping it all works out. All our models can be well and good but when you've got the likes of Leeds/Sheffield United coming down here with seven times our wage bill its just impossible to compete over a season.
If we continue this same trajectory/strategy, we'll just carry on treading water in the bottom third, circling the drain until eventually we fall through.
That said, I'm not saying I'd advocate the owners going "fk it" and whallopping millions in, breaking all spending limits and hoping for the best, we've done that already and know all too well how disastrous it can be if/when it doesn't work out.
Its all quite disheartening overall... |
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Reply | club
at 12:32 24 Apr 2025
Great career, horrible scrote of a person. Sod that. |
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 09:40 24 Apr 2025
I've said before Nourry strikes me as a nepo-baby who's in because Daddy knows someone. In fact I actually wonder how much of his stated background, if any, is true. I listened to a podcast from Tortoise earlier this week about a guy who's blagged himself a career in high level civil service and Silicon Valley companies by faking a background in private schools, high level universities, and military service in Afghanistan.
Obviously cannot say that is Nourry also because I have no evidence for it (before I get sued yadda yadda), but I'm a cynical person and he doesn't come across as trustworthy in the slightest to me. Remember one of the quotes we saw when he was first appointed claiming he was the "Lionel Messi of the football business"? Ha!
If he genuinely has been walking around the training ground in his own initialled tracksuit he would without a shadow of doubt in my mind have been a figure of ridicule amongst the players and coaches. A football executive has no business prowling training pitches in their own branded tracksuit. Les Ferdinand was different because he played and scored goals at the highest levels and players would respect that element - they will not respect some jumped up public school kid doing the same.
I knew three years ago we'd regret getting rid of Warburton and I was right with the disasters that followed (that Marti has had to rescue from the dumpster fire). If they do the same again they will absolutely regret it again. |
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Reply | April 23rd
at 16:36 23 Apr 2025
Next time we have a home game on April 23 we get him into Forever R's perhaps?  |
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Reply | Substitutions
at 19:27 21 Apr 2025
I still can't understand after all this time why football doesn't utilise a stooped clock system. |
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Reply | Paul Smyth
at 18:31 20 Apr 2025
Maybe it'll cheer up the Norwich fans who moaned like mad about their guy getting done for the off the ball elbow at LR earlier this year... |
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Reply | Do Saints really need Ronnie Edwards?
at 18:30 20 Apr 2025
He's rubbish, Southampton might as well just pay him off so he can become a free agent and some hapless bottom third of the table outfit can sign him and hope he does alright...  |
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