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Reply | Barca v Inter semi final CL
at 10:43 7 May 2025
We're so used to seeing that feint as a seemingly pointless bit of hesitation and then it thuds into 3 defenders.
That was how it's done, and a good clamber onto the big gate afterwards. |
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Reply | Season perspectives
at 10:13 6 May 2025
Please don't now make yourself out to be the victim by focusing on dyslexia and the use of AI. My wife uses it for her dyslexia and it helps her a lot.
The issues with your approach to this are numerous and include:
1) The content that you stand behind, e.g. claiming 'stability' at this moment!
2) Your lack of responsiveness on perfectly fair questions, only to then say you were speculating - pathetic at best, suspicious bullshit at worst. Now it's the use of AI which could have been gently raised pages and pages ago if you are a real person - which we unfortunately still have to wonder!
3) Your attitude - you were the first person to discuss people throwing punches however metaphorical, calling the editor of this website a cyber bully ffs, suggesting anyone who disagrees with your farcical content is a sheep, talk of 'standing your ground' (do me a fcuking favour) etc etc.
A lot of examples for that last one - so if you're trolling you're a right tit regardless, if you're trying to influence opinion for anyone behind the scenes I've seldom seen a worse effort, if you're legit I'm equally disinterested.
Probably worth having a look at how you're going about all of this. (Another) new account might be an idea. |
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Reply | Snooker
at 20:08 5 May 2025
Superb stuff. Williams going out on a high whatever happens. |
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Reply | Kelman?
at 13:37 5 May 2025
Without reading the whole thread, and yes he hasn't set the world alight previously with us, I think it would be very QPR of us to NOT bring Kelman back.
21 league goals in 46 league games. Shirley we have to get him back for preseason and see what we can get out of him. His confidence has to be high and if the quality still isn't there we can offload him back to League 1 at Xmas. |
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Reply | Season perspectives
at 18:31 4 May 2025
Edited out the 'laugh' I see.
That cheeky cabernet is going to wear off and you'll have a tricky call to make in the morning. |
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Reply | Season perspectives
at 17:12 4 May 2025
Ok, let's try this:
Can you answer the very first question you were asked? What your source is for the following.
'The Ben Williams situation clearly had an impact – he was offered a big opportunity abroad and took it, which is understandable. But the void it left in the football department was felt. That said, I’ve heard that’s now been addressed for next season, which is good news.'
Thanks [Post edited 4 May 17:13]
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Reply | Season perspectives
at 16:28 4 May 2025
Jesus H Christ what a thread.
I can't tell if it's a bot (what is a bot again?), or AI, or a human using AI, or a human who really should be using AI, or the effect of the morning coffee (presumably with Jane Asher passing a slice of the most scrumptious lemon drizzle cake), or what.
Either way I fully agree on the reading the room point made earlier - just let us process things at the end of another exhausting rollercoaster and piss off with whatever this is. |
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Reply | Cifuentes on gardening leave
at 16:22 30 Apr 2025
Very true. A successful side needs a little group of these prospects that pushes the team up the table, and let's the others look better by not being replied upon.
But if your recruitment is lacking (based on limitations of money/strategy/egos/fcuk knows) it also impinges on your culture, standards etc. |
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Reply | Cifuentes on gardening leave
at 16:07 30 Apr 2025
To be honest, not paying much attention to it at other clubs, I don't know. Am sure you're right, it's just felt quite front and centre at times in terms of how the club markets itself.
Might be interesting to look at the extent to which clubs push that message and their relative league positions over time. You'd have to control for an insane amount of other factors of course. |
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Reply | Cifuentes on gardening leave
at 15:43 30 Apr 2025
Have been thinking about that same thing for a few months now (sometimes the penny drops slowly for me.)
When that concept was first raised (a few years ago maybe?) it sounded a bit like pragmatism, possibly realism. Maybe it would allow us to get a few players who we might not otherwise have got.
I've now come to think it's one of the elements that has caused successive squads to phone it in, drop out injured for long periods, look generally disinterested and any number of other issues we've seen. You can also say it's the way players are these days, no argument there, but that policy seems relevant. |
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Reply | Cifuentes on gardening leave
at 22:25 29 Apr 2025
People coming on and moaning about posts being pro-Marti, or even pro-Nourry are missing the point I think.
Nourry seems to have at best tied himself into pursuing the breach of contract approach, so we can presumably avoid paying up all or part of his contract. That's the best he can hope for now. But if the word is out that they don't get on he should still have had it about him to make a semi convincing argument that he's determined to put it all behind them and look forward to next season.
Even if it was complete balls it would have been a position. Instead he's just spat his dummy and made a childish power play that could cost us whatever small but useful compensation we might have managed to get. |
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Reply | Cifuentes on gardening leave
at 21:05 29 Apr 2025
And why give up any semblance of leverage?
It's all very well WLS saying it's different to the Holloway case but it's got exactly the same stink of fish about it. |
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Reply | Furlong
at 18:43 28 Apr 2025
If this is Kim Jung Nourry's fcuking idea of positive spin and media slight of hand to distract me from Marti's impending departure....
...I must admit it's a very decent effort |
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Reply | Marti on today and his position going forward
at 12:09 27 Apr 2025
I don't think he'll be here next season. They can't even seem to agree behind the scenes on what the target was - or at least that's what I've decided to conclude from Marti raising it in every interview for the last 3 days.
For what it's worth (zero) I don't think the target was survival at the beginning of the season - they set it a lot higher than that, without ever actually coming out and specifying it. And I don't disagree with him that the injuries across the squad changed that significantly.
But I don't think Nourry will see it that way, at least not enough - he'll hit him with a spreadsheet of data on overlapping player availability, squad selections, XG, VAT, the greatest hits of XTC and the average monthly barometric pressure in the Cook Islands, and it'll spiral downhill from there. Yesterday's result was just a bit more fuel to the fire - that was not the interview of a man who feels he's still a central part of the vision going forward.
Personally I think we should suck it up and try to move forward together (minus that tit in Dubai). Acknowledge all of the mistakes across all parties and have a clear, practical plan to address them. But we won't. Depressing stuff. |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 18:18 26 Apr 2025
Have to agree with that. If Frey can play a half then start him and let us try to get a foothold in the game. We've seen before holding it up is not Kolli's game.
Same for Chair - start him and let's see how he's feeling at half time.
I'd argue Morgan might have given a bit more legs too but can understand he's tailed off. |
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Reply | **BURNLEY MATCH THREAD**
at 15:30 26 Apr 2025
For me it's lucky Marti has a decent amount of credit in the bank.
Yes they're £50m better on paper but we needed to be far far more aggressive, both in our mentality and our actual play. Colback is getting booked in the second half for mouthing off / not moving back - what about kicking somebody up in the air, remember that? Did any of them?
Weak. |
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