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Reply | FA Cup Draw Monday Evening
at 09:28 5 Dec 2025
Perhaps a draw that isn't absolutely rubbish would ignite some passion! The last 20 years have been some seriously slim pickings
2006 - Blackburn (a)
2007 - Luton (h)
2008 - Chelsea (a)
2009 - Burnley (h)
2010 - Sheff U (a)
2011 - Blackburn (a)
2012 - MK Dons (a)
2013 - WBA (h)
2014 - Everton (a)
2015 - Sheff U (h)
2016 - Forest (a)
2017 - Blackburn (h)
2018 - MK Dons (h)
2019 - Leeds (h)
2020 - Swansea (h)
2021 - Fulham (h)
2022 - Rotherham (h)
2023 - Fleetwood (a)
2024 - Bournemouth (h)
2025 - Leicester (a)
Most fun out of that lot would've been Fulham at home... but it was Covid so the ground was closed. Chelsea away in 2008 was great tbf
A winnable home game against a decent sized Prem opponent /rival hasn't happened in 20 years. (Bournemouth don't count... I mean c'mon)
Meanwhile we've played Sheff U twice, MK Dons twice and Blackburn 3 times.
We haven't even had a 'fun' away day... perhaps last year at Leicester counts
Home to any of W. Ham, Spurs, Chelsea, Brentford
Away to someone like Borham Wood, Sutton or Slough would be brilliant |
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Reply | New stadium for London
at 12:11 3 Dec 2025
I think the only London clubs that appear 'stuck' are us and Chelsea
Arsenal - New stadium in last 20 years
Spurs - New stadium
W. Ham - New stadium (although it's awful)
Fulham - Huge redevelopment
Brentford - New stadium
Chelsea - Desperate to move as they can't expand
Palace - Approved plans for redevelopment
Millwall - Stadium is about 30 years old. No idea what they have planned
Charlton - Decent sized stadium which they periodically update
QPR - Cramped, atmospheric stadium that is falling down
Wimbledon - New stadium
Orient - Getting a new stadium
Barnet - New stadium and plans afoot to move back to Barnet and build there
Bromley - Stadium renovated less than a decade ago
Still convinced the answer is to knock it down stand by stand and build a smaller, but better functioning stadium. If it seated 15k but had better facilities it would likely make more money |
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Reply | Isaac Hayden
at 11:31 1 Dec 2025
The centre of midfield has been a disaster waiting to happen all season.
Varane really not reaching the levels of last season, Madsen improving but not exactly pulling up any trees.
Byond that we have Field, who is now a left back, and Morgan, who is now a right back, and an aging Hayden.
If we make it through the season without getting sucked into a battle for relegation with hose 5 as our options then we've done very very well.
It's where the money needs to be spent in this squad (and without selling anyone next summer I worry if we have the money to actually do it) |
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Reply | QPR - State of Play
at 09:14 18 Nov 2025
Reasons to be positive:
We have points on the board and aren't playing catch up already, which is nice after the last few seasons! There should be enough decent players (Dunne, RND, Varane, Chair, Saito, Poku, Kone, Burrell) to put together half a decent side that has a fun season before ultimately ending up 12th
Reasons to be worried:
Echo Clive's thoughts on the Nourry bots who seem intent on shouting down any criticism of the club. He's done some things well and some things badly, not sure why it's becoming this culture war. I don't think the youngsters are actually that good (Kolli, Morgan, Walsh and Esquardinha). They need to be out on loan and fast. The keeper situation is a farce, but easily fixed in Jan
What I am hopeful for:
Some fun. I'd give my left bollock for us to be 2-0 up by 50 minutes on Saturday and just be able to enjoy the afternoon! |
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Reply | Ingerlund
at 21:27 16 Nov 2025
I do think the 'England fail whenever they play a top side' mantra a bit of a myth these days.
In Euro 2020 we beat Croatia and Germany
In Qatar we beat African champions Senegal
In Euro 2024 we beat the Netherlands
In Qualifying/Nations League games we've beaten Italy, Belgium and Spain
We've lost to Croatia, Italy, France and Spain |
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Reply | Kolli
at 15:14 10 Nov 2025
The amount this kid is spoken about is nuts.
He's played 35 games and scored 5 goals with 2 assists. |
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Reply | Expectations for the rest of the season
at 09:29 10 Nov 2025
Expectations are mid table. We should be 10th - 16th.
We now have a lot of wingers/10's who cannot score and 2 strikers.... Issue is that Madsen and Varane behind them are patchy and their back ups are being used at full back because the recruitment was poor.
Bit of luck and we finish 10th.... bad injuries and bad luck then we will be grinding out points here and there to finish 16th.
Of course you stick a proper keeper between the posts, defence settles down, Varane and Madsen hit top form at the same time, Chair works in the 10 behind one of your decent strikers, you suddenly have a good Championship side... but that will rarely happen across a 46 game season |
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Reply | Kolli
at 15:16 6 Nov 2025
Ben Williams in the canteen with a Samurai sword |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 11:38 3 Nov 2025
This is why I'm convinced The Man They Call Coops will end up somewhere and walk to promotion. Nobody is actually any good!
That Saints team that lost on saturday had Ronnie Edwards, Harwood-Bellis, Downes, Manning, Azaz and Armstrong all starting plus Joe Aribo and Tom Fellows on the bench.
Any semi decent manager will be able to come in and start to rocket up the table when they post back to back wins against Rob Edwards Middlesbrough and Alan Sheehan's Swansea |
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Reply | Kolli
at 11:16 3 Nov 2025
I'm just not sure Kolli is that good. He's not quick, he's not tricky, he's not strong... he just sort of exists in the forward positions |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 11:15 3 Nov 2025
Looks like Gary 'Gaz' O'Neil is going BACK to Wolves. So that takes him out the reckoning for the soon to be myriad of Championship jobs |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 19:21 2 Nov 2025
It's all just Championship slop at this point.
I'm not sure any manager in this league is actually any good.
Liam Manning was a good manager doing good things, now he is not. Marti did a good job at QPR, now he's a bit shit. Chris Wilder had Sheff U moments from the Prem, now he's a bit rubbish.
Does any of it actually matter? Is Frank Lampard really a good manager or do Cov just have a group of players maturing at the right time?
We are all a bit unhappy with JS post Ipswich, lets be honest does any manager in the division make any difference? Does Ryan Mason turn us into a slick passing xG machine? Doubt it.
Nathan Jones is probably the best manager in the league, but he's deeply flawed. Mousinho, Eustace, Rowett... all just fine, Championship slop managers.
Saints will be fine because they have good players and will hire a Championship Slop manager to get them up the table. Will Still will probably be a much better manager for this and end up doing a good job at Preston in a few years.
It's all just slop |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 19:05 2 Nov 2025
That's very annoying ahead of Wednesday.
One assumes they bring in a Carrick type manager or 'the man they call Coops' |
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Reply | Worst places you have visited for an AWAY day fixture !!
at 10:28 31 Oct 2025
When I was at Uni in Manchester I did a lot of the Northern towns and they really do all blend into one. My two miserable memories though...
The old temporary stand at Blackpool slowly sinking lower and lower into the mud mirroring Rangers sitting deeper and deeper trying to preserve a 0-0 in the pissing rain.
The Rangers defence didn't hold, luckily the stand did.
A 0-0 in the freezing cold at Barnsley with a couple of hundred Rangers fans rattling around a stand built for 6000.
Before the game I went to the 'leisure centre' at the top of the hill to get warm, but decided I'd rather just sit in my car after spending 5 minutes in there |
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Reply | the golden generation England debate
at 10:40 16 Oct 2025
Euro 2020 we had a really tough group. Croatia, Scotland, Czech Rep. was certainly not straightforward.
Beat Germany in the L16 as well and didn't concede a goal until the semi finals!
Cocked it up v Italy in the final. Had them on the rack and panicked.
Euro 2024 was crap but we still beat a handy Swiss side and the Dutch before narrowly losing to Spain in the final.
Best performance under Southgate was in Qatar where we demolished Iran, Wales and Senegal then lost a tight game to France because our greatest ever striker picked that moment to miss a penalty. |
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Reply | Cannon and Baltic: Latvia 🇱🇻 v 🏴 England Match
at 08:58 15 Oct 2025
This England team always looks so much better with 2 in midfield.
The idea of 'Rice holding and two bombing on' is for the birds.
HAS to be Rice and Anderson/Wharton. We look so much better for it |
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Reply | The new England ?
at 11:33 10 Oct 2025
Last two games have been very impressive for England.
Clear system and style of play now. We look very strong and durable with Andersen and Rice as the midfield two.
One imagines Bellingham comes in for Rogers eventually but the side seems very settled and hopefully the shoehorning in of players not in their position will help us (which is something Southgate never used to until the last Euros when he decided to play all the players all the time) |
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Reply | Kolli up front in a two
at 15:14 8 Oct 2025
I actually see Chair as the Burell replacement. Stephan says he wants him in the middle influencing things and you've already got Saito, Smyth, Vale, Poku and Dembele to play on the wings so don't think he plays there.
Kolli could drop even further down the order |
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