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Reply | Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents
at 03:21 24 Dec 2025
In my experience, the older and closer you are to a person, the more lead in time you need to 'groom' them (sorry to use such a base term) into natural acceptance.
So, get a couple of vouchers throughout the year when opportunity appears. For example, she mentions she wants to read a book. You go straight to Waterstones buy a voucher, then present it as, 'I must be getting old, as I just couldn't remember (don't say I forgot the title what ever you do), and I didn't want to spoil the surprise, so I got you a voucher.' A bit ambitious, but aim for Crimbo 2027, with a voucher for an 'experience' and voila, you're in!
Mrs PH's present this year, a scuba diving thing* (see, I just got the voucher, no real idea WTF it is). Bit pricey, but saved a packet on wrapping paper and sellotape. Thank me later**
* thinking about it, she might have groomed me there!
** voucher naturally. [Post edited 24 Dec 3:23]
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 03:00 24 Dec 2025
If you look closer you'll see the spherical object to the player's right, is actually a ping-pong ball. |
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Reply | Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents
at 18:11 23 Dec 2025
Vouchers. Problem free and fail safe down the years.
In relation to things I'm more useless at compared to wrapping: ironing tends to be a case of...that'll do. Parking...near enough, that'll do. Using cling film which goes...'FCUK IT!! Mrs PH.....!' |
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Reply | Afcon
at 17:31 23 Dec 2025
The crowds have been quite poor!
Hopefully FIFA weren't left in charge of ticket pricing. |
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Reply | 35 years ago today
at 17:28 23 Dec 2025
I was out in Oz them days, and a mate wrote to me after he got home from the Baseball Ground.
He said he knew we'd get something from the game when they drove past a van with a load of Rs in it, dressed up as Snow White and the seven dwarfs!
I've no reason to doubt him, and what an effort from the chaps. |
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Reply | Chair
at 06:02 23 Dec 2025
As long as the play doesn't always have to go through Chair all the time, and he's not the only player to take set pieces, then for me, he and we are better for it.
He's got better players in a better team around him, and his performances showed. But as we've seen without him, we can manage. Something managers before Mon. Stephan couldn't always say.
Thus, with the extra competition, Chair is not an automatic name for me. That said, if he's on it (and that now seems to also mean being fit), then it's easy to see why he would be!
Such riches unimaginable not that long ago! |
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Reply | Madsen
at 10:23 21 Dec 2025
The real interview that was the fame changer for me, was the one he gave in Girona. Frank, honest, almost vulnerable in his admissions and wishes. After that, you couldn't but wish the guy all the best, and he's delivered by the bucket full since.
Maybe his experience is something we 'all' could do with remembering the next time we sign someone who's struggling. |
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Reply | Full backs and Wingers
at 10:16 21 Dec 2025
I wonder if SUFC inserted a recall clause?
I can't remember the timings here if his alleged falling out up there was with CW or the bloke he replaced. Either way, RND has just looked solid from day one. No frills, just gets the job done and he's had some tricky fcukers to handle. He's the bloke I thought we were getting when Bidwell came. |
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Reply | Standards
at 06:31 21 Dec 2025
Had to expect something from LCFC after the break, and I thought we managed it well. However, we did have some good chances where we could and should have increased our lead.
I still think Buzz and Kone's first touches can improve, and we can also improve our decision making in the final third. Equally, consistency is a target. You look at some of our performances and you think, the POs are not impossible and then a week later, they serve up a Norwich, Wednesday, or Derby and you're reminded that we're actually still developing.
Still, looking at it in the round, they all played really well yesterday and everyone contributed to an excellent team performance. JS also got everything right as well, and that includes the Nehru cut. He's beginning to look as smooth as Brian Ferry on the touchline. |
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Reply | Our Pitch
at 06:14 21 Dec 2025
There's the main reason, a lack of sun.
Stadiums also need to allow air to circulate around and out. If I'm not mistaken, a lack of sun and poor air circulation were why the pitch at the San Siro was poor. |
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Reply | Fox hunt match thread
at 15:53 20 Dec 2025
Crickey....when was the last time we were four-up at HT? |
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Reply | Oh, For Fox Ache - Match Fred
at 14:49 20 Dec 2025
I just can't see how AI is going to be able to probabilistically calculate what Mbengue is going to do!
I mean, AI is clever stuff, worryingly so, but I just don't see us having the necessary processing power to successfully predict what our man will do. |
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