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Reply | Could we go up.
at 12:07 22 Dec 2025
But if we did…
Would you prefer the Sunderland route of player turnover dropping £150m on 'random' euro signings at £20m a pop in the hope of staying up. Somewhat selling their soul in the process, but hey now we're big time again.. anyone still got Kia's digits..
Or invest the minimum in players / Ipswich style hoovering best of champ, bank the rest, pay off debts and maybe even fund a new stadium... even if that meant doing a Luton?
I know which I’d rather. [Post edited 22 Dec 12:09]
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Reply | Kone goal
at 17:50 21 Dec 2025
Also for our 1st goal watch how he puts his head in and wins the 50-50 to start the attack middle of the park, if he doesn't win that Saito doesn't score.
It’s little things like that that stack the deck in your favour. In a league as competitive as the Champ, those small details add up and can decide games. |
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Reply | Players with great starts who then wobbled
at 12:54 17 Dec 2025
Terrell Forbes!
An absolute monster in that 1st season down in L1. New contract (or was it some allegation) and was never the same again. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 10:30 16 Dec 2025
Decent front line of Dave II, Diaz and Brewster should see them do well.
Cant see Agyemang staying long as looks a handful in this league + Diaz only loan. Gamble looks to have paid off though as coming up from L1 and signing a £5m striker is ballsy, probably sell on for double that. [Post edited 16 Dec 10:31]
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Reply | Middlesbrough F.C V Queens Park Rangers Match Thread.
at 17:05 14 Dec 2025
Boro deserved that for sure, we were naive and played into their hands. But what fustrated me was when still in the game 1st half we failed to take advantage of our situations.
We had 2 almost identical situations with Smyth running at them on the break. Play it left and Saito is 1-1, the second scenario was literally 5 on 3 in our favour and he runs down a blind alley (again, play it left and Saito is 1-1). Not saying it would have changed much but so infuriating when i know these situations are practised in training daily, to not even get a shot away from either was just criminal.
Looking at that Boro team, no real superstars and most of the same crop from recent seasons, just extremly well drilled and effective at what they do. |
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Reply | Middlesbrough F.C V Queens Park Rangers Match Thread.
at 14:13 13 Dec 2025
Also x2 home games and tucked up in bed by midnight tuesday, as apposed to somewhere on the M40 same time wednesday night.
That extra rest should give us at least 30 mins before we start tanking. |
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Reply | Full strength side for West Ham
at 12:52 9 Dec 2025
Exactly this. Looks like a clean week off either side of WHU game. Sheff Wed at home the week prior is the better game to ‘experiment’ or blood a few youngsters (within a competitive team), after the xmas pile-up.
Back yourself and go all out for the win here. DS players can play in any of the other 20 games remaining. |
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Reply | Tylon Smith makes senior squad for South Africa at AFCON
at 19:21 1 Dec 2025
Congrats to the lad, people clearly rate him. But he’ll be 21 soon and Plymouth aside, has not played a single men’s first-team game anywhere. A massive ask to jump straight into international football. When back, would really like to see him in and around our 1st team (if good enough), or out on loan getting proper experience. |
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Reply | Eastward Ho ! Match Fred
at 15:55 29 Nov 2025
I was genuinely surprised when I saw that line-up, the exact same XI that played 90 minutes weds, got back home early hours Thurs, and back on the road again Fri. That was really the strongest option we had to put out there?
Not won in 13 you say? Hold my beer.. [Post edited 29 Nov 15:55]
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Reply | Football - lost its sparkle?
at 15:58 26 Nov 2025
Totally get that and have been thinking the same for a while now.
The PL/CL have turned into an overly commercialised hype machine paying out ludicrous wages, and for what? Another rendition of Everton vs Tottenham. Oh yes please, hype it up some more. They’ve only played each other 50+ times since I left school, with probably another x20 coming in the next ten years. Give me another.
And so in May Liverpool win the PL, time of their lives, champions of England, dreams come true… but don’t enjoy it for too long lads. We start again in August and it’s all forgotten. Wheels gotta keep turning. You’ll be booing them off and sacking the manager by Nov.
Most teams have zero identity now anyway, just random players there for cash with no affinity to the club or fans. Just for fun I looked up Wolves’ last lineup: back 5 of Tchatchoua, Agbadou, Krejcí, Toti Gomes and Møller Wolfe. Not a clue. I bet they can’t wait to finish a tough week’s work to pay £51 to see the new lad from Hellas Verona on £65k a week, who’ll down tools by March when his agent starts pimping him out to anyone not in a relegation scrap.
I think age has something to do with it haha
Anyway enough of that, QPR tonight. Come on you R’s. |
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Reply | If You Can't Talk Proppa - Learning New Languages
at 19:50 25 Nov 2025
Happy to share what actually worked for me. If you’re gonna do it, go all in.
Pimsleur:
Pick your language and just run through the full course, consistently. Ideally 30mins a day. Eg: Portuguese has 5 levels, 30 lessons each, 30 mins per lesson. Over 70 hours total.
It’s all listening + speaking with repetition. Yes it can get boring and repetitive, but the brain absorbs. No grammar books, kids learn through ears and mouth first.
If you stick with it, even after Level 1 you’ll already be forming sentences. It teaches the most common, high-frequency verbs you actually need.
Preply / Italki:
When you’re comfortable, move into conversations with a native. Doesn’t need to be a pro grammar-heavy teacher (boring), almost any native will do here. By that point you’ve already absorbed the basics and you just need real convo reps to build confidence.
Books:
Get easy-reader books for learners (1000/1500-word vocab). They’re perfect because by now you know most of the core words, and it feels unreal being able to read an actual book in your new language.
Films:
Watch movies with subtitles in your target language. It’s basically like reading a book but way easier, and you’ll pick up tons of vocab casually.
Final Step:
Get a girlfriend who speaks the language / or go stay in some random small town where no one speaks English! Forced immersion works every time.. |
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Reply | Kevin Gallen - the boy who got to live the dream
at 20:45 24 Nov 2025
That injury at Portsmouth was a real sliding-doors moment for both of us. We had the best striker in the league at the time and still a strong side capable of pushing for a quick return. Knocked the stuffing out of us and we slid down over the yrs, Kev was never really the same again, even though he was pivotal in that classic 00s team that dragged us back up.
And honestly, in the 30 years since his debut, we haven’t actually produced a better player. Produced, not like Eze or Chair. |
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Reply | Detract The Tractor Boys Match Thread
at 17:04 1 Nov 2025
Indeed, and at HT we were bang in it showing good intensity. Within 90 secs we're 1-2 down and chasing it leading to 1-3, so poor decisions cost us against an expensivly assembled side.
We were not rolled over in the traditional sense of the word. [Post edited 1 Nov 17:07]
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Reply | Detract The Tractor Boys Match Thread
at 16:52 1 Nov 2025
x2 direct (saveablve) Fks
x2 poor bits of defending from the young lad.
Goals at bad times, it happens. On another day we're still in the game and pushing for an equaliser / winner. It's fustrating, but not a 1-4 like we've seen many times before..
Forget it and move on to midweek game, with one eye on plugging the GK/LB leak. |
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