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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 22:20 30 Dec 2025
I have a bit of sympathy for Varane on that front as the club have thrown him completely under the bus by leaking out to friendly journos that we had rejected £5m+ for him - even with all add-ons and a 2x multiplier during the Chinese whispers it was nowhere near £5m - they’ve built him up as the new great white hope to ‘save’ us with a profitable sale.
Unfortunately when you’ve spent a lot of money paying PR firms to call you ‘the Lionel Messi of football boardrooms’ and the football on the pitch is crap, the lies off the pitch have to become incrementally bigger to keep the plates spinning, and there is a very big and painful meeting of plate and floor coming up in the not too distant future. |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 13:53 30 Dec 2025
Edwards was/is the last of the Eze money. The deal to sign him has been agreed since September, its note just a case of if he is the panacea in January or they use that money on another striker perhaps to get the twitterati frothing.
Regardless, the once in a generation cash input was blown on *this* lower mid table squad. |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 13:51 30 Dec 2025
It’s typical social media nonsense putting 2&2 and getting 5.
Of course we would like Frey to leave but he’s tied down for several more years and they did that to bring his wage to a manageable level. He’s going nowhere.
Of course we would like to get rid of Nardi, but he refused to leave in the summer and will see out his generous deal until the summer.
Of course we will look to sell Smyth for a few quid if he refuses to sign a new deal rather than let him walk for free, but he won’t want to leave.
Kolli & Morgan are still the two most likely to leave in January. |
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Reply | Esquerdinha and his usage
at 09:30 30 Dec 2025
We are neither going up nor down so he should be playing every week and learning on the job with RND filling in on 3 game weeks.
Horrendously mismanaged as per usual from this leadership. |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 20:10 27 Dec 2025
Not injured and being aggressively touted about. |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 10:06 18 Dec 2025
The loaner can’t recall a player on a season long loan without the approval of the loanee. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 18:39 9 Dec 2025
The Ligue 1 deal that fell through was Kolli. They were also pushing hard to get Morgan out on loan at the end of the window. [Post edited 9 Dec 18:42]
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Reply | Kolli
at 12:06 8 Dec 2025
I mean what can he say really - ‘the CEO and his best mate the DOF don’t want me to play the kid and they’ve ruled him out until January when they can try and get rid of him’.
The honesty of course would be great, but not exactly conducive to a good relationship with his bosses. |
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Reply | fi
at 12:04 8 Dec 2025
Having an uncompetitive second car doesn’t help Verstappen as it means he has nobody to take points off competitors. It’s why Red Bull tried to get Norris a few years ago to be his wing man.
As Newey and Wache have both said, they don’t build a car for Verstappen, they build a car to go as fast as possible which often means a car that’s hard to drive and harder to balance. Verstappen is just an alien in his ability to drive around issues. |
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Reply | fi
at 08:21 8 Dec 2025
Not much to say but the obvious - Verstappen is miles and miles away the best on the grid and had no right being so close to the McLareen cars.
One of the weakest F1 champions since Keke in the 70s. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 10:43 6 Dec 2025
Wait, Australia professionally saw out the dead daytime session and put England in to skittle themselves in the twilight?
Literally nobody could’ve seen that coming… |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 15:02 5 Dec 2025
There’s lots of things we *should* do… Margot Robbie *should* ditch her husband and marry me instead but here we are.
In reality they’ll stall until twilight, put us in and have us 6/7 down by close. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 12:37 5 Dec 2025
The Aussies are professional enough to just see out the daytime tomorrow and put us in at twilight to get skittles out for under 150. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 08:04 5 Dec 2025
It’s quite embarrassing that Australia are going to comfortably 5-0 this series not because they’re some wonder team, but because they’re simply professional enough to do the job they’re paid for instead of wildly swinging at every ball and trying to convince everyone they’re having so much fun doing it. |
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Reply | RND
at 14:57 2 Dec 2025
He’s fine - the point in the original post though was that if he was out of contract and in budget we should sign him.
He’s not, we would have to buy him and he’s on a nice wedge. |
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Reply | RND
at 20:09 1 Dec 2025
As he’s neither of those things he would indeed not be a good signing. |
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Reply | If You Can't Talk Proppa - Learning New Languages
at 07:31 27 Nov 2025
With the proviso that learning Swedish is cheating as English is so prevalent you can start with Swenglish, the formal classroom stuff didn’t work for me, mostly as it was 99% focused on grammar and tenses.
What worked for me was finding a tutor for 1-1 lessons. We grab a coffee and just chat about life which has meant focusing on more real life words and phrases which in turn improved my confidence massively. My Swedish consequently isn’t ’perfect’ grammatically but I can hold my own conversationally and professionally. |
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Reply | QPR - State of Play
at 18:26 19 Nov 2025
With the accepted proviso that the clubs in a shambolic state when it comes to finding decent loans for players, I don’t think the Dixon-Bonner thing is *that* weird….
He got bombed out by a Swedish second division club and sent back to train alone in England, he failed trials at Carlisle and Halifax this summer, I’d say a loan to Morecambe is a good result all things considered. |
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