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26 minutes ago, Never to the dark side said:

Lets make it a nice bullseye and more,so lets get straight out of the blocks tonight

Ok. You go down the right, I'll go down the left. See you in their box 

On 06/02/2023 at 18:17, oldie said:

There are a few new cricket related interviews on the site. The latest is with well known QPR fan Robert Elms. Some of you may remember him from his day’s writing for The Face magazine or maybe his excellent show on Radio London which you can listen to via the BBC Sounds App. 
 

https://rainstoppedplayinspectionat3.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/robert-elms-interview/

Enjoyed that one, didn't have Robert Elms down as a cricket fan. 

4 minutes ago, Jerseybean said:

Everton hit the post 40 seconds later Liverpool score! Liverpool 1 Everton 0 after 38 minutes 

Evertonians will be fuming

1 hour ago, frenchred said:

He really is living rent free in a lot of heads on here!

Energy and food bills bloody steep, though

2 hours ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

It was like wiping your arse with greaseproof paper. I`m sure it was an economy thing - you could wash the crap off and reuse the `paper`.

Yeah, still using a roll pinched from the Football Special train to York, March '84. 

2 hours ago, kiwicolin said:

He is like an old boomerang.  He is hard to throw away

1 hour ago, pongo88 said:

It’s very easy to throw away a boomerang. The problem is they keep coming back 

Put it on the fire/in the wood burner, gone in half an hour.

7 hours ago, adamski said:

Can't argue with his record...best since Dicks, debatable. Manner he departed questionable. Legacy he left dubious....

 

AD's "legacy" was .... er, well, best not get in to all that

5 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Massive Christian, or so he says.

Must have missed that bit in the Bible where Jesus said that you should call everyone you play football against a “see you next Tuesday”.

Hope he’s unemployed for a very long time, the objectionable little rat.

He's a sinner; he tried being a Saint but it didn't go very well.

1 hour ago, GrahamC said:

Four of the bottom five play each other, so Blackpool v Rotherham & Wigan v Huddersfield, Cardiff are home to Middlesbrough.

Even a point today could see us pull away from the bottom three.

Just so long as they don't all draw today like us .....

2 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Whether you liked LJ or not, this is such a ridiculous thing to say & blatantly a lie.

Diony arrived in January’18, he started just one game for us & by March LJ wasn’t even including him in his match day squad.

There is absolutely nothing to back up what you say, I’m by no means his biggest fan but this was so obviously a Mark Ashton inspired signing that LJ rightly gave a swerve to once he’d had a good look at him.

He came on at Burton, that was in March. I think that was his last appearance. I was there to witness it.

1 hour ago, Never to the dark side said:

I thought Cunningham scraped his studs down Nahki Wells left calf.

Don’t you start ...

1 hour ago, Porto Red said:

Dubnobasswithmyheadman far superior, of course 

Yep, 1st Best Including the Premiership 

1 hour ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Double ditto Ashton Gate 1984

You lot have forgotten "a bit" about that?

2 hours ago, Percy Pig said:

I don't really understand where you think that's either been denied or ignored? 

Thanks for the contribution though. 

Thank you for yours.

Not on this thread but very often people scoff at owners hiring and firing. What else can an owner do, when the transfer window yields no improvement? 

Just sit there and do nothing as the weeks pass and you're still in the bottom three, and the ruin of relegation looms large, and your post includes delightful thoughts such as: "Hope you get cancer" etc?

1 hour ago, Miah Dennehy said:

With the passage of time , lack of available coverage and the fact that some teams aren't quite as big as they were, some cup shocks get forgotten about a bit. City beating Leeds was absolutely massive at the time.

Ditto Eastville December 1983.

4th best stadium outside the Prem, Second Toughest (Fans) In the Infants Championship *

15 hours ago, Percy Pig said:

A quote from Simon Kuper, author of soccernomics- a book I read as part of my dissertation on this topic.

Sacking a manager is just an expensive way for a board to "look busy".

 

Here's some more stats for the statistically minded: three clubs will be relegated this season. Fact! "Regress to the mean," is all well and good, but three clubs will be relegated. And Huddersfield don't want to be one of them. But that’s where they are, in the bottom three.

2 minutes ago, beaverface said:

This game was before my time, so this is one of the few occasions I've had to see some of the players in action.

I must say, I liked the look of Fear, Tainton and Gow in that match.

Yes, some neat football. But it must've been hard going back then to break teams down on poor pitches when defenders could take lumps out of you. Not long after this we signed Cheese who replaced Keith Fear (I think?) and we probably went a bit more "aerial" ? Like at Arsenal!  Older posters will know more.

Five or six local lads plus Tom and Gerry, our own youngsters.

I like the Chief Supers, flat peaked copper caps, keeping an eye on things by the entrance to the tunnel. You don't see that in 2023.

"He's not a very big fella, but he's got a tremendous dig on him" I would think Tony Robinson was there in the crowd that day, certainly. 

2 hours ago, SecretSam said:

Thoughts on Sharp's comments and behaviour after the Blades put out Wrexham? I'm erring towards the "tool" end of the spectrum for a description 

I remember Kevin De Bruyne making no effort to patronise us, or be "nice" about us, or to "ruffle our hair" and say how jolly good we were, after the second semi at AG. If I remember kreckly he declined the interviwer's obvious invitation to do all that and pretty much said "they were rubbish, we're miles better" and it was quite amusing. And more honest.

It's funny because people on here frequently complain about us being too nice, too soft, too obliging, nothing like ruthless enough. And when we see it in other players and teams, some get upset. 

1 hour ago, southside said:

It was a teenage Billy Wedlock 

.... and the old folks - @Ivorguy, @cidered aboroad, @pongo88, @slartibartfast - wished him well

Bell n Wells. Wells Bell. 

Surely to goodness we can make AC/DC's "Hell's Bells" work here? Can't we? Come on A Block (ask yer uncle; get on youtube).

".... coming on like Harry Kane,

You're only young but yer gonna die

Wells Bell!

You got us singing: Wells Bell

Our temperature  presses's high: Wells Bell

Cos if Sam's on the left, Nakhi's sticking to the right,

Wells Bell"

Just need that Pompey bloke and his bell,  and we're off ....

Wells Bell.

It might work. Until Tommy comes back

Enough now, stop all this. I only mentioned this about Naismith because my Crystal Palace mate said he was told this by Shaun Dairy.

1 minute ago, GrahamC said:

Humour, like taste in film & music is completely subjective, isn’t it?

More people like Mrs. Brown’s Boys than ever watched Monkey Dust or The Larry Sanders Show, for instance.

I’ll therefore try not to be too unkind here but reading the same obvious (unfunny) stuff is pretty tiresome, so once a thread descends into things like “udderly brilliant” or the same rubbish pun someone had already said about 6 posts previously, I’m off.

 

We just won at Preston! Come on, have a go