SecretSam
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Usual shouts for "A Season with Verona", "Left Foot Forward" (we don't come out of it well!), "Brilliant Orange", I would add "tor!" by Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger, a history of German football, "Why England Lose" by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski...and "Steak...Diana Ross" by David McVey, a wonderful story about playing football back in the '70s (and really cheap on Kindle (Bookie McBook))
Would love to read the Roberts book.
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10 hours ago, GrahamC said:
I think finishing 12th or above would be progress.
This. Top half of the table would be fine. Sort out the remaining high earners and blood some more youngsters. Give some of the young lads a season at L1/L2 level to blossom, then go again the season after.
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9 hours ago, Greedo said:
Go watch cricket or rugby instead then softlad
ooh, you're hard
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13 hours ago, joe jordans teeth said:
Doesn’t annoy me in one little bit but it seems your rant is that you took your kid and it upset you,quite what the weather has anything to do with it I’m not sure as for cricket you mean the sport where they are fighting in the stands all the time(there is a thread if you look)and let’s not get started on the myth of no trouble at rugby games,as for your son be a proper parent and tell him what he heard was wrong,not rocket science
Not annoyed?
13 hours ago, harrys said:I’m afraid it’s a very common thing at most matches, you either accept it and take it in your stride or not
Like racism and fighting used to be, so we should have accepted that as well?
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5 hours ago, Aberdeen Pete's Dad said:
Our home shirt in the future should be the opposite of this year’s away shirt - red with a white stripe. Apart from looking good, it sets us apart. Over the years there are many teams with red shirts that are little different from ours- Liverpool, Man U Notts Forest Aberdeen etc , ( Arsenal are a bit different with the white sleeves) but the white stripe will set us apart. Everyone will know that it is a Bristol City shirt,
Boro' do something similar with their band across the chest
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8 hours ago, Red-Al said:
Everyone's making that excuse now, even the shops, anything to make a quick quid,
Or even reflect challenging market conditions...
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7 minutes ago, Gert Mare said:
Brilliant. Last night I overheard a Sag saying that the loss against Bath City was only a friendly and Rovers had most of their second string out. I heard someone else say that it wasn’t what they had heard, it was most of their first team at Bath. The Sag denied that this was the case and referred to the other chap as a ‘Shithead ***’.
Then about 40 minutes later another Sag turned up (who had actually been to Trumpton) and said it was a poor game considering how many of the first team Rovers had out.
The bloke that had piped up earlier (The gurt ‘Ted) said “Yep that’s exactly what I had heard”
Then the original Sag started losing his shit saying “Well it was only a friendly and you can stop ******* smirking you Shithead ***!”
Love it! Deluded Sag brought crashing back down to earth by one of their own.
The gift
They can console themselves by going home and dinging their sister (who's also their Mum, Aunt and probably cousin)
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14 hours ago, Red Army 75 said:
Full kit looks really smart
That looks absolutely mint
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14 minutes ago, CiderJar said:
I remember watching that match in a pub in Oxford. Thankfully, I had erased memories of that disgusting shirt from my mind.
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29 minutes ago, brad blit said:
I see Bayerns new away kit is very similar to the leaked pic I saw, everyone wants to be like little Bristol City
I like that
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2 minutes ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:
Listen to the Radio (Atmospherics) … Tom Robinson
Radio Free Europe - REM
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Was going to suggest for the Rest Day - watch the Jumbo-Visma documentary on YouTube, "Plan B", about last year's Tour. Really good, and an interesting contrast to the Movistar clown carnival on Netflix!
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23 hours ago, Davefevs said:
His daughter is now presenting Robinstv, does that count?
Didn't know that! I feel old!
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One final thought on Pog - this week's going to be hot, and he doesn't like the heat, which may be why he was grabbing all the time he could last week
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On 10/07/2022 at 00:02, TonyTonyTony said:
Almost certainly the worst “sport” there is. Cheating is endemic. You may as well watch the national lottery draw
Whereas athletics is clean...
Cycling is the single most tested sport there is. Sure, not clean, but a lot cleaner than, say,...football.
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On 08/07/2022 at 18:29, Harry said:
Yeah he was up there again today til the very end. His Tour of Swiss form was maybe better than lots thought. However, we’ve not hit any true mountains yet so he might still fade yet.
Someone mentioned earlier about not really being able to warm to Pogacar. I’ve always felt the same with Thomas actually. I’ve never really particularly disliked him but don’t really like him all that much, if that makes sense.
You should read his book, properly hilarious in places. He seems a nice guy. I would tip him for a podium + stage win double, were I a gambling man.
On 08/07/2022 at 20:57, tin said:I’ve never known a pro rider crash as often as Thomas.
Richie Porte wants a word
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On 04/07/2022 at 20:45, tin said:
Definitely. I’m fortunate enough to have ridden most of the French Cols. The Tourmalet was great last week, although the headwind are the top was a bitch!
We weren’t far from Siestriere in 2019, when we went over the Telegraphe, Galibier and down to Briançon on the Route de Grande Alps but pressed on to Col de Vars and the Izoard.
Proper jealous
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9 hours ago, Sleepy1968 said:
Bobby and Jonathan Gould.
(According to Wikipedia Jonathan Gould was on our books in 2005, but never made a first team appearance.)
I didn't know that. He ended up playing for Celtic (GK). Wonder what happened to him? I always preferred his brother, personally.
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7 minutes ago, The Gasbuster said:
How TF did this thread get from a discussion on a Buenos Aires stadium to Raleigh bicycles ?
My first bike was a Raleigh Arena.
(I didn't learn to ride until I was 13).
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10 hours ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:
Bournemouth going for a zig zag look
Whisper it: I think that's fabulous - reminds me of the Inter shirt from a couple of years back
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11 hours ago, frenchred said:
That's more like it, if it's real.
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8 hours ago, Frenchay Red said:
Cycling is very much a team sport, certainly in the major races. In the Tour there aren't 198 riders all racing each other
I think it's 176 in the men's Tour (8 man teams), but hey.
And let's not get into the labyrinthine complexity of Grand Tour races and tactics...truly worse than cricket!
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10 hours ago, GrahamC said:
You honestly believe that cycling is clean now, do you?
I wanted to believe that after being there to see Wiggins win the Olympic gold & Froome win the TDF & to think that Brailsford was simply a managerial genius, but I know how that all turned out.
Did I say it was "clean"? Absolutely not, no sport is. There are still plenty of riders being caught, beyond the headline issues splashed across the mainstream press (which is understandably most people's only point of reference). Compared to the '90s and early '00s, the EPO years, the sport is much better now.
The level of doping in cycling (typically focused on performance) still doesn't stop a dislocated shoulder being an astonishingly painful injury. Nor does it mean that footballer's histrionics is any less pathetic.
Incidentally, the drugs taken by Sky were legal under their TUEs. Dodgy AF, but still technically allowed. And the Froome Ventolin scandal was comprehensively proven to offer no performance benefit.
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On 04/07/2022 at 17:58, Barrs Court Red said:
that’s a shocker of an away shirt
Chelski have a long history of disgusting kits
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Hmmmm...talent to burn, but wrong mindset...Tomlin, Jackie, who else fits that bill? Pure talent isn't enough. You have to spend a bit of sweat.