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Reply | Would we want anyone from Manu?
at 15:50 2 May 2024
I doubt the franchise could afford Luton, Burnley or Sheff U’s cast offs - let alone Manure’s underachieving duds. Some of those players are probably earning more than Town’s entire wage budget - though no doubt every Town player will now have their wages doubled.
Whoever fails in the play offs is a more likely target Perhaps a central midfielder currently wasted at Soulthampton… |
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Reply | 35k capacity ground isn't even enough is it?
at 08:14 2 May 2024
The answer is in why so many Americans are buying English clubs - the mythical global audience which is an on-line money tap, no construction costs at all and enhanced ‘customer experiences’ at the ground and in themed bars etc. Which can be done with borrowed money and abandoned as soon as they don’t pay. Much better to milk your current customers than spend tens of millions on potentially empty seats…. Whilst reducing your capacity just as the golden goose lays an egg
American owned clubs are probably at the front of the queue to play Prem games in the USA as well
However expect lots of noise about a ‘multiuse stadium’ with some glitzy 3D modelling - that’s de rigeur for added value and attracting ‘new investment’ . That hype will be dialled up to 11.
Have a count of the destitute clubs in the championship who are struggling precisely because they overspent in their few, or very few years in the Prem…. 14 at least. Experience shows that’s the future for Town as well - unless some painful lessons have been learned. |
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Reply | IF we do go up...What business needs to be done?
at 07:15 2 May 2024
I seem to remember a similar argument put forward this time next year - that an overachieving squad motivated by a capable manager needed the revolving door to twirl to compete in a higher division
Most of the rumoured transfer targets failed to arrive - and almost by serendipity we are where we are.
Some of us are old enough to remember the last time Town rose two divisions under a capable manager…. that didn’t turn out too badly.
The ill-timed insult to shareholding supporters perhaps shows you where the priorités are. |
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Reply | Biggest Match since Wembley 2000?
at 07:53 30 Apr 2024
Perhaps you weren’t born when Town played a couple of years in the Prem and in Europe, won at Anfield, played Inter Réserves in the UEFA Cup or Arsenal reserves in a league cup semi? |
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Reply | Premiership? Do we have a strong enough squad?
at 12:37 29 Apr 2024
Do you not see the utter absurdity of the original post? We don’t know yet if the squad is good enough to get out of this mediocre division. It’s exceeded all expectations - yet still glory seekers aren’t satisfied and want the revolving door to twirl. |
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Reply | Premiership? Do we have a strong enough squad?
at 10:46 29 Apr 2024
Thé question is surely whether the franchise have a strong enough squad to get promoted?
The results haven’t been good enough over the last four games - seeing Leicester coast home and a misfiring Leeds still ahead on goal difference.
I’d ask that question in a week’s time - current form suggests they’re going to blow it. |
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Reply | Does that result tonight take the pressure off
at 09:35 27 Apr 2024
Not really - the task has always been for a misfiring Town to get one more point than a misfiring Leeds. Best case scenario is Town need two points from three games. Worst case scenario is five points from three games. On current form the latter looks unlikely. Pity the right on slogan isn’t ’run towards opportunity’ as running towards danger means losing to Hull and making it a lot more difficult. |
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Reply | Will it get any easier next season in the Championship?
at 13:00 26 Apr 2024
Yes it will be even easier. None of the teams coming down are any good and they will all be asset—stripped of what little they have.
Sheff U may even go straight through to division 3 depending on how their financial woes are assessed |
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Reply | SNP
at 12:57 26 Apr 2024
Lib Dem’s implosion after going into bed with the nasty party probably beats the rabid jimmies quite easily.
You’re probably getting confused because first past the post has overloaded our parliament with SNP MPs. It’s a different kettle of fish in the northern outpost’s own excuse for a parliament because the assembly representatives are more representative of what the McUnwashed actually have voted for, |
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Reply | Game changer
at 12:52 26 Apr 2024
Particularly irritating considering the other game that used to be played out (or maybe still is) around Portman Road. |
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Reply | IF we don't go up... Which players do we see being wanted by bigger clubs?
at 10:45 23 Apr 2024
Brighton, Chelsea and Bournemouth might be interested in their own players - that’s about it I’d suggest. Davis is too much of a defensive liability though might interest the promoted clubs. Other than that maybe the skipper , again to a promoted club.
The only realistic target is the manager - who carries with him an almighty amount of baggage in terms of hangers on, ‘team’ call them what you will, that might have a catastrophic impact if/when he jumps ship.
Also don’t forget the ´investors’ they might not like the mirage disappearing
But don’t panic just yet. One win or three draws might still be enough to ensure a year of purgatory. |
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Reply | Football quiz ⚽
at 12:10 20 Apr 2024
Might have been a better idea to include football league clubs to allow for the glory days of welsh football! |
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Reply | Anyone got a VW or similar camper van?
at 13:16 19 Apr 2024
My parents had a Bedford Dormabile in the 60s with stylish fins and a lift up roof. It was vastly superior to the VW camper vans kicking around at the time that Commer copied. Every holiday to foreign climes brought an orderly queue of intrigued continentals to view the luxury Formica interior.
Strange how faddists don’t seem to want them nowadays. Though the DIY van conversions seem eminently trendy going through to Spain. |
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Reply | Hoopoe Watch
at 08:28 19 Apr 2024
You’ll see more the further south you go - so Iberia is better than France - but they back in our garden in Southern France now. Same goes for golden orioles which are strangely difficult to spot even when they’re singing in a tree you’re right underneath
Might be an idea to travel to the Pyrenees or Aveyron where you can combine seeing Hoopoes with some rather iconic birds of prey and wall creepers. And the bridge at Millau is endlessly impressive too. |
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Reply | RIP FA Cup Replays
at 08:21 19 Apr 2024
Thé FA Cup became redundant decades when clubs started playing reserves and rejects and tried to lose asap. That includes clubs in every division - and Town have been standard bearers in devaluing a once great but now farcical competition |
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Reply | Free movement for 18-30 year olds?
at 08:19 19 Apr 2024
Clearly Brexit is so damaging to the UK (not to mention being utterly impossible in Northern Ireland) that it will be quietly reversed in degrees in the years to come. The untenable situation in Northern Ireland will also ensure the Brits are back in the single market in the next decade too.
What intrigues me is that nobody seems to have joined up the dots on Britain’s stinking rivers, lack of social housing, crumbling infrastructure - and another blinkered bit of Conservative self-harming ideology …. Thatcher’s privatisation piracy. |
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Reply | Least disliked team from each division
at 08:13 19 Apr 2024
Not sure I can find the time or pettiness to ‘dislike’ other clubs on a full time basis but I confess to feeling quite pleased when ‘big clubs’ lose those pesky foreigners in Europe - so I’ve rather enjoyed this week |
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Reply | Football is such a strange industry
at 17:21 17 Apr 2024
Southampton and Leeds will be shopping for a new manager next month. Realistically that’s Mckennàs next step. |
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