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Off to far east for a month
at 00:00 28 Feb 2024

Did you mean Hanoi has the edge over HCMC? Saigon & HCMC are the same place. Love Vietnam but currently in Laos, stunningly beautiful landscape and great food.
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Down to third then :(
at 12:13 21 Jan 2024

I must be alone in thinking that anything less than automatic is a fail considering where we were just before Christmas.

Putting it in context the year Burley took us down if we had clung on and survived that would have been a fantastic season despite finishing fifth the previous year.

Forget expectations at the start of a season (good or bad), around Christmas you know what is required.
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31 years ago today; Hirsty’s dad leaving Warky in his dust
at 16:18 20 Jan 2024

One of Bontcho's many dives in that game. Ref had to give one in the end but it must have been his fourth or fifth 'tumble'...
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Bookies odds
at 16:26 17 Jan 2024

Nothing to do with strengths, new signings or analysis, that is all completely irrelevant.

All to do with what cash is lumped on each team, nothing else... and that is why the bookies always win.
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Chaplin's movement (or lack of)
at 20:49 13 Jan 2024

Agree completely.

Very clever, no point running into space when he has the knack of finding little pockets that everyone else has just left. Top Player.
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Looking forward to the break in games
at 16:48 2 Jan 2024

"It's just been relentless but Town have done well to remain in 2nd."

We had such a cushion it was virtually impossible to come out of this period lower than second!
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Can we all agree on one thing …..
at 18:30 1 Jan 2024

Completely agree but there is a big but...

Opportunities like this don't come around too often, to throw that advantage away would be hugely disappointing. How would Leicester have felt the year they won the Premier League if they had missed out? It is a similar scenario, of course we would have snapped the hands off but if we don't get promoted there is no guarantee that we will next season or the year after.
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So, farewell to the Christmas period....
at 18:25 1 Jan 2024

Frustrating game today. Never looked under too much pressure from Stoke but equally never looked like scoring either. I think I only remember their keeper having to make one save.
Hugely concerning, we have got ourselves into a position that we could only have dreamed of back in August but the chasing pack are closing in, and all with Premier League experience (Southampton and Leeds).
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Leicester extending capacity to 40,000
at 17:06 15 Dec 2023

I think your right.

Equally if things take a turn for the worse we are likely to drop between 8k to 10k, that is roughly the number that never came through the turnstiles when the going was tough.

Throughout our history, spells of selling to capacity are rare, much as it is a great time to be a Town fan I'm not convinced that we have a diehard fanbase that merits a bigger ground.
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2 years ago today, Paul Cook sacked
at 16:27 4 Dec 2023

Excellent appraisal, looking back as you have Paul Cook certainly recruited well. In fact when you look at what some of those signings would now be worth on the transfer market then he has put the club in a sound position with his transfer dealings.
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Ipswich programmes, books etc
at 09:21 2 Dec 2023

House move has meant one last glance through the programme collection mainly from the 1980s and early 1990s and a reread of books on the glory years, but the time has come to say goodbye to them.

If anyone wants to purchase some (or all) then drop me a line and I can put exactly what you are after as a single lot on this reduced fee eBay weekend. Open to any reasonable offers. Thanks

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item=225898238858&rt=nc&_trksid=p44294
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VAR has ruined football
at 14:24 27 Nov 2023

Refereeing is an impossible job. 22 players go onto the pitch all trying to cheat and pull the wool over his eyes. Fans appeal for penalties even when they know they would moan like hell if anything that soft was ever given against them.

Maybe we have all brought it on ourselves?
[Post edited 27 Nov 2023 14:25]
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Self-publishing on Amazon.
at 16:28 20 Nov 2023

I have published three travel journals, both in paperback and in the KDP Kindle format. Same as you, it started as a lockdown project and once done why not? Across the three books I have sold over 200 copies, it is certainly no get rich quick scheme, as others say writing is the easy part, promoting and selling a different skill set altogether, the boring part.
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This ball over the line thing
at 15:42 7 Nov 2023

Possibly the maddest suggestion i have ever heard (on the laws of the game at least.

If the diameter of a football is approximately 22cm or 8.66 inches the base must only be 5 or 6 centimetres, a couple of inches. Making the area that counts for decision making smaller is surely making the job harder than ever.

Good luck to the linesman on that from forty yards away!
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What would McKenna need to do to lose the fans and get the sack?
at 09:06 1 Nov 2023

If you look at the way that attendances have shot up one third of the crowd are fair weather supporters. For years we averaged around 20K, if things were to go wrong (can't see it happening) and attendances take that massive downturn then our owners would be influenced.
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For the more mature Town fan. Who from back in the 70s and 80s
at 16:19 31 Oct 2023

None of them.

It is fantastic to have a team to be proud of again, but the difference between teams that were genuine title contenders at the top table of English football and now are chalk and cheese.

Hopefully great things are around the corner and this current squad are remembered forty years down the line.
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Town related grudges ...
at 13:58 27 Oct 2023

Not sure what season in the early 1990s but seem to remember a Boncho hattrick v Grimsby in the FA Cup
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With the brilliant news today about Kieron Dyer...
at 12:16 6 Oct 2023

If you would be happy to receive a transplanted organ then you should be as equally prepared to give if the worst is ever to happen.
[Post edited 6 Oct 2023 12:17]
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This released VAR audio...
at 16:49 4 Oct 2023

Agree completely. If that is technically forbidden then call the managers / captains to one side, explain the situation and let Diaz walk the ball into an empty net unopposed. Would be far more respect for the officials if they had thought on their feet and 'undone' the errror.
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Apparently we won the league last night
at 16:44 4 Oct 2023

Mixed feelings...

+ to be fair he is our sponsor
+ we have come a long way in a short time, enjoy!

- nothing to celebrate yet, out and out winners like Ferguson, Keane etc wouldn't allow it.
- it is a little cringey
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