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My West Ham ST Holding Mate...
at 14:59 30 Aug 2024

...after listening to me complaining about not being able to get a sniff of a ticket for anything, ever, anywhere this year (We both live in North Devon, which doesn't help) has just said to me:

"I only really get to about 10 games a year but I'll go to the Ipswich game; might be interesting to see them."

Oh, just re-read the title. Did I say "Mate"? >:-(
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Kieran McKenna: Manager Of The Month
at 10:05 20 May 2024

August: Brighton
September: Chelsea
October: Manchester United
November: England

The rest to be added as they come in.

FFS
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Yeovil
at 12:03 14 May 2024

On the SWITFC WhatsApp group we were reminiscing about low attendance games and I remembered scraping a grim1-0 under Mick at Huish Park 10 years 2 months ago in front of less than 6K fans.

Horrible game but the BBC report makes interesting reading, especially the lineups...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/26428524

PS: if you're in the greater South West, our WhatsApp group is close to 300. Give us a shout to join :-)
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Celtic-Rangers ref is...
at 12:46 11 May 2024

...Willie Collum.

I say!
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Fascinating bit on the Championship (remember that?) on Wikipedia
at 17:11 9 May 2024

"The Championship is the wealthiest non-top-flight football division in the world, the ninth-richest division in Europe,[2] and the 12th best-attended division in world football (with the second highest per-match attendance of any secondary league - after the German 2.Bundesliga)."

Blimey.
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Klaxon this week...
at 16:23 7 May 2024

...for any thread starting with, or containing the phrases:

XXX, anyone?
Linked with XXX
rumours about XXX
www.XXX.com reporting that...

or variations thereof

Can't we just enjoy this week and save the spurious rumour bobbins for later?

Please?

No

Oh, well. I tried :-)
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The Bristol City OTIB - Mark Ashton love-in thread is...
at 17:03 5 May 2024

...taking an interesting and unexpectedly reflective (well, mostly) turn :-D

https://www.otib.co.uk/topic/213244-the-office-uk-ipswich-town-edition/page/93/
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Forest Green relegated to the National League
at 23:56 16 Apr 2024

To think it's hardly any time at all since we played them at the top of that bl00dy hill in the blazing sun. Vegeburgers, party buses and diamond giveaways!

How times have changed for both clubs; but always remember that there, for the grace of God (or Gamechanger) go we.
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Ed Sheeran - James Blunt comment in the Grauniad
at 16:01 9 Dec 2023

So many responses, so little time. Although Major Blunt's a pretty decent sort of chap, I think...

"Of course, those disposed to dislike Blunt will not be mollified by any of this, nor by the fan-worship of Ed Sheeran (interviewed here) who as a young boy was radicalised by seeing Blunt support Elton John at a stadium gig in Ipswich."
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This comment just now on Owlstalk says it all...
at 15:34 29 Apr 2023

(I have it on refresh for the fun of it)

"Can we FKN DRUG TEST THIS IPSWICH TEAM WHAT IN THE EVERLOVING FK"
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Gratuitous self promotion request.
at 14:30 4 Mar 2023

Hi all.

I need to ask a favour!

My band, Landspeeder, is in the running to play a high profile local festival but we need people to nominate us as the band with the most namechecks gets the gig.

So would you mind following this link to their Facebook page and commenting LANDSPEEDER please?

That's it: no sign-up or anything required. Thanks xxx

https://www.facebook.com/pigstockfestival/posts/pfbid021R8szngqU9izfr6ATeinLM48b
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New job stress: serious and frankly slightly embarrassing post.
at 16:11 30 Aug 2022

Okay, this is here because none of my colleagues will see it so I can talk freely.

I was made redundant in January 2021 after 15 years with the National Trust. Three months ago I landed a slightly better job in my local Museum, run by the District Council but mostly autonomous, as Operations Manager. All good: nothing I can't handle and all stuff I'm good at. Something I didn't expect to get at 55.

Thing is, it's making me ill. Last week I turned around and went home for two days. Couldn't cope or face being there.

The place is a sh!tshow: poorly managed and with a small team who're suffering badly from Stockholm Syndrome. They've stopped caring that it's crap and have disconnected. I can see a hundred ways to get it run better but have neither the authority nor the support to do it, despite fine words further up the food chain. Systems are clunky, little is done well and nobody wants to change. Plus I think one of my direct reports is passive-agressively resisting me although I can't prove it.

I finally cracked and told the wife at the weekend, who had seen it coming but of course it's not as though I can just quit, not under the current economic climate anyway. She's being lovely about it but there isn't really a practical way out just yet so I have to soldier on for now although I've started looking at other jobs.

For the first time ever, I'm a bloody mess and it's not a pleasant feeling. Anyone else been in a similar situation got any tips on ways to get past this?
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Probably daft Silver Membership question
at 08:52 25 Jun 2022

...but do they renew automatically, or at least send me an expiry/renewal reminder?

Got one last year for the first time and they're showing on the website but with no option to buy atm.
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Paul Mariner book
at 13:42 28 Dec 2021

Started reading Boxing Day (Thanks, Secret Santa) and finished yesterday.

A fascinating read and some brilliant anecdotes in there as well as eye-opening on-the-pitch stories from games I was actually in the crowd for.

But the last few pages were a difficult read, knowing what was coming.

Paul's home debut was also my first time at PR and so I've always felt a particular affinity for him. Suffice to say that I felt a bit rattled when I closed it for the last time.
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In the cold light of day, I was wrong...
at 13:54 6 Dec 2021

...about PC.

Keep the faith, I thought. Hang on in there.

But, over the past week, in the light of recent results and performances, I was starting to think the unthinkable and accept that he had to go. Then the board moved and fired him.

He'll go on to do well somewhere, is a decent man and it simply didn't happen for him here: sometimes it doesn't and that's true in all jobs.

So, to all the people I downvoted in the last couple of weeks, muttering about you being bellends, I'm sorry.

Unless you were actually behaving like bellends, of course.
[Post edited 6 Dec 2021 13:55]
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Oxford at PR was my first home game in nearly a decade...
at 10:22 16 Nov 2021

...and it was football in a library, to coin a phrase.

I sat in Churchman's (SAR) as I always have. When I went regularly in the 70s-80s it was a hotbed of singing and cheering but at the weekend it was bloody awful and I wished I was in the North Stand - the silence was embarrassing, especially for a 21K+ crowd.

What's happened to everyone?
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Vax checks on the gate: foreign vax proof?
at 18:35 10 Nov 2021


For our family reunion at the Oxford game my sister and brother-in-law have vaccination proof but were done in Canada, where they were then living. Any problems with that on the gate, do we think?

I'll try calling the club anyway but everyone on here knows everything :-)
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Vlado Bozinoski
at 21:45 3 Nov 2021

Looking at RetroITFC on Twitter and he popped up. I'd never heard of him (this was in the 'Just got married and touring as a professional musician' years when my attention drifted away from the Towen). By heck, the lad got around a bit!
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