| Forum Thread | Any normal season at 11:50 18 Mar 2024
And 4 wins from our last 8 games would see us finishing very comfortably in 2nd place (likely with a game or two to spare) and in with a sniff of the title. This season is nuts. We may have ended the banter era, but we still don't half have some ropey luck. |
| Forum Thread | Keep the faith at 16:13 18 Feb 2024
I've seen a lot of people comment when last season's epic run in is mentioned that doing it at this level will be really, really tough, and that is of course correct. Worth noting though that our first 14 games this season yielded 11 wins, 2 draws, and 1 defeat for a total of 35 points. Match that again at the end of the season and we'll finish on 101 points and I'd be staggered if that's not enough for second place. It's going to be hard, we've got some tricky fixtures to come, but our experience of going on extended runs to close out the season coupled with the confidence that we can do so at this level will be a huge plus psychologically over the coming months. |
| Forum Thread | Hull at 11:00 2 Feb 2024
How are they not going to fall foul of FFP? They've gone pretty big in both the summer and January windows, they are bottom half for average attendances and they don't have parachute payments. Unless there is some highly creative accounting going on, I can't see how they are going to get within the permitted losses. |
| Forum Thread | How are we..... at 12:54 27 Jan 2024
......not about 4-0 up? Battering them but it's like their goal has a forcefield around it. |
| Forum Thread | Burgess and the Fridge at 08:32 23 Jan 2024
Feel a bit sorry for him as I think he's going to struggle to get back in the side if Fridge and Woolf maintain this level of performance. Fridge has stepped in superbly and Woolf continues to impress, just looks like he could slot into any team at any level and not really look out of place, has that confidence about him. What I liked last night too was how naturally they covered for each other, if Edmundson got pulled across by his man, Woolf slotted in on the left until we could reset, and vice versa. We needed that against their attacking movement. Sometimes with Burgess in there it can feel like a more rigid line of 3 or 4 and if one gets pulled out it leaves big gaps, that hasn't been happening as much with Fridge in there. Got to give Fridge bags of credit, he's had a tough couple of years having previously looked the best CB at the club. Incredible professionalism to keep himself absolutely match ready to step in and produce this level of performance. |
| Forum Thread | Shout out to Taylor at 07:59 23 Jan 2024
Think almost everyone has had a shout out now, but wanted to single Taylor out in particular. He's had a slightly rocky time here, found it hard to break the axis of excellence that is Morsy and Luongo which must be frustrating, and when he has had a chance it's been a slightly mixed bag of performances from him. Last night though I thought he was great when he came on. Probably his best and most consistent use of the ball, always showing for it, and was a big part of helping us to get up the pitch and have a foothold in their half for most of the last 25 minutes. He's been overshadowed a bit by the more eye catching forward subs, but without him on the pitch I'm not sure we'd have gone on to take a point. |
| Forum Thread | The system is broken at 08:47 4 Jan 2024
This kind of gross inequality benefits no one, it contributes to the worst off remaining the worst off and it corrupts the wealthiest too. People in the middle get conned into thinking that they have more in common with those at the top and so support the status quo, when in truth they are far, far closer to those at the bottom. This kind of inequality corrodes societies and leads to nothing but unhappiness. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67877235 Happy new year! |
| Forum Thread | Stoke game - red button? at 18:23 30 Dec 2023
Anyone know if this is being shown on Sky via the red button? Not sure if it counts as a midweek game or not? |
| Forum Thread | Earl Jean at 14:59 29 Dec 2023
Been unattached for a while but probably been keeping himself as fit as a flea. Sure he could do a job for us. |
| Forum Thread | Today's game at 11:17 23 Dec 2023
It's a weird one. I feel massively nervous for it and it feels like a massive game but when I let my rational brain kick in, it's only really massive for us if we win or draw whereas for Leeds this is approaching must win territory. If we lose we still have a 7 point gap to them, which is exactly what we had before the Middleborough game and coming out of playing Boro, Watford, Norwich, and Leeds - three of them away from home - having maintained a 7 point gap would be an impressive feat. We're also four games closer to the end of the season with three of our tougher fixtures out of the way. On the other hand, draw and we've opened up a 10 point gap over that tough run and Leeds have no further chance to directly take points off us. Win and we're in dream land. Definitely feels like, despite my prematch nerves, there's WAY more pressure on them to win this match than there is on us. |
| Forum Thread | Ref tomorrow at 08:26 22 Dec 2023
Is the one who managed to disallow Harness' goal at home to Barnsley last season. In a season of ref's making/missing big decisions against us, this one stood out as a particularly absurd decision. Let's hope he has a better day tomorrow. |
| Forum Thread | Spare a thought..... at 17:38 17 Dec 2023
.....for poor Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman. All they did was use a global pandemic to rinse a load of public funds at a very healthy profit margin for items that have since been described as not fit for purpose. Oh, and then lie about any involvement repeatedly and threaten journalists with legal action if they dared to tell the truth. They are the real victims here, having to suffer the ignominy of being held to account. #thoughtsandprayers https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67736860 |
| Forum Thread | Things that make you feel old at 07:57 29 Nov 2023
Taken from one of Phil's articles this morning: "Chaplin wasn’t even born when Venables led England to the semi-finals of Euro 96". Ffs. |
| Forum Thread | Satire is dead #37575833 at 07:58 27 Nov 2023
A fossil fuel rich state hosting climate talks was always a bit of a WTF? scenario but it now turns out the hosts of COP seem to see it as an opportunity to pursue new deals on oil and gas: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67508331 Impossible to do political parody or satire these days when actual politicians keep pushing past the boundaries of credulity. |
| Forum Thread | The Tories are thin-skinned authoritarians #38474 at 08:54 19 Nov 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/18/shocking-scale-of-uk-government Not an entirely new story but the scale of them surveilling and blacklisting individuals appears to be large. Incredible that they claim to champion 'free speech' and have introduced legislation to threaten universities with fines if they no platform racists and transphobes whilst at the same time banning schools from using content from groups they disagree with and blacklisting experts who have been critical of the government or government policy. Not only are they the most utterly incompetent government we've ever had, they're the most thin-skinned and authoritarian as well. We can't get them out soon enough. |
| Forum Thread | Esther McVey....... at 18:34 13 Nov 2023
........somehow back in the fold. Seems to be in a newly created role of Minister for Culture Wars.
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