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Reply | Most painful transfers ever
at 10:42 16 Aug 2025
Firstly John Wark to Liverpool and then Muhren to Man Utd.
Then Butcher to Rangers.
Kieran Dyer leaving.
Then Holland and Hreiddarsson to Charlton.
Ouch every single time!
Heard the Peter Crouch podcast with David James ages ago talking about HH and still miss him! |
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Reply | Nervous start
at 08:02 15 Aug 2025
I think of the 14 fit players we constantly hear about Ogbene returning from injury and that Jens can’t do 90. 2 of the 14 are keepers and there was murmurings of Wolfie wanting to leave.
I have faith in the club who are clearly better placed than me but I just worry that we don’t look the dominant possession based team of 2 years ago. |
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Reply | Crucial couple of weeks in store now
at 07:54 15 Aug 2025
My biggest concern is how robust some of the players we have are. I love Jens but can he do 90 and play sat - tues. do we need to manage Youngs exertions? How regularly do we find Philogene injured? Ogbene coming back from long term injury. Is Leif 100%? Add the already injured players in Townsend, Burns, Harry Clarke and we already look a bit thin on the ground at the start of the season!
For me we need a Matt Holland or Sam Morsy - an ever present central midfielder in particular because as much as I love Jens and Azor might be that player we need more depth. |
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Thread | Nervous start
at 21:49 14 Aug 2025
Of our squad we have - injured players, players returning from injury, players arriving that have not had a preseason, players that have not been with the team long enough to start, players that don’t want to play for us, players rumoured to be wanting away, players possibly of an age where they will need to be looked after, players that are in the throws of loans or transfers out - which leaves about 13 players that are ready to go including 3 keepers. It just feels really disjointed and not surprising that there is a real nervousness amongst fans at the moment.
Continuity and culture has been strong in the last few seasons - I’m sure Kieran has it all under control but feel we need some sort of significant catalyst to bring confidence back. Let’s hope it’s a good performance on Sunday ! |
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Reply | Game on town tv
at 17:30 8 Aug 2025
That’s great! Thanks for the heads up! |
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Reply | Game on town tv
at 16:18 8 Aug 2025
Saw this as we are not far from it? What is it like? Have a wife and 2 teenage daughters eager for some evening drinks. |
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Reply | Game on town tv
at 11:28 8 Aug 2025
Skiathos - if you fancy a swim you could probably just make kick off?! |
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Reply | Game on town tv
at 10:29 8 Aug 2025
Wait! What! I’m in Greece and naively presumed I could watch it on Skygo! Is that not the case? |
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Reply | TDS's 1-20 Prediction competition
at 08:00 5 Aug 2024
Manchester City
Arsenal
Liverpool
Manchester United
Newcastle United
Chelsea
Tottenham Hotspur
Aston Villa
West Ham United
Brighton and Hove Albion
Fulham
Crystal Palace
Everton
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Ipswich Town
AFC Bournemouth
Brentford
Southampton
Nottingham Forest
Leicester City |
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Thread | Nick Pope
at 22:43 29 Jun 2024
Anyone heard the whisper about Nick Pope being in Isaacs this evening? Any likelihood of signing or just in the area? |
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Reply | Board divisiveness
at 15:30 31 May 2024
Maybe I’m missing something but if someone called me on a post I'd most likely ignore it. If it persisted id still ignore it recognising there are some strange old bods around.
I think the only stuff that should be acted upon is racist, homophobic, threatening etc.
It must be difficult enough monitoring the forum without having to manage grown adults who should be able to act appropriately. |
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Thread | Just to get it off my chest
at 20:04 27 Jan 2024
Last 2 years have been amazing - grateful for all that the owners, MA and KMc have done this far.
But having got ourself into a great position it would be ridiculous not to make the signings we desperately need to get to the next level.
We have been saying for a long time now we need strikers and instead of getting them in we are shipping them out. We haven’t got Gallagher yet cos Blackburn don’t have a replacement - so how come Freddie left without a replacement.
Todays game would have been perfect for Freddie. As the only recognised first team striker amongst the match day squad. Broadhead is not a striker.
I was gutted we lost today but in creating 38 shots we weren’t outplayed just abject in front of goal. Would Freddie have been the difference or indeed any recognised striker?
I really hope (like every other ITFC fan) there are two quality ready made strikers being signed permanently this week but I’m worried they won’t be the Marcus Stewartesque signing we need to push us on.
Feel a bit better for that but MA you could do the rest. |
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Thread | Lionesses link?
at 11:16 16 Aug 2023
In sunny Spain on holiday and struggling to find a way to watch the Lionesesses! Any links or ideas? |
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Reply | Teaching unions accept 6.5% pay increase
at 22:25 31 Jul 2023
Teachers in England have had the greatest reduction in real term wages over the past 10 years of all of the OECD countries.
It was vital that there was an increase to retain staff in a sector which despite all the 'banter' is extremely challenging especially when so many other services have been cut. Teachers are also social workers, family liaison officers, supporting pupils with SEMH needs, high levels of SEND (EHCPs have doubled from 250000 to 500000 in the last 3 years) and perhaps educate them up the middle somewhere.
As I write this another advert recruiting teachers has just played out on TV, where the government target of 40000 teachers this year is on track to achieve just half of that if recruitment levels continue at the existing pace.
As a school leader the 6.5% pay increase is a reasonable increase in these times but the most important part is that 3% of that is being funded and 3.5% is to be found from existing budgets.
Most schools budgeted at 3.5% so should be able to sustain this, but will still mean a reduction in resources when schools are still contending with unfunded support staff pay increases and the huge increase in utilities which were also not funded.
In the short term this is the right outcome but does nothing to address much deeper issues in education. |
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Reply | Kropotkin and Tractordownsouth's 2023-24 prediction competition
at 21:13 29 Jul 2023
Leicester City
Leeds United
Middlesbough
Southampton
Ipswich Town
Coventry City
Norwich City
West Bromwich Albion
Sunderland
Watford
Sheffield Wednesday
Preston North End
Plymouth Argyle
Stoke City
Birmingham City
Blackburn Rovers
Millwall
Bristol City
Hull City
Swansea City
Huddersfield Town
Cardiff City
Queens Park Rangers
Rotherham United |
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Reply | Dullest Encounter With A Footballer
at 15:25 25 Jul 2023
15 years ago i met most of the town team at a service station on their way down to play Plymouth. I was at the urinal and thought the big bloke next to me looked like Jason de Vos, shrugged it off only to emerge into the service station and they were everywhere. Had a chat with Jim Magilton who told me my one year old daughter was 'lovely' and he held her for a photo opportunity, before looking longingly at Burger King and saying 'i shouldn't really it doesn't set the right example!' Then i went and got in the queue to Costa and Tommy Miller and Pablo were in front of me - I raised my eyebrows and said 'Pablo, Tommy' - not a flicker! |
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Thread | Ed’s doc on Disney
at 21:41 14 Apr 2023
Just watched the trailer for Ed Sheerans documentary on Disney. Don’t mind admitting I had a little tear in the eye and that’s just the trailer! Really like the bloke - very few megastars where you still feel like they’ve kept themselves grounded and Ed definitely falls into that category. Love the guy and will definitely be giving it a watch.
Doesn’t hurt that he’s also a tractor boy! |
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