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Reply | Limited ed-ition shirt
at 23:22 10 Jul 2025
you mean a top fan like yourself, is not subscribed to ITFCs/Planet Blue mailing list ?
is that what you are telling us ? ;) |
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Reply | Horner sacked by Red Bull
at 13:18 9 Jul 2025
Ever since Dieterich died, who was Horners biggest supporter, yeah there's been a power struggle for the F1 team, Horner saw it as his thing, the Austrian side of the company saw it as theirs and in their gift to allow Horner to run it for them, only the Thai support kept him in.
Clearly that support has now gone, to what end though I dont know as they'll likely drop further down the grid.
They didn't even give him a mutual parting statement, which shows Horner refused to leave by his choice.
And fwiw always liked the guy, I like that he annoys people, especially Toto because he has no sense of humour, F1 is too sterile and corporate without people willing to fight their corner, he was the Neil Warnock of F1, you hated him, but you'd always have him on your team because he'd defend you, he's never blamed anyone on his team for mistakes they've made or chucked them under the bus to protect his own skin.
Plenty of F1 bosses & drivers thesedays are only too willing to do that. |
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Reply | Horner sacked by Red Bull
at 13:04 9 Jul 2025
No i dont think so, Jos might clash with Horner, but Max is smart enough to know Red Bull are a better team with Horner inside the tent, not outside the tent or worse working for a rival. If Red Bull want to return to the top quickly it needs a character like Horner pushing them forward.
People forget he took a team who were considered a joke with a not very serious fizzy drink sponsor into world beaters who beat Ferrari, beat the established teams, brought in all the people that engineered that success & have dominated F1 in a way we've rarely seen or maybe ever see again
I think they'll only go backwards from now, youve got the regulation changes, the new power division, still question marks on the 2nd driver, he was spinning alot of plates that unless Mekies is some unknown team boss genius in which case Ferrari will be pondering their choices, i think we could see them imploding.
I suspect Max is busy texting Toto right now |
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Reply | Any thoughts on the Brighton Kit Controversy
at 13:02 8 Jul 2025
Standard for Nike the pro authentic ones would retail at 90quid, they've surmised correctly the market isn't there for it, so they get the replica ones for a mere 75 instead.
And The differences are very superficial imo, fwiw stitched logos are better than heat transfers for multiple washes. Which of course the players dont have to worry about as Nike will just keep giving them free replacements it's the Premier league they probably get brand new per game. |
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Reply | No Muric
at 12:55 8 Jul 2025
What like hey guys the ones with def info say Muric isn't training, that kind of thing ? |
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Reply | Cricket
at 18:55 6 Jul 2025
but this is the problem you can see we're already expecting someone who has only bowled 14 overs of red ball cricket in 4 years at county level, to walk straight into the England squad, and bowl at least 30-40 overs, and magically solve Englands lack of wicket taking bowlers. |
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Reply | Cricket
at 18:47 6 Jul 2025
it does, but their tactical philosphies become a mantra that they just stick to and the players arent able to adapt to the ingame situation.
as you can speak to or just listen to loads of ex players who know that you adapt your game plan as things progress, the truly great cricketers and captains in the game just did it naturally.
and this is why "bazball" as a concept is so stupid, but it works against most of the teams England face, because you can bludgeon most bowlers in most teams, win a game and declare everything is rosy, and then play Australia or India and come crashing back to Earth again with a reality check.
but there we go, the players are told they have to go at 4 an over, that every ball is a boundary shot so what can they do. |
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Reply | Erosion of team Ashton / McKenna
at 10:57 5 Jul 2025
in our promotion season we had so many backroom staff, they needed a separate bus for them to fit on for the promotion parade.
I think we can churn a few of them and still be in a good place overall, its just the nature of the business, Im not even sure in previous years we'd even have noticed but we're in the must have a story about Town every hour to publish so even minor things get blown up as big stories now.
its more interesting the people moving on, have often been in areas where there was most criticism of fans on performance of the squad last season, but that could be coincidence |
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Reply | IMPORTANT INFORMATION
at 10:50 5 Jul 2025
change of sizes like this, because lets face it sizes from a brand pov are pretty much set in stone for them, usually means change of manufacturer/supplier, ie their source for this stuff has moved from one sweatshop to another who have a different template size and arent going to switch to bespoke sizing for you
but that move usually infers cheaper manufacturer price & thence quality ime. |
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Reply | Kit drop official
at 10:46 5 Jul 2025
its the gut reaction for me on kits, and neither of them are doing the Ive got £59 (surprised the cost hasnt been mentioned yet) burning a hole in my pocket here take it from me.
the away kit is terrible, it looks like one of those Umbro 90s kits, in a bad way, allegedly the pattern is to honour the 30th anniversary of the current club badge. and the long sleeve version just makes it look worse.
hopefully theyll wear it as often as last years official away kit and we never have to look at it during a game.
the home kit, yeah Im old enough to remember the original, it wasnt exactly fondly remembered, more to do with how the team played and the steep decline from the Robson era. But still it was a pretty basic kit at the time, and looks pretty basic now.
and you know weve had lots of retro replica kits done in recent years, that one was never top of anyones list to do was it ?
so why when all the def info bros had said the retro recreations era had ended, are we doing this clearly retro inspired version.
Im undecided about buying it at the moment, which hasnt been the case for the past 5 seasons, they were always must haves, this doesnt feel like it for me yet.
and on the long sleeves thing, Ill be interested to see how many players adopt it, since I mentioned on another thread, long sleeves disappeared because base layers were alot better solution, and Im one of the people who lobbied the club hard in the late 90s/early 00s to let us buy the long sleeve editions, as the players wore them and it never made sense we couldnt buy something they were making, and yet I look at those now and think yeah wish Id got the short sleeve version instead.
we'll see, but I think the recent trend of kit sales increasing will have peaked somewhat |
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Reply | New shirt meh
at 18:34 4 Jul 2025
Yep have to admit it's not screaming here ITFC have £55 :(
Maybe the away kit will be better as long as it's not that red thing.
The orange training kit looks good though :) |
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Reply | Cricket
at 13:14 4 Jul 2025
Nothing except Stokes and Baz dont rate his batting, allegedly, even though they happily consider other options who are worse, so read into it what you will |
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Reply | Red away kit then?
at 20:47 3 Jul 2025
I'd agree my only concern is they dont sell that many goalie shirts do they, so why are there lots of boxes ofnit and double racks of them, in long sleeves too, they dont do long sleeved kita anymore because baselayers, so its either the goalie kit or some training kit...i hope |
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Reply | Cricket
at 20:38 3 Jul 2025
It's the thing I've always said about making him captain, he makes decisions based on what he thinks he can do to change a game, not what the team can do to. |
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Reply | Ed Sheeran Concert - Parking
at 21:46 2 Jul 2025
I dont think theyre saying that, its rather that there just arent any trains running to those destinations after 10:30pm from Ipswich, which is basically how it is normally.
But its perhaps dont assume the extra trains publicity means thats changing, even if it would make more sense than running some of those London/Norwich trains after midnight. |
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