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Thread | The Diss protests were organised by the English Defence League
at 07:39 27 Jul 2025
I know there are a few on here getting all starry-eyed about the “legitimate” protests in Epping, which have spread to Diss.
The BBC story quotes one of the Diss protest’s organisers:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq68r9y1qdmo
Glen Saffer was/is a member of the English Defence League. A simple Google search would have revealed this. I guess that’s beyond the capabilities of the BBC.
The fact that the protestors are talking about “invasions” and warn of the dangers of brown-skinned people assaulting children is quite a big clue, but not enough for some.
I mention it because we need to be aware of this fascist threat in our area. [Post edited 27 Jul 7:44]
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Thread | Good to have the adults back in charge
at 18:39 1 Jul 2025
What a an utter fücking shambles from the govt. Still, that will be the end of Liz Kendall at least, whose sole purpose in life has been to immiserate poor people. [Post edited 1 Jul 18:40]
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Thread | Actually feeling quite sad about Axel going
at 07:20 27 Jun 2025
Apart from the fact he was our best defender. And had a good song.
We got his career back on track. I don’t really blame him for taking a PL contract, or moving back to Manchester, but I do feel he owes us a bit. The better story was he stays with us long term.
He was quite likeable as well, wasn’t he? Oh well.
One downside of being a better club in and around promotion is the churn of players you actually like. |
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Thread | Hmmm. Swansea?
at 15:19 14 Jun 2025
I dunno. Doesn’t seem right he’s going to a smaller (no offence!) Champ club. |
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Thread | This new phenomenon of inbetween clubs applies to players?
at 09:08 6 Jun 2025
General feeling that Burnley, Sheff U, Leeds, Southampton, Leicester(?), Sunderland and possibly a few others (now including us, hopefully?) will spend their lives shuffling between the Championship and PL purgatory.
Implies there are a bunch of players that do the same, perhaps including Szmodics, O’Shea, Clarke (J) and Broadhead, and they’ll be shifted around these teams depending on which are in the PL at any given time.
I’d argue Omari, Tuanzebe and Davis are true PL quality, so don’t count in this.
If that’s the case then we possibly see more players leave (or at least bid for) than we expected. It’s a particular problem for us because we were playing catch-up more than Southampton and Leicester last season. They already have more of these types of players in their teams, as do Burnley, Leeds etc. than we did.
That could be nonsense, of course. Just feel we’re a bit more vulnerable than other relegated teams, or at least more vulnerable than we thought.
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Thread | Restaurant/pub restaurant recommendations
at 15:54 22 May 2025
Thinking of eating out tonight.
Know the regulars: Greyhound, Fountain, Swan etc. Would like to try somewhere new in or just outside the town. Don’t mind what type of food, as long as it’s good.
Any recommendations? Ta! |
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Thread | Worried by the state of the UK, this board
at 20:27 16 May 2025
When I see posts like:
“None of the parties have the balls to stop the boats or deport those that have arrived illegally, even those that have been caught raping, robbing and wanting an easy life provided by us tax payers.”
I worry. This is how fascism spreads. It’s normalised through stuff like this that just passes by with a couple of down votes. We get used to it. |
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Thread | All good, nothing wrong here
at 19:47 15 May 2025
Starmer only gave interviews with one UK TV outlet today.
GB News.
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Thread | Booing Saka
at 18:21 20 Apr 2025
WHAT HAPPENS AT FOOTBALL MATCHES. |
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Thread | Cheeky Ødegaard bid, perhaps?
at 17:57 20 Apr 2025
Not a bad player.
Fuuck me, Arsenal were good. By far the best team at PL this season.
What can you say? I didn’t see the Leif challenge, so can’t comment on that. I feel we did well with 10 men to keep it to 4 and it may well have ended up like that anyway.
I’m only going to list the positives… Morsy had a lot better second half. Tuanzebe looks a good PL player, as does Cajuste (who does always however seem to tire). Dara O’Shea is solid.
We did end up with a left side of Burgess and Greaves, which was quite amusing.
Crowd had some fun, and KM got a nice song after the match. |
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Thread | Hang on, I thought Brighton played super attractive
at 09:19 17 Jan 2025
progressive football.
Worse than fůcking Lincoln. At least Everton were well organised and actually just played well. Ugliest, dirtiest team I’ve seen at PR for a long time. Hope they’re relegated as soon as possible. Twåts. |
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Thread | Still buzzing from last night?
at 15:31 31 Dec 2024
It’s OK, perfectly natural. Me too. What a great way to end the year.
Few thoughts:
I think Muric is a really good ‘keeper and our longterm number 1, but wasn’t it wonderful to see Walton so stoked at us winning, despite everything he’s been through?
Luke Woolfenden. We only play him against world class teams because he’s that classy.
The word “barrelling” was invented for Liam Delap.
I can only marvel at KM and how he draws something from every player that contributes to the whole. Like how Cajuste can smuggle the ball from the edge of our penalty area into midfield like he’s playing some sort of card trick. Magical stuff.
Here’s to us staying up. We can do it. |
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Thread | We’re not Wolverhampton Wanderers, we’re Ipswich FC
at 17:41 15 Dec 2024
Gary O’Neill’s sacking got me thinking how identikit most middling PL teams are.
Basically: a collection of very good, very expensive, interchangeable players. Is there essentially any difference between Brentford, Bournemouth, Brighton and Wolves beyond the quality of their coaching? Any of them can beat each other.
And when it goes wrong it’s pretty horrible. It seems that Wolves fans really don’t like their club. And to be honest, what’s there to like about a more or less random assortment of underperforming top level players?
Then you have us. Burgess, Clarke, Davis, Morsy, Chaplin and Burns have played in our League One campaign. Taylor, Burns, Al Hamadi and Chaplin have played in League Two and below.
Delap and Hutchinson are promising youngsters with next to zero top level experience, yet here they are, starting match-in match-out, tearing up defences.
Wouldn’t it be great if Kalvin Phillips ended up resurrecting his career at Town?
I guess we could end up like Wolves if we stayed up and had a few seasons in the PL. But as it stands, is there any better team to support and get behind? |
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Thread | Thought I’d clear up a few things
at 09:31 12 Dec 2024
1. Kieran McKenna is the best manager we’ve had since Bobby Robson and has done, and is doing, an incredible job
2. Jack Clarke, Ben Johnson, Amir Muric et al are not the worst midfielders/goalkeepers/defenders we’ve ever seen at the club and shouldn’t be sent straight back to whence they came
3. We get to watch super-exciting, attacking football week-in-week-out, even with some of the squad that was playing against Forest Green Rovers two years ago, and a bunch of raw, untested at this level young players who are developing at astonishingly quick rates
4. We are somehow competing in a league where all the other teams have had hundreds of times more income than us for years
If you don’t agree with any of these points you are either i) jaded or spoilt beyond belief or ii) a Norwich City fan. You are welcome. |
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Thread | Bit of a weakness (or risk) in our shape
at 10:17 9 Dec 2024
And this goes back to Harry Clark even in League One.
Leif gets right forward so we have a sort of 3 man defence when in possession, but it seems a bit lopsided/under-protected on the right, and teams occasionally target that space.
Bournemouth doubled up really wide on their left and Tavernier (I think it was him) kept playing inside which meant Johnson sometimes had 3 jobs at once.
Now, Tuanzebe is our best defender full-stop, and may have dealt with it a bit better, but I thought Johnson had a hell of a job on his hands, especially in the first half.
(Posted in defence of him, partly because of the twæt two rows down who wouldn’t stop shouting at him the whole of the first half.) |
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