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Reply | Reason for no signings?
at 09:43 22 Jun 2025
June 30 is the key date in the calendar as the end of the football financial year.
Player contracts typically expire then and it's the date clubs have to make their accounts up to, ensuring they are compliant with PSR rules. For that reason it's often called the 'unofficial transfer deadline day' as some clubs scramble to sell to balance the books.
We shouldn't be in any danger of PSR breach, having just sold Delap for £30m |
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Reply | Liam Delap
at 17:24 25 Apr 2025
The Mail's sportswriters say this today without explaining the 'other fees' and who they go to - us, his agent, him?!
"Delap is United’s No.1 target but there are still obstacles to signing the England Under 21 striker despite his price dropping to £30m once Ipswich’s relegation is confirmed. United face fierce competition and there are other fees connected with the deal that could push the figure higher." |
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Thread | Liverpool
at 13:37 21 Jan 2025
After a single spare ticket if anyone can't make Liverpool this week. Have seen every match so far but messed up on this one, so anyone who can help please DM me. Thanks in advance |
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Reply | Weather heads up for Liverpool.
at 12:29 19 Jan 2025
Anyone scared silly by this frankly terrifying weather chart into abandoning their trip to Liverpool or otherwise unable to attend please DM me. Am in Ipswich now for City game. Thanks, Tim |
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Reply | Muric vs Walton
at 09:45 17 Jan 2025
The goal Hladky conceded in the Cup for Burnley where a straightforward shot went through him was a reminder that all keepers mess up from time to time.
Muric for me has the better attributes than Hladky or Walton, presumably why the analysts recommended paying £10m for him. He's top of the entire division for crosses claimed. He makes it look effortless. Walton gets crowded out in his six yard box and flaps at them. He didn't claim any last night, resulting in panicked clearances and repeat corners.
Verbruggen was very composed on the ball allowing Brighton to play out from the back. Walton looks uncomfortable on the ball and we couldn't play through their press as a result. Muric looks more confident but both are prone to passes that put us in trouble.
Muric has the best stats for shot stopping in the Premier League for Burnley and us. Unfortunately he is also one of the busiest keepers in the division behind our defence and has a brain fart in him that means he tops the table for errors leading to goals too.
But compare and contrast his man of the match performance at the Amex where we got a 0-0 with Walton's last night and he has a higher potential ceiling imo. |
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Reply | Another shocking performance from the ref last night...
at 13:35 4 Dec 2024
Sideshow moaning about a ref who wasn't responsible for the outcome of the game.
I thought Anthony Taylor for the Man U game was excellent and I've no complaints about Craig Pawson last night. He's in a different league to the useless Stuart Attwell for one.
He was lenient towards Doucoure but he was consistent as he also let off Morsy, who could have been booked by a card happy ref for cumulative fouls and Delap for over-exuberant challenges.
Could have been a minute or two more added time each half but Palace, to their credit, didn't waste much time, certainly nothing compared to our 'dark arts' at Spurs.
Last night was more about the limitations of our squad after injuries and four changes than anything to do with the officials. |
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Thread | Post-match fighting at Kew Bridge station
at 09:05 27 Oct 2024
I was at Kew Bridge Station just before 7.
Two relatively small sets of fans on opposite platforms. Theirs started singing '2-0 and you f***ed it up', leading to the usual posturing from ours about come over here and say that and back and forth taunts and threats. Then a few scrotes from our support piled over the bridge and waded in, punching or pushing two of their fans off the platform and onto the tracks - with a train due in any moment.
The station staff did nothing. There wasn't much they could do as the fighting went on for a good five minutes with women screaming. No police in sight. Luckily the train turned up slightly late.
This was almost two hours after the game finished. Pretty pathetic |
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Reply | Anyone on here leave after Fulham scored their third?
at 13:19 2 Nov 2023
I didn't but I would have got back to London and home an hour earlier (11.30pm instead of 12.30am) the way the trains fall after midweek night games and avoided the chaos on crowded platforms packed with Fulham and Ipswich fans if I had, so I can understand why some, especially older fans, might leave early... |
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Reply | Rotherham trains
at 16:45 20 Oct 2023
All trains north out of St Pancras/King's Cross that would enable reaching Rotherham - Sheffield, Doncaster, Manchester lines - cancelled when I arrived.
Five blockages on the Sheffield line alone.
Bit of rain and this country's rail network falls to bits.
I've had to abort... |
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Reply | Not seen anything like this after a game before
at 19:05 16 Sep 2023
I was in the home end last season, the section nearest our fans in the away end. It was a horrible bunch by me that almost got the match abandoned by repeatedly throwing coins and lighters at the lino. |
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Reply | Controversial opinion
at 11:04 15 Sep 2023
Butcher captained England at centre half in a World Cup semi-final, so I for one am interested in his views on those playing that position for us.
I sat next to Sheffield United's scout several seasons back when they were Premier League and he was there to watch Wolf (after already taking McGoldrick). They must have concluded there was then something missing in his game from what they wanted.
Butcher puts it as a bit of bite, showing more aggression in his play and imposing himself on forwards more. Others have pointed out he can be too casual and loses concentration at times.
We've just brought in Tuanzebe after conceding six in two home games, so it will be interesting to see who eventually makes way if we get him fit. He really was a Rolls Royce defender at his best for Man U, lightning quick and strong enough to keep Mbappe quiet away to PSG in the Champions League... |
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Reply | Anyone have a small amount of sympathy for Sheff Wed
at 20:01 30 Apr 2023
The Sheff Wed team deserve to win promotion through the play-offs as clearly the next best side over a 46-game season.
But I had the misfortune at Hillsborough for our match of being in the section of the home end that almost got the game abandoned by repeatedly pelting the lino with lighters. They gave him dog's abuse all game. There was one guy directly behind me only a few rows back from the touchline who spent most of the match bellowing that he was a 'bent b**stard' and a 'c**nt'.
The home fans, who turned on their team very easily at 0-1 and 0-2, created a very loud, intimidating atmosphere when we let them back into the game. No surprise then when the officials allowed Smith's suspiciously offside looking equaliser to stand. They probably feared a riot if they'd disallowed it.
One of many fine margin moments over the course of a season where we're currently set to miss out on the title by a point but I haven't any sympathy for the moronic element of their fanbase - hopefully a minority - that I saw at close quarters that day... |
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Thread | Have a spare Barnsley ticket in away end
at 10:21 24 Apr 2023
Have a spare Barnsley ticket in away end if anyone needs one, face value £20.
Will be in Barnsley from mid-afternoon Tues, so message me and will hold onto it for the first taker.
Thanks, Tim |
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Reply | London to Sheffield train tickets
at 13:07 27 Jun 2022
You can do Donny return for £30 with advance tickets. I did it last season, easy run an hour and a half out of Kings X |
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Reply | Champions League Final entry issues last night….
at 10:06 30 May 2022
An obvious answer why there weren't the same problems with Real supporters is that there was much higher demand to see the game among Liverpool fans.
Slightly off point but I have followed England at almost all the World Cups and Euros and there is always an issue with fake tickets for the big games and it is noticeable how many of the touts are Scousers. No surprise at all then that there would be a lot in circulation for a Champions League final featuring Liverpool. This group bought 19 !
https://www.ladbible.com/sport/liverpool-fans-conned-out-of-19000-after-buying-f
Given the Stade de France hosts big football and rugby matches all the time, the late switch from St Petersburg shouldn't have been a big deal. What then was different about this match?
From the many eyewitness reports from journalists and videos of events, it looks like an overreaction to the Euros final and possibly Liverpool fans having form by over-aggressive French cops, blocking approaches with police vans to funnel them down tight bottlenecks. Any fake tickets at turnstiles would have compounded delays and chaos, as would use of tear gas and fans (including local French youths) scaling fences, walls and storming gates. Couple of videos here
I'm sure the vast majority of Liverpool fans were patient and did absolutely nothing wrong and it is a total disgrace that they were left to queue for hours and tear gassed at football's showpiece final because of shambolic organisation.
But it's not a coincidence that trouble keeps occurring at Liverpool matches through factors like numbers of ticketless travelling fans, fake tickets in circulation and bad behaviour by a minority.
Bonus video here of a celebrating Real fan being clobbered
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Reply | Toto in a nutshell today
at 17:59 15 Nov 2021
Speaking of 'confirmation bias', Toto was actually 13th on points per game last season, not the top two you've cited.
For what it's worth, his stats were 1.56 points per game from 27 starts.
Our 'top performing' defenders on your chosen metric were Player of the Year James Wilson with 1.76 points from 17 starts and Kenlock with 1.67 from 17 starts.
Others ahead of him with a significant number of starts also included Norwood (1.65, 19), Bishop (1.61, 28) and Edwards (1.58, 29).
Interestingly (or not depending on your view on the metric), Toto is the only one mentioned still in our team.
Source: FBref.com |
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