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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 23:09 6 Jan 2026
I like Mbengue .
A decent championship defender . Off his rocker .
But a league 2 footballer .
Doing a decent job but I think we can potentially find a better right back in the summer .
Long term I think he’s suited more to centre back . Full backs are a huge part of how we play at the moment and he isn’t good enough with the ball .
That touch against Norwich was like a cross field pass . |
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Reply | thoughts on west ham in t'cup
at 22:57 6 Jan 2026
I literally can’t wait to be taunted by a joyous few hammers fans in a half empty stadium deep into the second half that it’s “6-1 on our big day out “ as their development squad runs riot .
Was that too pessimistic? 😄 |
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Reply | The Barry Bannan Master Class Match Thread
at 15:56 5 Jan 2026
Don’t include me in that . I had to rush off to my nephews birthday party and didn’t get home until late . Who the f*ck has a birthday party on Jan 4th ? 😄😄
However, i’ll be the first to admit that at times , I’ve posted more after a bad defeat or during bad runs in form simply because there is more to discuss and dissect as a fan .
Trying to make any sense of yesterday is however a dance into the madhouse .
Game broke down completely at one point where even the officials gave up , along with players , caching staff and fans . 😀 |
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Reply | The Barry Bannan Master Class Match Thread
at 10:57 5 Jan 2026
Had no time to give my usual kneejerk reaction to the game after yesterday and in hindsight it was probably a good thing.
Walked away from LR yesterday obviously happy with the 3 points but scratching my head about such a strange atmosphere, and such a strange performance against an understandably terrible opponent on an absolute disgrace of a pitch .
No doubt in my mind the pitch is impacting on injuries although Burrells could well be overuse.
But I’ll be stunned if there isn’t an emergency meeting this morning about how on Earth our pitch has declined since December 20th.
A lot of people online apparently saying the old groundsman had just been sacked. Not true . He left a couple of years ago now .
But ultimately it was about as bad a football match as you could imagine which in a way serves Sky right . The biggest thing to take from was we now can’t go to West Ham with our strongest team . Whether we would have anyway is another argument but that’s now off the table anyway.
Midway through that second half I just got the sense that some of our players didn’t fancy it one bit and it annoyed me . However , we won , convincingly in the end .
If we had gone for them like we did Leicester then we could have had an absolute hatful and they would have folded badly but they grew in confidence the more we f*cked about .
Pleased for Kolli. And pleased for Sam Field too. The ideal game for him to come on and put out fires with somewhat ease. |
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Reply | Darts
at 11:07 4 Jan 2026
Agree that the other players need to raise their game , more mentally than the numbers . Van Veen averaged 101 or something which wins most matches .
He was just ground down by Littlers power scoring and in the end he starts to lose hope .
The semi final Van Veen v Anderson was one of the best I’ve ever seen . |
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Reply | Rock and Roll - AC/DC - You never lose it !!!
at 09:27 4 Jan 2026
Seen a lot of criticism of AC/DC in the last year.
Seems to be a bit of a trend .
We have no context about this clip at all .
When you get to their age , certain members need breaks in the set .
Why do you think the drum / guitar solo exists?
They play for way over 2 hours , could be a guitar change , equipment malfunction , band member needing a comfort break or them just p*ssing about for 2 minutes …they have earned that right for touring for over 50 years .
One of the greatest bands to ever walk this Earth .
Should they call it a day , probably .
But they know nothing else , and if people are still willing to pay ridiculous prices to see them then why should they stop.
They will if no one buys tickets . But people do . |
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Reply | Insert paragraph about Barry Bannan – Preview
at 09:16 4 Jan 2026
Blunt but very funny piece . Cheers Clive
This paragraph below just had me belly laughing
On the tram back from Hillsborough this year a jolly local got in my ear about it. Sound, knowledgeable, a good guy who just loved his club and enjoyed chatting about the sport with fellow travelling sufferers. I love meeting people like that, it’s one of the best bits of actually travelling to the games because you learn so much about the mood and culture of other clubs. “’Appen most teams come here put a man on him specially like, but you lot never do.” Ha ha ha. Yeh. I took him outside and beat him to death with his match programme before chucking the pasty corpse under the steel wheels at Netherthorpe Road, but he made a valid point, bless him. RIP.
It’s funny because it’s so obviously and amazingly true .
It’s like not one of managers / coaches / players in the last 15 years have ever heard of him.
As I said in another thread, I’m not sure will be able to accept it today if we see the same thing .
As you say, all starting to ‘wear a bit thin ‘ now |
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Reply | Nightmare start to the New Year as Norwich beat QPR again - Report
at 14:07 3 Jan 2026
Great report . Agree with every word.
Looking to tomorrow , if we have to sit watch another QPR side let Goblin Bannon stroll around and dictate another match between the two sides I might just bloody explode .
Every QPR fan either at the game or not will know what he will do so if we allow him the freedom of H&F yet again then I might not be responsible for my actions.
Oh and does anybody know where Ilias is, what his injury even is and when he will be back?
We really fooled Norwich didn’t we in not saying anything about his whereabouts.
I do know this . He and his family were supposed to be at the game Thursday. He and they were not .
Edit.- Just seen there is a match thread for tomorrow . Apologies [Post edited 3 Jan 14:35]
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Reply | Paul Smyth - Social Media Abuse
at 13:30 3 Jan 2026
Hmmm. Agreed.
The ‘Last Christmas’ renditions seemed quite well organised for an ‘off the cuff’ chant didn’t it ?
Anyone heard it since the Leicester game ?
Might have been sung at Pompey but I didn’t hear it .
Certainly didn’t hear it on Thursday, [Post edited 3 Jan 13:51]
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Reply | Paul Smyth - Social Media Abuse
at 19:08 2 Jan 2026
Point taken Numpty.
Wasn’t said or meant to offend anyone especially in a thread like this obviously . |
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Reply | Kone
at 19:07 2 Jan 2026
You make some great points .
“ What needs to happen is Varane and Madsen need to own that middle more, which will draw players away from the wings and allow our wingers to get into the game.”
Only slight thing is the above , where it’s very difficult to own anything when you are almost always outnumbered.
As I’ve said previously and apologies for boring folk on here , but surely the formation has to change. If for no other reason to catch people out for a week or 2 ala Charlton earlier in the season.
We let McLean completely run the game yesterday and my fear for Sunday is Barry Basstard Bannan yet again !!! [Post edited 2 Jan 19:14]
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Reply | Paul Smyth - Social Media Abuse
at 15:32 2 Jan 2026
Sometimes you’re just left speechless .
That person verbally attacking Smyth is clearly mentally ill.
So is the waste of skin sending crap like that to Clive .
Just beyond belief [Post edited 2 Jan 15:37]
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 13:05 2 Jan 2026
Yeah fair points.
But I did say sporadically didn’t I?
Watford, Coventry, Derby come to mind early on . All horrendous when we so good at Wrexham , for example . That’s more my point . |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 10:28 2 Jan 2026
Lots of good points and sense in that post .
But what I find tiresome is the constant (not by you in particular Dave) from some about fans ‘bedwetting’ or ‘shitting the bed’ after being critical of a poor performance or 3 .
Hate those terms and are used by most fans (again not you in particular Dave as I know you can be critical of the club and team as anyone ) who don’t want to hear criticism in any way of the club or head coach or CEO .
It’s just being a football fan isn’t it ?
You celebrate when you win and moan and dissect when you lose .
The bottom line is we have been horrendous since that Leicester game and sporadically mostly away from from home since August.
The OP is good as the players do have to take some blame and stand up now.
But Stéphan has been very poor too on more than one occasion .
I think fans are entitled to a gripe after yesterday . I didn’t see anyone call for him to be sacked or any stuff over the top like that , not on here anyway . I don’t do social media but that’s a madhouse anyway .
The players and the head coach and his staff have to take a long hard look at the last 3 matches and come out swinging on Sunday .
But I fear more excuses about workload, the pitch, mentality , tiredness etc etc |
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