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Reply | I've not started a match thread before, but I thought f*ck it, why not? v Saints
at 06:43 25 Feb 2026
After our good performance at Hull, I didn't have massive hope that we would put together two away wins, but at the same time I wasn't expecting that.
I actually thought we were OK if toothless first half. I had made the mistake of thinking Walsh had cracked it and was going to develop into a useful keeper but having made a hash of the corner just fell apart second half and turned himself into some sort of a nightmare mash up of Lumley / Roberts and Harper.
Hayden had a really poor game just when we needed him, the Saito signing looks ever more like the luxurious waste of time and money it probably was, but at least Edwards first half reminded of his abilities.
Vale seems a strange player, clearly plenty of ability on offer, so one hopes with experience will get better. I enjoyed him making up for his own terrible error in the first half; a good sign. But other than that, apart from the major crime of looking far too much like some resident of The Shed in the late 80s, he doesn't half blow hot and cold.
Normally I would be bubbling with fury at manager and players, but with the injury crisis getting ever worse, I feel like the true ire has to be directed somewhere else.
Sigh. |
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Reply | Cricket 2026 County/International Thread
at 19:06 24 Feb 2026
Drop Buttler? No way. Form is temporary, class is permanent. The bloke's our best ever one day player, won us so many games. Back him! |
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Reply | Cricket 2026 County/International Thread
at 17:27 24 Feb 2026
Brilliant by Brook. Well done England and Baz, good on you. First to qualify and I'm not sure we've actually played more than 70% of our best yet.
What we really need is for Jos to get some runs against NZ. [Post edited 24 Feb 17:43]
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Reply | I've not started a match thread before, but I thought f*ck it, why not? v Saints
at 08:15 24 Feb 2026
Well I think it is pretty safe to say we shouldn't get into any relegation grief this year now.
So shouldn't whole plan for the club be to have a crack at 6th? 75 points would almost certainly be enough, so 28 needed from 13 games. None of this "next season" drivel.
That includes 7 home games, which are all winnable of course (ha!) but let's say we look for 15 points from those, leaving 13 points needed from 6 away games, or basically 4 wins and a draw.
In other words, we need to win otherwise our only hope is going to be to win all 7 of our home games and get 7 points from 6 away games.
OK, maybe relegation flirting is more likely - that would be a pretty remarkable run of form. |
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Reply | Cricket 2026 County/International Thread
at 11:12 22 Feb 2026
Well the McCullum haters are going to get their wish, because we likely now need 2 wins and no washouts from NZ and Pakistan games to get through. Can't see it as we are so flat. |
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Reply | Cricket 2026 County/International Thread
at 10:59 22 Feb 2026
Agreed, Sri Lanka will get these spinning on their proverbial. I don't understand how so many excellent players like Buttler have just not fired and not got going. As you say, painful. |
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Reply | A Hulluva Hard Game Match Thread
at 14:27 21 Feb 2026
Well played lads, excellent second half. Much more like it.
So pleased for the 700 nutters that are up there. Much deserved. |
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Reply | A Hulluva Hard Game Match Thread
at 13:46 21 Feb 2026
The irony of the sky commentators having a go at the atmosphere being so dead. 1230 kick off chaps....never helps. |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 11:58 18 Feb 2026
Well, yes, but that is one heck of a gamble, isn't it? Like the Saito signing, as fun as they are as fans it doesn't make any cold, hard sense. What am I missing? We already had lots of small wingers, we already had lots of centre backs. And if we are buying to sell, that's great but we have to take into account when we are reaching our spending limit and that it may not work / they may get an ACL? Wouldn't the safer decision be to get Liam Morrison fit and firing and then if need be, sell him for a profit?
This is me with a business head on, not as a fan. But I just don't really understand how this works within a sensible plan. |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 11:29 18 Feb 2026
If that's true, Hunter (and I suspect it is) then the Edwards signing in particular is an absolute disgrace. A position where we really didn't need it.
Nothing against Ronnie, but - this needs explaining? |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 09:55 18 Feb 2026
So am I right in saying, especially after the Saito splurge, that the Ronnie Edwards signing is one heck of a gamble? |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 08:27 18 Feb 2026
But that's what makes me laugh. The only players we seem able to sell are solid, unspectacular players like Field, Dieng, Dickie, Dykes - who can command a certain level of fee but that's about it. So we don't make much money and they are actually players you need in a squad to make progress up the league.
What you really need for this model to work, an Eze once in a generation aside, is some striker who isn't THAT great but scores 6 in 4 or something and you flog 'em for a vastly overpriced sum. I guess Kelman was a mini version of that.
And I suppose the Burrell plan would have been perfect if we could keep him on the pitch. |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 08:15 18 Feb 2026
Much as I don't like this buy to sell thing that we seem to be so bad at, what I don't understand is if it is true we had £4m - £5m bids for Varane why they didn't snap their arms off? I rate Varane more than most, but I can't see that his value would be likely to increase much over that?
Now we've shipped off Morrison to Aberdeen so we're hoping someone is going to buy Madsen for what, £7m? Seems far fetched to me so we've bought to sell, gone nowhere in the league, out both the cups first round....and made a loss.
So on to the next plan of selling Kone, Dembele, Poku, Burrell, Edwards for more than we paid plus wages, whilst moving up the league. We're really going to need Burrell to come back firing and net a goal a game. |
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Reply | Cricket 2026 County/International Thread
at 10:16 17 Feb 2026
Not the only one - QPR and Kent, what a barren two teams to follow. Nigh on 50 years and the only genuine trophy I've got between the two of them was that Sunday League win many moons ago.
More importantly, rain at Zim v Ireland. Keep raining, rain, rain, rain again. Then bye bye Australia. Although pretty sure we won't be long behind them in getting on the plane. |
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Reply | Cricket 2026 County/International Thread
at 17:05 16 Feb 2026
What a chase by Sri Lanka and what a hundred.....can't believe it! Ireland - you know what to do, lose to Zimbabwe. Don't let Oz in! |
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