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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 15:20 7 Jan 2026
Ok mate . Wasn’t meant to come across that way. Was just trying to express my point . |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 12:02 7 Jan 2026
Absolutely no need to apologise .
As I said , we should be able to discuss / debate without getting angry.
Will also point out that I said twice that I liked him . Don’t expect people to agree with me either .
Just how I see it |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 11:33 7 Jan 2026
Why are you getting so upset ?
It’s just a difference of opinion and one i’ve back tracked on a bit and apologised for being overly harsh . I said in my original post I thought he was a decent championship defender.
We can have a slight difference of opinion can’t we?
Or is that now not allowed? |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 09:38 7 Jan 2026
Hmmm .
Fair enough .
But what ‘stats’ don’t show you is how many of his passes reached their target but were uncontrollable for the recipient or the recipient got a toe to them (technically a completed pass) but lost it immediately as a) the pass was bobbled or fizzed into them or perhaps their touch and control isn’t good enough either .
As for being a league 2 footballer , maybe that’s a little harsh so apologies .
But still people are not making the difference between what I said ,that he’s a decent championship defender . Just not a great ‘footballer’ .
There is a difference.
A runaway speedboat would cause a ‘threat’ going forward . But it would still have the ball control of a runaway speedboat .
Anyway , Slightly flippant remarks admittedly in hindsight and he is certainly still young and learning the division so got to give him the same time and leeway as Kone and Burrell so point taken .
Just what I see with my own eyes [Post edited 7 Jan 9:41]
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 07:55 7 Jan 2026
“We have much bigger issues to solve than Mbengue at RB”
Completely agree. Only following the conversation.
But honestly , we are watching a different player if you think he ‘passes well’.
As I said I like him.
But you have to say what you see , |
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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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