 | Forum Reply | Where are the Coal Mines at 17:42 1 Jan 2026
Yes I said as much on page one of the thread. You can’t just switch on and off performances like a tap. You try to win EVERY game. You won’t of course, but you TRY. Trying takes EFFORT. No effort evident since the final whistle v Leicester. |
 | Forum Reply | Where are the Coal Mines at 15:28 1 Jan 2026
Back in the day you could just blame the groundsman. You could even coming running onto the field with pitchforks - but only to stick little holes in the ground mind |
 | Forum Reply | Where are the Coal Mines at 15:03 1 Jan 2026
This is true. But it also applied to the last two games regardless of personnel |
 | Forum Reply | Chaotic team selection, chaotic outcome as R's slip at West Brom - Report at 10:41 1 Jan 2026
Agree with all this, except I lost my rag after the Portsmouth match. Didn’t even bother to watch the WBA match as everything about it smelt of ‘can’t be arsed’, from the team selection down. The bare minimum expected after forcing fans to travel and watch that double dross is six points, but we’ll see. |
 | Forum Reply | Where are the Coal Mines at 10:36 1 Jan 2026
Surely we cannot produce three inept performances in a row. Equally we can’t expect to turn it on when we feel like it, like a tap or we will come unstuck. Hoping Chair is fit to return today, badly missed the last two. We know that ‘on our day’ we are a match for pretty much anybody in this league - trouble is we never know when we are going to be ‘on it’ or not until the game gets going. Thinking a 3-1 result if we are, another turgid draw if we are not. |
 | Forum Reply | Sam Field at 10:29 1 Jan 2026
Isn’t field left-footed? But If Madsen is unfit, I would like to see Morgan play in his position. He has a lot of energy and passes the ball forward. Did okay there for a spell last season. But JS doesn’t seem to view him as a Midfielder at all |
 | Forum Reply | Angelo Balanta at 20:58 31 Dec 2025
Did Bowler or Parrot get anywhere near the Everton or Spurs first teams? |
 | Forum Reply | Angelo Balanta at 20:55 31 Dec 2025
Jeepers I had completely forgotten about that. Loved that song as a kid |
 | Forum Reply | Smyth at 19:36 31 Dec 2025
Great start to the New year and window. Ronnie tomorrow now (as per last year) and we are off to flyer. Happy New Year to all |
 | Forum Reply | Subbing a Goalkeeper - Why is it only done for Injuries ?? at 19:57 30 Dec 2025
This, obviously. It’s a specialist position unlike anywhere else on the pitch. If a goalkeeper makes a howler it is almost certainly a goal, anywhere else on the pitch the situation is retrievable, or may be a missed ‘sitter’ . Also, you don’t hear of outfield players being comfortable playing in goal any more like Niall Quinn to name one. used to be. So you change the goalkeeper for tactical reasons , sub goalie gets hurt, you are in trouble. |
 | Forum Reply | January transfer rumours at 14:35 30 Dec 2025
Very hard to see how he would get a game in our current set up. Same with Eze if we resigned with his own money. We are absolutely stacked with quality players in those positions |
 | Forum Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread at 21:30 29 Dec 2025
Are we actually creating anything lads? Don’t seem to have had a chance worthy of comment since Poku scraped the bar |
 | Forum Reply | QPR look to conquer away jitters at restless West Brom - Preview at 17:48 29 Dec 2025
Well this. There has been so much comment on the ‘mad Christmas fixtures’ that I was wondering if an extra game had been added? Surely it’s been ever thus? I remember a few years ago, a ‘winter break’ was suggested (possibly only in the Prem) and everybody was up in arms as it was ‘breaking with tradition’. |
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