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Reply | New Kit Annoucment Due ??
at 23:13 25 Apr 2024
Convivial have gone bust apparently. They couldn't really complain if we used a different shirt now. |
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Reply | New Kit Annoucment Due ??
at 16:32 25 Apr 2024
We have done it before.
In 2009/10 we had a new kit and they released at the end of the season with an option to purchase it for the last home game of the previous season. We played Plymouth and drew 0-0. |
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Reply | New Kit Annoucment Due ??
at 12:49 25 Apr 2024
We're at the point where beggars can't be choosers and if someone wants to lob £000s at us to stick their name on the front of the shirt we have to suck it up.
I like the attempt to do something different with the kit and the hoops all the way round look decent.
Keen to see what they do with the away kit now; I assume we'll have a much darker kit next year because this home kit has a lot of white. |
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Reply | Teeth
at 10:48 25 Apr 2024
It was 1978 and I was 9 or 10. We'd moved and I went to a new dentist in Shepherds Bush. It used to be up some stairs where The Green pub is now.
My previous dentist was great; really smiley, mindful of young kids, etc. The new one wasn't. He was in his 60s and obviously resented having to do NHS kids appointments after a lifetime of private practice. I'd gone there for a check up and hadn't been keen afterwards but my Mum thought I was just acting up. At the check up he highlighted a baby tooth at the back which hadn't come out and was preventing the next tooth. He said to keep an eye on it and go back in a few months.
The tooth started hurting - the one underneath not being able to push through, so had to go back. He was a bit peeved we came back so quick but said it would be a simple extraction. He got ready to inject the gum and as he pushed the needle in he must have been distracted or something. Next thing I hear is a crack and the needle he has used has snapped and I can taste the anaesthetic on my tongue. The needle is in my gum with a little bit poking out.
'Oh dear' he says and asks the nurse for a tool to get it out. As he proceeds to pull the end out it slips and goes into the gum completely. I have a numb tongue and can't speak now and see the nurse's eyes roll in her head. She asks my Mum to wait in the waiting room since it'll be a couple of minutes.
He gets another syringe ready and approaches my mouth again - I'm really uncomfortable and not expecting to enjoy this. As he pierces the skin, in the same place the embedded needle is, I scream. 'OK' he says, let's do this another way. He washes the area with anaesthetic telling me 'it'll not hurt' and then gets a scalpel and cuts the gum to remove the needle. I feel everything and moan with pain - he looks at me and says (this is completely true) 'calm down, it doesn't hurt that much'.
He stiches the gum - 2 stiches - and I'm in tears. He tries to inject me again to do the removal but I'm not having any of it. The nurse looks terrified. He gets a freezing spray out and asks the nurse to call my Mum back in. She sees me with blood over my chin and wonders what's happened - is it safe indeed. He says the re has been a problem with needles (quite) and asks permission to use this spray to numb the tooth since it isn't ordinarily used with kids. She agrees, seeing my pleading eyes.
He sprays my mouth and it goes numb for a few seconds. In that time he whips out the tooth and tells my mum the stiches will dissolve in a few days.
I leave and it takes a couple of hours to get feeling back in my tongue. My mouth ached for days and when the stiches dissolve, they leave a scar on my gum which I still have.
I brush my teeth religiously from that point on because I never want to go to a dentist and managed to make it until early 2010 when I break a tooth. |
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Reply | Teeth
at 15:18 24 Apr 2024
I avoided the dentist for over 30 years because of a bad experience when I was a kid. I will share it depending on the number of upvotes this get - not for the squeamish. |
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Reply | Leeds ticket threads
at 15:08 22 Apr 2024
I think that might be a bit of a joke. A scan through a few pages of their away tickets thread and lots of people asking for spares. |
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Reply | We are not safe!!!
at 23:44 21 Apr 2024
Hudds can catch us if they can get an 11 goal swing against us. That would mean, however, Birmingham would be on the end of one of those drubbings putting them in a worse place.
Will Weds beat both WBA and Sunderland? I doubt it.
Plymouth could easily lose against Hull and Millwall.
I 'know' we're not guaranteed to stay up yet but the chances of it happening are so slim, anyone offering you over 66/1 you should put a tenner on it to pay for next year's ST. |
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Reply | Current Form Table.
at 23:34 21 Apr 2024
I remember seeing something in Clive's preview about teams travelling long distance away games. Preston have done way more than anyone in the last 15 days. |
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Reply | Loftus Road journey
at 11:49 19 Apr 2024
Every stand except Lower School. Done both Paddocks - and never seen us win. Upper School End once for a game in the early 80s v Notts County (we lost). Longest has been ER where I had my first ST in row A and now in the R block for some 20+ years on and off. |
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Reply | The 2024 relegation thread-oh: Match 44
at 15:12 15 Apr 2024
The % will change as it reassesses the scores. I think the fact we've swung from 30% to 3% in a few weeks is more to do with our Jekyll and Hyde performances than a failure in the methodology. |
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Reply | The 2024 relegation thread-oh: Match 44
at 13:12 15 Apr 2024
Latest Opta:
"Speaking of Birmingham, that win helped them clamber out of the relegation zone and reduced their probability of going down to 37.2%. That’s largely at the expense of Huddersfield Town, who conceded a very late equaliser at Bristol City and now go down in 57.1% of simulations. Sheffield Wednesday also avoided defeat as they drew 1-1 at home to Stoke City, but their relegation chances remain up there at 78.1%.
There are still 10 teams who could mathematically join Rotherham in going down, though after Birmingham, Huddersfield and Sheffield Wednesday, the only other teams with more than a 2% chance are QPR (14.7%) and Stoke (10.1%)."
https://theanalyst.com/eu/2024/04/championship-predictions-promotion-relegation/
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Reply | Chair
at 22:17 11 Apr 2024
Reminds me of Langley a bit insofar is probably thinking ahead of his team mates and they're not good enough to catch up.
He takes everything personally which is why he wants to everything and often fails.
If we want to maintain a model where we buy cheap and sell high, he has to be in the shop window. |
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Reply | Chair
at 10:32 11 Apr 2024
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Reply | Chair
at 10:04 11 Apr 2024
Had a look at his stats for Plymouth:
3 shote, 0 on target
0 tackles, interceptions or blocked shots
22 passes, 59% completion - the lowest of any player in the team
7 crosses, 2 accurate
3 long balls, 1 accurate
Busiest player but did the least business. |
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