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Swimming pool at Craven Cottage
at 22:30 28 Mar 2024

£71 in the Putney for Newcastle at home. £77 in the Hammersmith or Putney for Liverpool, and £83(!!) for a kids ticket in the central blocks of the Johnny Haynes. But don't panic, it's only £59 for behind the goals v Palace and the dearest kids ticket is only £59 for the central Johnny Haynes blocks. Bargain. I absolutely hate the cun ts who run our club.
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Swimming pool at Craven Cottage
at 07:56 28 Mar 2024

Thanks for the reminder, mate. Appreciated.
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Half decent tv
at 06:57 28 Mar 2024

"Ukraine: enemy in the woods" - BBC documentary consisting of interviews and helmet cam footage from a battalion of Ukrainians tasked him holding a stretch of frontline during the winter. Unbelievably intense and sobering, but well worth a watch. I couldn't cope with the cold, never mind the constant attacks and having to try and kill people.
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Swimming pool at Craven Cottage
at 06:50 28 Mar 2024

I think the vast majority of Fulham fans are really fu cked-off with the club. We knew prices would be ridiculous in the new stand, and I think most of us grudgingly accepted that the stand wasn't intended for "people like us" , but I think there was a naive belief that the revenue from the Riverside would be used to keep prices elsewhere, relatively reasonable. Instead, we have big increases in season tickets prices and match by match prices have gone from taking the pi ss to absolutely taking the pi ss. The club have also said that as far as they're concerned, they will get the maximum they can for a seat and they're not interested in who buys the ticket. Insult to injury - the restricted access to the riverside area means that the Hammersmith concourse is absolute chaos now.

I'm on a boycott - I've done one game this season - Rotherham in the cup because it cost us £21 or something, rather than the £110+ it would now cost for me to take my son to a PL game and sit in the Hammersmith or Putney.

We will go down again, and as others have said, let's see what happens to gates /prices then because the club are really alienating a chunk of support that has been through all the divisions.

On the tourist front, I'm taking my son to the Rome derby next week. I ended up paying €163 and €50 for our tickets, when they went on general sale, and could have paid a lot more. They're all at it. My wife loves football, but at that price decided to give it a miss as she's already seen Fulham there. So, the cu nts are even pricing out tourists!
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Alzheimer’s Memory Walk
at 21:57 26 Mar 2024

Good luck, mate. A great cause - hope it's a cracking day. Thanks for fund-raising for a very worthy cause.
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New England Kit
at 13:04 22 Mar 2024

But if you decide to stick a little flag on the collar, what exactly is the point of making up a completely different flag and then sticking that on?! If the shirt didn't have a flag on the collar, no-one would have cared. I'm not fussed about it, but it just seems like a strange decision to make when it was inevitably going to wind-up a lot of people who care more about these things than I do. Either have the proper flag or don't bother.

PS. The British Rail logo is fu cking magic, isn't it.
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Onuoha on loosing his mum
at 22:05 20 Mar 2024

I couldn't agree more about a work life balance. I have friends who have worked insane hours in incredibly stressful jobs, which have made them largely miserable. Needing to earn big money to afford to live in a big house in an expensive area because of the proximity to stressful, well-paid jobs that allow them to afford to live in a big house in an expensive area, which they choose to live in because of the proximity to stressful well-paid jobs...

I have always been terrible at coping with stress at work, so like you, have turned down numerous job offers from clients and colleagues over the years (some daft cun t thought I'd be a great trainee fund manager, when I would actually have spent the whole time crying in the bogs). Money would have been welcome, but I'd just have been a thoroughly miserable bloke living on a nicer street.

My Dad worked for the same company, in the same role, for 36 years on not great money. He liked his colleagues, it was an easy commute, he liked his clients, and he was home for 5.30pm every day, with his weekends free for football and cricket. He watched all of our games for the school and clubs. That approach has very much informed my decisions when it's come to work.

I wrote my boss a note thanking her for being so kind and supportive at the time of my Mum's death and she just said to me, "There's nothing that happens in this building that is more important than being with your family". If I'm even working five minutes late she tells me to pack-up and go to collect my son. Probably the best run department I've ever worked in and she is genuinely loved by the whole team.
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Onuoha on loosing his mum
at 14:55 20 Mar 2024

That sounds like a really rough time for you, mate. I think there will always be regrets and it's natural that you question whether you should have done more or done things differently. A great, simple piece of advice I was given, was to be kind to yourself because you'll always find something you'd do/say differently if you had the chance to go back. Loved ones know that for most of us, it's a question of trying to juggle everyday responsibilities and obligations with trying to be there for support/company. You can't be everywhere at once, especially not when there's distance involved.
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Onuoha on loosing his mum
at 00:06 20 Mar 2024

I should add that I'm of an age now where a lot of my mate's parents, aunts and uncles are dying, and it's been a wonderful thing to be able to go to the pub or for a walk to talk about how we're coping with losing those special people. All of us see the opportunity to work through our grief as invaluable, so the more blokes talking about loss and grief, the better for me.
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Onuoha on loosing his mum
at 23:49 19 Mar 2024

Absolutely this, fellas. Sending good wishes and love from sunny BS3.
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Onuoha on loosing his mum
at 19:25 19 Mar 2024

Good luck to all those with health concerns at the moment - I wish you all the best.

My Mum died 18 months ago, and my boss/work were unbelievable. I'd been there 2 days(!) when I had to fuc k-off back to London to be with my Mum and family. I was told to take as much time as I wanted and only come back when I felt ready. I was also told to just go home if things got on top of me. My wife works for a food manufacturing company and her boss has paid for people on the shop floor to fly home to be with sick parents/attend funerals and given them a couple of weeks compassionate leave. My older brother just tells his reports to unofficially spend whatever time they need with sick family/grieving. My mate was given 6 weeks paid leave to come back from the US to be with his Dad when he was dying. It comes down to whether or not your boss is compassionate - I'm sorry that your boss was a cu nt when you were going through that with your Dad, Sheffield..

But it's not a competition. Losing a parent is brutal, and I don't hear someone talking about how difficult it is having a sick parent or losing a parent, and resent the fact that they might not have had it as tough as me.
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thought
at 21:53 6 Mar 2024

Yes! Does my head in! My Dad used to make us use our weaker foot down the park and in the garden. I've done the same with my son and he's comfortable with either foot. I find it insane that you can get to a professional contract without having had coaches insist upon a player being at least reasonably two-footed; it's just a question of practice.
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Tonights mascot
at 21:00 6 Mar 2024

Hoping for a breakthrough, wishing your whole family enjoy a million more cuddles with young Jacob, and hoping he's had a wonderful night, tonight.
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Telling it like it is
at 13:55 4 Mar 2024

I really don't like all this stuff - it makes me very uncomfortable. Not sure what having some bloke screaming in their faces is going to achieve. I would imagine every one of those players and coaching staff was just stood there wondering who that cu nt was and why they were having to stand there being humiliated by some tw at in a back to front cap. They lost 6-0 - they probably don't need this bloke shouting at them to realise the game hadn't gone well.

Sometimes you lose because you're just not very good and sometimes, players don't apply themselves, but even with Darren Bent, I don't think I'd have wanted to see him stood there in a full stadium, getting screamed at by some self-important ultra tool.
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Loftus Road Walk Out Music
at 07:15 2 Mar 2024

I wish there was as a lot less music at the football. Playing music at insane levels right through until kick-off means that games often start with muted atmospheres rather than the crowd noise building up gradually as the ground starts to fill and kick-off approaches. It sometimes feels like being at a party where someone's turned the music off and no one knows what to do. Especially early games.

At Hillsborough last week, 3 stands singing at the final whistle, celebrating a hard fought win and the minute the ref blew for time, 55,000,000db of noise from the PA drowning out the celebrating crowd. Less music, less inane chat from shouty blokes with clipboards, and get rid of the flaming wheelie bin/laser shows too. Just let the crowd be the backdrop. Please.
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Loftus Road Walk Out Music
at 22:40 1 Mar 2024

We've had 'London Calling' for ages but not as the walk out tune. Can't really blame us - we're a London club and we do literally live by the river!
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Loftus Road support
at 23:22 25 Feb 2024

Took my 9 year old son to Hillsborough yesterday to watch Bristol City (his team) and they were absolute dog sh it. He looked at me at the final whistle, shook his head and said, "Same old City... " and I thought, mate, this is you set for the rest of your life. You'll have 15 boring/pony seasons for every one where it all comes together and you get giddy after a 5-0 at Port Vale in October on your way to promotion via the the play-offs. We had a lovely, funny day, he got to visit one of the great remaining proper football grounds, in a great city. I loved it because it probably reminded me of days out with my Dad doing the same with me. Yeah, I'd rather have been up the road watching Fulham win at OT but fuc k me, I just love going to the football. And I love that my son genuinely loves going to the match. Whatever game, whatever level; just not interested in watching football on the telly. Appreciate that would change if I physically couldn't get to games, but I just Iove being in a ground.
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Mowbray
at 10:44 19 Feb 2024

I like Mowbray - hope he's okay.
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Prestige performance puts QPR back in the hunt - Report
at 08:52 19 Feb 2024

I think Knight is a very decent Championship midfielder, but he's not a 10. Not particularly creative, isn't a goal threat, but does a lot of good stuff in the middle and can drive the team up the pitch when tactics/personnel make that an option.

O'Leary has the odd mistake in him, but I'm not sure he has more than most other keepers in the Championship, and most games he pulls off at least one amazing reaction save, so he's fine for me.
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Micro managers
at 08:16 19 Feb 2024

I always think a good manager is like a good shop assistant - greets you with a smile and is readily available when you need them for some guidance and support but not in your face the minute you walk through the door, grilling you with questions.

If your boss has been on sick leave for stress, that perhaps suggests she's having a tough time/under a lot of pressure herself, or places herself under a lot of pressure. I would resist any sort of responses outside your normal working hours, unless you're earning silly money, and as others have said, communicate clearly in terms of whether deadlines are realistic/provide updates as you go. Once you've proved you can work without constant supervision, she may relax and learn to let you get on with it. It's early days.

I was micro-managed by a manager once and spent more time explaining what I was working on, than I did on the work itself. Looking back it was a young colleague who'd just been promoted to their first managerial role, they'd had no training in managing people, and were just anxious/over keen to ensure that no work was slipping. They just wanted to be on top of things.

Good luck and I hope things settle down.
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