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Reply | The last post and silence
at 12:58 7 Nov 2025
I'm at risk of putting my head above the parapet here, but there's elements of the Remembrance Period I feel deeply uncomfortable about these days.
I will happily go to my local memorial for a service on Remembrance Sunday, I will happily down tools at work for 2 minutes at 11am on Armistice Day, no problem there.
Where I feel very uncomfortable is the enormous amount of noise and performative actions that are made around the whole period now, and nowhere is worse than this IMO than football clubs.
I remember when I was growing up in the 90s that if you were at home on Remembrance Weekend you'd have a minute silence before the match and off you go. And if you weren't at home on the weekend then nothing happened the game before and lets just see where the fixtures place us next year.
Then we had clubs starting to put Poppies on shirts and auctioning them off for the RBL, fair enough, nice touch, still low key.
Now its a whole "event" and even if you're not at home on Remembrance Weekend (as we are not again this year) we still do the big song and dance about how respectful we are, flag bearers, trumpeters, roll of honour etc and I'll be brutally honest, I feel its a complete over the top carnivalisation of the whole thing and a hundred miles off the true meaning of what the Remembrance Period should be. It feels to me like clubs trying to out-compete each other in how respectful they can be and who can be the most respectful.
The Instagram account "Mascot Silence" is normally a great follow as they publish photos of mascots up and down the country standing on football pitches with football teams doing minute silences, and to be quite frank seeing a six-foot tall shrimp at Southend with a massive grin on his face stood in a centre circle with his head bowed looks bloody stupid. I've seen photos on the account of a ground (not sure where) where someone is dressed up as a poppy stood on the pitch.
I'm sure everyone on here has family who has served, as well as people on here who have served. I couldn't do it, I'm not brave enough, I'm not tough enough, I have huge respect for all of them, I'm one of those who'd only end up on the front line because they were conscripted to be there.
I really don't, however, like what its become in football grounds every year now. I don't believe it's done for the right reasons, in truth. |
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Reply | Our fans today were pathetic
at 09:38 2 Nov 2025
So, one of two things has happened here...
1. You've posted a childish insult on one account, then wanting to appear a White Knight have posted an immediate riposte, but have forgotten to change account.
2. You posted too soon, then posted again to continue an insult that someone with a child, whose car is labelled as such, might be really annoyed at being tailgated then driven into the back of, when the person doing the tailgating and hitting has no idea if the child is in the car or not.
Either way, this is really bonkers. |
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Reply | Our fans today were pathetic
at 21:37 1 Nov 2025
5 and a half hours spent driving today, an hour to get out of London as it seemed all my normal routes had road closures and roadworks, had a van drive into the back of me on the way in in Park Royal, having tailgated me for the previous quarter mile despite the "BABY ON BOARD" sign in my back window. C*nt. Got his company details, request for fleet insurance info in already. Thankfully not done much other than take some paint off my bumper and smashed my number plate but I'd have been even angrier at him had my baby actually been in the car. Entirely avoidable from not driving on someone's back bumper.
What a day  |
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Reply | Match worn shirts, through the years
at 14:00 30 Oct 2025
A gallery of club kits would be an amazing thing to have available and catalogued.
I know a few people out there who try to buy every shirt the club's worn (some of them are quite combative about it from what I've heard!)
That in a club museum would be fun.
"Remember that shirt Dad?"
"Yeah, bloody awful weren't it." |
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Reply | New left back ?
at 13:58 30 Oct 2025
Bit like Robith I gave up on FM years ago. The games were just getting more and more complex in their quest for "realism", took absolutely ages to get anywhere, and it made it feel more like an actual second job that I don't get paid for than something to have easy enjoyment from in downtime.
I do keep an eye on it far from afar per se, it seems to me they're going after the FIFA market with how they keep trying to develop the 3D game, but FIFA players don't want the nitty gritty that FM has always been, and FM players don't want FIFA arcades.
Feels a bit potentially like a business thats lost its way a bit as far as the gaming goes, but if I'm right I believe they absolutely coin it in now from their database being used by real world clubs/scouts etc? |
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Reply | From a Liverpool Message Board…..
at 13:54 30 Oct 2025
"but surely any Leicester fan that lived through their premiership winning season can't want for anything more?"
Ohhhh believe me they do! Plenty of City fans up here at the minute upset they are not sweeping everyone before them 3 or 4 nil. |
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Reply | Take Me Out to the Ballgame
at 09:01 22 Oct 2025
Back in 2016 me & Mrs SLM did a 2-week west coast tour of the US (Boston -> New York -> Philadelphia -> Washington).
We went to see the Red Sox in Boston, tickets we bought before we went. They got trashed by the Orioles (it felt very QPR as the boos rang round the stadium as the Orioles hit two home runs in an innings and stretched their lead...) Found them overall very snooty though, the attitude of a staff member I had a mini-chat with in the club shop in the afternoon of the game was dismissive of anyone non-Bostonian going to watch the Red Sox, and whilst I enjoyed the experience it felt very much like going to watch Liverpool with the Fenway Sports connection. All the history, all the arrogance etc...
When we were in Philadelphia we picked up a couple of tickets to watch the Phillies as they had a home series against the Mets whilst we were there and we could see the stadium lit up from our ridiculously high hotel room.
Absolute opposite experience. Went into the club shop before the game, employee clocks we're two British people, got really excited that a couple of British tourists had decided to come and watch his team, dived into his pocket and pulled out a baseball card for us of the home ground (a much more modern facility than Fenway Park!) then went into the backroom to give us a certificate to certify our first game at Citizens Bank Park. Its absolutely the sort of thing thats actually intended for children but he was so genuine and so enthusiastic that we were really touched by the gesture.
So as a result, I have a much bigger soft spot for the Phillies. They were also crap at the time which brought me much more into my sporting comfort blanket with supporting QPR, and the game that night went on forever and was God-awful quality, eventually finishing 2-1 to the Phillies were it felt like anyone trying to score a run was like, in Clive's words, trying to sh*t a snooker table. Again, much more QPR! |
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Reply | Parking at Derby
at 13:31 21 Oct 2025
Its quite some years since I've been but I remember there being lots of parking in some of the industrial/ex-industrial areas around the stadium.
I would say when it comes to place explaining how far something is to walk to, you can almost always convert it as a "fat American" pace, and therefore take a good chunk of time off for what it would take a normal person to need. |
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Reply | Beating John Terry
at 10:21 16 Oct 2025
Well done!
If you're not already part of it, feel free to join the QPR Runners group on Facebook/Strava. We're a relatively small bunch, but all QPR fans who run and share our exploits. There's even QPR Runners kit, a "home" and "away" version (Dennis the Menace of course!) |
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Reply | Keeper conundrum?
at 08:45 9 Oct 2025
Is it really necessary? If Murphy Cooper continues to impress at Barnsley then surely he should be coming back here next summer with an aim to be #1, otherwise what's the point (from his perspective) of staying with us?
Walsh I think has been stunted by too many years on the bench, he needs to go an spend a solid 2-3 years as a #1 in League 1/2 if he wants to make it in the Championship in future.
Despite our impressive recent form I still think it unlikely we'd be serious contenders for a top-6, so surely you'd just stick with Nardi for the year with the aim to bring Cooper back, rather than spend unnecessary money on another keeper who isn't probably going to make an enormous difference to the team you've got? |
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Reply | Players with great starts who then wobbled
at 16:29 6 Oct 2025
I remember Jordan Cousins coming off the bench for his debut when we rifled Leeds 3-0 in a season opener and he looked amazing and...well...that was about as good as he ever got. |
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Reply | Fan Chants and Where They Come From
at 13:31 6 Oct 2025
An interesting one is to think of song tunes which were once popular, but have now disappeared as the song itself disappeared from popular culture.
Like, football chants based around The Automatic's "Monster" was quite popular for a few years in the late 2000s, but as the band and song disappeared into obscurity so has football fans coming up with chants to it. |
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Reply | Players With Wobbly Starts
at 13:24 6 Oct 2025
That was when we were in the top flight in year 2, Clint was the mainstay left back for the title winning season.
Danny Shittu got sent off on his debut in a 4-1 trouncing at Peterborough, definitely got better after that. |
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Reply | Owl be seeing them in League One Sheff Wednesday Vs QPR match Thread
at 18:12 27 Sep 2025
Its a funny one really, from a brutal truth standpoint with all of Wednesday's issues every club in this division should expect 3 points from them, but that also makes it a huge banana skin fixture.
And in addition, you have to play to earn wins, no-one is going to roll over and give it to you (well, excepting us at Coventry perhaps...) so if you're not on it you'll get caught out.
A point better than none, always. |
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Reply | Women’s Rugby World Cup final .
at 16:55 27 Sep 2025
England just look head and shoulders above everything, no-one has really given them a close game.
That said its clear the gap between a full professional team and one that isn't. And the Canadians were brilliant against New Zealand last week, but they've had to crowd fund elements of their trip to England, just shows the difference funding can make. |
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Reply | Owls’ problems coming home to roost – Preview
at 15:40 27 Sep 2025
Councils owning football grounds is a quickfire way to crumbling, unsafe, grounds within a decade. Clubs spend the bare minimum already, councils would do even less. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 21:57 26 Sep 2025
Blackburn Rovers have banned the Lancashire Telegraph from all club premises because they don't like the local press reporting objectively, and have even been pressuring Charlton to ban the journalist from The Valley tomorrow.
Embarrassing, but it seems grown adults behaving petulantly when they don't get their own way is becoming ever more normal. |
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Reply | Bircham isn’t happy
at 09:01 23 Sep 2025
I've got a work colleague who's a Reading fan and he said they gave him the nickname "Cheeseburger" as it was the first English word he learned, allegedly. |
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