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at 11:58 18 Feb 2026
Well, yes, but that is one heck of a gamble, isn't it? Like the Saito signing, as fun as they are as fans it doesn't make any cold, hard sense. What am I missing? We already had lots of small wingers, we already had lots of centre backs. And if we are buying to sell, that's great but we have to take into account when we are reaching our spending limit and that it may not work / they may get an ACL? Wouldn't the safer decision be to get Liam Morrison fit and firing and then if need be, sell him for a profit?
This is me with a business head on, not as a fan. But I just don't really understand how this works within a sensible plan. |
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at 11:29 18 Feb 2026
If that's true, Hunter (and I suspect it is) then the Edwards signing in particular is an absolute disgrace. A position where we really didn't need it.
Nothing against Ronnie, but - this needs explaining? |
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at 09:55 18 Feb 2026
So am I right in saying, especially after the Saito splurge, that the Ronnie Edwards signing is one heck of a gamble? |
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at 08:27 18 Feb 2026
But that's what makes me laugh. The only players we seem able to sell are solid, unspectacular players like Field, Dieng, Dickie, Dykes - who can command a certain level of fee but that's about it. So we don't make much money and they are actually players you need in a squad to make progress up the league.
What you really need for this model to work, an Eze once in a generation aside, is some striker who isn't THAT great but scores 6 in 4 or something and you flog 'em for a vastly overpriced sum. I guess Kelman was a mini version of that.
And I suppose the Burrell plan would have been perfect if we could keep him on the pitch. |
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at 08:15 18 Feb 2026
Much as I don't like this buy to sell thing that we seem to be so bad at, what I don't understand is if it is true we had £4m - £5m bids for Varane why they didn't snap their arms off? I rate Varane more than most, but I can't see that his value would be likely to increase much over that?
Now we've shipped off Morrison to Aberdeen so we're hoping someone is going to buy Madsen for what, £7m? Seems far fetched to me so we've bought to sell, gone nowhere in the league, out both the cups first round....and made a loss.
So on to the next plan of selling Kone, Dembele, Poku, Burrell, Edwards for more than we paid plus wages, whilst moving up the league. We're really going to need Burrell to come back firing and net a goal a game. |
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Reply | Cricket 2026 County/International Thread
at 10:16 17 Feb 2026
Not the only one - QPR and Kent, what a barren two teams to follow. Nigh on 50 years and the only genuine trophy I've got between the two of them was that Sunday League win many moons ago.
More importantly, rain at Zim v Ireland. Keep raining, rain, rain, rain again. Then bye bye Australia. Although pretty sure we won't be long behind them in getting on the plane. |
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Reply | Cricket 2026 County/International Thread
at 17:05 16 Feb 2026
What a chase by Sri Lanka and what a hundred.....can't believe it! Ireland - you know what to do, lose to Zimbabwe. Don't let Oz in! |
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Reply | Cricket 2026 County/International Thread
at 13:05 16 Feb 2026
He was brilliant. England were really not good. If Stewart's final shot had gone wide of the fielder for 4, I think he would have got them really close. That's Grant Stewart - 2nd Division Kent journeyman.
Not sure what is going on, as much as I am a fan of McCullum, unless we improve quickly in the Super 8s, it is really about time we made use of the best one-day brain in the world - Eoin Morgan. |
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Reply | The Season is Done
at 08:48 15 Feb 2026
I don't get the oft-repeated claim on here that we would have "bitten your arm off" to be in this position in September. That's true, of course, but I don't truly understand the relevance. It's not like we were unfortunate to be docked a ton of points or something. We got hammered by Coventry and yet again our start to the season was slow and that's our fault, no-one else's.
I'm so bored of our relentless mediocrity. We can't keep harking back to the bad start; we found some form and got ourselves into a decent position to attack 6th place. And we are blowing it in our usual depressing fashion.
So many injuries (and lies about them), such weak mentality in the very winnable away games. Always comes back to standards. I remain unconvinced at the CEO, the manager, the whole damn club, as ever.
We've had posts saying that we should praise Nourry for "good transfer windows". Really? I mean swapping Kone for Kelman (in effect) looks a decent shout, Burrell good of course, but spunking a lot of cash on Saito and Edwards? Jury's out there.
As for getting rid of Sam Field - total joke. As a club with seemingly very few standards, its people like Field that need to be kept around as long as possible, whatever the moronic Twitter yoof think. |
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Reply | EFL clubs to vote on expanding Championship playoffs to six clubs
at 09:07 11 Feb 2026
Of course it will happen, in the true tradition of sport these days. Something works, is it popular? Give me more, more, more. It's going down the cricket route, there's been 10 "world cup" tournaments in 4 years for men and women. As such there's a T20 world cup going on now and surprise, surprise, its importance feels diluted.
So playoff matches? Let's have more, more, more.
The true sporting magic is not contrived, it is fought for over a long period of time. You don't have to have more opportunity of jeopardy or competitiveness wherever possible, else that true jeopardy is less important. Always the next tournament, it will be along in a minute. [Post edited 11 Feb 9:08]
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Reply | Cricket 2026 County/International Thread
at 11:51 9 Feb 2026
Well if you don't like Harry Brook as an English fan, I suggest you are in for a tough time over the next decade. He will be one of the best players in the world. Yes he's made some shocking mistakes and appears not to be overfurnished in the brains department, but he is a class player and hopefully will learn. |
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Reply | Cricket 2026 County/International Thread
at 11:37 9 Feb 2026
Unlikeable? I don't get that. For every year I have been alive, one defeat in an Ashes away tour completely turns the narrative against the team and coach, regardless of whatever else they have been doing for the previous 3 years. It is so boring. We just got beaten by a better side in Oz, and would have done whether we had been playing golf / drinking or staying at home playing scrabble or if Sibley had been playing or whatever. The management seem to have realised that our approach needs to change a bit, and that's fine by me. Why throw away the previous 3 years of decent progress?
We just beat a very tough Sri Lanka side away in both ODIs and T20s, and now have started with a win. It's T20 - anything can happen, but we (or Curran) stood firm for once and didn't cave in. Also, Nepal are not some ridiculously poor side. They are really talented, very nearly beat South Africa and I can see them qualifying from this group. |
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Reply | Man city vs Liverpool ghost goal
at 08:44 9 Feb 2026
Couldn't agree more, Dave. But when this thought is mooted, it just gets shut down as "we've let the genie out the bottle, we can't put it back". Why not? There's not many proper, match-going fans in the country who wouldn't scrap it. Although, sadly, the armchair plastics - born in London, once saw Liverpool on the telly so now a "red" - seem to love it, and I suspect that they are worth more to the Premier League.
Maybe I am wrong and there are match-going fans who like it, but I've not met one. So how about all the proper fans forget their walkouts and boycotts because of the Glaziers / that they haven't won a trophy for a season, and do mass boycott of games until VAR is scrapped?
All that will be left will be the tourists with their cameras and half and half scarves, so let's see how the TV companies like the atmosphere then.
VAR to be scrapped entirely, only totally automated, instant decisions like the goalline watch can stay or reintroduce elements of it. So automated offsides that can buzz the lino - no issue with that if it happens. You are taking away the flow, the instant moment of jubilation and what's the point when you do that? |
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Reply | Kelman
at 09:22 7 Feb 2026
I wasn't there, so was Dykes actually booed? I don't get QPR fans sometimes. A bloke who gave his all, with limited ability yes, and quite obviously we sold him rather than him agitating for a move. You don't need to be ITK to work that out.
So why boo him? I thought he was in his Scotland mode yesterday, really tested us and looked what he can be at his best. |
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Reply | Steve Cook - Total Pro
at 08:54 7 Feb 2026
It was actually quite funny to watch the three of them. Cook got there by sheer willpower, but was beaten himself by two sloths, the ghost of Michi Frey and a snail.
I don't remember Edwards being that devoid of pace from last season? Let's hope it's just a lack of match sharpness and fitness or something, else we have a more cultured Rob Dickie on our hands, although there isn't anything wrong with that. [Post edited 7 Feb 8:54]
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Reply | Cricket 2026 County/International Thread
at 09:14 6 Feb 2026
He's unbelievable, we will spend the rest of our cricketing days watching this guy smash England to all parts.
Especially in the English tradition over Test series of being totally unable to stop one opposition player making a mountain of runs every single innings. |
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Reply | Field to Norwich
at 09:11 3 Feb 2026
I am certainly not a Nourry lover, but I like his latest communication on the transfer window. A much-needed dollop of humanity and talking about the players properly rather than all that "progressing into zone#10" nonsense from before.
Although that bit about the Aussies and their physical development smacks a little of the infamous comments the England women's cricket coach made when we got slaughtered out there last year. |
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