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Thread | Alan Barnes update for visits
at 17:11 9 Mar 2016
Alan has moved to the Athlone Clinic in Woodfield Rd W9. He's on the second floor but check before you visit as he attends various clinics and may not be there.
He is going to St Marys on Friday 11th so will be away for most of the day.
As you'd expect Alan was in some discomfort especially after a day in a wheelchair at St. Marys. The physios are getting ready for him to go load-bearing on his broken leg. Coincidentally one of them is a Forest fan.
The physio not his leg.
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Reply | Blog by Dave Mc
at 13:45 14 May 2015
I listened to an interview last autumn with Les Reed who is the Head of Football Development at Southampton. He was asked about their targets in the upcoming January window. He said that was in hand and he was concentrating on their targets for the summer window already. He went on to say that they knew whom they wanted to try to get to fit their system irrespective of the manager. That's why there's no-one outside St. Marys with ten minutes left of the window unlike... |
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Reply | Wining Arsenal
at 11:08 24 Nov 2014
Many years ago I was going up to Manchester on business and the train was full of the prawn sandwich brigade going up for a midweek Champs Lge game. Went to the bar and overheard the barman telling the bloke in front of me that they had run out of Chardonnay and we hadn't even got past the Midlands. It nearly kicked off. |
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Reply | QPR get fair play ruling warning
at 17:41 10 Sep 2014
As I understand it we received £23m as the first tranche of our parachute payments. We were due £18m in the second year and £9m in each of years three and four. IIRC teams that got promoted 'left' their remaining parachute payments to the remaining Championship clubs meaning that we were leaving behind £36m by getting promoted at the first attempt. Is this still the case? |
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Reply | John's barber shop
at 22:51 19 Aug 2014
I used to be taken there in the 60s and Johnny used to cut my hair until he opened a second barber shop on that little island where Old Oak Rd meets Westway. My dad then took me there as he and Johnny were old school whereas the Uxbridge Rd shop was becoming young and trendy.
Much later in life I returned to the Uxbridge Rd shop where Seth and his brother, John, would cut my hair interspersed with moans about the Rangers. I tried to get a haircut days before the playoff final and found the builders at work. I went past recently and was even more surprised to find that it was still a barbers but minus Seth and John. I keep meaning to pop in and find out what happened. |
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Reply | Oh dear Ravel
at 12:42 31 Jul 2014
When he joined us I was told by a ManU fan to google' Ravel Morrison trial' and read the full report of the intimidation case. It does not make pretty reading.
There comes a stage where bad behaviour oversteps the mark and the law steps in but more frequently management just decides that they have better things to do with their time and energy. I remember Gerry Francis trying really hard to keep Leon Jeanne on the straight and narrow; that boy had real talent and we were skint but we still gave up on him. It appears that Fergie and Allardyce had better things to do with their time. |
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Reply | Remy - sliding scale release clause is revealed
at 11:26 15 Jul 2014
In theory certainly possible however what does Remy get out of it which is the driving force. They could short change us this way but he would want a cut of the action, Arsenal would want a turn, the agents and football authorities get a percentage too. Lot of parties taking a cut before Newcastle even get their hands on the player who would then want a similar escape clause there. However if Arsenal want Debuchy....... |
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Reply | Season Ticket perspective
at 15:56 11 Jul 2014
A fairer price comparison would be between the cost of the play-off final and a trip to a West End play. Both expensive but a rare excursion where the customer is treated well, gets a good view etc.
I regularly go to the Bush Theatre where most plays cost £15-20 with about four productions per year. They give members 10% discounts on tickets and at their bar. They even do mini season tickets where you get three plays for the price of two so the cost falls to about £13 per play.
The Bush theatre may not be the Prem but it compares well with a £15 ticket for the Orient friendly. |
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Reply | End of term report — attack
at 23:11 2 Jul 2014
The strangest thing about the Maiga signing was that he came for a one week trial with us and we sent him back to WHU because he didn't impress. Then a few weeks later we signed him on deadline day and unsurprisingly he didn't impress.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. It is the only reasonable explanation for our actions in this matter. |
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Reply | It's Our Fault
at 22:36 19 Jun 2014
That Brazil..Brazil ..thing is doing my head in. Then to my horror watching last night I found out that there is a long version. Bottle of malt plus revolver pls.
However who'd have thought that you'd see a sentence with ITV and amateur in it. |
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Reply | seems the media dislike us/ thoughts on win
at 13:48 26 May 2014
I think that they might have done us a favour over the last few weeks. By Saturday morning we had become everyone's most hated team and yet underdogs in the betting. A rare feat indeed.
This has been a difficult fractious season stemming from our disarray in the Prem. We had the players, manager, chairman and fans but the whole was less than the sum of the parts. By the time we got to the playoffs every lazy jouno was having a pop at us with opposition fans just repeating the media view. The ignorance of the Prem-centric media towards the Football League is shocking. Every player in any game worldwide can only be referenced by his contact however fleeting with the PL.
Well the team came together for the Wigan games but importantly the fans put their differences behind them and backed the team at LR. This continued through to Wembley with the whole club coming together. The most impressive thing was not that we sold 39k tickets but that the s/t holders and members did their best to help strangers but fellow rangers to be there. This re-distribution effort should not be underestimated and I doubt would have been so spontaneous and successful earlier in the season.
The constant sniping from outside and even from our own ranks had reinforced my support for the team; seemingly it had the same effect on many others. Millwall revel in it while Fergie deliberately fomented the siege mentality. Maybe the media attacks were just what we needed to re-unite us. Rangers not Strangers. [Post edited 26 May 2014 13:53]
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Reply | Wembley
at 11:35 14 May 2014
The email confirmation did not mention my block number (217) but I went back into my qpr ticket account about 20 mins later and I had been allocated a block, row and seat. Originally that bit had been blank and I was concerned that I had cocked up. |
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Reply | Hull Tigers Fan Poll
at 09:07 8 Apr 2014
'et gloriam spei per experientiam' or 'the triumph of hope over experience' which fits well with St Jude being the saint of lost causes |
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Reply | 10 Rillington Place
at 16:44 2 Mar 2014
My dad tried to buy 10 Rillington Place in the late 50s because , not surprisingly, it was cheap but my mum convinced him that that was an insane idea and W12 was better for a family home anyway.
Its name had been changed to Ruston Close and was demolished in the 70s. A new deveopment replaced it where the present day Bartle Rd is.
It would have been a poor investment anyway because the area was blighted by the building of Westway and compensation was not good IIRC. |
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Reply | Cabinet Minister in the Lower Loft on Saturday !!
at 16:44 26 Nov 2013
Last year at Spurs I was in the lower tier and was surprised to see Michael Gove and his son sat the other side of the aisle where there was a bank of just two seats, very exposed, right next to the fence separating us from the Spurs fans. Firstly I was little surprised that he was slumming it with the rest of us but more surprised that he was sat right next to the home fans. Tory Education Minister sat almost on top of the spurs fans struck me as high risk. Anyway he and his son got a load of abuse to start with and there was some commotion with a steward getting involved. To be fair Gove and his son ignored it and joined in with our chants. Strangely that was as loud as the spuds got until they scored 60 minutes later. |
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