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Reply | Our Big Jim
at 23:23 27 Oct 2026
My first memory of Jimmy was in a pre-season friendly when I think we rested Dickie - google suggests it may have been v Cambridge, in between the friendly v Man U which we won and the one v Leicester (when they were still good) which we drew 3-3
The Cambridge game was a bit more fringe players but I was really impressed with Dunne - didn't think he had Dickie's class but very strong and mature for his age.
Not sure how often they played together in the middle - vaguely have Barbet and Dickie as 1st choice pairing in my head |
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Reply | Our Big Jim
at 21:49 27 Oct 2026
There's a reference upthread to his excellent partnership with Edwards.
Am I being old-fashioned in thinking that a classic centre back pairing has one guy who reads the game and can bring the ball out of defence and one guy you can rely on to flatten the striker when needed?
Big oversimplification here, good defenders can do at least a bit of both, but the Edwards/Dunne combo does remind me of classic pairings of the past - Roeder/Hazell, Fenwick/Wicks, Maddix/McDonald... |
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Reply | Ted Hendrix / RIP
at 15:02 27 Oct 2026
Many condolences.
Never met your dad but felt I knew him through this place and he was always a voice of reason. The no-nonsense way he told us all about his prognosis was typical.
I'll also always remember his dry humour ("I shall call him Dave")
All the very best to you and your family. |
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Reply | Being told to stockpile
at 18:38 25 Oct 2026
Pro tip from one of my customers in Tewkesbury, who was cut off by floods for a couple of weeks in 2007: if you've got a good supply of booze you can swap it for almost anything else, as there's bugger all to do apart from drink. |
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Reply | Best Performance in years.
at 16:36 25 Oct 2026
Absolutely not going to have a pop at Kolli and, as you say, at 5-0 it doesn't matter much, but if he'd squared the ball it would have been a great move and I'd be first to sing his praises.
Since we're mainly talking about the manager in this thread, I actually hope he has a word with Kelli about that - it's the sort of thing Kolli can learn from and get better
Getting back to being positive, it was great movement by young Alemayehu |
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Reply | Best Performance in years.
at 23:44 24 Oct 2026
This is going to become a stuck record from me, but the important point is the last two sentences.
Horrendous as our injuries have been, this is a squad that plays as a squad, not just a few key individuals who carry the rest. |
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Reply | swansea at home....match thread..
at 16:05 24 Oct 2026
I have to confess I stayed away from this place from the moment we conceded the third until KO today.
So I don't know what anyone said and for all I know it might have been perfectly justified; I just knew that reading it wasn't going to make me any happier and I was already pissed off enough by the actual Birmingham game. |
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Reply | swansea at home....match thread..
at 15:51 24 Oct 2026
This is at least doing some good for our goal difference.
One of the really irritating things about losing 3-0 to Brum was it wiped out the +3 we'd got from beating Derby |
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Reply | Smyth
at 00:32 16 Oct 2026
I was a bit sorry when he left us as I always thought he had potential and it's a delight to see him not just return but get better and better. |
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Reply | Kone
at 00:28 16 Oct 2026
I suspect that spellcheck/predictive text is the problem, but I'm impressed at the number of times the former Indian Test captain is available for selection for us. |
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Reply | 10 Games in
at 13:54 15 Oct 2026
The injuries are very worrying, especially as you never know how well players will come back; but for me that makes the strong defensive performances, the spine and the general organisation so important - much easier to keep in touch with the right end of the table if at least we're hard to beat, much easier to slot a "reserve" player into a functioning side.
I hope I don't have to eat my words but I don't see this squad going into one of those long runs of defeats that have screwed up previous seasons. |
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Reply | Getting Fleeced Down The Bush Match Fred
at 22:20 14 Oct 2026
I'm not blaming anyone apart from maybe the ref, but I am actually p*ssed off that we didn't get the 4-0 to go above Brum, because that was the target I had in mind before the match and we'd got there perfectly before the f*cking injury curse hit.
Still, bloody good performance by the team and credit again to the manager - the opposition was feeble but a makeshift front line still put four past them and coulda shoulda had five. |
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Reply | Freedom Pass
at 20:11 12 Oct 2026
I'm surprised anyone wants to buy a dry vagina tbh. |
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Reply | Oh dear. 😂😂
at 21:25 10 Oct 2026
Common Sense Policies for a Better Britain |
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Reply | Blowing Bubbles Up The R's Match Thread
at 00:29 10 Oct 2026
Stephan has the boys playing as a team and several of them on their top form - Smyth, for example, has always put in a shift for us, but he looks genuine class at this level now. (Another fine performance by Dunne btw, we take that for granted these days but time was when people wanted him sold.)
Maybe when he says that he has to take certain players off to manage their workload, at a time when half our first XI are injured, we ought to assume he knows what he's talking about. |
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