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Reply | Four minutes of injury time
at 11:18 25 Jan 2026
I do understand but if you can’t bring on a sub to counter a particular situation, something is wrong in the game.
I get that the windows were probably created to stop time wasting but how is it time wasting when time is added on anyway when substitutions are made.
We’ll never know of course but had we brought on Edwards for, say, Kone, we may have won the game. [Post edited 25 Jan 11:20]
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Reply | Four minutes of injury time
at 11:09 25 Jan 2026
Ok, just googled it;
Number of Substitutions: Clubs are permitted to use five substitutes in a match.
Number of Windows: Clubs are allowed a maximum of three opportunities (plus half-time) to make these five substitutions.
As someone else pointed out on another post, we used ours on 64, 74 and 82 4 players in total).
So as much as we probably wanted to bring Edwards on, we couldn’t. That cost us the points.
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Reply | Four minutes of injury time
at 10:35 25 Jan 2026
Slight difference in that at Man City we were down to 10 men for a much longer period of time and were being relentlessly battered by a vastly superior team, It grinds you down.
Yesterday was just 4 minutes. To concede two goals is bizzare. There’s been mention of sub windows but surely with 1 sub left, you bring on Edward’s straight away, take off Kone and go 5-4-0 / 4-5-0 and park the friggin bus for four minutes to see out the game at 2-1.
If the ‘window’ hindered this then that is ridiculous. What if a player got injured too around the same time…. then you’re down to 9?
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Reply | Julien speaks
at 08:58 25 Jan 2026
Maybe I’m not up to speed with the changes but how does this account for, at best, making a sub for unforeseen tactical reasons (such as player already on a yellow and starting to lose their schit, or one given a yellow and you want to pull them off, a sending off or scoring/conceding a goal) or at worst, a player injury? |
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Reply | West hams ground....
at 22:45 24 Jan 2026
As the site and stadium is owned by the GLA they’re going to have to invest in £1bn+ to demolish and rebuild something akin to Spurs or Everton.
With West Ham paying £4m a year rent it’ll take 250 years to break even unless there is a massive increase in rent and/or the GLA take a much bigger cut of football and event income or West Ham have some kind of joint ownership and stump up a large proportion of the money required.
I think West Ham are stuck with it for a long time until it falls apart forcing something to then be done. |
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Reply | Julien speaks
at 22:01 24 Jan 2026
I don’t recall saying anywhere that’s what you said.
It was a figure of speech, to imply managers are not going to publicly criticise players (“praise in public, criticise in private”), plus, an employee of the club is not going to ask questions that will make a senior colleague look awkward/uncomfortable/stupid.
As said, these interviews just go through the motions and I don’t think is worth taking too much from them. It’s tabloid. |
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Reply | Julien speaks
at 19:00 24 Jan 2026
How many times does it have to be said that a manager is not going to publicly slag off their team, unless they’re vying for the sack.
Don’t bother watching any pre or post match interviews, they’re worthless. |
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Reply | ENOUGH!!
at 17:55 20 Jan 2026
"Some people lost their sh1t over that. The level of pearl clutching was insane, 1 poster had the decency to say I thought it was just a joke. Boston.
I think part of the problem is that the frustrations have probably built up over time and people may not pearl-clutch if another person said the same thing. This may be a case of 'playing the man, not the ball' but that will be as a direct consequence of how a person has conducted themselves over many months/years. |
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Reply | ENOUGH!!
at 10:44 20 Jan 2026
Nope. |
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Reply | ENOUGH!!
at 16:40 19 Jan 2026
Each person is of course entitled to act how they wish. Ignore any posts/conversations they don't want to engage in or use the ignore button, either way is fine. Personally, I just ignore any posts I don't want to engage in.
However, responding to posts, any posts, does encourage behaviour.
As Oscar Wilde said "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about". Don't feed the beast, as it were. |
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Reply | St Oke Methodist Church Away Match Fred
at 20:03 17 Jan 2026
True! Was never known as a results business then. If not on there already (maybe I’ve already added it!) I’ll add it to the glossary thread! |
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Reply | St Oke Methodist Church Away Match Fred
at 19:39 17 Jan 2026
Sadly football used to be an entertainment business. That ship has long since sailed and it’s been replaced with a ‘results business’ these days I’m afraid.
I don’t like it but that’s how it’s become due to the ever increasing insane amounts of money involved and the disastrous consequences of failure. |
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Reply | Cocaine
at 16:30 16 Jan 2026
Really don't want to go down this rabbit hole for Clive's benefit but whilst I understand the thought behind that, at the time this all happened I was talking to my friends daughter who was a nurse at the Royal Free and she said all vaccines have a base (think of it like a pizza base) and then the 'toppings' are added to make it into the vaccine that was required. They're not just a bunch of ingredients chucked into a petrie dish and hope for the best.
Funny how the was a huge anti-vax and anti-mask movement in the US but suddenly there are now all these fukkers running around in cosplay army uniforms all masked up. |
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Reply | Palace
at 15:45 16 Jan 2026
Yup, always going to happen. Work your nuts off for a few years and put together a good team and eventually it gets broken up as the corporate teams snaffle all your best players.
At least they won the FA Cup, Charity Shield and got to play in Europe. Most clubs don't get to win anything then still lose everything they worked hard to build up.
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Reply | Rain
at 13:52 16 Jan 2026
Hi w7r, I've PM'd you his details but spoke to him today and he said W7 is OK. |
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Reply | Rain
at 20:51 14 Jan 2026
Hello,
10 mile radius of Ashford, Surrey. |
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Reply | Rain
at 17:29 14 Jan 2026
Well, I've stocked up just in case they don't.
My roof has been (fingers crossed) fixed now. I did say to the guy how confident was he it would be OK what with the heavy rain due tomorrow and he said "pay me a third now and the rest once you're satisfied there's no leak. If it does leak tomorrow, call me straightaway".
I thought that was quite refreshing as most would probably say it's all OK, ask for full payment then don't return your calls when you have Niagara Falls in your loft.
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Reply | Rain
at 08:07 14 Jan 2026
I now have a hole in my roof which has been leaking for a week, thankfully got some people coming around today as it’s absolutely going to pelt it down tomorrow and I’m still anxious if the repair will do its job.
The guy is 100% confident it’ll be fine as it’s a routine repair but I’ve never been through this before.
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Reply | Seems the brown stuff is filling the sink!
at 07:56 14 Jan 2026
Micromanagement and attention to detail are not the same thing so she’s talking bollox, which is not a surprise.
in fact, I’d go so far as saying micromanaging is detrimental to attention to detail as it stops you thinking for yourself and being in charge of your own responsibilities as it’s basically decision making by committee. Plus IMO people who micromanage are insecure, they can’t trust people to get on with it so have to control everything themselves.
It’s rife where I work and an absolute pain, everything has slowed to a snails pace in an industry that relies on expediency.
A situation has now arisen where I now have to send an email to the factory after I’ve placed a manufacturing order with certain bits of information to ensure the invoice that comes back is correct, which the supplier should do anyway, and most of the time is fine.
I can place hundreds of orders a year and my name only appears on an invoice-error report maybe 4 times a year so I now have to do all this extra unnecessary work for something that happens rarer than a QPR cup win. It’s all so middle managers don’t get bollocked by their bosses.
If this is how she works, it must be a nightmare working with/for her. |
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