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Reply | anyone on here currently driving an electric car ?
at 14:23 26 Jun 2025
I love that feature on my Volkswagen ID4 being able to pre-heat or pre-cool the cabin before getting in via their app although to be fair the air con system is brilliant in summer and doesn't take long to get the cabin cool if you haven't pre-cooled it. [Post edited 26 Jun 14:24]
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Reply | anyone on here currently driving an electric car ?
at 14:20 26 Jun 2025
"Electric cars I believe are ideal for this short journey type use a there are no issues as no combustion engine etc to get up to temperature to then be at its most efficient and reliable"
The only issue I've found is that in the winter and colder mornings, if you haven't had it on charge for a bit prior to setting off (say at least 20-30 minutes) the battery charge percentage can suffer a bit until you've done a few miles and the battery temperature gets to normal (charging beforehand helps with this).
They are also quite happy on short trips and crawling along in slow traffic, the opposite of an ICE car but a drawback is they are probably worse than ICE cars on motorway/dual carriageway cruising. |
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 18:20 24 Jun 2025
"the naysayers and old washed up ex captains and experts saying how astonished they were at winning the toss and bowling. Where are they now?"
The awful Indian fielding has had a fair bit to do with it if England win. |
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 13:05 24 Jun 2025
First session negotiated successfully. Twelve overs an hour though from India is absolutely shocking and really short changing spectators. |
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Reply | Coffee VVankers thread...
at 22:35 18 Jun 2025
You need to use loose leaf tea, the difference between that and the tea you get from bags is like night and day.
I read somewhere it's because that loose leaf tea uses the best stuff from the leaves of tea plants whilst tea bags often contain lower-quality tea 'dust' or fannings. |
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Reply | 25/26. New kits
at 10:18 16 Jun 2025
I always wondered why Gerry wasn't front and centre of that team photo being the team captain and was stuck on the end of the back row. |
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Reply | "If Dixon Plays For England So Can I..."
at 21:57 14 Jun 2025
No, Wolves were third division at the time. They won the third division title that season. No player from the fourth tier has ever played for England. |
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Reply | Quality players who rarely featured for England
at 19:40 13 Jun 2025
What might have been at the 1982 World Cup had Regis' hamstring not blown out a couple of weeks before the World Cup in a pre-tournament friendly. He'd had an absolutely fantastic season for West Brom (bar the cup semi-final!) scoring 25 goals.
Instead we took Peter Bloody Withe. |
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Reply | Quality players who rarely featured for England
at 15:23 13 Jun 2025
Barker probably would have got a cap in 1990 in one of the friendlies before the World Cup and might have been an outsider for the World Cup squad had he not broke his leg shortly after the Liverpool FA Cup games. He was in great form and with his club manager being Bobby Robson's number 2 at the time... |
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Reply | Quality players who rarely featured for England
at 15:09 13 Jun 2025
"Bannister would have been selected but was not edible having won an U21 cap for Wales"
Where have you got that from? Bannister's wiki entry (I know...) says he played once for the England U21s in 1982.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Bannister
Surely if he 'd represented Wales at any level, then back in the mid 80s they'd have been all over him picking him for the Wales senior team given how few top division players they had back then? [Post edited 13 Jun 15:09]
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Reply | "If Dixon Plays For England So Can I..."
at 11:57 13 Jun 2025
Lawler actually played four times for England Terry all in 1971, a couple of home internationals and a couple of Euro '72 qualifiers. |
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Reply | "If Dixon Plays For England So Can I..."
at 11:54 13 Jun 2025
"I remember an England manager picking the entire (eligible) Liverpool team. I think it was Ian Callaghan's only cap. I think it was against Switzerland but I am certain it was a dire 0-0 draw"
September 1977 a friendly against Switzerland, Ron Greenwood's first game as England caretaker manager and yes it WAS a 0-0 draw. It was actually Ian Callaghan's first England cap for 11 years! He'd last played for England in the 1966 World Cup group game against France when Alf Ramsey was still giving wingers a go. Callaghan was 35 by this time!
The players picked were: Ray Clemence, Phil Neal, Emlyn Hughes, Ray Kennedy, Terry McDermott and Callaghan. You could say it was virtually seven Liverpool players as Kevin Keegan was also in the squad who'd only just moved to Hamburg.
One thing has always intrigued about this is the absence of Jimmy Case who was the only English Liverpool player not picked. It must have been strange for him to see all his Liverpool team mates go off to the England training camp with him left behind wondering what he'd maybe done.
As a post script, Callaghan was picked once more in the following game, a World Cup qualifier away in Luxembourg where 5 of the Liverpool 6 again played, a pathetic performance where England just scraped a 2-0 win which all but ended their hopes of qualifying.
There's a famous photo of them:
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Reply | "If Dixon Plays For England So Can I..."
at 22:30 12 Jun 2025
A few from the 70s:
Colin Viljoen, Brian Talbot, Trevor Whymark - Ipswich
Mike Doyle - Man City
Phil Boyer - Norwich
Brian Greenhoff - Man Utd
I thought Phil Neal also got more caps than he should have especially after the emergence of Viv Anderson. Joe Corrigan although a good keeper and didn't win many caps for obvious reasons, still won nine times as many as Phil Parkes did. |
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Reply | Come back Southgate...
at 21:46 10 Jun 2025
Not been impressed at all with Tuchel so far.
It'll be the usual; qualify with ease, stumble through the group and go out to the first decent side they meet in the knockout stage. |
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Reply | Blood Donors
at 23:06 9 Jun 2025
I would willingly give blood but can't due to receiving a blood transfusion during an operation in the early 2000s. Anyone who has had a transfusion since 1st Jan 1980 is disqualified. |
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