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Reply | Watford v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 23:10 31 Jan 2026
Ward has been brought in as cover. Nothing more.
It's looking increasingly likely that Galbraith will be our RB for the rest of the season so it doesn't really matter all that much how well JW plays. |
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Thread | Dream Gigs
at 21:51 31 Jan 2026
Who is left on your "must see" list? Is there a particular artist you want to see live in a particular venue?
AC/DC was one of mine, but since the death of Malcolm Young I'm less inclined to make the effort. Muse are a band I'd like to see live at some point. Florence and the Machine are on my list, and I'm lucky enough to be ticking that one off later next month.
The holy grail though is Billy Joel, but not just anywhere. I think he needs to be seen in his natural habitat, which is somewhere in the New York area. MSG perhaps. |
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Reply | Student Loans
at 20:48 31 Jan 2026
Higher Education has become a scam, and Universities basically businesses, largely dependent upon foreign students paying ever higher fees.
Slash the number of Universities. Make the pretend ones become colleges and polytechnics again. Offer Government funding for courses critical to the National Interest (medical, STEM or similar), charge double for people who want to do Gender Studies. |
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Reply | Watford v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 19:38 31 Jan 2026
The fact that Watford were sitting in eighth place at KO time just underlines what I keep saying about this division. It's really not all that.
Player for player I'd put our top 15-16 players against most other squads in the division. Consistency is the key. Our home form is good, but we need to pick up more points away. We probably should have done so in most away games since Matos took over.
Keep the performances up and the results will come. We're eight points off the top six with sixteen games to play. No reason why we can't haul ourselves into the top ten and then see what happens. |
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Reply | Leo Walta confirmed
at 15:20 31 Jan 2026
Knowing what I do about football finances (plus what I can glean from people well in the know), none of that surprises me.
Just even thinking about the tax, audit, profit, loss and FFP complications that need to be negotiated gives me a headache. |
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Reply | Leo Walta confirmed
at 14:57 31 Jan 2026
Years of football management sims have convinced people that the buying and selling of players (and football finances in general) is a lot simpler than it actually is IMO. |
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Reply | Student Loans
at 14:47 31 Jan 2026
Spot on.
The moron Blair and his idiotic "50%" target was the start of this. Now careers that previously offered on the job training are asking for degrees, even ones like the Police and Nursing.
There should be far, far more openings for trades training or professional qualifications obtained whilst working. Mrs' Winston's son wanted to avoid Uni but basically had no choice due to the lack of apprenticeships in his preferred career path. |
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Reply | Novac Djokovic
at 12:39 31 Jan 2026
I'd say Djoko is the GOAT because he's got the widest spread of Slam wins on different surfaces. 14 hard court, 7 on grass and 3 on clay.
Federer has 11 hard court, 8 on grass but only one on clay.
Nadal has 14 on clay, 6 on hard court and two on grass. |
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Reply | Leo Walta confirmed (n/t)
at 17:43 30 Jan 2026
Yes. One of those midfielders comfortable picking the ball up deep, driving forward with it, pinging the odd long pass or just thumping it as required.
Similar to Galbraith in a lot of ways so there is perhaps a bit of succession planning involved here too, or it might be the case that EG is going to be playing RB for the rest of the season. |
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Reply | Leo Walta confirmed
at 17:35 30 Jan 2026
Actually, watching the highlight videos his style of play gives me more of a Johnny De Guzman vibe rather than that of a #10. |
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Reply | Leo Walta confirmed
at 13:06 30 Jan 2026
His golden spell was for about six weeks up until Christmas last season. Other than that he's been mostly useless. Can play the odd pass and score the odd goal but otherwise contributes very little.
Weak on the ball, weak in the air, not particularly fast. |
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Reply | Leo Walta confirmed
at 12:42 30 Jan 2026
Cullen's got no business being anything other than a bench option at best for a club with designs on promotion.
I like Yalcouye and think he could be a major player for the second half of the season but he needs a run of games to get used to the pace of the Championship. |
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Reply | Leo Walta confirmed
at 12:31 30 Jan 2026
They're not all central midfielders. Some are better at 6, others better at 8. Walta is hopefully a #10.
Also worth considering that Yalcouye and possibly Fulton won't be here next season. That's not even taking into account possible interest in Galbraith.
This seems like a smart move. Acquiring a player that we rate highly even if it may be six months before we really need him just to make sure we have him is basically what we did with Widell anyway. [Post edited 30 Jan 12:32]
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Reply | Minneapolis
at 12:21 30 Jan 2026
I suspect a significant proportion of the gun carrying population believe, with perhaps some justification given their own national history and more recent events (Iraq, Afghanistan), that a well armed people can certainly cause major headaches for a controlling power via insurgency even if their chances of winning a conventional battle are slim. [Post edited 30 Jan 12:21]
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Reply | Leo Walta confirmed
at 11:52 30 Jan 2026
If this guy is a #10 then he's plugging a gap in the squad that has existed since Paterson left. I'd imagine that the other players we've been linked to are more potential Galbraith replacements. |
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Reply | January Transfer Rumours
at 19:41 29 Jan 2026
The telling feature was when he went out on loan to what basically equates to the lower leagues in the US. When that happened the odds of him ever coming back here and becoming a first team player were low.
I've said in the past that we need to be more ruthless with some of the youth products. If they're not out on loan at a reasonable standard at 18 ready to come back and knock on the door of the first team then they're probably not going to make it. I mean, Josh Thomas is 24 this year. What is he still doing on our books?
We need to force a lot more of them out of their comfort zone in the youth setup. Doing otherwise serves neither them nor us. |
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Reply | REFORM
at 09:50 29 Jan 2026
That was always the Left's downfall. Forever splitting into factions as a result of arguments over theory and purity of thought. The likes of JK Rowling and Graham Linehan were solid Labour until they got turned on over the Trans issue.
The Conservatives were always basically the Conservatives. Solid. United. Boring. Any lunacy on the right was confined to the margins. That started to change a bit over Europe, but is far more visible now as everything polarises. [Post edited 29 Jan 9:51]
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