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Reply | Burnley Reflection
at 08:52 4 Nov 2026
I thought Kamara was good for the first 70 minutes, apart from his complete refusal to shoot. He must have been sick of the ball in the first half, he was taking it off Burnley so easily in the first half. He tired and they passed better in the second.
The frustrating thing about last night is that Burnley were so atrocious in the first half. It wasn’t that they set up to wall off their box and work hard frustrating us, they were a lethargic rabble, but we cluttered up the middle and tried to play pinball passing in small areas when there was no need, they were standing off waiting for someone else to do something. We should have been stretching them out and running at them to draw them in and create space that way. To be fair to them, they actually made an effort to run around and keep the ball in the second. |
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Reply | Cirkin
at 08:15 4 Nov 2026
Solid in defence and got more going on the left with Saito than Adamson and Vale managed on the right, which was pretty much nothing. [Post edited 4 Nov 8:15]
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Reply | i lied...burnley home......match thread.
at 23:24 3 Nov 2026
The lack of flexibility in our approach frustrated me tonight. The no look instant flicks round the corner are a great way to open up a team trying to swarm the man receiving the ball, but with Burnley largely standing off waiting for someone else to do some running meant the balls into space generally went straight to a surprised defender. Yet we persisted with the tactic even though we changed some of the personnel in the second half.
Burnley left huge amounts of space on their left, but a combination of Adamson’s timidity about getting too far forward and Vale’s sluggishness meant we didn’t trouble them there at all. At least Cirkin was more adventurous. It was crying out for Smyth to go wide right for a few minutes and try to take them on, but it didn’t happen. |
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Reply | Ciara Mageean RIP
at 15:35 2 Nov 2026
I didn’t know much about her, but it’s an incredibly sad story. Reminiscent of Lillian Board, who died in 1970, barely two years after winning an Olympic silver and a year after a European gold. She was only 22. I’m not sure what it means that deadly illness can creep up on athletes in their prime so swiftly, except perhaps they accept daily discomfort as part of the price of their success. [Post edited 2 Nov 15:42]
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Reply | To Early ?
at 15:28 2 Nov 2026
Did you check if it was from 2026? |
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Reply | The Top 10 QPR players who didn't play for QPR
at 10:01 31 Oct 2026
I was reading about Maurice Doyle on Wiki, and the similar searches at the bottom had Jimmy Carter (surely been mentioned?) and Bobby Bowry. I dimly remember him as a skinny, lanky Palace player but he played many more games later for Millwall and Colchester, well over 300 league games in total. I never knew he was another QPR junior, never made the first team. |
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Reply | The Top 10 QPR players who didn't play for QPR
at 07:40 31 Oct 2026
I remember a furore on here when we released an academy striker called Ricky Sappleton, when he went on to have a trial at Liverpool before signing for Leicester. According to Wiki, he played on game for them, had lots of loans and a spell at Macclesfield, then nearly a decade circling the M25 in non-league. |
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Reply | Rip Jean Luc Picard. (n/t)
at 08:41 30 Oct 2026
It was. It is amazing how many of the principals are still going, but perhaps it was because I was so young when I saw it that I thought they were older than they actually were. I rewatched it recently and Bernard Hill was in it for about two minutes, he’s the soldier that finds Claudius hiding after the murder of Caligula and declares him Emperor. He only died two years ago.
Mrs S saw Siân Phillips at the Orange Tree in Richmond last year. She shuffled on, drawled an approximation of her lines, and had the audience eating out of her hand. |
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Reply | Rip Jean Luc Picard. (n/t)
at 23:35 29 Oct 2026
The curse of I, Claudius strikes again. Only Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, Siân Phillips and Christopher Biggins to go.
He was in Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation, acting out some Shakespeare. In 1969. [Post edited 29 Oct 23:37]
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 26/27
at 08:51 29 Oct 2026
Reaching down a few leagues, Carlisle beat Harrogate 3-0, despite having nine men for the last hour. And we don’t have to give Mark Hughes any of the credit. |
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Reply | Chapel Arms Southampton
at 21:55 28 Oct 2026
That reminds me of a piece in the News Quiz from the second Gulf War. The Army had issued a briefing about Basra, describing it as a port city, similar to Southampton. A squaddie complained, “It’s a dirty, smelly dump, the whores are ugly and everyone’s trying to kill us. It’s much more like Portsmouth.” |
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Reply | Ted Hendrix / RIP
at 08:47 28 Oct 2026
RIP Ted. I never met the man, but I always enjoyed his posts (particularly about Reading!), a passionate man with a lively mind. Condolences to his family on a great loss. |
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Reply | Fleetwood knock out Goners (Gooners)
at 08:42 28 Oct 2026
Couldn’t happen to a a nicer bloke than Arteta.
Great line from someone, Arsenal’s first defeat at Highbury since 2006. |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 21:30 27 Oct 2026
What reason do you have for doubting the honesty of DCI Mickey Boyle? [Post edited 27 Oct 21:34]
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Reply | Harry Kane
at 19:40 27 Oct 2026
This is lovely.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art
Maybe we should send a scout down to the next Ridgeway Rovers Under 10s game. One of their midfielders may be open to offers. [Post edited 28 Oct 8:43]
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Reply | Random irritations..
at 21:13 26 Oct 2026
I find any awards show boring, but the hype and excitement around the Ballon d’Or is especially knob-chapping, considering football has sufficient prize-giving as it is…won on the pitch. |
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