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Reply | Airport - Hotels London
at 13:35 23 Dec 2025
I dont know budget hotels in the area but Heathrow is the nearest airport, but its so easy to get into central London you've got literally hundreds to choose from.
Can't beat Travelodge / Premier Inn for basic know what you're getting hotels. |
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Reply | Chair
at 15:19 22 Dec 2025
This.
Our Ilias thrives with better players too (just think back to the glorious days of Illy and Willy...when Willy was still bothered!)
I'd have him ahead of Saito in the pecking order at the minute, as much as I like little Koki, cutting in and he finally has quality in the centre to aim for with Kone and Burrell. Ilias is still a key part of this club. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 14:57 19 Dec 2025
I have read this but its a change that staff should be given 6-12 months notice for in a well run business, not told the afternoon before.
So at best, its appallingly bad company management, at worst, its an excuse to hide further issues. Time will tell! |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 13:47 19 Dec 2025
See reports saying non-footballing Leicester City staff are not going to receive their December wages before Christmas like usual.
More red flags than the Soviet Union there. |
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Reply | West Ham tickets
at 12:15 19 Dec 2025
Picked up 2 for me and my Dad. Unusual to have choice for an away game, but maybe that will help in the situation where other people try to take over your seat as they've already selected it.
I have zero idea what the sightlines are like at the Olympic Stadium so I went lower tier but to the right of the goal, row 19, so hopefully we're not a crap view stuck right on the bottom, but also not miles away behind that big platform thing.
Also being right of the goal will hopefully help as I imagine the rowdiest will want to be front and centre behind the goal...
Either way I'll probably suggest to my Dad we get there early! |
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Reply | Things you don’t hear in football ground anymore
at 08:47 18 Dec 2025
Not hear, but see, but bring back launching toilet rolls from behind the ground onto the pitch.
It was environmentally friendly too, beats all this silly pyro stuff! |
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Reply | So Cifuentes ?
at 08:47 17 Dec 2025
I think with De Canio it came down to moving back to Italy to keep his marriage together, that's certainly the story I've heard most over the years.
Shame though, I really liked him and the football we played with him, it was fun. We had some cracking wins in the second half of the season once the money flowed and we had a better squad (3-0 v Bristol City, 3-0 v Stoke both springing to mind...) |
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Reply | The worst football played by QPR
at 16:58 16 Dec 2025
Getting whacked 4-1 by Peterborough on a Tuesday night with "You're not famous anymore" being sung at us a particular lowlight. |
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Reply | 20 team divisions
at 21:23 2 Dec 2025
The Accrington fixture was in the Football League Trophy though rather than a League match, a competition pretty much everyone (other than those 659 hardy souls...) have boycotted these days unless they stumble their way to the final and get a day out at Wembley, so its not the best example of midweek attendances for League clubs. |
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Reply | 20 team divisions
at 20:43 1 Dec 2025
I'd be in favour of 20 team leagues, although I'd like to see our season tickets be a bit cheaper as a result!
And if we want to keep midweek under the lights magic...move league games to Friday nights. Keeps the whole weekend free then.
Sorted! Where's my consultancy fee? That'll be £275,000 please. |
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Reply | Begrudging respect to Second Tier podcast
at 12:36 28 Nov 2025
Darnell had gone by that point, that final game of the Covid interrupted season away to West Brom that features a number of times in that video (including Eze's glorious last goal for QPR) had Darnell playing for the Baggies. |
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Thread | Fan Powered Lightshow
at 11:20 27 Nov 2025
If the scintillating thought of Oxford United v Ipswich Town on Friday night isn't enough to get your excitement going, those lucky enough to form part of the crowd for this prestigious fixture can also be part of a special light show before the start of the match linked to their smart phones via app.
Because...you know...that's exciting and necessary these days apparently for evening Championship football fixtures.
One reason to be grateful for our ancient decrepit ground...I imagine if we tried this the resulting explosion from our aged floodlights would take out the power for half of West London and probably send Heathrow down for 12 hours again.
https://www.oufc.co.uk/news/fr |
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Reply | Marti Cifuentes
at 08:50 27 Nov 2025
Bar one season they've been crap for years with the same group of players, but its definitely all the managers they keep sacking every 6 months fault.
They've got a squad full of losers, used to losing, who enjoy the money but aren't up for any sort of fight. They can keep sacking managers every 6 months for the next 5 years if they want but it won't make them any better whilst they remain with the same squad.
They need a proper summer of 20 out and 20 in to completely revitalise the mentality of the place, but the squad they've got are all paid so much money they'd never be able to shift them until their contracts run out as no-one else will want to take the burden and the players don't want to give the money up.
Ah well, their problem, not ours! |
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Reply | Electric cars to be taxed per mile.
at 16:45 26 Nov 2025
You imagine it will come around based on MOTs as they recorded the annual mileage of a vehicle.
Quite how it will work for vehicles in their first three years when they don't get one...who knows.
I have a petrol car, but my mileage in the last 12 month MOT period (approx 8,500) would give a 3p per mile charge of £255. I imagine I spent much more than that in fuel duty but its an invisible tax because all I really see is the price at the pump. |
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Reply | Mittal's
at 08:54 25 Nov 2025
Not saying your son is one of these Gus as I obviously don't know him, but being in the 40% bracket myself (not quite as high as your son though) I find it curious the amount of people I come across in this bracket who moan about their tax rates and talk about wanting to move to Dubai (whether they actually do it is another matter itself) because they can earn more tax free.
So they want to go from moaning about being trodden on for tax here, and dream of moving to somewhere where they can be the overlords taking advantage of slave labour instead.
To be quite frank, I find it a bit bonkers. |
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Reply | EV’s to lose congestion charge exemption
at 16:38 13 Nov 2025
I have read that rumoured in the financial press, but who knows if it will be real.
To be cynical, you could suggest all of the potential budget policies are leaked to the press, then the ones that don't get met with complete outrage will stick whilst those that are will get quietly dropped. |
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Reply | The last post and silence
at 12:58 7 Nov 2025
I'm at risk of putting my head above the parapet here, but there's elements of the Remembrance Period I feel deeply uncomfortable about these days.
I will happily go to my local memorial for a service on Remembrance Sunday, I will happily down tools at work for 2 minutes at 11am on Armistice Day, no problem there.
Where I feel very uncomfortable is the enormous amount of noise and performative actions that are made around the whole period now, and nowhere is worse than this IMO than football clubs.
I remember when I was growing up in the 90s that if you were at home on Remembrance Weekend you'd have a minute silence before the match and off you go. And if you weren't at home on the weekend then nothing happened the game before and lets just see where the fixtures place us next year.
Then we had clubs starting to put Poppies on shirts and auctioning them off for the RBL, fair enough, nice touch, still low key.
Now its a whole "event" and even if you're not at home on Remembrance Weekend (as we are not again this year) we still do the big song and dance about how respectful we are, flag bearers, trumpeters, roll of honour etc and I'll be brutally honest, I feel its a complete over the top carnivalisation of the whole thing and a hundred miles off the true meaning of what the Remembrance Period should be. It feels to me like clubs trying to out-compete each other in how respectful they can be and who can be the most respectful.
The Instagram account "Mascot Silence" is normally a great follow as they publish photos of mascots up and down the country standing on football pitches with football teams doing minute silences, and to be quite frank seeing a six-foot tall shrimp at Southend with a massive grin on his face stood in a centre circle with his head bowed looks bloody stupid. I've seen photos on the account of a ground (not sure where) where someone is dressed up as a poppy stood on the pitch.
I'm sure everyone on here has family who has served, as well as people on here who have served. I couldn't do it, I'm not brave enough, I'm not tough enough, I have huge respect for all of them, I'm one of those who'd only end up on the front line because they were conscripted to be there.
I really don't, however, like what its become in football grounds every year now. I don't believe it's done for the right reasons, in truth. |
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