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by Dirk Gently
24 Jun 2025 11:41
Forum: General Football
Topic: Changes In Football thread
Replies: 171
Views: 32787

Re: Changes In Football thread

Brum Royal ... as a lot of the issues he runs into is down to coaches/players thinking they know the rules when they don't, or intepret them incorrectly.


They could solve a lot of that problem by making it compulsory for anyone commentating or summarising on TV to also have some form of referee badge...
by Dirk Gently
19 Jun 2025 17:54
Forum: Club Policies
Topic: Next seasons kit choice?
Replies: 6279
Views: 1800772

Re: Next seasons kit choice?

I think it's great. A nod to our history. But white shorts would work better. The effect of the pattern is to lose to the vibrancy of the blue in the shirt - so the shorts look like they are a different shade. Agree that the shade of blue on the shirt looks different to the colour of the shorts/soc...
by Dirk Gently
17 Jun 2025 15:10
Forum: General Football
Topic: Man CitHEHEHE
Replies: 918
Views: 156606

Re: Man CitHEHEHE

This. This. This. Of course they should. But that's the whole point. They haven't. There's no granularity, no exemptions, no special cases, no taking individual circumstances into account - just a set, inflexible number you must attend. Just because it isn't spelt out in any announcement doesn't me...
by Dirk Gently
17 Jun 2025 12:54
Forum: General Football
Topic: Man CitHEHEHE
Replies: 918
Views: 156606

Re: Man CitHEHEHE

Try telling that to the pregnant woman who wants to keep her seat but is unlikely to be able to attend that many games. Or the cancer patient who will be receiving six months of intensive chemo etc. I get what you are saying but I can understand clubs being in a position where they have a waiting l...
by Dirk Gently
17 Jun 2025 12:44
Forum: General Football
Topic: Generic clubs in financial crisis Thread
Replies: 5861
Views: 808503

Re: Generic clubs in financial crisis Thread

I think football is broken. Just scrap all the PSR/FFP rules and let clubs get on with it. Terrible idea. Football's broke, so let's just let clubs who are already cheating do whatever they want and watch loads of them explode out of business. Yay. :| And that would be bad to see “cheating” clubs g...
by Dirk Gently
17 Jun 2025 12:35
Forum: General Football
Topic: Man CitHEHEHE
Replies: 918
Views: 156606

Re: Man CitHEHEHE

The ludicrous farce that is City ramps up further, now their own fans are threatening legal action against them over the changes to the club’s season tickets conditions that means fans must attend at least 10 games a season :shock: :lol: Good move, imo - stops people buying STs to just sell them on...
by Dirk Gently
17 Jun 2025 12:29
Forum: General Football
Topic: Modern football things you don't like
Replies: 117
Views: 10732

Re: Modern football things you don't like

Sutekh
Winston Biscuit Superior Player Of The Match awards


:?: :?: :?:

Has someone copyrighted Man of the Match then?


It's all about a non-sexist phrase that can be used for men's and women's football, presumably.
by Dirk Gently
02 Jun 2025 13:57
Forum: General Football
Topic: Doing the 92
Replies: 21
Views: 2182

Re: Doing the 92

I get it's about 'half-empty modern souless bowls' and maybe rubbish football. But its just madness to put these sort of perfectly decent stadia at the bottom whilst choosing decrepit terraces, uncomfortable outdated stands and terrible sight lines at obsolescent stadia ahead of them. They have a c...
by Dirk Gently
30 May 2025 20:12
Forum: General Football
Topic: Doing the 92
Replies: 21
Views: 2182

Re: Doing the 92

There are some really good tools for keeping track of such things - personally I use footballgroundmap.com



74 out of the (new) 92 for me

by Dirk Gently
28 May 2025 13:51
Forum: The Team
Topic: Where we going next season then?
Replies: 10
Views: 3436

Re: Where we going next season then?

Whore Jackie In distance order. Assume Sutekh's mileage is from the SCL, in which case Brisbane Road is 50 miles, not 80.


Is one as the crow flies and the other actually driving there?
by Dirk Gently
28 May 2025 13:35
Forum: General Football
Topic: Modern football things you don't like
Replies: 117
Views: 10732

Re: Modern football things you don't like

Over recent week, everyone on Sky saying how many PL matches they'll be showing next season and then repeating it every couple of minutes, before cutting to an add break that says exactly the same thing.

Yes, we get it!.
by Dirk Gently
28 May 2025 13:29
Forum: Club Policies
Topic: Stadium Matchday Upgrade
Replies: 47
Views: 17477

Re: Stadium Matchday Upgrade

Watch or rewind highlights on the official stream delivered directly to your phone while you watch the match on it, saving you the tedious hassle of having to watch the match yourself. Let our interactive AI agent tell you what you thought of the match, saving you the tedious hassle of having to for...
by Dirk Gently
24 May 2025 16:37
Forum: General Football
Topic: Weekend Football
Replies: 7054
Views: 2200604

Re: Weekend Football

A Shef Utd win today would take the number of PL clubs owned by Americans up to 12, just 2 short of the number needed to change anything about the stricture of the league that they want. That's a thing? Yep, two third majority of clubs needed to make changes to the PL's structure or constitution etc.
by Dirk Gently
23 May 2025 13:20
Forum: General Football
Topic: We're ManchesteROFL United, we do what we want
Replies: 6227
Views: 1093447

Re: We're ManchesteROFL United, we do what we want

Reports that the last round of redundancies was based on the assumption the club would be in the Europa League or higher for the next four seasons, so another round of extensive cuts expected very soon.
by Dirk Gently
23 May 2025 13:17
Forum: General Football
Topic: The footballer gets arrested thread
Replies: 2254
Views: 517427

Re: The footballer gets arrested thread

Breaking news : https://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/24595104.jay-emmanuel-thomas-charged-connection-drugs-seizure/ MORTON striker Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been charged in connection with the seizure of around 60 kilos of cannabis at a London airport. The 33-year-old, of Cardwell Road in Gourock...
by Dirk Gently
18 May 2025 11:03
Forum: General Football
Topic: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round
Replies: 9206
Views: 2113195

Re: The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

These days, Managers rarely join a club where they know nothing about the players and the set up; indeed, many times the interview process will include presentations from the prospective manager as to how he sees ways of improving the current squad. (Which is similar to what happens when you go for...
by Dirk Gently
15 May 2025 11:48
Forum: General Football
Topic: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future
Replies: 752
Views: 201765

Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

Winston Biscuit project to knock down Goodison Park and build summat there scrapped and the stadium will instead stay in place and be used for the womens team (for now at least)


Just seen a comment that it's effectively a divorce. The men have to move out and the women get to keep the home.
by Dirk Gently
15 May 2025 11:28
Forum: The Team
Topic: Ex Royals
Replies: 4045
Views: 2775878

Re: Ex Royals

Sign a two and a half year contract, work six months of it and achieve all your aims, get the rest of your contract paid off and you're now a free agent.

Nice work if you can get it!

No wonder football's finances are completely fcuked.
by Dirk Gently
15 May 2025 10:51
Forum: The Team
Topic: On this day......
Replies: 37
Views: 9893

Re: On this day......

I think that's the first I've heard of the Cahill thing, sorry Stranded Yeah been pretty widely discussed. Was definitely an error. We definitely spent big for us, though not that much for even the bottom of that league. So it's not that we didn’t invest, like you said. But that our transfer decisi...
by Dirk Gently
14 May 2025 20:22
Forum: The Team
Topic: G’arn then, somebodies got to….In Praise of Dai Yoonge
Replies: 35
Views: 9287

Re: G’arn then, somebodies got to….In Praise of Dai Yoonge

He's provided a perfect case study on how the current English football ownership and governance models are irretrievably broken.

And exposed the weakness of the EFL's governance abilities.

And provided the ammunition which will hasten the passing of the Football Governance Bill.
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