Rage Online

Just seen the brief highlights. It may mean nothing, but it was interesting that no fan seemed to jump up and berate all and sundry when Pompey scored. Maybe it was not hand ball. Sat here wearing a t-shirt (still lovely and warm in Tenerife) I can see that the t-shirt sleeve guidance depends on how...

Yesterday started so well. For the first time this season the drive down saw no traffic problems. By half time, I was flailing in dark and depressing thoughts of existential angst. We had a goal ruled out and hit the post (surely Bodin's best half of football in a long time). They carved us open twi...

Just read through today's comments over on The Other Place. Seems like some very nasty rumours circulating about KR. No idea what they are and the moderators over there are apparently making sure nothing gets posted up there (apparently this info is available out on unsocial media, but not sullying ...

TBH I thought we were very poor. When I was listening to the post-match interviews, I could not help thinking that from time to time, a student will complain to me about a coursework mark, telling me how hard they had worked. This rather misses the point that the mark is for the output. Effort put i...

I hope the club doesn’t find itself subject to rent again, when (if) there is a stadium move. It’s something that can’t easily be prevented. The new owners seem to me at first glance to be more property developers and less football people. Not sure that people involved in Milan for several years we...

One thing that caught my attention in one of the Oxford Mail pieces was the quote from Mr Bakrie, that "hopefully we’ll be in a different league by then", regarding the move to the new-new stadium. Whether this means that promotion this season is already being ruled out and that a longer t...

Where to start. Yesterday we played a team whose league position was even more precarious than ours. But time and again in the first half they created better, more clear-cut, chances than we did (the fact they did not score until near the end of the half, and then by OG, merely indicates how poor th...

Likewise.

Chris Maguire is on the naughty-step:
https://staceywest.net/2022/08/22/imps- ... ng-charge/

Having only seen the Derby game before heading on holiday I have had to follow games via Ox Mail tweets and the match day forum on The Other Place. Something that struck me in the first game was that 10 of 11 players were with us last season. I think I read the same about last night. But the last fe...

This season the league is going to be horribly competitive - although it is hard to know for sure just how much cash is being thrown around by some clubs with so many transfers being for "undisclosed fees" (why is that anyway? Does anyone know?). I could quite imagine the league splitting ...

So looking forward to popping over to Derby, only to see they have scheduled it for a day I am away with work. Hoping it gets moved to Sunday for TV.

slappy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 16, 2022 4:09 pm Dave Collins on the rise of his son Nathan.
https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer ... g-27244516

Presumably on our Ireland scouting radar?

Have we ever had a son of a former player play for us? I can't think of any off the top of my head.

Harvey Bradbury?

Following his release from Blackburn, Joe Rothwell is a wanted man:
https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport/fo ... ll-7055764

I posted after the Plymouth defeat that I felt our persistent failure to beat the other teams at the top would mean we would not stay in the playoff places this year. But a defeat at Morecambe surely nails this now. Defensive frailties highlighted against the top teams is frustrating, but against a ...