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Chris Wood and Raheem Sterling nailed on as January West Ham signings.

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Procrastinate B wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 27, 2025 11:10 am
He had them flying didn’t he? Hence his move to Chelsea.

Won 26% of his Premier League games at Brighton.

He’s always been a bit of a myth. Talks a good game and a lot of prominent journalists got engaged in his backstory and overpraised him.

He’s just not very good at winning football matches.

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Rooney appeared to be out of breath from talking.

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Different class this lad.

Snapping into tackles, decent on the ball, great energy.

I think we may see him playing slightly further forward when Ugochokwu returns and have him leading the press.

Great first start.

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There's also a side question as to whether football 'peaked' as an entertainment medium between 2000-2020? No VAR, pitches superb, world class players everywhere, tackling not considered a no go area, Messi and Ronaldo at their peak etc I’d challenge that. The 2004-2010 period with Benitez and Jose...

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I wonder how much actual football those complaining in this thread watch. In the last week alone Inter v Juve, Juve v Dortmund, Liverpool v Atletico Madrid and Brentford v Chelsea have been great ….. and Arsenal’s performance v Forest was excellent too. I find the worst part about the Premier League...

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We won’t need 12 wins. That would get us to 36 points and that will almost certainly be enough to stay up …… and we will draw some.

I think probably 9 wins and 9 draws sees us safe.

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That’s knocked me for six that one.

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claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 03, 2025 3:47 pm
His season with us is probably the best of his career

I dunno man, that year he scored against City in the Champions League quarters and played in the Champions League semi-finals plus the French Cup semi-final in 2019/20 was probably better than him getting relegated with us.

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CJER was good last year, but I did think some of the responses from our fans about him were over the top. He had the best player in the Championship by miles playing alongside him and a team set up to protect and defend. In that role understandably he thrived and his passing stood out. There’s a mas...

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ollieclarets8 wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 27, 2025 10:03 pm
Shame but they were always going to win when they came back from 2-0 down.

Good shout

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Stockport fan at work told me today he’s signing for them.

Was hard to stifle my laughter.

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Hell of a second half to the innings.

That’s why they’re champions.

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There’s no way he’s come up with this stance on his own.

Liverpool will absolutely be complicit in this stance to drive the price down.

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It’s a massive pain in the arse trying to buy tickets. I’ve tried to get four tickets online today but need membership numbers for everybody. Two of the people coming on don’t have them so I can’t get them tickets. So I thought I’d nip to the ticket office in person to buy them. But it’s closed, the...

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Casper2 wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 04, 2025 11:58 am
I hope this is the end of McCullum and his stupid Baz ball crap

Absolutely idiotic comment.

It’s serving up the most incredible, entertaining Test matches.

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Deep’s response to the Duckett wicket was outrageous.

Set of dicks this India team.

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/26/hulk-hogan-wrestling-racism-gawker He was a great wrestler. Both things can be true. Depends which you think is most important really. Actually ….. he wasn’t a great wrestler. He was a great entertainer. But he wouldn’t sell for others, he had about fou...

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But Tubby Pant fit to bat but not keep wicket is fine?

Gill is a dick.

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bumba wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 21, 2025 2:30 pm
Exactly and a £40 million gamble on a player that flopped in the premier league last time is a big ask.

You mean like how they spent £50 mill plus on De Bruyne after he bombed at Chelsea?

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I’ll be honest …… if I was desperate to find out about financial irregularities in local amateur cricket then my first port of call absolutely would be a football message board. And I absolutely cannot understand why somebody affiliated to Lowerhouse isn’t answering questions from a completely anony...

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I thought he spoke very well.

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Kevin Henderson

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Paul McKenzie

Brad Maylett

Tony Woodworth

Jason Hardy

Paul McKay

Paul France

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Spijed wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 15, 2025 2:36 pm
Has Tony Bloom got money back from Brighton?

He would now if he sold it. The asset has increased in value beyond all recognition.

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Freaky ….

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Is that Ingleby?

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Smith scoring 100 in a session coming in on a hat-trick delivery is something else.

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Sensational counter attacking from Smith and Brook this morning.

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Anybody who picks a last minute goal scored by an outfield player immediately fails the Jimmy Glass test. Anybody who picks a goal that wasn’t the last minute of the last game of the season fails the Jimmy Glass test. Anybody who picks a goal that doesn’t keep his team from relegation out of the foo...

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It’s Jimmy Glass.

By miles.

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I bumped into Paul Crichton in a bar in Norwich when he was down here and I asked him if he was actually stuck in traffic when Niko took his place. He confirmed it. Seemed a really good bloke. My Dad and I saw a Crichton sprinting in to the ground about 2.30 that day at Huddersfield. He definitely ...

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I've just realised (without being surprised) that nothing ever came of Alastair Campbell's son tweeting that Tella is a done deal. What does he get out of doing that? Surely it just reflects badly on his dad? (And I'm aware of his dad's association with things that aren't quite true, before anyone ...

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 28, 2025 3:48 pm
There is no loyalty in football. Nick Pope gave us great service.... then he left. That's what happens.
Poor fee for Trafford, though. I'm disappointed.

By what?

No fee has been agreed.

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Some of the clangers he had this season for Ipswich were truly laughable. He’s an appalling keeper and never should have been anywhere near our club IMO Even when he was a huge part of one of the most successful Championship teams of all time and the best defence in the Championship in 22/23? Nowhe...

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He's supposed to be 'a prick' (whatever that means - as it has not been explained) not an arsehole. Yes, We all know it's a team game where morale and camaraderie are important factors. I don't think 'an arsehole' would get very far in the game never mind playing for Karlsruhe or Burnley. He can't ...

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I had laporoscopic surgery in 2019 after my intestine perforated and split. I got sepsis and allsorts of jazz.

Took me about three years to recover from it. And I didn’t have to get to a level where I was playing Premier League football.

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Still waiting for your report on the Netherfield defeat. If you want to be the official reporter on Lowerhouse games I would strongly recommend you report on all games and not just the wins It would give you way more credibility just like CT has for his Burnley FC games reports Congrats today on cr...

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Give Espanyol’s location it would fit in with the underdog marketing message they initially talked about pushing on us.

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My lad decided he wanted to start playing when he was 10. We’d been to the park and kicked a ball around and he looked like what he was - a kid who’d never kicked a ball regularly before. I sent messages to two teams asking about just coming training for a bit. One coach messaged back saying he only...

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The Madueke free kick before their third was an absolute shambles.

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ISpeds00 wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:15 pm
This female ref is actually killing the game

England’s male goalscorer really killed a lot of our attacks prior to being subbed.

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ISpeds00 wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:15 pm
This female ref is actually killing the game

When a male ref has a shocker ….. which happens regularly ….. do you mention their gender?

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clarets1978 wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:19 pm
A transfer window closes and no signings? Just like the previous board this! Not good enough

Signed four players.

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Very little value for money there.

Trafford we’ll make a profit on. Wood and Cornet we made small profits on.

The rest of the list though …… crumbs. Some wasted money there, particularly for a club our size.

Some bad luck with injuries too.

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123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 05, 2025 7:58 pm
28 pages of a window already when it’s likely we won’t make any signings till either a couple of massive sales or 1st August to keep in the 20m profit mark for PSR purposes

Time for people to just enjoy the off season

We’ve already signed four players.

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Cooclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 04, 2025 8:09 pm
European football is slower. Simply that.

Maybe you’re slower?

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Cooclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 04, 2025 6:06 pm

I am going to say this: Messi wouldn’t make anywhere near the same impact in the Premier League as he did in La Liga

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So not known at 12 then? I played against him in his teens for the town team and can safely say nobody had heard of him then. You can safely say you hadn’t heard of him. That’s a big difference. As other have already demonstrated, he was well known from a very young age and a good few years before ...

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Ah yes I remember now going to games when Rooney was 12 and his name being on every fans lips. Nobody had heard of him when he broke through. That’s really not true. It wasn’t quite as young as 12, but Kevin Campbell was talking about him a lot when he was 14 and saying he could already play for th...

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