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I'm not a fan of the old 'What you sayin' now I've scored a goal against Exeter. Yes, Exeter. At home. That puts us level with Lincoln and just behind Stevenage' hand motion to the ear celebration.
 
It's like me walking into the house, stabbing a fork into the film of a Chicken Curry microwaveable meal several times,  not bothering to stir half way through the 6 alloted minutes and then turning round to the Mrs, who's been banging on at me to do more cooking for the last 11 years, and giving the same celebration.
It's exactly the same thing.

I can think of quite a few other words for them......

My Brother-in-Law is a Birmingham City fan.
I personally think Rooney's doing a great job 😛

.but....but..... but.... they're now playing without fear!

Wayne who? Is he related to Jake?

It's just getting worse for him

 

We are back above Burton, CL next

For the pro Warne, we are only one point behind Burton
For the rest we are below Burton
Nuff said

No. None of us.😀

Just a final summary note on the ads as I'll be out all day and unable to respond.
This is a new ad partner we are working with and unlike Adsense who we were exclusively with previous, I have no direct control over the adverts on the forum, any changes must be made their end. They are based in the US so we're looking around 3pm UK time before any emails can be dealt with.
I have sent through an email to reduce the opacity of the sticky bar at the bottom to blend in better with our night mode, as I don't use night mode myself so I didn't notice it last night. It will be sorted.
As for the quantity of ads, they are the same as they were previously, just in different positions, for anyone that's thinking look at all these ads, you may be noticing them more as we haven't ran any for the last month to 6 weeks as we moved to a new partner.
That's 6 weeks of revenue from subscriptions/donations only, which does not cover the monthly costs.
For anyone that is dead set against all adverts, we do offer a basic ad free package for £3pm which can be found in Subscriptions on the main menu, which if you are a regular user, I do not think 10p a day is completely unreasonable?
After Paypal fees, we actually receive £2.61 of that, at the time of writing this whilst we have 41 Members+ and 5 Forum Legends (£5pm), only 9 are active subscribers as I have honoured the lifetime ad removal for donations made a few years ago when our running costs were a lot less.
Where our running costs are now close to £300 for the 6 weeks, we have had revenue during that period of around £60 with subscriptions/donations. 
No need to fetch the violin nor do I have my begging bowl out, this is just the reality of the situation and offering you all an either or. 
Whilst I started this forum as a bit of a hobby at £5pm running costs back in 2009, we have had a large scale growth and I simply cannot afford to keep the forum online 100% out of my own pocket. 
Final note, running costs do not include my own time managing the forum, also the moderators which give up their free time are unpaid. 
tl;dr
no adverts, no forum
no moderators, no forum 
😕
 

Because I’ve now watched over 60 matches in this division and have seen the quality of the other teams. I’ve then looked at the fact that the 3 best teams by far last year went up and were replaced by much weaker competition. On top of that the bookies have us favourites to win the league before a ball has been kicked and you don’t see many poor bookies. We also further strengthened the squad after the bookies placed us top. 
 
But the biggest thing is that I’ve seen the Portsmouth match where their squad didn’t look better than ours aside from Bishop being better than anything we have up top. 

Just worked out that if you crop the league table just right, things don't look so bad.

A massive overreaction. Our home form will save us👀

I f****** love rugby 😂

Gutted for Fiji.
Good luck France.

Well, that was a bloody good game, the kind of game that could get the "never watched, never cared" types out of their seats.
I'll freely admit rugby is probably a second tier fandom for me but when it's good it's very good.
Good luck to NZ, hope they win the whole thing.

Might regret not kicking some of these pens for goal.
Kiwis defending like maniacs. Cracking game for the neutrals.

Is that a first trip to the semis for the Pumas?
Hopefully another good show tonight in the Ireland v NZ match.
 

We have to remember that the Israeli people and the Palestinian people are NOT the Israeli government/Hamas - any more than the British government was the British people when it was illegally going to war in Iraq based on a lie
 

Very harsh on Derby city council,. Name any other council who had the foresight of building a 20M squid vaccinodrome, ready a pandemic.
It is news to me that you can cycle in it as well, very clever design. I sleep easy at night knowing that my council tax is always well spent

What has always puzzled me is why the UN is absent. Take Cyprus, there is a no man's land border separating northern Cyprus from the south. Why can't they have something like this around Gaza. Israel have made Gaza a 21miles long prison for years. Hamas are a proxy for the Iran nutters as I understand it. Two wrongs have never made a right, simple as that. As several posters have said it is one hell of a s*** show.

Enid Blyton's darkest book IMO