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4 hours ago, PistoldPete said:

Binnies offered £30 million for the stadium and the club. A stadium that normally has twice the Preston gate. 
 

I don’t think Preston squad is worth more than ours tbh. Even if we only had five players. 

That works be true if it weren’t for the awkward fact that they’re 5 points higher in the table than we’d be without our 21 point deduction, and with a game in hand. 

Funny thing the English language. For example read rhymes with lead and read rhymes with lead, but read doesn't rhyme with lead and read doesn't rhyme with lead. 

33 minutes ago, Unlucky Alf said:

OK here goes.

Chinese whispers is a game where a group of people will line up, The 1st person will whisper something in the next persons ear, This will be followed by the next person to the next person until the message reaches the last person, The last person then tells all what they were whispered, The 1st person who started the whisper will then either say...yes it's what I said, Or no it wasn't what I said.

The best would be is if you could get say 10 Chinese people to play the game, That would really be fun as it would be more authentic to have chinese people playing Chinese whispers.

Buzzzz - Repetition

19 minutes ago, Leeds Ram said:

I think there you're getting into a bit of a mess on the private vs public distinction. The analogy of someone's home doesn't quite stack up when you're using a public forum that is designed to allow for expressions of opinions.  If it was a restaurant that is purely a service industry which again is quite different to this specific example I think. There is little to no public service benefit to restaurants and no one has a direct need to enter a restaurant as it's the only restaurant in town. This is the issue with seeing forums (especially big forums such as twitter, facebook and on a smaller level this one) as merely services provided by someone. Once a platform becomes sufficiently big and influential it kind of transcends that claim. 

I didn't say it was unreasonable to ban them but I did say it's just not something I would have done.  But all this is kind of mute as I'm not the one running the show and I'm not a moderator, just one forum poster with very little to no influence. 

Fair point. Few analogies are perfect, and mine perhaps worse than most.  Always interesting to debate though. Thanks for your thoughts and for sharing them in a fair and reasonable manner. 

6 minutes ago, Leeds Ram said:

A) That's irrelevant to the point I made that you quoted B) I've seen plenty of people accuse twitter of having a conflict of interest and unfair, bad practices on the platform whilst spreading disinformation without being banned. But again that's a different question. 

Let’s try a different tack. Let’s imagine you’d invited a bunch of people to your house for dinner and one of them started treating you disrespectfully. I don’t think you’d just ignore them, I think you’d ask them to leave and not come back. 
if you provide a service it’s entirely up to you to decide who you’re prepared to let use that service. 
Now take it a step further and imagine it was a restaurant and you were dependent on other people believing your integrity. 
Perhaps I’m over thinking it ?

i can see your point, I just don’t think it’s unreasonable  for someone to be banned for calling another’s honesty into question. 

32 minutes ago, Leeds Ram said:

The point I was making is that there is a distinction between blocking someone on social media i.e., from access to your feed and blocking someone from the platform itself. It's not only a difference in capability but a difference in the type of action. 

Pretty sure if you went on Twitter and accused their owner of being corrupt, taking bribes to favourably misrepresent certain users, and assisting in the misrepresentation of information, they would ban you too. 

31 minutes ago, roboto said:

Pass to Plange is marginal. Probably offside with VAR, but we shouldn’t complain to get the rub of the green.

@Jimbo Ram Ravel was behind Plange and the ball when he got played through so that’s not offside either.

Two superb pictures. I thought Plange was offside but looking at their defenders feet positions, the trailing foot is at least 30cm beyond Plange’s leading leg. Plange is standing bolt upright, so there’s no way a ball playing part of his body is beyond that defenders trailing foot. 

Let no-one argue refs are against us. Miles off side. 
 

COYR!!!!

2 minutes ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

Did you not see 40% off kits yesterday?

1 sock and the shorts missing?

16 minutes ago, DCFC27 said:

Mad Mel’s over spending legacy, he has to write it off, all his mistake. I can get on board with him not wanting to carry on funding the club to some degree but him wanting any money for the stadium club etc  is a disgrace. 

Exactly this. If you buy a classic car, look after it well and make reasonable investments in parts, you can expect to recover most of your money, even make a profit if you’re lucky. 
If you buy that same car, buy a load of expensive and useless blingy accessories, put 2-stroke petrol it and hire / fire a succession of novice drivers to race it in the local demolition Derby, well I wouldn’t be expecting to have a saleable asset at the end of that inspired ownership. 

12 minutes ago, dog said:

A little apprehensive about this one. Hopefully I'm wrong

You’re not

The move that impressed me most was when one of Peterborough attackers looked to have kicked it past him and had a clear run into the area. 
Cashin was having none of that and ran shoulder to shoulder with the attacker for 10-15 yards, and just steered him out of play. I’d been worried about his alleged lack of pace but that put paid to that. 

How do we factor in Reading’s new manager bounce?

Wasn’t just the goal. He looked more focused and made better judgement calls in a number of plays even before he scored. 
I do still have concerns about his fitness - he looked done in at the end, even though he only played 25 minutes

1 minute ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

For the love of Christ can you be more descriptive with these comments you lot are all I have to follow this

Sibley with a simple tap in

Fantastic strike

I’m a Lawrence fan but that was disgraceful from my angle. Totally deserved sending off

1 hour ago, Wistaston Ram said:

On closer inspection, I may have been hasty, still it might have lightened the mood a bit....

 

Agree. I might have spelt Sith slightly differently though 

8 hours ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

I said at the beginning of the game today "I'm not sure I rate Ebosele as highly as others, he has pace but no end product"

What a wally.

Thing is, 4-5 games ago, you were right. What’s really impressing me is his rate of improvement. When he first came in, he’d get to the byline and then overhit a cross a looping cross. Tonight he was going inside and outside, hitting a variety of crosses and looking a genuine threat every time. 
It’s his attacking intent that makes him so exciting to watch, but which at the same time makes him a bit of a risk defensively. Their goal was down to a combination of tired legs and him wanting to win the ball and attack with it rather than just prevent their player getting past him. 
If that’s the risk we have to take, so be it. 

6 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

That second goal makes such a difference.

Obviously more of the same would be nice, but expect Hull to come back at us and have to ride out the storm for the start of the second half.

Well done. You made that ?

The reason Bielik makes us look so good is because he wants to play it forward whenever he can. He’s not afraid to lose it because he knows he can get it back. 
Thompson needs to look at this and learn. I don’t mean to be unfair or overly critical but he needs to step up now. A period on the sidelines will allow him to reflect and hopefully come back stronger. 

1 hour ago, admira said:

The foul count says a lot 

Totally agree this is the bit that explains a lot of our attacks breaking down and it not flowing well

Ffs. Either their player got the ball in which case it’s a back pass or he didn’t and it’s a freekick

45 minutes ago, chipperram said:

We would also be able to sue EFL for the delta between what Shinnie was sold for and his true market value

Do you know if we’ve ever tried to assess values of players mid contract? A method that could somehow assign a true value. I’m surprised no-one has thought of it!

6 hours ago, S8TY said:

Been a lo

Been a long time since Mel has done the right thing…don’t hold your breath 

I’m not an apologist for Mel Morris, and I wish he’d stuck to what he said he wanted to achieve , rather than compromise it by wasting millions on poor value players. So what am I suggesting he did right? Let’s look at the contribution of the academy yesterday, and acknowledge that for all his other failings, he left us something to be proud of. Just a shame he made such a spectacular mess of the rest of it.