The “ I’ve got something to say, but it doesn’t warrant its own thread “ thread.

[Corky]

Simon Jordan being portrayed as some sort of oracle is odd. He was an average football club owner who holds strident yet contradictory views. Why does he get so much attention?

[bovril]

9 minutes ago, Corky said:

Simon Jordan being portrayed as some sort of oracle is odd. He was an average football club owner who holds strident yet contradictory views. Why does he get so much attention?

you have just described the entire British media 

[Stadt]

Some posters on here just think you can *stop* crosses coming in. It’s a bit like saying we should stop the opposition from shooting.

 

Not to say sometimes players could make a better attempt in certain instances but it just shows a lack of understanding - if a player is always so tight the opposing player can’t cross there’s a lot of space behind them.

[Trav Le Bleu]

21 hours ago, Stadt said:

Some posters on here just think you can *stop* crosses coming in. It’s a bit like saying we should stop the opposition from shooting.

 

Not to say sometimes players could make a better attempt in certain instances but it just shows a lack of understanding - if a player is always so tight the opposing player can’t cross there’s a lot of space behind them.

The aim should be to make it difficult to cross with any accuracy so that they lose the ball, either by running themselves into a dead end or making a poor cross.

[Grebfromgrebland]

On 18/02/2026 at 13:51, Trav Le Bleu said:

Is it wrong, when seeing balaclava wearing goons on e-bikes pulling wheelies on public roads, to wish that they fall off and smash their heads on the tarmac?

We don't want more pot holes

[Bellend Sebastian]

On 18/02/2026 at 13:51, Trav Le Bleu said:

Is it wrong, when seeing balaclava wearing goons on e-bikes pulling wheelies on public roads, to wish that they fall off and smash their heads on the tarmac?

I preferred it when it was grown men riding round the estates on tiny motorcycles, like a bear in a Russian circus

[Sampson]

A worthy reminder in these times.
 

The Mower by Philip Larkin

 

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found   

A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,   

Killed. It had been in the long grass.

 

I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.   

Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world   

Unmendably. Burial was no help:

 

Next morning I got up and it did not.

The first day after a death, the new absence   

Is always the same; we should be careful

 

Of each other, we should be kind   

While there is still time.

[AyewJoking]

Is it possible that Ian Huntley is not dead and was released by the authorities who didnt want to cause outrage and endanger him?

[Jon the Hat]

4 minutes ago, AyewJoking said:

Is it possible that Ian Huntley is not dead and was released by the authorities who didnt want to cause outrage and endanger him?

Why on earth would anyone do that?  For what possible benefit?

[AyewJoking]

7 minutes ago, AyewJoking said:

Is it possible that Ian Huntley is not dead and was released by the authorities who didnt want to cause outrage and endanger him?

 

2 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

Why on earth would anyone do that?  For what possible benefit?

 

[AyewJoking]

just now the guys in the office talking about it and one of them mentioned it.

 

I thought, thats stupid.

 

but now im wondering if that could be a possibility.

 

just to clarify, i believe he is dead

[CornwallFox]

5 hours ago, AyewJoking said:

Is it possible that Ian Huntley is not dead and was released by the authorities who didnt want to cause outrage and endanger him?

Do your co-workers sit around like this by any chance? I swear the people of this country are getting dafter by the minute.

[FoxesDeb]

6 hours ago, AyewJoking said:

Is it possible that Ian Huntley is not dead and was released by the authorities who didnt want to cause outrage and endanger him?

No

[Mike Oxlong]

6 hours ago, AyewJoking said:

Is it possible that Ian Huntley is not dead and was released by the authorities who didnt want to cause outrage and endanger him?

I think there may be something in this and that he’s shacked up in a safe house somewhere with Adolf Hitler and Elvis Presley 

[lcfc278]

10 hours ago, AyewJoking said:

Is it possible that Ian Huntley is not dead and was released by the authorities who didnt want to cause outrage and endanger him?

 

[RonnieTodger]

Penalties in front of Family Stand are always missed.

 

Penalties in front of the Kop always go in (Maddison aside).

Edited 11 March by RonnieTodger

[Stuntman_Mike]

36 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

Penalties in front of Family Stand are always missed.

 

Penalties in front of the Kop always go in (Maddison aside).

This feels very true.

[Sampson]

56 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

Penalties in front of Family Stand are always missed.

 

Penalties in front of the Kop always go in (Maddison aside).

What about Iain Hume’s penalty miss vs Sheffield Wednesday that sent us down to League One?

[AyewJoking]

3 hours ago, Sampson said:

What about Iain Hume’s penalty miss vs Sheffield Wednesday that sent us down to League One?

remember Dickov missing one after some first class time wasting from Man City.

[AyewJoking]

9 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

I think there may be something in this and that he’s shacked up in a safe house somewhere with Adolf Hitler,  Elvis Presley and Craig Phillips from Big Brother 1

 

[grobyfox1990]

7 hours ago, RonnieTodger said:

Penalties in front of Family Stand are always missed.

 

Penalties in front of the Kop always go in (Maddison aside).

Great point. Gallagher scored millions Infront of the Kop 

[Nalis]

6 hours ago, Sampson said:

What about Iain Hume’s penalty miss vs Sheffield Wednesday that sent us down to League One?

I read the first three words and thought wtf does Ian Huntley have to do with penalties at the KP?

[DJW1]

7 hours ago, Sampson said:

What about Iain Hume’s penalty miss vs Sheffield Wednesday that sent us down to League One?

Perhaps he missed on purpose, to get his big money transfer to....Barnsley 🙂

[bovril]

9 hours ago, RonnieTodger said:

Penalties in front of Family Stand are always missed.

 

Penalties in front of the Kop always go in (Maddison aside).

Parker didn't care what end it was. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

5 minutes ago, bovril said:

Parker didn't care what end it was. 

Or Gallagher.