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13 points
at 22:04 9 Apr 2024

4 wins and a draw.

That's what the equation. It's tangible now, doesn't even need to be perfection.

I'm glad McKenna and the boys are able to keep focussed on tomorrow, because I'm dreaming ahead now! Massive game tomorrow.

Uppa Towen!
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Will Southampton's Game tonight Go Ahead?
at 14:20 6 Mar 2024

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Not good Few days for Right Wingers and Libel Cases
at 14:00 6 Mar 2024

- Michele Donelan (current Sciences Minister) - had to pay out (well actually us as taxpayer had to pay) for her to settle her case when she accused an academic of being pro-Hamas and another of sharing extremist views.

- Baroness Jacqueline Foster (Tory Peer) - had to pay out "substantial damages" to a student on university challenge after baselessly accusing her of spreading antisemitism because she had an octopus as their mascot.

- Laurence Fox (Racist) - has had his case dismissed after someone called him a racist and ended up paying some of the defendants legal fees. a Twitter user called Fox a racist, doubled down on it, Fox has tried to sue him, but has given up and paid out to the twitter user.




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A truly silly song I've come up with
at 10:10 6 Mar 2024

My Hirst was broken
My Hirst was broken
Sorrow, sorrow
Sorrow, sorrow

My Hirst was broken
My Hirst was broken
You signed Kief, you played him
He scored them and saved us

My tears are drying
My tears are drying
Thank you, thank you
Thanks you, thank you

My tears are drying
My tears are drying
Your footballing genius
Will get us promoted

While I'm worth
My seat by this turf
I will follow you
While the Kief
Gets crosses from Leif
I'll thank him
For his work
For this team
It's our team

Honestly got distracted from work and saw someone make a sunshine on Leif pun and now I've written a whole bloody (awful) ode to McKenna and his genius.

I should be ashamed, but this team is too special right now.
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WTAF IS THIS GAME!
at 21:51 5 Mar 2024

GTFI!
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Poor decision from Leif (n/t)
at 21:40 5 Mar 2024

Takes that momentary stutter to think about the header.
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Passing Boots left on the coach?
at 15:43 2 Mar 2024

Omari could be on a hattrick if we could just not slam every ball to him out for a goal kick!
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An Absolutely Atrocious Display....
at 22:02 20 Feb 2024

but it's 3 points and we're up to 3rd. We are back ahead of Southampton and effectively 1 point off 2nd.

McKenna will need to drill down into just why we played so bad, in particular how we lost our shape so badly. If it's fitness then he needs to find the right balance because we've got 5 games in 18 days before we get an international break.

However we will go into Saturday knowing that a win will either take us back into the top 2, or bring us within 6 points of Leicester who at one point were miles away. Buzzing for Saturday. This season is gonna go to the wire.
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Does Sarmiento need some sessions with the defensive coaches?
at 20:33 20 Feb 2024

He can't help but foul every time he's going for the ball today. It's not so bad giving them away in the middle of the park, but we can't afford giving up cheap free kicks in dangerous positions with a team as big as Rotherham.
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Perfect Storm of Absences Tonight
at 22:13 29 Dec 2023

Morsy, Davis and Hirst are the 3 positions where we don't have a like for like replacement of anywhere near their quality. Morsy back NYD is good news, hopefully Davis is not far behind and really hope a replacement/cover for Hirst can be found ASAP.

Everything crossed that Davis' injury is not too severe, although based on his second half performance, Humphreys could maybe grow into the role?
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Think we needed to make those subs 5-10 minutes ago.
at 21:26 26 Dec 2023

The 3 behind Jackson all look gassed. It's just let Leicester calm it down and pass around at the back under no pressure.
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23rd Dec 1st Jan - Biggest week (+2 days) of the season Coming Up!
at 14:57 16 Dec 2023

Ipswich
- Away at Leeds
- Home vs Leicester
- Home vs QPR
- Away at Stoke

Leeds
- Home vs Us
- Away at Preston
- Away at West Brom
- Home vs Birmingham

Leicester
- Home vs Rotherham
- Away to Us
- Away to Cardiff
- Home vs Huddersfield

Huge 9 days which could define the season for some teams. We have the toughest opponents with Leeds probably in the middle, Leicester meanwhile have the nicest set of opponents. After these games, we'll only have 20 games left for the run in till the end of the year.

Leeds game is massive. It won't set anything in stone, but if we can get a result there of any kind, we take away their biggest chance to overhaul the points differential. Either way it's going to be a crazy stressful/exciting Christmas period!
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Early Goals were gonna cost us eventually.
at 19:40 25 Nov 2023

Really need to cut these poor starts out. We've been fortunate to be able to get back into games previously, but we've pushed our luck too many times.

West Brom were probably going to be miserly no matter what today, but we had no way through them for huge swathes of the game as they didn't leave gaps and overstretch and played a very smart press. They didn't need to (and as a result didn't) take any risks, which is a benefit of being given a quick lead.

I'm certain McKenna will be looking back and trying to work out the remedy to West Brom setup, because Broadhead and Chaplin were non-existent for most of the game as they were squeezed between a tight midfield and a high line. Burns and Davis at least got in behind and got the ball into the box in the first half, but only on a handful of occasions. It's the most comprehensively we've been shut down offensively since he took charge, not helped by gifting goals.

At least I'm still sure we can do a number on Millwall and Coventry.
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Town Win, Leeds Lose and Southampton Lose.
at 21:46 25 Oct 2023

Pretty great night results wise. 7 point gap with a game in hand.
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Current UK Border Policy
at 18:49 16 Sep 2023

Refugees? Not welcome.

A Nazi coming to give a speech to other Nazis? Come right on in.



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Apparently this MP's ancestors were slave owners
at 08:59 31 Aug 2023

Apparently Antoinette Sandbach doesn't like that academic research named her as a descendent of a slaver and is threatening legal action against the university for naming her.

I hope this act of attempted censorship doesn't make it front page news on the BBC website and their current most read story!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66648763

EDIT: Title corrected!
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EFL Street names in Dallas
at 11:12 16 Jul 2023



Just seen this on twitter and can confirm there is an Ipswich Lane there too.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/PXpjpY7mYC2BR58g7
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D-Day Live Coverage (kind of)
at 22:55 5 Jun 2023

I have seen there are often posts mentioning the anniversary of D-day when it comes around and thought this might be of interest to people on here.



Youtube channel that has covered WW1 and WW2 in realtime weekly episodes is having a special 24hr coverage of D-Day (starting at 11pm tonight). Literally doing 24 hours of documentary to track the landings as they occur. They will be releasing it in smaller chunks later on (because I ain't watching for 24 hours straight!) but thought it would be of interest to some history buffs on here.
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FiveThirtyEight Update - It's Happening!
at 21:53 25 Apr 2023

Chances of finishing top 2 before today:
Ipswich - 92%
Plymouth - 91%
Sheffield - 15%
Barnsley - <1%

After todays game:
Ipswich - 99% (+7%)
Plymouth - 98% (+7%)
Sheffield - 4% (-11%)
Barnsley - 0%

And now chances of winning the league in their simulations...
Ipswich 45% (+4%)
Plymouth 55% (-1%)
Wednesday <1% (-2%)
Barnsley 0%

It's happening.....
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FiveThirtyEight update - almost there....
at 17:43 22 Apr 2023


Chances of finishing top 2 before today:
Plymouth - 88%
Ipswich - 84%
Sheffield - 23%
Barnsley - 4%

After todays game:
Ipswich - 92% (+8%)
Plymouth - 91% (+3%)
Sheffield - 15% (-8%)
Barnsley - <1% (-3%)

And now chances of winning the league in their simulations...
Ipswich 42% (+4%)
Plymouth 56% (-1%)
Wednesday 2% (-3%)
Barnsley <1% (-4%)

Barnsley look to be out of it. They could win all their remaining games, but that it's unlikely that 94 points will get them top 2 now.

Meanwhile us getting a result in the hardest game of the weekend significantly boosts us in their statistical model, despite every team winning.
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