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Post by PotterLog on Apr 30, 2024 12:38:42 GMT
I wear two pairs of socks at away games, a thin cotton pair and a slightly thicker pair over the top, not through superstition or a luck thing regarding the game. it’s because most beers these days turn my bowels into hot mud, resulting in the charge of the shite brigade in far away boozers. A thin pair are sacrificed each game if there is no bog roll, and I thank them for their service as they are binned 🫡 Why the F do you not just take some bog roll or tissues with you 😂
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 30, 2024 12:21:36 GMT
This is driven simply by fondness of the fact he used to be here. He’s totally unsuited to how Schumo wants to play.. plus the wages issue.. no point
Be interesting if he went to Celtic though, there can't have been many brothers who’ve played for opposing sides in that derby.
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 29, 2024 21:00:00 GMT
Leicester 3.0 All over with 72' on the clock How on earth are Preston always safe in midtable or higher every season? Well run club? Weren't they around the playoff spots last year having scored about four goals all season or something
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 29, 2024 20:23:59 GMT
I want Arsenal to win the PL title this year
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 29, 2024 18:49:42 GMT
Slight diversion, if you could eat the meal with one person, ( known or unknown, famous or not) , who would it be? Badger perhaps, definitely not the most intelligent man in Stoke-on-Trent , Felonious, nor Frasier!!! Definitely Bayern because I know for a fact that he hates everything in my last meal menu. He would either have to have half or watch me eat the lot. Either way it would make his last moments hell. It's your last meal, not his
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 29, 2024 18:32:09 GMT
I can never get past egg on toast. Two fried eggs, over easy, seasoned with salt, pepper and chili flakes, with a generous dollop of HP sauce on the side. Possibly a bit of coarse grated parmesan to garnish. A delicious, simple meal I prepare myself at least twice a week anyway. One last chance to have it, it seems fitting somehow. I wouldn't want anything fancy. Eggs have to be one of the most depressing food stuffs going. Not saying I don’t eat them but I never think “I really enjoyed that” and I have them exactly the same as you do. It’s like having just something, anything to deter hunger I love an egg. Partly for the exact reasons you describe. They're so basic yet integral to everything.. they're almost not food, they are life itself. With all its routine mundanity, hard slog and occasional moments of pure joy. Some might find that depressing, I find it affirming.
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 29, 2024 18:22:09 GMT
I can never get past egg on toast. Two fried eggs, over easy, seasoned with salt, pepper and chili flakes, with a generous dollop of HP sauce on the side. Possibly a bit of coarse grated parmesan to garnish.
A delicious, simple meal I prepare myself at least twice a week anyway. One last chance to have it, it seems fitting somehow. I wouldn't want anything fancy.
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 29, 2024 16:32:53 GMT
Think you’ve listed just about all our loanees who were relatively successful except Rory Delap who wasn’t imo & who was the Chelsea defender on season loan that allegedly cost £9m for the pleasure. The loanees last season in Jan, once getting us to 51 points in March (probably assuring their "avoid relegation bonuses") went the Frith beach at Prestatyn and achieved a massive 2 more points in last 7 games. It was truly pathetic. Rory Delap wasn't successful? I seem to remember a lot of premier league teams fearing him. I assume he means as a loan player, when he only played half a game
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 29, 2024 13:31:46 GMT
I’d be over the moon if we never bothered signing loan players again. They are always below par. Always. Such as; Ryan Shawcross Mark Crossley Gerry Taggart Ade Akinbiyi Salif Diao Lee Hendrie Rory Delap Jermaine Pennant Victor Moses Bruno Martins Indy Any from the last decade are notably absent though eh
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 29, 2024 12:34:25 GMT
No one can deny we were left with a dire situation when we got relegated. We didn't have any saleable assets and were left with a bunch of bang average players on big long contracts. None of which went to play at high level after leaving us. We spent more money than any Championship team had ever spent and were the bookies’ favourites for the title
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 29, 2024 12:20:58 GMT
The Macron kits have been beautiful, despite us being largely awful while wearing them.
Conversely the Adidas ones when we were good in the Prem were among the worst shirts we’ve ever had. And dear god, think of those abominations LQS provided us with for our first season in the Prem. Or don’t, I try not to 🤮
I don’t see why one has to make any “associations” between kits and team performance. I’d wear this season’s shirt 100 times over rather than go anywhere near that pile of garbage we wore for the cup final.
Hoping Macron continue, they’ve been outstanding for us.
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 29, 2024 2:34:37 GMT
It doesn’t really matter does it? What do they really do? It’s not like cricket where he picks the team and does all media duties after the game. It’s just a bloke who wears an armband, sometimes a nice rainbow one😉 Xmas party organiser extraordinaire
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 28, 2024 23:51:22 GMT
Frances Benali, your boys took one hell of a beating Was on Saints radio comms yesterday, apparently very complimentary about us, saying he couldn’t understand how we were so low in the table. Always said he knew his onions
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 28, 2024 21:59:06 GMT
I had seen the post about a week ago, definitely be a good signing, I thought he looked good when we were at Rotherham. No chance now Leeds and Sheffield United have shown interest. Why would that mean no chance?
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 28, 2024 20:31:58 GMT
Thankfully the mandatory minimum two-division gap between us has been restored, but just think how fuckin close we were to the indignity of being on the same league table as that lot next year. A chastening thought.
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 28, 2024 14:13:57 GMT
Another meh player. As was harwood-bellis for us. Both average championship players. I think THB is going to get their POTS, he’s been a real standout apparently
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 28, 2024 0:37:58 GMT
I’m not quite sure about “congratulations” to the club but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with celebrating our survival.
Long run, not a lot has changed, the direction of the club is still highly questionable and I don’t particularly expect next season to be a whole lot better (although I do have slightly more hope than I did a few weeks ago).
But in context, an away win to fully secure our status in the division is absolutely a source of relief, happiness, and yes, celebration. These things are not contradictory.
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 27, 2024 16:21:08 GMT
Can we still make the playoffs
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 27, 2024 16:01:05 GMT
Unbeaten run
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 27, 2024 15:30:23 GMT
Ty felt contact and went down. Silly really, but you’d get it with VAR
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 27, 2024 15:29:23 GMT
WHAT IS WRONG WITH SIR HALE? HE DOESN'T SEEM TO CARE WHEN WE HAVE A CHANCE? AS A COMMENTATOR, IS HE TWO SECONDS BEHIND?? I really hope you think his name is Sir Hale
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 26, 2024 22:54:04 GMT
I saw a bit of an old game the other day with some eye-watering tackles going in, and I realised I’d completely forgotten that the done thing back then was to *not* show that you were hurt, under any circumstances. Blokes were getting absolutely scythed and smashed all over the place, and immediately springing to their feet and jogging straight off, often clearly trying to disguise a limp.
Just struck me how that bit of unspoken protocol among players has completely reversed. Once - not actually very long ago - it was a sign of weakness to show you’d been hurt after a “reducer”. Now you have to squeal and writhe like a stuck pig at the slightest brush.
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 26, 2024 19:07:00 GMT
He’s only marginally better than AN isn’t he?
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 26, 2024 17:51:28 GMT
Presumably it's going to be Burger, comfortably. With Bae Junho a very strong second. No idea who else would be remotely in the mix. Third place will be a very interesting call. Define “very interesting”
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 26, 2024 17:49:27 GMT
Good player DK. Didn’t quite fit our DNA did he.
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 24, 2024 14:18:13 GMT
Remembered this thread and thought people might like to know the Guardian have started a "quick cryptic" series, where they give special instructions at the top to help figure out the clues. Good for beginners but still good fun if you're a more experienced solver www.theguardian.com/crosswords/quick-cryptic/1
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 23, 2024 20:48:37 GMT
I reckon we'll put Saints to the sword anyway. They'll get mullered 5-0 by Lester tonight which won't be much use to them, give up on the autos and will wilt under the white heat of a rejuvenated Stoke onslaught on Sat. Another 0-3 to the Potters. I knew it
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 23, 2024 17:25:03 GMT
That's an ambitious one! Not particularly likely to happen any time soon.. Stoke have played in Buenos Aires. Against Boca in 1964. Could happen in the utterly ludicrous 2030 World Cup. I mean the choice of venues is the height of stupidity even for FIFA Oh yeah that's true. For some reason I was thinking that had already happened only six years premature..
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 23, 2024 17:19:00 GMT
Prefer Belfast to Dublin for a weekend break. Santiago is lovely Bueno Aries is fantastic Dubrovnik is lovely Thought Valencia was nice Enjoyed Paris but expensive Bruges was nice Port Stanley wasn’t bad either😊 Enjoyed Edinburgh Watching England in Buenos Aires is one of my few tick lists left mate Off to Toronto ( see my lad ) and New York in a few weeks and can’t wait That's an ambitious one! Not particularly likely to happen any time soon.. Stoke have played in Buenos Aires. Against Boca in 1964.
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 23, 2024 15:55:52 GMT
I reckon we'll put Saints to the sword anyway. They'll get mullered 5-0 by Lester tonight which won't be much use to them, give up on the autos and will wilt under the white heat of a rejuvenated Stoke onslaught on Sat. Another 0-3 to the Potters.
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