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There's a piece of puffery on the BBC website that essentiallly delves into some insignificant details but comes out with the premise that the reason the Rags are not top of the pile is that they haven't scored enough and conceded too many! That's the same reason why dozens of other teams haven't won the title. Who writes this bullshine?
 
Tracking back said:
I've heard the media brandishing that phrase around.

Weight of the shirt?........ weight of the shirt, my arse.

This is a club, who were knocked out of the second round of the EFL Cup, by Grimsby Town.
The funny thing about that wasn't their defeat, it's that I've yet to meet someone who was surprised by it.

This is a club that finished 15th in the Premier League last season, and will not play one minute of European football this season.

This is a club (depending on the outcome of their first game in the FA Cup) that could potentially play only forty games this season.

Biggest club in the world?
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Ah, but they've had more shots on goal in the last ten games than anyone. The RDAHMeedya are choking that they haven't got anyone who can convert them.
 
Ribble73 said:
One Rag who I’ve always thought was sound for decades basically (as indeed he was when we were shite) has started coming out with football is finished, all about money, PSR etc -they can’t handle it
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Nothing matters to a Rag other than winning. Doesn't matter how it's achieved, how it arrives, where it happens - just as long as they win! They can't cope with any other outcome.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
There's a piece of puffery on the BBC website that essentiallly delves into some insignificant details but comes out with the premise that the reason the Rags are not top of the pile is that they haven't scored enough and conceded too many! That's the same reason why dozens of other teams haven't won the title. Who writes this bullshine?
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Is Slimy Stone the author?
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Ah, but they've had more shots on goal in the last ten games than anyone. The RDAHMeedya are choking that they haven't got anyone who can convert them.
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You would think by now, that the media would have given up all hope on the rags.

I mean come on.... there's flogging a dead horse and there's digging it up to flog it some more.

Surly there's no money in it for the media anymore. Most of the rags that I know, have lost interest in all things football.

Who exactly is it that the media are pandering to? I would imagine most of their plastic fanbase in the Philippines and Asia, have cottoned on to the fact that the rags are finished.
 
The rags up to their old tricks again after delaying the publication of the match attendance v Burnley, when it was obvious from the TV coverage that the stand opposite the cameras wasn't entirely full.

This happened after all their home games in the early stages of the Europa League and domestic cups last season

Today (when they think everyone's forgotten) they suddenly announce an attendance that was amazingly bigger than the stadium capacity.
 
BeerIsTheBest said:
Have to imagine their plan for redevelopment is not going well

Scruffy quoted “We have stopped investing in Britain. Our future investment will not be [in] the UK. There's no question of that," he said.”
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I think so. Sounds like a threat. Think he did similar in Switzerland to get his team a ground, but we're a lot more skint than Switzerland!
 
Tracking back said:
You would think by now, that the media would have given up all hope on the rags.

I mean come on.... there's flogging a dead horse and there's digging it up to flog it some more.

Surly there's no money in it for the media anymore. Most of the rags that I know, have lost interest in all things football.

Who exactly is it that the media are pandering to? I would imagine most of their plastic fanbase in the Philippines and Asia, have cottoned on to the fact that the rags are finished.
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I would have thought that the scribes of this fantasy island material were on all kinds of hospitality freebies if they continue to write all manner of puffery, no matter how far removed from reality it is.
 
Norman kneejerk said:
I think so. Sounds like a threat. Think he did similar in Switzerland to get his team a ground, but we're a lot more skint than Switzerland!
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We're a lot more cynical than them too.

It'll be a big ask of him, to get public funding for their big top.

I can see him moving on in a couple of years.

Wouldn't it be ironic if it ends up Scruffy Jim being the one, who gets bored of his new play thing.
 
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