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Players come over for applause when they win but not when they lose. Not about their egos at all

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Okay, just so I’m clear: players come over when they win but not when they lose but that’s NOT about their egos. On the other hand, I POINT OUT that they come over when they win but not when they lose and that IS about ego (mine)? LMAO

This is completely disanalogous by the way. Footballers and managers are constantly exhorting fans to be the 12th man and give vociferous support to the team as this can make the difference in games. I don’t recall any thespian ever asserting that they delivered their lines better because of the...

The best endorsement for my original post I could have received. Thanks

Then you do it or you don’t. You don’t just do it so you can bask in the glory. You don’t come over for 5 minutes to appreciate the fans when you win, then slope of as quick as possible when you don’t. Make your choice and stick to it.

Having been a vocal part of a Bournemouth support which outsang 40,000+ leads fans for 80+% of today’s game, and who stayed behind after the game to applaud the players off the pitch, I’m a little bit pissed off that not a single Bournemouth player or member of the coaching staff came over to us...

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6 point deduction for overspending? Honestly, I can’t think of a single way in which they might chip away at the difference between their incomings and outgoings.

Massive cock up if they are

Or because they’ve offered him a quarter of a mill a week… ;-)

I’m going for 23 from the available 24, leaving us on 60 by Christmas… because together ANYTHING is possible ;)

No I wouldn’t. If/when we are back in the third tier, where we’ve been for the vast majority of my time as a fan, and we are attracting 5-6k fans, I’ll be delighted if whoever is in charge does whatever they can to shift as many seats as possible. Beats chucking coppers in the buckets… Do you...

I’m sure the atmosphere was improved no end by filling only half their seats. Their choice as you say. If they’ve got the money to throw away and are happy to turn paying customers away, fair enough. But the claims they (a) couldn’t have opened the rest of that end to us and (b) they wouldn’t...

Who decided to split the whole end into two such that you can’t sell an extra 2,000 tickets if there’s the demand (not saying we would have shifted that many, but the big clubs would in the cup or if Reading ever went up)? Who has the final say if not Reading?

Over 10,000 seats unsold for this game. I rest my case. Why the actual frak would you not open the rest of the away end when we sold our tickets out with 10 days to spare and you can’t shift home tickets for love nor money? We’ll all be weeping into our programmes when they go into...

A perfectly well-balanced article written by a man with an equally enormous chip on each shoulder. Who’d’ve thought that would be the case for a Stoke fan? The bit that makes me laugh the most? Apparently the lack of atmosphere was down to the fact we only brought 500 fans. As one of them, I...

Carbon copy of the Wilson situation. Player goes down, beckons the medics on. Player is treated for a decent period on the pitch and goes off. Player comes back on and within a couple of minutes is flat on the floor again and needing replacement. The differences? 1. Powell will be back in 6-8...

These two have been an absolute revelation. Almost like dropping Daniels and Pugh back into the team. Can’t overstate the importance of these partnerships. If the contracts aren’t done already, we need to get them over the line.

Remember watching Brooksie destroy Fulham ‘that’ day at Craven Cottage and saying to those around me ‘this lad’s going to be the best player we’ve ever had’. Owning that prediction. Can’t wait to have him back and at the top of his game.