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by Mr Optimist
28 Apr 2023 11:10
Forum: The Team
Topic: Rival Watch
Replies: 17258
Views: 3253412

Re: Rival Watch

All predicated on Reading WW QPR a poor side with a terrible GD need to win 1 of 2. ========================================================= Huddersfield need a point at Cardiff, something off Sheffield United or else go into the last game needing to beat Reading. =================================...
by Mr Optimist
28 Apr 2023 11:00
Forum: The Team
Topic: Rival Watch
Replies: 17258
Views: 3253412

Re: Rival Watch

If Reading win both QPR need a WIN to stay above Reading (because of a -26 GD) Two draws would not be enough Away to Stoke will be tough to win, and, though Bristol will be on the beach, a draw or even a Bristol win is by no means unlikely On the beach or the freedom to play with no pressure? I alw...
by Mr Optimist
27 Apr 2023 19:00
Forum: General Football
Topic: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future
Replies: 712
Views: 130569

Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

Might have had this. Abandoned, crumbling, but still stunning. Valencia's 80,000-capacity Nou Mestalla is in disrepair, the site having been vacant since money problems halted its building in 2009. https://i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk/incoming/article27713917.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/1_JS274370455.jpg Brings...
by Mr Optimist
25 Apr 2023 18:43
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Wigan Athletic (h)
Replies: 182
Views: 13868

Re: MATCHWATCH : Wigan Athletic (h)

The one hope really is that Wigan must know it's pretty much all over. They have to win both of their last two games, hope Huddersfield lose both of their next two, then draw with us, while also hoping Blackpool don't win their last two, or they are down. They’ve asked for a further 500 tickets app...
by Mr Optimist
19 Apr 2023 22:26
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Luton Town (h)
Replies: 193
Views: 16181

Re: MATCHWATCH : Luton Town (h)

I’m not too disappointed that AC will be suspended on Saturday. We will have to play the youngsters that will give us more pace on the break at Cov.

The Wigan game is the one we have to get 3 points from.
by Mr Optimist
19 Apr 2023 16:59
Forum: The Team
Topic: Opposition fans back from the game
Replies: 4485
Views: 1534292

Re: Opposition fans back from the game

YorkshireRoyal99
From Despair To Where? Leeds were in League 1 at the time and had just lost in the playoffs to Doncaster so the fan was trying to convince themselves that they were still the biggest club in Yorkshire.


Exactly why I hate Leeds, the arrogance.


In the Kingdom of the Blind that is Yorkshire, the one eyed man is king.
by Mr Optimist
18 Apr 2023 17:18
Forum: The Team
Topic: Are you optimistic we'll survive?
Replies: 46
Views: 3720

Re: Are you optimistic we'll survive?

I’m hoping us and Huddersfield need a draw final day and we see scenes like this: https://youtu.be/bDtljx7UPmY Warnock hoisted into the air by the travelling Reading fans <3 It’s the way it’s meant to end Or a punch to the kidneys after an I’ll tempered pitch invasion while an angry mob waits outsi...
by Mr Optimist
14 Apr 2023 19:35
Forum: The Team
Topic: International fan base
Replies: 28
Views: 1597

Re: International fan base

I remember in the early 90s we had a fan from Cameroon who was a fan of our “carpet football” at the time. I bet his spirits have been raised by the prospect of the end of Carrollball.
by Mr Optimist
13 Apr 2023 16:01
Forum: Club Policies
Topic: Huddersfield (A)
Replies: 26
Views: 5246

Re: Huddersfield (A)

It’s a South Bank thing, left side, right side, pinched from Chelsea and the Shed where I think it probably originated from. Huddersfield owe us anyway after rolling over and having our tummies tickled at Wembley in 2017. Hopefully it will be a big party on the last day with both us and Huddersfield...
by Mr Optimist
30 Mar 2023 17:49
Forum: The Team
Topic: Opposition fans back from the game
Replies: 4485
Views: 1534292

Re: Opposition fans back from the game

All this Oxford guff reminds me of a Brighton fan who used to work at the same company as me. He found out I was a Reading fan when I started and sought me out, to tell me Reading were tinpot and Brighton didn't care about us at all. He then proceeded to moan about how we stole Steve Coppell and we...
by Mr Optimist
30 Mar 2023 17:48
Forum: The Team
Topic: Opposition fans back from the game
Replies: 4485
Views: 1534292

Re: Opposition fans back from the game

All this Oxford guff reminds me of a Brighton fan who used to work at the same company as me. He found out I was a Reading fan when I started and sought me out, to tell me Reading were tinpot and Brighton didn't care about us at all. He then proceeded to moan about how we stole Steve Coppell and we...
by Mr Optimist
29 Mar 2023 09:39
Forum: The Team
Topic: Opposition fans back from the game
Replies: 4485
Views: 1534292

Re: Opposition fans back from the game

Maybe Oxford fans are just upset they are closer to relegation to League Two than we are to relegation to League One. I was looking earlier at their remaining 9 games and they should be worried! Still to play Shef Weds, Barnsley, Portsmouth, Bolton and Peterborough as well as relegation six pointer...
by Mr Optimist
29 Mar 2023 08:16
Forum: The Team
Topic: Opposition fans back from the game
Replies: 4485
Views: 1534292

Re: Opposition fans back from the game

Anyone over the age of 50 knows the rivalry. To anyone below 30, Oxford are just another local lower league club like Wycombe, or Swindon come to that. It’s nearly 20 years since we last played Oxford, a period where we have had two promotions to the top flight as champions and have spent an unbroke...
by Mr Optimist
27 Mar 2023 19:36
Forum: The Team
Topic: Will you go to the Huddersfield game if it's a relegation play-off?
Replies: 16
Views: 1847

Re: Will you go to the Huddersfield game if it's a relegation play-off?

I’ll be there, face painted up, blue curly clown wig, rumble sticked up, ready for a humiliating slow trudge back to the gasworks car park after the game.

Or, I may get the train over and get shitfaced and make a day of it, last game of the season and all that.
by Mr Optimist
05 Mar 2023 19:21
Forum: General Football
Topic: The Club Badge Thread
Replies: 24
Views: 1471

Re: The Club Badge Thread

Growing up in the 1970s I have a love for the badges from this era, sim still in use like Wolves dog head, and Derby’s ram, the Forest badge, as well as Sheffield Wednesday’s now defunct owl.
by Mr Optimist
05 Mar 2023 14:00
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Points Deduction AGAIN
Replies: 762
Views: 119606

Re: Points Deduction AGAIN

Lose at home to the Blades Tuesday, 6 points docked Wednesday drop to 21st below Cardiff on GD on 38 points. Tuesday also Hudders home to Bristol, Wigan away to the Baggies. Gonna be an interesting night - going in to next weekend fixtures best case 6 points above Blackpool worst case 3 above Wigan...
by Mr Optimist
05 Mar 2023 10:47
Forum: The Team
Topic: Rival Watch
Replies: 17258
Views: 3253412

Re: Rival Watch

Neil’s brought consistency to Huddersfield with two 4-0 defeats. Bristol City will want a reaction to their defeat in Cardiff and is one of those games that if you are in Huddersfield’s position you would be relying on 3 points at home against a mid-table side. If they lose on Tuesday that would be ...
by Mr Optimist
05 Mar 2023 10:43
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Points Deduction AGAIN
Replies: 762
Views: 119606

Re: Points Deduction AGAIN

Lose at home to the Blades Tuesday, 6 points docked Wednesday drop to 21st below Cardiff on GD on 38 points. Tuesday also Hudders home to Bristol, Wigan away to the Baggies. Gonna be an interesting night - going in to next weekend fixtures best case 6 points above Blackpool worst case 3 above Wigan...
by Mr Optimist
03 Mar 2023 18:49
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Points Deduction AGAIN
Replies: 762
Views: 119606

Re: Points Deduction AGAIN

Nameless has now taken the official title of the ‘boards most boring poster and know it all’ off of ian. Never thought I’d see the day. I am not saying this applies to Nameless, but there are some people on here who’d have an argument in an empty room! I also hear what you are saying Snowball about...
by Mr Optimist
03 Mar 2023 18:48
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Points Deduction AGAIN
Replies: 762
Views: 119606

Re: Points Deduction AGAIN

Nameless has now taken the official title of the ‘boards most boring poster and know it all’ off of ian. Never thought I’d see the day. I am not saying this applies to Nameless, but there are some people on here who’d have an argument in an empty room! I also hear what you care saying Snowball abou...
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