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    The Star is shit thread

    in The Haigh and Wright Suite

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    Said it all along, personally I’m absolutely fine with folks having a differing opinion, and people having a different one to mine.

    I just dislike those massive opinions with no sort of objective debate around it. Sort of like, opinions for getting your opinion out’s sake. 

    Sunderland v Sheffield Wednesday Score Predictions

    in The Haigh and Wright Suite

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    22 hours ago, Hirstys 12th Pint said:

    Was speaking to a Mackem work colleague at our Durham site yesterday and he says we are nailed on for a win with how they have performed since they got rid of Mowbrey.  Said they have a lot of younger players in the team not ready for the Championship and they can't score, defend or create anything !  So 3-0 to Sunderland then.

    He likes Wednesday so said he was happy for Luke O'Nien to play in goal on Saturday. 

    O’Nien. What a whopper he is… 

    ‘oh it’s so funny that he jumped on someone’s back when they threatened to breakaway’ or ‘his handball recently on the halfway line that stopped a certain attack’…

    Bugger off. 🤣

    The Star is shit thread

    in The Haigh and Wright Suite

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    14 hours ago, Tewksbury said:

    There's a @Tylluan post on LG too.

    Rohl kept him on as backup when the McGuire deal fell through after Derby fucked about.

    I still think he should have been allowed to leave. His fall from ‘grace’ if you want to call it that, was a shame. While he’s not a club legend, his contribution to the last few seasons can’t be ignored. 

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    The Star is shit thread

    in The Haigh and Wright Suite

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    3 hours ago, bazapeps said:

    Quoted by who? You've literally said about how a news story about Hogan got the group going, fired up etc. That's just utter nonsense; the frustrations of fans, the group etc, have in the main appeared genuine and reasonable and certainly didn't need an Alan Nixon story. 

     

    I'll be entirely honest about what I said about the transfer window - I thought it was a farce and that DR got left hung out to dry. DR was also clearly frustrated by the lack of recruitment. I absolutely did not think we got what we needed and didn't think we'd have any chance of staying up (I was wrong - hopefully). I didn't expect cash to be splashed or a mountain of transfers but hoped for more, to at least give us a fighting chance. The fact is that the 3 loan signings have been great - I had zero hope in them tbh, and I based that on their past records. DR is clearly a manager that is able to get the very best out of players and credit to him for that. 

    While it could have been better, if we’re talking literally, For me the only ‘farce’ to use your turn of phrase IMO was holding onto LG, who should have been allowed to leave.

    The players we brought in have had a direct impact on our survival chances. Without Ugbo’s goals for example, we’re already relegated.  
    So I wouldn’t say January was a farce in general. 

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    A New Group of Attention Seekers

    in The Haigh and Wright Suite

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    7 minutes ago, Tylluan said:

    @bazapeps

    The 1867 group could have distanced themselves from the kid and his dad with an official statement on your X account but I'm guessing, please tell me if I'm way off, that the group hierarchy decided to see which way this swung first.

    Then you post on here that they were nothing to do with the group (still no official distancing) yet they were a bi-product of your protest by using your song. 

    Any instant condoning or distancing, by the group, might have seen you in a different light but the initial reaction across certain media and forums must have seemed like manna from heaven to some within the ranks. 

    You're right in that everyone is entitled to their opinion but that opinion needs to be formed from accuracy. Unfortunately too much is derived from hearsay and misinformation and the 1867 X page is the prime culprit. Whether posted by the group or added to in comments by others the place is hotbed of lies and misinformation (and worse) that people like those two on Saturday are a product of your movement. 

    It could have escalated into a full scale confrontation and I do wonder which side you (the group) would have fallen into and how quickly. 

    And a full scale confrontation serves zero positive purpose in this regard

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    30 years ago

    in The Haigh and Wright Suite

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    23 minutes ago, mkowl said:

    Crikey I think it was a Nissan - did they do something called the Bluebird.

    Anyway it was an upgrade - said mate had previously worked at Fletchers, he had one of the bread vans that used to deliver around the estates. So we used to get lifts in that, free left over buns and a cracking free parking space.

    He had gotten a new job - which may have been related to the fact he was delivering slightly more than buns to a bored housewife on some rough estate in Dingle land, which was fine until the aggressive husband found out. A Fletchers van was not a quick getaway choice 

    The bluebird was a massive big tank of a car IIRC

    30 years ago

    in The Haigh and Wright Suite

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    1 minute ago, mkowl said:

     I did go to that game, but don't recall the daffodils for Watson. I do recall my mate had a new company car which he drove like an idiot. We got back to High Green not much later than we would have done from Hillsborough

    What was the car? Not that I remember anyone driving back from the wrong side of the Pennines like a complete bell. 

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