Why did you resign, Dirk :?: Three main reasons, which I outlined in a long (and probably highly tedious) resignation letter. I'll précis below : 1. STAR was, in my opinion, far too risk-averse and far too resistant to change. Some decisions had recently been made at the time that I was deeply unha...

Why did you resign, Dirk

Wax Jacket

Green Greg Hands MP, the conservative member for Chelsea and Fulham has two in his (you can probably guess which ones).

went to the same school as my Mum

spin off thread

Should sexist bricklayers be running the country

We tend not to pay a lot for players. As The Swiss Ramble ( a blog on football finances ) stated, in the last 4 years up to 2011, we were in the bottom 4 for net transfer spend (just below Watford), yet in the top six for wages. Our wages bill the year before last for the football side was around £...

Green Shepshed Dynamo and Kettering

Been posting a bit more on the team board of l8 but it's a difficult transition.

"Safe pair of Hands" whenever he's seen with another family member.

Surely we need to see the figure expressed as a percentage of transfer or wage fees for this to be a meaningful figure, Bucks Dave

Or am I missing something

Shepshed Dynamo and Kettering

Oh, and:

GCallaghan He passionately believes that football is a working man's game

Why are you posting on a Reading forum then

This might sound hard to believe but down here it's pretty much a family game now.

GCallaghan Steve is a former bricklayer and is the only MP to have two Premier League football clubs in his constituency.

Sorry to be a pedant but I can't let this pass.

Greg Hands MP, the conservative member for Chelsea and Fulham has two in his (you can probably guess which ones).

Reading, Stoke, Swansea

And Blue Hooped Moose.

Red was before your time surely creative?

Bit indifferent for a long time tbh but I hear you floyd.

My main excitement at promotion was the prospect of having three away games within walking distance of my flat but even that's been tempered by the realisation that Chelsea are charging £50 for tickets. Fvck that for a game of football.

yeh he's mostly harmless

Condemning yourself to a lifetime in the Thames Valley in order to catch Reading v Man United seems a bit drastic though, no

54 minutes in and getting tired of hearing "Team GB" already. "Great Britain" shurely, all the other nations are referred to by country. And it's UK anyway isn't it? Northern Irish olympians compete for us surely? The British Olympic Association has resisted the idea of changing...

Extended-Phenotype We’ve wandered down a different path to many other nations, and the results show which path was right.

Spain or Brazil I guess?

EPR 54 minutes in and getting tired of hearing "Team GB" already. "Great Britain" shurely, all the other nations are referred to by country.

And it's UK anyway isn't it?

Northern Irish olympians compete for us surely?

LUX Don't worry he's winding us up, he's a Plymouth fan, hence his name.

Hey Green, your rubbish.

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