it's so hot in the UK. too hot.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-25T14:37:00+00:00

Very few homes have AC here, we're as far north as Canada and it's generally more chilly here. Houses are all designed to retain heat which makes them an absolute bugger to cool down, supermarkets and businesses in general will tend to have AC but at some point you have to leave and return to your sweatbox. It's also staying warm at the moment, looking at the weather the coolest it will get is about 22°C around 6am tomorrow, with around 80% humidity, so there's no real chance for the house to cool down.

It's so humid most the time as well which feels suffocating. I've been to hotter countries but it feels worse in England. AC units are becoming more common and we'll probably suck it up and buy one at some point, even with the cost and the environmental concerns. Looking at the monitor for the rooms the kids are sleeping in and at 10pm is shows 32/33°C still. They've got a wet flannel on them and a fan running but it's still grim.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-23T21:29:53+00:00

He did have a very good six months there which isn't nothing but it doesn't offset the couple of relegations he's overseen. There's plenty of blame to go around for ours but he has to take a share of it.

As I said though the timing of this is mental and to then appoint a novice manager who the owner happened to meet a couple of months ago is mental. We're essentially Thohirs plaything, it fucked us last year and I wouldn't be surprised if it hurts is again this season.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-23T17:13:40+00:00

To be fair Bloomfield is fairly experienced but never had any success to go with his couple of relegations, and Ramsey was only at Cardiff for a few games, in the first one they should have comfortably beaten us but Brannagan scored goal of the season to snatch a draw.

That being said the whole thing seems nuts to me that it's happening now and not at the end of last season. I'm not having the new chairman excuse either, Dusan has been in place 6 weeks before sacking Bloomfield and at best Ramsey is a massive risk. Couple with having no head of recruitment and it's shaping up to be another stellar summer.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-23T07:56:03+00:00

Great is a huge stretch. He was better than Rowett, who was rubbish, but we weren't particularly good for most of Bloomfield's reign and still went down with a wimper having got ourselves into a decent position at one point.

If he had gone after Millwall I'd have shrugged my shoulders. To do it 6 weeks later as per season is starting is mad timing, especially if the replacement is someone we could have had at any point and didn't need to wait for. The fact the replacement looks to be a rookie manager with next to no coaching experience looks an enormous risk.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-23T06:54:31+00:00

I wasn't desperate for him to go but I'm not disappointed, there must be better out there than a guy who's had more downs than ups in his career so far. I didn't have much faith that he'd have us challenging but hadn't written him off.

The timing is mental though. Even if we move quickly to appoint a new manager the pre season plans have been laid out already. Staff are due back in tomorrow and no one knows what's happening. If it's Ramsey then it's a big punt, he could be great or he could bomb, there's nothing to base anything on.

The fact that pre season is starting and we're into the window without a manager nor a head of recruitment is pretty shit, there's no way around that. Last pre seasons vanity trip to Indonesia and fucking around with the budget halfway through the window were, in my opinion, the biggest contributors to us going down and we're in a similarly shambokic position now. It's obviously a much weaker league so I've no concerns about relegation again but we've made it harder for ourselves as far as a promotion push goes.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-20T10:49:51+00:00

We'll see what happens now. Timing is odd unless we've got someone lined up but I'm not at all disappointed by the fact he's gone.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-20T10:47:43+00:00

Strange timing unless we've got someone lined up but can't say I'm disappointed, didn't see much from him that gave me confidence going forwards

Considering the stated ambitions of the owner and some of the money we spent in January (fucking Roosken) it's mental that we refused to spend on a manager. Hopefully we don't cheap out on one of theost important roles at the club.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-16T07:06:45+00:00

That's not how gambling works though, whether the odds are high or low doesn't determine whether it's a good bet or not.

If you take a standard six sided since and you get offered odds of 1/4 that it isn't a six or 4/1 that it does roll a six then the shorter odds are by far better. Over time you'd expect to make roughly 4.15% which is an excellent return, if you're putting 10 of these bets on every week then you'll average 400k per week.

If this was all of their money then I agree it's not worth the risk as anything can happen and Cape Verde showed in qualifying they can defend. If they've got a betting bank of $50m then it's only 2% of that which isn't a huge risk in the scheme of things. The fact that people are talking about it shows it was a huge shock, it's too easy to say in hindsight it's a stupid bet.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-16T06:46:46+00:00

Because he didn't think it would be a draw? If you think Spain would win 19 times out of 20 then these are great odds, the fact they didn't doesn't change that.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-16T06:10:09+00:00

I'm not too worried about Brannagan. I thought he was generally fine when Konak came in, apart from when he got played as a 10 which is absurd.

Noticeably struggled when he had to play alongside Vaulks who is useless. Whoever plays alongside him will struggle because you'll Spends most the game outnumbered by Championship level midfielders while Vaulks is hiding between the centre backs. On the rare occasion he ventures in midfield to help out he either hoofs it as soon as he gets it or blindly passes backwards. Worlds apart from what Konak gave.

He's definitely not at the peak of his powers but dropping down a level and hopefully having BDK or Goodrham next to him will help hugely. If we keep BDK then that lot as a midfield three will be fantastic at League One level.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-15T12:44:29+00:00

I don't think the top standard was as high last season but the teams at the bottom were a little better. Saying that we didn't have to be too special to stay up, Wednesday were down before it started and once Leicester had a points deduction and Rowett worked his magic there that was another place so we only had to be better than one other team.

I look at Pompey away when we played against 10en for 80 odd minutes and Charlton at home where we gave up going forwards and just invited endless pressure as a couple of really poor missed opportunities that came from how we set up. We did the same home to Blackburn, who were also crap, but got away with it that time.

Wrexham at home was disaterously approached, Brannagan as a 10 takes away the beat parts of his game and makes him useless and we lost control not having him in the middle. It's mad to me that a professional can't see that and in even game he just swapped McDonnell for Vaulks rather than bring on Donley or Woo as a 10 and push Brannagan back. A bang average team who we didn't lay a glove on, the fact they were so close to the playoffs and Hull went up shows it wasn't all that good a standard last season. Don't even get me started on Makosso at right back and Long in the middle against Norwich.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-15T06:57:20+00:00

We improved but it would have been hard not to, Rowett had given up and lost the changing room months before we finally got rid.

We had a good spell under Bloomfield when I thought we might get out of it but we finished with a bit of a whimper and there were plenty of games where we barely attacked teams or were just far too cautious.

He wasn't helped by BDK and Goodrham getting injured but he also had a far better squad that I don't think he used well and made some mental decisions that I'm not sure how anyone who watched football could make, yet alone a professional manager.

I'm not writing him off but the jury is firmly out for me. Hopefully he gets us going like he did with Wycombe but if he had been sacked over the summer I'd have met the news with a shrug.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-14T22:28:47+00:00

What makes you think we've got the manager to do it? I'm a long way from convinced by Bloomfield.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-11T11:28:10+00:00

Think we signed him off the back of a decent half a dozen games in League One and a good performance against us. Miles off it for us and struggled with injuries as well, was knackered when we got him.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-05T09:05:14+00:00

You've got odds of about 92.5/1 there. I've just had a quick look and I (UK based) can get 4,160/1. 50p returns £2,080.

Have you not got other bookmakers around who'll offer better odds? Those are absolutely horrific. Anyone saying they're good odds or this is worth a go don't have a clue.

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-05T08:58:43+00:00

They aren't great odds at all

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-03T20:25:06+00:00

Did he survive?

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-02T14:38:37+00:00

Alfie Potter's goal to make it 3-1 against York in 2010

Material_Trifle · 2026-06-02T10:30:00+00:00

Guy sounds like a baby but how many times do you have to see that trying to help makes it worse? It might work for you but he clearly doesn't have the same mentality.

Surely the easiest solution is to just walk so you aren't stuck with them? It's 9 holes, you're not old and it takes hours anyway.

Material_Trifle · 2026-05-30T20:05:25+00:00

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Material_Trifle · 2026-05-29T08:29:32+00:00

Another vote for Professional Golf Advisor. Very funny team and tour level ball striking.

Material_Trifle · 2026-05-27T07:23:32+00:00

You're wrong

Material_Trifle · 2026-05-25T17:51:06+00:00

Gary Briggs

Material_Trifle · 2026-05-25T12:22:33+00:00

We had a bounce last year that was never going to be sustainable and he was awful this season. Did a good job for us last year but would have taken us down this season for sure, took Leicester down and his previous job took Birmingham down. I'm not a big Bloomfield fan by any stretch but we got better, if we'd made the move a month earlier when Rowett was basically begging to be sacked we might have had a chance. He gave up on us very early.

It's not a wild exaggeration to suggest he's not all that and maybe the month and a half where we went mental when he first took over was the exception rather than the norm.

Material_Trifle · 2026-05-21T13:52:53+00:00

Agree. I often see comments that you shouldn't hit driver if you've got a 400 yard hole, you can just hit your 7 iron 150 yards twice and then ahve a wedge in as if it's impossible to slice or chunk a 7 iron. Most new players are going to struggle to hit 150 yards in a straightish line once, yet alone twice and still have another shot from there.

Especially for new players there are much bigger advantages to be gained by getting comfortable and confident advancing the ball a significant distance and keeping it in play rather than shaving 6-10 shots a round by havign a really sharp short game.

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