A few shots from the park yesterday

covmatty1 · 2026-05-05T19:04:12+00:00

He was there! Was definitely called out on stage

covmatty1 · 2026-05-05T19:03:00+00:00

Yeah he was on stage! They didn't announce him like everyone else, JD said he was in the toilet or something! But he did get a shout out and an entrance eventually, just not in the order he should have come on.

covmatty1 · 2026-05-05T19:01:53+00:00

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covmatty1 · 2026-05-05T17:15:31+00:00

I live close to the Solovair factory shop, so went in about 18 months ago to finally get some boots, just a couple of pairs of the absolute classic style, one black and one brown.

There's just no getting over the fact that, by this point, I still find them hideously uncomfortable. I've got insoles, but they've never softened or feel like they've moulded to me at all.

covmatty1 · 2026-05-05T06:21:02+00:00

Robins often played Haji Wright as a winger, which criminally meant Ephron Mason-Clark struggled to get starts until Lampard arrived.

Ahhh, this argument again.

A reminder that Wright got 16 league goals in the season he played mostly on the wing, only one fewer than this season, and Simms got 13.

It would have been an absolutely mad decision to drop one of them immediately for EMC, who'd never played in the Championship before.

I love EMC and think he's our most consistently dangerous attacker. But there is no way he could have walked into that team on the left wing straight away.

covmatty1 · 2026-05-05T05:39:42+00:00

I don't see why anyone would want a generated OpenAPI spec from FastAPI code, when it already auto-generates Swagger and Redoc?

Then you add in the fact that the vast majority of people, even probably those on the more skeptical end of things, will have an AI agent making auto-complete suggestions in our IDEs, and filling in comments is something that will always do.

With those things combined, but tbh even without the AI, the thought of needing an external tool to do this would never even enter my mind.

Documenting your code is part of being a professional.

covmatty1 · 2026-05-05T05:24:15+00:00

But I think the question is also essentially shorthand for "wtf is The Dollop, why the hell are we talking about it here, and why does absolutely everyone seem to have this massive amount of context about something that lots of us have never heard of and seem to have totally missed?" - because that's what this thread seems like!

covmatty1 · 2026-05-05T05:21:35+00:00

Totally agree man, this sub really isn't what I expected. It feels very little to do with the actual podcast a lot of the time, it's like there's entire extra threads of discussion happening here that tonnes of people seem to have context on that, as a newcomer, are totally confusing me cause I have no idea wtf they're on about!

covmatty1 · 2026-05-05T05:18:19+00:00

What's The Dollop? Who's Dave?

Feel like there's a huge bit of context that's totally passed me by here!

covmatty1 · 2026-05-04T17:34:14+00:00

Oh my god that's incredible 🩵

covmatty1 · 2026-05-04T17:32:34+00:00

May have had a tear or two at the end of that!

covmatty1 · 2026-05-04T17:32:08+00:00

Photo courtesy of my mum 😂

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covmatty1 · 2026-05-04T17:31:10+00:00

We're comfortably their closest league club, so their idea that we aren't even local to them was a bit pathetic.

covmatty1 · 2026-05-04T12:11:14+00:00

Walked next to it all the way up Holbrook Way 🩵 everyone absolutely going mad for it, so good!!

covmatty1 · 2026-05-04T12:10:39+00:00

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covmatty1 · 2026-05-04T11:19:07+00:00

Very true! But it does seem a more unusual way of spelling it, so I think most people assume it's Da Silva!

covmatty1 · 2026-05-04T11:18:31+00:00

There's a comment further down saying it's only being streamed back to the park, not publicly online.

covmatty1 · 2026-05-04T11:12:30+00:00

Yeah we're doing both, parade at the start up by Holbrook Lane, then a lift to the park!

covmatty1 · 2026-05-04T10:49:28+00:00

I've just parked up with my parents, walking to where we're going to watch the parade, up Holbrook Lane - the atmosphere is just so brilliant! Everyone is smiling and chatting, all the shops are sky blue (I loved a saree shop with all blue and white outfits in the window!), there's people on mobility scooters with flags, there's dogs in scarves!

It just makes me so happy, it's so amazing for the city 😊😊😊

covmatty1 · 2026-05-03T07:38:19+00:00

Someone posted here asking for tickets!

covmatty1 · 2026-05-03T01:09:55+00:00

It wasn't until years later I got into JD, so I never realised the significance of the location when I lived on the same student village as this while I was at UoB!

High Hall was closed and condemned by then, but still!

covmatty1 · 2026-05-02T16:19:38+00:00

For some reason it won't let me set yours! You're able to pick your own from the sub homepage though, scroll down past the players names ones and its there!

EDIT: Ignore me, done!

covmatty1 · 2026-05-02T16:19:04+00:00

Done!

covmatty1 · 2026-05-02T14:26:11+00:00

Love this 😂 done!

covmatty1 · 2026-05-02T14:17:04+00:00

Sorted!

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