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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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One photo that had me and my mate howling was a photo in The Pink of the bench at Selhurst Park, maybe , early to mid ninety's I think. (My memory's terrible so I might be wrong on the ground)

It named all the players and coaching staff on the bench, on the end was the coach driver who they named as well!

He had more right to be on the bench than Ken Dulieu, at least he had "Coach" in his job title.
Sure he wasn't just a coach with the surname Driver?
 

robbiekeane

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Certainly is. Miserable but simultaneously happy about complaining?
Not a contradiction at all.

its actually pointing out the irony that some people only feel satisfied when they're complaining. If they don't have something to bitch about, they get miserable. It's not about happiness in the traditional sense—it's about finding contentment in their discontent. It's a paradox, yeh, but not a contradiction...there's a difference
 

pusbccfc

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Owners that had us playing in Northampton and Birmingham was bad enough, but this really is a step too far.

People would be happy to go back to SISU if they could get their cheap boxes back
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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Not a contradiction at all.

its actually pointing out the irony that some people only feel satisfied when they're complaining. If they don't have something to bitch about, they get miserable. It's not about happiness in the traditional sense—it's about finding contentment in their discontent. It's a paradox, yeh, but not a contradiction...there's a difference
Maybe the point is…if some people seem perennially unhappy, there’s something else going on rather than it being a character trait.
 

ProfessorbyGrace

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I’m finding it more odd that Dasilva isn’t in the official squad photo.
 

shmmeee

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So on what basis do you think it’s odd if you agree it’s been going on for decades ?

All kinds of odd things have been going on for decades. It’s the incidence compared to the total population of football clubs that makes it odd, not when it first appeared.
 

torchomatic

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So on what basis do you think it’s odd if you agree it’s been going on for decades ?

I think "going on for decades" is a bit of a stretch. Why not show us all the times it's happened over the decades.
 

Deity

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All kinds of odd things have been going on for decades. It’s the incidence compared to the total population of football clubs that makes it odd, not when it first appeared.
So other clubs do it, we have been doing it for decades and you think it’s odd ?

the truth is posters were trying to position this as DK over reaching and that’s been proven to be incorrect
 

Deity

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I think "going on for decades" is a bit of a stretch. Why not show us all the times it's happened over the decades.
I can recall Jimmy Hill, Poynton, and Richardson all doing it.

another poster said Derrick Robins did it too.

is 50 years long enough ??
 

torchomatic

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I can recall Jimmy Hill, Poynton, and Richardson all doing it.

another poster said Derrick Robins did it too.

is 50 years long enough ??

So four times in 50 years? Hardly the norm then? Nothing against King at all. He's improved our club no end over the last couple of years. As I said l though, it's an odd thing to do.
 

Deity

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So four times in 50 years? Hardly the norm then? Nothing against King at all. He's improved our club no end over the last couple of years. As I said l though, it's an odd thing to do.
Please tell me your not this stupid.

owners have owned the club for multiple years ….

so 5 owners can easily span 30 or 40 years …..
 

JimmyHillsbeard

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I can recall Jimmy Hill, Poynton, and Richardson all doing it.

another poster said Derrick Robins did it too.

is 50 years long enough ??

Is this true? Hill as chairman in the club photo? I certainly wouldn’t be surprised had Bryan Richardson done it but I can’t actually find any evidence of it.

Poynton was pretty low key as a Chairman. It should be easy to find a squad photo he was in if he did it.
 

torchomatic

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Please tell me your not this stupid.

owners have owned the club for multiple years ….

so 5 owners can easily span 30 or 40 years …..
I'm not talking about the number of owners we've had, but the number who thought their place was in the centre of a squad photo.
 

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