The Official Summer Transfer Rumour Thread - 2025 edition

People born later can have no idea how dismal Sundays were in those days. The only shop open was the paper shop. Pubs 12-2.00. Tele was terrible apart from Star Soccer and ,in the summer,JPL cricket

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100% but on Ryan Wood looking at some comments on Exeter city forum, it’s stated that he was struggling with the new managers style of getting the ball forward quickly and when that happened he would be by passed and go missing in games, if true it’s possible that he thought our style might not suit him ???
Just a thought

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Reading the latest NTT20 transfer update and their opening sentence on Woods’ move states ‘At 31, Woods doesn’t run very much nor very quickly’ which probably tells you why we haven’t signed him, rightly or wrongly.

They do go on to be more complimentary about his technical ability however.

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Saw walsall fans saying the same about stirk when it’s not true🤷‍♂️

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World at War, On the Buses, High Chaparral, The Golden Shot, Onedin Line, The brothers plus all the church and gardening/farming stuff. :rofl:

Pubs 12-2 and 8-10 opening.
I was always tasked with dragging my Dad out of the pub lock-in to come home for his Sunday dinner…and then I’d get sent upstairs to wake him up from his afternoon kip at about 7.30 so he wasn’t late going back to the pub. There was always an uneasy 30 seconds or so when he first woke up with a chance of getting clobbered before he happily realised it was still Sunday night.

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Same guy that claimed Harry Williams was off to Newcastle :joy_cat:

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Decent radio comedies around lunchtime.

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At least you knew you were going to spend time with your family on a Sunday. Nobody used to go out, they used to save the best films for Sunday afternoon. The only thing I remember was going over Reedswood park for 20 a side football game.

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if it hadn’t have been for 2pm pub closing on a Sunday I would never have seen my dad :slight_smile:

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I think it was the first hence the 9,000 plus gate. It’s funny other than being on a Sunday I don’t recall much about the game although we won comfortably .

In the 80’s my mates and I aimed to visit all 202 Banks’s pubs on the Pint and Platter map. We’d take it in turns every Sunday to drive and we’d done them all with the exception of one in Chirk, and 2 in Aberystwyth. We set out early, knocked off the New Inns in Chirk and drove to the coast. When we got to our target pub it was in darkness- we’d forgot that most of the Welsh counties were dry on Sundays. So the Sabbath was even more miserable in Wales!

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That’s what im getting at mate :joy:

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Loved Little house on the Prairie, The Waltons, Land of the Giants and while eating dinner there was usually a Carry on Film to watch. Then around 6.30-7 ish Last of the Summer wine.

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Gone off track again ain’t we😂

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As my old man used to say “I wonder what kind of films the Germans watch on a Sunday”

Wonder if there will be any trialist a and b tonight :thinking:

Shoot me now!!:joy:

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What about Heidi..loved that as a nipper..does that ring a bell :bell: :laughing:..and littlest hobo..he’s down the road though :dog::smiley:

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Wow, Sundays really were bad. :grimacing:

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When’s Norwood signing? I like WFTV but he never gets any rumours right lol.

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