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Rob Conlon

@robconlon.bsky.social

Writer of words, talker of shite — @thesquareball.net, @realclass.co.uk Subscribe to the free Real Class rugby league newsletter and podcast http://realclass.co.uk

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Haha cheers mate - can only admire you listening to something on a topic you actively hate! Will be some Ashes stuff soon🤞

08.10.2025 17:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Quiet Week — Play-Off Semi-Finals Review

Another quiet week in rugby league discussed on the @realclass.co.uk pod: terrorism threats, owners being weirdos, Grand Finals. Just the usual.

open.spotify.com/episode/4kj9...

08.10.2025 06:04 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Quiet Week — Play-Off Semi-Finals Review

Another quiet week in rugby league discussed on the @realclass.co.uk pod: terrorism threats, owners being weirdos, Grand Finals. Just the usual.

open.spotify.com/episode/4kj9...

08.10.2025 06:04 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Leeds United 1-2 Tottenham: High wire • The Square Ball Crysencio Summerville has a lot to answer for.

#LUFC 1-2 Tottenham: High wire

Crysencio Summerville has a lot to answer for.

by @robconlon.bsky.social

thesquareball.net/leeds-united...

06.10.2025 11:10 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Oh mate! Been there a few times myself and it’s never fun - certainly not for a defeat!

05.10.2025 16:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was thinking the same...

03.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love this by Richard Finn in the latest issue of the mag.

03.10.2025 14:12 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Humble Pie — Play-Off Madness Review

One of the maddest ends to a rugby league game I’ve ever seen and I never want to see it again.

New episode of the @realclass.co.uk pod is out, with the help of my therapist @jonnyhughes1990.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/3p0n...

30.09.2025 06:18 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Leeds United 2-2 Bournemouth: Stop making sense • The Square Ball I had to watch this back to try work out what the hell happened at Elland Road. I'm still none the wiser. But I'm starting to suspect it's sometimes much more fun that way.

#LUFC 2-2 Bournemouth: Stop making sense

@robconlon.bsky.social is still not sure how to feel about whatever the hell happened at Elland Road. But he's starting to suspect that's sometimes much more fun.

thesquareball.net/leeds-united...

29.09.2025 11:44 — 👍 19    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

#ButterTheFoodButterTheMood

28.09.2025 06:31 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0

How was it, dare I ask?

28.09.2025 06:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Square Ball: Season 36, Issue 02

Our new issue out now, featuring:

- George Graham 96/97
- #LUFC Women
- Sam Rodon's Vinted page
- Three decades of Yeboah

plus much more. Cover by Shannon Marriott.

SHOP: thesquareball.net/leeds-united/the-square-ball-season-36-issue-02/

26.09.2025 16:07 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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The Worst Takes Of 2025 — Revisiting Our Pre-Season Predictions

We revisited our pre-season predictions in the new episode of the Real Class pod and in case you hadn't realised, we talk absolute shite.

open.spotify.com/episode/0HUw...

23.09.2025 11:34 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Leeds United are much more fun to write about when we're scoring goals, so I'd like to propose we play at Molineux every week.

22.09.2025 10:35 — 👍 25    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can I Just Shock You? — Round 26 Review

Latest episode of the Real Class podcast is out as me and @joshheff.bsky.social take our medicine after Leeds' defeat to Catalans.

open.spotify.com/episode/43LA...

16.09.2025 11:44 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Fulham 1-0 Leeds United: You better believe it • The Square Ball We learned nothing new about Leeds United strengths and weaknesses in London, and that was the problem.

Fulham 1-0 #LUFC: You better believe it

We learned nothing new in London about Leeds United's strengths and weaknesses, and that was the problem.

by @robconlon.bsky.social

15.09.2025 11:14 — 👍 23    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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My sister Ellen was out supporting @calebscauseni.bsky.social protest about the lack of services for adults with special needs yesterday and spoke about her own experiences.

Please help support the petition to pass urgently needed legislation!

PETITION: chng.it/Gn9DTPfjkg

09.09.2025 06:34 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Last thing on #LUFC and Sweden for now (I think).

Leeds are - kind of - involved at both the bottom and top of the Swedish top-flight.

Featuring Marcus Antonsson, Pawel Cibicki, and someone calling Junior Firpo the worst left back we've ever had.

@thesquareball.net

08.09.2025 19:04 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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a man in a purple shirt is making an angry face . ALT: a man in a purple shirt is making an angry face .

The Angry Mark

05.09.2025 13:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Angry Duke • The Square Ball Mark Viduka was at his best when he was pissed off, writes Rob Conlon. And in 2002/03 there was a lot for him to be pissed off about.

The Angry Duke

Mark Viduka was at his best when he was pissed off. And in 2002/03 there was a lot for him to be pissed off about.

Free to read from issue one, by @robconlon.bsky.social • #LUFC

thesquareball.net/leeds-united...

05.09.2025 06:25 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Think the idea that anyone was ever willing to spend £10m on Joseph is fanciful tbh. The timing of that in January felt very, 'yeah we've not signed anyone but look what we rejected!' — likewise when they sold Summerville last summer then came out with, 'but we rejected big bids for Gnonto earlier!'

03.09.2025 11:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Patrick Bamford was The Guy he always wanted to be • The Square Ball Farewell to one of the most endearingly bewildering footballers to ever wear a Leeds United shirt.

Patrick Bamford was The Guy he always wanted to be

@robconlon.bsky.social bids farewell to one of the most endearingly bewildering footballers of #LUFC's recent history who always kept coming back for more.

thesquareball.net/leeds-united...

29.08.2025 11:13 — 👍 50    🔁 5    💬 6    📌 2
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Anyone got Tomas Skuhravy's number?

29.08.2025 14:10 — 👍 26    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
The Square Ball magazine open at an article titled Utopia Achieved next to a mug of shit coffee

The Square Ball magazine open at an article titled Utopia Achieved next to a mug of shit coffee

New @thesquareball.net’s a cracker. Cheers and that @oddytsb.bsky.social 👍

Get yours: thesquareball.net/shop/2025-26...

#lufc

28.08.2025 10:43 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Absolutely not.

27.08.2025 09:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Then I saw his face, now I'm a believer I know, I know, I know. Honestly, I do!

Then I saw Presley Cassell's (and Keenan Palasia's) face, now I'm a believer

www.realclass.co.uk/then-i-saw-h...

26.08.2025 14:55 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Then I saw his face, now I'm a believer I know, I know, I know. Honestly, I do!

Then I saw Presley Cassell's (and Keenan Palasia's) face, now I'm a believer

www.realclass.co.uk/then-i-saw-h...

26.08.2025 14:55 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Fuck it off, move on, enjoy the rest of your Bank Holiday.

(after you've read this I suppose)

25.08.2025 07:12 — 👍 21    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ten More Years — Round 22 Review Real Class: Rugby League · Episode

New episode of the Real Class podcast is out after a lovely trip to Cas Vegas

open.spotify.com/episode/1A2X...

19.08.2025 14:14 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Leeds United 1-0 Everton: Woo! • The Square Ball Leeds played all night like they had paid attention to Paul Reaney’s words at last season’s Player of the Year awards. “Everything is possible. Do not be frightened of anybody. Seriously, because…

#LUFC 1-0 Everton: Woo!

United weren’t in the mood for hanging around. There was a game to be won and everyone inside Elland Road could smell blood. God I've missed this.

by @robconlon.bsky.social

thesquareball.net/leeds-united...

19.08.2025 11:06 — 👍 67    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1

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