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Love Geraint Thomas and made up for the guy, but you have to wonder why he wins SPOTY after one Tour de France when Froome, with his four tours, plus a Giro and a Vuelta, has never got near it. Might have something to do with G having an entire nation behind him... Probably. More votes and you win.

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Steve1956 wrote:Ok, maybe they should drop that then.

Personality

’a famous, notable, or prominent person; celebrity.’

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Steve1956 wrote::lol: think the hint is in the programme title Frank

The personality in ‘Sports Personality’ isn’t meant in that context. It has nothing to do with the sportsperson’s personality.

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South West Claret. wrote:By jobe I think he's got it.

Who’s jobe?

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Isn't it about being a winner though what has he won absolutely nothing..no Kane shouldn't win it No. It isn’t necessarily about winning things, although Kane won the golden boot at the World Cup. Like I say, Hamilton would take it for me but I haven’t voted and I would expect more people like Kane.

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Steve1956 wrote:If Hamilton dosent walk that,then it's a fix

He probably should, but he's not particularly popular so I would fancy Kane. Not sure why it would be a fix, it's a popularity contest.

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South West Claret. wrote:And some are easily hoodwinked.

Hoodwinked into being given a free season ticket?

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Barry_Chuckle wrote:How many of our signings for the front line would you say have turned out well....... just being curious!

Barnes
Vokes
Wood
Gray
Austin
Ings

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AlargeClaret wrote:I think I’ve just witnessed the worst thing I’ve ever seen in the BBC . Footballs coming home complete with gospel singers ,steel bands , Bollywood dancers and a studio audience who died a thousand deaths

Tell me about it. And now there’s a brown woman in a wheelchair. Makes me sick.

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Inchy wrote:The board didn’t offer free season tickets out of good will. It was a way to encourage people to buy tickets. They were as shocked as we were that we went up, and I bet they hated giving us free tickets

Some people just have no gratitude.

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Made a massive difference to the M62 round Leeds. And if you're driving and wonder why the speed has been dropped from 70 but there's no queues or anything, that's because it's working. Queuing theory demonstrates if you limit input to a system it clears quicker. And anyone who can't easily keep an...

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bfcjg wrote:You know when a liberal has lost an argument when they resist to the racist slur. Doh erm erm I know RACIST.

You know when bfcjg has lost an argument when he enters into an argument.

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SmudgetheClaret wrote:Maybe if we stopped increasing the population by 350000 a year that might stop people fighting over houses..

How exactly would you propose that we do that?

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That's a different argument. Arguing that young people nowadays can't afford houses while 25 years ago people could afford houses, that's one thing. Arguing that young people can't afford houses because they have spent all their money on very expensive phones and satellite TV? (Not to mention cars ...

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OK, I concede that it would obviously help but that isn’t the issue. Smart phones and subscription-based TV are part of everyday life. Obviously people could get rid of their phone, watch only terrestrial television and war beans on toast every night but should that really be necessary. Getting onto...

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If you’re good enough to do it then it works a treat. If not you’re shooting yourselves in the foot. The trick is being able to use the goalkeeper as the extra man. Could Everton’s full back not have played it back to Pickford?

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Burnleyareback2 wrote:Young people seem happy with paying for £50 mobile phones a month, sky TV etc etc.

It’s all just a myth, save up like we all had to

Getting rid of sky and a mobile phone isn’t going to go very far in helping a young person to save £15,000+.

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Hasn't this always been the case? You either share with mates and save, don't p!ss half your wages against the wall, or fall short. It's that simple. In 1992 the average house price was 3 times the average salary. Now it is over 5 times. Add in the fact that banks used to offer 100% mortgages and i...

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Really? Fulham murdered us down at their place and Cardiff and Huddersfield had the better of our games against them. I expect Southampton to improve now Hughes has gone, think it's going to be very tight. Or to use one of our managers favourite sayings, touch and go! Yes really. As things stand th...

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Just had a read through some of this. Clearly there's not enough affordable housing in areas where people want to live. There is affordable housing in some areas. In Nelson and other areas families have moved in to deteriorate the area to drive down house prices so their extended family can buy the...

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jrgbfc wrote:Not sure where this blind faith that there are 3 worse teams than us is coming from? If you forget about last season and go off what we've shown so far this season we are an extremely poor side.

Well if you go off what we’ve shown so far this season then there are exactly 3 worse teams than us.

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The extra man in defence is freeing up a defender to advance and press the man with the ball without leaving a huge gap behind. Brady and Lennon looking to get forward in support of Barnes. I like the look of it. Just need a bit of luck in the second half and we need to give Barnes something better ...

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Rileybobs - cos I DJ (yes, still at my age). I play soul, particularly Rare Soul, much of which is not kown to Spotify, etc but some collectors upload singles to youtube to share or often to demo for sale (singles worth hundreds and thousands of pounds), so I download them and save for onward playi...

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Perfectly legal. The snowman is entitled to move across his line.

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Additional - if I'm going to subscribe to something then I'd prefer to be able to play tracks through Alexa but also to be able to download, convert to mp3 then save the track to my laptop (like I do now with youtube + youtubemp3converter). Anyone any ideas please? Why would you need to save tracks...

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I smell strong BS.

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Haha. Another howler from Kabasele. Bizarre defending.

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Always fancied Foster there.

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Great defending by Kabasele.

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Crazy how many people are desperate for this not to be true, or desperate to paint Henry as a liar. It’s generally the posters I would expect it to be. It’s not in the slightest bit hard to believe that Henry was racially abused at Turf Moor 16 years ago considering I witnessed, at very close quarte...

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Instead of looking through some stat site form your own opinions. Did you actually go to the game or do you just right an essay on stats? Nearly everyone bar a few half wits are of the same opinion, that Westwood was crap yesterday I'm not sure you are in a position to call others half wits with so...

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Thanks for a sensible answer! Not sure why you have taken umbrage at my perfectly reasonable and sensible response which wasn’t in any way intended to be ‘smart’. The refs are rated in 4 categories of 25 points which gives a total rating out of 100. We could rate them out of 10 but that would requi...

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Indirect free kick An indirect free kick is awarded if a player: plays in a dangerous manner impedes the progress of an opponent without any contact being made is guilty of dissent, using offensive, insulting or abusive language and/or gestures or other verbal offences prevents the goalkeeper from ...

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Truly amazing that a Brighton fan could call us for timewasting when Matt Ryan began his ridiculous time-wastingas early as the 17th minute. He was at it from minute 1 as were the whole team. At goal kicks they set up spread across the width of the pitch before inevitably moving over to one side or...

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Excellent today, man of the match for me. His experience is clear to see. He can be a bit rash but is a much cleverer player than I had given him credit for. His bite is exactly what we’ve been missing, there were numerous times today where Brighton players pulled out of challenges or played the bal...

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ksrclaret wrote:Good point. Oh hang on, I wasn't talking about how prolific they are. Doh.

Stop digging and just admit that you were chatting ******** when you intimated that we sign good strikers and turn them into bad ones.

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ksrclaret wrote:I'm afraid we did. Or rather, our style of play did, as he had no opportunity to practice.

What a load of toss. We signed 2 strikers who were playing at Championship level and they aren’t as prolific at Premier League level, big shock.

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dpinsussex wrote:If as people are saying it was a high foot then the 're start of play should be an indirect free kick. Therefore not possible to be a penalty.
Before I get shouted at, I haven't seen the incident.

He kicked Bardsley in the head.

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ksrclaret wrote:Gray was rubbish at the above in the Championship, also.

So we didn’t turn him into a ‘non-footballer’ then?

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Watching Gray play football for us was painful. Bad first touch after bad first touch, balls bouncing off him and flying off into the stands. Granted he was a good goal scorer when in put in the right position, but bloody hell he was rubbish everywhere else. Wood is heading the same way, some of hi...

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dougcollins wrote:How long do we give it?

Not sure, I'd probably sit him out against Spurs.

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Yes, that's the one. Do you know him as well? So explain how exactly buying a player who then becomes the Championship's top scorer is making him a 'non-footballer' (whatever that means). Is it possible that Gray's rapid rise through the divisions could have culminated with him playing slightly abo...

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Worth bearing in mind, before completely turning on one of our players, that Wood scored 10 goals in 24 Premier League appearances last season, which I expect is the best strike rate of any Burnley player in the top flight for a long time. He's bang out of form, but stop being fickle children and ge...

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ksrclaret wrote:The two strikers that can be found in the subject of this thread.

Mmm. Is this the same Gray who became the top scorer in the Championship after joining us?

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ksrclaret wrote:I think we could easily sell Wood in January, probably to Cardiff.

Then we can buy another striker, and most likely turn him from a good footballer into a non-footballer. Rinse and repeat.

And which strikers have we turned from a good footballer into a non-footballer out of interest?

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dougcollins wrote:What happens if it doesn't click? Charity might begin at home but we need to be scoring goals at some point.

If it doesn't click then he will rightly slip down the pecking order.

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Our defenders dont pass it out so our keeper doesn't need to. Stick to what we are good at Our keeper passes it out every time he gets the ball, be it long or short. Hart's distribution is far, far, far better than Pope's. His long kicks are straight and accurate and he is good with the ball at his...

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It's a Saturday night ritual for me, but one which hasn't provided much enjoyment so far this season.

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Going through a poor spell but last season shows that he can be clinical and considering how short of goal threat we are he is still worth holding on to. Hopefully something will click soon because he's not earning his place in the side at present.

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Not his best day today but he was excellent against Liverpool. Between him and Cork we are short of physicality and drive in the midfield though and we really need to address this in January.

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