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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:14 pm
Try this Jakub:
A)We are winning = 3pts
B)We stop winning (draw) =1pt
Deduct B from A = ?

(Win and a draw) 4 possible points minus (Draw and a loss) 1 point actual.

Jakub “we’d be 4 points better off”

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Keep digging, we can still see you

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I think we’ve found the individual who decides how many points teams get deducted, people.

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So we were beating Brighton (3 points) before Muric’s error converted that to 1.

And we were drawing with Everton (1 point) before Muric’s error converted that to 0.

And you think he cost us 4 points?

Get the abacus out Jakub. Boatsheds figured it out

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Jakubclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:05 pm
It's 4pts unfortunately if you paused the live games before the errors you are beating Brighton 3pts & drawing everton 1pt.

Check your calculator ain’t broken, Jakub.

We took a point from those games, sooooo

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Whilst I think you’re of course working in hindsight, I think if we start the season with the option of either Onana in goals for BFC or Muric, Onana is the choice all day long. As it stands Onana has had a mixed season with some highs and lows (strangely as most GK’s in the top teams have had this ...

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I go back to my point that I wouldn’t swap him for Onana who is a £50m keeper. To become one though he’d need more PL game time, to cut the mistakes and a club or two that could afford him desperate for a new number 1. There are claret tinted spectacles and then there's preferring Muric to a GK who...

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(Based on the assumption we are relegated) In my opinion, Muric (despite his cockups / Game ratio) is no doubt likely to have more suitors albeit those with the larger wallet are unlikely to be spending / risking big money on a keeper. Certainly I can't see any PL clubs being in distinct need of spe...

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Can someone explain why we bought Trafford ? We had Muric and we didn’t need a new keeper especially a young inexperienced one for nearly 20 million I think it's because we intentionally set out to sign players weaker than those we already had. It can be the only explanation for Amdouni, Ramsey, Tr...

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Sorry for the daft question, but how can I use the £630 before tax to lease a car? That’s often done through a salary sacrifice scheme operated by some employers. Caveat is that you are then liable for benefit in kind on the vehicle that you lease. One benefit is that they are often deposit free, m...

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Time we knocked this on the head as hardly anyone in the country cares about St George's day and the majority or English people prefer to celebrate St Patricks day instead. I think it would be more popular if we adopted St Patrick as our patron saint and made it a national holiday so we could celeb...

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Aye, but it’s not as good as Pep taking Man City, sprinkling a billion on em (against financial fair play rules) and winning the treble six years later, is it?

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expoultryboy wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:48 pm
Don't want to be controversial , but i was at Villa and thought it was a penalty . Ramsey was naive that day .

Then it’s a penalty today.

That’s the problem.

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Don't really get comment to be honest? :? Wasn’t aimed at you but posters like those you quoted. Your rationale was fine that folk are seemingly upset at VAR for correctly giving an offside but make no comment around VAR failing to overturn a handball penalty, where the player has his arm behind hi...

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You were angry with Coventry pen - a handball VAR gave which would never been given up to a few year ago - to make it 3-3? Or you were angry with the very, very tight call which was correct and offside for the Coventry goal to win it with the last kick of the game? Or are you just moaning at VAR ? ...

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So folk are angry that Cov got a penalty they shouldn’t have and had an offside goal chalked off?

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Rileybobs wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:15 pm
Let’s face it, nobody would be complaining about VAR here if it had disallowed a Man Utd goal.

Or failed to rule out a handball to give Cov a penalty in the 90th minute

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Man U tweet incoming after the pen that’s just been given, after Grealish’s one yesterday

Abject lesson in VAR inconsistency

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the challenge where he kicks his leg is interesting because there is definitely more contact than the Villa player against Burnley and the same referee gave Villas but didn't give today's. Consistency is the problem. This! The same man has had the identical scenario to consider and given polar oppo...

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For any further nerds, here are the defensive performances of our various combinations this season

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For additional info, the defence was changed in concurrent league games on 22 occasions this season and we only started with the same defence as the previous game on 6 occasions.

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For any stattos out there, and back to the topic of Beyer, interestingly his partnership with O’Shea conceded 20 goals in 10 games including games against City, Tottenham, Arsenal, Liverpool and Villa. by comparison to O’Shea and Estève who conceded 21 in 10 facing Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea alo...

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Take the 5-0 drubbing by Arsenal out though and that 17 goals is reduced to 12 in 7, which isn't too bad for a team at the wrong end of the table. Can hardly say those conclusions are wrong; had enough of a sample size now to see the differences. He stated the issues haven’t been our cb’s since O’S...

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Surely a well paid pundit would do more research than look at one incident from each of the last two games. I’m convinced most footy ‘pundits’ just form a general consensus amongst themselves then roll with it, the amount of things they get wrong. As for Dunn, I’ve met him a few times and he’s a ni...

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Our issues this season have not been our cbs since O Shea and Esteve played together . It was our powderpuff midfield , Trafford and slow build up that lost games. I'd suggest that since O'shea & Esteve have only been the partnership since game 25 and have conceded 17 goals in the 8 games they have...

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2 monumental clangers and questions over his movement for the Wolves goal aint great in 5 games. Keeps the shirt for me, for now, but another one thrown in and its back to Trafford.

Sad, really, as I though he would be nailed on for improving his value the way he started.

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Well yeah that would help, that Larsen miss is a shocker, not as bad as fofana against Brentford but up there, fofana another one today to The point remains (as it always has) that it’s not fair to level that Trafford has been a ‘disaster’ when our alternative has directly thrown two goals in in tw...

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Fair enough, he’s been a revelation.

All we need is an attack who score enough to nullify the ones Muric directly throws in (rather than ones tenously linked to Trafford) and we’ll be sound.

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How is he erratic compared to Trafford, for 28 games Trafford was a disaster and in his first prem season has been dropped for not being good enough. Given Aro’s two massive mistakes in five games (possibly ranked #1 & #2 in clangers this season) I would suggest pointing the finger at Trafford as a...

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lets cross to the department which decides the number of points deducted...

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Keep Taylor, that’s about it - although you could make a case for Brownhill and JBL Trigger Brownhill's extension and probably sell him if there are PL suitors. Same with JBG but hold on to him for another year. I'd be releasing Cork and J-Rod and suspect Charlie Taylor will be released as Kompany ...

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Arsenal all day long.

Liverpool fans have been odious each time I’ve encountered them near the turf and Citeh are just a league one team playing champ manager on cheat mode.

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If this clause was real - I’d be interested to know what the penalty would be should we fail to play him in 75% of the games. Wage rise or penalty payment to him? Released from his contract? Lowering of his release fee? The middle one aside, I’m sure someone at the club would have the nous to drop h...

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Yet according to our manager, speaking to BBC after the match, we have been the better side over all of the last six games and could have been looking at an 18 points haul Ironically (bar the last 10 mins where we went full meltdown) we probably were the better side, yesterday. I think that says mo...

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Muric 5 - Made some good saves but no getting away from it, his error cost us the game. Assignon 6 - Got forward well but that air shot... O’Shea 5 - Cost himself his place on the pitch with poor control. Estève 7 - Probably the only player to come out of the game with anything positive. Taylor 5 - ...

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Odobert offers absolutely nothing without the ball at his feet.

Shirks 50/50’s, useless in the air and makes no effort to track back.

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We’re creating some great chances, shame it’s for the team playing in blue.

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Somehow Muric dropping a clanger has turned into a reason to give Trafford some digs for some posters

Shame for Aro as he’s really blotted his PL copy book there.

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The long and short: The auditors have confirmed that there is a risk we would not be a going concern as per note 2.4 in our accounts (as posted by aggi above) Essentially the board has stated the main risk to us is relegation from the PL (and the reduced revenue as a result) but if that happened it ...

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Chester Perry wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:24 pm
Just been reading this about Season Ticket price increases at Manchester City

In fairness, their 'sponsorship' money can only go so far. Genuine revenue does have to cover an element of their losses.

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I think the 'cyclical' rationale for increasing tickets after relegation/promotion is inevitable. Relegation - Price increase for more games. Promotion - Price increase as you're seeing a better standard of opponent. Lets hope we don't become a yo-yo team or we'll be paying Chelsea / Arsenal prices ...

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I don't say anywhere that he's a top class Premier League striker so I'm not spinning anything. I personally believe, if his attitude was right (and this is the big question), he would have been a better option than Jay this season. I don't want the guy back now. That ship has sailed. However, none...

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I think the sad reality is that as Burnley fans, they could fairly hammer us and most would still buy.

Even £100 sounds a lot, until you realise it's £4.35 per game in the Championship, which is less than a pint of beer every other week.

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Is this berating him? You have simply selected a few posts to suit your obvious agenda against me. Do me a favour please and give it a rest now. It’s tiresome. You asked me to read your posts, I did. Don't be clutching your pearls now that the 'plenty of constructive criticism' you pointed me towar...

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That’s not fair. I don’t incessantly berate our young goalkeeper. I have pointed out where I believe he is weak or deficient in ability. I don’t have a problem with the young lad, other than I believe he is not up to the standard required for the level he is playing at. I have berated Vincent Kompa...

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Jamesy wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:37 pm
Glad you jumped all over this Darth. I should have expected it.

If the cap fits.

If you tried occasional constructive criticism rather than the incessant berating of our young GK, my comment would be a little less predictable.

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Some will say he's a deadweight, but since heading off on various loans he's done well at Besiktas (9 goals in 18 appearances), made his mark at the World Cup (almost dragged Holland through vs Argentina) and then spent a significant time on loan at Man Utd, including playing a part in winning the ...

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Jamesy wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:09 pm
or anything constructive to say.

The Irony meter just exploded.

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It’s a friendly so not to be taken too seriously but it doesn’t offer any answers to the doubts Southgate is a flat track bully and can’t beat the top teams in world football.

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Completely different tone to the original but still entertaining. As has been said, McGregor is great as a caricature head henchman.

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