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Paul Waine

TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:45 am
What is the significance of these numbers?

13, 29, 50, 66.

Are they Jose's minutes in the Chelsea 1 v 1 Burnley?

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Other PL clubs will be in far worse financial straits than us and the value of their expensive squads will plummet compared to our “journeymen”. They will pretty much hold their value just by being seasoned PL players. I'm not too sure that will be the case. Based on all previous actions by the "fo...

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Resurrect them? It was the Football League who chucked them out, not the FA, but there is no sensible reason why they should be re-admitted. Not one of the problems that forced their exit has been resolved. That football club has gone, it won't play football again at any level I wouldn't have thoug...

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Guller Bull wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:39 am
What are people expecting with Brownhill? - got to be honest I know little about him (need to go and watch some YouT highlights). I have heard that he shows signs of being a strong leader.

He will be excellent in the final games of 2019/20 season....

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I'd echo the hope that the financial uncertainty created by recent events drastically scales down activity in a transfer window - whenever there is one. How dare anyone suggest that footballers' wages are cut? Don't we all know how much the tax on footballers' wages contributes to the NHS? Surely, ...

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Report just popped up on my news feed: justarsenal.com - "He remains a target of the Premier League's biggest sides and Arsenal is looking at bringing him in when the transfer window reopens." Rest of article is report of Tripps interview with Burnley Express "don't do it, Dwight." Stay at Burnley. ...

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jamesisaburyfan wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 12, 2020 4:35 pm
Bury AFC launched today.

[tweet] http://twitter.com/OfficialBuryAFC/stat ... 0575255552[/tweet]

Any significance in choosing Easter to re-launch?

I remember Accrington Stanley (1968) being formed, as well as Accrington Stanley (1962) folding.

Good luck.

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Surprised not to see someone has already posted (can't see it anywhere...). The Times: Burnley striker Jay Rodriguez giving to mark memory of grandfather The 30-year-old has made a video to help raise funds for the hospice where his grandfather spent his final days, writes Henry Winter Jay Rodriguez...

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interesting news from Singapore plus some details that would be relevant to the Lockdown thread: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52232147 Meanwhile in Germany we see a different approach, wonder how this will turnout ! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52243158 Both interesting links, Kate....

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Not seen this posted.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge video-called the children of key workers at Casterton Primary Academy, in Burnley.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-522222 ... s-children

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Think of the "feast of football" if PL + EFL organised 4 TV football slots every day: 12:30, 15:00; 17:30 and 20:00. Every PL game live in a separate time slot. Maybe do the same with key Championship games and some "pick and mix" selections of Div 1 and Div 2. The latter a little like the last game...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 09, 2020 9:23 am
I believe a menacer is an agent

I prefer the way google translate has translated, Given the amount of money that flows out of football to a few "agents" the translation as "menacer" is pretty good.

Head and shoulders flavoured Turkish Delight, anyone?

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I note today that once again Dominic Raab isn't answering questions. Laura Kuenssberg and Robert Peston have both asked a simple question really......is he in charge? He just waffles about collective responsibility. If he wants to stop people from asking the same question over and over again then h...

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I guess this won't be a popular view but.....the journalists yesterday did not ask about an exit plan (ie dates) but an exit strategy ....which to my mind involves discussing the sort of measures we put in place at some as yet unspecified point in the future. The answer they got on each occasion ap...

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I've taken 100% pay cut from start of month.

I retired 31st March.

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Problem is, then the tax man will lose out too, and ergo the NHS. Take an average salary of say £50k/week. That is £2.6m p/a. Call it 40% tax and NI to be on the conservative side, that is just over £1m a year to the Treasury. Reduce that salary to 70% and the government is losing out on roughly £3...

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Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 07, 2020 10:30 am
7/10 definitely some questions in there to catch you out

Thing is DA, not all of us were there the day the club was founded. Yes, I answered the eighth question incorrectly.

Got 10/10 at my second attempt.

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Hopefully the Covid-19 thread won't be stopped, over 120 pages, whether you agree or not with what people say, an awful lot of work has gone into some posts, and in the main is self policing. Agree 100% with rest of your points. 3 months time out for anyone overstepping the "no politics" line may b...

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I hope Boris pulls through. When the Government next give Nurses a pay rise, the tireless work and risk to their lives is reflected in the pay rise. He is not the first political leader to have been in ICU, with a virus. I have just been looking at my football scrap books and found the front page h...

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So, Boris Johnson is leading from the sharpest point at the very front. This truly is his Churchill moment.

Praying for you and your medical team.

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He's in a London Hospital they will not name, does anyone know if it's NHS care? I'd be surprised if the PM did not receive private medical treatment. Combat, he's in St Thomas' just across Westminster Bridge from Westminster. It has been named. Sadik Khan has posted about quality of medical care i...

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Denmark and Austria considering lifting restrictions soon,but only if the infections don't worsen. At some point we'll have to attempt to come out of lockdown,the question of course is when,and at what pace. We reported earlier that Austria is considering lifting some of its coronavirus restriction...

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Possibly but there's a lot of variables to consider,even after the peak it could take many weeks to see large drops in the death figures. UK peak – when will it be? David Shukman Science editor, BBC News The scientists modelling the outbreak keep emphasising that there can be no certainty about the...

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I think a week is a good time period to average, might delay the perception of the curve flattening by a two or three days but I think that outweighs the random variations the numbers throw up which might lead to false conclusions. Agree. I'd been thinking for a time that a moving average was a bet...

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CombatClaret wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:31 pm
UK still on similar path to Italy, suggesting ~2 weeks from peak daily deaths

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Interesting, I'd not noticed before that FT was using a 7 day rolling average. It will smooth out the daily variations. It will also slow the perception of the flattening of the curve.

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Atalanta 4 v 1 Valencia, 19th Feb, 2020. This game in Milan really was a matter of life and death, say experts How Atalanta v Valencia spread coronavirus in Italy and Spain Seen this report in the (very short) Sports section of S.Times. (Not seen it posted on this mb). It's the link between football...

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FactualFrank wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:34 pm
Too many.

Maybe we need Matt Hancock on here putting a limit on the number of posts each poster can make in a day. Maybe also a "social distancing" rule: no one can respond to another poster until 2 hours after passed since the original post.

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I’m sure I’m missing something, but what would be the benefit of them going into quarantine? Hi RB, back in the early days, around the time this thread was started, we flex people back from China (I recall the issue of possibly splitting up families, British father, Chinese mother). The first lot w...

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This thread started 7th Feb. Less than 2 more days and it will have been going two months.

I wonder how many posts there will have beed when we are all "back to normal?"

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It’s a relevant point - and I know that when you refer to musicians you are just giving examples of any industry / occupation with very highly paid people. It is a valid point that footballers taking a 30% cut will deny a big chunk of tax to the government and therefore in theory to the NHS....but ...

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Quote from BBC link, above: "But the union says that equates to more than £500m in wage reductions, and a loss in tax contributions of more than £200m to the UK government." £500 million in wages - at footballers' margin rate of tax and NIC - would be 45% income tax and 2% employees NIC. 47% of £500...

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FRANCE Two senior French doctors have been accused of racism after they said a vaccine for the coronavirus should be tested in Africa (Charles Bremner writes). Jean-Paul Mira, head of intensive care at Cochin hospital, one of the biggest in Paris, and Camille Locht, head of research at Inserm, the ...

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SWITZERLAND The Matterhorn in the Alps is being illuminated with words and images to lift spirits during the pandemic ((David Crossland writes). Every night from sunset, the words “hope”, “solidarity” and “stayathome” are projected on to the 4,478-metre peak, one of the country’s national symbols. ...

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SINGAPORE Singapore will close schools and most workplaces for a month, except for essential services and key economic sectors. Singapore’s infections, both imported and domestic, have been rising sharply in recent weeks and topped 1,000 this week. It reported its fifth death on Friday. “We have de...

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CHINA About 640,000 people have been sealed off indefinitely from the rest of China over fears of a fresh coronavirus outbreak caused by asymptomatic “silent carriers” (Didi Tang writes). Jia county, in the central province of Henan, announced yesterday that it was closing most factories and limiti...

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JAPAN One of Japan’s richest businessmen joined the governor of Tokyo in pleading with the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, to declare a national state of emergency as coronavirus infections continued to rise steeply in the capital (Richard Lloyd Parry writes). Hiroshi Mikitani, the billionaire head of ...

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SPAIN Spain has registered the most infections in Europe as its death toll exceeded 900 for the second successive day (Isambard Wilkinson writes). The death toll rose to a total of 10,935 from 10,003 on the previous day and the number of registered cases rose to 117,710 up from 110,238, overtaking ...

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Friday's Times (3-April-2020) reported on a number of countries re Covid-19.

I'll copy/paste the countries that have also been mentioned on this thread.

I make no personal claim that The Times reporting is accurate in all respects.

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It’s nothing like that and you probably know that. Nobody is saying that building these hospitals are not an important or the right thing to do. But it’s obvious that someone on this thread is trying to score points by making out that this is some kind of remarkable feat of engineering. The buildin...

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Sorry but while I'm not going to diminish the achievement of what's been done it's not a "fully functioning hospital" there's no X-Ray dept, Cardiology dept, A&E, Bloods etc etc. It's a large building with lots of beds and basic monitoring equipment. And it wasn't out of thin air the building was a...

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Nationally the figures are been collated by Upper Tier Local Health Authority, so people with Burnley addresses are incorporated in to the Lancashire figures, while addresses in Blackburn and Darwen are in their own Health Authority. A good post. Simple facts. Simple explanation. Welcome to the boa...

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Are German hospitals private and if so will Corona Virus sufferers get free treatment? I put a link on the covid-19 thread that explained how German health are works. There is no government run "national health system." Provision is organised around individual states. Major hospitals are linked to ...

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The German system ensures free healthcare for all so yes everyone who suffers from Corona Virus in Germany will get free treatment covered by whatever policy they are on German health care is insurance based. Yes, everyone has compulsory insurance. I was in a hospital in Austria last month. You vis...

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It's clear that the Government's pathological dislike of funding NHS resources responsibly, whether materials or humans, is now coming back to bite them - and us - on the arse. Still, a bit of clapping tonight should make it all OK. Should we change our health system after this? Move to a set up si...

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Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:42 pm
This has already been mentioned by the PL. a bootcamp solution in the Midlands. Not sure why location matters if they are locked down. I wouldn't want to pick up the tab.

Isn't this what St George's was built for?

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When the wealth of a State is your backer as per Manchester City and maybe Newcastle soon it will probably have no effect. Its a shame some of this wealth cant be passed down to the needier clubs in the lower leagues. There may well be devastation there and in the Championship where some clubs are ...

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With the obvious financial impact on all clubs because of the Coronavirus will this reduce the mind numbingly ridiculous transfer fees and wages that the top footballers get at present or are the big clubs backers that wealthy that it will have no affect on them and there will be an even bigger voi...

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Premier League gets the tv money because it's global. So, commercial sponsors only work if they are selling globally. So, who are the big local firms that are selling globally and want to be a global name?

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Just read this on the BBC, before we get too carried away with our admiration for China's approach: "China has approved the use of bear bile to treat critically ill coronavirus patients. The National Health Commission has recommended the use of Tan Re Qing - an injection that contains bear bile, go...

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For any freelancers, self-employed, directors of own business, IPSE webinar today. Coronavirus support: what can you get? Webinar: 12:30 - 1:30pm, Thursday 2nd April 2020 Last week, the government announced a far-reaching package of support for freelancers and the self-employed. It covers most self-...

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