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I made an example using Stephens and Burnley, if you could actually read I'd already cleared that up further up the thread. I was talking about teams strapped for cash in League One/Two and obviously wasn't talking about players of the quality of Stephens/Ings signing for clubs like Accy Stanley. O...

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mickleoverclaret wrote:Doesn't work like that any more unfortunately, goes to the next team down in the league. Hull were the last team to benefit from it.

Well, we'll just have to win it then.

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KRBFC wrote:I'm surprised more clubs dont bring in players on free transfers to sell them instantly, We could sign Stephens and flog him for a cut down price of £6M instantly.

Who mentioned £6m? Cast your mind back not all that far. Correct - it was you!

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Why would Ings sign for Blackburn and risk his career that way? i'm talking about clubs in need of cash lower down the leagues picking up free transfers and selling them for a fee. ''They will tend to act in their own best interest'' You do realise that a footballers best interest financially is to...

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I just hope that our Board have the ambition enough to ensure that he stays. Players may come and go, they have a shelf life, but the Sean Dyches of this Football World are few and far between. In Dyche we Trust ! They've had ambition enough to see us to the top half of the Premier League. How much...

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Funny thing a cup run. Definitely gave the team a boost in 08-09 but worked against us in 82-83. A Milk Cup semi and FACup quarters just left nothing in the tank. In 82-83 we were winning League games while we were still in the Cup. Before the cup runs got going, and after we were knocked out, we l...

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It's not about not being interested in, or not wanting to win the cup, it's about players who are important to our premier league survival not participating in games that could put them at risk of injury. Should our fringe players get us to the quarter or semi finals, then there could be a case for...

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I was talking more about clubs who need the money, I used us as an example. A player would receive 2 signing on fees in a matter of weeks, what's not to like about receiving 2 lump sums of cash. If there's a club willing to pay £6m transfer fee, then the hypothetical player would sign for them stra...

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Why would losing in the Cup, help us in the league? Has it helped Bournemouth? Their first XI not only avoided injury by training instead of playing, they also had a fortnight between matches, and will do again. Did their loss to Hull prove it was justified?

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It says completely the opposite of that. The writer would have made himself clearer by writing; "this attitude is not a consequence of poor summer performances, not simply a different manifestation of the hounding suffered by others deemed responsible for England’s failures " because that's what he...

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Ok. The coaching is fine so no need to improve anything. How many shots have we had on target away from home? No idea. Are you just looking for an attacking coach for away games? You can't just look at a club and say "things aren't perfect, so replace somebody". Because if that was the case, we'd b...

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KRBFC wrote:I'm surprised more clubs dont bring in players on free transfers to sell them instantly, We could sign Stephens and flog him for a cut down price of £6M instantly.

Why would Stephens agree to that? And perhaps more pertinently, why would the next free transfer signing want to come to us?

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I reckon Marney, Arfield, Barnes, Vokes, Ings, Trippier going forward, have all significantly improved their game over the last four years while with Burnley. Hence, the coaching is fine.

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Does it mention Burnley at all? I must have missed it. However, in spite of the alleged reason for the article, it doesn't mention any racism either, unless it's saying that the "scapegoating" of Beckham, Neville, Meier, Ronaldo, and Sterling is because they're all black. (At least, all of them apar...

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I agree that we should play a very strong side tomorrow, with maybe a couple of changes from Saturday's team. But it's crazy to suggest that we should shift the emphasis onto a cup run, considering we've not even got past the 3rd round yet. It's equally crazy to suggest resting players against Arse...

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KRBFC wrote:So it's not Mark Breen it's actually James Bree, interesting mix up of names from the OP. Just as bad as The Sun mixing up Barnsley and Burnley.

I wouldn't hold the OP to the same standards expected of a "professional journalist".

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Did Gary Parkinson's son do the draw once? He might have been under 31. But of course, he was standing in for Parky so it might not really count.

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Don't really understand the Hype over Ben Mee. He is a steady defender. Distribution is average at best. He is liable for goal every other game with a stupid mistake. Can you tell us which 10 or 11 goals cvonceded you think he was liable for this season? Does youtube have video of the 10 or 11 stup...

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How's a linesman supposed to give a decision when the touchline and the penalty area sideline aren't parallel? Or maybe the photo isn't all it's cracked up to be! Just for clarity, is the moment offside is judged supposed to be the moment the ball is first touched by the foot, or the moment it leave...

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I wonder how many more points we could have got if we'd not been nice to him? You don't have to hate. Wanting your own team to win does not mean you have to hate the opponents. Anyway, what makes anyone think that booing an opponent will stop him from scoring? I don't know if any of you remember Kur...

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If he was knocked out, there would inevitably treat it as potential paralysis and take 10 minutes to get him off. It's the protocol. Usually it's just a 'normal' concussion, so hopefully he should be OK.

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Nelson have taken a long time over it, but they're the same club that once beat Real Madrid and Manchester United in the same season. (Both away.)

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So will making parents sign this paper improve the behaviour of all or some of the children at the club?

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If we bought the Japanese lad from Inter there's a good chance the tourists who go to Old Trafford would like to come and watch one of their own countrymen in action just 25 miles away. So it is often said, but is it really true? If I'm on holiday (or working away) and feel like going to a football...

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Without seeing said paper I'm assuming that it will say that the child will be under your supervision at all times and that is what you are signing in agreement Which is what anyone who takes a child to a football match would be doing anyway. Like I said, it's to cover the club's back. It won't cha...

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I can imagine lots of ways in which a small unaccompanied child could have an incident. What I can't imagine is how a piece of paper signed by an adult a few weeks earlier is going to help.

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Norway's only got a tenth of our population, and yet there are apparently 2m car radios and who knows how many domestic ones that won't work. How much is switching off the FM and AM signals actually going to cost? Or will people just stop listening to the radio?

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That's the way governments think. They can save £20m by switching off the analogue signal; 2 million car drivers can pay £150 each to convert their car radios, which would cost £300 million. But the government saves money.

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Well I think it is a bad thing that small town teams have been crushed by financial muscle, rather than their real ability. This happened to us and we are fortunately back where we used to belong - now we hang on for grim death and hope. football is less about community and more about ultra funding...

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RammyClaret61 wrote:Just by looking at the names. You can work out the played. You can workout Comstive, Britton, Oghani.

I live in the same city as Mike Conroy.

Rammy - which one's you?

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The purpose of safeguarding forms generally is for people to cover their backs for insurance purposes. Any practical benefit to this one, at least, is hard to imagine.

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Bin Ont Turf wrote:Heaton
Nagamoto
Keane
Tarkowski
Taylor
Cleverley
Stephens
Brady
Januzaj
Gradel
Riordan

Subs: Driver, Solskjaer, O'Riorden, ...

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claretdom wrote:Who was this player for under 1m that we should have signed to keep us up ?

Anyone would have done, I reckon. For example, Chelsea must have had a few youngsters who could have instantly transformed the team - that Chalobah, for example - did we never consider trying to sign him?

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Goobs wrote:Any bodies turn up at the Turf now and you are prime suspect number 1 DSR

Think back to some of those posters you haven't heard of for a while ...

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Really hard to understand the clubs logic with certain decisions. We refuse to take full allocation of tickets for certain away games in case we have to pay for a few hundred unsold, but then open every area of the ground next week when it probably won't even be half full. If the Cricket Field Stan...

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Sorry CT but talksport had said this morning that games at us Sunderland and a few others were in doubt Every game is "in doubt". Even if it's a bright sunny morning with no pitch problems, the game may still be called off - an asteroid hitting Burnley, or a couple of dead bodies found buried in th...

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If Corbyn tells the man on £500k that he has three options: 1. Pay yourself less; 2. Pay your low-paid people more; 3. Sack your low-paid people and outsource their jobs to agencies; then we all know what would happen. There will be no jobs for cleaners in large companies any more; they'll be workin...

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Never Bristol City? I suppose the League Cup has been regionalised when we were both in the early rounds, but you'd have thought we might have come across them sometime. I know we've never played Preston in the FA Cup, in spite of coming in at the same round for virtually all our history. Are there ...

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I think it's a great idea. Well done the board for this terrific initiative!

(See, we aren't all complaining!)

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I don't agree with the Chronicle reporter that it's 1-0 Moyes because "his side showed character and pluck". Character and pluck may be so rare as to need special comment for Sunderland, I suppose.

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I've got one that you can make phone calls on. I don't know if it's stylish, because I've never tried wearing it on a night out.

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I can't imagine anyone would say we didn't need to sign another forward when Vokes was the only one available. The only problem is that Bamford evidently isn't good enough in the managerr's opinion.

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Where did i say they weren't? Why do you keep criticising me for things i haven't said? All right, pedant, I will rephrase it. While I fully accept that you accept the legal right of old people to vote the way they want, I dispute your implication that they are in any way acting unfairly towards yo...

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HunterST_BFC wrote:(Look above re "Jap" for a starter).

And I'm sure I've seen references to "Aussies" on here as well.

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This is the most galling thing about it. The people who voted for this are either going to be dead or retired when it happens, or are the people who will lose what are among the most important protections they get from the EU once the tories are allowed to run amok - that's their workers' rights. T...

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The average household income last year was estimated to be £26,400. Since the day before the referendum the pound has dropped 17% ($1.47 then versus $1.22 today) in value against the dollar. Compared to the dollar we are already £4,488 worse off. Relative to the dollar £26,400 the day before the vo...

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The average household income last year was estimated to be £26,400. Since the day before the referendum the pound has dropped 17% ($1.47 then versus $1.22 today) in value against the dollar. Compared to the dollar we are already £4,488 worse off. Relative to the dollar £26,400 the day before the vo...

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The global economy doesn't work like that. It may be that on average, people's pay relative to inflation will rise at a lower (or higher) rate than it would have without Brexit. But as that will be impossible to measure and very hard to tell the difference if it could be measured, that wouldn't infl...

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That was just one example. Will the public be happy to move away from those products they buy now to different versions made in other countries though? Why would they need to? All that leaving the EU means is that we will have to trade with the EU on the same basis as the rest of the world does. Ge...

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So it turns out that being in the EU and having full access to the single market is good for the economy. Who knew? It's a shame that people have voted to eventually end this arrangement. Over-simplified argument, actually. In the EU = full access to the EU single market, restricted access (beyond ...

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