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Hats Off to (Roy) Harper - Led Zep.

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How about (to the Christmas song):

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
When you’re scoring for fun
And you beat everyone
And you’re thirteen points clear.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

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Since we drew with Stoke, game 12 we have averaged 2.48. That gives us 22.32 over the next 9 games if we keep it up. Cheers for that. Our average over the season is just under 2.25 but as you say if you look from game 13 when we really started to click it is higher. This would take us to a point or...

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Bosscat wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 17, 2023 4:23 pm
That Camel

Up the Khyber. The third foot and mouth.

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Statistically 100+ points is actually likely. If we continue with our average points per game for the season we will make 103 or thereabouts. Although I haven’t worked it out our average since all those early draws must actually be higher meaning the record is possible. In fact it would mean a colla...

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Another one that I think comes from Africa is…speak quietly but carry a big stick.

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Spiral wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 09, 2023 11:20 pm
That's the entire thread, ha!

Nice one.

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The way I’ve always understood it is that if you have a difficult, unpleasant , sad or otherwise unwanted experience, and you come through it - you will be better prepared mentally and physically, to deal with something else challenging in the future, Has always worked for me. It’s a strange one bu...

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Middle-agedClaret wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 02, 2023 2:42 pm
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

This one irritates me. Sorry. It just simply isn’t true.

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Rick_Muller wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 02, 2023 6:44 am
If he does that we could lose focus on the league and go belly up

Why exactly would that happen? It’s one game and when it’s over it’s business as usual. It’s this kind of Dyche thinking that has made cup runs unthinkable for the last ten years.

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3 basic rules for a happy and successful life Love where you live Love who you live with Love your job All 3 are in your control Not so sure the last applies to most people. Or even the first in many cases. Good rules to be fair but as for being in your control I don’t think that is quite right.

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My Dad.
If anyone ever tries to bully you hit them. You might lose the fight but you’ll win the war because bullies like easy targets.

I’ve never been bullied.

Apart from by my wife.

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Interesting to see the reception VK gets from the home fans. He’s absolutely adored there.

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Think we battered them but couldnt score? Their keeper had a half decent game. ;) Hey Buxton, love the slightly understated ‘half decent’. The game was played mostly in their half but old Dickie was equal to everything. He did pretty much the same again at Leeds in the next round but they only drew...

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Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:28 am
HUSH
I've not really got over the Wombles yet.

One name in football I will never, ever, forget. Dickie Guy.

The most amazing goalkeeping performance I have ever seen, bar none.

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Must admit, quite like Blackpool - destroyed by the Oystons family, and a town on its knees - but a good away following, loyal local support and no delusions of grandeur………… But on Saturday hope we smash ‘em! I’ve always admired their away support. Not a well supported club generally but I bet thei...

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Just paid a visit. Hilarious. Go and have a laugh for 15 minutes. Burnley prediction thread. They are absolutely bricking it. Many predicting 5/6/7 and others saying they don’t want to think about it. One wit suggested the club have contacted Blackpool CC to borrow the scoreboard. To be fair they ar...

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Yet we could have scored lots more. When the team is winning 3-0 it seems to ease up. Whilst we would all like to see a 7-0 etc. I've come to accept that it's not going to happen. It's all about conserving energy levels for the next game. Once we're 3-0 up what's the point. We are not going up on g...

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basil6345789 wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 27, 2023 12:16 pm
Not the friendliest bunch is unfair - I love sucking a Fisherman's Friend and none of them have ever complained.

Oooh you are awful…but I like you.

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I guess they were hardly going to be singing our praises too much just after we'd battered them 4-0. Leeds were definitely not as good as us though, neither were Leicester. Fulham, maybe in terms of how they played football because they did pass the ball around very well. I went on that forum too a...

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I was talking today about Rovers and the possibility of their promotion with the number of defeats they’ve had, but looking at the table most of the play offs hopefuls have had nearly as many, including Boro on ten. I got to thinking what is the most number of defeats for a club promoted from the Ch...

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It can be a bit frustrating for fans but we have to accept that we have no right to know. Illness and/or injury is a very private thing and it may even be down to players not wanting it broadcast, especially if it’s illness. I work these days in private healthcare and data protection is of paramount...

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Southampton. A seriously relegation threatened nothing club.
Burnley. A similar club who will definitely be playing in the PL next season.
Why would he make that swap?

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Likes or not are down to personal taste so there is no definitive. But Pulp Fiction is unfathomable to me. Never been able to understand the hype.

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My only point is that much more context was added to the comment you replied to, after I made it but before you replied. There were only about 20 posts on the thread when you commented. Your life must indeed be pretty busy if you can’t read that much. Maybe it’s your 6000-odd posts on here that’s t...

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I think you might want to read to the end of the thread before commenting. Do you mean the end of the thread AFTER I commented or the end of the thread before my comment? Do you really believe that anyone reads an entire thread before replying to a comment. And if I’m replying to an individual comm...

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I’d snap your hand off for 17th in the PL next year. If that was our expectation I’d rather we didn’t get promoted. Every year in the PL people would come on here saying ‘17th will do for me’. It’s mind numbingly boring watching your team scratch around trying to survive all the time. I hope and ex...

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Casper2 wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:59 pm
Very few short years

Are you suggesting that a club can be inherently ‘dirty’ even with wholesale changes of players, management and ownership over 5 decades? That, I think, proves the case for irrational hatred.

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Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 20, 2023 5:34 pm
Don't want to upset you but It already has been rewritten in order to whitewash lot of what the old British Empire got up to back in the good old days. Thats modern agendas for you though.

As I was always told at college studying politics, the winners always write the history books.

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basil6345789 wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 20, 2023 1:01 pm
Th' Enclosure

Cheers bud. I was racking my brains trying to remember what it was known as. Proper football grounds.

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But most Leeds fans are arrogant and deluded . I suppose the clue is in the thread title…irrational. I’m trying to rationalise irrational thinking. The answer is that many on here think that Leeds fans are arrogant and deluded because they think that Leeds fans are arrogant and deluded. There is no...

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In no particular order: 1) Unbelievably arrogant and deluded fan base. 2) Don Revie’s sides of the late 60s and early 70s. 3) Proximity to Burnley and general anti-Yarkshire sentiment. I suppose this works on the flip side, too, as I’m sure many Yorkshire-based Clarets frequently find themselves ha...

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Could someone explain why people think Liverpool are so full of self pity? That really IS irrational. And why do so many of our fans hate Leeds so much, I don’t have any problem with them.

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ClaretFelix wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 11, 2022 10:24 pm
A mate of mine got one from the Canada Goose shop in Manchester and was advised to "try not to wear it in the rain" as the fur will spoil and the down inside wouldn't take much moisture

Really? Whats the point then? The only time it’s not wet in Lancashire is when it’s too warm to wear one.

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By the time SU have completed their forthcoming tough run of fixtures I expect Boro to be breathing down their neck and poised to overtake them. It was a pleasure watching the slick movement of their play and left me thinking our style will similarly be too much for SU when we play them on the Turf...

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Fair point but I’d sooner be 18 with a possible 21 to come . Sure we wanna be champs but for me guaranteed promotion is the thing . I wanted a Boro win because there is no chance of them catching us. They are 15 points behind us having played a game more and our form, despite a laboured performance...

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Utter nonsense, your gripe is because it is Man Utd, at least be big enough to admit it. That is your opinion. You are welcome to it. It’s just a pity that you are too engrossed in your own opinion to accept others. Why would you think I’m lying? There are far more important things in life than hat...

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I think we will need 84 points, so another 5 wins from 15 games. Should be doable without any panic :D We’ve averaged just shy of 2.23 points per game so far. To get promoted (not win the Championship) we would need to average about 1 point per game in the remaining games. We are not going to drop ...

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There are times when people really should put their personal dislike / hatred of a football club to one side. You seem surprised that North West news covered the anniversary of the disaster of the biggest football club in the world who are based in the North West. Do you have the same issues when H...

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This is a joke in poor taste I presume? Not at all. I’m absolutely serious. In light of what is happening in Turkey/Syria it seems relevant to get things in context. My point is, in case you missed it, that if it was anyone other than United it would be long forgotten. I’m not belittling the dead, ...

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I kept a close eye on Muric on Saturday and he is so much better at what we do now than Pope would be. Pope is a great goalkeeper and we needed him in Dyche football where we let the opposition come at us. But now Muric spends half his time in defensive midfield waiting for back passes if needed and...

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I was thinking about the Munich one the other day whilst watching yet another anniversary item on the news about it. Why does this have to be dragged up every 5 years on North West news? It was showing kids there looking glum with United scarfs on whose parents wouldn’t even have been alive when it ...

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Falcon wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 13, 2023 3:41 pm
Good job it's the 5th round then!

Your point still stands though. No chance the other 3.5 stands will set out anyway.

Ha ha. What was I thinking.

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So, we make CFS all home (that’s if we could fill it), where do we put Fleetwood fans? JH? JM? BL? Word of caution. Fleetwood are a small club but they are the only fans that Stanley have problems with. Apparently, so I’m told, not the friendliest bunch. Besides how would we know there wouldn’t be a...

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This ‘debt free’ business is a bit of a dream really isn’t it? Even huge clubs have had it at least temporarily, look at United, not sure about now but at one time eye watering levels of debt due to the purchase (was it £750 million at one point). There was a time (and maybe still us) when most club...

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bfcjg wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 12, 2023 10:48 pm
Here we go o 21 today don't you know.

That’s a really good effort bud. But for that one it would just easier with the old Twenty One Today, Twenty One Today, We’ve got double a Score, never done twenty one before.
What do ya think?

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Look at it this way - if one team wins one will gain 3 points; if they draw between them they only gain 2 points. Or alternate view on same concept - one team loses they lose 3 points; draw and they drop 4 points between them. The draw is definitely the best result as 4 points total is dropped Why ...

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Absolutely a Boro win. They ain’t gonna catch us. 17 points behind us and we have a game in hand I think. Sheff loss means we can pretty much start celebrating winning the league unless we have a collapse in form of biblical proportions. I still believe that the auto places are sewn up and it’s the ...

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Even when we next get beat or draw we can still sing it as none will replace ten seamlessly I know this sounds ridiculous and impossible but does anybody feel right now that we aren’t ever gonna lose again? It just seems that way just now. I’m just expecting us to win every game now. Bloody great f...

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TopCat wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 12, 2023 4:29 pm
Eleven may not fit, but twelve does!

I’d already thought that, but you’d struggle with thirteen and have a hard time with seventeen. And what about 21?

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