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With regard to our Centre-back situation, Ben Mee will surely be back in a few weeks, and with Tarkowski I would guess that it is a matter of waiting to see whether an offer comes in that we think is acceptable. Something around £40 million I would expect. If it doesn't he stays, if it does then I e...

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It reminds me a little of the situation when ITV Digital pulled out. Those with the lowest income were hardest hit, Burnley in particular. Almost every other club in the Premier League will have something to fall back on to get them through the problem period, mostly through subsidies and loans from...

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I'm very much with Passing Clouds on this one. Burnley have achieved something unique, and I also look down on clubs like City who have achieved nothing accept receive masses of funding from a vicious totalitarian regime. Without that they would be nowhere near. Burnley are by far the best club in t...

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Great news about Johan. He is a player who really does add something to our first eleven, and it was sickening to think that he might have to miss a good part of this season as well. And hopefully it won't be too long before Ben Mee and James Tarkowski are back in tandem again. Things are looking up...

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To those who still hold the view that we have money to spend, I suggest you look through the Magic Money Tree thread. It clearly shows how and why our projected income has gone down. Quite simply, we are going to be a lot less well off this season than was originally projected, and that of course me...

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I've always thought Stephens is a very good player who would be a good fit for Burnley. It seems that Brighton's owners might be falling into the trap of thinking they can move up a notch and become a free-flowing attacking side. And perhaps it will work for them but there's other teams tried that a...

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The disparity in club finances has turned the Bundesliga into a non-event as far as winning it goes. They might as well give the trophy to Bayern Munich on the opening day, it's that uncompetitive. Same in France. What's the point of that league when it's virtually certain Paris St Germain will win ...

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A name you don't forget, although I have to admit I can't remember anything about him playing for us.

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Speaking of King Power, one the things I don't like about Leicester City is that they have paid for the success with money generated by Thailand. One of that country's main sources of income is tourism, a part of which is duty free, so my view is that the money generated in that way should be used f...

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On the Quest highlights programme last season, Ian Holloway said that playing behind closed doors reduced Grimsby's income by 50%. Not sure how that works, but at that rate something will have to change before too long.

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I think it is possible to legally change the constitution to allow for more than two terms. I say this, because the constitution was changed to introduce the two term limit after Roosevelt died in office during his fourth term. Before that there was no limit on the number of presidential terms. I th...

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My memory is that he never really looked like one of those super brilliant footballers, but he rarely missed when he got an opportunity. A lot of his ability was in the mind, he seemed to be able to put the ball in the net without being overtaken by the nerves that most players get in that position....

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Yes, agree with that. Strikers is the one position where we are blessed with an excellent range of options.

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To me, this whole business has a strong whiff of Cummings about it, and I fear that he is the person who is now really in charge. A bit like in Lord of the Rings, when you had the evil Wormtongue lurking behind the hopelessly incapable King of Rohan and wielding all the power.

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Sheffield United are owned by Saudi Arabia, we're not.

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The Conservative Party is no friend of those on lower incomes, never has been, never will be. When has a Conservative government ever done much for towns like Burnley? Too many in the Labour Party at present put ideological purity above pragmatism. The first task of the Labour Party is to get the Co...

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Well who are they going to vote for if it's not the Tories? Surely you can't think people are going to vote for BNP in any numbers? Or any other of those rag-tag outfits? It always strikes me as odd in that we must have some BNP supporters who post on these threads, but no one will ever admit it, al...

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What are the rules for attendance now? I know that spectators can attend non-league games below a certain level, but I presume this doesn't apply to our u-23 and u-18 games?

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It doesn't really matter how much we offer if the player has decided he would prefer to play for Villa. That will be the deciding factor and is nothing to do with our spending policy.

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Not so much the transfer fee, I suspect, as the club the player wanted to move to. Even though we finished higher in the league than Villa last season, most players will see them as a better option, and I would imagine they pay their players a good bit more than we do. So if Villa wanted him, then t...

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Leeds are indeed 'The Unforgiven'.

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My favourite is the guitar break at the end of 'Love that Burns', with Christine Perfect giving a splendid accompaniment on piano.

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Pound for pound, we are far and away the best club in the country. Who could have believed it would happen?

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They stopped playing it at the end of films in cinemas because everyone used to just get up and leave. Left wingers, those cinema goers used to be.

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Oh you're a slippery eel, Rowls. First it was 'It's too complex to judge', now it's 'you're not sensible enough for me to debate with'. The truth is your position on both anti-semitism and on climate change is very difficult to sustain in a healthy debate, so again a resort to obfuscation and avoidi...

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I really enjoyed the matches I've watched us play. Much prefer our style to the tedious passing it back and forth along the back that is the current fashion.

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Ringo, why are you still using the phrase 'cultural Marxism', when you don't know what Marxism is or how it relates to culture? Why not try to explain things in a proper way, where you have more of a grasp of what you are talking about?

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Rowls, I have to say that I regard you as one who seeks to avoid healthy debate, as you so obviously did on the anti-semitism thread when you repeatedly avoided the issue of whether anti-Israeli statements were anti-semitic. You kept saying something like, 'it's too difficult to explain', which real...

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I actually played in a league in the USA that had mixed teams of men and women, six and five. The rule was that men couldn't tackle women unless they were in the penalty box they were attacking. Some of the women were pretty decent and put in fairly hefty tackles on the men. Overall, it wasn't very ...

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The way they have handled the A level and GCSE results touches levels of incompetence that leave one shocked and amazed. Surely when the decision was made to use the algorithm they would have had big meetings in which the outcome of its use could have been predicted. Perhaps a sample run on a small ...

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Linking the phrase 'cultural Marxism' to its origin as an attempt to conflate Jewishness with communism is a means of demonstrating that the phrase was ridiculous and highly pernicious at its inception. It was and remains a foolish distortion. I saw Ringo respond to my request for clarification of i...

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'Cultural Marxism' is such a ridiculous phrase that, I think, was invented by the Nazis to try to demonstrate that being a Jew was the same as being a communist. Or the other way round. Anyone who uses the phrase needs to explain the precise nature of the culture that is equated with Marxism, and th...

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It just goes to show that Qatar has more money than Red Bull, not much else.

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I just think it is a big leap to say that in certain circumstances targeting civilians is a justifiable means of waging war. Of course, where military targets are located close to civilian areas, non-combatants will be killed. That is one thing, but to drop atom bombs with the deliberate intention o...

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The Japanese were certainly an awful, brutal, warmongering fascist regime who had committed terrible atrocities and invading Japan would have been costly in many ways. But given those circumstances, is the deliberate killing of civilians justified? The morality of warfare, such as it is, and the var...

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So, Rowls, what percentage of those killed were military personnel? The speech you quoted sounds like pure cant, an attempt to justify what was otherwise unjustifiable. Truman and all those around him knew well enough that thousands would die and the overwhelming majority would be civilians as in fa...

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The problem is that these atomic attacks were based on the idea that the slaughter of civilian populations is a legitimate means of waging war. We rightly condemn terrorists for murdering civilians in order to achieve their war aims, but the dropping of atomic bombs was based on the same principle. ...

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Regarding player salaries, I noticed the other day that Hamilton Academical players in the Scottish Premiership have an average annual salary of £45,000. If that is workable in that league, I don't see why similar levels couldn't be viable in League 2.

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West Brom also have a billionaire Chinese owner. I'm not sure how much he is willing to give them though.

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The reason we don't get players direct from Europe is that our style and approach to the game is very different to that played in most European countries and I think those players would find it hard to adapt to that style. Didn't Guardiola refer to us as 'the most English of teams'? And with regard ...

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This was discussed earlier and I think it was said that in the event of the election being postponed Nancy Pelosi would become acting President. I don't think Trump would like that. I suppose he try to impose martial law or suspend the constitution, he's unhinged enough to try anything.

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The very best white blues guitarist. He knew how to use pauses and convey emotion with such a sparse style. I heard that when Eric Clapton left the Bluesbreakers, John Mayall said 'I've got someone better'. He was absolutely right in my view, Eric Clapton was always too busy and never really matched...

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Really hard to see what Venky's get for the money they have thrown at Blackburn Rovers. The only thing I can think of is that they are hoping Rovers can follow our lead in winning promotion without being the biggest spenders. The problem is that by going at it half cock, they are spending a lot of m...

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Surely the real issue with Flood's money was the 2008 crash that wiped out his businesses. If that hadn't happened it would have been OK and nobody was predicting it at the time. Given what was known at the time, it would have been hard to walk away from his offer. It's only with hindsight that it w...

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Not on a wind up at all. By the current rules it is a red card but that doesn't excuse Westwood for exaggerating the extent of the injury. I played amateur football for thirty years and got a good number of blows to the head, but never once had the need to lie writhing on the ground. I dislike disho...

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It's a good tactic to mix it up. Earlier in the season at Brighton we were playing a lot of long balls up to the forwards and so the Brighton players were dropping deep to deal with that. But then we switched and played it from the back without any press from their forwards, worked it upfield and He...

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Yes, by the modern definition of 'violent conduct' he should have been sent off regardless of Westwood's cheating tactics. Westwood didn't get him sent off, but that doesn't alter the fact that his reaction was dishonest. After all he has said about this, I hope Sean Dyche gave him a good dressing d...

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Agree with the article entirely. I can't stand the type of cheating and faking Westwood used to get an opponent sent off. Lying and cheating is lying and cheating as in any profession and it is absolutely unacceptable. I have been so pleased to see Sean Dyche repeatedly speaking out against it and m...

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As has been said above, the players must be physically and mentally exhausted playing so many games with such a small squad. With Norwich down to nine men and us a goal up, the players naturally slowed down to take the win with minimum effort. This last month or so has been really tough and yesterda...

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Whoever said two wrongs don't make a right? Well, they were correct actually because two right decisions and we'd be a point better off.

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