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Came up in my facebook feed this morning - gave me a warm glow. I had the twisted pleasure of watching from the Jack Walker Stand and hooting my horn all the way through Blackburn on my home. On the way there I drove past a banner hanging outside Westholme School saying: 'Same Again Dunny' - when I ...

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Does 7th get us into the Europa League ? Or does it depend on who wins the FA Cup (IE if a top 4 team wins the FA Cup, then there'd be an extra Europa League place)

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Definitely Nailsworth then, my first thought was Yeovil - around the 30k mark population wise.

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Outrageous. A really decent and well supported community club too by all accounts.

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I don't think Tarks will be going anywhere. Move north for his family and will have seen what has happened to Keane since his move and how Cork revived his career since his move here. He’s a United fan though Firthy, if he does happen to be selected ahead for England honours ahead of Smalling, then...

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Yes I think there can be little doubt he and Defour are our most important players, especially given the fact that we were less impaired in our results when Mee was missing than when Tarks was out. The only danger is whether Tarks playing for England immediately results in him ‘outgrowing’ the club ...

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No he’s 72.

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Pope 7
Lowton *9
Tarkowski 7
Mee 7
Ward 7
Cork 8
Westwood 7
Gudmundsson 8 (excellent corners)
Hendrick 7 (Wood 8)
Barnes 8
Lennon 8

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Ben does have a doppelganger though.

He pulls pints at the KSC Club - he's served me a few times, a dead ringer for Ben.

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That Sane goal was the best team goal I’ve seen this season - unbelievable play.

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Our best ball-playing defender, hence improves our quality in possession.
For me our he’s our second most important man on the team sheet after Defour.

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Fair play to em, it’s a terrific run and Mowbray is one of the soundest guys in the game. Shame he’s pitched up there to be fair, I guess it’s about 10th time lucky.

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Does the four page version get released into the public domain rocketlawnchair?

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Well he wasn’t watching Fraser Forster that’s for sure !

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Ironic that some on here moan about ‘hoofball’ after a match where SD picked a team designed to play more of a possession game, rather than the more direct line-up deployed against City. Granted there were one or two fairly agricultural clearances from the back but playing Westwood was clearly an at...

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Pope 8
Lowton 7
Long 7
Mee 7
Ward 7
Westwood 7
Cork 7
Hendrick 6
Gudmundsson 6
Lennon 5
Barnes 7

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We actually passed and kept possession pretty well I thought (confirmed by a higher than usual possession percentage).

It extends our unbeaten home run to 2 games!

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McTominay looks a good prospect to be fair, but I can’t see a lot of evidence that Mourinho really improves players when you look at this team. Pogba’s demise and rashford’s disappearance cases in point. That said if they don’t lose it’s a fine result, which I guess it what Mourinho does.

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They just seem so stodgy to me - home or away they seem to play within themselves with little movement off the ball - despite so much obvious talent on the pitch. They are away from home against a decent team and may well snatch this one due to some heroics from de Gea but this is the only CL knocko...

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Turgid to watch

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Got me thinking (you can tell the kids have gone to bed) if whether during our other `successful` periods (I can only comment from `91/`92 onwards) there has been a player SO polarising (for use of a better word) a player as Hendrick currently is? I can recall having some real barndingers with peop...

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Don’t they leave the immediate midweek afterwards free for rescheduling, so we’d likely play this on March 20 or 21? (Replays get held over a week these days). Chelsea are away at Barcelona the previous midweek in the Champions League, then hopefully away at Leicester Saturday and away at us on the ...

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There was a very crucial 1-0 win at Northampton near the end.
Remember feeling that was huge on the trip home.

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Pope 8
Bardsley 4
Long 7
Mee 8
Taylor 8*
Westwood 6
Cork 6
Gudmundsson 6
Arfield 6
Hendrick 6
Barnes 7
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Vokes 7
Lennon 7
Ndokou 7

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From last night’s evidence it would seem that VAR will not eliminate diving. If there’s any ‘contact’ whatsoever- players are will go down like a tonne of bricks in the hope of raising the review process. Why was Salah not yellow carded for his ridiculous theatrics in winning the penalty? Because th...

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Doesn’t seem to have bothered him too much. Scored the winner today !

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£100 k (+) per week at Leicester

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RMutt - yes I do remember speaking to you after the show. Quite a night that. He was on good form and he couldn’t believe I was young enough to have been in attendance at the Clitheroe Castle gig. Charming man ;) I’ll be doing a two hour radio tribute on Ribble FM 106.7 on Monday night with rammymik...

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I said to my Sheff United are they should come in for marney. They haven’t been as good since they lost Paul coutts with an injury that will keep him out for the season.

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My first ever gig was seeing The Fall at Clitheroe Castle in 1985. Thirty years later I booked them to play in Clitheroe at The Grand. They came to record some of their more recent material at The Grand recording studio in Clitheroe too. Managed to get one last show in 2016 - which was recorded live...

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I agree with Kate. We have cover for every position and unless anyone leaves I’d expect us to not sign anyone.
Mike Garlick only promised to end the transfer window with a stronger squad than we started it. And this looks set to be achieved with two decent and potentially exciting acquisitions.

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“I look around football and it’s hard to find and it’s hard to build. We’ve built it and found it, probably in equal measure and I enjoy that side of it. There’s lots of work to be done, but I’m definitely in for the work to be done."

Probably my favourite ever Sean Dyche quote

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A word of congratulations to Mike Garlick and the Board too. I like Mike’s columns in the programme - he’s made it very clear what he wants for the club and when all the conjecture around Dyche’s future grew he was quoted as saying he wants him here in five years 10 years time. Well he’s delivered o...

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I wish the lad a warm welcome. It's funny I hadn't remembered he'd started for England in a World Cup, never mind made 21 caps. Mind you there wasn't much memorable under Capello's turgid reign. I guess he does have something of an enigmatic quality - one of those players who perhaps has to be playi...

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I enjoyed your report IT.

I'd forgotten all about, seeing as it was a Tuesday morning and had to get the kids to school.

It would be something if he could go all the way - especially as Murray as never cracked this tournament.

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The photo used looks like it could have been taken in front of Burnley's Longside - or is it Bloomfield in better days?

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RIP Patrick Cryne.

Turning into a pretty heavy month for losing good football people.

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Just heard a short tribute from Gary Bowyer. Yes the word legend is overused but it is entirely appropriate to describe Jimmy Armfield. I hadn't realised he was as old as 82, what a career, the Seasiders appearance record with 627 games. Always thought his punditry conveyed something of a simple wis...

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Vokes is a Saint.

And the type of striker they lack tbf.

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It would be nice for Watford’s profligacy towards managers catch up with them but I think they’re run more shrewdly than meets the eye. Certainly they don’t **** about when it comes to replacing them, this Gracia fella clearly tapped up in advance and seems to have good pedigree. Love to see em go d...

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We certainly haven’t scored from a corner this season and that is a bit of a poor do, however one might dress it up. I remember one at home to Watford last season (Defour corner, Hendrick header), and later in the game Defour crossed again for a Keane header (not direct from a corner mind). Was Kean...

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Well done Edmund by the way. Is the Aussie Open being screened on anything other than Sky?

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Henman’s best chance to win Wimbledon went with the rain the year Goran won it. The Croat was all at sea in the semi final and even lost the rhythm on his monster serve. Henman was imperious but then it rained and when they came back the following day the momentum had gone, Goran regained his compos...

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Pope 7 (nowt to do) Bardsley 7 (excellent first half, but poor second, feel for Lowton, thought he’d play today) Tarkowski 9 (excellent display) Mee 8 Taylor 8 (uses the ball really well, possibly could have been more adventurous on a couple of occasions) Defour 8 (great dual with Pog) Cork 7 Hendri...

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Don't think he's a bad manager, and was probably treated a bit shoddily at Wolves, but in no terms can he be seen as an upgrade on Hughes. There's bound to be a nervousness sweeping through the Potteries, a little like when Laws was appointed at Burnley.

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Makes sense for all parties. We have a £13M wide man out for the season but that doesn't mean we can just go out and buy another one at a similar price range. We know that this transfer window leads to inflated prices and its great that we enter it in a position of relative comfort. A loan in this c...

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I’ve been to two McG test matches between Australia and England - both with the series score at 0-3. Trust me, it doesn’t feel like a ‘dead rubber’ when you’re there, especially among thousands of English fans, many of whom will have invested a significant portion of their savings to get there. You’...

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The Knife - Heartbeats
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
Billy Bragg - A New England

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Thanks very much for your replies. Turfytopper - I'll definitely take the two if there's a way to exchange - are you coming up for the Spurs match? Oswy - I'll double check with my t'other mate, but that sounds like a great offer. Can you private message me at pluginpr@gmail.com and we can exchange ...

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As a season ticket holder in the jimmy mac upper, im wondering if there are any fellow season ticket holders who can't make the New Years Day match. Got a big friends gathering Nye with friends stopping over in Lancs and 3 mates keen to attend with me. Can pay full value - could meet at the Tottenha...

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