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Colburn_Claret

So when people on the Antony Higginbotham thread say things like the below (I paraphrase)...what is it you suppose they mean ? These comments are hardly cryptic ! People are soft today and the sense of entitlement They just need to get on with it and stop complaining We did not complain when we wer...

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Plenty on here agreeing with the Tories that kids should be punished because their parents are struggling. Even if they're not struggling, and they're just useless or lazy.. then absolutely the best way to teach them a lesson is to make sure their kids go hungry. All we heard for years was that you...

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Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 22, 2020 11:23 am
There has been a recent study where young single mums are not eating themselves so they can try and feed their children as a priority

They should try doing a study around where I live, most of the mothers on benefits are overweight.
Most of the mothers not on benefits are as well mind

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Just because kids are going hungry it doesn’t mean their parents are ‘bad.’ It does. I'd starve myself before I let my kids go hungry, and so would any rational person on this board, including you I'm guessing. Making excuses for them just makes these parents think they are right. If you do that, t...

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It’s irrelevant whether the parents are responsible or not. The question you should ask if whether the children themselves bear any responsibility - the answer is “no”. I haven't read a post from anyone on this board who doesn't have sympathy for the children., no-one. And I'm not suggesting the go...

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Terrybfc wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:59 pm
I accept that, hopefully this short term measure will kickstart the implementation of a long term solution. I’m sure you agree that in 2020 no child should be going hungry

Do you believe that parents bear any responsibility for this, or do you think its ALL the governments fault?

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Do you respect what Marcus Rashford is trying to do? Its possible to respect what Marcus Rushford is trying to do, but still despise some parents who neglect their children. Those who say it shouldn't happen in this country are quite right. The fact that it does is more down to the failings of pare...

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Possibly isolate the one kid and inform the parents what as happened (text or e-mail). Then continue the class and allow each parent to choose whether their child attends or not. Better still, let them go to school anyway, and let the other kids and teacher catch it. So long as they don't live with...

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All the nightingale are is space to put people. Creating space is the easy bit. Finding the thousands of medical professionals to staff them is the real issue. A couple of weeks ago Boris said “the nightingales are being prep and will be ready to go. It will be up the local hospitals how they are u...

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No, but we do take reasonable precautions to bring down the number of deaths, such as having zebra/pelican crossings and banning smoking in public places. In the case of COVID it was perfectly reasonable to lockdown to stop the NHS being overwhelmed and the virus running out of control just as it r...

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Imo it doesn't serve anybody to shut the economy down, and it doesn't serve anybody to impact so hugely on our daily lives. As the first lockdiwn demonstrated, you can't stop this, only delay it. If we do enter another lockdiwn it will only rear its head again 2 months down the line. Hindsight shows...

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I think most fans couldn't care less. It would make the league they leave far more interesting, incorporating all the things we miss from the championship. The biggest losers would be the fans of these 5 clubs if they left. In their shoes I would be fuming. Who wants the team playing away in Europe ...

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What is it with Spurs
Madness

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Theres been many dodgy decisions in boxing over the years, but that has to be ranked up there with the worst. Embarrassing , when we are normally accusing foreign judges of being cheats.

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Still put it down to the way we use VAR I would do away with lines across the pitch, a linesman doesn’t have any lines to use. If the ref can't see an obvious offside with his naked eye, even on replay, the goal should stand. A toe here, an armpit there, it makes a mockery of the game, which imo is ...

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It was good to see.
Still my favourite team, Ray Hankin was certainly a unit for one so young.

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On Big Match revisited
ITV4 10.30

Only 10 minutes so get your skates on

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We (England) would be organised and we would have a plan that’s for sure. How would he manage the prima donnas though? Could he manage the prima donnas? He’s basically built what we have here at the moment, the attitude and team ethic is palpable, and there is doubt there for me that this could be ...

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From a World Cup semi final, just two years ago, GS has gone backwards. Young has moved on, Walker should be, Alli,Stones and Lindgard appear miles off international standard. He keeps trying the youngsters but they just aren’t there yet. SD would immediately sort out the defence and with the attac...

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So many things wrong with this England team. Pickford, Maguire, Dier(I know he didn't play tonight). Just nowhere near good enough. We suffer creativity going forward, yet Grealish is left on the bench. Rasford is a player, and there have been many over the years, who get this inflated reputation fr...

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No they acknowledge that Project Big Profit cannot continue but get the guarantee of the discussions they really want to have, and for which they are more prepared than anyone - given the 3 years they have been working on this You have to remember these two clubs were given a blackball opportunity ...

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jdrobbo wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:30 pm
Cool, lovely place.

Enjoyed a few pub crawls in Knaresborough, it used to be quite lively on a weekend.
Like everywhere else its suffering sadly

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Parry clearly has no interest at all in what's best for football, and a strong interest in feathering his own nest. I can't work out whether the point of this plan is to ensure that the "big six" have absolute power for all time and the payments to the FL are just the sop to get it through, or if t...

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Just caught the final minutes, that must be the narrowest football pitch I've ever seen. It looks as though they've taken about 10ft off both wings.
All I cam think is the Slovakians must have some brilliant wingers.

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:31 pm
He's on the bench according to BBC Sport.

Stand corrected

and breathe

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Hes not even on the bench according to Live Score

Worrying

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Soft penalty, but Lukaku made a meal of Diers challenge so fair enough.

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Why restructure the league from 20 to 18. I don’t understand that bit? The top 6 fairly consistently lose votes that favour the elite. By reducing the league to 18, and making the longest serving 9 clubs have extra voting rights, they just take control of the whole league unto themselves. Basically...

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mdd2 wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 11, 2020 2:44 pm
Taken one on his head/face and his eye has swollen up so off due to vision problems

Missed it watching the GP, but I'd prefer that to a leg injury, at least he should be OK when he gets back

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**** bags trying to buy football. If the rest of the league allow this to happen it would be a crime, and a suicide note, the top 6 don't give a **** about anyone but the top 6. It's all about the top 6 making more money, so that the top 6 don't have to keep dipping into their owners wallets all the...

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I don’t think we would be living within our means if we got relegated. I think we’d fairly instantly need to sell all our best players to chop the wage bill (not sure what relegation clauses exist in individual players contracts). That’s before you consider that players would likely want to leave e...

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Relegation with Covid still around is a disaster. It's worth a 3rd choice cb and right sided winger to avoid. Thats only true if 3rd choice CB and right sided winger can GUARANTEE you don't get relegated. There's no such thing as a guarantee in football, and only a fool gambles when they can't affo...

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Can you explain this, if our wage bill is currently around £80m (after bonuses), for arguments sake let’s estimate it would be around £45m in the Championship, how do we pay that? What’s the income from the TV deal for Championship sides? I was told on here we can’t spend in the transfer market now...

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Why is there all of a sudden a spate of posts claiming we have no financial ability to bring in players? Has Garlick finally broken his silence? It's nothing sudden, MG stated the cost of Covid early on, with the loss of gate receipts and the loss of the Chinese TV money. He also said early on, tha...

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Yes I know - I was trying to make a point that the club has the expertise and knowledge at hand to explore every potential option. Some fans also seem to want to refer to one of Dyche’s recent comments that the club is financially strong in the context of why is he not being given funds ? Again I s...

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Taking on any debt carries some risk. I tried to put them in risk/complexity order. But there are 2x govt Covid schemes, many banks and many other funders, all of which will have different cost/risk profiles. My question is more: what is the bigger risk to our long term future? Borrowing (a small a...

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Of course. They have £1bn debt or something ridiculous. A lot anyway. I’m not talking about raising anywhere near that - a very small figure relative to revenue, which should be entirely possible - to support squad strengthening and improve our chances of staying in the league. Spurs owe £1billion,...

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Great scenes in the streets of Athens today as the (spectator defended) Golden Dawn neo nazi party was branded a criminal organisation by the courts with its leaders facing heavy jail sentences This bunch of nazis included some big political names and the reaction of the general public out on the s...

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for English football? Gets all the plaudits for ticky-tacky, which was Cruyff’s idea, but the fact is he had a team of all-stars plus Messi that would have won playing any style of football. Moved on to Bayern and won plenty but what’s new in that. Although he has been great for Citeh they had alre...

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I wouldn't necessarily say that Colburn but we may have had to sell a key player or 2 to balance the books, and from my observations that is something that Sean has been steadfastly opposed to in the last couple of years I agree completely. Your post expressed my feelings perfect, but in a far more...

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BigChaCha wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 06, 2020 10:34 am
We have massively underperformed in the last 3 to 4 transfer windows, even by Burnley standards. Did MG have a crystal ball 4 windows ago?

Do you accept that if we'd spent 20 million in each if the last 4 windows, we would now be 80 million in debt.

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Our problems now will be as nothing to next summers, despite what the happy clappers would like to believe. The refrain next summer will be " Oh but we've lost the Premier League TV money, what do you expect them to do ?" You're confusing happy clapper, with someone who lives in reality. NOBODY, in...

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How do we support the Board ? The same way you support your family, with patience and understanding. Would you rag your family if they didn't deliver what you wanted in the middle of a pandemic? Of course you wouldn't. So why expect more of the board. Nobody knew back in February what the affects o...

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You went on The Orient Game didn't you? I did, so what? This has nothing to do with the Orient game, nothing to do with history, this is about the realities of today Oct 2020. If you can't understand why the board are in this situation you must be living in a darkened room at the bottom of a coal m...

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Like a moth drawn to the flame you return to this thread, only to be hit by the same whinging minnies. It should come with a warning of low flying dummies and teddy bears. I dread to think how some on this board would cope in the event of an actual crisis. Slamming the board, when without The Kilbys...

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The football always turns horrendous when they start together. Sometimes we graft out wins but when we play one of J-Rod and sometimes Vydra who get it to feet its much better to watch. We just go long to Wood and Barnes when they play With Lascelles missing it was the right tactic, sadly the deliv...

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Why shouldn't Barnes start. Newcastle have injuries so our main hope is start with Wood/Barnes. Unfortunately Vydra has had ample chances-despite starting in most post lock down games he did not score once in the PL during these 9 or 10 games. Needs too many chances and easily marked out of games, ...

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Pieters is a very good left back but he isn't a midfield player. I'd go 4-1-3-2 with Stephens protecting the back four which would allow more attacking options for Brownhill and Westwood. --------------Pope Bardsley - Long - Tarks - Taylor ------------Stephens Brownhill - Westwood - McNeil --------...

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Its a learning curve, I'm sure they're feeling gutted after being 2 up, but they should hold their heads high. They are putting in some real performances at a far higher level

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Pope Bardsley Tarks Dunne Taylor Pieters Westwood Brownhill McNeil Wood Vydra I'm happy we got Stephens, but putting him in the middle to shove Brownhill on the wing would be another massive mistake Lascelles is doubtful, so there might be a shout for Wood and Barnes up front, bring Vydra on when As...

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