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Seems that story about a talent share agreement with Dundee are true then. Might be a good move for a goalscorer as they’re top of the Scottish Championship so should get a decent number of chances. Dundee United top of the Championship, Dundee are mid table Premiership. EDIT - sorry just seen post...

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Billy Taylor Trio - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
The 1975 - About You

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Many activities with my daughter - swimming etc

Music - mainly electronic

Listening to the radio particularly at night - I find it incredibly calming and relaxing

Puzzles particularly NYT crossword and Connections (essentially online version of Only Connect game)

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Like I said it depends on ones own circumstances, I certainly wouldn't be opposed to getting instant access to see a GP straightaway or free dental care & the opportunity to learn new skills does appeal & not having to cook or clean, like anything in moderation after a bit you might get bored, if I...

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CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:29 pm
Josh Doig. Weren’t we interested in him when he was at Hearts?

*Hibs - don’t want to get those two mixed up! We were but don’t think we made an offer.

Looks like he’s off to Sassuolo

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Seen a Nixon article NOT linking us with Ahmedhodzic at Sheff Utd, who they'll let go if they get a decent offer, sounds like a Berge situation. Great player, only 24, we should bite their hand off if it can be done. Had his mentality and attitude questioned a number of times by Blades fans this se...

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Stockbrokerbelt wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:20 pm
Brentford are owned by the richest person in Denmark & it’s known that he will bankroll them when needed.

Brentford are owned by Matthew Benham, who I’m sure is wealthy, but maybe not to those levels - nor is he Danish (though he does own a team in Denmark)

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Had to smile at that foul on the Bristol City keeper then…

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Great cross just then from Cornet, who was a good player for us.

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FWIW re Gyokeres, I'm sure I read he turned down West Ham, so I don't think we had any real chance with that one anyway, even if we did put a bid in.

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Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:57 am
Complete chancer ,a modern day Harry Rednap
Amassing a fortune by bring binned

Oh, come on.

You can not like him as a personality, but his honours list speaks for itself.

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Because I don't feel the need to pointlessly criticise players that actually played a good game after a disappointing result? Look at the player ratings. Trafford is getting the highest scores. Again. He did just about everything right. It was more aimed at the ‘probably better than half of the lea...

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Utter class. Could tell how much he wanted to win this evening, went back to playing proper snooker not the exhibition stuff hed been playing throughout the tournament. Carter didn't have the minerals to live with it, psychologically destroyed by the end. Yep, played him at his own game a bit. Play...

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Another great game from our goalkeeper. Faultless again as far as I'm concerned. Some say he made a mistake by trying to claim the cross at Luton's equaliser but it looked like a good decision to me. Ref should have always called a foul. Each game I'm more impressed by his abilities. Definitely PL ...

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If he was ill, that can develop quite suddenly - maybe he was fine Thursday night and he took ill on the day? I dunno. Anyway, it’s a shame, because we missed him massively.

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Not true whatsoever He had 'very little to do' because teams couldn't get the ball off us and Aro had a big part in that. Literally every manager that played us alluded to that - we just passed teams to death and moved the ball quickly. Look at some of the positions he took up in possession and the...

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Why on earth would we drop our better players for crucial games? Especially when a couple of those cards were highly debatable.

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It was a bit of lighthearted Saturday night fun. Everything doesn’t have to be hard hitting dramas.

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 14, 2024 8:48 am
What a stupid post, how many people hate Boris Johnson? Have they ever met him?

You can form an opinion on someone just by there public presence and interviews

What have you not liked about his ‘public presence’?

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The baffling decision to not go for the keeper that our defence and midfield are most comfortable with, and who was a major factor in our style of play last season, has been one of the major factors that will eventually send us down. No one is going to convince me otherwise Agreed. I could accept r...

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The phrase "Too good to go down" probably applies to Everton in the current circumstances. Even if they don't overturn the deduction they are comfortably a mid-table side with far better players than the teams around them. While I take the point about the deduction, they are still perilously close ...

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It's widely recognized the outright figure wouldn't be anywhere near the £30m so it's not that that he rejected he would have had to jump through so many hoops for that max figure to be realized. Offering £30m unconditionally would have probably ensured he left Stamford bridge. Chelsea accepted our...

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Maatsen played at LB for Dortmund in a 3-0 win today.

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Stayingup wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:46 pm
OK I hadn't realized he'd been nominated. Damned shame he has never won it though. We may never see the like with his talent again.

Absolutely. Can you imagine how much he would have won if he’d had the ruthless determination of a Hendry or Selby?

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I expected Brecel to kick on after his superb win at the World Championship, but he’s been pretty awful since winning. Brecel’s run to the WC title truly one of the best I’ve ever seen. Very much an all or nothing player though and he’s admitted that he doesn’t really put in the practice he should.

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Stayingup wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:39 pm
Brilliant and incredibly never been nominated for BBC's Sports Personality of the Year.

He’s been nominated a few times, never won it.

He’s also right about the younger players. Some may say arrogant, but the standard coming through isn’t great, and hasn’t been for a while.

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He should have been playing Championship football this season to improve his strength, presence and distribution but we’ve decided to throw him straight in and it just hasn’t worked, completely derailing the style we’d developed in the process. What’s done is done, and I guess he’ll be developing in...

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alf_resco wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:03 am
I really wish folk could learn the difference between"disinterested" and "uninterested."

OED themselves have ‘uninterested’ as an alternative definition of disinterested. The great thing about the English language is its flexibility and fluidity.

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I think he gets some unfair criticism does Brownhill but I’d never pull him up on work rate, he’s a leader in that sense, you can’t blame him for not having the same quality as most other premier league CMs but he always gives it 100% Does he? I’m not convinced he does. Everton home game stands out...

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I honestly don't know what people have against JBG........he played well. He spurned two excellent opportunities - the shot where he doesn’t get hold of it, and the chance when he just needed to play it in across the box and he shanked it up. Good free kick chance wasted as well with a poor effort....

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:08 am
I’m just not a VK cheerleader that the main issue you have.

Look at the table. 12 points from 21 games. This is absolutely shocking

You don't cheerlead anybody, that’s the main issue I have. A total misery merchant, the very worst example of a modern fan.

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Does anyone really care about next season. We could break the record points next season and I honestly wouldn’t care. This is the level we want to be at and VK has just ****** the opportunity away. It’s a miracle he still has a job You don’t care about anything related to this club so why change th...

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Hmm. I agree some of the new signing haven’t worked out but not sure about this argument. In terms of the character, you’d probably put Brownhill as the kind you’re alluding to, yet he was one of the worst players on the pitch tonight. I think things are just amplified because we’ve not being good e...

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Trafford 6 - a perfectly competent shot stopper who is utterly unsuited for our team. He’s fouled for the goal. Unconvincing. The better goalkeeper remains on the bench. Vitinho 6 - started off badly but grew into it O’Shea 8 - thought he played very well Ekdal 7 - some rustiness but generally did o...

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Showed a bit of energy but was pretty anonymous.

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He played well but we gave him the freedom of Turf Moor. He lost the ball in the second half in a dangerous area when we actually decided to press him a bit. Showed a lot more than the two Josh’s. We missed Berge massively.

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Well he’ll be playing in the Championship soon. Not sure he’ll fancy it against some of those lads either tbh.

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:21 pm
Take that incident at the end out of it even.

We absolutely play better as a team with Muric between the sticks.

There's not even a debate at this point for me it's so blindingly obvious

This. We cannot play how we want to play with him in the nets. It’s that simple.

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I thought we were so poor tonight. Luton dominating the ball. I just don’t understand what we’re trying to do now. We are so passive, it’s actually ridiculous.

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Absolute trailblazer in radio, always kept it fresh with her eclectic music choices. Loved her late night show. RIP

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Yeah, before the Spurs game he highlighted how much he loved it here. Said it was the perfect place to finish his career, really good lads in the dressing room and Mitchell Thomas was one of his best mates at the time.

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Generous to put Steve Cooper's 'outperform budget' as 'high'.

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Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:17 am
Ben Mee is not a regular at Brentford anymore

He absolutely is.

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I think a lot of people cannot fail to see the irony that so many people who claim to be liberal actually want people cancelled if their opinions are different to their own. Calling women ‘stupid bitches’ and then personally insulting Ed Balls for having a trans child is not just ‘opinions that are...

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Damo wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:22 am
Do you want to do the word count or should I?

You go for it. Good luck with that on Twitter. Or X or whatever your mate is calling it these days. You might be able to get it done by the weekend once you’ve waded through all the dropshipping adverts and bots.

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Good enough for one of the top teams in Germany, yet a ‘lucky escape’ for us. It’s certainly a puzzler.

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Almost as big of a buzz word as “woke”.

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A very good young player who I think we’ve missed this year.

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HahaYeah wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:22 pm
The Wokestapo are moving in to shut him down.

He keeps worrying the sheep.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... n-comments

Read back what you're typing - how do you not cringe?

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