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It's like when you're a kid and playing in under-10s and this one little **** on the other side just blasts in 13 goals and you lose 13-0. Haha, so true - reminds me of this beast we used to play against when I was at Ferney Lee in Todmorden (he played for St Joseph’s). He was called Roberto and hi...

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Barnes/Cork for Foster/JBG

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Absolutely. Imagine this team with a PL quality CM in and Muric. Not far off. A striker too but I say that through the lens of not knowing enough at this stage of Foster’s chances at this level (been fine tonight though). I’d always try and find a spot for Benny too, but he’s so good as a substitut...

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I tell you what - City are a one off in that league (well, Arsenal I suppose too this season).

This performance really gives me confidence about playing against the bottom half home or away. I think we’d be comfortable at that level, really do.

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We’ve been great - stunned by criticism on here, digging players out who’ve been superb all season but are losing 2-0 at the Etihad! The difference has been Erling Haaland - literally, nothing more. We’ve offered more in that half there than in any visit to that place in ages. Well done lads for pla...

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I absolutely love Benny and this would be a fantastic reward for a frankly unreal first season in this country. He would be right at the forefront of POTY discussions I’d think but for his injury. Good on him if true.

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Well, any concerns we might have had about Kompany going to work for Steve Parish can be forgotten for the time being. He spoke excellently on the Vieira sacking there.

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Muric
Roberts Ekdal Beyer Maatsen
Cullen Cork Gudmundsson
Tella Barnes Zaroury

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I hope they get someone like Hassenhutl in on a 2-3 year deal - I don't want to see Allardyce in till the end of the season (I could see Parish going after Kompany in the summer if Sam kept them up then left).

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Looked absolutely fine afterwards, was running around without issue.

Needless tackle by the Hull player in the 93rd minute though when you've been pumped.

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I’ll be very very surprised at Wolves. Their manager is excellent. They have some good fixtures left, particularly their next two (Leeds at home/Forest away). They just seem to have a dearth of games against teams with little to play for, though I suppose that's the nature of such a tight bottom ha...

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I want Leeds to stay up just because it's a fun game for me (well, if we win) as my Mum's side are all Leeds season ticket holders. I also enjoy any excuse to visit the Mermaid fish and chips restaurant in Morley pre-game. Saints and Bournemouth are gonna go - I will predict it might be Wolves to ge...

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Centre Mid, Striker, Winger That's on top of retaining (by hook or crook) Tella, Beyer and Maatsen Decisions to be made on quite a few squad players too. McNally looks really good for Coventry and this shows what a run of games from loans can do - so I would be maybe considering the same for Twine a...

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Kompany spoke in pre-season about Pace's transparency with him on the clubs financial situation, and that he needed to know everything to be comfortable with presumably taking the job. I would expect when the news came out that Kompany wanted a full, honest and transparent assessment of exactly what...

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Chelsea will not be playing Ian Maatsen. They have Ben Chilwell and Cucurella in that position who cost a combined £110m. Chelsea’s strategy for navigating FFP will be like Man City - get youngsters out for big loan fees and then big sales fees. I think we have a chance here but it’ll cost around £1...

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Said it before and I’ll say it again - he deserves a new contract. That is not out of sentimentality, he suits the way we play perfectly now and whilst there is no doubt he wouldn’t be starting every week in the Premier League, I’d find a place for him on a 9 man bench every week. He can help us clo...

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There is no way he’s playing in the Championship next season. If Southampton come down he will 100% force a move out, he’s got to get in the big league whilst his stock is this high. What if he stayed there and got an injury or for some reason didn’t suit the system etc? He will be getting out for s...

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Imagine being a fan of a club we still have to play this season knowing that Benny is now back.

Im absolutely buzzing to see that magician again.

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Whatever your stance on vaccines, lockdowns etc - we all lived through something absolutely mental when you look back.

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Muric
Roberts Ekdal Beyer Maatsen
Cullen Twine
Vitinho Tella Zaroury
Foster

There is a positional gamble there in Twine playing so deep, but I'd prefer to maybe try and preserve JBG and Cork to start at City.

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I didn't go sadly (never been to Reading, something I will be fixing in a few weeks all being well). I remember I had just moved into an apartment in Leeds that very morning, on my own. I watched that match going absolutely mental. Not sure what my neighbours thought had moved in next door. Play Off...

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Boro play PNE next and they’ve had an upturn of form recently, every chance they could nab a point.

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1-1 FT

If Sheff Utd win tomorrow it’s surely a done deal for the autos now.

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Smallbone and Hoever have been great for Stoke. I can honestly say not one player has impressed me for Boro in multiple viewings of them. Akpom is a bog standard Championship finisher having the season of his life (judged on his career so far, at 28 this year, quite possibly an anomaly). Sheffield U...

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QPR are bang in trouble.

I can see Blackpool getting above them.

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agreenwood wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 14, 2023 8:47 pm
I’d never noticed it until this thread.

Thanks for that. It’s all I can hear now.

Sorry but this will now curse you for every game he is on henceforth. It really will.

It’s like the videotape from The Ring.

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1-1 and well deserved.

Boro look just as bang average as Stoke. If Stoke had a bit more about them they could be ahead with the two cut backs they’ve had.

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I’m watching Middlesbrough - listening to Lee ‘it really is’ Hendrie is a nightmare, it really is. Since I noticed this about 18 months ago, it makes games he’s on almost impossible to listen to. It’s absolutely ridiculous. Tonight he had said his first two “It really is/he really is/it really was”...

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Herts Clarets wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 13, 2023 1:06 pm
Fan zone possibly?

Great shout actually. They could probably have just the right amount of space on the walls around the indoor one if spaced well.

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Good to see they will be returned somewhere and put to use. They were very well done and it would have been a great shame to have not seen them displayed. It will be interesting to see where they go. I had hoped they would be picked up by the Council and used in various prominent positions around th...

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arise_sir_charge wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 13, 2023 11:16 am
Also, in April 2021 ten championship clubs were placed under a transfer embargo for the same reasons.

That's pertinent info if true, good catch.

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It seems like a fairly big deal, I’m not sure why so many are pretending it isn’t. It’s a concerning reality that we’ve been embargoed, but until we hear differently the club have explained why it has happened and assured us it’s getting resolved swiftly and that there is nothing to worry about. I ...

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That’ll be it exactly. Control the narrative before it’s released in EFL language. This made me laugh - not by the fact you said it agreenwood, as you’re right, that is precisely why the club has issued a statement tonight - just that it would have been far easier to ‘control the narrative’ by simp...

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Audit firms resource plan sometimes up to a year in an advance - I’m in the industry. It’s incredibly sloppy though this by the club. Yes it seems frankly embarrassing - particularly when a poster, in his spare time and seemingly as nothing more than a hobby (Chester Perry) has been warning about t...

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agreenwood wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 12, 2023 7:02 pm
We have done something wrong. We’ve breached the rules of the EFL.

Well, quite - but Rick was asking if we’d ‘bought the league’, I was replying in that regard on the subject of guilt.

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Thread TLDR - can some dummies for me? Did we buy the league or not…? We seem to be under an embargo due to inability to provide financial information for last season. The club has blamed this on changing its auditors in November of last year and said it will be sorted by the end of next month. The...

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Tall Paul wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 12, 2023 6:37 pm
The accounts have become a lot more complex since the takeover with all sorts of intercompany loans etc.

That’s a very fair point - not to mention International now as opposed to all local men.

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Why would changing auditor in November 2022 still mean we have not got the accounts ready to file to meet our obligations by mid-March 2023? Not my world so I haven’t the foggiest how long that would take to pull together, but 4/5 months seems….more than sufficient?

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Apparently a teeny form in Haslingden. Quite possibly not suitable for a multi million pound business. Yet they’ve successfully fulfilled their obligations for us as a Premier League club for X seasons, seemingly? This is the bit I’m lost by. What has changed to make them incompetent of the singula...

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Why was the auditor from Haslingden never late completing his/her duties under Mike Garlick et al (I assume it was the same one). It just seems a bit weird to appoint a new one midway through important work being completed, thereby resulting in an EFL issued transfer embargo. I assume that this docu...

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I take it that this is related to the same issues that Chester Perry has been raising for several months (late filings/no filings of accounts)? I think the - potentially - concerning thing about it is that whilst it clearly is ‘an administrative error’, let’s hope that it is purely laziness and lack...

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Big trouble financially for them if they don’t go up too. I’d bloody love N’Diaye if they don’t follow us up.

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You just never, ever know do you?

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I think Reading.

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Everything has worked out best for all involved, even those who left in the main. The reset we’ve had as a club was a scary proposition and I think 7/8 times out of 10 could have been a real struggle for most clubs - but absolutely every decision made has been correct. I wouldn’t change anything wit...

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Absolutely delighted for him. I had a feeling it would be his day when he came on, and he took it ever so well. Hopefully he gets a few now.

Barnes has been class but I might just give Foster the start against Hull…

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I absolutely love him. He makes everything look so easy, it’s been effortless to him this season. He absolutely cruises it and I mean that with no disrespect to him at all as he covers every blade of grass and works his ******** off.

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Apologies for my ignorance, but is this a far bigger name than the chap who invested the other year (Malcolm Jenkins?). What benefits do we expect him to bring? I find 'exposure' a nebulous concept at the best of times, so I was looking for something more tangible with that question...(albeit, when ...

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Hope roads are OK (come via M1 then M62, usually get off at Milnrow to pick my Dad up in Tod). Anyone anticipate any issues? Roads round here in Derbyshire are clear now and it's bright sunshine so I am hoping the rest will melt off this afternoon in that boiling hot 3 degrees. My concern is the exp...

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Shocking stuff, really sad and puts everything in perspective.

RIP to the poor man and sincere condolences to his family and friends who will be suffering terribly right now, and the wider Blackpool fanbase too.

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