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There are other benefits to Sky other than the direct revenue from the rights sale. Primarily it is the constant 24/7 promotion of the PL, the pushing of the stories around the league, its clubs and personalities. Sky is a non-stop publicity machine for the league. There are indirect revenue advant...

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I assume you have plucked £10 a month out of thin air. I highly doubt the PL could build a subscriber base from scratch, allowing for all the costs that come with running a service (we shall ignore also the slight issue of what happens when there is no PL over the summer) and achieve the same revenu...

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Game management was pretty concerning yesterday, it didn't seem to be the management team were reading the game very well. At all.

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We are bread and butter for established Premier League teams. Very nice to play against. There will be at least one major defensive mistake a game presenting a key opportunity. Whilst at the other end even when we do create clear cut chances we find them hard to convert.

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and 2 changes in injury time? Really?

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There may be a 70% increase in the number of matches to watch, but there is a negligible increase in the number we can watch live because the extra 70% are mostly at the same time as another match (eg. Sundays, or the last match of the season). Agreed, though, it's less than inflation, so the value...

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The first red card of his career so he can’t be that bad considering he’s 27. For what it’s worth we need a player the same I’d consider signing him next season, give us abit of height and a player who can bully a defender. Would have been ideal last season to hold the ball up. Next summer he shoul...

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A chuckle in our boots and a spring in the step today, Well done CT.

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Not sure what your point is here as that's nothing we don't already know. There were plenty of people on here saying when we got promoted it was bittersweet because it means you have to go up to the PL. It's a necessary evil, using the PL money to keep a small club like this towards the top end of ...

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If we can replicate Brighton's strategy why did Tony Bloom have to put so much money in the club if it's possible for other clubs to replicate what Brighton have done without his finances? We already are doing it. Really the only question now is whether we have a Cucurella, Mac Allister, Mitoma, Ca...

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And just as an aside, our transfer strategy this season looks remarkably like a version of theirs from years past.

I guess the likes of Luton and Sheffield Utd will be looking at it with the same shock and awe you have for Brighton's strategy, and pondering the same barriers to entry.

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But without the money in the first place (almost half a billion) they would never have got to where they are now. That's something we can never compete with. Brighton ran a net negative transfer spend of between. £50-70M for a number of seasons while they got established. They have bought the odd p...

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Not really. I'd rank all of our successful championship seasons above all of our premier league seasons bar the one we finished 7th. I've seen us stick it to the big boys plenty of times and it's all a bit meh now. Enjoyable being in the top league but there's less of an edge to it, knowing that so...

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It does need emphasising though that Brighton have been funded to rhe tune of nearly half a billion to get to where they are now and they spent many millions on players who turned out to be complete duds before making good profits on others. We can't afford that luxury of writing off a £20 million ...

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There was an excellent one on recently called 3 by 3 which showed a lot of promise.

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Bang on. I want us to be playing as high as we can but it's largely a waste of time for anyone but about 6-7 clubs being in this division. No chance of winning it, very little chance of getting into Europe and when you do it just costs you a lot of money and has an adverse effect on your domestic s...

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I’m a complete realist. This set of highly talented young players we’re accumulating may take a while to develop, things are rough right now (but improving with a more settled side), we may be relegated, we know from the last 24 months relegation isn’t necessarily the end of the world(in fact it wa...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 19, 2023 1:22 pm
Turned Nathan Collins - good finish but I don’t think I’ve seen a defender make as many big mistakes as Collins does.

Have you not been watching our current centre backs?

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One of few signings that seem to have worked so far.

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Burnley are interested in winger Crysencio Summerville, 22, but Leeds are not willing to let the Dutchman leave for any less than £25m. (Football Insider)

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Credit to you CT for continuing to churn out detailed reports from our games. Must be tough to write them at times.

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At least he's performing as LG and not Oasis. One of my biggest gripes is bands continuing to trade on the name when massive changes are made to the line up. For example Big Country without Stuart Adamson, New Order without Hook etc. The biggest culprits by far though are UB40 without Ali Campbell ...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 30, 2023 6:12 pm
Drums still wouldn’t surprise me given who it is that wants it but mercifully no mention.

Any chance to have a dig. Boring after a while I'm afraid

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waste of bandwidth space

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We said on the way back how much the side lacks leadership and strength. I believe firstly we really have to start making more use of the Premier League experience we have. Last season in the Championship it benefited from the likes of Jack Cork and Ashley Barnes but those players have not been rep...

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Trafford 7 Roberts 4 Al-Dakhil 4 O’Shea 5 Taylor 5 Cullen 4 Berge 4 Trésor 3 Amdouni 4 Odobert 3 Foster 6 Koleosho 4 Brownhill 5 We have players not up to this level of football - YET ...but seemingly not willing to put the hard yards in. A very bad recipe. Next week's performance will be very revea...

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It was a performance bordering on unacceptable to me. Far too passive, no energy or determination. We have to be at the top of our games to win games at this level. that was nowhere near it.

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This reminds me of our first season / Brian Laws version. Good Premier League teams sniff vulnerability and exploit it. We whiff of it from a mile away. It's difficult to understand an area of strength. We won't be for changing, Kompany is too deep into the experiment and Pace has been seduced by it...

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The Express Tavern will be very busy and I believe now has restrictions around away supporters. The Bell would be a better option and is 5 minutes walk away on the river.

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Maddison the signing of the summer.

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There will be plenty of players who have verbally said they will sign for us before going elsewhere. That's business.

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It Is What It Is wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 25, 2023 11:10 am
Need a Weghorst type forward in the box .....we desperately lack height and muscle.

by type I assume you mean someone who actually uses those attributes?

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I saw quite a few shifts in this game, showing Kompany does not have a fixed mindset. Bodes well:

Taylor at left back
More long passes when needed
Return of Robert's long throw
Brownhill's energy back in midfield.
General slowing of game in places where it was required

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The money and the level of spending has moved on again since we were last there

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When every player is signed with some sell on in mind, difficult outcomes are on the horizon. How many prem games in that team today?

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And then you woke to find your Football Manager game had gone into standby mode.

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One question left outstanding is whether he has signed a new contract at Chelsea or whether he is letting his contract run down

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Almost 150 pro games by the age of 22 not including numerous International appearances. That's a serious step up in quality from players we have signed in that profile previously.

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Reappraising points-based systems for tickets is absolutely the right thing to do over time because they become self fulfilling. Some people have been shut out for years in the Prem and others who do go regularly appear to have fostered an attitude that somehow it's their right to go to every game n...

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It's obvious that Kompany's approach at this level is going to be different to Dyche's. We are going to have to accept that an attempt to go out, win games and try to dominate is going to see us on the wrong side of some results some of them will be heavy. It's about whether we can win enough games ...

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the Chinese are in.

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Had dealings with Russell last season around an away game and found him to be a nice bloke.

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Leisure wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:26 pm
Don't think it makes much difference income wise. Think clubs only get extra TV money after something like featuring in 10 games.

couldn't get enough of us last season. Same old now.

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Debut was Huddersfield away wasn’t it? Sure he was a late replacement for Crichton who was late due to being stuck in traffic? Started Ok. By the end, the less said the better. He and Beresford were as bad as each other that final season. I hadnt realised he had played a few full internationals for...

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The two things could be linked

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The most positive thing Kompany could say about him was that his fee would look small in Prem terms. I am not convinced that was an entirely ringing endorsement.

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Still on track? And is it owned by Greene King?

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Steve-Harpers-perm wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:58 am
Remember it took him a few games to bag his first goal after what was quite a big money transfer for us.

Often seen wondering round Panama Joes on his own.

He'd also gone on a long goal drought at Brighton before we signed him.

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One of those players who you thought had it to play a level or so up had he maximised his ability. Sounded like a problematic character with a bit of a drinking issue.

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GetIntoEm wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 12, 2023 9:57 am
You really would take your own pie to a football match?

I've seen it done. There are some cheapskates out there

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