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I just can't get my head around the EU not offering one bit of compromise and some on here lapping it up. But its the UK's choice to leave, the UK asking for a transitional period, and the UK asking for a deal. The EU are organised and have planned ahead. They are united and clear on their position...

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I don't know how micro the WTO rules are re. the manning of physical border posts, or even if any such rules exist. Can you point me to a link? No. You can google it yourself. I asked the question. Your idea might not break WTO rules, (I honestly don't know), but somehow I doubt it. If it were poss...

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When I say the majority of Burnleyites agree with me about leaving the EU, and you disagree. : But that wasn't what you said in your reply to me. I'm not being pedantic - simply factual. At the end of a reply to me you tried to prove your point - (whatever it was) - by saying that those sat around ...

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No quoonbeatz? No "king of pedantry" nil desperandum !? :lol: :lol: I wasn't going to return to this debate, but seeing as you can't let it go. I wasn't being pedantic. You made a specific false claim about me and my friends. i.e. "those who sit around me at the next game would support you" I told ...

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One thing that the UK can do is to declare that there will be no border posts as far as we're concerned. I'm sure the UK can handle the inward smuggling problem via other means. Petty smuggling is barely relevant in the grand scheme of Brexit, and there was plenty of that in the pre-EEC and early-E...

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That is a long article to not mention Arlene Foster and her stance that NI will not have a separate deal to mainland UK. Isn't it one of the main points raised in the article? "The move is widely expected to cause ructions within both the Conservative party and between the government and the Democr...

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I thought he gave a very poor performance last night, but if it came to choosing who would stand up best for ordinary northern working people I'd choose him every time over Farage, Johnson and Rees-Mogg.

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Walton wrote:Is that German?

Actually Danish I believe, and means "landing heavy" - so a bit like "hard brexit" really.

EDIT: He's now changed it so it's no longer the Danish word that he wrote:

"Yes! That was the whole point of REPOSTUNG Sherlock!"

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Hi nil_d, thanks for response. I agree that there are differences between the regions - hence, discussions re re-balancing the economy, "northern powerhouse" etc. However, what I was asking about are what are the factors for each region that result in the model forecasting different outcomes? i.e w...

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Can anyone throw any light why Yorkshire and Lancashire (north west) have different forecast? Or why south east (with London in the centre) is worse than south west? Are we all expected to "go surfing" to "celebrate" brexit (and stop taking our holidays abroad)? Presumably because they are differen...

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RingoMcCartney wrote:
Economic experts - well paid bookies.

So maybe you should take some notice of them, since the bookies more often than not get things right.

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Is it fair to say the majority of people posting on the Brexit threads aren't from Burnley? How do you reach that conclusion? (Except one can make certain assumptions about Hatfield, Hampstead and Lancaster claret, and some posters admit to being "exiles" e.g. Rowls, "Eddy" and Aggi, but I believe ...

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One thing for sure - (assuming they win tonight) - they won't look forward to playing on that pitch at Spotland in the next round.

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A bit of merging may help. For instnace until recently all Brexit "discussion" was limited to one thread (which was about 60 pages long). There was a fair bit of pointless bickering on there but it kept it all in one place (until it was closed for some reason). . Totally agree with that. At one poi...

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FCBurnley wrote:Daniel Karbassioon was born in Virginia USA
Dele Adebola Lagos Nigeria

Good calls.
I'd entirely forgotten that Adebola made 3 appearances for us, and for some reason I thought that in his one ill-fated season Karbassioon never actually played for us, but he did get 5 appearances.

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Geoff wrote:Some on the 'official' 32 are wrong.

I might have missed some obvious examples here, but I'm thinking you might mean:
Austria, Nigeria and the USA.
(We've probably had an American but I just can't think of one!)

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IanMcL wrote:Grenada - Delroy Facey

Is there a Huddersfield in Grenada?

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Pope (the most difficult selection IMO) Lowton Tarks Mee Ward Cork Defour Lennon JBG or Brady JBG or Brady Wood I think JBG and Brady could both play the No. 10 or wing role, and could probably interchange during the course of the match thus giving the opposition something different to think about.

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Luigi Cennamo I think - but yes, Greek - despite the Italian name.

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Cleveleys_claret wrote:Marco Gentile?

Just beat me to it, but I was checking and he's Dutch!

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What is it with the hard left and there conspiracy theories ? last week they were telling us that Mogg had set his own protest up in order to look good ! The point is that that letter looks fake, and has a strong whiff of fake. If it's not fake then it looks as if it's written by either a child or ...

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Vino blanco wrote:It's from 'The Real 48 percent', so I guess they voted to remain

How do you know who it's from?
It's merely a typed name. Could be from anyone.
Didn't the Germans dress as Polish soldiers and attack themselves in order to provoke / start WW2?

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claretandy wrote:This was sent to an 80 year old brexit voter.

But you don't know who by, (or which way they voted) so as previously said - it's context-less.

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Ric_C wrote:Didn't he ask Atkinson if he saw it on the video?

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As I understand it, he asked Atkinson what he saw (in real time). The 4th official isn't allowed to look at the video.

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But the ref didn't know if a Pool player had touched the ball and if he didn't know he should not have given the penalty as Kane was offside Apparently he consulted with Martin Atkinson, who despite being much further away obviously has much better eyesight than Mr Moss. According to MOTD Atkinson ...

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randomclaret2 wrote:Most of those prats will be posher than Rees-Mogg.

Is that actually possible?
(Not that I have any real issue with some people being "posher" than others)

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Jamie Hoyland was a far better player than Mark Winstanley Had a good career at a decent level as well Correct, but we had many defenders who were worse than Winstanley in our 4th division days. Joe Gallagher - not his fault - playing on one leg being an obvious one, and then there were players lik...

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A lot of talk about Corbyn and tax, big businesses leaving etc. Who knows? Far more likely I reckon that we will lose big businesses and our financial services if we have the sort of "no deal" brexit that we would most likely get if JRM, Boris and Gove come to power. Mrs May is hopeless but whilst s...

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Blackburnclaret wrote:Mark winstanley was the worst player I've seen in a Burnley shirt..my heart used to sink when I heard the tossers name announced over the P.A system before the game

Depends when you started watching. He was a lot better than most of those who played in the mid to late 80s.

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Vintage Claret wrote:Wasn't he one of the players Stan effectively sacked live on the radio along with Blatherwick, Ford and Michael Williams?

Yes, but not Ford - so far as I recall, Wasn't it Mark Winstanley.?

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Clarets4me wrote:Not as p****d as we had to be to pay to watch him...

Or as p******d as he appeared to be when he ran out on the pitch.

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They are both Tosh! Still hope they go down because of Clement's fist pumping and running up and down the touch line when they beat us last season with a dodgy last minute goal....Clement :lol: But they've sacked Clement, because their results under him were so poor, so I don't see how that is now ...

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His "all of us" was regarding him and his lads who he mentioned in the OP. Fair enough, but he could have worded it better. As a stand - alone post I think most would interpret "all of us" in that post as including me and you. Particularly as it directly followed Lord Beamish's post: "Are they cont...

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Interesting that - theoretically - the 2 teams with the hardest fixtures are WHU and Brighton, who both appear to be in mid-table at present, but who in fact are only 3 points clear of relegation zone.
Edit:Just spotted that Southampton's fixtures are supposed to be slightly harder.

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bfccrazy wrote:Confused how you know how Duffer pays for his STs more than he does

I don't, and I didn't make any such claim. How did you reach that conclusion?
He said that it's payment upfront for "ALL of us". That's not how I paid, or many others amongst us.

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Duffer_ wrote:It's up front payment for all of us.

UTC!

No it's not.

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I live in North Yorkshire, so unlikely to turn up..... But how many Clarets would descend on Accy to cheer them on, if they were playing the Bastards, and the Clarets were playing the next day. How many Clarets would turn up at Ewood to cheer them on? It would be great to see Clarets snapping up hu...

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Sorry, I take that back - very good performance by Atkinson today :) Your earlier post was strange anyway, since Martin Atkinson is generally regarded as just about the best around, and he usually has a decent game when officiating us. I never post marks, and won't start today, but he got most thin...

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Taking nothing away from Lowton - who was excellent, but it was moving Lennon to the right to set up the Lowton / Lennon partnership that made all the difference.
Well done, Matthew, Well done Sean Dyche.

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If the non voters were that bothered they would've voted.. But the undecided couldn't as there wasn't a "genuinely don't know" or "don't feel sufficiently informed" or "need more convincing" option to tick on the ballot paper. I know quite a few people who quite simply didn't feel sufficiently info...

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I'm going to say it's aimed at you. The majority of those who voted went with Leave. That's all that really matters in any vote. It really isn't. I've been to many meetings when (e.g.) 6 have voted for a motion, 5 have voted for an amendment, and (e.g.) 6 have abstained. The result generally propos...

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I did something v similar last seasson. I parked on Temple St, which is v close to Bob Lord Stand. (2 minutes walk). Took a left up Oxford Rd to Parliament St. Parliament St to Manchester Rd, (via Stanley St to cut out traffic lights) Then Scott Park Rd - Coalclough Lane - Rossendale Rd - Accrington...

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i think Huddersfield have done 'better' than us over the last 10 league games! scored more goals and gained more points than us too! what does that say about our current form? Very little. It says far more about the quality of the teams we have had to play and our almost unprecedented run of bad lu...

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RingoMcCartney wrote:
Do you know what "abstain" means?

Very interesting question.
In the meetings that I attend, it usually means you don't support either the proposal or the amendment, so in other words an abstainer wouldn't be supporting your position.

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lol, amazing. How has this simple argument gone on for over five pages? What was your original statement? Wasn't it that the majority of people in Burnley agree with you? Actually - no. His original statement was that the people who sit around about me at the next home game would agree with him. Th...

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I do think he's such an asset though and first name on the team sheet. Yep, so long as you disregard, Pope, Tarkowski, Mee, and Cork, (and when fit - Heaton, Ward, Brady, Defour and Wood). And arguably others. (And that's not an implied criticism of Barnes. He has his attributes and his place in th...

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Finally, you got there! You and I agree! "My point, as you well know, is that based on stats the most likely view of "Burnleyites" is some form of "soft brexit". Whether it's your so called "hard" or "soft" Brexit. Its LEAVE. The majority of Burnleyites would agree with me! Not you. And it didn't h...

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ClaretTony wrote:Not sure why you have included Mee as if he wasn't good enough. Mee is an outstanding defender.
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Presumably because Mee could easily pick up an injury or suspension. So that then leaves only the other two.

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Thanks for sharing Frank.
So sad, but inspirational and thought-provoking.
RIP Holly. What a tragic loss.

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You're now introducing "hard" and "soft" brexit in an attempt to muddy the waters. If people want a brexit, hard or soft, they want to LEAVE. End of. They agree with me This "strung under current" of which you speak. It's just a way of you trying to avoid saying "the majority"! And as for the hypot...

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