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Out for a few weeks yet. He was guest in the Longside Lounge on Saturday and he wasn't talking about an immediate return.

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If there is a buy back that is even worse. We watch him make all the rookie errors, and when he gets good, City buy him back anyway :roll: Anyone who thought Trafford had a "good" game on Saturday knows nothing about goalkeeping. He saved 3-4 routine shots, and the tip over the bar was a very good ...

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Strange how Muric’s mistakes in the first half of last season have all been forgotten Muric was judged by different standards. If Muric was beaten by a near post header from 4 yards out (deflected), there were no great cries about how incompetent he was and how it's unacceptable to be beaten from t...

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I'm sure the first kid will enjoy watching The Blow Monkeys or Clinton Baptiste at The Mechanics assuming she doesn't have school the following morning................!!! Did they specify that it can't be for a children's show? I would have thought the child could use the tickets on the Sanderson's...

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I'd no idea what it was at the time but having seen the goal now from every angle I'm baffled we had any sort of wait. Same reason as why Nottingham Forest's goal in the away game was delayed by VAR. The VAR man was trying from all angles to find the slightest touch of a finger on the ball so that ...

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There are two reasons to sack Kompany, and the score of 13 points in 23 games isn't one of them. What's past is past, and if a young manager has made mistakes then we can hope he has learned from them. Perhaps he has, perhaps he hasn't, but there is no need to sack him on the basis of past mistakes....

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Or maybe they didn’t want to inflict more pain on VK (conspiracy theory obviously) but they definitely barely tried in the second half. That's how City play. If they go 3 up they don't risk losing any points (even if the risk is tiny) by chasing more goals at the expense of defence. They still keep...

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Perhaps we should have a poll. We have let in 47 goals this season. How many would we have let in if Muric had been in the nets? As a guide, this thread covers 3 games, 6 goals, and for 3 of them Trafford is accused of being at fault. Is that the fair ratio? If Muric had been in the nets, would we h...

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As much I like to be positive Trafford cost us the game again. He had loads of time and no pressure to collect the ball before it went out for a corner. He watched it as if he wasn’t allowed to pick it up or touch the ball. I’m pretty sure he thought it was going out for a goal kick when everyone e...

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I can tell where the VAR review came from for the second Fofana goal. As he tapped the ball into the net he stumbled and fell forwards, and his fingertip came close to the ball. If his finger had so much as brushed the ball, they would have disallowed it. They tried to do the same thing with Haaland...

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It’s not really that hard to get. Fulham had 1.51 xG, we had 1.81. They had 15 shots to our 12. Hardly frightening amounts on either count. I watched the game too and despite them being better than us they didn’t create any chances you thought ‘how did he miss that’ or ‘we got away with that’. The ...

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It's pointless searching bags if people (like me today) are allowed in wearing a bulky coat with full pockets that aren't searched.

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They keep saying that Amdouni has all the skills, but I can't see it. At best, he shows some of them in games but never all of them together. Today, he and Ramsey both did very little, and what they did do, they did badly. We have a big squad, time to try someone else. One incident today. (2nd half....

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Yeah it's a truly disgraceful rule. I think the player who commits the foul should have to leave the pitch until the opposition player is finished receiving treatment. You are of course relying on the utmost integrity of the players ( :lol: ) that they won't pretend to get treatment for five or ten...

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His English may be perfectly adequate for football purposes, even if he isn't confident enough to use it for press interviews.

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I wasn't there, so can't score, but it looked to me like he has now got enough experience in the PL to give a free kick whenever a player rolls over and asks for it. Not a good thing.

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At least we broke the scoring streak! How many consecutive goals had City scored in Burnley v Man City games, before our goal?

[Edit] Just checked, it was 31 going back to Robbie Brady's consolation in the 4-1 defeat in 2019.

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I don't think we need worry about losing any points from a winning position tonight!

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We might as well have had Darren England reffing tonight and save Sam Barrott for a game that we have a chance in.

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We offered him a deal and then withdrew it. If you are happy treating people in that way then fine. The crucial question is whether he accepted the deal, or whether he was given a time limit to think about it. If he said that he wanted to sign, or if the deal was pulled after within the time limit,...

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He might be the best of the referees called Darren. (Not a high bar!)

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I never go down at half-time to the concourses so couldn't say, nor does a small/congested concourse have to be a feature of any one tiered stands (can't image the ends at Spurs are congested) - can also offer hospitality above a smaller one tiered stand... I just like Deepdale because you feel rea...

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Big Vinny K wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:15 am
So 2035 ?

That's when the road to the new ground would be completed, and then they could start building!

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I might be simplifying it here but surely a Chief Executive with a bit of teeth would easily solve that stalemate. 'either come to an agreement with us, let us pay you well for you to hand it over, or we're going to have no alternative but to look for a new site on the outskirts of town rather than...

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Build a fanzone for away fans on that little car park on the other side of the away turnstiles, and cut off the cricket clubs cash flow, then negotiate a deal and let them take over that when a deal is in place. I can see how you can build an away fans fanzone, but how do you cut off the cricket cl...

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Regarding my last post re Fulham’s away stand, I’ve been looking for figures on the cost of the redevelopment of Craven Cottage back in 2004 (yes, I’m that sad), and there’s various figures banded around between £8-£15M. The Bank of England inflation calculator puts £8M in 2004 to £12M in 2023. Obv...

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With then engineering work that been going on at various grounds (R Madrid, Barca, Liverpool), taking the roof off the north and east stands and extending them backwards to allow a bigger concourse in the upper tiers and a roof that actually does what it’s suppose to could work. This then would pos...

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Edwards, the Millwall boss said: "“He hasn’t played in a long time. He had an injury a while ago but the biggest issue coming into this game was that with the Premier League break, Burnley had probably 10 days off. He arrived with us on Tuesday, at the training ground, having done very little train...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:43 am
Millwall manager doesn't expect him to be available to start next week either - he said he's some way behind because of not training at Burnley.

Maybe that's the answer to why he didn't get much playing time.

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Pooh pooh it all you like. What I know, because I do this for a job, is that younger fans (from millennials onward) want this kind of thing. City also know this because they employed a firm that does similar things to what I do and they found it out for theirselves. Fans want to interact with other...

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Let me ask you question. If you're ten, and you want to support a club, do you support City, who win every week, often win trophies and the whole affair around the match day is catered just to your liking OR do you pick Burnley, getting pumped most weeks, sitting in a cramped, dilapidated old stadi...

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Quite apart from the OP's weird idea that we need to build a new stand to improve the catering ... I strongly dislike this modern trend people have to assume that they are right and no-one who disagrees can possibly have a rational reason. People don't have to be "scared" to build a new ground. They...

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I'm more than a little surprised that Leicester ranked in the top 21 PL clubs.

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So, I am finding the reporting of this interesting, particularly in the context on persistent non-reporting at Kettering Capital and Calder Vale Holdings (who it has to be said have not done any of the date changing mentioned here, they have just not fulfilled their legal obligation. Is the issue o...

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Perhaps we should watch the Sheffield United v West Ham match to see what a goalkeeper should do. There is no doubt that the West Ham goalkeeper went hard at McBurnie, and that's presumably what Trafford should have done. (The fact that the goalkeeper went off injured and the penalty cost them two p...

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You have gammon and pineapple, so why not bacon and pineapple?

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Had a look at the Water Meter Calculator site and it looks like our household might save £80.00 quid a year. It's not worth us getting a meter to chase £1.50 or whatever per week. A dry spring/summer and using the watering can every evening would quickly eat into any savings. https://www.ccw.org.uk...

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Depends what the water rates are. The rateable value is based on what the house was worth 60 years ago, so if it's an old back-to-back terrace like mine (well, two back-to-backs) then the water rates will still be cheaper.

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I suspect fans of most clubs could fairly ask that question. We're not the only VAR victims. Most of our lost points were because the ref made an idiotic decision and VAR refused to help him out. Only the Forest win-turned-to-draw was a VAR failure. Sheffield United, on the other hand, have got a w...

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Finishing on about 25 points and staying up because of deductions for Forest/Everton would be just about a worst case scenario. IMO. Better to go down and sell half the squad, and play next season with the other half of the squad. Much more fun. Due to my mother's age, we have to sit in the Longside...

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Claretforever wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:54 am
Maybe. Or maybe they claim they have flu every time they get the sniffles if they’re claiming it several times per year?

Every chance.

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It has always amused me when hearing people say “I’ve had a bit of flu” when they’ve had the sniffles or been off work for a day. When you have genuinely got flu it wipes you off your feet, sometimes for over a week, and it can then take another week or more to get over. You certainly wouldn’t desc...

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My mother and I both had the flu jab and both had this flu - though not as bad as the OP, by the sound of it.

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:06 pm
McBurnie won a penalty for throwing his elbow at the keeper - that's where we are at.

Perhaps we ought to be grateful that O'Shea wasn't sent off when McBurnie elbowed him twice!

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So the referee sees it as a “coming together” but not an obvious foul, unless VAR tell him otherwise it’s a goal. I cannot under any circumstances believe that VAR think it’s not a foul. At present, the point of VAR in the penalty area is to support the referee. Basically, they will only overturn i...

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Was the Sheffield United penalty actually given for the collision between McBurnie and the keeper? If so why? Obviously the both went for the ball, both missed it, and crashed into each other - but where is the logic that says McBurnie had first dibs on the attempt and the keeper should have stood a...

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The "simultaneous" bit must mean that two players are doing the same thing at the same time - eg. going for the ball. Obviously it can't mean that the collision between the two players happens at the same time, because if player A blocks player B it's bound to be at the same time as player B runs in...

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Just another snippet for those who think Bitcoin is going away, Jamie Diamond (Chase CEO) called blockchain technology small this week. In response to this, it was pointed out to him that Bitcoin (a derivative of blockchain technology) hash rate alone, hit an all-time high of 500 exahashes/second t...

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So for some crypto you can stake it on an exchange and earn a percentage back (bit like a savings account) The only issue is you can't have access to that crypto until a certain date if you want to unstake it (12-30 days) So essentially if you had 5k of ETH staking it at 5% /yr you would be earning...

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I’m not sure Casper had actually read the articles he posted to be honest. There are plenty of problems with EV’s just like there are plenty of problem with petrol/diesel engine cars. But Casper appears to be baiting EV drivers, so I thought it would be worthwhile giving an honest appraisal of my e...

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