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I think we are now at the stage of goal and assist probability. With Dwight it is unlikely he will get more than 1 assist by May on current form. So for me it has to be Jay and Weghorst with Cornet wide. Unrelated but that loss of Orsic and not getting Barkley done after he apparently decided to com...

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In that 15 game run from Brentford at home to Spurs at home we got 17 pts from 15 games. Do that kind of run again (which was fairly average with only 3 wins) and we’ll finish on 35 points. That makes Brighton (technically) and everyone below catchable, though more likely it is only Brentford who ma...

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That we haven’t even replaced the cricket field stand is a joke and a disgrace. The roof needed fixing (literally) while the sun is shining and as the takeover proves, debt is possible which could have funded it with a sensible repayment plan. The trouble is, when we go down it is hard to see any of...

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I was wanting Cork to start and I would have played Jay with Cornet wide and Dwight right (or benched). However, that chance for Dwight was an absolute sitter, an easy header just as easy as Toney’s. I note it was Westwood who delivered it. I’m also reflecting on relegation battles being cagey affai...

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Westwood with more touches and passes than any other Claret. Just needs to find a moment.

Both sides lacking quality, probably due to fear, whoever can rise to their best level will win this, hopefully it is us. Clear heads and composure what we need.

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Chose to play golf today rather than go to Brentford so I’m hopeful by sods law that I’ve done my bit to get our win. UTC.

Cagey start.

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Is that right that they won’t have Chelsea fans at away games? I thought it was no away fans at Stamford Bridge. Ticket sales for their away games go to the home club so, nothing goes to Chelsea so I don’t see why that would be the case The sales are conducted by Chelsea though so it would have to ...

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By heck the Clarets aren’t half unlucky. We get Leicester, Vardy does us in one game, returns from injury to do us in another game, then gets injured again shortly after. Chelsea turn up, more or less full strength, roared on by their (foul) fans. Then they won’t have away fans for future fixtures. ...

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I certainly think countries like ours needs to seriously think about a missile defence system worthy of the name, if we threw effort into it like a Covid vaccine no nuke or other ICBM could ever penetrate our defences. I read an article on this the other day suggesting we have been complacent in thi...

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Very easy to see Brentford losing all of those after our game until Southampton three from the end.

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Malcom would be perfect but plenty of sides will want a cheap right winger (apart from wages) for a crucial 4 mths. Somebody like West Ham but many more options abroad, such as a return to Barca.

Can’t see us taking a punt on anyone now in that context. Need to keep focused.

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We only have City and Spurs of the big six to play, I’d say every other game is winnable, West Ham away the least likely. That leaves nine others. Southampton are bad away, Everton are worse. Newcastle not great either. Villa have lost eight away. Norwich, Brentford and Watford are the three best aw...

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Read page 1 of this, not page 2. Some mixed opinions but I think we are all agreed that goals are the defining thing regarding this decision - scoring and creating, who to play to do those two things. Cornet came back unfit, and didn’t we read something about issues in his personal life? Whatever, h...

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Pope 6 Roberts 6 Collins 6 Tarkowski 6 Taylor 5 Lennon 7 Westwood 5 Brownhill 6 McNeil 5 Weghorst 5 Rodriguez 6 Cornet 6 Lennon lively, McNeil wasteful, midfield overrun, Collins learning. That sums it up I think. Against a good side. Even taking a chance we may have lost. One thing I would observe,...

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Dwight has had at least 2 goals and 5 assists in the Prem for his 3 seasons to date, which is decent but not great, admittedly his last two haven’t hit the heights of his breakthrough year when he did it in half the games. This year’s 1 assist is not even close to being good enough. Lennon has beate...

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Haway man, they are what, 11 MPs and a very small % of the electorate If Putin thinks that shows "splits in the West" then he's even madder than I thought he was It isn’t just those though is it? The Tories are almost certain not to follow through fully on their rhetoric of sanctions to oligarchs b...

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Strange when Nigel Farage is making the same arguments as Diane Abbott (albeit it seems that Abbott's comments were before the invasion and she's now withdrawn them whereas Farage's were after the invasion). (Also, obviously I have no idea how reliable that fairly small twitter account is.) I tend ...

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I’m not going to comment on this Twitter thread given our twitchiness of political debate other than to say that it gives video commentary from Corbyn, Abbott and others about Ukraine. You know, the ones who could have been leading us through this crisis. If you wish to, feel free to click and have ...

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I just cannot see Russia being dominant in this century given their economy is the size of Spain, will reduce with sanctions to a fraction of that, and the world is loosening its dependence on hydrocarbons. China is another matter, and they are just as fierce and authoritarian. Just cleverer about i...

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Horrendous of course and tragic for Ukraine but one bright side to this is that it is abundantly clear Russia are totally incapable of moving against NATO. I had previously been concerned because Vlad has been angling for this for a decade or more, but I’m astonished at so many aspects of this, poor...

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Pope 8 Roberts 5 Taylor 5 Mee 7 Tarkowski 7 Lennon 7 McNeil 6 Brownhill 7 Westwood 5 Weghorst 6 Cornet 6 Collins 6 Rodriguez 6 I thought we were OK without the real spark. They flew at us from the start, well rested of course, and when they went 442 with their best front four we were suddenly strugg...

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Where the Russians seem to have miscalculated, and it is nothing to do with politics, is that our lives now in the West are so decadent and self absorbed that they thought we would all avoid conflict and “give” them Ukraine. Prioritising a long life for ourselves and family above all else. What we a...

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..... That guy has subsequently withdrawn that tweet and suggested that sadly it isn’t the case. On the wider issue, general observation, hard to see how either Putin or the West backs down, I expect him to cause a real mess in Kyiv, install a puppet government but face years of insurgency. I expec...

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Leeds are in total freefall, as are Brentford, Everton aren’t much better and have an owner suffering from sanctions which if nothing else may affect morale. If I were a betting man I’d be saying those three will all finish below us, in fact we have games in hand on two and the third has to come to ...

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Interesting read out of the China view.

https://www.neican.org/chinas-five-poin ... ine-issue/

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Busy week at work and my Twitter feed is suddenly huge. Too much news to catch up on. I reckon our advantage here is that such a despotic regime doesn’t lend itself to loyalty or to delegated authority. That in turn will lead to mistakes as every decision has to be escalated upwards. We have seen th...

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The best thing about our upturn in form aside from the obvious is that it bins the idea than Tony Loughlan was responsible for all our good tactics. I didn’t really believe that at the time and defensively we look to have really tightened up. At this rate Tarky will leave a hero, like a man possessed.

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If we play Collins every game and go down there is every chance the vultures will be in for him and we won’t be able to refuse. As it stands, he’ll be a mainstay of our promotion bid, and if we stay up he will be first choice then too. Less chance his head will get turned if he is under the radar. S...

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Fantastic by Eve and the girls. Curling seems to be so physically demanding, that Swedish captain who won mens gold has had 10 operations apparently, and Eve Muirhead has had hip surgery in recent years (and battles celiac disease too). I heard Muirhead had a chance to be a pro golfer too (plays off...

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No way are the auditors giving our accounts a clean bill of health if they show us getting £25m for Wood and paying £12m for Weghorst.

More likely they’ll call the fraud squad.

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GB didn’t have the clarity of mind to pull off the world class shots when it mattered but then they should still be proud of silver.

I’m led to believe there are more injuries in curling than ski jumping or luge which is a bit counter intuitive but it looks physically tough doing all that sweeping.

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Lots of talk about how much Brighton have spent, but by my reckoning the Clarets have spent more in the last 4 years.

It’s just highly unfortunate we spent it not on players, but on buying ourselves

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Neighbour has about 10 of the ugly things, about 25 foot, blocking much of our afternoon light. Reading these tips has got me foaming at the mouth, I’d love to get those things down.

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I would get the players to choose the walkon music, something to help get them pumped and ready to go.

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Lets not forget two of Newcastle’s three wins have come from lucky free kicks (Shelvey and yesterday’s Trippier one). One plunged under the goalie and the other was weirdly deflected. Then there is other luck like Watkins being offside by a toenail despite these so called thicker lines. So they coul...

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Just watched it on the Sky 90 minute rerun. Definitely hurt around the left hip area from that initial collision (the one after Pope launched one), no knee injury as far as I can see, went off holding his glute / upper hamstring as others have said. I thought his scream was one of frustration at the...

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Lots of doom and gloom on this prediction thread, things like “if we don’t get ‘x’ points we are down for sure”. There is a lot of ropey maths at play in various posts, but there are a lot of grounds for optimism. E.g. if we focus on the home games Newcastle, Norwich and Brentford only have 6 left, ...

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If we get 7 points we are then 4 points off a point per game (38 point season) which I think would keep us up. We are currently 7 points off that trajectory. That’s what we have to do. I won’t guess the points from these games until I hear how Weghorst is, if he is injured we are in deep, deep troub...

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Roberts.

Lowton has done well but is ageing and doesn’t have a great goal or assist record. Roberts looks to offer more there and should tighten up at the back in time, Lowton is technically better but we need goals, simples.

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I suspect all the refs are more aware of our 3 year red card record than any managers pre match comments. They’ll talk about us at length in their ref training sessions. So I’m not too worried about Klippetty Klopp. He’s saying we will put up more of a threat than a typical bottom three side, probab...

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The only thing certain about this is that it emphasises why us fans need to get 100% behind the whole club in a gargantuan effort to stay up. Relegation is the thing that wrecks this club in the new structure so its all about staying up, but as a fallback I do believe that if we went down we have 1-...

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Pope 8 Roberts 5 Tarkowski 9 Mee 8 Pieters 8 McNeil 6 Brownhill 5 Westwood 6 Cornet 5 Weghorst 8 Rodriguez 8 Lennon 7 If I rated each half it would be 3s and 9s. We flew at them second half, got an instant reward and could have had four within 10 minutes. First half they were brilliant, we were very...

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I’ve not doubted him all season. Seems like he wants to go out of the club on his shield like Trippier did.

I suspect this is his career highlight, too good a player to be on the bench but I think he will be, at a Leicester or a West Ham.

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First half was a rout.
Second half was a wout.

Woutstanding. Quickly learning he cam’t take time to chest it down like he did in Germany, as he adapts he shows he is capable of playing it quickly. That will bring more teammates into play than Wood did, any coincidence Jay finally scored?

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I may be wrong but I can’t remember much VAR controversy with Attwell compared to Pawson and Mason (all games not just ours). Similarly Dean as ref I can’t remember many problems.

That, and our 5000th game, maybe it will be our lucky night

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Just tried Wordle, Lewdle and Nerdle for the first time - got them in 3, 4 and 4 respectively. The problem with the last two is that it has to be a legit lewd word each time and a legit calc each time. That in itself works the brain out. Probably best not to play Lewdle moments before sending a work...

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I bemoan his lack of end product too but when he switched to the right his touch map, dribbles and passes were in more dangerous areas. All this talk about him wasted on the right is thus wrong. On the left he often turns inside onto his wrong foot which limits his effectiveness. I do suspect that i...

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Look, I’d have been perfectly happy to sack Dyche after his teamsheet in Istanbul (and in earlier rounds where we ragged it through). That pretty much consigned us to having survival as our only objective each season which personally isn’t for me. That issue is now in the past though. But people say...

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Last night was full of extenuating circumstances. The weather was the kind that pundits tend to say guarenteed a turgid stalemate. Cornet had to adapt from Cameroon to that. Weghorst had his first game at that level of physicality (even Bayern don’t defend that physically). Roberts had his first hom...

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taio wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 05, 2022 10:48 pm
We are not talking dry and sunny days or a bit of rain and wind. Were you actually there?

He probably didn’t realise a pillow blew onto the pitch at one point, that summed the evening up

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