There is an argument that the 30-minute halves with a stopwatch proposal is really motivated by commercial considerations. American Football has a lot of breaks in play which apparently allows for numerous short advertisement breaks. Broadcasters will try everything possible to squeeze in additional...

Might be a little cruel on the local turtles.

(From the stream, so take with a pinch of salt) Heaton - 7 Lowton - 8 Tarkowski - 7 (switched off for their first goal and I think we need competition for him, but still very much a fan) Mee - 8 Ward - 10 (+2 for a truly out of this world goal) Gudmundsson - 6 Cork - 7 Defour(*) - 10 (the architect ...

We were wonderful first half and Defour was running the show. I thought when they went down to 9 men we should have managed the game a bit better, although Chelsea are (or at least were) the best team in England and they were going hell for leather. Particularly after a win, I know that some of the ...

1) Your top 4 (In Order)

Man United
Man City
Arsenal
Chelsea

2) Your bottom 3 (In Order)

Burnley
Brighton
Huddersfield

3) Top Scorer

Romelu Lukaku

4) EPL Player of the Year

Kevin De Bruyne

5) EPL Young Player of the Year

Bernardo Silva

6) First Managerial Departure

Craig Shakespeare

He's got a great name if nothing else: 5 syllables! Would that be a club record?

Here is The Sun link if anyone is interested: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/3894044/everton-closing-in-on-beating-manchester-united-to-25m-signing-of-burnley-star-michael-keane-with-deal-wrapped-up-in-next-few-days/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; It does sound about right t...

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Hi Hieronymous, I guess you are aware that when Hollande was elected President in France and increased their tax rates on high earners that many of the high earners moved away from France. Several moved to London at that time. You might not remember the 1970s in Britain. Labour Gov't tax rates incl...

Other than leading the country strongly and securely of course.

I have no objection to your post - especially not at this time of night - but it's not answering my point. My point was that if you increase taxes on the rich, some of them will leave. The only implication was that Corbyn doesn't believe that. Neither of us know what Corbyn actually believes. Is he...

You follow whatever logic you like, as long as you recognise that it isn't necessarily the same as mine. I wasn't trying to give an all-encompassing tax-raising system, just pointing out that if Corbyn decides (for example) to raise double the amount of tax from rich people, then he won't do it by ...

Paul Waine wrote:Hi Dom, how many message boards are you and your team posting on? Doesn't it strike you as odd all these new posters who want to discuss politics. Someone might think there was a General Election coming up.

Mate your tinfoil hat is really snazzy, can you make me one too?

His ideas are nice, pleasant, fluffy ones, but they aren't sensible. Broadly speaking they involves taking vast sums of money off rich people while hoping those rich people don't leave the country and take their money with them. Following this logic we should probably lower taxes even further or be...

Heaton 6
Lowton 6
Keane 6
Mee 7
Ward 7
Boyd 7
Barton 4
Hendrick 4
Arfield 6
Barnes 5
Gray 6

Vokes 5


Thought the CMs let us down today, very sloppy.

I don't always think Dyche gets it right (which manager does?) but I imagine there is a good reason we do this. Corners do not have too many variables: there are two places you can take them from, and only a limited number of ways they can be taken (excluding taking them short or routines which is e...

I only come on here to find out about the club, particularly when I haven't seen the game and also in the transfer windows. Would it be possible for the people who want to debate politics and the state of society to have their own sub-forum? Yes, I know 'you don't have to read it' but the thread tit...

Dyche's main skill as a coach is in his man-management I think. Quite a few of our players are colourful characters but he gets them to play as if they really cared about the badge. Being on home turf with a home crowd bolsters the sense of being a team who are greater than the sum of your parts. Th...

My auntie's window cleaner told her that he was collecting payment from a bloke who told him that his girlfriend's boss has a brother-in-law who drives past the club every day and he claims to have seen Robbie Brady's car at the Turf late last night, but also thinks it could have just been some blue...

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