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I don’t know what some fans watch, I think he’s technically brilliant and see a real player in him. Some of the dribbling and turns are outrageous bits of skill, the structure of the team is just terrible. The sides so bad it’s easy to scapegoat the player who runs around like a headless chicken th...

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Well what is ? The post office are saying there could be 300 plus who were correctly convicted and they have the “evidence”. Why for one second would we believe one word they say or a shred of their so called evidence ? Remember the innocent and possibly the odd guilty person have already suffered ...

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bfc8 wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:38 am
Root 66 not out 66 when I looked.

Is that a tribute to the late Fred Elliot?

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Why would the offer have been illegal? Surely the club could make an offer to buy shares at whatever value and on whatever terms they deem reasonable? No. If the club has paid £x to the majority shareholders, and they also want to buy the minority shareholders' shares, they are supposed to offer th...

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Taken a long time for a lot on this board to realise that Brownhill is at best a poor championship player. True enough. You've clearly forgotten last season when he proved himself to be a very good championship player. Those of us with longer memories, memories that go back a full season or more, h...

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I think the answer is as simple as saying that tall players are better headers of the ball than small players.

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The stuff that was originally added to make long life milk, is now added in smaller doses to ordinary milk, which is why it lasts longer. As for going off, there is little danger in drinking sour milk. You can buy it off the shelf. And even if drinking sour milk is in some way bad for your particula...

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works both ways though, i suspect some claiming they are happy to be single and have no kids say that as a coping mechanism for not being fortunate enough to experience it I think, rather than accusing people of lying, it might be both more tactful and more accurate to suppose that such people woul...

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Whilst not wishing to hijack, the name Rebecca Welch reminded me…. Did she get another game in the PL after the Fulham game? Bournemouth tried to make out she had a shocker because she sent off Billing for kicking a Forest player. Some of them believed that if you kick someone because he is trying ...

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alboclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:47 pm
I'm no sold on, dyche did what he had to with the squad he had thinking.
Some of them players became better "footballers" overnight when he left.

Which players became better footballers?

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Out of two possible reasons why Man city are better than Burnley - either (1) that they have spent more money on better players, or (2) that their manager shouts louder than ours - I'd say the spending money is the really significant factor. If Pep lost his voice and Kompany got sent off a few times...

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I'm going to say if Trafford has conceded say 5 by his errors, do we think that Muric would have conceded fewer over the same number of games from mistakes. He's been blamed for a lot more than 5. Liverpool 3 goals conceded, he was blamed for 2. Fulham 2 goals conceded, he was blamed for 2. Man Cit...

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Wasn’t Trafford heard shouting for the ball? No idea, but even if he was, that is a signal for the players to get out of the way of Trafford, not a signal to stop marking the forwards. Not that anyone was marking Jota. Obviously Trafford made the wrong choice, and his better choice would have been ...

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I can't believe that our defence left Jota unmarked from the corner because they felt that Trafford was coming. Past evidence would have suggested that Trafford wasn't likely to come, and the defence between them ought to have stopped Jota from having a free header.

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The biggest difference between those two situations is that we didn't spend going up towards 20 million on Joe Hart. So when SD belatedly brought Heaton back into the team for Hart -- it was a purely football decision. Why is this nonsense theory that Kompany would rather be relegated than be seen ...

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Its not Trafford's fault he has been put in this position. Of course he is going to make mistakes at his age. Additionally he has no experience of playing at this level. If you are going to blame someone blame Kompany and the club policy He's got more experinece of playing at this level than Muric ...

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This one isn't on VAR. All refs are trained nowadays to give a free kick when a player falls over and not to give it when a player doesn't fall over. 10 refs out of 10 would wave play on when a player gets kicked but carries on. You hear it all the time, "if he had gone down, the ref would have had ...

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Surely top half. If you count up the goals he has been blamed for, it's at least half of them, which puts us better than all bar Liverpool and Arsenal. When you add in the extra goals that Muric would have created with his passing - 4 or 5 at least - then we would surely be challenging for 6th place.

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Anyone familiar with the Chronicles of Narnia books might remember elderly Trumpkin saying "The boy's useless?" on being introduced to Eustace. Prophetic, perhaps?

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A pen, pencil, or key in its eye might help.

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The dog itself is like any other in that you socialise,train and treat it correctly it’s going to be a lovely dog. The problem is the people who are drawn to owning these dogs because of their image. The don’t tend to look after them correctly and that’s when the behavioural problems begin . That's...

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If fans were given an opinion poll where the only option was "I am in favour of VAR", and no other vote would be counted, they would still struggle to find a majority. I think it would be a 0-0 draw. I don't know anyone who is remotely in favour. One or two who say it could work but the current syst...

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Certain types of dogs have certain instincts. For example, Border Collies have an instinct for rounding up sheep (or other animals). Part of this, no doubt, is the way they have been bred. XL Bullies have been bred to be fighting, aggressive, violent, lethal. So it is no surprise that they have that...

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mkmel wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:25 pm
I think these Bully XL dogs feel no pain whatsoever.

You can hit them over the head with a spade and still it makes no difference.

Perhaps if you use the sharp end?

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I've been told that sticking a finger or two into its eyes can be very useful too. Apparently if you can hurt a dog sufficiently, it doesn't think "I'll hurt him more", it thinks "Ow, that hurts, I'm off".

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At least the breaks make a good chance to see some non-league or lower league (Accrington) football.

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I bet Sheff Wednesday are furious. I suppose Blackburn have found a way stopping relegation rivals signing players, though. Lure players away at the last minute with a better offer, but don’t click the ‘submit’ button on the registration portal and leave everyone in limbo. I wonder if anyone has an...

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Eh? Rovers operate at a huge loss Any potential buyer would face huge issues because the club is running at a loss, mainly due to players wages See Bolton, after Eddie sold them, to see what happens The Venkys are obliged to keep pumping money into the place because the alternative is administratio...

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What advantage have Rovers had from putting in the money the Venkys have, they have got them out the championship once and that was to the 3rd tier. There's no way of knowing where they would be if thay had had £400m less money to spend over the last few years. But the chances are it would be lower...

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Jamesy wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:30 pm
VK is dying on more than a Trafford hill. The ineffectual Amdouni and Ramsay are firmly dug in on this hill.

Ramsey has started 3 games this season. I wouldn't say that counts as "firmly dug in".

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claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:22 pm
Would you rather we had the Venkys running us or them ?

No question that Alan Pace is a better football man than the various people Venky's have put in. But on the other hand, there are certain advantages to having an owner who puts £300m into the club rather than an owner who takes £100m out.

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Quicknick wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:42 pm
I won't be gloating if they go down. If we do, we'll need to get back up double-quick or we could go the same way.

True enough. Remember they have an owner willing to put £20m per year into the club. We don't.

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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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