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I thought we looked more like our old selves against United, in this sense, just missing that final third ruthlessness, which of course United had. Newcastle very adept at overpowering teams and snuffing them out as we saw last week, plus I think that's five clean sheets in a row for them. I'm keep...

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Trafford 8 - his save from the diving header was outstanding Roberts 6 - looks ponderous at times like he needs more time to think AAD 6 - one point up for the header at goal minus one for the penalty, considering how much pressure they were under either with or without the ball I thought both centr...

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Fifth clean sheet in succession for the Mags underlines how tough it was to get at Newcastle and even if you break through Nick Pope fills the goal as he did with that early chance and then made a brilliant save from that header in the second half. One thing that stood out for me was that before the...

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Ashley Williams is another dead weight on that show.

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I remember Popey as the scrawny youth depicted above when I lived in Bury St Edmunds. He was Bury Town’s number two keeper and a back up to their first team keeper who was a decent for that level and much more robust at the time than Nick. I saw him make a couple of rare first team appearances for B...

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Of course a football club is of vital importance to the community. But that does not mean a community owns the club. Tell me any football clubs that are owned by the community. Would that same community be happy to fork out their own life savings if the club went bust ? Because when clubs go into r...

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Sunderland and Newcastle are digital tickets only via smartphones.

I went to Sunderland vs Ipswich recently and my ticket was digital via smartphone. I have to say that passing through the turnstile was very quick.

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For me the late goal was a reward for all those fans who stayed on to the end of the game. Despite being four goals down it was a defiant gesture from our players.

The other was the lovely drive home across the Pennines in the evening autumnal sunshine.

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spt_claret wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 30, 2023 7:21 pm
Would be happier with Foster and Benson over Redmond and Jay but here's hoping the squad players stake a claim.

Doubt if Redmond could play much worse than Benson did on Sunday.

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The team bus bricking was the second item on R5 Live national news bulletin read out just now.

So still in national news headlines bringing shame on the town.

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IF Everton sign Adams from Southampton and McNeil and Harrison are available the Toffees could have a whole new front line that might enable them to take six points off Wolves and the the Blades.

I wouldn’t write them off yet.

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Not sure this is good for us, as Everton are imploding too early and might appoint a manager who could revive them.

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Bosscat wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 20, 2023 3:53 pm
Careful Stayingdownforever will accuse you of ruining threads by making silly jokes

Really? Is there something I should know?

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Do you think if Duran scores twice it will be a Reflex action?

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You feel it won’t be long before Sean starts selecting two goalies on the bench to make his point and cover his jacksy.

He’s lost Mina and Coady so he has to play Keane with Tarky, if either get injured or suspended they could be in even more trouble.

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Basher’s 100th league goal.

Looks like he has galvanised the Budgies.

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Costa Rica is amazing. Wild scarlet macaws in the trees in the motorway service station! If you like wildlife it’s one one of the best places to go. Make sure you have or hire a guide on any trips as they know where to look, can recognise the bird calls and even smell monkey poo. We booked our trip ...

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“Right” said Fred climbing up the ladder with his crowbar gave a mighty blow.

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Rileybobs wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 09, 2023 10:09 am
I presume you're going off goals scored, in which case statistically Ben Mee was a better striker in the EPL than Jay Rod and Foster over the last couple of seasons, so you've not really thought that one through.

Do you reckon Kompany & Bellamy have "not really thought that one through" as well?

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None of our centre forwards are proven at PL level, so there's no comparable using that metric. All we have to go off is career statistics across other leagues, and WW comfortably out-performs our other centre forwards in that regard. I can't believe this is even a controversial or debatable point ...

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I hope we don't waste money on Clarke imo there's better abroad for less money.He was poor v Ipswich and not what we need Indeed, I was at SoL yesterday and he was for the most part useless on the day and I have been a fan of him previously. Maybe he wasn't interested because he thinks he is on his...

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Why did they introduce the 50p coin?

So you can get it out of a Yorkshire man’s hand with a spanner.

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Full of Potatoes & Carrots The pitch was very flat and very green. If you want to see vegetables growing and watch football the place to go is Heaton Stannington, also in the Northern League. There are several vegetable patches located within the perimeter of the ground accessible from the surround...

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Watched West Allotment Celtic vs Shildon in the Northern League today. The home team included Jack Errington former Claret youngster. A good game of footy, interestingly the home team had two players sin binned for ten minutes each for trapping off to the ref. Not sure if this is an experiment for t...

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I note that FC Isle of Man are in the NW Counties league. How does this work re travelling costs especially mid week games?

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Let’s not forget that Di Maria scored in World Cup Final and is a current pick for the World Champions, having said that he is also the type of player who only turns up when he fancies it as his only appearance at Turf Moor would testify to.

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Certainly looked good on the ball and carried the game to the Portuguese team.

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Has anyone watched these who also saw the entire game? They seem heavily Benfica oriented. Makes it seem like we were lucky since they had such poor finishing or final balls. Watched all bar first 20 minutes. Looks a pretty fair summary to me. We were away to a top European team and restricted them...

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Benfica won 15 out of 17 of their home games last season and scored in every one and only failed to score against Inter in the Champions League. The defending tonight was excellent and that will be critical next season as we will have a lot less possession than last season. Muric was imperious in th...

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Looks like Al Dakhil has gone off as O'Shea is still on

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Dodgson whacks it in !

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Zero wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:36 pm
I must say I like the look of Sagres for Benfica.

Yep, he's all over the place!

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Benfica were Champions League quarter finalists last season and were knocked out by Inter.

VK has lined up some tough assignments to get the boys tuned up. Genk were Belgian Champions last season as well.

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ksrclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:42 am
It would also be best if I won the Euro Jackpot and never had to work a day in my lift again

Bellboy - carry the bloody baggage out.

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Everton in for Vardy who can depart from Leicester for a small fee (1 year left on his contract)

Should we make a cheeky bid?

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houseboy wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 12, 2023 11:14 am
Did they still do the Z cars theme?

Nope

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Club Staff haven’t been paid for four months. Doesn’t look like a happy ship.

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Saw them most recently at Wylam Brewery Newcastle about a year ago. Different gravy watching them live with a bunch of Geordies, but they are all good versatile musicians & Alan Hulls son in law does a good job on the vocals. Rod Clements is the only original member. Easy to forget how many banging ...

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Despite all the angst about England throwing away their wickets etc. Looking at the first two games despite all that they lost the first game because they couldn’t get Cummins out who batted well above his average. In the second game they lost by 43 runs which may well have been attainable without t...

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One or two posters above suggesting he wasn't such a bad chap, but basically him and his crew ( 3 other BES employees got jail terms) were pirates plundering small businesses. They should have made him walk the plank but now the taxpayer will have to feed and shelter him for circa 13 years.

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I think there is a parallel to the Bairstow dismissal in football. Consider when an opponent goes down injured and the defending team put the ball into touch. The etiquette is for the opposition to take the throw in and return the ball to the goalie usually and then carry on as per normal. Haven’t t...

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The utter irony of Aussies complaining about sledging.

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Three MCC members suspended for sledging the Aussie players in the Long Room.

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Extras second highest score in the Aussie second innings.

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Sproggy. I’ve never heard of external and internal dividends. Would you be kind enough to enlighten me as to what the difference is please?

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TW is apparently £14 billion in debt and hasn’t paid out a dividend for six years. I am not sure if this is the case at Thames but my experience in dealing with Anglian Water is that in their case they are owned by a Canadian hedge fund. AW borrows money from another company in the hedge fund portfo...

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Bearing in mind Prigozhin is a mercenary I wonder if the Allies/US/Ukrainians have just simply bribed him in some way to stage a coup? 400 Wagner vehicles on their way to Moscow allegedly and Russian military vehicles on the streets of Rostov and Moscow seem to indicate something is definitely afoot.

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Good question Stayingup. O’Shea has had more experience at a higher level including EPL & International appearances however that doesn’t necessarily make him a better player.

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Going off the home match vs Swansea, the "Swansea Way " seemed to be passing the ball a lot and then getting hammered. Duff will soon put a stop to that.

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According to the Molineaux fan web site Collins is likely to go for circa Brentford for £25 million so there won’t be much profit for Burnley even if there is a sell in clause.

Of more interest is that Wolves seem to be offloading players to “balance the books”

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