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fatboy47 wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:53 pm
Alternative view in same rag.

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Maybe don't aim for a 3-bed semi as your first foray onto the property ladder?

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Nothing at present travels faster than light … so even if we knew of little green men on a planet currently it could take 20,000 years travelling at the speed of light to get there .. are we nearly there yet cries from the kids in the back perhaps .. I think one day it could be possible to travel F...

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WHOOOOOSHHHHH!!!!!!

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OK, thanks - I'll give the final a watch tonight.

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I watched it last night for the first time for ages. I used to watch it a lot and go to a few tournaments when Phil Taylor was in his heyday. As dominant as Taylor was, he dragged others along with him and he used to at least get a decent challenge now and then. Littler was excellent but I was under...

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Dive.

Interestingly they’ve just shown the Longstaff one at the other end. Minimal contact on his foot, goes down, not given.

We can add inconsistency to incompetence for the officials.

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ElectroClaret wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:01 pm
This.
It's practically automatic for some now.

The only reason it took him so long to throw himself over is that he looked up and thought “hang on that’s an open goal”.

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CombatClaret wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 01, 2024 9:58 pm
I think if I was running at 18mph and someone clipped my heel with their elbow that might knock me off my stride.

You’d have been released at 16 with balance like that.

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chekhov wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 01, 2024 9:54 pm
He didn’t dive. As you say, why would he with an open goal?

Because his first instinct when he feels a touch in the area is to dive.

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He dived when he could have just put the ball into the net. Cheating at its finest..VAR is ruining football along with very poor referrees..I'm at a loss what they will come up with next.. It’s almost instinctive now. Could’ve just tapped the ball into an empty net but felt the touch, had half a se...

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If this frees up a bit of cash for a left back then good.

Benny was unplayable at the end of last season but he’s 27, not contributing this season and we’ve higher priorities.

He’s not the messiah…. in this league at least.

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I’m not sure Kompany’s here to build a new team every season. I’d like to think that talk of a fire sale is well wide of the mark.

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The Championship team from last year is better than the current iteration, as I suspected. That side last year would be 14-15th and staying up, playing very good football. Mistakes were made buying a bunch of young, inexperienced, midgets. Aye, Maarten (5’6”) and Tella (5’8”) with their bags of Pre...

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KRBFC wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 30, 2023 10:45 pm
Based on what we’ve seen from Cullen, Roberts and Al Dakhil this season I suspect it wouldn’t be better.

And Barnes up front would have been in double figures by now.

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Bearing in mind that Foster is moving too fast for the camera (hence the clown shoes), how can they be sure to the inch of where he was? Bearing in mind that Foster would be moving at about 3 inches in 1/100th of a second, can they be absolutely sure that that picture was taken at the exact 1/100th...

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Claretforever wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 30, 2023 3:53 pm
The offside calls were both correct.

If the frame was taken at the moment the ball was touched.

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burnleymik wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 26, 2023 10:30 pm
Prizes were absolutely laughable. Fluffy car dice, water bottle, key chain etc.

I was under the concourse but could still make out the PA. I turned to my mate at one point and said “whatever’s going on up there, they’re giving some decent prizes away, someone has just won a kitchen”

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I'd watch him take penalties against both Mary Earls AND Mary Earps. Maybe they could both go in goal to even it up a bit?

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I’d be interested.

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The BBC Breakfast team just introduced it by saying “it never fails to disappoint” which sums the current format up quite well.

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We’ve spent 100 million on what? I honestly think if we hadn’t spent a bean, then last season’s team untouched would’ve faired better than this lot. Maybe it would but never an option with so many players on loan. We’ve bought players who aren’t ready for the Prem but who have potential. I’m quite ...

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Been watching us since 1994. This is easily the worst team of players and the most useless manager we have had in that period. I've been frustrated, disappointed, hard done by this season, but tonight sat here on a depressed and miserable Turf I'm genuinely embarrassed but also angered for really t...

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Rileybobs wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 16, 2023 2:41 pm
I presume those abducted would have to be replaced by other people who would also require remuneration.

Indeed they would.

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Half of the people listed could be abducted by aliens and I wouldn’t notice and the quality of output wouldn’t drop.

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Financial pressures?

The BBC pay out disgustingly high salaries to a bunch of non entities. I wonder how many people have to pay a licence fee to line the pockets of the top 20 on this list - and that’s before a programme has been made.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainmen ... 156287.amp

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Burnley fan I think, and the reason we got the nickname....

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I haven't time to go through every point there, but of course fewer people would have died if we'd locked down earlier. The delay meant the virus spread like wildfire. Boris didn't care and was dismissive of how dangerous it could be. He was more concerned about the damage to the economy... Until h...

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That's exactly what we don't know, and what the enquiry should be trying to find out. Important questions: Did lockdown work? Was it right to close the schools? How many lives did lockdown save and how many did it cost? Has the damage to the economy caused by lockdown done more harm than not lockin...

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There's some form of wierd thing on here where people have to try and do down anything that came before to make it seem like the right now is way better. Barnes at his peak for us got double figures in the PL in terms of goals and was contributing bucket loads to the team. At the moment Amdouni has...

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Warnock or Mark Hughes for me.

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bumba wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 25, 2023 12:08 pm
Whatever gets said on here is on an even greater scale during matches, people get behind the team for 90 minutes but there's definitely shouted thoughts about certain players. They need to perform better to change that but let's hop that starts with today

Do we swap legs at half time?

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Maguire’s record for England is also very good. Englands record with Maguire playing is very good, but that's despite him not because of him. He's making at least one howler a game at the minute. Fortunately against teams like Malta and Macedonia it doesn't matter. Quick search... https://www.bbc.c...

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ElectroClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 18, 2023 12:11 am
Bottom line is, as everybody knows, (including the paying fans) there was nowt at stake.
That's why it was sh1t.

Avoiding injury was the name of the game.

Then he should have picked a team of players not quite sure of a spot in the squad for the Euro's.

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Alexander Arnold with our 2nd shot. So high that it’s affecting the flight path into Heathrow.

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BBC reporting we’ve had a shot. I must have missed it.

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Only the one serious error from Maguire too. #strong

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Big ask of Hendo to step up to this level. Brave selection.

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Hibsclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 02, 2023 1:13 pm
Tarkowski and McNeil

Oh. If we can pick players that aren't ours I'd take Ederson, Haaland and De Bruyne.

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What our current defence can't do is get past the opposition press. Beyer can go past a man, Ekdal drives forwards and Muric can pick a pass. We need them fit and playing, and hopefull bring in a left back in January. There were a couple of times last night when we did break through the press that w...

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Les Lawrence wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:45 am
He was booed when he played for us,so hardly surprising he got booed as a Everton player.Maybe we should have clapped his every touch,and booed our players

Sorry Les, not sufficient. You should have been up and down the touch line sprinkling rose petals in front of him.

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 01, 2023 11:05 pm
At a young age.

14. Not one of our own.

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I just don’t see an argument for one which can’t be applied to the other. Trafford concedes lots against the cream of the PL - The argument is to change him because ‘we can’t get any worse’ than Muric concedes three, despite doing little wrong. Muric is better passing - We stick him in and have one...

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He got booed. He set up a goal. Who cares?

Christmas is coming up. Some of you need to avoid anything that’s on at your local theatre.

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:06 pm
Appalling from those who attended. Can't call them fans tonight.
Not long ago, he was 'one of our own'. Disgrace.

Actually he wasn’t. We got him from Man Utd.

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Well if we go down and sack Kompany we’ll need a manager who knows how to get out of the Championship. Anyone know anybody that fits the bill?

Madness to sack Kompany. Yes it’s shite at the moment but we need to stick with it, accept whatever happens this season and come back stronger next season.

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Surely they take a shot of the instant the ball is kicked and the instant 1/100th of a second later (approx) when the kick finishes and use both as the guide. Don't they? Oh no, I see it now - they haven't got a shot of the exact instant so they take one or other either side and have a bit of a gue...

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That's the thing with football fans. They are loyal to the point of stupidity. That loyalty overrides rationale, and they don't vote with their feet. They acquiesce. Whatever changes are made to the modern game, they still turn up, week after week, grumbling but inadvertently endorsing the unwelcom...

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If the "vast majority" of fans oppose it, presumably there will be a lot of empty seats on the day which will be the best way possible of getting the message across.

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It's a decision that some don't like but that doesn't meant it's poor. Let's see how many turn up for the game.

It sounds great to me. With a 1pm kick off, even the Chelsea fans will be home in good time for anything that's planned for the evening.

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