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NottsClaret wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 01, 2025 7:21 pm
Watched 3 minutes on YouTube. This lad is better than peak Kante and will win us the league in the next year or so.

That's not a serious comment right?

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Ekdal is decent but far too slow at this level. We can't be relying on hom as a starter

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It would havebeen abut softish but the other way round and that is given - its one of those 'he felt the touch and was entitled to go down' moments.

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Better than Kompany

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Surprised no-one has mentioned The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

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200 a night is a bit high i suppose but for what you got it's a bargain really. It would cost you at least half that for a fairly basic 2 rooms in any hotel or a family size room and nowhere near the quality you probably had

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There are a lot of middle aged to elderly men in this thread telling people what songs they like and what might have previously got the crowd going decades prior, but not necessarily will fit the bill nowadays. As much as I like some of these suggestions, they are catering for a particular demograp...

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Well we squandered a few bloody great chances, had a penalty denied and for most of those 270 minutes they played well behind the ball

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Sanitise, sanitise, sanitise. It's the biggest thing that can scotch the result. Getting sone wild yeast or bacteria isn't going to kill anyone or necessarily make them sick or anything but it could easily sour the taste. And don't overheat - this time of year your ale yeast will most likely do fine...

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I think there’s a player in there, and wouldn’t be sad to see him back. Would be a huge blow to the accountants though. Allowing his clause to be at the end of the season would have been banked on to balance out paying for Anthony and Humphreys at the same time. The money on Anthony alone would be ...

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I think he's got bags of potential. Only 24. In a suitable system, and a manager prepared to use him effectively, then I think he could be an asset. I think he got quite a bit of unfair criticism last season He was ******* rubbish. Turned up for about half a minute , bullied out of games, looked li...

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Well that's a massive shame. Was hoping we'd have some money to buy a player who might actually make a bit of a difference.

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This ******** philosophy that they paly 'the Spurs Way'

Arsenal have Lways been more pragmatic when required.

The difference is huge - Spurs ground has a load of old shitey ******** like 'to dare is to do' and all that plastered about. Arsenal simply list their long roll of honours

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Tbf to Oxford they gave it a bit of a go but they are just a bit ****

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Over to Leeds.

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Wasn't even a foul today. Goodness knows what that ref was thi king

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Never seen us win at Bramall Lane.

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I've never claimed to be clairvoyant, it was an opinion at the time, and it was a fair assumption. Am I supposed to look back and be grateful that we didn't attack Leeds, be grateful that we didn't work Prestons keeper, because I'm not. I stand by what I wrote at the time, the fact it looks like it...

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These posts are getting pathetic. My original post was written in January, and as I've already said, at the time I posted it I was right. Everyone arguing it was always going to be OK are being disingenuous to say the least. Nobody knew what the outcome of this season would be, we still don't. The ...

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I think anyone writing Sheffield United off at this stage is decidedly unwise. Certainly we have a clear advantage both in points and in form. But it's a bit like a two nil lead in a single match - it can feel comfortable but then become uncomfortable very quickly. Sheffield United are suddenly in ...

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There are 12 points available and we have a 5 point start. Sheffield have about a 2pt per game record - that would give them 8. If we only drew every game that would be 9 to make up from only 9 points (because 1 of those 4 games is a draw against us) so that's almost impossible given they'd need to ...

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Certainly speaks well of our defence. Out of interest, of those 12 stalemates, how many would you look back on and think we were pushing for a winner at the end? I'm not sure what else we could have done in the end to be honest. They literally parked the bus for the last 25 mins and in the 8 mins t...

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Quicknick wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 08, 2025 10:04 pm
Hardly. We didn't lose 3-0. We didn't even lose.

I.meant same kind of game. They were uo for it, worked hard and battled and the pitch.made it hard to be fluid consustenty. Like Deepdale.

I think it's a decent point in the end

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We were good for the first 20-30.mins but then they just kept hammering it in the air and our midfield struggled to actually get hold of the ball. We got drawn i to a bit of a s rap and lost. Was the fa cup at Deepdale mark II

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To be fair they worked very hard and put 11 men behind the ball most of thw game but second half the ref was bloody awful.

Anyway another point

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Bloody awful last r minutes. Ball.must have been unplayable for about 45 seconds

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Bloody awful game this.

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Our penalty ban continues

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They've dragged us into a scrap

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We played it around quite well while getting beaten every week in the prem. Takes all sorts to win games. True. But there's a bit of a gulf in class here and it's fairly obvious. I think they've set up well and caused a few problems but we've looked fairly co portable for most of that half. We shou...

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Haha... you'd struggle to tell who's top and bottom? Really? There's one team hammering it into the air every chance and one playing it around....

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Whooooooooooosh

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They are pretty industrial, the pitch is garbage. They have not much to offer but they're battling hard. We said it would be a rough one.

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Have we gone back in time? There's more sa d on that pitch than Southport beach

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Yeah he is really improving. He's rarely making those silly mistakes or being ribbed if the ball by strength. I think this is a better side than last time. If we had a goalscorer like Tella we would be probably already promoted. It's why I am not con dried about playoffs - I'm confident there isn't ...

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We will win it said it since xmas, although i was negative before Ill enjoy this more than most I said at Christmas we would be in the top 3 and could see us being unbeaten to the end of the season. We were clearly starting to gel going forward and it was more of a question if we could turn more dr...

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Massive win today especially going behind. That is a huge statement. It's is ours to lose now.

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Garbage utter garbage (for both sides really) - i think they were using percentage dice randomly to make decisions. The ope ing goal was a scandalous decision. There wasn't even 1 player between him and the goal line when that shot is taken

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longsidetrumpet wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:49 pm
He’s taking the P, always. Full credit for knowing the original is by the Marvelettes though

He's made that joke before so the post on this thread is a self cover of his original

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That's true Ric. But your point about calmness is a good one. We rarely look flustered at all - i think Leeds were similar but recently are starting to flake a bit. Sheffield always look like they're playing on the edge a bit That calmness will be a crucial edge for us (both for the run in and for -...

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Yep it's mental isn't it Ric? We've been probably the best side overall since the turn of the year now

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If we have 28 why are we not on that list? AI is rubbish

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:37 pm
his attempted pass to Flemming was nearly the pass of the season

Good defending to just stretch the leg there to deny Fleming a near certain goal

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Nice to see that. Watching watford-sunderland earlier in feb (i think) and at half time thwybwere analysing Watfords defence against crosses sayingbtheybwere one of the highest in the Champ for conceding from crosses and when they put up the goals conceded from crosses it was half as much again as w...

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Quietly and successfully getting on with the job in hand

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Yep. Great win and I am very very positive now. That's the first time we've taken the step having had the chance ro leapfrog with an earlier game.

Confident we have the mental strength and on the field I don't think there's anyone better

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We didn't go for the jugular tonight. I thought Foster and Laurent should both have come on on the hour, and Edwards was lucky to last as long as he did. Ultimately West Brom had a patched up line up including a midfielder at centre back and we didn't really challenge them in the second half. Thoug...

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Ref spotted **** all the entire 90. He even helped the baggies waste time i the 7 added on. What a ******* joke.

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I still have the second half commentary somewhere on a C-90 cassette. David Jones and David Jones only, no sidekick on comms back then Was gonna say i was sure there was 2nd half commentary rather than 'goal action' !!! I remember coming downstairs to put on the radio to find it was 0,0 at halftime...

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I'm all for that. I think it's quite conceivable we could remain undefeated ti the end of the season. And now we are scoring more maybe we might? We went 10 wins o the bounce under VK

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