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claretcarrot93 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 18, 2025 2:53 pm
Reliable doing a lot of heavy lifting. Studies by people who have had funding cut.

Especially as current estimates show deaths in the US will probably only go up by 29,000 this year.

martin_p

Plissken wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 18, 2025 2:49 pm
Who else used "I was only following orders"?

Just about every soldier that has ever lived.

martin_p

There's reliable studies that those cuts have already resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. It's been a little more than just reducing the size of the public sector. As there always is when you reduce the public sector. I’m not saying I agree with the cuts, just that cutting the public secto...

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I know this will get the thread shut down, but I would say throwing Nazi salutes, making racist statements, promoting racist and anti-semitic viewpoints, supporting openly and not so openly racist politicians (including some that have agreed with Far Right and Nazi groups) and doing their work for ...

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Plissken wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 18, 2025 1:51 pm
No, I call Nazis Nazis because they are Nazis. It's not a difficult position to comprehend.

So why is Musk a Nazi?

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Me too. The club is associating itself with a complete dickhead with this move. If the salute isn't evidence of his tendencies then his behaviour with DOGE and his other recent pronouncements show where he is positioned politically. A total cockwomble. There are quite a few on here who sit on that ...

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so today @BurnleyOfficial has 823.5k followers - the follower growth has greatly slowed across social media for the club in the last 18 months - it will be interesting to see if this gives way to a new surge as far as the deal goes it feels like an experiment by X and will be interesting to see jus...

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Plissken wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 18, 2025 1:39 pm
You really do have a problem with people doing things for fun and enjoyment that you don't approve of.

You call people Nazis for fun? Ok..

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Are you really that naive to think it wasn't a Nazi salute? Steve Bannan made the same salute not long after. I don't even think they're trying to hide their Nazi sympathising any more. It was certainly a power thing, but even if it was, the salute wasn’t really the main problem with Nazism and i’v...

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Good point. The era of Nazis being thought of as bad people seems to be over. I really don’t like Musk, but (apart from that one ‘salute’ which probably wasn’t actually a Nazi salute) which of his actions are you using as evidence of him being a Nazi? He’s a deeply unpleasant individual but I doubt...

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Women’s football is a huge participation sport now, look at the number of girls playing every week. It’s great. The standard - compared to where it is now, not compared to men’s football which is an entirely different sport - will only improve. When the current Lionesses were juniors they were like...

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no issue with inclusivity, but its a spectacle that once the mainstream media decided was worthy of trumpeting, we as a potential audience are expected to elavate it into normality. the reality is it is weak and insipid. free tickets and BBC obsession cant paper over this . It should grow naturally...

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If your enjoyment of sport is solely about the quality on display, you’ll be forever disappointed with women’s football. They’ll never be as good as men. I can still enjoy a game of amateur football, kids football, women’s tennis, an F2 race or a Championship game, even though the levels are way be...

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123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 15, 2025 11:20 am
From watching both MTB series, I can’t see any way that Alan Pace passes any control to anyone, would take a massive amount of letting go

Plus him and his family have settled round the area now, his daughter has even married a local.

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jtv wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 15, 2025 10:50 am
Anyone done a roll call of who is and who isn't in Portugal?

I’m not there.

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He no longer goes to away games? He was doing commentary for all the away games last season, is he doing it from a studio? Or is this from this coming season? The Fleming goal at Watford that the live tv feed managed to miss made it very clear he wasn’t there, he was as confused as everyone else wa...

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I think this is the first properly professional interviewer the clubs had since I started watching in 2003. Only taken them 22 years to find someone good. Personally I think every step we take towards being a ‘cookie cutter’ club moves us away from being Burnley. I like the interviewers we have wit...

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Pretty academic now, of course, but if Siraj had his wits and his bearings about him on that last delivery, could he have kicked the ball away as it trickled towards the stumps? Think I read somewhere that providing a batsman has already hit the ball, (which he had) then he would be ok doing that. ...

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Well isn’t that typical. Have the match on in the background while working from home and the win in clinched in the ten minutes I’m out of he house to pick my son up. Another cracking test match though!

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Man United for me. I know they were/are a shadow of their former selves, but it’s still a win at Man United.

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TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 14, 2025 3:52 pm
Gutsy effort by the Indian tail. New ball due in 13 overs, i wonder how significant that might be.

Don’t think India can afford to let it get that far.

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ChrisG wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 14, 2025 2:45 pm
That overturned review looked a bit iffy. Umpires call at least it looked

Looked outside the line in real time to me.

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India making a go of this. 59 needed, two wickets in hand.

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The reality is he's now failed on his own terms (he didn't win enough games with us, nor with Everton and got the boot twice) and it's hard to see him getting a PL gig again. Not that he needs it, I'm sure he's more than comfortable. Seriously? Didn’t win enough games with us? He was here nearly te...

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Really interesting that.

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at this point, probably easier just to list the handful of players that haven't signed with us... I've liked the signings but we can only play 11 and will need depth: it looks like we are doing the shotgun approach. hoping that a couple of people will star, and then be sold for a huge profit. Talk ...

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ollieclarets8 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 11, 2025 3:41 pm
Twitter rumour saying Newc have made a £25m upfront / £5m add-ons new bid, which seems wayyyyy too low.

Wasn’t their last bid £26m?

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Commy wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 11, 2025 3:10 pm
What a difference. Everyone was upset when he didn't want to sign after relegation. Now, they are underwhelmed if it is him.

We were about to embark on a season in the Championship after relegation.

martin_p

Great manager for us but the bloke is a complete d!ick. Within 5 seconds he was getting a dig in about style of play. Thought he came across as quite patronising at times whilst also just plainly making things up such as criticism of the signings of Barnes and Wood. Darren Bentley calling him gaffe...

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gandhisflipflop wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 11, 2025 1:00 pm
Scott arfield?

Canadian international.

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Goliath wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 11, 2025 10:59 am
He's always had that little bit of paranoia

I mean, you only have to look at this thread to work out why!

Great watch/listen that. In my 50 years as a claret Sean Dyche is without doubt the best manager we’ve had and I’ll always have a soft spot for him and be interested in what he says/does.

martin_p

Unfortunate for all concerned but I guess it’s the risk you take with artists approaching 80.

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Trafford has been pretty open about wanting to leave last summer and even admitted kicking up a fuss around the training ground. I very much doubt anythigns changed in regards to wanting to go to Newcastle, especially now his mate has gone. Not that I’m suggesting it changes his thinking, but 12 mo...

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dermotdermot wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:45 am
Sounds a bit dicey. Will they be armed?

The Newcastle mafia are coming!

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dvalley69 wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 09, 2025 10:57 am
Why are MPs getting involved in something like this?

They’re not, which is why it was rejected.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:54 am
2019/20 points to be removed by 14th July

My attendance dropped right off after March that season!

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Guller Bull wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 09, 2025 9:43 am
Esteve chat

https://tothelaneandback.com/2025/07/09 ... e-signing/

This has already been rubbished hasn’t it?

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Grimsdale wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 09, 2025 9:08 am
Newcastle recruitment team heading to Burnley this morning, looking to get the Trafford deal agreed.
https://x.com/NUFCWill1892/status/1942857029049020863

Don’t they have phones up there?

Suggest who ever they expect to talk to takes a sickie today.

martin_p

I find that underwhelming Kenton. Here we have a club that in recent times has wone the EPL, the FA Cup, and pushed again for a top four slot in the EPL. What has Cifuentes achieved as a manager ?? Also surprised SD has ruled himself out-I would have thought it was an ideal club to rebuild his care...

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boyyanno wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 08, 2025 12:30 pm
https://sportwitness.co.uk/everton-and- ... er-tussle/

Not sure how reliable the link is but he'd be perfect.

Let’s face it, were third in a queue of three there.

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Etienne Youte https://sportwitness.co.uk/celtic-and-burnley-keen-on-same-signing-player-expected-to-leave-club-set-price/ Pretty sure ‘journalists’ are tossing a coin to decide whether they put us or Leeds down as interested in foreign players wanting to play in the prem (or both if they don’t have...

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Bobb….. he’s a fine lad

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 07, 2025 5:15 pm

Looks like he has a head for football.

martin_p

Personally whatever the offer was pre July. I would be making it clear that unless it's signed within a few days. It will be withdrawn and one on lesser terms offered. People might call it petty and I would prefer him to stay but equally the club dosnt want to be in a position where it's hanging ar...

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Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 07, 2025 3:21 pm
Equaliser away at Wigan near the end of the game.

Found it! Same goal but from the 92/93 season.

https://youtu.be/myqbGu92CDE?si=Rl11IU1mrEd6wsnN

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dsr wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 07, 2025 12:56 pm
Unless money is irrelevant to him now and he fancies a year or two of being one of the best players in the league?

He’s just had a season of that.

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ecc wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 07, 2025 12:51 pm
Lazio, Celtic, Rangers, West Ham, Leicester, Galatasaray to Toronto.

You forgot to include ‘signed a new contract’ at the beginning of that.

martin_p

I will start with this one. Must be some absolute gold out there that we have never seen before. This is superb. And frightening to think the level we were at and the stadiums we played at. I would have been at this game. The challenges are something else. And who is our set piece coach... some goa...

martin_p

It does seem a very odd appointment. But as you say, hopefully works to our advantage, although if it does I can’t see him being there beyond Christmas.

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All clubs have their obnoxious element, much as we might wish them away. In what world is it fair and reasonable to be rude and aggressive to someone because twenty years ago he worked for a company you didn't like? I don’t think anyone was rude or aggressive to his face. But in answer to your ques...

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