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I’ll be honest …… if I was desperate to find out about financial irregularities in local amateur cricket then my first port of call absolutely would be a football message board. And I absolutely cannot understand why somebody affiliated to Lowerhouse isn’t answering questions from a completely anony...

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I thought he spoke very well.

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Kevin Henderson

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Paul McKenzie

Brad Maylett

Tony Woodworth

Jason Hardy

Paul McKay

Paul France

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Spijed wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 15, 2025 2:36 pm
Has Tony Bloom got money back from Brighton?

He would now if he sold it. The asset has increased in value beyond all recognition.

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Freaky ….

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Is that Ingleby?

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Smith scoring 100 in a session coming in on a hat-trick delivery is something else.

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Sensational counter attacking from Smith and Brook this morning.

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Anybody who picks a last minute goal scored by an outfield player immediately fails the Jimmy Glass test. Anybody who picks a goal that wasn’t the last minute of the last game of the season fails the Jimmy Glass test. Anybody who picks a goal that doesn’t keep his team from relegation out of the foo...

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It’s Jimmy Glass.

By miles.

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I bumped into Paul Crichton in a bar in Norwich when he was down here and I asked him if he was actually stuck in traffic when Niko took his place. He confirmed it. Seemed a really good bloke. My Dad and I saw a Crichton sprinting in to the ground about 2.30 that day at Huddersfield. He definitely ...

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I've just realised (without being surprised) that nothing ever came of Alastair Campbell's son tweeting that Tella is a done deal. What does he get out of doing that? Surely it just reflects badly on his dad? (And I'm aware of his dad's association with things that aren't quite true, before anyone ...

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 28, 2025 3:48 pm
There is no loyalty in football. Nick Pope gave us great service.... then he left. That's what happens.
Poor fee for Trafford, though. I'm disappointed.

By what?

No fee has been agreed.

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Some of the clangers he had this season for Ipswich were truly laughable. He’s an appalling keeper and never should have been anywhere near our club IMO Even when he was a huge part of one of the most successful Championship teams of all time and the best defence in the Championship in 22/23? Nowhe...

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He's supposed to be 'a prick' (whatever that means - as it has not been explained) not an arsehole. Yes, We all know it's a team game where morale and camaraderie are important factors. I don't think 'an arsehole' would get very far in the game never mind playing for Karlsruhe or Burnley. He can't ...

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I had laporoscopic surgery in 2019 after my intestine perforated and split. I got sepsis and allsorts of jazz.

Took me about three years to recover from it. And I didn’t have to get to a level where I was playing Premier League football.

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Still waiting for your report on the Netherfield defeat. If you want to be the official reporter on Lowerhouse games I would strongly recommend you report on all games and not just the wins It would give you way more credibility just like CT has for his Burnley FC games reports Congrats today on cr...

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Give Espanyol’s location it would fit in with the underdog marketing message they initially talked about pushing on us.

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My lad decided he wanted to start playing when he was 10. We’d been to the park and kicked a ball around and he looked like what he was - a kid who’d never kicked a ball regularly before. I sent messages to two teams asking about just coming training for a bit. One coach messaged back saying he only...

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The Madueke free kick before their third was an absolute shambles.

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ISpeds00 wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:15 pm
This female ref is actually killing the game

England’s male goalscorer really killed a lot of our attacks prior to being subbed.

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ISpeds00 wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:15 pm
This female ref is actually killing the game

When a male ref has a shocker ….. which happens regularly ….. do you mention their gender?

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clarets1978 wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:19 pm
A transfer window closes and no signings? Just like the previous board this! Not good enough

Signed four players.

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Very little value for money there.

Trafford we’ll make a profit on. Wood and Cornet we made small profits on.

The rest of the list though …… crumbs. Some wasted money there, particularly for a club our size.

Some bad luck with injuries too.

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123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 05, 2025 7:58 pm
28 pages of a window already when it’s likely we won’t make any signings till either a couple of massive sales or 1st August to keep in the 20m profit mark for PSR purposes

Time for people to just enjoy the off season

We’ve already signed four players.

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Cooclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 04, 2025 8:09 pm
European football is slower. Simply that.

Maybe you’re slower?

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Cooclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 04, 2025 6:06 pm

I am going to say this: Messi wouldn’t make anywhere near the same impact in the Premier League as he did in La Liga

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So not known at 12 then? I played against him in his teens for the town team and can safely say nobody had heard of him then. You can safely say you hadn’t heard of him. That’s a big difference. As other have already demonstrated, he was well known from a very young age and a good few years before ...

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Ah yes I remember now going to games when Rooney was 12 and his name being on every fans lips. Nobody had heard of him when he broke through. That’s really not true. It wasn’t quite as young as 12, but Kevin Campbell was talking about him a lot when he was 14 and saying he could already play for th...

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They didn’t play against each other, but I was amazed to find out this season that Ruben Loftus-Cheek is Leon Cort’s brother.

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Mon May 26, 2025 6:35 pm
I think there’s a deal that can be done to get the fee to 30m for us.

Maybe something like 20m rising to 30m with add ons and low buy back clause.

Although as Taio is suggesting there’s already 3-4 other premier clubs after him so I suggest we have no chance.

You’re an idiot.

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Steddyman wrote: ↑
Sat May 24, 2025 5:35 pm
Importantly, physicality is much more important in the Premier League.

Say important some more. It might bolster your point.

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Steddyman wrote: ↑
Sat May 24, 2025 5:15 pm
Keifer Moore would definitely improve us.

Improve our what? Because you can’t mean our football team.

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Sheff United lost all control since Hamer went off.

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That Enzo le Fee is sh*te.

Some laughable comments about him when he signed for Sunderland. Particularly from the resident expert on here.

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One of the most truly boring evolutions in football discourse is stats nerds exclusively quoting numbers in lieu of an opinion, completely misunderstanding stats, subjectivity and how they should be used ….. and in doing so thinking they are super intelligent.

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Really enjoyed this season. Much prefer watching the Premier League when we’re not in it!! Palace and Newcastle winning domestic cups, really enjoyed watching Brentford, Bournemouth, Forest and Fulham in patches, City struggling was hilarious, United and Spurs even funnier. Then individual players l...

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Huge “needless to say I had the last laugh” energy from Dyche generally.

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I love Tarks, but there’s a reason he hasn’t played for a top 6 side. He’s ideally suited to low block teams where he’s defending his box and heading/clearing crosses away. Playing for a top 6 side with a high line and 50 yards of space behind him is a totally different requirement. With his lack of...

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Chester Perry wrote: ↑
Thu May 01, 2025 12:39 pm
Just to be clear - bonuses are paid for promotion or staying up - if we had stayed up the bonuses would have taken the wages some way north of £100m

Conjecture surely?

The bulk of those players weren’t here long enough to have benefited from a bonus for staying up.

That has to be guesswork.

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It would be nice for some of those posters to come out and hold their hands up wouldn't it. I’d settle for them just shutting the f**k up and not spouting their ill-informed opinion with complete certainty on every single subject like they are experts, despite them consistently and loudly getting t...

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Can anybody translate this please :-

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What's the perspective on how this bodes for the future?? In my 35 years of BFC I can only remember 3 or 4 players who have broke through and gone on to have careers in the top 2/3 leagues, is this a sign of that changing?? The next Southampton/West Ham or not? Dwight McNeil, Callum Styles, Bobby T...

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ClaretCliff wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:36 am
I remember in the early 70’s when we brought in Tony Waiters who had been out of the game for a few years. It was the first season of the backpass rule but he obviously wasn’t aware of it as he simply picked up the first backpass he received.

Backpass rule came in for the 1992/93 season.

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Not going to score everybody as I watched on TV. But ……. Josh Laurent. He was excellent in shutting Twine down. Twine was very obviously dropping between midfield and defence and looking to receive the ball and Bristol were looking to thread it in. Laurent was constantly scanning where Twine was and...

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Leeds and Sheff United fans being over-confident and arrogant?

Never!!

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 08, 2025 6:11 pm
I haven't fat checked this but this just appeared on twitter:

Since Edwards started playing we've averaged 3 goals per game in the Championship.

I’d fact check that.

Well not true.

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He looks to me like he’s got the weight of the world on his shoulders and his confidence is shot to bits when it comes to putting the ball away. There have been a few times where he has passed up shooting chances and the camera panned to him at the end of the game on the bench and he looked disconso...

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Quicknick wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 09, 2025 7:47 am
Rodriquez certainly made an impact, Lafferty not much of one. Rangers fans thought he was rubbish.

He was our record sale when we got rid of him.

I hope Bauress goes on to make the same impact.

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