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RicardoMontalban

This thread is a pretty good example of why partnering with X is a pretty risky venture. Whether people like to admit it or not, for a healthy number of people X is a pretty toxic brand, just look at the tanking ad revenue the platform has. It’s not just a handful of ‘snowflakes’. The back and forth...

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Some talk of Koleosho going to Espanyol. Be interesting if it is more than a loan deal. Would it be a case of paying Paul by robbing Peter or vice versa? Isn’t that where we got him from? I suppose it’s how far up or down the pecking list Parker sees him. This time last year we thought he’d be one ...

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It was certainly a power thing, but even if it was, the salute wasn’t really the main problem with Nazism and i’ve seen nothing to suggest he subscribes to their philosophy, in fact his stance on free speech is very much the opposite of what they were about. If you think his views on free speech ar...

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Maybe if they'd just pleaded guilty from the off and thereby saved lots of Police and court time and costs, etc they might have received a lesser sentence. This is the bit I don’t think people are grasping, and I’m not sure why. It’s not complex. There’s the act and all that’s considered in that, t...

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I think there’s a couple of things going on with the sentence that probably puts it at the higher end of the tariff. Firstly the offence, it’s not just criminal damage. It’s criminal damage to a prominent landmark that was chosen precisely for this reason. And then there’s the additional damage to U...

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 11, 2025 12:46 pm
Winger apparently. Could be Odobert on loan after Spurs’ business in the past day.

Phew. Thought we looked a little light there.

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Two team coaches already go down and turn around this way. They could easily make them reverse down so it's easier to pull away afterwards or simply make the coaches wait until home fans have left the area behind the James Hargreaves and take them out and away that way I suppose that’s easier to ac...

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ŽižkovClaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 10, 2025 2:41 pm
Couldn't tell you, but its about risk assessment and management

Would getting the coaches turned around not be a more pressing matter?

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Another shout out for A Confederacy of Dunces. Very funny. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh is also up there. I’ve recently read The Unfinished Harauld Highes, by Richard Ayoade. Not strictly a novel, more a fictional account of Ayoade working on a documentary of a fictional playwright (Harauld Hugh...

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Thanks both. It looks like I may be going to court then as these are exceptional circumstances and I shall leave it upto the judge if I am issued with a CCJ. I would add be persistent in chasing up the appeal. It does sound like you have some exceptional circumstances which should be taken into con...

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I think what’s telling about it is that he has decided a move to the Bundesliga is better for his development than a season in the Premier League, which I would say is a much tougher division. There’s a few factors there, not least that he’s going to an established and competitive team in Germany. ...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 05, 2025 10:49 am
Not with Colin McDonald on it

The kit they’re wearing would also suggest 60’s.

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That’s correct, sorry, used the wrong word there. More than that. There’s quite a distinction between ‘arrested’ and ‘charged’ as part of the process of an investigation. Perhaps what you have suggested to be the case is correct, or perhaps there’s information that we’re not privy to that means it’...

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He’s been charged with multiple offences, including dangerous driving, as I understand. He stopped, reversed at someone damaging his car, then accelerated into crowds of people not implicated at all in any the initial fracas, driving right then left to hit as many of them as he could. Unless it’s p...

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Winstonswhite wrote: ↑
Sat May 24, 2025 5:17 pm
Everyone said that about Luton and they put up a better fight than us.

That’s not a high bar and only finished 2 points ahead of us. Anyone saying it about Luton last season were broadly on the money.

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Tue May 20, 2025 10:42 am
No and he did say young prospects so maybe development players.

Lack of names and/or any media buzz suggests so. That said, with recent Cat 1 update it may still be exciting, if a little bit of delayed gratification.

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Tue May 20, 2025 8:46 am
Left back?

Would be a bit worried we were another left CB for first team.

Is there anything in this rumour to indicate they’re for the first team?

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nyclaret wrote: ↑
Tue May 13, 2025 1:29 pm
I'd be very surprised if Strasbourg can offer better financial terms.

Aren’t Strasbourg part of the same ownership group as Chelsea?

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Mon May 12, 2025 12:14 pm
Well they wouldn’t do it again…

Although that’s what they do in some countries that unsurprisingly have much lower crime rates than the UK.

There’s that winky face again that BVK alluded to...

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Sat May 10, 2025 12:26 am
They’d have no hands to play on their station, put it that way

You’d chop their hands off? A tad OTT maybe?

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Conroy92 wrote: ↑
Sat May 03, 2025 9:39 am
Unfortunately sometimes rules have to be broken before they are accepted as rubbish.

There will be thousands of Emily Davison's running into the field of play this afternoon.

Comparing the need of some to run onto a football pitch to the campaign for women’s suffrage is quite the look.

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PNE could be a massive story, their GD is one worse than Hull so if they lost then Luton and Hull only need a draw each to relegate them. Some slide down the table that! :o Weren’t they on 47pts after 38 games? That, and their win in the cup against us meant they got the deckchairs out a wee bit pr...

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And why is St George our patron saint, its to do with religion and him being tortured and put to death for being Christian, I think it was the week after he slayed the dragon Richard 1 adopted St G when he was on crusade in the Middle East, possibly in a nod to his martial prowess, possibly due to ...

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Getting strong Gazza vibes from that JJS performance.

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Born in Burnley but my parents had only arrived from Edinburgh the year before, and my Dad’s sporting love is Rugby Union. Got into playing football at primary school but never really settled on a team. After my brother and sister arrived when I was six, dad looked for something to do that was just ...

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Every single story I've heard about him away from a movie set has been exemplary. On set, it's clear that he was interested in making the best film possible and for his characters to work properly. There are again many stories of him questioning directors to explain something - the aforementioned T...

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It was one of his later roles, but his performance as Royal Tenenbaum was immense.

Not always the easiest to work with by all accounts, but what a body of work he left. Fantastic actor.

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5,000 is a ninth of the 45,000 United were getting..! That would mean to be similar United would have to get gates of 150,000. Even a gate of 25,000 is 5 times bigger, which would mean the average PL team would be getting 80,000. Forest would have to be getting 50,000 gates. Mama mia Ricardo, you a...

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Youre simply not trying to understand....yes, I know attendances generally were lower then, and thats totally irrelevant to my point....Blackburn were 41st....that's the point ok?....41st....so a very little deal in football terms..and not a big deal. Don’t worry. I get perfectly well what you’re t...

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With respect Ricardo, any knob measuring is just in your head. I pointed out figures that clearly any perception of Blackburn as some kind of serious big deal in English football pre-Walker is utterly fatuous. Eighties or not...clubs such as Swindon Town in the fourth tier were getting far higher g...

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[quote=RicardoMontalban post_ The point I was making is everyone’s attendance levels in the mid 80’s were rubbish. The chart I shared was just the first division. Look at Arsenal and Spurs. Villa packing them in at 15k! And the second division was even worse! Getting into a knob measuring argument ...

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In 1985/6 season....playing in what's now the Championship, and not that long before the coming of Walker, Blackburn, with a reasonably successful team had an average attendance of not much over 5k. That's how big a club they were before Walker bought them 20,000 prem-only supporters. In no way a d...

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Damo wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 21, 2025 1:17 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26079957

For anyone thinking this all started in 2022

Nobody thinks it started in 2022. Or that your link is some sort of damning new evidence.

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The aggressor isn't getting everything they want. Ukraine will obviously have to be party to any agreement for it to work. The EU is largely irrelevant to the deal-making process. Trump has simply got the ball rolling - nothing else has happened. The over-reaction to Trump calling Putin is predicta...

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Either am I but your saying everyone urgently wants peace. Clearly that is not the case Do you ever take a moment to take a breath and consider what someone is writing, or is it the two footed, hyper-literal option every time? It’s quite clear what I’m saying. The status quo has clearly changed. It...

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:18 am
Well your wrong there straight away

Coolclaret is calling for the war to go on as long as it takes for Ukraine to win.

I make no assumptions of Coolclaret’s sanity.

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Most expert military opinion indicates that the next year of the conflict will likely see little change to the overall situation in Ukraine - in other words a continued stalemate, some small advances for the Russians perhaps and thousands upon thousands of more deaths on both sides. There is no pro...

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I think Trump is pretty smart, I can’t be sure though. That or he’s dumb as **** and in Putins pocket in some way too. I think he’s lulling Putin in to negotiations that he knows he will not engage with properly so he can say to the world that the only way, and justify ongoing and potentially heigh...

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 12, 2025 11:07 am
That would explain it. Is there any clear map of town vs district? I have had a quick google but can’t see one?

There was on the page with the larger number, though it was a little amateur. Click the boundary map tab on the left.

https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit ... be/TOT_POP

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That was the one, thanks. What did you Google to get that? Can’t find it at all now. Recalled it as peaking slightly higher and later too. Think this might be where we get into Burnley Town vs Burnley District. Same website: https://web.archive.org/web/20140810111211/http://www.visionofbritain.org....

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When city population is measured, I’m assuming the boundaries of the city cover a much larger area than Burnley town? We’ll always be smaller than big city clubs, but if you added in Pendle, Rossendale, etc and look at it as a catchment area I’m not sure the difference is so stark? Back in the days...

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Dyched wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2025 5:52 pm
Eddie Howe left us for a team in a division lower and got to the PL with them before we got there. He’s been there ever since

Are you sure about that? We got promoted the next season. Did Bournemouth get to skip the Championship?

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dibraidio wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2025 1:12 pm
If we were playing twice every week I reckon this would be a huge advantage but we've only got 3 midweek games left plus the Easter Weekend.

I suppose what it does do is give us some resilience against players who dip out of form.

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The table from 2 years ago today, teams separated by points. Big difference when a team reaches it's full potential. table.jpg Different season, different set of circumstances, different players, different performance of rivals. Is that after 31 games, or at the end of the season? If now we’re 8 po...

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Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:32 pm
We need C J tying down to a new contract and I am surprised this had not been a top priority given his outstanding form.

How do we know it hasn’t been? Perhaps he just doesn’t want to sign one yet.

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jtv wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 27, 2025 9:23 am
And is this Mayulu guy any better than what we have? Going to an Austrian unknown club and linked to the two clubs you mentioned makes him far from what we should be looking for.

Sturm Graz are top of the Austrian Bundesliga and are reigning champions.

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Robbie_painter wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:19 am
I’d buy a ticket to watch it.

I have no doubt you would.

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In cases like this the right of appeal should be taken away and he should be disposed of as inhumanely as possible,I’d be quite happy for the guillotine to be reintroduced for the little ****. Weird. Well, thankfully, in this hypothetical scenario where the death penalty is reinstated, that’s not g...

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How can hanging him cost more than keeping him in prison for the rest of his life?He could quite easily live for another 60-70 years. Because in anything resembling a functioning democracy and judicial system the convicted wouldn’t be dragged outside and hung ten minutes after sentence. Our system ...

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Completely agree. I dare say the victims parents would love to see him executed tomorrow so they can live safe in the knowledge this evil man is no longer on this planet. I know I would if someone did that to my child. Outside of that, the taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund his existence another day....

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