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Beat Villa and Norwich in the cup, lost to Man City, Arsenal and Liverpool. Way to give a bloke a chance!

Surely nobody expected anything more from the last three games than a trio of drubbings?

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As I said yesterday, we are waiting for avast to whitelist utcmedia.co.uk. At the moment it thinks that our advert code is malware.
If the message you are getting is something other than that please can you share the message.

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It looks like someone has alerted AVG that our advertising banner is malware. I'll now need to contact AVG and ask them to whitelist us to get this message removed. That's all it is. There is no Malware or trojan. There was an issue before due to an outdated wordpress plugin that someone had hacked ...

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Is it still happening? I've made another update that should resolve this.

It's great that people report these, it really helps to resolve the issues when these threads give clear error messages etc. I've accessed the site via AVG and it looks ok to me.

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Sudinfo.db are reporting: Unless there is a surprising change in the situation, Anass Zaroury will join Burnley. Sporting de Charleroi and Burnley have agreed a transfer fee of 3,5M euros plus diverse bonuses and a sell on clause earlier this week, the player and the Championship club have agreed te...

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Junior Mwanga signed his first professional deal with Bordeaux just three weeks ago. The expectation was that he'd spend the season playing in D2. He's currently serving a ban for a red card he received on Saturday. A few sites are quoting that we're interested in him.

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I've done some security updates that may have stopped this. Next step is a php and wordpress upgrade which could mean some serious updates to the site. I'll have to plan that for a quiet news day and be prepared to reinstall all out custom code which will get wiped out by the upgrade. Is anybody sti...

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DH sport reporting: The arrival of the Iranian Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh has increased the bottleneck on the wings for Charleroi. It seemed obvious that there would be at least one departure before the transfer window closes (on Sept 6th) and it's finally happening. According to our sources, Anass Za...

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Apparently Boubakar Kouyate is refusing to play at Metz to force a move. Metz were asking 10m for him but we reportedly offered 2.5m and were supposedly going back with an offer of 5m plus a sell on clause. Nothing has happened in a while but the player hasn't featured since and it could be that he ...

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Agree with this. VK’s quote sounds to me like the player is asking for wages above our current ceiling. On the Metz forum someone was suggesting that they should up his wages to a five figure sum in order to keep him, that would be somewhere around 2.5k per week as they work on a monthly basis in F...

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 19, 2022 12:15 pm
Belgian press also now reporting our interest in Jack Hendry from Club Brugge, though add Wolfsburg are also interested

Does this guy really fit with our transfer strategy? He's 27 and doesn't have a massive amount of experience at a decent level.

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I saw a Morecambe game on TV and he impressed. He seems to have done well there as he played a lot of matches. However he didn't seem involved in the Shrewsbury friendly and others from the u-23 squad seem ahead of him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGmoAO_YFlA He isn't a CM he's a creative attac...

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:11 pm
That link does not say he is signing for Burnley and undergoing a medical. Turkish press are saying it like he’s chosen us.

That was the link that was referenced to by HITC, The72 and numerous other sources in Belgium, Turkey and the UK.

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They're all quoting each other though, original story was in the Belgian press yesterday morning: https://www.dhnet.be/sports/football/division-1a/standard/2022/06/29/vincent-kompany-veut-muleka-et-bastien-a-burnley-PWUZ2JLYTFD5PHNCNJKMP6NJYA/ The same journalist now saying it's a done deal, 4m eur...

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Loads of different sources saying we are signing him now They're all quoting each other though, original story was in the Belgian press yesterday morning: https://www.dhnet.be/sports/football/division-1a/standard/2022/06/29/vincent-kompany-veut-muleka-et-bastien-a-burnley-PWUZ2JLYTFD5PHNCNJKMP6NJYA...

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I have watched quite a few Twine highlights videos and he has a great eye for a forward pass. If we want to get the best out of him then a speedy forward, who can get behind the defence, is an absolute necessity. Maybe that's the reason for looking at a player like Jackson Muleka. Not sure about th...

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Let's not forget we have 5 subs this season. Dyche was always very reluctant to change his starting XI and was always criticised for not using his subs enough. We know that we've got a hectic schedule in the Championship so it'll be interesting to see if VK changes things around a lot more and uses ...

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I just wish they'd stop using the word "BOSS" this word is taken from the slave trade yet we do all the anti racist stuff (which we should). I truly find it annoying that the club do not seem to understand this word and use it again after I'd pointed it out to them once and they changed the post ac...

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Definitely the biggest game since the play-off final but is it really bigger? The financial implications that day were probably fairly similar but the win brought us a massive reward that took the club to another level. I'd say the play-off final will be remembered as a bigger day in the history of ...

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I agree with others, playing more expansive footall at Spurs and Villa would have got us nothing. Particulary with Mee and Tarky out. One thing that worries me is the Thursday-Sunday effect, we've all seen that teams struggle when they have 3 days recovery and the opponents have had more. Taking tha...

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Fair enough. I was just curious, I remember seeing you reporting that we put out some really young teams for the U23s but I couldn't remember why.

Am I right in presuming that the final will be against Blackpool or Liverpool? Did they not play in April?

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Would the U23s be better off concentrating on fewer competitions? Wouldn't it be better to concentrate on PL2 and get to play against a better class of opposition than to take part in so many cup competitions? Have we sacrificed points in PL2 to allow players to play in this cup for example.

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Int is quite possible that 40 points could go down. Unlikely but possible In the last 6 seasons only three teams from the bottom five have gained 9 points or more from the last 5 games. If we get 6 more points and go down that will mean that we've got 9 and Everton have got 9 or more. Leeds will ne...

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Paul Waine wrote: ↑
Tue May 03, 2022 10:24 am
Should be very easy for the Clarets to get another 12 points, Villa (twice), Spurs and Newcastle will all be on the beach playing with their buckets and spades when we play them.

Yes right, piece of cake.

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But given that we’d only won three in our previous 28 games surely your second sentence proves the first possible. Martin_p, you're right, everyone was saying back in February we've won 1 game all season do you seriously think we can go on and win enough games to survive? 17 points from 12 games la...

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I looked at all the stats for the last 5 games over the last few seasons. If Everton beat Chelsea they will have a higher than average total after 33 games, lose and they're below average. In 2016 Norwich went down with 34 points after being 17th with 31 points with 5 games to go. 2017 Hull went dow...

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Incredible that Stoke are so high up with a negative goal difference.
Disappointing to miss out on goal difference alone. Am I right in thinking that we've had a number of games where we've put our quite young sides which may have had an impact on the final points tally?

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Our the new owners stupid enough to install an Everton fan as manager before the end of the season?

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After 21 games we were on 14 points and bottom of the table. We were 7 points behind 17th placed Newcastle and 8 behind Everton although we've since played 2 games more than them. That's a pretty massive turn around. Our form since then continued over a full season would give us 53.8 points which is...

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Against Norwich I think Dyche got his tactics all wrong, we were hoofing the ball up to Wout who was up against a championship defence who could handle that sort of play all day long. This is arguably Watford last chance to avoid mathematical relegation, they won't be down if we win but 12 points be...

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We have 20 points from our last 16 games. 17 points from the last 12. That's 1.25 or 1.4 points per game. Everton have 11 points from their last 15 games. That 0.7 points per game. In our last 5 games we've picked up 10 points (2.0), Everton have 4 (0.8) Their overall season form is 0.9 points per g...

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For what it's worth: 2016 Sunderland 18th after 33 games on 30 points. Norwich (17th) had 31 points. After 38 games, Sunderland finished 17th with 39 points (+9) Norwich went down with 34 points (+3). 2017 Swansea were 18th on 28 points after 33 games. Hull City (17th) had 30 points. After 38 games,...

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I reckon it will finish along the following lines 16) Leeds 38-40pts 17) Burnley 36-38pts 18) Everton 35-37 pts Everton have three wins and two draws since Christmas (15 games). To get to 37 points would mean that they'd need 8 points from 6 games. They're going to need to get back to the form they...

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The success we're having at the moment is down to "the group". They are working together and getting the job done. Mike has said he's hardly had a training session with them because of the fast turn around between games and he's out there dealing with the constant distraction of the media. Clearly M...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPBmf9IFe6Q Interesting chat with RMC and Max Cornet. Apparently Cornet is disappointed to play on the wing as he thinks he's at his best playing as a "nine and a half or false 10". Emmanuel Petit clearly thinks he should be starting up front in a 442. Hopefully he's...

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..and now?

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I think we'd be in the box seat if we win on Sunday But we need a spectacular run of results to stay up, and I think we need 12 points from the the last six to be sure Less might be enough, but I think we'd need 40 to be sure (unless Everton completely implode) After reading your first line I was t...

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Struck me that there were a lot of hopeful balls up to Wout and there was rarely anyone up there with him particularly in the first half. A bit of a thankless task and definitely not playing to his strengths. When there were players around him he did ok bringing balls down with his back to goal and ...

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Based on the same level of points per game as the games already played the bottom of the table will end as: Leeds 36.77 Everton 32.76 Burnley 31.45 Watford 27.87 Norwich 22.8 9 more points gets us to 33 and could be enough. Wins against Watford and Norwich and 3 draws from the other 7 games would ge...

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Doubt if Vydra will start after managing only sixty minutes for the Under 23s Exactly what I was thinking. He's not played 90 minutes for ages it would be ridiculous to start him on Sunday for such a vital game. Vyds is a great option to have on the bench, I was surprised that Dyche put him on inst...

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CNN reporting that Russians have cut the power supply to Chernobyl and the spent nuclear fuel is no longer cooled. A meltdown will occur in 48 hours if nothing is done. Apparently the source was from the Ukraine officials who are very worried.

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A lot of us thought that we needed a new right winger this window and Aaron Lennon has stepped up to the plate. Attributing his improvement to Wout is unfair, he always seemed to be behind JBG in the past but maybe playing regular football has given him that edge back to his game. Long may it contin...

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The ONLY reason Everton getting relegated would be a shock is because of their long history in the division… The reason that I'd be shocked at Everton getting relegated is that huge sums that they spent on their squad. From 2014 to 2019 only Arsenal, Man Utd and Man City invested more than the toff...

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Points away from 1 point per game: Everton -1 Leeds -2 Brentford -2 Newcastle -2 Burnley -3 Watford -7 Norwich -8 Watching the players at the end of the game last night, this is not a team who are going to go down without a fight. Four points against Palace and Leicester would only bring us to -1 bu...

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If you take a server from a company like Oracle Sun or IBM they tend to go up to around 200 cores. Most of these have 8 CPU threads per core so they're equivalent to around 1600 cores and can get up to around 16TB of memory. When you need more processing power you need to start clustering those big ...

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38 points from 38 games is normally enough. Interesting to look who is behind the point a game target. Leeds -1 Everton -1 Brentford -2 Newcastle -2 Burnley -5 Watford -6 Norwich -8 Mathematically we could get to 38 points with as few as 3 more wins but that would only allow us to lose one more game...

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Had 20 cyprus tree stumps left behind by the previous owner. Dug them out one at a time, took about an hour for each. Was a lot fitter at the end of it than I was at the beginning. I dug a hole about 30cm away from the stump all the way around and then cut through the remaining intact roots. Took lo...

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If you compare each team to the marker of a point a game the following teams are behind the curve: Brentford -1, Everton -2, Newcastle -4, Burnley -6, Norwich -6, Watford -7 Brentford, Watford and Everton all have worse form than us. If we can get Wout and Maxwel firing we will start to win games. W...

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Back in 2005 we played an away game at Luton and I decided that I was sick of Cotterball and I couldn't be bothered driving for hours to see another dreary game of football. That was the game we won 3-2 when Spicer went in goal.

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He does mention the postponed games to be fair mate. He does, you're right, I was getting confused with Watford also being a postponed game. So there's still Spurs H, Leicester H, Villa A, Everton H. In seasons past I'd have been disappointed if we hadn't got 5 points or more from those games. Some...

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