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GetIntoEm wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:12 pm
decent pub recommendations for away fans?

It's short of decent pubs.

I normally go to Thornton Heath and there is the Railway Telegraph near the station (although that has been home fans only sometimes) or the Prince George on the way to the ground. I'd say the Railway Telegraph is better.

aggi

As Leisure has said, all to the individuals rather than to the lead email address which makes it harder work when you are organising a trip for a few people, trying to make sure they've all got their tickets. To only be sending them out two days before the game is ridiculously short notice too. Che...

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Strange one to class football support as being ‘tribal’ as though it is rooted in Neanderthal man. Almost suggests such supporters support a town/ area irrespective of the sport that is played. By contrast, the supporters ( and players) of the much more physical game of rugby appreciate the finesse...

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Tickets won’t be emailed out until the Thursday before the game. The club have confirmed: “All tickets for this fixture will be digital and emailed over each to individual supporter a couple of days before the match.” Any idea if they'll all be emailed to the person who ordered or each ticket sent ...

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South West Claret. wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 29, 2024 7:02 pm
Lazy Tory git alert https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-68133873

To be fair, it's pretty clear he's quitting his ministerial role so he can take on a high paying (and I'm sure awarded only on merit) second job.

aggi

That puts Forest right in the mix too, although Newcastle still in prime position. Technically still in our own hands though, going to be an interesting second half of the season.

aggi

I really dont, youre missing my point entirely. This club doesnt exist without the fans, Pace doesnt buy the club etc etc. The fans are also the ones that are left to pick up the pieces if it all goes tits up. IMO they have a right to be communicated with better than they have been so far, especial...

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Losses and debts are OK as long as they are sustainable. When Venkys stop pumping in the money... its bye bye. They can sell Wharton, £18m in the bank... where does that money go... back into the team's development or paying off debts? They'll have to hope for another Wharton to come through the ra...

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It was obvious but you used very high numbers as to how it would benefit us with FFP when in reality those sort of numbers wouldn’t happen and wouldn’t really be a help towards FFP Recent FFP breaches haven't been by huge amounts. A handful of transfers at £3m or £5m or something, maybe spread arou...

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daveisaclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:16 pm
There's massive losses and then massive losses though, isn't there? The amount Venky's are plugging into Rovers is obscene.

They're about mid-table in annual losses. Preston make bigger losses.

If they manage to sell Wharton for £18.5m they'll be making a profit.

aggi

Considering I work for an American company with lots of Americans that would be difficult to avoid them. As you were. Real people are for trump. The media plants and limp wristed Academic types with no real life experience may not be. Fair enough. I guess I'll just have to tell my American clients ...

aggi

For those who didn't realise I was just using an example I've expressed it algebraically. Hopefully that will make it easier to understand. The not at all suspicious way this definitely hasn't happened elsewhere is Dundee buy a player (youth player is particularly helpful) off us for £x and we buy a...

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Nori1958 wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:24 pm
So when did we last sell a youth player for 19m?
When did Dundee last sell a player for 20m?

Like I said,... Far fetched

I thought it was fairly obvious that I'd just picked some nice round numbers as an example. You can flex the numbers to whatever you feel is more realistic.

aggi

Nori1958 wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:51 pm
Far fetched or what?

Given that this was a large part of the Juventus financial irregularities that ended with them having points docked it isn't far fetched at all.

The Miralem Pjanic/Arthur Melo transfer is a real world example.

aggi

Top drift is fine, it’s frustrating when people on the transfer thread can’t understand that it happens, I just meant purely on the topic. In regards to FFP I can’t see how Dundee would be able to help us massively with FFP anywhere, they won’t pay big transfer fees and I don’t even think their loa...

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Strange when you speak to any American they all agree DT done a good job last time. I mean you only have to look at the carnage the Biden Admin has caused since. The establishment detest him and are throwing as much nonsense as they can at him yet it’s only making him stronger. Spoiler: Shaggy has ...

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Don't really understand the criticism of anti-Venky Rovers fans. They bought an established Premier League club and turned it into a crap Championship team (with a stint in League One thrown in). It's a disgrace that that club runs with such losses and under decent owners it wouldn't. Virtually eve...

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Keyes Capital have a website that makes EMA Equity Partners look good
http://www.keyescap.com/

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Nori1958 wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 24, 2024 2:20 pm
They have bought assets with that money, which negates the chances of things going wrong somewhat

Technically true I guess. They bought Burnley Football Club.

Nori1958 wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 24, 2024 2:52 pm
I meant players

Not players.

aggi

Clovius Boofus wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 07, 2024 4:05 pm
But not as safe. It's bad enough driving round East Lancs in a car, never mind on a bike.

If you look at the big picture it generally works out that cycling is better for life expectancy. The health benefits more than offset the slight increase in risk.

aggi

It wasn't a punt last season, we made £70 million and spent £40 million twice the annual turnover of the likes of Blackburn Rovers. If we had a transfer budget twice the annual turnover of the average PL side we would probably be challenging the top 6. But none of that really makes sense of loaning...

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Perhaps Vine thinks he can afford a libel/defamation case ? as opposed to his solicitor writing a letter and a tweet being removed sans apology . I’d love to see his face if he “ wins “ ( for being called a Weasel ) and how much he’s awarded vs his costs… Perhaps he needs to read up on “The Sun vs ...

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For context, this was in response to Barton's suggestion that you can only count yourself as English if your ancestor fought in World War I.

aggi

Do the games that get moved because a team is in Europe rather than because it is a televised game get announced at the same time?

aggi

Goliath wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 21, 2024 11:20 pm
Goals arent really the big issue. Throwing away points is.
West ham, Villa, Luton to name a few.

We've scored the second fewest in the division. The only team who are worse are the team in bottom.

aggi

Accept that, and failing to sign another striker is, for this season, a main criticism for me - albeit clubs that are already in the league, like you say Forest, typically have that quality PL back up (Wood on 100k a week in this case). Whereas it hurts a newly promoted club that bit more. Okay eve...

aggi

Newcastle women lost today to Nottingham Forest, who we play next week. We are 6 poins behind Newcastle with 2 games in hand and play them at home in Feb. We won 6-0 against Fylde in the cup today. That's going to make things interesting. We're actually only 5 behind Newcastle which is good as they...

aggi

Some of the points are pretty desperate. The one about not having to spend 5 minutes in the sleeting rain filling up your petrol/diesel car - presumably the writer hasn't noticed that petrol stations tend to have roofs! (And I notice Casper's article, referring to increased use of e-bikes and e-sco...

aggi

"Only started up in December..." So, what does it do - other than take 15% off the top as a tax on buyers - what is the unique proposition of this brand new cryptocurrency? I hope you have only put in what you can afford to lose. For those who want to know more, most of the launches do come with a ...

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People think we’d would be halfway up the league without VAR ,on Jan 4th we would have had 13 points without it.IMG_1453.png This is just decisions that VAR has overturned though. So ignores things like the Villa penalty, Bournemouth handball and the Luton goal. It's probably just the Forest goal f...

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Westleigh wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:58 pm
Just noticed McNeil’s playing I thought he’d a serious injury.

He came off the bench at the weekend too which surprised me.

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Shaggy wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:22 pm
Weren’t people arguing that you should be free to say what ever you like on another thread? Or is that only views which match their own perhaps?

They can say it. They can also be criticised for it, ostracised for it, etc.

Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences.

aggi

Leisure wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:21 pm
But if they couldn't read, how would they know what the thread was about? (sorry)

That doesn't normally stop people.

aggi

What I find interesting is that Aluko is expressing that she is suffering from online abuse. Joey Barton has had this in his entire career. Current footballers get it much worse - Harry Maguire, for example. Commentators, referees, and managers get constant stick from everyone. As soon as a woman i...

aggi

You think the current situation is going to end well? Rhetorical question - I guess neither of us wants to go round that treadmill again. Who knows. At least there is a semblance of a plan, even if I'm not overly keen on it. In the 2000s the plan was survive and hope for a miracle (which Coyle duly...

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The clear and obvious error thing is just a cop out. If they only adjudicated on clear and obvious errors they would never need to send the ref to the screen or watch repeated slow motion replays. And obviously Berge's handball wouldn't have been given if they were only looking for clear and obvious...

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Doesn’t matter about guilt. Both have admitted to the premier league that they have breached the rules so to me that should be that. Like forest trying to claim that by getting more money later for Johnson has meant they have breached rules but in the long run generated them more money. Well that’s...

aggi

Wasn't that related to ITV Digital? on the broader point Burnley was a small company with a turnover of around £11 million in Kilby's era. It was possible for a local millionaire to pick it up and run with it and there were a number prepared to do that over the years. Now we are talking about owner...

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If you're a Londoner selling your flat for hundreds of thousands it's easy to move out and snap up £600,000 bargain home, our town Wokingham is full of them. There's becoming quite an issue in London at the moment that families can't afford to live there. The number of children living in London is ...

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Newcastle Women have played a few games at St James Park and had a crowd of something like 30,000!

aggi

Biggest issue for Everton is how this impacts their takeover. 777, who have a chequered history as it is, are rumoured to be briefing the press that they’re no longer confident that the takeover will be approved. Thats after lending them £150m, ~£50m on Jan 8th. I find it incredible that they lent ...

aggi

Presumably with both Everton and Nottingham Forest admitting breaking FFP and being referred for a decision surely means that every other club has passed FFP for the same period. Not quite. The end of December submission is for those clubs who made a loss in previous years. It would be possible to ...

aggi

Pretty sure that Newcastle are the only professional team in the division so no surprise that they're out at the front. That's the trouble with it being in flux at the moment, you're suddenly getting hefty investment (and we are probably one of the teams doing this too) in the lower leagues where th...

aggi

I thought Barry Kilby and his openness around financial matters was a bit rose-tinted glasses in the last episode. Could you imagine the outrage if ALK had quietly sold Turf Moor to a company based in a tax haven and it was only discovered by someone on a messageboard looking at a companies house da...

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Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:56 pm
Is this a case of Pace being petty for all the criticism he’s received do we think?

I'd guess it's maybe a matter of wanting consistent branding throughout. One of those things that some people seem to think is very important.

aggi

alwaysaclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:58 am
...
from a Carlton Morris point of view he sees it as perfectly good goal, why should it not be given. ...

It was a remarkably muted celebration for an injury time equaliser against a relegation rival.

aggi

Chester Perry wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:47 am
Not how I understood it, but as we all know, I have been wrong before and will likely be again at various points going forward

Pretty sure I saw that in an Athletic article recently, will have a look.

They had to shift the funds for the LBO somehow.

aggi

It is interesting just how deeply and widely this notion is held. Of course to date there are literally hundreds of people that have put more of their money into the club as capital to be employed than the whole ALK.VSL ownership group combined. A simple perusal of Companies House at the filings of...

aggi

It's strange how unreliable the data on player heights is. For a long time many sources had Manuel Benson being the same height as Charlie Taylor.

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For those who are unsure what a foul on the keeper looks like this was given in another match last night.
https://twitter.com/hullcitystats/statu ... HaZHTCZYJA

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