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We were poor again today, quite raggy to get a point. We are going to be there, or there abouts all season. I'm not being funny here or trying to be overly wearing the claret-tinted glasses, but when you say 'again we've been poor ' it's as if every week we've played badly. Do you really think we'v...

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Apart from one moment of quality, by Cornet, to get the 2nd equaliser, we were awful. Worst performance of the season by a mile. Isn't the real point (apols for the pun) that most of the games this season we've played well for little return. I look at the point today as something more positive that...

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You're right there, Claretincraven. My son's a mate of Max O'Dowd. They played together in club cricket in Notts and Max is very much a Kiwi from Auckland. Nice lad though......although I barely recognised him with his surfer-dude hair...and he's put a bit of timber on since I last saw him. Decent k...

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I dunno if there are 4/5 teams with squads less capable than us this season. Norwich on yesterdays display only slightly with Leeds about equal and we have yet to see how we fare against Watford, Newcastle, Palace and Southampton. I think we are better than those teams you mention Marty Dobson. If ...

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So, everyone is banging on about how dreadful the start to this season. How bad is it compared to last season, though, where we started with only 2 points from the first 8 games (our score first); 2019-20 Leicester (A) 2-4 Soton (H) 0-1 Man C (H) 0-3 Newcastle (A) 1-3 WBA (A) 0-0 (and how bad was th...

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Steve Hackett for me in Leicester tonight! Genesis in Leeds on 27th if PC can make it.

Looking forward to both and some classic tracks from my youth

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Didn't know Matt but from all the comments on here it makes me wish I did!

So sorry for your loss, Cubanforever.

RIP CC

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Didnt hear it but can imagine he's not happy with some of the challenges from our players and to be fair you cant really blame him. If a lower team like Lincoln was roughing us up I reckon people on here would be still going on about it years later. Kloppologisr. Sometimes I despair DA with your po...

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joey13 wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 21, 2021 3:04 pm
Did he say that ?

Pretty much. Finished off by saying 'if people want to watch that they should go and watch wrestling'.

Idiot

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Utter pillock. As the pundits said, we don't want to go back to last season where you brush past someone and the ref gives a free kick. Thought the match was played in good spirit and we did what we had to do ie not roll over and play dead. Mr Klopp extremely disrespectful and clearly watching a dif...

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Yep - any thoughts that he isn't giving everything surely dispelled by that. Thing his frustration aimed at Lowton who just let the Liverpool lad cross, with no effort to close down.

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Totally agree.....never completely out of it and could easily have pulled a goal back, late on.

Playing like that (in general) we'll be ok.

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claretburns wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 10, 2021 10:01 am
I may be corrected but were we one of the relegated sides on 11+ points from the 09/10 season with Coyle?

Just checked, claretburn, and yes, we had 12 points after 10 games that season in 11th place in the table.

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Interesting piece on the BBC Sport website about the value of a good start to the season (at both the top and bottom of the table) with an analysis of the last 20 seasons and, for the teams at the bottom, specifically looking at how the promoted teams have done. Apparently only 2 promoted sides have...

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Tony, you don't need to apologise. I truly hope things are improving for you. Like you (and Cobble, it seems) our family has had a truly awful time of it in the last few months. Quite frankly, I take my hat off to you if you've been having a difficult time and still keep this board going in the way ...

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That bloody day at Hartlepool in 1985/86. It was horrendous. We were under cover and drenched with the rain coming in from the sea almost horizontally. As for the Ricoh, the cold one there was our first visit in 2005/06. 9th March 1993 at Hartlepool has to be one of the coldest and most miserable n...

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I've had to throw a couple back from our back garden.

Some mad/wonderful hitting

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Another fan of Global knives here. i don't mean to sound patronising but whichever set you buy, be careful. A good set of knives are so super-sharp that you'll be nicking yourself and will feel nowt (until it's too late). At least that's my experience and that of my son (after I bought him a set of ...

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Oshkoshclaret wrote: ↑
Mon May 03, 2021 4:24 am
https://youtu.be/5hx4tK0ylLc

Ha ha. Excellent!

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Wonder what happened to Half Man Half Biscuut.? Not sure but back in the day, I knew them well enough to have a chat e.g. at rehearsal rooms in a dockside warehouse in Vulcan Street, Liverpool and/or at half time watching the Clarets playing at Tranmere and passing them as we went through the almos...

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Just watching the snooker and reminded me of the great (snooker) referee, Len Ganley, as well as the Half Man Half Biscuit classic song. Them were the days.....

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Without giving too much away, is he in the Northants area?

If so, I can get a message to him......

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Even being generous to WBA, I can't see them getting more than 35 points. Their remaining games are; Leicester (A) - maybe 1 point Villa (A) - 1 point Wolves (H) - 3 points Arsenal (A) - 0 points Liverpool (H) - 0 points WHU (H) - 3 points Leeds (A) - 3 points As for Fulham, as long as we don't lose...

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I'm much more productive at home than when I was going into the office. Spent too much time wandering round the office, chatting to people, skiving and hoovering up biscuits and cake which might be within range. Have lost half a stone, too, since working from home....Mrs Goddy in control of biscuit ...

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I'd like Fulham to be winning 2-0 with 5 mins to go then Leeds manage to steal a draw.

Wouldn't help Leeds much and would trash Fulham's confidence.

Win-win even though a draw

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Sorry to come across as such a stuffy academic type (honestly, I'm not that much of a pompous @rse) but all the issues everyone is raising is precisely the point. What seems to be shown is that there is a clear positive effect of having fans at the game for home teams. The next issue is to work out ...

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An academic chum of mine wrote a paper (slightly in jest but still a decent piece of research) essentially on 'why England would always be underdogs in a penalty shoot-out' (roughly). Check it out....its by Jon Billsberry. I said to him a few years back, 'I've often wondered about the effect of home...

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I looked at Burnley, BHA, Newcastle, Fulham and Palace's fixtures a couple of weeks ago (before our Spurs game) and had a go at predicting the outcomes to the end of the season.....dangerous, I know!!! My guess back then was that Fulham and Newcastle would both finish on 35 points with Fulham relega...

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Are they taking tea/coffee away from the food/bev kiosks.

Not on the list of options in the survey . The only thing I ever buy when I'm at the ground but maybe no more - ha ha

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Selby Claret wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 24, 2021 3:31 pm

These numbers are without contestation - I have spoken - this is the way

Amen to that

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Everyone worries about Fulham catching us and sending us down. Well, Fulham's magic number has been dropping at an average of 3.2 points per game. It only needs to drop by 2.6 points per game for the remainder of the season and we'll be OK. That's more than half a point per game. It would take, pret...

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SalisburyClaret wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:11 am
We are probably 8 points from safety and there are 13 games left - relax!

This, precisely.

36 points will be enough. 2 wins and 2 draws or one win and five draws....completely do-able with Fulham, Newcastle and Sheff U still to play.

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Thought it was overrated myself at the time - sorry, houseboy et al. Dragged on forever. (That's all very Devils Advocate of me - ha ha)

Agree, though that the special effects and the bear shenanigans were fantastic.

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36 will be enough to stay up this season. If we can't get 8 more points from the remaining games we have (one win and 4 draws?) then as others have said, we'll deserve to go down. As for Newcastle, from what I saw, they played well, yesterday. Trouble is you can play well and get nowt (albeit agains...

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Sometimes, when you try too hard it goes even worse. However frustrating that performance might have been - and there was lots of swearing at the TV in our house at the level of incompetence on show - I don't for a minute think the players weren't trying and giving 100%. I suspect they were more fru...

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Newcastle have a tough set of fixtures. Their 'easy' games are almost all away - and I know there's more away wins this season, but still - and their last two are against Sheff U and Fulham (and, by then, they could be desperately needing points and playing under massive pressure. I'm really hoping ...

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Just had a look at the fixtures for Palace down (apart from Sheff U and WBA who, quite frankly, probably need at least 1.5. points per game from here on in to have a chance of survival.......very unlikely to do that). I reckon it could come down to the final game Fulham v Newcastle with Fulham needi...

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VAR was introduced to do away with the controversy surrounding what were deemed to be incorrect decisions. ...and it's the limited nature of this, too, which does my head in. For example, in the Everton/Fulham game, one of the Fulham players clearly dived which the commentators (Steve McManaman in ...

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Exactly as cfc says. After this round of matches, despite our defeat, things have actually improved for us in terms of avoiding relegation. None of the bottom 3 have reduced that 8 point gap i.e. and I know Sheff U won, before the pedants pitch in but they're still miles behind, and we've had anothe...

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Will only have Spurs (erratic), Arsenal (erratic), Man U (erratic) and Liverpool (erratic) left to play of the so-called Big 6.....and we could take points off any of them potentially. That means, after tonight I expect us to be competitive in EVERY game till the end of the season (and if City have ...

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PS thanks for your replies C&J and chester.

Mods please merge threads, if you don't mind........

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I answered this on the takeover thread last night you have to remember that ALK now control 84% of shares, they have the power to do anything at the club within the bounds of law Thanks for coming back to me on this, chester. Sorry, I obviously didn't quite follow your reply on the other thread and...

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To the clever accountant-types, like Paul Waine, chester perry and a few others, I have a question regarding the ALK takeover. My understanding is that assets in a business belong to ALL the shareholders (proportionate to their shareholding, of course). If this is the case, and the chat about ALK us...

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aggi wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 28, 2021 11:20 am
It updates automatically, I'm far too lazy to do it manually.

Excellent - thanks for that, aggi

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Bump - have the clever chaps who do all this, updated the spreadsheet?

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Generally I'm fed up with the Scandinavian crime series as they are continuously dark with no relief whatsoever. I did see the first episode of The Bridge though - the discovery of the torso on the bridge, or rather the fact that it had been cut it in half, was a 'Jaws' moment. I know where you're ...

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There's some cracking Scandi-Drama's on BBC2, BBC4 and Channel 4. Not watched it yet but 'All the Sins' on Channel 4 looks good from previews. It's a Finnish crime drama currently on. ...and another outstanding Scandi-noir is The Bridge. 4 series and disturbingly gripping. You soon get over the sub...

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2 stand-out memories of that night for me; 1. When ET started, everyone in the James Hargreaves was stood up to watch apart from Mrs G. I said, 'what are you doing - they've kicked off' to which she replied 'I can't watch any more'. Ha ha - just too much for her. 2. When Spurs scored there was almos...

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….and 35 points was enough to stay up last season.

I reckon upturn in performance is that teams in mid-table mediocrity simply drop their performance levels (to coin a Dyche-ism) by a touch which is enough to help those at the bottom fighting for their lives pick up a few extra points

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Thanks again for doing this aggi, huw and Vince. The striking thing for me is that on the extrapolated points total whichever way you look at it, in theory as few as 30 points might be needed to stay up. Now, I totally understand that these extrapolations are just that i.e. theoretical based on prev...

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