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Same as ever, need 35 points and may be 40 depending on how crucial 6-pointers go.

That’s a minimum 32 points from 30 games. 8 wins 8 draws. Personally I think we’ll be fine, but we have to grind out those wins.

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My team: Pope Roberts-Collins-Tarkowski-Pieters McNeil-Brownhill-Westwood-Cornet Vydra-Wood Jay to come in for Vydra is Vydra is injured. Otherwise that would be my first choice lineup against City apart from Mee. Selecting fullbacks who can score or assist is crucial hence I would blood Roberts now...

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No. Potter, Moyes, heck even Bruce are all better than their reputation suggests. Dyche is good but not great, he has done very well keeping us up but its not the miracle some suggest.

Last time I looked we had about four sides paying lower wages than us, including Wolves if I remember rightly.

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Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:58 am
I thought Collins was signed to be his replacement.

I meant Collins replaces Tarky so Long becomes 1st reserve on the bench, and we’ve seen what that does for our results when he has to play.

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Selling Tarks to one of the two sides below us in the table may not be worth a January sale unless it is silly, e.g. £30m for someone with 6 mths left. Not guaranteed NUFC will be safe, they may sign half a dozen but some could then get injured or the new manager may be useless. You never know. In a...

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The crucial point here is that Lowton offers nothing going forwards and given our goals record it is vital to upgrade. I just hope Roberts handles the step up, which it is, even versus most Wales games,

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In a contract an anti-embarrassment clause would normally be used to make an extra payment to a seller due to an issue that wasn’t clear at the time which causes the asset to be undervalued. Whether it can also be used for the re-acquisition in the circumstances that were widely reported at the time...

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I'm taking a wild guess that not many others regard them as thinkers. Actually the people I was reminded of talking to are fairly senior business people, but I think they sit more on the anti-woke cultural right of centre (picture a Farage type if you will). Not far right, but sufficiently right to...

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I really hope he didn’t have a senior doze at the wrong time because it was only 10 minutes between lift off and touch down.

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I’ve certainly heard it mentioned by people who aren’t simply knuckle draggers but regard themselves as thinkers that whoever won the Euros for England would be a poster boy for a generation and Southgate is just the type of guy to want a diversity candidate for that role rather than the best chance...

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Foden the one person with any creativity. About a dozen dangerous balls in, rest of team less than half a dozen between them.

Rice = backwards (at least Henderson goes forward)
Mount + what does he do?

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Good that Maxwel stayed on the bench tonight given that pitch. Hopefully he will be OK for Saturday.

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This lad Foden

I’ve not been so excited about a player since Gazza.

OK it’s Andorra, but he’s like this against PSG too.

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The fact you have quoted me before your post forces me to respond as I think you slightly misunderstood where I was coming from. When I referred to ‘criminals’ I wasn’t specifically talking about human rights but about where some of this invested money has come from. Abramovich at Chelsea has come ...

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“Many stopping attending” it’s almost guaranteed the gates will soar if success follows expected investment people are staying away because expectations are underwhelming, exactly the opposite from what you’ve stated will happen if results improve & the club are perceived to be going places & chall...

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Just had a quick look at Asset Match to get a feel for future prices on there, Spurs are on there during a live auction (which can take months) with an indicative price of 170 which means a market cap of £300m-£400m. Doesn’t seem much for Spurs. Did somebody on this thread say the BFC offer values t...

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That keeper. 100 games in 11 years for club and country, most on loan to lower division sides. It’s not enough. Will be a liability for Wales again and again. I think he has been at Liverpool and Leicester for 9 years, just 2 appearances. Gets players slack.

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We are imperfect human beings, of course we all have our minor hypocrisy from time to time, I’ve tried to cut China and the oil states out of my life as much as possible but some slips through. There will be a million football fans in the UK discussing this today and they will have a million stances...

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I find it hard to believe they can suddenly produce a TV better than LG, the current market leader. I wouldn’t downgrade my TV just to get rid of some wires.

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No I think I am just realistic. For example I fill up my car with fuel, this is directly funding said “monsters”. I was also work in an industry that is heavily funded by similar nations. I think unless you completely rule out the products/ companies that these nations are tied to from your life th...

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Every one of us has a morality level beyond which we wouldn’t give something the time of day. If we express that as a high jump, my bar is about 2m off the ground and this Saudi takeover is about 20m up. So without doubt my time supporting the Clarets would be done. People may say how would I feel i...

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Makes Alan look like Mother Theresa. I’m very pleased these guys own our club, I couldn’t in good conscience give my money to NUFC if that regime was in charge. I assume a Russian sovereign wealth fund or that from countless other countries would now have to get the green light too. It’ll be like th...

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Before this announcement, the shares were worthless. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. The shares were highly illiquid (hard to trade), not worthless - that’s a key difference. Sounds like semantics but it isn’t. The value of the shares is now apparent - the key decision is whether illiquidity ...

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The confirmation statement Paul has linked above is interesting because it does break everything down neatly (e.g. Mike Garlick’s “Clarets Go Large” holding of 34,959 shares. Interesting but not necessarily crucial. I’ve been reassured by what I heard from Alan Pace and about the ability to trade on...

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Restrict it to 2-3 drinks per match. Should minimise “waste”. Crack down hard on troublemakers. Carrot and stick. It will take years to change the culture but it has to start somewhere and will make matches more pleasant in the end. If I drive with family for 4 hours on a matchday and arrive at 2:45...

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Good that Mr Pace has come out and fronted this, he seems impressive to me, but one thing we should all agree on is that this gesture is to benefit ALK, if it gives welcome money to some fans that is a byproduct. I’ve tried to give my professional (financial not legal) view on this thread to try to ...

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There's a few bits and pieces that could be done if a lot (probably about 1,000 of them) of fans got together but realistically it's very unlikely and they're generally pretty minor things. Bear in mind that once you add in the other board members it's up to 94% ownership or so. There are a few leg...

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Buying 84% has put ALK in full charge of the club. With no limitations on what they can do Is that legally true? There is a legal obligation to treat all shareholders fairly. That could be important because by default it places limitations though in an area notoriously difficult to prove in court. ...

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If something appears too good to be true it usually is. The other way of looking at it is that the person making the very generous offer must have a lot to gain from it. What I would be interested in here is what additional powers ALK would have from a complete takeover compared to now. Then support...

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A bit early to be dismissing us and elevating Brentford, as some are on this thread. Cornet looked like he would lift the team but also release other players (e.g. no doubling up on Dwight), we know we are capable of being more solid than we have, and Wood is a class striker who is simply out of for...

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I always thought that carpark adjacent to Harry Potts Way was owned by BFC. Those loos look like they are in spaces 1 and 2 of that car park next to the away turnstiles.

That guy tweeting has a very fair point, though I have seen some shocking facilities at away venues all over.

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Jay got several heads on crosses and JBG improved us in this area. I too would have brought on Pieters, the assist record going back years is conclusive. Similarly Roberts’ introduction cannot be far away, much, much needed.

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That a player from each side was booked for dissent in separate incidents shows the ref was having a mare. Quite rare. Eventually players from each side were throwing themselves over because of the way the reffing started. He looked like he was having a miserable day, it was only when the crowd told...

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I don’t dispute there is a lot of money to be made in this but I really wish (not just influencing but life in general) the objective of people is to improve the lives of other people not to earn a load of dosh for themselves. If kids spend all their time on these platforms the question I would ask ...

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The trouble is, compared to traditional advertising, it not only persuades people (particularly teenagers) their clothes / looks are inferior, influencing also persuades them their lives are inferior too, by distorting a view of what’s normal life. Life simply isn’t what it is portrayed as on Instag...

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Question Time meets Love Island, who would ever had thought it…..well, apart from anyone who had the misfortune to turn on QT in recent years. This Instagram “influencer” - far more interesting is the row yesterday in the US (a leak to the Wall St Journal) over Facebook knowing full well that Instag...

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Not a fan of Southgate at all. Look at Ramsdale and Arsenal messing about at the back against us - nearly cost them. As it will England at some point. I tend to believe keepers are there to stop goals. Saying that though, Nick has been poor this season, Vardy’s winner was a rash decision, there hav...

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Not a fan of Southgate at all. Look at Ramsdale and Arsenal messing about at the back against us - nearly cost them. As it will England at some point. I tend to believe keepers are there to stop goals. Saying that though, Nick has been poor this season, Vardy’s winner was a rash decision, there have...

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They use several slow motion cameras for VAR. They use the 50fps broadcast feed to sync when the player touches the ball. The players movement is calculated at something like 300fps. So when they show the result with the lines (or so they should) it's a still frame of these combined 'virtual' foota...

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I’ve worked out before the distance a player can run between camera freeze frames used by VAR. it is in the centimetres. But Wood would have been off anyway. The new thicker lines and the fact he wasn’t at full sprint ensure that. Keith Hackett was saying the Wood one is the only one this season he ...

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Wow. You're pinning the blame for what is likely to be the biggest defeat for years in one bloke? Not blame. It was disappointing because I rate him on form as our 2nd best player - fantastic battle with Morikowa today. He is young and needs to learn how to guarantee a win while well ahead. We have...

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The big disappointment for me has been Hovland. A birdie machine. Picked for all four doubles sessions, in the lead in all four matches (three clear in two of them) and lost all four when the going got tough. Reminded me of the Clarets this season. A lack of resilience. Hovland wins three of them, w...

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This “get in the water / bunker” is going to get irritating. Total lack of class as we come to expect.

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Great news, as is the betting ban.

I wonder if a way to prevent overdoing it is to limit everyone to 2 or 3 drinks each using scans of tickets / cards? Surely it is possible to do it with modern tech?

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I said last night to the other half that when Jay scores in this cup it means Capital Punishment is on the way. A win against Spurs and to paraphrase Birdy it will be…….justice. The blip to my enthusiasm is that it is sandwiched between Southampton away and Brentford at home so I just cannot see Dyc...

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The phone ticketing cannot fail to slow things down. Phones can run out of battery unexpectedly, or go into a reset. What then? Being of a certain age I can also struggle to see my phone at times without reading glasses, which I don’t take on the Turf not least because they discourage bags, and stan...

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My Octopus variable rate just went up by about 25%. The fixed rate on offer is even higher. Will check the switches but the prices need to all settle first, at present fixed rates are v high.

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Who has Dyche stifled? Tarkowski for one. The argument against mine on the other thread last night was that he plays in such a deep defence he isn’t tested. No doubts in a more expansive team Tarky would have evolved differently. I still think he is better than players like White but our style limit...

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All five teams could yet finish top half, Brighton and Leeds could be the “best of the rest” after the big 6, Leicester and Everton (I doubt Leeds will but they are better than Norwich, Watford, Brentford, Palace, Newcastle and Wolves who are the teams to judge us against - I’ll ponder the state we ...

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I think this is the problem, our fans think defenders and keepers playing in a deep block equates to the same as playing out from the back. today identified exactly why they both get in the England set up ahead of our two. The Arsenal lads are great on the ball and at there age they will only get b...

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