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  1. toshj

    UEFA Euro 2024 Qualifiers & Friendlies ** spoilers ** [21st - 26th March 2024]

    Need to get the ball into and runners off Toney.
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    UEFA Euro 2024 Qualifiers & Friendlies ** spoilers ** [21st - 26th March 2024]

    I can't really imagine this really registers with anyone... but it's mad being a Brentford supporter and having England's teo main strikers tonight being a current and former Brentford player. Both signed in the Championship and from lower league sides too. It's quite crazy.
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    UEFA Champions & Europa League Football Thread R16 ** spoilers ** [5th - 14th March 2024]

    Quite enjoying Arsenal squeaking through to the quarter finals... and relying on a Brentford player to get them there.
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    Greenlizard0 Premier League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [9th - 13th March 2024]

    Too right. You could see it from where we were stood in the away end. Ref bottled the sending off. I knew that would come back to bite us. Two big saves from Ramsdale kept the score at 1-1 after his massive **** up.
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    Greenlizard0 Premier League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [24th - 26th February 2024]

    Glad I decided not to go tonight after that start...
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    What book are you reading...

    A bit late to this, but I hope you enjoyed it. TSR is one of thr best in the series - actually the whole arc from midway through TDR to the end of LoC is absolutely amazing.
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    COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

    Yeah my recent bout did this too. Tested positive on the Tuesday, by Friday my red line was practically glowing... and Saturday evening it had pretty much disappeared. My take on it is that the first time you're infected with it the virus hangs around for ages - I tested positive for a...
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    Greenlizard0 Premier League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [3rd - 5th February 2024]

    Nonsense. Watch it back. The ball is on Saliba's toes, Diaz is half a yard away... and at that moment Raya is six yards away and waiting for the ball to be cleared. It was horrible defending and definitely not Raya's fault. If the ball is in a danger area you get rid of it. Nothing more.
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    Greenlizard0 Premier League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [3rd - 5th February 2024]

    So you're blaming him for something that he's not called for. Lol.
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    Greenlizard0 Premier League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [3rd - 5th February 2024]

    It bounced around in front of Saliba who had plenty of time to clear it. Was his job to deal with it. First rule is that you don't leave anything for a goalkeeper unless they call for it.
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    Greenlizard0 Premier League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [3rd - 5th February 2024]

    Not Raya to blame. You only leave the ball for a keeper if they've called for it. If not then you get rid. You can't leave a ball that can be easily cleared and expect another player to read your mind.
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    Band of Brothers Rewatch

    Yeah I thought this too. It was decent on first watch a few years back, and then I'd done some reading on Peleliu a few weeks before Christmas and watched it back again. Much better the second time around. BOB is possibly the best series ever made, but The Pacific is very good if you judge it on...
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    Ivan Toney banned for 8 months

    Why's that? 13th in our first season up, 9th last season and two points off Europe. I think Brighton finished 15th, 17th, 15th and 16th in their first four seasons up. There aren't many indications that we're on trouble or rest on our laurels. We're normally quite competitive and I think we've...
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    Ivan Toney banned for 8 months

    But now they're all screwed - apart from Man City it seems. Arsenal, Chelsea, United - all have hit their FFP limits despite having such significat turnover that they should have plenty of headroom yet they all seem to desperately need signings.
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    Ivan Toney banned for 8 months

    I can see the value in a club buying Gallagher - he works hard, gets stuck in, not a bad player at all... but for £60m!! That's just an insane price. IMO one of the big issues in Premier League football is that the clubs are simply paying too much for ok players, leaving them stumped with FFP...
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    Ivan Toney banned for 8 months

    I don't think he'll repeat that mistake again. The plan is for the club to keep him this window and no one seems to be able to afford him right now. I reckon he'll go in the summer to Arsenal or Chelsea, maybe even Man Utd if the new owners fancy a big buy and Hojland is still struggling.
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    Greenlizard0 Premier League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [15th - 17th December 2023]

    It was chaos. Coote is am appalling referee. He gave Villa everything in the first half and then (rightfully) sent Ben Mee off, but then lost total control of the game. Two melees and massive rucks everywhere. Didn't referee with any kind of authority whatsoever. At one point the Villa...
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    xG is absolutely pointless

    Of course, they'll have access to loads of stats that us laymen couldn't comprehend. But they're still gaining an edge by using stats to their advantage, of which predictive xG seems a fairly crucial one.
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    xG is absolutely pointless

    It's crazy that Bloom and Benham have probably made over £1bn between them on something that's utterly meaningless! They must just be terribly lucky...
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    Greenlizard0 Premier League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [5th - 7th December 2023]

    There goes Mbuemo for a couple of months...
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