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  • in reply to: White kit as first choice . #198365
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    Let’s not drive down this road again!

    You don’t hear Burnley, Villa or West Ham fans clamouring for a white home kit.

    If the home strip didn’t look like a gash Hackett polo shirt it would be fine.

    The devil is in the detail!

    in reply to: Harrogate Match Thread #198329
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    Not according to Sky Sports: –

    “Improving Scunthorpe claimed a comfortable 5-2 Sky Bet League Two victory at Harrogate to match their best run of consecutive away league wins since 1997”

    in reply to: New Appointment. #198327
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    Or he doesn’t want his P45 for Christmas!

    in reply to: Harrogate Match Thread #198325
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    Apparently that’s the first time we have won three away on the bounce this century!

    So even in the halcyon days of Sharp & Keogh or Hayes & Hooper we didn’t rack up nine from nine on the road.

    Which begs the question why have we been so bloody awful at the SVS? Can’t blame the fans or the pitch, so what the hell is going on?

    in reply to: Harrogate Match Thread #198293
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    Agreed. Looks like 4-4-2.

    Time for the big ego McAttee to fill his boots?

    in reply to: New Appointment. #198259
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    “Will’s knowledge in the industry, including previously working in the scouting department at the Iron until he departed in July 2018, gives him a range of skills and contacts that will compliment the path the football club are now on”

    Aye because, let’s face it, you know all there is to know about football at 23!

    in reply to: Time to have a reality check #198248
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    I thought the season started against Oldham.

    Did it end against Morecambe?

    in reply to: Cedwyn Scott #198247
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    Obviously found “not guilty” then?

    in reply to: Should #198225
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    We had a group of school kids up at a field study centre and horse riding was one of the activities.

    As I had ridden before the instructor asked me to stay at the back of the group to make sure no one strayed off the route. We were out about an hour and the return mile was along the track. As it was level the instructor said the group could gallop their mounts back.

    We set off, went into a trot, then a gallop. Drumdondi clearly didn’t like being last and without too much encouragement from me he put his ears back and went for it! We won by a couple of lengths! Very exhilarating!

    in reply to: Should #198222
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    I can ride a horse!

    Once rode an ex-racehorse called Drumdondi along a disused railway line in the Scottish Borders.

    in reply to: Should #198215
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    Hate to tell you this AWG but you’ve got 10!

    in reply to: After lockdown 2 #198183
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    Hoping to get into the home end at Carlisle on Easter Monday🤞

    in reply to: After lockdown 2 #198155
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    I saw that episode of Family Guy!

    in reply to: Bolton Match Thread #198117
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    This mistake was then compounded by sacking both McCall and Hurst much too early

    Got a text from my Bantam mate on Saturday night…

    “Do you want Stuart McCall back? Please!!!”

    Last night I got…

    “Tell us how you got rid of McCall. He’s got to go!”

    And this guy is a Bradford legend.

    As for Hurst – well we all know the rumours.

    in reply to: Safer under the Conservatives #198114
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    Are the 80,000 extra prison places for members of the Conservative Party?

    After all, most of the Cabinet need locking up.

    in reply to: Should #198113
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    He could remind Cox the squad he (Swanny) has assembled isn’t the best

    No shit, Sherlock!

    in reply to: Bolton Match Thread #198077
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    I don’t see many clamouring for him to be sacked, just to wake up and smell the coffee!

    But I guess you can’t make cup of expresso when all you’ve got is a jar of instant!

    in reply to: After lockdown 2 #198076
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    Probably because some silly buggers are going to refuse it!

    Though I’d suggest it’s because not everyone will be able to be vaccinated by the end of 2021. Maybe no more than a third will be.

    I know I was being sarcastic!

    in reply to: Bolton Match Thread #198071
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    There’s no need for them to worry if van Veen’s not in the lineup.

    in reply to: After lockdown 2 #198069
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    Why are they preparing us for lockdowns, mask, social distancing etc until the end of 2021, if the vaccine is so effective?

    Probably because some silly buggers are going to refuse it!

    in reply to: Bolton Match Thread #198067
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    Well everyone on here called it before the ball was kicked, and I got 12 prediction league points!

    It’s so bleeding obvious a five year old can see it yet somehow the club don’t.

    As above – no Kev, no threat! No game changers on the bench. A summer transfer window conducted by agents and businessmen.

    Swiss Toni and Alan Sugar… “Signing a player is very much like making love to a beautiful woman….!”

    in reply to: After lockdown 2 #198038
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    Maths?
    Some of you still don’t see it.

    We all see it thank you.

    What you are trying to say is 6/100 SOUNDS better than 600/100,000. They are of course both the same and not every Ward in the country has a population of 100,000. Our Ward is around 4,000, so I know I have to divide the number quoted by 25. However I can get the actual figure by going on the County Council website. Our Ward has zero cases as of today, yet the per 100k number is 23!

    You intimate that 6/100 is okay but I beg to differ. If the R number is, let’s say, 1.5 then those 6 could infect another 9. Those nine another 14, then….

    Well I’ll leave you to work it out!

    The argument (which shouldn’t of course be an argument) over vaccination has sweet FA to do with party politics. All parties left, right and centre support the development of a vaccine for COVID. So any diatribe about Nazis and Communists belongs with nutters like David Icke and Piers Corbyn.

    If you’ve a laptop you could while away the long winter evenings doing some genealogy. See if you can find out if any of your eighteenth or nineteenth century ancestors died of smallpox. Then ask yourself why no one dies from it now.

    Oh, and BTW, you won’t be forced to get a jab. So don’t worry about turning green and growing a pair of breasts!

    in reply to: Bolton Match Thread #198026
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    Perfectly good RB on the bench and either Gilliead or Green having to play out of position at RB/RWB when both offer more in attack!

    One up top at home? And that one is Loft!

    Good job we can use five subs!

    in reply to: Spence #198003
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    Reckon we’re into Ferrite’s “chicken and egg” territory now Mick!

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    Having the same forward line two games in a row might help.

    in reply to: After lockdown 2 #197984
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    when you see gangs of people dancing in the streets and holding gatherings to show that they know better than people trying their best to end this bloody killer.

    If the people in charge knew what they were doing you may have a point.

    But when the people in charge are circus clowns who don’t even follow their own advice it’s hardly surprising.

    Never had you down as an anti-vaxxer Alcy! 😂

    in reply to: Bedeau. #197963
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    Seeing as how he’s been here six years they’re all his signings!

    Another daft comment!

    Notice you didn’t include Vose, Margetts, Lewis, Horsefield, El Mhanni, Dales, Proctor, Ugbo, Miller etc.

    in reply to: After lockdown 2 #197961
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    Reckon the only clubs rubbing their hands together will be Plymouth and Exeter!

    in reply to: At last #197960
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    So some clubs will benefit from home support but not others!

    Hardly a level playing field is it?

    Should be everyone or no one IMO.

    in reply to: Jem Karacan #197958
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    A number of posters have expressed the need for an experienced CMF.

    Adkins made Karacan his captain when manager of Reading, hence my question; was he recommended by Nige?

    If he impresses in training then give him a contract until the end of the season. My only concern would be that he’s not played a competitive game for well over a year.