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Thread		Does anyone know how the possible takeover will be funded?
at 14:44 3 Mar 2021

One thing I haven't seen discussed is whether the takeover will load a pile of debt onto the club as happened recently at Burnley and was how the Glaziers took over Man Utd. Or are the potential investors using their own money, or money they're borrowing themselves?

That could make or break it for me.

More on the Burnley takeover here - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/feb/02/burnley-us-takeover-has-left-cl
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Thread		Charlie Brown scored for MK Dons at the weekend
at 16:49 22 Feb 2021





What's the betting he repeats that on April 10th?
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Thread		Could we set an unwelcome English football record?
at 11:23 1 Feb 2021

I was wondering whether we have fallen to the lowest point of any English club to have won a European trophy.

Apparently former two times European Champions Nottingham Forest managed to sink to 21st in League One after 7 games of the 2005-06 season before finishing 7th which was their lowest ever league finish. We haven’t got all the way down to 21st yet, have we? But we did finish lower than 7th last season.

Leeds (twice winners of the Inter City Fairs Cup) were still bottom of League One after five games of the 2007-08 season despite winning all five as they’d been deducted points for insolvency. It took them until the sixth league game to move up to 20th and they finished the season 5th.

Manchester City (once winners of the Inter City Fairs Cup) were in the third division in 1998-99 and dropped as low as 13th in December ’98 before finishing 3rd, their lowest ever league finish. They did go up via the playoffs that season.

I think that at the current rate of progress we will finish a completed season (rather than a truncated one like last season) in the lowest position of any English club to have won a European trophy.

There’s one for the CV Marcus Evans and Paul Lambert.
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Thread		Jim McLean RIP & excellent article with Paul Lambert content
at 16:41 29 Dec 2020

Found out about the death of Jim McLean, manager of Dundee United, on the Guardian Football Weekly podcast.

They referred to an article in Scottish football publication The Nutmeg, and it's well worth a read including mention of our current manager and excellent Duncan Ferguson anecdote. Here it is - https://www.nutmegmagazine.co.uk/issue-11/jousting-with-jim/
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Thread		Anniversary of the Superga air disaster today
at 11:29 4 May 2020

Today is the 71st anniversary of the Superga air crash which killed the Grande Torino team. It's a fascinating story of one of Serie A's most successful team.

If you have a few lockdown minutes to kill there's an article about the manager, Erno Erbstein, the Nazis didn't get him but the Superga air crash did, here - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jan/22/erno-erbstein-hungary-holocaust

The book about his life published by The Blizzard is a great read.
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Thread		Anyone got Gigaclear broadband?
at 18:24 6 Apr 2020

They laid the fibre cables down my road last Autumn and today, after experiencing yet more outages with our Plusnet connection, I have placed an order to have Gigaclear. There are some half decent deals about currently.

It probably won't be a standard installation from their terminal at the property boundary so they'll have to send someone round to work it out and I can decide to go ahead or not once that's done.

Reviews online aren't brilliant to be honest but wondered if there was any experience in the TWTD massive.
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Thread		Anyone got any advice on choosing and setting up a NAS drive to store music etc.
at 19:52 14 Nov 2019

I’ve currently got all my music and photos on a second hard drive in an elderly Mac Pro and I stream it to various things in the house using a DLNA server (Twonky). It’s getting a bit full and I may replace the Mac at some point in the not too distant future. So, am thinking of shifting all the files onto a NAS and using that. I have a more recent Dell Windows PC I could use as storage too, but would rather something that doesn’t take up quite so much room.

Anyone got any tips? Thanks.
[Post edited 14 Nov 2019 19:54]
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Thread		Anyone have any tips for a family weekend in Liverpool?
at 12:50 16 Jul 2019

Does anyone have any tips for a family weekend in Liverpool? Probably going to go to the Keith Haring exhibition at the Tate and make a weekend of it? Places to stay, things to do etc. (not intending to go to the Cavern unless I really have to).

Thanks
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Thread		Anyone else having trouble buying concession season tickets online?
at 11:57 3 May 2019

I’ve chosen two seats in the Co-Op stand and selected Under 19 for one of them and adult for the other but when I put them in the basket they’re both adult.

Any ideas anyone?
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Thread		40 years aog this week - 1st ÂŁ1 million footballer
at 14:36 5 Feb 2019

Interesting article here about the first ÂŁ1 million footballer, Trevor Francis

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/feb/05/trevor-francis-first-1m-player-

The transfer to Forest took place 40 years ago.

I recall attending a game against Forest in I guess 1979 when he played for them and punched the ball into the net at the Churchmans end, thankfully disallowed. I’ve had it in my head that it was his debut for Forest. Can anyone confirm or disprove that?



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Thread		Interesting article about Luton's under 11 champions of Europe
at 17:38 12 Dec 2018

Mentions Janoi Donacien

Hopefully, should the worst happen, we won't suffer a similar fate to what they did when they went out of the league.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/football-league-blog/2018/dec/12/luton-town
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Thread		There's a Woolfenden on University Challenge
at 20:36 16 Jul 2018

From Dereham, any relation to Chris?

Alright, any relation to Luke?
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Thread		One other thing from yesterday ...
at 16:56 15 Jul 2018

Our new shirt doesn't look great in real life. The round neck is a bit rubbish and the red stripes on the shirt and shorts look wrong.
On the other hand Braintree's Hummel kit is a simple elegant affair. Looking at Hummel's Twitter feed they're making an effort to get more clubs wearing their kit.
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Thread		Anyone going to the Braintree game on Saturday?
at 11:10 12 Jul 2018

See you in the 'Spoons beforehand?
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Thread		So we have got ÂŁ5 million and 53 centre half appearances
at 16:08 27 Jun 2018

in exchange for Matt Clarke and ÂŁ700,000. Given how transfer fees have gone in recent seasons I don't think that we've done very well out of that.
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Thread		Can anyone find the Phoenix from the Flames recreation of Osborne 1-0?
at 09:08 8 May 2018

The anniversary of the FA Cup win this weekend reminded me of the David Baddiel / Frank Skinner recreation of the winning goal in the Phoenix from the Flames slot on Fantasy Football. Unfortunately it’s not on Youtube (as far as I can tell but please contradict me) so here’s the Alan Sunderland one which I think was filmed in Ipswich.

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Thread		Any Woodbridge estate agents on?
at 11:46 20 Apr 2018

Have you taken any calls recently from a man with a French accent?
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