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Match Day Thread Hull City v Leeds

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Chazz Rheinhold, Sep 17, 2023.

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City win?

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  1. NewcastleTiger

    NewcastleTiger Well-Known Member

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    Early doors, Cov, Leeds, Leicester, Bristol, Norwich and Blackburn will all be aiming for top 6 (and have the squads/gaffers to achieve it)
     
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  2. TwoWrights

    TwoWrights Well-Known Member

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    At the minute, one of those, perhaps more, will have a change of gaffer before the season ends. :emoticon-0125-mmm:


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  3. Sumatran_Tiger

    Sumatran_Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Poached by an EPL team?
     
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  4. TwoWrights

    TwoWrights Well-Known Member

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    Sacked. :emoticon-0125-mmm:


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  5. Sumatran_Tiger

    Sumatran_Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Unlikely as they'll all be top six, as has been foretold ;)
     
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  6. TwoWrights

    TwoWrights Well-Known Member

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    Unlike Stevie Wonder, we shall see. :emoticon-0143-smirk

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  7. SydneyTiger14

    SydneyTiger14 Well-Known Member

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    I've never played Football Manager in my life.

    Want to answer my question about 'shots on target' or a 1 in 2 striker instead of xG after you mocked the notion of scoring 0.5 goals a game? Or just unwilling to accept different stats can be used in different ways?
     
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  8. Sumatran_Tiger

    Sumatran_Tiger Well-Known Member

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    "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics"
    Samuel Langhorne Clemens
     
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  9. steverico

    steverico Well-Known Member

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    You’re a Tory aren’t you, manipulating figures to suit, You either score goals or you don’t. FACT.
     
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  10. SydneyTiger14

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    Wtf?
     
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  11. Cityzen

    Cityzen Well-Known Member

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    Only did Littlewoods. Always used the same numbers. Except when one of them was a City then used the one after as I didn’t want to win because City had dropped a point. Talk about bloody stupid.<laugh>
     
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  12. Cityzen

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    I once looked that up because people quote him as saying it. Turns out no record of him saying that but Mark Twain quotes him as doing so. It seems Clemens maybe have got the idea from Lord Courtney.Couldn’t remember the whole passage but earlier Lord Courtney had said in a speech “'After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, "Lies - damn lies - and statistics," still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of.’”
     
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  13. Sumatran_Tiger

    Sumatran_Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Mark Twain quoted himself?
     
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  14. Cityzen

    Cityzen Well-Known Member

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    Comprehension problems? <laugh> Lord Courtney wrote that before Clemens wrote about Mark Twain quoting Disraeli as saying it.

    Bet you think Voltaire said that stuff about disagreeing with what you say but defending to the death your right to say it.
     
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  15. Sumatran_Tiger

    Sumatran_Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Clemens ;)
     
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  16. rovertiger

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    "What the ****!!!"
    Mayor of Hiroshima.
     
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  17. Sumatran_Tiger

    Sumatran_Tiger Well-Known Member

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    It was actually "What the F"
     
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  18. Summerof69

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    I remember having a similar mindset. Wtf!
     
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  19. Cityzen

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    Get away. He quoted Disraeli as saying it in The Memories Of Mark Twain.
     
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  20. springtiger

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    Got a free spider in a Bovril at Grimsby pre season friendly in the 70’s , and a run in on Cleethorpes Rd with a few locals on a sunny evening . Classed as a full day out in those days !!!
    Free accommodation at Fitties camp too , well the chalet was empty LOL
     
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