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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32680 on: June 9, 2023, 06:33:52 pm »
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32681 on: June 9, 2023, 06:45:03 pm »

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32682 on: June 9, 2023, 07:04:20 pm »
Funnily enough, the rumour is that Davies is gonna bail…

If he has even the slightest thing about him surely he does? Thing is even if you looked at the sides hoping to gain promotion from the Championship, I don't think he's good enough to play regularly at that level. It really is remarkable that he's 25 and still there  ;D

There was talk about Rangers signing him on a free, would be the best realistic move for him that. Look at how Todd Cantwell has gone over and started contributing in the first team. Plenty of football available against quite poor sides and even a chance to play some minutes in whatever European competition they're in. Might as well go for that if it's on the table but if there's a good wage there (and there will be) to sit around and do nothing then there's worse ways to make a living. That's a real lot of shit clothes available.
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32683 on: June 10, 2023, 10:09:06 pm »
Fucking fireworks going off in the city centre :lmao

Absolute fucking helmets.
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32684 on: June 10, 2023, 10:54:27 pm »
Fucking fireworks going off in the city centre :lmao

Absolute fucking helmets.
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32685 on: June 10, 2023, 11:19:17 pm »
Fucking fireworks going off in the city centre :lmao

Absolute fucking helmets.
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32686 on: June 10, 2023, 11:39:59 pm »
If he has even the slightest thing about him surely he does? Thing is even if you looked at the sides hoping to gain promotion from the Championship, I don't think he's good enough to play regularly at that level. It really is remarkable that he's 25 and still there  ;D

There was talk about Rangers signing him on a free, would be the best realistic move for him that. Look at how Todd Cantwell has gone over and started contributing in the first team. Plenty of football available against quite poor sides and even a chance to play some minutes in whatever European competition they're in. Might as well go for that if it's on the table but if there's a good wage there (and there will be) to sit around and do nothing then there's worse ways to make a living. That's a real lot of shit clothes available.

The melt would get the fuck kicked out of him in the Scottish league.
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32687 on: June 11, 2023, 04:10:15 am »
Fucking fireworks going off in the city centre :lmao

Absolute fucking helmets.

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32688 on: June 11, 2023, 07:31:19 am »
Fucking fireworks going off in the city centre :lmao

Absolute fucking helmets.

Saddest gang of c**** going. :lmao
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32689 on: June 11, 2023, 07:44:11 am »
Fucking fireworks going off in the city centre :lmao

Absolute fucking helmets.

I will never understand scousers wanting a Manc team to win. Red/Blue, I don’t understand why they’d want them to win.

I seen lots of evertonians buzzing about it, why?

We’re not remotely bothered, we’ve got 6, I’ve seen us win 2, my dad seen us with all 6.

Why do the bitters think the way they do? Warped.

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32690 on: June 11, 2023, 07:48:23 am »
I will never understand scousers wanting a Manc team to win. Red/Blue, I don’t understand why they’d want them to win.

I seen lots of evertonians buzzing about it, why?

We’re not remotely bothered, we’ve got 6, I’ve seen us win 2, my dad seen us with all 6.

Why do the bitters think the way they do? Warped.

They need some joy in their life, the only other thing they have to enjoy right now is the end of season pitch invasion after avoiding being flushed yet again

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32691 on: June 11, 2023, 07:48:46 am »
There is going to be some epic crying when this lot and their manc chums finally get punished for breaking the rules. We always have the last laugh, being a blue they should know this by now.
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32692 on: June 11, 2023, 08:26:24 am »
I will never understand scousers wanting a Manc team to win. Red/Blue, I don’t understand why they’d want them to win.

I seen lots of evertonians buzzing about it, why?

We’re not remotely bothered, we’ve got 6, I’ve seen us win 2, my dad seen us with all 6.

Why do the bitters think the way they do? Warped.

They do it because they know it winds the reds up. Simple. And it seems like it's working.

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32693 on: June 11, 2023, 08:33:30 am »
I’ll be setting off rockets too when these eventually get relegated .

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32694 on: June 11, 2023, 08:39:22 am »
Just enjoy the free firework display

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32695 on: June 11, 2023, 11:56:31 am »
...Why do the bitters think the way they do? Warped.
Simply put, their own club is a shite, embarrassing, shambolic mess, so they have no choice but to live vicariously.
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32696 on: June 11, 2023, 11:58:07 am »
Someone was setting off fireworks in New Brighton as well after the final. I keep hoping it was just someone's birthday, but who knows?  :-\
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32697 on: June 11, 2023, 12:01:26 pm »
He's done well to free himself of the stigma attached with managing the Shite and the Manc Shite.

Who said you can't reinvent yourself?
I don't think Moyes has entirely shaken off his cautious approach to games i.e. focus on not getting beaten rather than aiming for a win. It suited the mid-table mediocrity mindset that set in across the Park during his tenure there (albeit I think many Blues would bite your hand off for that approach now) and I've heard one or two West Ham fans complain about it. It was one of the reasons why I could never imagine him being a success at United. The "previous Scot" always threw caution to the wind in an attempt to get 3 points at the risk of conceding. Sadly for us it was a gamble that generally paid off  :(
I'll confess I was in 2 minds who to support the other night. On the one hand it's good to see a serial loser get some silverware and the celebrations with his Dad were lovely. On the other hand he often comes across as a bit "up himself". Once the game started however it was no contest. The dark arts on display from Fiorentina - especially the constant rolling around on the floor - got right up my nose and I was delighted with that last minute winner.

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32698 on: June 11, 2023, 12:22:07 pm »
I seen lots of evertonians buzzing about it, why?
Because they're too thick to realise that City's presence in the upper echelons of the league has, on occasions, denied them European football and that the presence of a state backed clubs inflates the transfer market and makes it harder for the likes of Everton to compete for players. Despite routinely maintaining a holier-than-though attitude, they're also perfectly happy to look the other way in the face of blatant sportswashing of human rights abuses but hypocrisy has always been rife across the Park.

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32699 on: June 11, 2023, 12:39:01 pm »
I’ll be setting off rockets too when these eventually get relegated .

We should parade a blue coffin around the the city, like they did when we last got relegated. See how they like it.
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32700 on: June 11, 2023, 02:12:33 pm »
We should parade a blue coffin around the the city, like they did when we last got relegated. See how they like it.

Crazy thing is that they would actually expect us to do that as they think their obsession is mutual, when the reality is that we find them annoying due to the bile and vitriol that comes from their side, a hazard to our players due to their approach to derbies etc. but we simply don't find them important enough to hate, we'd just prefer them gone for the previously mentioned hate and injury potential reasons.

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32701 on: June 11, 2023, 02:16:26 pm »
Crazy thing is that they would actually expect us to do that as they think their obsession is mutual, when the reality is that we find them annoying due to the bile and vitriol that comes from their side, a hazard to our players due to their approach to derbies etc. but we simply don't find them important enough to hate, we'd just prefer them gone for the previously mentioned hate and injury potential reasons.

 We had a blue coffin ready to be paraded around the city back in 1994, to be fair. Thanks, Hans Segars, you bung-taking twat!.
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32702 on: June 11, 2023, 02:17:44 pm »
It's going to be a bit of fun when a year from now they're ready to move into their new "iconic" stadium down at BMD, when they are relegated from the League. Finally flushed by the sewage works. Karma...
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32703 on: June 11, 2023, 02:18:16 pm »
Because they're too thick to realise that City's presence in the upper echelons of the league has, on occasions, denied them European football and that the presence of a state backed clubs inflates the transfer market and makes it harder for the likes of Everton to compete for players. Despite routinely maintaining a holier-than-though attitude, they're also perfectly happy to look the other way in the face of blatant sportswashing of human rights abuses but hypocrisy has always been rife across the Park.

The main difference is that we know we had a bad season by our standards and, hopefully, are taking the right steps to rectify the problem for the future.

One for the oldies - they sold League winner Alan Ball and went into decline for 15 years, around the time we signed Keegan - and the rest is history. Everton that.

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32704 on: June 11, 2023, 02:23:08 pm »
Because they're too thick to realise that City's presence in the upper echelons of the league has, on occasions, denied them European football and that the presence of a state backed clubs inflates the transfer market and makes it harder for the likes of Everton to compete for players. Despite routinely maintaining a holier-than-though attitude, they're also perfectly happy to look the other way in the face of blatant sportswashing of human rights abuses but hypocrisy has always been rife across the Park.
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32705 on: June 11, 2023, 02:58:20 pm »
The main difference is that we know we had a bad season by our standards and, hopefully, are taking the right steps to rectify the problem for the future.

One for the oldies - they sold League winner Alan Ball and went into decline for 15 years, around the time we signed Keegan - and the rest is history. Everton that.

Didn't we get the blame for that as well?

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« Reply #32706 on: June 11, 2023, 03:07:59 pm »
Just been by Bramley Moore, coming along very well and will look the part when finished. Anyway, Covid has goosed my sense of smell so laughed my head off when the missus said "Oh My God, it stinks of shit!"
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32707 on: June 11, 2023, 06:55:50 pm »
Someone was setting off fireworks in New Brighton as well after the final. I keep hoping it was just someone's birthday, but who knows?  :-\
I wouldn't read too much into it. We see fireworks going off virtually every night across the city. Weddings, parties, birthdays etc...

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32708 on: June 11, 2023, 07:00:58 pm »
Just been by Bramley Moore, coming along very well and will look the part when finished. Anyway, Covid has goosed my sense of smell so laughed my head off when the missus said "Oh My God, it stinks of shit!"
We drove past there before, and it really did stink.

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32709 on: June 11, 2023, 07:05:54 pm »
This from the Esk… I perhaps hadn’t realised just how bad things still were

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We are nearly two weeks on from the Bournemouth game. A game in which as we all know, we faced potential relegation which may have brought to reality the existential threat talked of by Farhad Moshiri.
In reality the threats facing the club prior to that momentous day were numerous. Relegation would have triggered many of the individual threats which combined, may have provided a greater threat and carried far more serious consequences than having to play an Ipswich Town or Plymouth Argyle (with great respect to both historic clubs) away on a wet Friday evening.
Yet in the lead up, and subsequent to, not a word from the owner or the hierarchy. Journalistic endeavour and notices on Company House have told the fans more about what is or may be happening than any individual at the club. What state is this club in when fans have to decipher complex legal documents on Companies House rather than be informed by a club official of the status of the club?
So, a review of where we are, and what is likely to happen in the near future.

Premier League Status
Our Premier League status is secure for another year. The on-going investigation, examination and determination of alleged breaches of Premier League financial regulations by an independent commission will, whatever the outcome, not affect our status as one of twenty clubs starting the new Premier League season on the weekend of 12 August 2023 – the glorious 12th, although whether we will be the hunter or hunted subsequent to the commission’s findings remains to be seen.

The Board
Everton’s articles of association require a minimum of three board members at all times. Everton’s current board membership is nominally four. Four individuals who have under the 2006 Companies Act a number of legal duties as follows:
A duty to promote the success of the company. A director of a company must act in the way he or she considers, in good faith, would be most likely to promote the success of the company for the benefit of its members as a whole, and in doing so have regard (amongst other matters) to

the likely consequences of any decision in the long term,
the interests of the company’s employees,
the need to foster the company’s business relationships with suppliers, customers and others,
the impact of the company’s operations on the community and the environment,
the desirability of the company maintaining a reputation for high standards of business conduct, and
the need to act fairly as between members of the company
The evidence that directors of Everton have performed the above has been scant for some time, indeed for some directors, Evertonians would question if this was ever thus.
Undeniably, from my perspective at least, Everton’s directors since mid January have failed in their duties as per above. No doubt critical functions such as finance have continued to be performed, but the absence of communication post the end of the season to address the club’s future, its ownership, financing of the stadium and its ability to compete in next year’s Premier League are a dereliction of duty from which there is no recovery. The change of ownership (below) and the introduction of new investors/ finance providers must immediately, if not sooner lead to the removal and replacement of the Chairman, CEO and current non-executive director. For stability purposes in the short term, the continuation of the finance director is probably sensible.
The current board made their position untenable in January, and frankly have more than doubled down on that with their dereliction of duties post season end. Whatever the change of ownership outcome is, this is an issue that needs addressing immediately. New investors reading this should be under no illusions as to the complete unacceptability of their continued tenure.

Finances

Transfer spending: At the time of writing the new transfer window opens in 5 days. Given the weaknesses and lack of balance in the current squad, in normal circumstances Evertonians should be anticipating an exciting summer of new arrivals, permanently signed or on loan.
Unfortunately that is not going to happen. The impact of years of accumulated losses, potential non-compliance with profitability and sustainability rules and perhaps most critically of all a lack of cash means that incoming players will depend upon who is sold and what is available in the loan market. Another summer when most likely an early sale (before 30 June 2023) and late purchases and loan transactions. An unenviable set of circumstances under which Kevin Thelwell and Sean Dyche will have to operate – driven by the poor decision making of many years and the chronic financial situation of the club.
The prospect of significant spending to alleviate our squad weaknesses and thereby improve the prospects of not having another fight against relegation remain negligible at best.

Stadium Funding: It has become very apparent in recent months, Moshiri’s need to find urgent, alternative sources of capital to meet his obligations to Laing O’Rourke. His once broad boast of money never being a problem whilst he was here, no longer carries any credence. It’s also become apparent his unwillingness to dispose of the club or sell equity to provide a solution.
His preferred method has been to seek further debt. This in a business that has £450 million of outstanding shareholder loans (not anticipated to be repaid) and likely in excess of £220 million of debt to Rights and Media Funding and Metro Bank.
Based on information provided to Matt Slater of the Athletic, the future funding shortfall is as high as £360 million.

Working Capital: Such is the lack of information, the lack of engagement and accountability from the board to minority shareholders, it’s impossible to put a figure on what Everton’s working capital requirements are. However, it’s not difficult to calculate in the absence of further player disposals the club is in dire need of further capital injections – even if the actual figure cannot be readily predicted.

Partial solutions and what is likely to happen in the future
On 23rd May, an entry appeared on the company records relating to Everton Stadium Development Holding Company, the wholly owned subsidiary of Everton Football Club. It contained details of a charge (security) against the leasehold of the land upon which the stadium sits in favour of Blythe Capital.
Blythe Capital is a company owned by Andrew Bell and his family. Andrew is a successful local businessman who also happens to be a life-long blue. Founder and former CEO of AJ Bell, he maintains an approximate 22% interest in the FTSE 250 company worth at current market price £280 million. Andrew Bell has additional business interests in his portfolio.
The charge confirms that Andrew Bell has provided funding to the stadium development company. It is thought that the funding amounts to £40 million. This is money already received by Everton.
Since the now infamous game against Southampton in mid January, a US investment company MSP have entered the public domain as potential investors in Everton Football Club. As is well documented they have interests in several European clubs plus other sporting enterprises. Despite interest from other US based investors including 777 partners, MSP were granted a period of exclusivity to examine the books and conclude a funding deal centred on the immediate funding requirements for the stadium.
This funding is thought to be in the order of £100 million. It will achieve two objectives – repay the AJ Bell short term loan (and any other possible short term loans including potentially George Downing) and provide funding to meet near term obligations to Laing O’Rourke. The deal will be structured as a debt deal with warrants attached. At £100 million it would suggest a future equity stake of 25%, rising if Everton’s funding requirements increase. Again, from Matt Slater, this may increase beyond £150 million.
Moshiri believes this funding arrangement will allow him to conclude a construction loan through JP Morgan and the Japanese MUFG bank which would complete the stadium financing and allow him to retain a majority position in Everton. I have to say that appears at best, optimistic thinking and falls in line with other optimistic but ultimately unsuccessful prospective funding announcements made by his people. JP Morgan and MUFG have been unsuccessful in raising finance since 2019 – given Everton’s circumstances and no immediate prospect of improvement, why should a relatively small capital injection by MSP change their view?
I have stated on Twitter that Moshiri will cede his majority position, and I maintain that. It is inconceivable that so much debt funding could be placed on Everton whilst still maintaining the economic advantages of a new stadium.

Control of Everton
Significant minority investors will always seek additional powers beyond the power of their shareholding. They will seek board positions to ensure oversight, scrutiny and a degree of control. More importantly they will seek control over reserved matters, specifically relating to finance but also possibly over board composition particularly in the key Chair and CFO roles. No investor coming into a company in Everton’s circumstances would permit the existing management team to continue, nor would they forgo their demand for board positions.
It is thought Andrew Bell and perhaps George Downing (a successful property investor originally from Liverpool) will form part of a new Everton board, post repayment of any short term loans, thereby negating any governance issues of having minority shareholder and creditors as directors of the company.
Although it is impossible to get anyone to confirm on the record, the current Chair and CEO must be removed to allow for cultural change, new strategic planning but most critically corporate and senior personnel restructuring.

Not out of the woods
We are not out of the woods by a long way. The immediate funding requirement for Bramley Moore ought to be met. Board changes should improve governance and corporate performance as well as materially altering the corporate culture (one hopes).
None of the above provides a funding solution for Kevin Thelwell and Sean Dyche. It won’t immediately solve the structural issues regarding the imbalance not only within the squad but that of income and expenditure across the business (although that is improving).
It will, though, provide evidence of change, it should weaken the chaotic influence of Farhad Moshiri and his footballing advisors. It will lead to the removal of the key decision makers of recent and many years. It will most likely lead to a loss of Moshiri’s majority shareholding. It should lead to better decision making, better governance, and please God, a return to more normal relationships between the ever loyal fans and errant, wholly unsuitable directors and our majority owner.
Anything less than the above is just a further kick of a heavily dented can down an extremely rocky road. This is the challenge facing incoming investors and business leaders.

https://theesk.org/2023/06/10/summary-of-evertons-current-position-not-out-of-the-woods/
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32710 on: June 11, 2023, 07:12:31 pm »
Penned by my AI - you're welcome :)



In the land of ice and snow,
Where the bitter winds do blow,
There lived a creature, feared and known,
Whose head was like a melon, grown.

The Esk, they called this beast of might,
Whose head was such an awesome sight,
For it was large and round and green,
The biggest head that you have seen.

It towered high above the crowd,
And all who saw it would be wowed,
For it was said that in its mind,
The Esk had secrets undefined.

With eyes that glowed like embers bright,
And teeth that gleamed like stars at night,
The Esk was feared both far and wide,
By all who dared to cross its side.

But there was one who dared to try,
To face the Esk, and not to shy,
A hero bold, with sword in hand,
To save his people and his land.

He faced the Esk with fearless might,
And in a flash, he did ignite,
His sword, ablaze with holy fire,
To strike the Esk and not to tire.

The battle raged for many days,
As both sides fought in countless ways,
But in the end, the hero won,
And the Esk was vanquished, undone.

And so the hero saved his land,
With sword in hand and courage grand,
And though the Esk was feared before,
Its reign of terror was no more.

And now, the story's often told,
Of the hero brave and bold,
Who faced the Esk with head so big,
And saved his people from the rig.

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32711 on: June 11, 2023, 08:09:41 pm »
Penned by my AI - you're welcome :)



In the land of ice and snow,
Where the bitter winds do blow,
There lived a creature, feared and known,
Whose head was like a melon, grown.

The Esk, they called this beast of might,
Whose head was such an awesome sight,
For it was large and round and green,
The biggest head that you have seen.

It towered high above the crowd,
And all who saw it would be wowed,
For it was said that in its mind,
The Esk had secrets undefined.

With eyes that glowed like embers bright,
And teeth that gleamed like stars at night,
The Esk was feared both far and wide,
By all who dared to cross its side.

But there was one who dared to try,
To face the Esk, and not to shy,
A hero bold, with sword in hand,
To save his people and his land.

He faced the Esk with fearless might,
And in a flash, he did ignite,
His sword, ablaze with holy fire,
To strike the Esk and not to tire.

The battle raged for many days,
As both sides fought in countless ways,
But in the end, the hero won,
And the Esk was vanquished, undone.

And so the hero saved his land,
With sword in hand and courage grand,
And though the Esk was feared before,
Its reign of terror was no more.

And now, the story's often told,
Of the hero brave and bold,
Who faced the Esk with head so big,
And saved his people from the rig.



A good AI would've got "usual caveats" in there

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32712 on: June 11, 2023, 09:28:31 pm »
The blues default about the premier league's investigation is " We have cooperated with them" which is all well and good but if they have found out you have been lying, well he'll hath no fury like a corrupt regime supporting organisation.
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32713 on: June 11, 2023, 09:42:31 pm »
The blues default about the premier league's investigation is " We have cooperated with them" which is all well and good but if they have found out you have been lying, well he'll hath no fury like a corrupt regime supporting organisation.
which is essentially meaningless.  are they expecting an award for cooperating ffs?

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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32714 on: June 11, 2023, 09:45:11 pm »
One fucking goal.
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32715 on: June 11, 2023, 09:48:10 pm »
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32716 on: June 11, 2023, 09:51:37 pm »
which is essentially meaningless.  are they expecting an award for cooperating ffs?
Another first
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32717 on: June 12, 2023, 12:37:21 am »
They never co-operated with my hopes and expectations this year did they?
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32718 on: June 12, 2023, 03:10:37 pm »
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Re: The People's Club (I was saying Boo-urns)
« Reply #32719 on: June 12, 2023, 03:17:06 pm »
Do they owe him money?

Where's Ancelotti's general commercial contracts and arrangements money, Bill?
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