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time maybe with alittle more than three weeks before kick off, but money?. would any players be match fit, able to jump straight into the team and perform, gel with team mates and get use to tatics. the longer they wait the closer to the bottom of the barrel they will be scratching around to gather together a squad

 

i would be worried if i was a pompey fan tbh

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pompey's squad as listed on sky, oh dear oh dear gotta be the weakest squad i the divsion and i long old struggle install for them :(

 

Goalkeeper

Jamie Ashdown

Stephen Henderson

Defender

Joel Ward

Ricardo Rocha

Aaron Mokoena

Jason Pearce

Hermann Hreidarsson

Greg Halford

Tal Ben-Haim

Midfielder

Liam Lawrence

Hayden Mullins

David Norris

Striker

Luke Varney

Dave Kitson

N****wo Kanu

 

15 + the 5 allowed loanees (in a natch-day squad) = the minimum 20 they have to have in order to get the golden share.

 

Expect 5 loanees from the prem just before the season starts.

 

Quality over quantity again - I hope this time around they suffer from many more injuries and suspensions than they did last season.

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time maybe with alittle more than three weeks before kick off, but money?. would any players be match fit, able to jump straight into the team and perform, gel with team mates and get use to tatics. the longer they wait the closer to the bottom of the barrel they will be scratching around to gather together a squad

 

i would be worried if i was a pompey fan tbh

 

And do tell, how many recruits has old Nick-oll-arse aloud Addykins, Or are they keeping them under raps ready to roll out on the teem photo shoot with the new kit on(shirt shifting day) Wensdee, You ponyboys might think you have a large enough squad, BUT! how many of them will hackit in this league.

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And do tell, how many recruits has old Nick-oll-arse aloud Addykins, Or are they keeping them under raps ready to roll out on the teem photo shoot with the new kit on(shirt shifting day) Wensdee, You ponyboys might think you have a large enough squad, BUT! how many of them will hackit in this league.

 

It's a very good question mack and one that is key to our season.

 

When the attitude was right last season we were playing above our league and the signs were encouraging, hell we troubled Man U even. If we can carry that through to this season I think the top half of the league is a big possibility

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don't worry about us Mack, we're a little sleepy giant that is just pleased to be back from Lg1.

 

If we can stay up and maybe get a couple of draws against our superior neighbours, our modest and second bestest fanbase might consider that a good season.

I just hope our limited squad can avoid relegation to reduce all those crippling debts that are mounting up...

 

Yes, after six years in the wilderness we are just happy to be taking part.

Your club has had all the fun and still looks far stronger, it will certainly be a while before we can claim bragging rights on the south coast again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Approx 18 days. :)

Tick them off Mack, your time is nearly over.

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Liked this. Seems as if some lessons have been learnt from the Poopey debacle.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-city/8649114/Carlos-Tevezs-transfer-from-Manchester-City-to-Corinthians-called-off-by-Brazilian-club.html

 

Tevez deal to Corinthians hits snag.....

 

Telegraph

 

Corinthians' response to City's demand for a proper payment schedule was perhaps a sign the transfer would not have gone smoothly even if it had gone through.

 

See, other clubs have worked out that you can sign players you never have any intention of paying for...

 

And being foreign they aren't tied by the Football Debts rules...

 

Think NC should learn from this - sign Ronaldo & Tevez, don't make the installments, send them back after a season.

 

Classic

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Liked this. Seems as if some lessons have been learnt from the Poopey debacle.

See, other clubs have worked out that you can sign players you never have any intention of paying for...

 

And being foreign they aren't tied by the Football Debts rules...

 

Which players haven't we paid for then Phil?

 

PS: Has Antonov spent all that SAAB money yet?

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Just noticed this thread has passed TWO MILLION views.

 

Wow.

 

If I had a pound for everytime someone visited this thread I could have 'bought' pompey - two million times over! But they'd still be in massive debt that'll never be paid back....

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went to an event in Gosport this morning and the subject got onto football.

 

It was asked of 50 people, mainly schoolkids, 'any saints fans here?'.

Two or three of us made noise.

Then we had the predictable rallying call 'Any pompey fans here?'.....

Silence!

 

Which scientifically proves beyond all doubt, Gosport has gone all red and white!

 

Or perhaps just a worrying glimpse for the few into the future for a traditionally blue town.

And on that theme, there are too many Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd shirts about everywhere.

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Advanced Maths the Storrie way.

A pompey fan on The News site demonstrates the complex figure-juggling required to run a viable transfer policy and keep on top of budgets -

 

Varney on the left, Lawerence on the right, and Norris making Runs from midfield. Sounds to me like a fairly good quartet

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advanced maths the storrie way.

A pompey fan on the news site demonstrates the complex figure-juggling required to run a viable transfer policy and keep on top of budgets -

 

varney on the left, lawerence on the right, and norris making runs from midfield. Sounds to me like a fairly good quartet

 

lmao

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Advanced Maths the Storrie way.[/i]

 

went to an event in Gosport this morning and the subject got onto football.

 

It was asked of 50 people, mainly schoolkids, 'any saints fans here?'.

Two or three of us made noise.

Then we had the predictable rallying call 'Any pompey fans here?'.....

Silence!

 

Which scientifically proves beyond all doubt, Gosport has gone all red and white!

 

Advanced maths the Rallyboy way.

 

2 or 3 of us (that would be 2 then) out of 50 said they were Saints fans. That means out of 50 people there from Gosport (OK, 49 people because you're not) 1 was a Saints fan.

 

So, Rallyboy's advanced maths means 2.04% of people being Saints fans makes Gosport "all red and white".

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Advanced maths the Rallyboy way.

 

2 or 3 of us (that would be 2 then) out of 50 said they were Saints fans. That means out of 50 people there from Gosport (OK, 49 people because you're not) 1 was a Saints fan.

 

So, Rallyboy's advanced maths means 2.04% of people being Saints fans makes Gosport "all red and white".

 

(Did you actually think he was being serious?)

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Advanced maths the Rallyboy way.

 

2 or 3 of us (that would be 2 then) out of 50 said they were Saints fans. That means out of 50 people there from Gosport (OK, 49 people because you're not) 1 was a Saints fan.

 

So, Rallyboy's advanced maths means 2.04% of people being Saints fans makes Gosport "all red and white".

 

No. Two or three is what it says. There was obviously a guess made as to whether there were two or three and you have chosen to believe that it was two. I don't see that Rallyboy has indicated where he is from, so you are again guessing that he is not from Gosport. So from your assumptions there might have been 1 out 49, or alternatively there could have been 6%. You can see from your reckoning how the people who have run Pompey can get it so wrong financially these past few years.

 

But the telling point is that even if there were only three Saints fans there, it is surprising that there was not one single Skate. This is something I've observed in my travels around the area, that when your lot were buying the FA Cup at the expense of the taxpayer and local charities, Skate shirts were fairly widespread. Now I only see a few and they probably mostly belong to people in the care in the community scheme.

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Advanced maths the Rallyboy way.

 

2 or 3 of us (that would be 2 then) out of 50 said they were Saints fans. That means out of 50 people there from Gosport (OK, 49 people because you're not) 1 was a Saints fan.

 

So, Rallyboy's advanced maths means 2.04% of people being Saints fans makes Gosport "all red and white".

 

The funny thing is corpy, you probably knocked one off the wrist after writing that.

 

I think we all knew what Rallyboy meant.

 

In any event, Chinny is still a secured creditor and riquelme isn't signing.

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But the telling point is that even if there were only three Saints fans there, it is surprising that there was not one single Skate. This is something I've observed in my travels around the area, that when your lot were buying the FA Cup at the expense of the taxpayer and local charities, Skate shirts were fairly widespread. Now I only see a few and they probably mostly belong to people in the care in the community scheme.

 

I also found this when I taught in Gosport for thirteen years - plenty of support and blue shirts on display when things were going well but when things were not so good the team was soon forgotten. I honestly didn't notice this phenomenon during my time in Southampton schools.

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No. Two or three is what it says. There was obviously a guess made as to whether there were two or three and you have chosen to believe that it was two. I don't see that Rallyboy has indicated where he is from, so you are again guessing that he is not from Gosport. So from your assumptions there might have been 1 out 49, or alternatively there could have been 6%. You can see from your reckoning how the people who have run Pompey can get it so wrong financially these past few years.

 

So what you're saying is Rallyboy can't count the difference between two and three? I assume that he can and that his "two or three" comment was pushed to three to make it sound slightly better. I also find it a bit odd why you'd shout out if there were any Saints fans there? Seems a very odd thing to to say.

 

Perhaps Rallyboy could tell us if he is indeed from Gosport so we could clear up if (being generous) it's 4% or 6% that means a town is "all read and white"

 

I also found this when I taught in Gosport for thirteen years - plenty of support and blue shirts on display when things were going well but when things were not so good the team was soon forgotten. I honestly didn't notice this phenomenon during my time in Southampton schools.

 

Yeah, Saints fans support never fluctuates between the good or bad times does it? As evidenced by your crowds halving in the two years after you were relegated.

 

What did you teach in school - head in the sand techniques?

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so what you're saying is rallyboy can't count the difference between two and three? I assume that he can and that his "two or three" comment was pushed to three to make it sound slightly better. I also find it a bit odd why you'd shout out if there were any saints fans there? Seems a very odd thing to to say.

 

Perhaps rallyboy could tell us if he is indeed from gosport so we could clear up if (being generous) it's 4% or 6% that means a town is "all red and white"

 

 

 

yeah, saints fans support never fluctuates between the good or bad times does it? As evidenced by your crowds halving in the two years after you were relegated.

 

What did you teach in school - head in the sand techniques?

 

hth

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What did you teach in school - head in the sand techniques?

 

Lmao @ that comment.

 

lmao at the 150 best supporters of the worldTM at Boro, Sunderland, Bolton, Wigan and probably a fair few of the other northern-based Premier League games they played.

 

And lmao at 250,000 on Southsea common... unless they were counting extra fingers and toes as supporters.

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Its criminal that they can put out such a competitive first 11 really.

 

It's an illustration of how poorly regulated the football industry is at the moment.

 

One day the bubble will burst, I suspect it'll be the day when either the Sky/PL marriage ends or Sky end up in serious financial difficulties and the clubs with big debt, serviceable or not will all come tumbling down.

 

It's a long way off yet though

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Advanced maths the Rallyboy way.

 

2 or 3 of us (that would be 2 then) out of 50 said they were Saints fans. That means out of 50 people there from Gosport (OK, 49 people because you're not) 1 was a Saints fan.

 

So, Rallyboy's advanced maths means 2.04% of people being Saints fans makes Gosport "all red and white".

 

Is this for real or accidental parody?

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So what you're saying is Rallyboy can't count the difference between two and three? I assume that he can and that his "two or three" comment was pushed to three to make it sound slightly better. I also find it a bit odd why you'd shout out if there were any Saints fans there? Seems a very odd thing to to say.

 

Perhaps Rallyboy could tell us if he is indeed from Gosport so we could clear up if (being generous) it's 4% or 6% that means a town is "all read and white"

 

 

 

 

Yeah, Saints fans support never fluctuates between the good or bad times does it? As evidenced by your crowds halving in the two years after you were relegated.

 

What did you teach in school - head in the sand techniques?

 

 

You are one sad c*nt! Does nobody talk to you in real life? Please f*ck off?

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So what you're saying is Rallyboy can't count the difference between two and three? I assume that he can and that his "two or three" comment was pushed to three to make it sound slightly better. I also find it a bit odd why you'd shout out if there were any Saints fans there? Seems a very odd thing to to say.

 

Perhaps Rallyboy could tell us if he is indeed from Gosport so we could clear up if (being generous) it's 4% or 6% that means a town is "all read and white"

 

 

 

Yeah, Saints fans support never fluctuates between the good or bad times does it? As evidenced by your crowds halving in the two years after you were relegated.

 

What did you teach in school - head in the sand techniques?

 

:facepalm:

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So what you're saying is Rallyboy can't count the difference between two and three? I assume that he can and that his "two or three" comment was pushed to three to make it sound slightly better. I also find it a bit odd why you'd shout out if there were any Saints fans there? Seems a very odd thing to to say.

 

Perhaps Rallyboy could tell us if he is indeed from Gosport so we could clear up if (being generous) it's 4% or 6% that means a town is "all read and white"

 

 

 

Yeah, Saints fans support never fluctuates between the good or bad times does it? As evidenced by your crowds halving in the two years after you were relegated.

 

What did you teach in school - head in the sand techniques?

 

In a room full of 50 people and some make a noise are you suggesting it will be easy to know if it was 2 or 3? Sure it's easy to know if it's more than 1 but unless the noises came from definite different directions then it's fair to guess at 2 or 3.

 

I think our numbers drastically dropped while there was a campaign to get rid of our current chairman. Our away support remained really good while we lost games and get relegated and can be a fair judge of support for our team. How has your away support been over the last few years? Think you brought more to see us in the cup than you took to half if your seasons fixtures combined!

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Yeah, Saints fans support never fluctuates between the good or bad times does it? As evidenced by your crowds halving in the two years after you were relegated.

 

What did you teach in school - head in the sand techniques?

 

Very good but I was referring to the loyalty amongst the younger generation and not attendances. I was genuinely surprised by how fickle the Gosport children were - one moment they were all Pompey chimes but as soon as things went wrong they changes their allegiances very quickly. It could be due to the Naval connections of many of the Gosport families I suppose but it was certainly very noticeable.

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the little I have seen of him has impressed me.

 

He is alright. Only made 7 games last year though and scored 2. Think he was injured for the most of it. £2m does seem a bit much for him but he scored goal of the month when he was in the prem

(3.35)

He is more of a provider then a scorer, big strong lad.

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pompey's squad as listed on sky, oh dear oh dear gotta be the weakest squad i the divsion and i long old struggle install for them :(

 

Goalkeeper

Jamie Ashdown

Stephen Henderson

Defender

Joel Ward

Ricardo Rocha

Aaron Mokoena

Jason Pearce

Hermann Hreidarsson

Greg Halford

Tal Ben-Haim

Midfielder

Liam Lawrence

Hayden Mullins

David Norris

Striker

Luke Varney

Dave Kitson

N****wo Kanu

 

Pretty strong squad if you ask me, gonna give us a run for our money?

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A Burnley fan, reacting to the news that they-who-must-not-be-named have made a 2 million bid for Paterson:

 

I couldn't care less if Paterson leaves for the right money, but I'd rather hand Blackburn 60m than even sell AIDS injections to Portsmouth FC. Are you that blinkered that you can't see your club is responsible for further poisoning a debt ridden shambles that is professional football, whether that was the previous owners or not it was Portsmouth FC shafting their staff, stealing from charities and writing off debts that you should never have been allowed to be built up.

 

If you were complaining when your club signed Defoe, Crouch, Muntari, etc on sub 20k attendances and if you boycotted the FA cup final and FA cup semi finals you bought your way to with a blatantly unaffordable squad, then congratulations. If you gullibly lapped up and enjoyed that time without questioning it your a complete retard and need to STFU. Protesting once the damage had already been done is like installing a fire alarm whilst your house is already a raging inferno, you reap what you sowe.

 

Your club deserved to have been thrown out of the league completely, but instead got a slap on the wrist. Ask fans of Chester and the other clubs who were wound up for hundreds of thousands of debt if your club with over 100m of debt should still exist, Fratton Park should be a block of flats or a park by now.

 

I had sympathy for Portsmouth fans to begin with but the club itself should no longer exist. Your fans since are revelling at chucking more money at ****, you'll end up the same way again, get a bit of success, get in **** loads of debt and start to protest only when you receive your next winding up order. I despise Portsmouth, Cardiff, Leicester, etc spending what they don't have and cheating to temporarily succeed and bull**** excuses like "it was the owners" when you all supported the teams that put you in the ****, all buzzed off transfers and all enjoyed your cup exploits before even protesting... I don't buy it, that's just a sympathetic plea. Portsmouth FC is a joke and should no longer be trading and you'll find this view from millions more than me.

 

Ha Ha.

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A Burnley fan, reacting to the news that they-who-must-not-be-named have made a 2 million bid for Paterson:

 

I couldn't care less if Paterson leaves for the right money, but I'd rather hand Blackburn 60m than even sell AIDS injections to Portsmouth FC. Are you that blinkered that you can't see your club is responsible for further poisoning a debt ridden shambles that is professional football, whether that was the previous owners or not it was Portsmouth FC shafting their staff, stealing from charities and writing off debts that you should never have been allowed to be built up.

 

If you were complaining when your club signed Defoe, Crouch, Muntari, etc on sub 20k attendances and if you boycotted the FA cup final and FA cup semi finals you bought your way to with a blatantly unaffordable squad, then congratulations. If you gullibly lapped up and enjoyed that time without questioning it your a complete retard and need to STFU. Protesting once the damage had already been done is like installing a fire alarm whilst your house is already a raging inferno, you reap what you sowe.

 

Your club deserved to have been thrown out of the league completely, but instead got a slap on the wrist. Ask fans of Chester and the other clubs who were wound up for hundreds of thousands of debt if your club with over 100m of debt should still exist, Fratton Park should be a block of flats or a park by now.

 

I had sympathy for Portsmouth fans to begin with but the club itself should no longer exist. Your fans since are revelling at chucking more money at ****, you'll end up the same way again, get a bit of success, get in **** loads of debt and start to protest only when you receive your next winding up order. I despise Portsmouth, Cardiff, Leicester, etc spending what they don't have and cheating to temporarily succeed and bull**** excuses like "it was the owners" when you all supported the teams that put you in the ****, all buzzed off transfers and all enjoyed your cup exploits before even protesting... I don't buy it, that's just a sympathetic plea. Portsmouth FC is a joke and should no longer be trading and you'll find this view from millions more than me.

 

Ha Ha.

 

TBF, there were Burnley fans saying similar things about us before we signed Cork. Although the above about Pompey is more accurate of course :-)

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A Burnley fan, reacting to the news that they-who-must-not-be-named have made a 2 million bid for Paterson:

 

I couldn't care less if Paterson leaves for the right money, but I'd rather hand Blackburn 60m than even sell AIDS injections to Portsmouth FC. Are you that blinkered that you can't see your club is responsible for further poisoning a debt ridden shambles that is professional football, whether that was the previous owners or not it was Portsmouth FC shafting their staff, stealing from charities and writing off debts that you should never have been allowed to be built up.

 

If you were complaining when your club signed Defoe, Crouch, Muntari, etc on sub 20k attendances and if you boycotted the FA cup final and FA cup semi finals you bought your way to with a blatantly unaffordable squad, then congratulations. If you gullibly lapped up and enjoyed that time without questioning it your a complete retard and need to STFU. Protesting once the damage had already been done is like installing a fire alarm whilst your house is already a raging inferno, you reap what you sowe.

 

Your club deserved to have been thrown out of the league completely, but instead got a slap on the wrist. Ask fans of Chester and the other clubs who were wound up for hundreds of thousands of debt if your club with over 100m of debt should still exist, Fratton Park should be a block of flats or a park by now.

 

I had sympathy for Portsmouth fans to begin with but the club itself should no longer exist. Your fans since are revelling at chucking more money at ****, you'll end up the same way again, get a bit of success, get in **** loads of debt and start to protest only when you receive your next winding up order. I despise Portsmouth, Cardiff, Leicester, etc spending what they don't have and cheating to temporarily succeed and bull**** excuses like "it was the owners" when you all supported the teams that put you in the ****, all buzzed off transfers and all enjoyed your cup exploits before even protesting... I don't buy it, that's just a sympathetic plea. Portsmouth FC is a joke and should no longer be trading and you'll find this view from millions more than me.

 

Ha Ha.

 

So its not just us. What about the threads on other football club forums?

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Anyone who has actually taken the time to look into it properly despises the action of that little club.

 

The only people who don't mind Pompey remain the completely ignorant.

 

I know a couple of brum fans that feel sorry for them. Waste of time explaining it to them though as they see it as a rant from a saints fan. lol. Your right though, when anyone actually looks into how badly they were run and how lightly they got off compared to clubs a little smaller than them, they soon get the same feeling we do in that there is something more fishy than their aftershave going on.

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There is something wrong with a club being allowed to spunk millions on player registrations when they won't pay their ordinary trade creditors and put local businesses under. Kicking charities in the nuts and ruining families seems to be a price the dirty bastards are prepared to pay though. They truly are a disgrace.

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pompey's squad as listed on sky, oh dear oh dear gotta be the weakest squad i the divsion and i long old struggle install for them :(

 

Goalkeeper

Jamie Ashdown

Stephen Henderson

Defender

Joel Ward

Ricardo Rocha

Aaron Mokoena

Jason Pearce

Hermann Hreidarsson

Greg Halford

Tal Ben-Haim

Midfielder

Liam Lawrence

Hayden Mullins

David Norris

Striker

Luke Varney

Dave Kitson

N****wo Kanu

 

Pretty strong squad if you ask me, gonna give us a run for our money?

 

I would go with the former quote, a WEAK squad, as there are only 15 players - not even enough for the new number match day squad of 16.

 

Of course, they will sign (at least) 5 players on loan - and may add paterson from Burnley (although I don't think Howe wants to lose him).

 

In any event, which of these 15 players do you think would be in Saints' starting 11 if they were on our books?

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I would go with the former quote, a WEAK squad, as there are only 15 players - not even enough for the new number match day squad of 16.

 

Of course, they will sign (at least) 5 players on loan - and may add paterson from Burnley (although I don't think Howe wants to lose him).

 

In any event, which of these 15 players do you think would be in Saints' starting 11 if they were on our books?

 

Don't think any of them would be in the first 11 now.

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