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Good afternoon, comrades, and welcome to the latest entry into everyone's favourite series from everyone's least favourite BattleBots blog - that's right, it's time for another round of power rankings! I know it's been an agonising wait for the latest entry, but we finally got there. This week's episode was another cracker. The selection committee …
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Another week has passed, another episode of BattleBots has blessed our television screens. In a diverse field of weapons, we had a flipper, a lifter, a spinning flipper, six horizontal spinners, two hammer saws, four vertical spinners, and a spinning puncher. And who says there isn't variety on this show? Among those bots, we had …
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Good afternoon, comrades. It's that time again - BattleBots is back, and it's bigger, better, and badder than ever before. Supposedly. We're only three episodes in and we've already had thrills, spills, snakes, no rakes, and fire. So much fire. I should start by addressing that, for those of you who follow by blog religiously …
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It was something of a relief when Norwich City’s trip to Leicester was called off just before the UK welcomed in 2022. The squad has been decimated with injuries and COVID-19 cases, meaning that a potential cricket score would have come out of the King Power. That might seem like an exaggeration, but after this …
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Happy New Year, my fellow comrades! welcome to the final review you’ll see of this 2020 season of BattleBots. After fourteen head-spinning, earth-shattering, mind-boggling weeks of sumptuous robot-bashing action, the series has drawn to a close. I almost don’t want to admit that it’s over – why else do you think I’ve taken the best …
From my own recent experiences, people move on very quickly. Even after a loving, long-term relationship, it doesn’t take much for feelings to change and new attachments to form quickly. Daniel Farke will know this better than anyone. On November 6th he had just guided his Norwich City team to a first Premier League win …
There are officially two D. Smiths running the show now. Mere days after the inevitable departure of our beloved overlord Daniel Farke, former Aston Villa manager Dean Smith has walked in through the yellow and green doors of Carrow Road in an attempt to steer the Canaries off the foot of the Premier League table …
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*Edit: This was written a few days before the win at Brentford. As it turns out, yes, it very much is* I think even the most optimistic of Norwich fans knew we were going to be in for a tough season. Especially when the fixture list was released, with those early defeats against the big …
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I’m already starting to think that it’s going to be a very long season for myself and all involved with Norwich City Football Club. As little as a month ago there was plenty of cause for optimism. An uncharacteristically busy transfer window with what looked to be several shrewd acquisitions meant it looked as though …
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On August 29th 2021, I went on my first proper footballing adventure in years: to Glasgow for the Old Firm Derby. After years of not being able to watch a game as a fan, I threw off my shackles, hitched a ride up north, and had myself a wonderful time. The game at Ibrox was …
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