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Muric 4 Assignon 6 Ekdal 8 Esteve 8 Vitinho 5 Odobert 5 Cullen 6 Berge 5 Bruun Larsen 5 Foster 4 Fofana 3 Taylor 5 Rodriguez 5 Brownhill 6 Defensively I thought we looked decent and never really look in danger of conceding until an absolute howler from Muric. That said I think we were lucky to be 1-...

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Burnley 1 Brighton 2
Welbeck 18 mins
NL2

National: Nassalam

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Newcastle 1-2 Spurs
Brentford 3-0 Sheffield United
Burnley 1-2 Brighton - Welbeck 18
Man City 5-1 Luton
Forest 2-1 Wolves - NAP
Bournemouth 1-2 Man Utd
Liverpool 3-1 Palace
West Ham 1-2 Fulham
Arsenal 3-2 Aston Villa
Chelsea 2-1 Everton

36 goals

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They think they bought Burnley at a cheap price. There has been a strange consensus among American investors in the game that English and European clubs are 'under-valued'. This seems to be because they compare PL club's values to those of the NFL franchises. But of course there are a ton of reason...

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I'm listening to the podcast now... a term keeps coming up - By cheap, sell high. But Trafford, Amdouni, Ramsey, Beyer and Berg were not cheap. How much are we expecting to sell them for? You can take it a step further and apply that to the football club itself. Did they buy BFC at a cheap price? I...

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claptrappers_union wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:24 pm
Anything with Burnley Football Club can be answered with a question…

Does it make money? No? Then we won't do it.

Does the club's womens team make any money?

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Well I think Jude Bellingham, like Lionel Messi, Mbappe etc, will have a lot more bargaining power when negotiating a contract than James Trafford did. Do you honestly think the club would be stupid enough to agree that a player will definitely start 75% (very arbitrary percentage btw) of games? I ...

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you don't get over 100 points in the Championship if you are a bad manager or are you suggesting a 46 game season was down to luck ? He might not have made 100 points but didn't Roy Keane have a similarly impressive Championship title win in his first season as a manager in England? That season at ...

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Muric 4 Assignon 4 O’Shea 4 Estève 6 Taylor 5 Foster 6 Berge 6 Cullen 6 Bruun Larsen 5 Odobert 4 Fofana 4 Vitinho 5 Brownhill 5 We could still playing now and we wouldn't have scored. However, we'd most likely have shot ourselves in the arm having already blown both feet off. Third time we've played...

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Pathetic stuff.

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Everton 2 Burnley 1
Onana 43 mins
NL2

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Rowls wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:56 pm
The surname-as-Christian-name thing is a trend among lower income demographics who are also most likely to be divorced, hence the propensity to also have double barreled surnames

If it isn't Lord Snooty himself, Jacob Rowls-Mogg!

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Not impossible, but we probably need to win at least 2 of the next 3 games to give ourselves a chance.

If the financial side wasn't so serious I wouldn't really care about being out of this league. It's a joke.

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Burnley 1 Wolves 0
O'Shea 81 mins
NL2

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Tuesday 2nd April Newcastle 2-0 Everton Forest 1-2 Fulham Bournemouth 2-1 Palace Burnley 1-0 Wolves - O'Shea 81 mins West Ham 1-3 Spurs Wed 3rd April Arsenal 3-0 Luton Brentford 2-2 Brighton Man City 3-1 Aston Villa Thursday 4th April Liverpool 4-0 Sheffield Utd - NAP Chelsea 1-2 Man Utd Sat 6th Apr...

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Cracking write up. Have to say I was absolutely delighted with the response after losing Assignon and Kompany then going in 1-0 down at half time. There has been plenty of criticism levelled at the team at times for a lack of fight, questionable attitude etc, so to see a response like that was absol...

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Mudryk cheated. The referee fell for it and his colleagues at Stockley Park failed to correct him. Sending off Assignon and Kompany was just taking the ****.

Shambolic stuff.

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13 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga

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Chelsea 3 Burnley 1
Palmer 18
NL2

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Newcastle 2-1 West Ham
Bournemouth 2-1 Everton
Chelsea 3-1 Burnley - Palmer 18
Nottingham Forest 2-1 Crystal Palace
Sheffield United 0-2 Fulham
Spurs 5-0 Luton
Aston Villa 2-0 Wolves
Brentford 0-2 Man Utd

Liverpool 5-2 Brighton
Man City 3-1 Arsenal NAP

Goals - 35

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Back in August we signed a player who months before StatsBomb had described as the European Messi. Now a few on here pan him for workrate. OK, he hasn’t quite clicked as much as we would like, but his winger and striker partner have both been stuffed mid season, and we have lost confidence as a tea...

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In the first half of the season I thought he looked like a really good technical footballer with great feet. A real prospect that we just needed to work out how to get the best out of. In the last few months I think his form has completely bombed and he hasn't even looked close to being good enough ...

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It's a shame that people are being left out of pocket as a result of rule changes like these. Just as it's a shame for all those British businesses that had their legs blown off by their own government's decision to impose economic sanctions on them by erecting trade barriers with our closest market...

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It shouldn't do. I sold my ticket on there for the Villa game and just used the 26 quid to part pay for an Everton ticket. It just deducted it, very easy process. My season ticket renewal was in my basket at full price. I proceeded to the checkout and managed to apply the money from my On Account w...

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No mention of how to redeem credits previously received from the Ticket Exchange against the cost of the season ticket when paying via Direct Debit.

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Clovius Boofus wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:50 pm
Aye, he doesn't care much for women's football

He doesn't care much for women. He's an absolute rotter.

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Belgianclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:41 am
You really need to watch the series on Netflix called Turning Point on the Cold War.

Explains all you need to know on what’s happening today

Just finished the last episode of this. Really well made, I thought.

JohnMcGreal

As this has been the first season where ST holders have been able to re-sell their ticket for matches in exchange for club credit, I wonder if this is contributing to the delay? They're going to end up with all sorts of different ST prices based on early bird period, seat location, age and how much ...

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According to transfermarkt Muric is 1.98m tall and Trafford is 1.92m.

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It was probably a little bit complacent putting him on at 2-0 thinking we were cruising to victory.

That said Kompany saw that he was completely unsuited to the situation once the game changed and to his credit he wasn't afraid to hook him.

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Muric 9
Assignon 8
O'Shea 7
Esteve 7
Taylor 7
Vitinho 8
Cullen 8
Berge 7
Bruun Larsen 6
Odobert 6
Fofana 7

Amdouni 5

What a cracking day.

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Burnley 1 Brentford 3
Toney 14 mins
NL2

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Saturday 16th March

Burnley 1-3 Brentford - Toney 14 mins - NAP
Luton 1-3 Nottingham Forest
Fulham 1-3 Spurs

Sunday 17th March

West Ham 1-3 Aston Villa

16 goals

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distortiondave wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:35 pm
Without cheating, I remember Man Utd beating Spurs 5-3 from 3-0 down. I bet that's 20 years ago.

It might have been a little over 20 years ago but that was the game of Ferguson's infamous half time team talk:

'Lads, it's Tottenham.'

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KRBFC wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:06 am
Yet you can’t name one poster that said such nonsense

I just didn't feel the need to dig individual posters out. But it's definitely been claimed on this board, numerous times.

JohnMcGreal

The problem we have with Tresor is the only way we're going to get anything like the money that we paid (are due to pay?) for him back, let alone make a bit of profit, is if he has a really good season in Championship followed by a convincing stint in the Premier League. If he doesn't want to be her...

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So why has Wilson not had the same acclaim that Dwight did? Just two reasons off the top of my head: Obobert cost the club £10 million. McNeil cost nothing and came through the youth system, so naturally fans were rooting for 'one of their own', especially as so few youth players have broken into t...

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Saturday March 9th Man Utd 3-1 Everton Bournemouth 2-0 Sheffield United Crystal Palace 2-1 Luton Wolves 2-2 Fulham Arsenal 3-0 Brentford Sunday 10th March Aston Villa 4-2 Spurs NAP Brighton 1-2 Nottingham Forest West Ham 2-0 Burnley Kudus 28 mins Liverpool 2-3 Man City Monday 11 March Chelsea 3-1 Ne...

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West Ham 2 Burnley 0
Kudus 28 mins
NL2

JohnMcGreal

All teams have their own cases of bad luck. It's part of football and can be pretty much discounted completely. We are where we are because as a club we've made a complete hash of things and the teams we put out every week are miles away from being good enough. The results have naturally followed. T...

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You're right. I listed Dawson, Evans and Mee above just as examples of the kind of signings we needed, where I could easily have gone on and on with Milner, Barkley, Townsend etc, etc, etc. Townsend was at bloody Gawthorpe for 2 months and we STILL let him walk away which has proved to be absolutel...

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The average transfer fee is £25 million You’re looking at what we pay from an outdated perspective, but you’re not alone in that on here, because a number of people still have this same issue We aren’t paying huge money when compared to other clubs, we’re paying below average for PL clubs As for ma...

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The club needs to be able to buy low and sell high to ensure the club is more sustainable and not reliant on mainly Tv money like it was in the past A majority of clubs want to do this btw, find cheap, develop and sell on A number of people on here seem to take issue with this business model, but t...

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Milking Us Dry

(hopefully not)

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Our record at Bramall Lane is really poor. That said Sheffield United look absolutely dreadful so maybe we can sneak a result there this time.

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Trafford 5
Assignon 5
O’Shea 3
Esteve 4
Taylor 5
Berge 6
Cullen 7
Vitinho 6
Odobert 4
Bruun Larsen 4
Fofana 4

Amdouni 4

JohnMcGreal

Doubtful in my mid 60’s. I was just making the point that in today’s cosseted Britain they would be struggling to recruit young men and possibly women to do this job. The recruitment problem in the armed forces demonstrates also how times have changed. Or it could be yet another example of poor per...

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I think the main reason managers don't like to chop and change their goalkeepers is because they like to try and build a settled defence and the chemistry between the goalkeeper and the back four is crucial. It's all about consistency and familiarity at the back. But in our case we haven't had a set...

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Burnley 1 Bournemouth 0
O'Shea 68 mins
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