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IanMcL wrote:Chelsea have always been well supported.

They weren’t in the 80s

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Hard to think that just a few weeks ago half this board wanted him out and thought Hart was some kind of a Saint!!! :lol: :roll: I think that might be a bit of an overstatement. I don’t know / or have not met anyone who has ever really thought it said they wanted Dyche should go. I think folks need...

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1-2 Burnley

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Just found the article. Apparently it takes into account certain stats depending on their position and then uses an algorithm to produce a score for each player. It’s particularly a strange one because last season Woods goals per minute ratio was something like the 4th or 5th best in the league, am...

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Those fixtures suggest to me that it’s between us and Cardiff

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/birm ... -xtd0dbnd8

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Murger wrote:That header he did into space for Brady to run onto was brilliant.

It was the best cushioned header I’ve ever seen in the flesh

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Can’t myself to be too arsed at a Cardiff win. They’ve had a rough deal and I’ve said all along that the sad situation with Sala will act as a motivating factor, Warnock will insist. Still a lot of work to be done.

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I must have missed something i thought the pen was given for handball. Was it a foul on Crouch?

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Heaton 7 Bardsley 6 Tarkowski 7 Mee 7 Taylor 7 Hendrick 6 Cork 7* Thought it was his best game for ages but have since docked him a pt after seeing MOTD - he should have nicked the ball off redmond in the lead up to Redmond goal Westwood 7 McNeil 6 Barnes 7 Wood 6 — Gudmundsson 6 Crouch 8 (opened th...

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Some good points from Macca and there are lots of positives from this recent period or ‘window’ - McNeil especially and we’re on our best run for a year or so. Adams looks a great fit for me so I am a bit gutted about not getting him but it’s hardly anything to keep me awake at night. Roll on Saturd...

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Business done for the day apparently

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Eh? Crouch is a Burnley player and Vokes has signed for Stoke

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You can see why Dyche would deny anything else was likely at his press conference. Having been gazumped at the last minute before it’s better tactic to appear unbothered. Hard to believe there isn’t a price that they’ll take for Adams - might take the player to push the move through.

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4th bid turned down - it seems we’re still pursuing Adams

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Always felt he was a little underrated actually. Welcome to the club Peter. That said, disappointing we haven’t pushed the boat out for Adams. He has a good run to the end of the season and he’ll probably end up at Wolves or Leeds or somewhere. IF (and it is an ‘if’ as none of us really knows) Nixon...

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Nixon seemed pretty confident that £12m is the asking price earlier.

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the loan back really does suit both parties. He wouldn't realistically get near our first team this season, unless there's injuries to Wood AND Barnes AND Vydra - which is possible but unlikely. Get him in the fold, then Summer to be fit for next season and on a par with others playing for the shir...

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£12m is good value for 22-year-old Adams.
Shouldn’t be overlooked he’s already dealt with a career setback and is now really motoring. Compare this with the £18m we got for Andre Gray, (4 years older?)

Cmon Burnley do the deal

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Might need to do this (Vokes out, Adams in) deal sharply before Saints get Austin away. If we can pull it off, waiting til late in the day will have been the right strategy.

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If this happens then all this “we won’t sign anyone just for the sake of it” is nonsense!! We’ve got someone to come off the bench and cause problems with his height.... it’s Sam Vokes!! We have Paddy but the longer term view is surely to upgrade Vokes, if we can’t do that this window then you’d ex...

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I sense that SD doesn’t want to totally lose that ability to throw on a big man to get on the end of a cross in the late stages of a game, but I’d imagine it would only be until be a deal to the end of the season to account for the loss of Vokes.

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With the exception of Barnes, who does well to manufacture opposition fouls out of nothing, we are not adept in the art of winning penalties or fouls in dangerous areas. A blinkered Man Utd friend of mine responded to my observation that it was a pathetic penalty award by saying they should have had...

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Don’t think Bolasie pulled up any trees at Villa and probably has a lot of confidence to recover after his injury but a wide man with strength and pace would sure be welcomed by the fans.

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I dare say recognised as the best of the lot in journo circles. A great wordsmith - I remember a brilliant character assassination he wrote of Mourinho where he rebranded him ‘the specious one.’ I had to look up the meaning of the word at the time and year’s later it’s still most perfectly apt.

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Agreed very poor they should be sorting this stuff out mo the earlier.

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Darren comes from the newspaper industry where incorrect spelling of peoples’ names is not taken lightly.
Even more so in this context. Mistakes inevitably happen though, sounds like a through and fitting reponse to remember your dad by, well done Burnley.

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Great film and even better soundtrack- KC’s ‘miserable strangers’ an all time masterpiece

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Jesus...how desperately sad.

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He’s left footed - who tends to play on the right wing for Hull.
It might just be with McNeill and Brady - another left footed wide man might not be a top priority for us.

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Good band. It’s also the anniversary of Mark E Smith’s death on Thursday. Jamuary’s a bad time for it.

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Pope
Tarkowski Long Gibson Mee Ward
Hendrick Westwood Defour Brady
Vokes

Try and win

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Great read, thanks CT

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So £50m profit from two successive PL seasons? . It’s not really that much is it. You could soon whittle it away with two £15-£18 m signings plus wages that might not work out too well. Then you’d have ‘no’ profit.

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They won the league playing 'Dycheball'

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Did nobody have a little chuckle to themselves at this story

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When snooping around the Championship goals round-up the players who consistently make an impression on me as potential ‘fits’ for Burnley are Nick Powell (before he got injured) and Che Adams. Possibly because both were extremely highly rated when they were youngsters, lost their way a bit, but hav...

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He played for Boca Juniors.
That's enough for me, had me reflecting on my visit there in 2007. Incredible place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6jn-mZkj-I

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Glenn Hoddle found God.

...Must have been a hell of a pass.

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It shows how far we’ve come that folks are ‘underwhelmed’ by a player who has more than 100 caps for a decorated Chile team who have twice been crowned ‘Copa America’ Champions. After Cardiff, he featured regularly for 3 seasons for Inter in Serie A. A fit, more robust version of Defour perhaps.

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Odd game, thought we’d see more goals. Fulham sorted themselves out a bit a half time and we are a bit too happy to fall into the ‘what we have we hold’ mentality. They had their chances but we seem more confident defending our box than we were in the Joe Hart era, refusal to play substitutes also m...

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Happy birthday CT.
Let’s hope you are reflecting on a memorable anniversary when you write your match report tomorrow !

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Gosh- that’s very sad ☹️

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I think he'd suit our system very well, a rumbustious and energetic different type of no. 10, good first line of defence and capable of making life uncomfortable for defenders.

That said, age is not on his side, would be a more effective version of Jon Walters.

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Beast?

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Not really - if the refs hadn't blown the play dead, then Philadelphia would surely have recovered the fumble. There weren't any other Bears around, as I remember. Could be correct that Dsr, on reflection, I guess I was going off the fact that it was deemed a bad call to call it an incomplete pass ...

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I noticed Alan Nixon suggest on Twitter that Mike Rigg is scouring the European market.

At least if we were to attract a signing like this there would be little room for criticism, at least until we'd seen him pull on a Claret and Blue shirt.

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I think if you look at City’s cup draws in recent years you’ll find they are extremely lucky. Always at home, usually against non-event opposition. Knew they’d get Burton in the league cup semis too. The only saving grace for me is that I’m in Holland that weekend so won’t be rushing back. I do fear...

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Some finish. Bears hard done to with bad call that would have left them a few yards from end zone in first half.
Talk about ‘tight margins’.
No sport generates more last minute drama than AF.

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Would rather us take Bojan.
Or table a bid for Jarrod Bowen at Hull.
Although left-footed, seems to do his damage from the right flank. Would be really exciting to see him and NcNeill on opposite wings.

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