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Man goes in home end of a club that is known to be extremely partisan and has more than it's fair share of idiots.

Clearly does something to identify himself as a Utd fan.

Gets a small wound.

I think this is what's widely referred to as 'idiot tax'.

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I present my case as is. "Postby Lancasterclaret » Mon Feb 20, 2017 2:14 pm Everyone I've met today has talked about one thing. Lincoln. Lincoln are being talked about quite rightly by everybody, not Joey Barton and certainly not the Burnley fc the brand." And here are a selection of articles from M...

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Lancasterclaret wrote:You do know that is a satirical account don't you?

Are they or are they not discussing what occurred on Saturday?

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By the way, I didn't hear anyone calling for Sam Vokes to 'fess up after he controlled the ball with his hand for the Leicester goal. It's against the rules and therefore by definition 'cheating'. Or is one form of cheating more acceptable than others? Surely it's against our values? The point that...

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Yesterdays news that no one is talking about......today.

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We're going round in circles a bit now so i'll say this and leave it there. I feel like you're now pinning this solely on the door of twitter. It's not just twitter. For example, I've had 2 conversations with different colleagues today where it's been a variation of "that Joey Barton eh". That will ...

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Barton probably should have been sent off, he wasn't and there doesn't seem to have been any mention of retrospective action being taken by the FA. I'm sure Dyche will have a word about it and that should be the end of the matter. What exactly do you want Barton or Burnley to do, voluntarily drop h...

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Sorry, but I don't include twitter as a source of news that will affect the standard of how Burnley fc is viewed in the wider footballing world. The gifs are funny, funnier when linked with his quotes on the subject, but hey, that happens on twitter EVERY DAY. Todays main target on twitter appears ...

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Saxoman wrote:A question..

Would you swap gray straight for Jordan Rhodes?

I wouldn't swap him for Rhodes but if it was true that West Ham fancy him for 15m It would require serious thought.

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I don't know which bubble you are living in, but to say that it is not being talked about by anyone is reaching Donald Trump levels of lunacy. I am literally looking at my phone as I write this, at a tweet with a gif of the incident and labeling him as "pathetic" with 7500 retweets and more "likes"....

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It's beyond weird Lancaster I have no strong feelings either way but I can absolutely see where people are coming from and it is in no way "weird" or "beyond weird". We have managed to create an impression of ourselves in the media, fuelled in no small part by Dyche, that we are a club with a stron...

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All I can say is that thank god that we have Mr Baldwin, who seems to be quite progressive in his thinking and open minded. It's an attitude that seems to be prevalent in 50+ males that there's too much effort to think of ways to make things better, have closed attitudes to change, it's worked for y...

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There were some folk, might even have been in this thread that absolutely refuse to have it that he has a poor touch, doesn't work as hard as his colleagues and and gets caught offside needlessly. Yesterday was Andre Gray in microcosm. If you had never seen him before and never seen him again, all y...

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Spijed wrote:There's often a strange mixed odour of Formaldehyde & mothballs.

And ****.

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So Wenger is doing extremely well to consistently finish top 4 then.... If you think he's underachieving you're mental, they don't have a squad capable of challenging for a league title and haven't for years. I don't think your point about the 1 year contract and players refusing them because of it...

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Exactly my point. He's supposed to be their enforcer and he's about as intimidating as Claret Tony is when he's asking someone to sit down at an away game. You look at their first team squad and the only one of them who looks up for mixing it if it gets a bit naughty is Xhaka but he's an idiot with ...

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Only for the very elite players have they altered that policy and it sends the wrong message in my opinion. I think I've either not stressed my point or you've misunderstood it. I'm not talking about their value, it's about players choosing not to go to Arsenal because they know in their later caree...

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I think that since it's the minority of people that complain about standing at away games, really the burden of proof should lay on them to resolve this. The process to resolving this would actually be very easy but would require all clubs to subscribe to it. 1) Each club queries their database of f...

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Wenger has a big say in various facets of footballing operations, and while he may not be the one saying yes or no, his opinion is absolutely sought out and utilized in their decision making processes. As for the contract policy, It is and it isn't depending on the make up of the player - I'm not su...

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Squad definitely.

Show me an English striker you would rather throw on for the last 15 minutes when you need a goal.

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The thing is, when you say "be careful what you wish for", what's the alternative? Yes they play in the CL every season but it's like groundhog day for them there too - they're in there to make up the numbers, just like they exist to make up the numbers of the top 4 in the PL now. Wenger just doesn'...

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He was at the right place at the right time with us during our promotion seasons. 1st time it was the Vings partnership supplied by Trippier which got us promoted, last season Gray was too much for teams and Barton was the main difference. Jones just happened to be there. Pretty much sums up his ca...

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The only disappointing thing about that performance is that Joey Barton isn't 5 years younger.

Him and Hendrick were absolutely imperious.

8's all round with the exception of Defour who I can't mark as he looked to be struggling quite early on.

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Some of you want to give your heads a wobble. He's 19 years old and didn't do himself justice on his first foray out on loan to a reasonably decent L1 side.

Writing him off on the back of a forgettable 6 month spell at that age, crikey. Unreasonable expectations much.

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I think what folk might not be considering if they are assuming Brady is going to be primary lb cover is also that if we have to move him back there, that we are are then having to open the door to one of Boyd or Arfield, which is not ideal, if we are assuming that Brady and JBG would be the first p...

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Forgive me if this has already been answered but can he play on Tuesday night if he is confirmed tomorrow? Is there a cut off?

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fidelcastro wrote:And here was me thinking that the fitness of the squad was one of our strengths.

Fitness and speed/pace are absolutely not the same thing. I can't believe i'm having to say that.

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And to add to that, pace and stamina are each a skill, or at least an attribute, that is priceless. Marney is - as he actually showed with the run he made that resulted in him getting injured - both quick (I'd hazard a guess that of our starting XI, only Gray and Keane would beat him over 40 yards,...

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A possibility, sure. Absolutely not:

ClaretTony wrote:We've offered more than that but that's his preferred choice

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No idea. Maybe we've pi55ed yet another club off with insultingly low offers and they're selling to the first club that gives them the money that they wanted up front all along. Norwich were after Sako apparently, Maybe there's been a gentlemans agreement for Palace to structure the deals in a way t...

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Nicko suggesting that there's an element of gamesmanship around the Snodgrass bid as he thinks we know we won't get near his wage demands.

Think the implication is that we want to smoke Norwich out re Brady for want of a better description.

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ClaretTony wrote:We've offered more than that but that's his preferred choice

We don't know that. All we have is paper talk and conjecture. You might want to edit your post as it implies you are more informed of the situation than most.

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MACCA wrote:A free transfer walked through the door, that position is now filled.

It's anything but as it stands.

There is currently two huge question marks over the long term availability of two of our center midfielders.

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The Skipton pork pies referenced above are very likely Stanforths, certainly the one across from the Castle pub on the roundabout is. You do need to perfect the 'Stanforths shuffle' if you get a warm one as the juices will indeed ruin your clothes. I prefer to nibble a hole in the crust then drain t...

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My mate knows someone who works at SkyBet and he said Burnley are nigh on impossible to find anything out about transfer wise. So not surprised Boden may not always be correct as I presume he can only go off sources from other ends The media team at Burnley (Bentley) doesn't get to know anything un...

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Ahh Dusty, top fella. I knew him well.

Known as Biffy to his even closer circle, of which i had the privilege.

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The meat and potato pies at TM are rancid.

Peel the crust off, which is ok, and you'll find a grey gloop of processed mush that tastes of not a reyt lot.

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Some posters need a scapegoat. It is MK's turn? Never understand this type of lazy response, and you see it a lot on here. It gets trotted out normally by folk who say that you shouldn't criticize players for your team or want to make themselves look like they are a "better" fan than you. Believe i...

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Anyone actually got a working one for tonights game?

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RocketLawnChair wrote:I'm pals with Defoury

Aye forgot to mention him, and Arfieldy ofc

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Top lad indeed is Bally.

Vokesy is a good lad too, as is Barnesy Wardy and Heats. I know them all well and i want to intimate to you all that i know them personally so i'm using their nicknames to avoid any doubt.

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With you there KRBFC, same goes for Gray too really, who I also thinks gets outbattled an awful lot.

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For a bit of Sunday morning fun.

Mines:

Heaton
Trippier Keane Mee Ward
Elliott Defour Marney Blake
Ings Vokes

Yeah I know defensively it might be a little bit suss due to the attacking nature of the flanks but it'd be an awful lot of fun to watch.

What about you?

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I'm with Darnhill. He grafted hard for his reputation at Brighton and brought it with him to us.

We know he's niggly *******, He knows he's a niggly *******, and Dyche knows he's a niggly *******.

We love players like that, always have, and so does Dyche, that's why he brought him here.

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English players are allowed to do that. Above is Tyrone Mears. Ravel Morrison is another one that does it. This should belong with the multiculturalism thread. Other cultures place different values on naming styles. Spanish use both parents names with the paternal taking precedence. Scandinavians ne...

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Andre Gray - worked hard.

Does not compute.

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A couple of throwaway comments and he's made a 40 comment thread.

You lot want a word with yourselves, he wouldn't keep coming back if you didn't bite harder than a saltwater crocodile.

Lemmings.

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Can anyone shed any light on what cash reserves we actually have? That article suggests we made 40m net profit in our last PL season. I imagine with the help of the parachute payments and player outgoings last year we broke even or made a small loss, and then again this year what was the quoted amou...

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No. I have more important things to do and if youre too blinkered to see us conceding possession and attempts on goal to our opposition for much of last season there's not much hope anyway. It's how we set up. Hard to break down etc. i imagine we only managed to cobble together the odd chance or tw...

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I think it's an absolutely glorious indicator of how far we've come that the Blackburn win at home is hanging on to the top 3 by a thread.

It would have been the absolute zenith of our hopes and aims in years gone by

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