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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:45 pm
Wouldn't make sense to Middlesbrough who will be wanting to balance the books again because of FFP. A straight swap would give them nothing.

Fry to be bought & loan them Gibson with a view to a sale of a CB (or two) in summer? That'd give them some income now & us for the summer window.

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ksrclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:50 pm
Fry can at least play at right back. Sign him on?

No, probably not.

Thought he'd played left back?

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LawsCanalJump wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 18, 2020 9:21 pm
Nixon has a piece on us tomorrow
Most likely an outgoing

Dunne to Bolton?

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jrgbfc wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:09 pm
Young centre back, Dael Fry. Would he want to come to sit on the bench though?

Yep, thanks for that..... he's one but there was another, younger one?

Also linked with Tavernier weren't we?

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jrgbfc wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 18, 2020 10:54 pm
He'd get to play some football and then we can reassess things in the summer. Would be a big risk to sell him and finish the season with just 3 centre backs at the club.

Unless they do a P/X for one of those CB's we were linked with in summer, names have gone, sorry!

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bfcjg wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 18, 2020 8:43 pm
Its a striker with pace we need, midfield at the moment is an irrelevance as in the main it's by passed.

Until we've lost the ball of course, so about 65% of the time, but you're right, we need a striker with pace......then about 5 others who can keep up with him

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If he won’t play again this season then you would have thought we would have postponed the operation until the end of the season. Guessing he’ll be training in 6 weeks and available for selection in 8. Don't want to worry anyone but didn't Gibson have a hernia op & has had another since & broken do...

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Blackrod wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 18, 2020 5:03 pm
No.

Give the club a chance we only need about 4 players (certainly 2) but there is 1 week and 6 days still left. The fax machine has only just got its annual safety certificate.

Still waiting for the PAT testing tho!

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SGr wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 18, 2020 7:03 pm
Good job we only create a one on one opportunity once every 5 games then.

Seriously, purely as an observation: we do not create those sort of chances.

Agree, very rarely do we create that type of chance with how we play

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Said it himself in an interview recently on clarets player that he knows players in the EFL through his contacts and the background research into players is calls to ex youth team coaches, team managers, club staff etc. to understand the players background (I have no doubt that will only be scratch...

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For all we know Rigg and our scouts are identifying players in Europe. I just don't think Dyche is interested or willing to take any kind of a gamble on players he doesn't know that well. I think he wants players with good English first of all, probably easier on the training ground - that's why he...

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Spijed wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 18, 2020 5:06 pm
Some forget how good we were two seasons ago.

Not really - I think they just worry about how fragile &low in confidence they've looked recently

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FactualFrank wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 18, 2020 4:18 pm
As things stand, Liverpool are 14 points clear of Man City with 2 games in hand.

Do you think they have a chance of winning the thing, Frank?

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I expect you're right. I can't see us breaking the club record for a virtually unknown foreigner. Just thought I'd pass it on though. Nor me. He wasn't massively impressive against England, there's lots more abroad better & probably cheaper.....if the recruitment team are looking in the right place...

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jrgbfc wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 18, 2020 3:07 pm
QPR look to have a few decent youngsters we could do a lot worse than take a bit of a gamble on.

I thought the winger, Samuel? looks promising.......Eze will be out of our price range/going elsewhere this summer.....at least 6-12 months too late with that one, even with a P/ex with Wells.

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Steve1956 wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 18, 2020 3:15 pm
How the F*ck did we lose at home to Villa ?:(

Cos Drinkanythingbutwater wasn't playing for them?

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wilks_bfc wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 18, 2020 2:16 pm
We’ve got a habit of buying good Championship goal scorers.

I hope we put a bid in for him

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According to SKY, Leeds’ win percentage almost doubles when Pablo Hernandez plays. That’s quite a stat. Last season you’d say that Tom Heaton was THAT player but who else in our teams of recent years would you say have been particularly influential, in terms of increased points on the pitch, compar...

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Thought there were problems with visa for the UK about 18 months ago when we were first linked with him? Before you start, I don't mean the credit card

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Spike wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 16, 2020 1:14 pm
normally as late in the transfer window as possible so a week early if we are even going to bother

A week? Don't you mean a fortnight?

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claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 15, 2020 4:29 pm
Think 15m and Vydra would have got it done, should have just got on with it

I don't think Chelski would want Vydra lol!

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Bosscat wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 15, 2020 3:38 pm
Len Shackleton (obituary in the Grauniad)

Len Shackleton, who has died aged 78, called his autobiography, not inappropriately, Clown Prince Of Soccer. It became famous for a chapter headed The Average Director's Knowledge Of Football and consisting of a blank page.

Cheers, Bosscat

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Working_Class_Zero wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:36 pm
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Wouldn't boast that you've never used them if I were you lol

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Funkydrummer wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:51 pm
He could perhaps play in a "Phantom of the Opera" style mask I suppose.

He could borrow Phil Jones's........ he does wear one doesn't he?

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Clarets4me wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 15, 2020 3:02 pm
Former England womens international, Eni Aluko has announced her retirement ... anybody else getting the funny feeling she'll be all over our TV screens in the next few years ?? Look out, Alex Scott !

She WAS on TV a few years ago.........better than her brother!

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I've seen milk turn quicker........Tommy Doc on Leighton James....again lol! The manager's indecision is final.........Duncan McKenzie on Jimmy Armfield at Leeds What directors know about football....... a chapter from a football autobiography, can't remember who now, played for M/boro or Sunderland...

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kentonclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:14 pm
Perhaps we should have sent somebody to Derby and analysed his style of play, strengths and weaknesses, before we signed him.

We couldn't, we didn't have SuperMike Rigg then!

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Blackrod wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 14, 2020 12:22 pm
2 Weeks 3 days left including weekends ......

What? For the board to avoid buying someone?

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Steve-Harpers-perm wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 15, 2020 12:27 pm
Anyone tracking trains or flights from Bristol?

Might have booked on Fly-Be

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Shaqiri has struggled for game time since making a £13.5m move from Stoke City back in 2018, playing back up to the formidable attacking trio of Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane. In the summer, the 28-year-old hinted that he may look to move on, saying: “I’m disappointed that I do not ...

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I always remember it in a 4-4-2 as: 9 10 11 6 8 7 3 4 5 2 1 Beckham was 7 for instance. Alan Shearer was 9. Left and Right back was always 3 and 2. If it was a 4-4-1-1 then 10 (which Hendrick has played) would be behind 9. Yes Frank, but a player like Sheringham was regarded as a No10 & he was deff...

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I want to believe that's what we do...........but we did sign Nahki Wells :lol: Presumably when we signed Wells & Vydra the plan was to play a target man (Woods/Barnes) alongside a No10(Vydra/Wells/Jayrod), in a change of style to more of along the ground, passing game? Fortunately or unfortunately...

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This This is what a no 10 is.... .a second striker. Ings was a 10 Blake was a 10 and some at the time. Vydra is a 10 The maddisons and grealish of this world are attacking midfielders who join in on the edge of their own box and the opposite box. Box to box midfielders with flare if you like :? I t...

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It felt good when we had it!

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The problem we have is he, we are to soft in midfield we need a governor in an hard man a dictator we are crying out for one Jeff as been a good servant and done everything asked win rate when in the team far out weighs when not & therein lies Jeff's problem, he's not going to be the midfield enfor...

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Agreed, Can Koiki play at right back, even though he is predominantly left sided where he has played so far? And what is our U23 like at right back? Don't know about Koiki playing RB but two of our U-23 right backs are now out on loan. Good time to move to 3 centre backs with a winger as a wing-bac...

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Fair dos....maybe sounds worse than it is. Wonder what constitutes a tackle, some one carrying the ball on the floor then being challenged by opponent. ? I'll be counting them now I know it 😂 Wonder what the missed tackle frequency is, as our defensive frailties have increased, the missed tackles s...

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A good article and I tend to agree. The next 5 or 6 weeks are pivotal. Come out of that with 28-30 points it eases things a bit, but come out with anything less and we are in real trouble Agree totally, everyone at the bottom is picking up points, sometimes against the "top 6", unlike in recent sea...

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Local cricketer wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 17, 2019 4:57 pm
Philip Schofield

She's Philip Schofield???

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dougcollins wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:44 pm
We'd still get beat.

Only if it was their 2nd team!

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I am assuming you are talking about the selling club, who, with the backing of a Multibillion Dollar Corporation that is interested in finding and developing young players across it's multiple clubs (it is rumoured to be looking for new ones to add to it's stable), can afford the network, analysts ...

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A few years ago not now. We are in the PL not the Championship. The only way we will improve our starting 11 and midfield is with quality. Averageness will not improve us. If this means losening the purse strings so be it. We need quality in central midfield ( a starter ). How many times have we sa...

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Ooh 'er matron. You know bud I've decided that taking things too seriously is not the way to go any more. When you look at many of the worlds leaders it is more and more obvious that 'those who stand for office are by default not fit to hold it'. Trump, Boris ( to be fair he does entertain me) and ...

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Things like Democracy, such as accepting referendum outcomes. Equal opportunity. A good education and 'free' health care for it's own people. A free press and expecting that people are able to decide for themselves what is best for them. For example of people choose to buy a particular paper, what ...

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One of the most vitriolic hate campaigns ever endured by a British party leader, which unfortunately too many people swallowed. That's what his excuse is. We now have the rather comic scenario of Boris the Buffoon leading us for the next 4/5 years. You couldn't make it up. At least we might get Bre...

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Haven't seen that for years!

Think i saw it as a pre-feature for A Clockwork Orange just before it's withdrawal from cinemas. A group of us schoolkids went to the old Studio complex on the balcony to see it, don't know how they let us in! The Tarzan made us all laugh.

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Please explain why and none will touch Dyche with a barge pole - the fans of these clubs want to see free flowing football The sports writer in the Mirror summed it up the other day, he said that before Dyche, Howe,et al get considered for a top job, they'll have to win some silverware first. So, l...

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Suratclaret wrote:Not forgetting Tommy Smith and "Chopper" Harris!

Norman Hunter?

Saw a striker in a French match a few weeks ago get a penalty by kicking the bottom of the defender's foot as he was clearing the ball. I think it was given for a high boot???

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Alanstevensonsgloves wrote:Nathan Jones, he stayed on too long

Supreme post ASG

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Hipper wrote:Was it Malcolm Smith who scored loads of goals when on loan and then very few after he signed?

Yes, he looked a cracking player when on loan, turning the CH then having a shot from anywhere up to 25 yards, then he signed permanently & nowt!

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