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12 points clear at the top so nothing to lose in progressing far in the cup. Go Strong, keep the confidence up. Maybe bring Twine in to build up his fitness more, keep JBG fresh. Maybe rest Barnes and give Obafemi a start, though I would prob bring him on as a sub. Muric Roberts - Ekdal - Beyer - Ma...

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Muric
Roberts Beyer Taylor Maatsen
Cullen Bownhill
JBG Twine Zaroury
Jay

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*Glass Breaks*

Barnes walks out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diXmqua6-aY

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What if the holding company moved its registration to a Channel Island? Would that stop HMRC pursuing the strike off action & also negate the need for the publishing of the accounts?

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Thought BPF looked rejuvenated with improved distribution last night. I don't think he should retain the no 1 spot ahead of Muric based on this one match but he should be knocking on the door. Muric has excellent distribution and is capable of pulling off god saves at crucial moments, but he is also...

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Muric 7 - Caught a cross and a crucial save to deny them at important point in the game Vitinho 7 - Balanced performance both in attack and defence Harwood Bellis 7 - Solid, brought the ball out well Beyer 8 - Thought he was excellent. strong, well positioned, calm when put under pressure, good timi...

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Very happy for Zaroury to be selected for the World Cup and proud that he has done this whilst playing for our club. It's only a good thing for players to be recognised for form and achieve their career goal (in this case an international call up and playing at a world cup) whilst at your club. Good...

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Cristiano's ego higher than his current playing capability, similar to Pier Morgan and his current journalistic capability.

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Muric 6 - Not much to do but made an important save at 0-0. Vitinho 6 - Supported Benson well. Defensively fine. Harwood-Bellis 8 - Solid, some lovely play out of the back. Beyer 8 - Solid, some lovely play out from the back Maatsen 6 - Supported Zaroury well. Defensively fine. Cork 8 - Commanding p...

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............Muric
Roberts-THB-Beyer-Taylor
......Cork-Bastien/Cullen
JBG.....Zaroury....Maatsen
—————Tella/Jay

Gone for solidity at the back, Taylor back in a LB. Time to try Maatsen further forward.

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-------------------Muric
Vitinho-----THB--------Taylor---Maatsen
--------------Cullen---Cork
-----Benson---Brownhill-----Tella
----------------Rodriguez

BPF, Beyer, Roberts, Bastien, Gudmundsson, Zaroury, Dervisoglu

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Muric 6 - not much to do, decent with the ball at his feet. unfortunate to slip for their goal. Roberts 6 - Tried a few crosses but other than that not much THB 8 - Liked whne he stepped forward to bring the ball out of defence when nothing on. Shades of Steve Davis. Taylor 7 - Solid Vitinho 6 - Oka...

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A bit of perspective. They are playing at in different division against different standards of defenders. True, McNeil had poor season for us last year but against higher quality opposition in a side more focussed on being tight and restrictive. Overall McNeil did play very well for us at times over...

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...............Muric
Roberts - THB - Taylor - Maatsen
...........Cork - Cullen
Costelloe - Brownhill - Bastian
................Jay

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19 years old, 1 professional league appearance. He has time on his side, no need to rush. Taylor doing a good job for me and adding some much experience in the side.

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...............Muric
Roberts . TBH . .Taylor . .Maatsen

. Brownhill - Cullen - Cork

....Benson - Barnes - Jay

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The answers are all either the name of a British Club or Ground ..... good luck ! 1) Which Club's move to a new ground was prompted by a Suffragette fire bomb, that burnt down the main stand in 1913 ? 2) Which Club bought a Grandstand from a race-course that shut in 1962, and moved the whole struct...

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Muric 7
Roberts 6
Harwood Bellis 7
Taylor 7
Maatsen 8
Cork 8
Cullen 9
Brownhill 8
Bastien 6
Costelloe 6
Barnes 7

Twine 7

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Unless you are one of 6-7 clubs in the world you will always have to sell, though not necessarily to survive. But yes we have always sold to survive. Our current predicament is different to previous years though. Previously we were coming form a lower footing, had lower income and were trying to com...

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very strange not doing a straight forward 4-4-2. Going off the squad as it is now. ........................BPF Roberts........Long......H-B........Taylor .........Brownhill..Cullen..Cork McNeil..............................Cornet ......................Jay Gone with Long for his experience. I fear s...

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Cork (c)
Brownhill (vc1)
Jay (vc2)

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very strange not doing a straight forward 4-4-2. Going off the squad as it is now. ........................BPF Roberts........Long......H-B........Taylor .........Brownhill..Cullen..Cork McNeil..............................Cornet ......................Jay Gone with Long for his experience. I fear st...

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Very sad day. RIP Rocky.

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That's quite interesting. I am predicting a thread on here within the first couple of games from posters complaining about playing out from the back and plenty of shouts from within the ground. I seem to remember this happening under Howe, particularly when the centre halves split to either side of...

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Kompany is an exciting name and a bold, positive appointment and some credit is due with securing the appointment of him given our situation. I personally feel excited about the season ahead and am fully behind the manager and the team, whoever lines up on that opening day. But let's see how it goes...

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Fair and correct comment on Krul. As with England, it seems goalkeepers are a slightly different case, but it’s not often in the modern game that second division centre forwards are called up for major nations. I can’t think of a single one, off the top of my head. Pretty sure Jay Bothroyd was call...

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Nori1958 wrote: ↑
Thu May 26, 2022 3:27 pm
Just like previous burnley chairmen.....

The difference being that Pace made a rod for his own back by announcing when he came in that he would be actively engaging with fans on social media etc etc

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Who do you think wanted him here so badly then? We chased him over 2 seasons. I ruled out Garlick getting him behind Dyche's back because I sat next to the chairman in the away end at WBA (Barnes overhead kick game) and he wasn't impressed with JayRod at at all, saying he wasn't the same player any...

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Pace will be working hard behind the scenes. Nobody seems to have confidence in him at all which is really unfair. Dyche had to go. Tick. Brought in Cornet. Tick Brought in Weghorst. Tick..ish Nearly got Orsic. Great effort but no cigar. Kompany as manager. Massive Tick. Kompany will attract good p...

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When stating he scored 8 in 80 it’s probably better to look at minutes per goal, as a vast majority of those 80 were not starts and there will be quite a few that were 5 minutes at the end - not really fair to list that. from Tranfermarkt apps 82 mins 3157 Goals 8 Assists 7 average 38 mins per appe...

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Garlick signed him as we couldn't get Dyche's first choice Jay Rod. Dyche didn't play any of the players Garlick signed. Jay was not Dyche's first choice, ever. He wasn't against signing Jay but he questioned if it was more of a sentimental decision. This showed (similarly to Vydra) in how Jay was ...

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He scored 8 in 80 appearances (granted probably 60% as sub). He didn't paly much because he didn't scores much. Dyche always seemed pretty respectful of him in jnterviews (especially in the latter 2 years) and whilst I'm sure Vyds thinks he should have played more that's hardly mismanagement. Just ...

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Happy to see him stay. Proven at that level. Not sure how bad his ACL injury was, but seeing as he continued to play maybe it's not as bad as some ACL injuries can be.

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Sleeping Cat wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 6:47 am I remember Pace saying something like "all payments have been made in the agreed timeframes" which is technically true as every for every instalment the timeframe to pay it was extended by request of ALK. I haven't seen any comment from Garlic or John B...

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As far as I am aware there has been no formal default on the payments - payments due late last summer and again in March were overdue - so late last summer that there was a reschedule from the original agreement - which made sense because there was still optimism about the season and opportunity to...

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How do you know this? That is publicly denied by Pace, Garlick and JB. I remember Pace saying something like "all payments have been made in the agreed timeframes" which is technically true as every for every instalment the timeframe to pay it was extended by request of ALK. I haven't seen any comm...

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The idea that ALK have a big stash of cash behind the scenes and have only done a leveraged buyout for tax purposes doesn't explain how they continuously miss the payments to buy the club.

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Keep
Ben Mee,
Jack Cork
Matej Vydra

Let Go
Aaron Lennon
Phil Bardsley
Dale Stephens

Undecided
Ashley Barnes

No Choice
James Tarkowski

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This would be a pretty exciting appointment for me. He's always come across intelligent and thoughtful. His wife is from Manchester I believe, so familiar to the surrounding area, no settling in issues. Good contacts particularly at City, which could come in very useful given our financial constrain...

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You're forgetting the significant relegation wage cuts in contracts and the fact we pay large bonus' on staying up (makes up the total salary expense you see in our accounts) - something we won't be doing this year. Other clubs such as Bournemouth, West Brom and Norwich had 50% wage cuts in their p...

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45% lower* It's clear in the accounts that there is an awareness between the two parties that player trading has been used to forecast means of paying off that installment. I'd imagine over the next month we will have a lot of interest in several players and we will be ready to sell. Sorry 45%. Tha...

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It’s been discussed elsewhere but that bridging loan could have been good risk management, or it could have been cash flow issues, we don’t know. Sunderland’s wage bill to revenue in the Champ was still ridiculously high and they made two p*** poor appointments in Grayson / Coleman. Well if we were...

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Sunderland had a far larger wage bill (Jack Rodwell on circa 70k a week in the Champ) and almost double the size of debt (110m). They also had a crap squad with a really weak core. Their managerial appointments were poor and they got the championship recruitment completely wrong. Sunderland also ha...

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I don't personally feel Pace and Co need to come out and say anything, just focus on the task at hand and communicate when they need to in line with actions and announcements. However, if you promise to openly engage and maintain an open dialogue on social media with fans then they will have an expe...

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Swansea away

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Not for me. It had gone stale for a while before he was given the boot and he has to take his share of the blame as performances just were not good enough for majority of the season under him.

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I wouldn't be surprised if Pace and Co weren't the owners in a years time. Struggled to find investment and keep up with payments to buy the club as a Premier League asset. That will be much harder in the championship, unless offering more (perhaps in terms of equity) to new potential investors. And...

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Pope - West Ham
Tarkowski - West Ham/Leicester
Bardsley - Retire
Mee - Burnley
Lennon - Hull City
Barnes - Stoke City
Stephens - Derby County
Pieters - PSV
Cork - Burnley
Vydra - Free Agent
McNeil - Fulham
Cornet - Everton
Weghorst - Schalke

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Defence looks alright, Tarks replaced by Collins, assuming Mee contract is extended. Centre mid okay, if Cork extension is triggered. Brownhill scored goals in Champ so hopefully can be more dynamic than in the prem. Jay leading the line, happy with that with the right strike partner. Desperately ne...

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I mentioned this at the time, but with the club purchasing minor shareholdings held by fans in return for club "credit" that they can use to purchase tickets and retail at the club was reducing future potential commercial revenue. On top of the loss of TV revenue, the "significant" repayment of the ...

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