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nyclaret wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 7:06 pm Statue? Jesus christ. Dark Cloud replied I think that's in Rio. Thank you Dark Cloud. I have noticed that our predicament somehow justifies offending Christian Burnley fans who join this message board. Even CT who has a duty to moderate has joined in.Imagine...

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I have been intending to start a post for some time now asking: "Just what does an assistant manager do?" The tactical errors seem obvious to many on here and you would think it might be a subject of discussion on the pitch side but they both seem to be of the same mind or Woan is programmed to agre...

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It is obvious from the video that he has no left foot. Could be an advantage in certain circumstances especially if he is positioned on the right wing as he can save his left for late in games when it will be fresh.

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I can't find a post on this but it seems to be common knowledge that our Roy is to be the next Watford manager. If true, how is it likely to be a factor against us in our crucial game against them?

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He also got them promoted as last season's Lge 1 champions. I think I am right in stating it is the only time Hull have ever won a promotion as the top team in their division. They also look to be in a safe position in the Championship despite having been under a transfer embargo. A very shabby piec...

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Yes , I know there is a separate post on potential transfers 'in' but surely what is need as a matter of urgency is someone up front who is a recognised striker. Jermaine Jenas has got some stick on here because of his comments about Cornet on MOTD yesterday but he was spot on when he said something...

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Went for a a swim at our local Leisure Centre with one of my sons. I am 74 but look 21. The cashier looked at my son and asked if he was my 'carer' as he could then get in for free! Later went for a haircut and the barber did not even ask my age but automatically gave me a pensioner discount. Am I m...

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I can sympathise with nearly all of the comments from disgruntled fans listed here but what offends me the most ( and I have been a claret since 1958 ) is the way that success is now linked to the wealth of the owners. Every club is looking to land that multi millionaire owner or conglomerate that w...

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Did we not bid for Bowen but he chose West Ham who had a similar bid in for him? Bowen was a Hull City player and Lewis Potter is often mentioned on here , a Hull City player too, he's looks a good player and played well against Everton on Saturday last. Scores quite often , as well.

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There is a rational argument that governments around the world should allow the relatively mild Omicron variant to spread naturally especially among the non-vaccinated population. There will still be some very sad individual tragedies but the rest of the population will develop a significant degree ...

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Benetiz gave clear intent to the PL of his aim of getting this game postponed. It was predicted on here yesterday by every poster that this would happen and yet the PL simply rolled over and took the line of least resistance. It is a shameful surrender without so much as a pretence of fairness or di...

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Was it Harold Wilson who said something along the lines of 'a month being a long time in politics. I ask because the same applies to professional football. It is barely a few weeks a go that we were urging the Chairman to give SD a new long term contract and how , when it happened, it was being hail...

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Writing of war criminals why no mention of the Japanese Emperor ? He must have given the go-ahead for PH and prior to that were the awful atrocities in China, the Rape of Nanking being just one horrific example and the true figures of the execution of Chinses military personnel ( who had surrendered...

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I only saw the third ( and last ) feature and most of the first so it may have been mentioned and I missed it but if not I was surprised there was no mention of the Royal Navy cracking the Japanese code and so being aware that a Japanese invasion fleet was at sea although the precise target and date...

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I feel a strange affinity with a WW1 soldier called James Morgan who had he lived would have been my uncle although I was born some 30 years after his death in France just one month before the war ended. He had just had his 19th birthday and went 'over the top' to be blown to smithereens. No grave t...

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I can remember seeing him a few times in his playing days. Quite a tricky player.

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What makes a good boxing match? The object is to knock the opposition fighter senseless. This is achieved by scrambling the brain of the other player so that he is (ideally!) knocked senseless. Weaken the other fighters ability to defend himself by body punches and then finish him off by switching t...

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The whole thing sickens me. No, I did not watch it but it was an unavoidable main news item. How this madness is classed as 'sport' is beyond me. The fact that so many get so involved in this cruel exhibition of man's inhumanity to man is bizarre. How it survives should be a mystery but the fact tha...

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Defensive errors cost us dear. The fact that Keane was allowed the freedom of the park to head in is inexcusable. Not a challenge in sight yet he is left alone in a key area for an accomplished header of the ball . Their second goal was a beauty and yet he was allowed to tee himself us for a shot wh...

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I am a bit surprised that no posters on this thread have reminded the rest of us of how Burnley were among the three lowest scorers last season and the other two were relegated. Some posters have delighted in reminding us of something the rest of us apparently didn't know. We had a bad start to the ...

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I get fed up of reading how the squad is an 'ageing one.' It is repeated so often a casual observer would think that we re putting out a team of geriatrics with a 'back up ' on the bench of players needing Zimmer frames. Another hackneyed phrase is 'a paper-thin squad.' Repeated as though it was som...

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The removal of racism is football has received something of a boost following England's loss at the Euro final.Terribly sad of course that it is as a result of the awful hounding of three black players to bring this about. A watershed moment in football. Does it though go far enough? I was watching ...

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Psotto writes Remember Boris converted to Catholicism to get married. The want to re-introduce religous authority to a secular nation. Just to clarify that Boris was Catholic since childhood ( he may not have practiced it, but was baptised in it.) England is not a secular nation. We have a state rel...

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There was a programme on TV last night of Wales progress to the semis in the last Euros. It featured a fantastic headed goal by our Sam in the quartier finals. Brought back some great memories of a wonderful player for us. The commentator mentioned how he had scored the goal that clinched our Champi...

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Just a brief mention of the Italy campaign. It was indeed brutal for those on the front line. A man I used to visit in a local Care Home was at Monte Cassino and told me that the soldiers used to live on their stomachs during the day time because if they showed any part of their upper bodies they wo...

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What that table shows is that there are only six clubs that can be certain that they will still be in the Pl at the end of every season. All the others are in a relegation battle at the start of each season. Those claret fans who seem to delight in predicting Burnley's eventual relegation as though ...

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Thanks JDRobbo for exhibiting this amazing collection of goals and reminding us of what a great striker we have in CW. The video also illustrates the contribution of other players, including Ashley Barnes who seems to be the forgotten man at the moment. His goal ratio in the PL is good too.

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Yep hes our number 1 striker my point being his game has gone up a notch since he's had a better strike partner in and around him..vydra is 5 times the player of barnes.. A lesson from Sheedy claret on how to make use of a post praising Wood to 'have a go' at another player. Barnes too is a top stri...

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I've often thought that to qualify for family allowance that you are obliged to attend parenting classes. (Practical difficulties I know, especially with the problem of 'absent fathers.) In todays world there is a lot more awareness of domestic abuse and so hopefully a lot less of it. However it is ...

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Regrettably I could not attend that game but I was there for when they clinched promotion. It is disappointing there is no footage of the game but what was the crowd reaction like when Waldron hit that goal?

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Cars with automatic gear boxes are still not as popular as 'geared cars' in the UK even though automatics have been around for 60 years ( a guess.) On that basis I cannot see how people who like driving will take to these 'new fangled' things. I'm still irritated that my newish car has no CD player!

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Thanks for the comments. A nostalgic look back at those times when we were in the lower leagues and playing the likes of Grimsby and Scunthorpe. It is also a reminder ( not that we needed it,) of how close we came to losing our league status and that is why I wouldn't wish it for any club. The Ian H...

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Poor Grimsby Town relegated out of the League tonight. I have a soft spot for them as I watched them periodically when I lived in that part of the country but in particular they were the club where Doug Collins began his career. I was thrilled when Grimsby were drawn against Burnley in the FA Cup an...

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Claret blue writes Chris Wood became just the third player to score an away first-half Premier League hat-trick after Chris Sutton for Blackburn vs Aston Villa in August 1997 and Michael Owen for Liverpool vs Newcastle in August 1998. Worth pointing out he is the first to achieve this feat in this c...

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Claret -tinted writes: Christ on a bike! Claret 59 writes : Christ be praised. Claret-tinted: No need for offensive remarks because you do not agree with another poster's comments on what is a message-board meant to invite serious non-offensive comments. The point I was making is that there are cont...

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SD has been good for Burnley but the club have been good to him as well. It is nonsense to say he has had no funds. He has been backed in the transfer market and wasted a good deal of it. Wood, Vydra and Gibson are multi million pound signings. They did not come cheap. There are plenty of lesser amo...

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'Not the first time we've let an attacker just wonder all the way through unchallenged. Does nobody have the wherewithal to just take a booking and bring him down?' Sad to say but it looked as though our defenders were frightened of St Maxim. There were 4 around him and a couple 'in reserve'' but no...

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Looking back with the benefit of hindsight it became obvious that the clarets were running out of steam and needed a boost. This could have been provided by entering the transfer market. Just one player could have made the difference. So it was something of a management failure and this included Bob...

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Players do not ask to be injured. Football is a contact sport and getting injured is an occupational hazard. The ' law of averages' means that some players will be injured more than others performing the same tasks. I am sorry that Brady is now injured , the 'again' argument is inappropriate and it ...

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At the conclusion of tonight's programme it was written on the screen that over 300 clubs (332 I think,) were implicated in some way with this awful series of offending and that 800 plus victims had been located. It makes me feel tainted in some way to be a football supporter through all that period...

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'JB did a really good job for us but it doesn't in any way suggest that he will become a good manager.'

He looked to have done a good job at Fleetwood especially as it was his first managerial appt. .'He left them in rather mysterious circumstances when they were doing OK .

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Even now it’s hard to comprehend how and why he went up there. Something to do no doubt with being young and never thinking of death as being near. I remember reading of the event and of how a promising career was so tragically ended. I have never seen a photo of Ben so am grateful to be able to put...

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I know it is a similar thread to '3from 5' but we regularly read on here that 35 points should (will be?) enough to escape relegation. Personally I do not see it that way. Looking at the table , and knowing obviously that the relegation candidates have to play each other at least once I seriously do...

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We need someone with a 'feel' for a Cub like ours and one with real ambition to do well. I wasn't happy when we signed Joey Barton but what a signing he proved to be. He did well at Fleetwood (although his departure is something of a mystery,) and I think he would be a 'good fit' at Burnley.

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A very disturbing documentary that could have done with at least one more programme to touch on other issues surrounding this case. For example there was no mention of any motive for the crime other than some haphazard link to Marion Manson. To convict a teenager without a shred of real evidence and...

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In my grandmothers kitchen was a full size bath. Quite a luxury in those days especially when the wood cover over the bath doubled as the only work surface in the kitchen.

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Blasphemy - upsets the snowflakes which means the mods have to remove. I'm pleased if that is the reason, Just disappointed that it was then repeated. I am a Burnley supporter and have been non-stop for about sixty years . I have never understood why some posters ( very few now, thankfully,) can act...

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ksrclaret » Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:00 pm

Christ. Be praised.

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' but Jesus. H. Christ that is just not the done thing' It is not the done thing to use this site to offend . I really thought we had moved on from this type of language that has nothing to do with football.

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Did he not sign a new contract recently? If so he cannot have been that unsettled. I recall he said he was pleased to sign the contract.

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