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McNeil on the right is a waste of a player and for me a key element in our sub par performances this season. Dwight excels on the left, is a respectable option in the centre, but his one footed reliance makes him something of a liability on the right. And yet, this season, we consistently play McNei...

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Nice goal from Lennon, shame we have given them two easy goals though We could have done better with their first goal, but the second two where more unfortunate than outright gifts. The second one was deflected off the foot of Mee and the third was deflected off the post. Bad luck elements in both....

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Tim Curry as Darkness ( Legend )

Tim Curry as Cardinal Richelieu ( The Three Musketeers )

Tim Curry as Pennywise the Clown ( IT )

Tim Curry as Dr Frank-N-Furter ( Rocky Horror Picture Show )

Tim Curry in any Villainous role

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Elizabeth wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 22, 2021 6:59 pm
Get him off that train at Burnley Central railway station and he’s all ours

Don't do that, Burnley Central doesn't afford the nicest of views.

Drop him off at Ebden Bridge, with its Olde Worlde charm, and ask him to track back.

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Shouting ? It’s obvious we have no money, the only way someone is brought in is to sell , basics . I don't think we have much money either, but that doesn't stop us doing business. We can or could buy players and pay for them over the course of their contract. So we could pay everything up front fo...

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Dyche has a track record of playing inverted wingers Dyche has a track record of working with we've got. JBG plays on the right because he is the best we have for that position. The fact that he is left footed is an after thought. He does okay with his right. Brady played there when we had no other...

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for the money being talked about for Cornet we could probably get Christie and Hughes ... and baring any serious bidding from other clubs, still have change left over to pick up Dan Barlaser, Abdou Harroui, or Anthony Caci. Caci might prove a bit difficult given the short time left in the window fo...

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It doesn’t fill me with confidence in the numerous names that you suggest, if you only saw Grealish as a pest. As for us just throwing extra money at signings, I don’t think that ever has been or ever will be the Burnley way. I didn't say he wasn't a productive pest. Signing John McGinn made a mass...

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I can't believe some fans don't want him. The same people who didn't want Xherdan Shaqiri and said Grealish wasn't good enough for us when he was playing in the Championship. Bonkers. We won't be signing him, but I'd love it if he had come to us. I objected to Shaqiri and I thought Grealish was mor...

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If Kim Kardashian did transfer negotiations. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c1/d1/18/c1d1189465512ee563dddd5010d7ec95.gif Cornet looks a decent player, but I can't help feel that we are slowly being taken to the cleaners, given that Lyon obviously want to sell and replace him. If Nixon is in the rig...

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McNeil had a very good first half, though it seems many thought JBG was the star turn. I think our expectation of DM is ridiculous, it would be interesting to see heat maps of our midfield and forwards. This is the best free information source I have found. However, like most data of this type ( ex...

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Double signing of Cornet and Nottm Forest's Joe Lolley for hundreds and thousands of pounds to be announced in the coming few days! Sorry guys that's the best I could come up with. I can't see that one happening. Lolley is a good player and he strikes me as being a better fit for us than Wilson. He...

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Don't worry guys, I suspect that we have a cunning plan. https://c.tenor.com/9GelKuX_ZU8AAAAM/draft-day-fantasy-football.gif We are simply keeping our powder dry and our resources intact so that we can make the most of Draft Day - when we will have a golden opportunity to sign up the best young tale...

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I just don't see why we'd pay that, for the sake of 4 months, when we don't have to. Which is a perfectly reasonable opinion, isn't it? Yup, sounds like a perfectly reasonable opinion to me, but then again we did pay a bucket load of cash for BPF who was all set to leave Leeds on a free transfer. T...

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Both would cost circa 10m so if we spend that kind of money it's on players who are ready to challenge the first 11 - now. Nods, the price of £10m, or an initial £12.5 plus additional payments in the case of Collins, is a reflection of perceived potential. If the player lives up to that potential t...

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Sounds like Deep Throat is releasing secret details about our transfer activity - or somebody mistyped

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If so would selling Dwight for £40m make sense then reinvest in Shaquiri (if he will come) and another midfielder. Apparently he is available for £12m which is a steal. Peter Crouch says no Former Stoke and Liverpool striker Peter Crouch has criticised former teammate Xherdan Shaqiri in his new aut...

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Hi LTL, just picking out a few points from your post (which I've cut down, rather than cramp up the mb with the full text): Nope, we had cash available to spend during the last transfer window that amounted to 41,647m in hand from the previous season. This was bolstered with the first instalment of...

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I'm beginning to think ALK were banking on selling one of our better players in order to finance incomings (Pope, perhaps) and that's why there was talk of Young and Albrighton. Since there have been no acceptable offers for our players things have gone quiet I think we were planning on the assumpt...

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I would say his main position is central attacking midfielder. Hmm, no edit option. I forgot to say that in our framework we would probably play him on the left wing. I have seen him drift in from time to time when playing that role, but he can hold the line and deliver some quality crosses when ca...

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RW has to be a priority IMO, then maybe a CM ( will Hughes for instance ) which makes 4 CM, with Brownhill the back up right sided player. That in turn keeps an eye on next season too, with Cork OOC, and surely needing to be replaced. We have a one year extension option with Cork, if I'm not mistak...

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What position does he play? looks a player I would say his main position is central attacking midfielder. He has also played on both wings and in central midfield. However, when he has played out on the right it has been as an inverted winger, with the natural tendency for a left footer to drift in...

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Left backs should be the last place we are looking to recruit, I think they're both good, with each having their stregths which benefits the side when playing. I think you need to look at it a little differently. We could go into the season with Pieters as the cover for Taylor as a left back and th...

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Bigvince wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 04, 2021 4:11 pm
Is Wallace any good, I haven’t seen enough of him to form an opinion?

Wallace is very good and I am in complete agreement with those who have put his name forward. The problem is can we afford him and another winger ?

Oh, and will Millwall sell him.

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I'm okay with signing Lennon as one of the two wingers that we need. I can't really understand all of the negative energy that is being directed towards the idea. Anybody would think that we were at the very start of the window, swimming in cash, with a first rate recruitment team and pouring over a...

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This article gives an informative account of how cashless spending impacts on people and the propensity for such a move to increase overall spending by making it easier for people to over spend - possible leading to problems with short term or long term debt. https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/cashle...

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yeah, it would be the icing on the cake Or the ice-cream of the crop. I think the main reason for all the puns, despite it being entertaining, is the absence of any transfer news. People log in, see nothing, and make a quip to pass the time. It is, I suspect, the precursor to gallows humour, should...

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All good for the data profiling and no doubt individually targeted offers in the future The move towards cashless transactions throughout the club could have also be about encouraging spending. If you dig into your wallet or purse to pull out some cash your spending stops when there is no more cash...

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Sounds like a lot of empty waffle to me

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Looks like he can also play left-mid, but TBH our left side is pretty well stocked, it's the right side that's the problem area, and where we really need to bring someone in. Our left side is lacking. Pieters is adequate as a left back or a left midfield option, but poor as a wing back, and we will...

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Everybody struggled last season. If you have a smaller squad with older players the injuries occur more frequently. Pretty soon it becomes a downward spiral. You have to send players out who have a niggle, because you have nobody else, and that niggle becomes a knock. Carry on down that road and the...

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U23s play a 442, same as the first team. No, they don't. That might be because they lack numbers and depth in respect to strikers and wingers. Richardson is an attacking midfielder and the development squad play him as one. The main formation they used last year was 4-2-3-1 with a lot of traffic go...

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So to summarise Defour -> Drinkwater -> Brownhill Vokes -> Crouch -> Rodriguez Hendrick -> Stephens Ward -> Pieters Heaton -> Bailey Peacock-Farrell Hart - > Hennessey Anders Lindegaard -> Will Norris Gibson -> Collins Nahki Wells Adam Legzdins Aaron Lennon Robbie Brady The first thing that stands ...

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If we can sign one quality right midfielder who can start games straight away, then I would be more than happy to allow the U23 players to be the reserves. Mancini was energetic and enthusiastic in the game against league 2 Blackpool, with a couple of nice touches, but he isn't the answer to our wi...

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Cheeky bid for Aaron Lennon ? No bid required. I posted a couple of days ago and included him in a list of possible candidates. He recently terminated his 2 year contract with Kayserispor by mutual consent so he is currently a free agent. https://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/aaron-lennon-termina...

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He’s not technically good enough. You don’t coach that into a 20 odd y/o. Rightly moving on to pursue a career. We have a responsibility to create opportunities for our squad to have a career rather than rot in the 23’s. I would have keep him as well. £1m including potential add ons is not a huge a...

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I'm not sure if it has been posted on here already, but Thomas Robert left us without securing a development squad contract. He is now looking for a spot with Salford City. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/ex-celtic-burnley-target-thomas-24624631 Shrugs, it might not be much, but it i...

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I can't see us getting a future transfer fee of any note for him. When we first sent him out he was a bit of an enigma in terms of his ability and level. However, the multiple loans to Morecambe and his last loan to Accrington cleared all of that up. He strikes me as a fairly competent league one mi...

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And what injury has he got that's keeping him out for so long? I think he is recovering from ankle surgery. https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/transfer-news/burnley-pre-season-training-sean-20935434 https://www.foxsports.com/soccer/dale-stephens-player https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dale-stephe...

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He probably strained his vocal cords singing " Burnley is a **** hole " again. Despite his past indiscretion I was willing to give him a chance, but he was awful last year. After our failure to sign a quality midfielder last Summer we had to go for another better than nothing option. Going into the ...

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Sam was given the short straw at Stoke and he suffered for it. He was the wrong type of striker for the way they wanted to set up and play. Putting him up front on his own was never going to work out well for him. I'm not sure how he will do at Wycombe. Looking at their last season they started out ...

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I thought Nartey was a central defender. He came on and played midfield. Am I mistaken? Agree Glennon (who has looked good in the past) looked very much off it tonight. Nope, you are correct, he played in midfield. However, even when he plays in central defence he usually makes so many forward runs...

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Yeah he's had a very good game. I bet he will be buzzing after that performance, keeping Dwight in check is no mean feat. He will be having tangerine dreams if he manages to get any sleep tonight. Decent run about, but Darth Vader called it. A couple of our youngsters did okay, but nothing to sugge...

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Shameful charging on top of Clarets Player It is the beginning of the push to increase the " secondary spend " of the fans. That seems to be a big part of the ALK plan to pay for off our newly gained debts and interest payments. However, I don't think they have realised that things don't work the s...

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Winger Options Carlos Mane - Rio Ave https://www.sofascore.com/player/carlos-mane/859748 https://fbref.com/en/players/7a854622/Carlos-Mane Rapid, good at progressing the ball, excellent crosser, doesn't shy away from putting in a defensive shift when asked to do, can play on either wing, qualifies ...

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For anyone interested, here is a list of entries recorded at companies house that are associated with our club. Clicking on the header tabs will show the people linked with them and documents filed ( including accounts ). The club accounts ended for 2020 aren't on there so I've added a direct link f...

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As far as I'm concerned Dyche has 12 months to sign a new contract, the need for players in is far more urgent. Even if he signs a new deal Tomorrow, 2 weeks down the line he might end up at Everton. The length of the managers contract doesn't seem to really matter, maybe it helps with receiving mo...

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:44 pm
Shouldn’t the Norwich list include Gibson, Tony?

Gibson can't make it to the list, the opportunity is there, but he is injured.

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In terms of a defensive midfielder I like the look of Patrick Berg from Bodo / Glimt. https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/celtic-rangers-eye-patrick-berg-20796766 https://www.sofascore.com/player/patrick-berg/355174 Along with Fredrik André Björkan, a left back from the same c...

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"The only person to come out of the FA in recent times that actually is worth hiring is our very own Dave Baldwin. Granted he isn't a recruitment specialist, but if we can dump Rigg, put Dyche firmly in charge of recruitment ( with Baldwin doing the operational grunt work and fighting the good fin...

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