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Can we possibly have a slightly less scary picture of Tony Philliskirk please?? Unless of course he actually looks like that in real life these days!!!!!

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Up at 6.45 Feed the cat. Make 2 fresh coffees. Make 2 slices of toast with honey. Give one coffee to the wife who has just got out of bed and is preparing to leave for work. (She doesn't eat breakfast!) Go back and sit in bed with me coffee and toast and say terra to the Mrs. Read me book for 30/40 ...

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I can't stand him. He's spoiled Radio 5 in the afternoons for me. He is soooooooo sloooooow when he speaks and asks questions. Mike Dean would have him booked for time wasting! I've mentioned before, it's like a funeral director discussing arrangements with a bereaved family.

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Personally I most often don't have a problem with him, but I always feel when he does have a really good game, he's playing out of his skin and it's usually against the weaker sides and for every good game he has, he has 3 or 4 meh to poor ones. He strikes me as a very good Championship player who n...

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thatdberight wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 02, 2020 7:23 pm
There is no way this is serious enough to fundamentally disrupt the food supply chain.

Unless people fall for the media frenzy and panic.....Mmmmm!

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The media just love a story like this. It sells papers, gets people glued to news channels and just like celebrity deaths and other natural disasters, it's the lifeblood of their industry and keeps them in a job. They'll be meeting in the daily mail editor's office ass we speak, dreaming up the next...

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Well if it means the local sniff brigade move out of the underground car park in town, then it's probably another positive imo!!

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The Sulwath Brewery in Castle Douglas has a tap room selling their own beers on tap. It's about 3 years since I was in it so it may have changed, but it was an excellent way to spend an afternoon!

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At the end of the day somebody is shoving good money into trying to sort out what everyone on here has agreed has been a somewhat embarrassing eyesore for ages now and on those grounds I am definitely not going to knock it and I wish them every success. If they've got it wrong and it doesn't work ou...

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You’re sh!tting me... I even asked if there was another one and I was told by a steward that the one to your right (as you come out from the seats in the stand) was the only one. Absolutely Zlatan! That's made me rather annoyed tbh. At half time I asked 2 policemen standing in the entrance to the o...

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Thought you waz referring to The Toon V The Clarets yesterday!!

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Unless he got a knock of some kind I thought Vydra was pretty harshly treated yesterday. Yes, after the first 20 minutes when he got a fair bit of ball and once or twice possibly should have done rather better, he really did seem to be weeing against the breeze and making no impression and I do acce...

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Earl Grey's monument I see there in the background-pioneered the Great Reform act in the 1830's I think the photo is tricking your eyes. That's the edge of the building opposite which has been built under the bridge I think. Earl Grey's statue and column are at the top of Grey Street with quite a l...

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CleggHall wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:07 am
The Crown Posada or The Bridge Tavern?

Crown Posada is on the opposite side slightly further up, but it's a better pub imo!

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Am I missing something here? I know he blazed over, but I THOUGHT it was all actually irrelevant because he was clearly flagged offside, so ultimately nothing to see and move on. Was I mistaken?

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It really is high up there, but as a reasonably fit chap the climb up doesn't really bother me personally and you tend to get used to the birds eye view and stop noticing. I really enjoy going because it reminds me so much of our place as in you can enjoy the numerous excellent pubs in the city cent...

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I'm setting off shortly! (Well it's a lot of steps up to those away seats for a guy like me, so thought I'd better start today!!!

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Greenmount is a postage stamp however the league approached them , went to the ground and asked them to apply. On another note, a merger between Rawtenstall and Haslingden was mentioned in passing. A merger between Rocky and Hazzy????? Bloody hell, that's a new one on me. I'd like to have seen the ...

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I wonder if Read don't have a large enough playing area and that may be an issue to the LL, which would be a shame in many ways as it's a club doing well both on and off the field.

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Port Patrick was recommended to us today. Is it worth the drive out? Think we are heading east to Dundee tomorrow. Portpatrick is basically a small, quite picturesque fishing village with a couple of decent pubs and hotels and great cliff top walks. It's got a lot of history as originally in Victor...

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As far as I'm aware Padiham haven't expressed any interest and that kind of surprised me as it strikes me as yet another very go ahead club.

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Culzean was very nice Ian. Although inside was closed. I expected electric brae would be underwhelming. I wish it was that good :lol: Culzean really is good and is in a fantastic spot. I drove the "electric brae" stretch of road several times over a number of years, before I finally "got it". I can...

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Settle would make a good go of it and have the finances and players in place. But it would be a hell of a long way from say Littleborough or Middleton for example (or similar) and many clubs might just feel it's far too far in terms of travel. Since the arrival of the Manchester based clubs travell...

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Andreshotboots wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:46 pm
Padiham, Read?

As far as I know you're 50% correct there, but the other club I heard about whilst also thriving in every way, may have geography against it, bearing in mind that I also THINK the ultimate say about a club joining comes down to member clubs voting on a 1 vote per club basis.

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It will be for 2021. My understanding is the LL want 3 clubs and approached greenmount to join. They have applied although they did have some reservations. Not sure on their final decision. Think there's one ribblesdale league club and one from another league. Guess palace shield / northern league....

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You could quite easily get another 15 rows in, about 3000 seats. I still think we're going down the wrong route and making things much more complicated than they already are if we are trying to factor in an increase in overall capacity. Certain areas of the ground need serious work if not a rebuild...

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You MAY be right, but there were/are at least 2 other local-ish clubs wanting in also. I'm assuming whoever joins will not join until 2021 because as I understood it, the resignation of Milnrow came right on the deadline for resignations/applications making it impossible for any potential "new recru...

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I fully understand the club's predicament. A prolonged stay in the PL simply emphasises how dated, tatty, shabby and increasingly unfit for purpose some parts of our ground are becoming, BUT committing to a big investment, say in the most obvious area I.E. the CFS would mean probably a season of dis...

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TBH, I have absolutely no problem with them hiding and pouncing to catch dog foulers as that really is disgusting imo, but in the grand scheme of things dropping a fag butt isn't the most serious problem and seems to be an easy way to target people. They should be putting the same amount of effort i...

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Suratclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:21 am
Almost seems that the VAR official is more important these days...step forward Mr Gillet

There's no "almost" about it!!

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MACCA wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:10 pm
Yay, he's a good en

* a hint of sarcasm may have been used in the above

Just a HINT???

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TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 23, 2020 8:02 pm
Fantastic stuff, would be incredible to see it repeated, or somewhere near for the next six (and the six after that if I'm being greedy).

Couldn't help but glance down the bottom. Looking grim for West Ham.

If you appear below Norwich in the form table you really are in the poo!!

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randomclaret2 wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 23, 2020 9:35 pm
Wasnnt Micky Finn about 5'8" ?

He still is!!

(See him round Burnley and Padiham quite often!)

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Just as an aside on this, I read an article several years back now which said the local economy in Swansea benefited by £20 million a year from having a PL team. That figure is probably more now, but it shows how vital our PL status is not just to the club, but the town.

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That's really interesting and although tbf it doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know and appreciate, it will give the average arm chair (foreign) fan an insight into how we do things rather differently at Burnley.

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I think since he "burst onto the scene" when he was extremely offensive and direct, he's kind of been put in a "stick or twist" situation. His natural game is going forward and taking people on, but so much of our overall game week in week out as a team is played without the ball and he has had his ...

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TBF Lennon needs to go to free up wages and space for incoming. Same with Brady with knobs on, as he really isn't up to PL standard and I'd also be letting Bardsley go and replacing him with the next Charlie Taylor. He must be out there somewhere!!

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Pope 9 (some excellent saves and only a bit slow when B'mouth scored the second disallowed goal. So no worries!) Bardsley 7 Tarks 8 Mee 8 Taylor 9 Cork 8 Westwood 8 McNeil 8 (much better second half) Hendrick 7 Vydra 8 (a live wire and definitely a different dimension for the Clarets, but -1 for fai...

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I can't decide if he's brilliant or cr*p. He SHOULD have had about 6 goals today tbf, but was he unlucky or was it poor finishing?? I genuinely don't know!!! Wood for example plays rubbish for 90 minutes, gets one chance and scores! I do like Vydra though and he kept plugging away today and got his ...

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We definitely got the right end of VAR today, but it's still crap and is spoiling the game.

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TBF he doesn't get everything right, but nobody will. He's still one of the better ones, if not the best around right now.

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I remember travelling to the Carlisle away game CT refers to above. They were having their ONE and only season in the sun and were easily relegated at the end of it. Yet they blew us away that night and it was clear then that we could keep selling really, really good players if we wanted to (actuall...

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Forecast there will probably be more showers (rather than prolonged rain) and that the wind would die away at some point probably DURING the game. I've said since I was a kid that professional players can cope with pretty much anything and put on a decent show, but a strong to gale force wind is the...

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One I'd forgotten about there! I'm pretty sure I can spot myself behind the Bee Hole End goals!

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ClaretMoffitt wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:40 am
I always find threads like this to be exclusive of our foreign born claret friends and dehumanising of other cultures.

Same! (And then I just think f**k 'em!!!)

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The road works in aid of the flood defences at Mytholmroyd have caused more havoc than any actual flood!!!

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Very amusing tbh and obviously more so because they are very true!!!

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I remember going to Hereford and being very, very easily rolled over 3-0 around 1990 ish and we suffered the same scoreline away at Orient a year or so earlier when a certain David Jones (no not THAT one, but THAT one!) made his debut. I was actually rather optimistic when I saw him in the warm up. ...

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I absolutely get where your OP is coming from. Many of us on here grew up in the 60's and 70's, 80's and 90's and some, even further back (CT ;) ), but what we are is "Burnley Fans" (for want of a better phrase), in precisely the same way there will be "fans" of every single other club in the countr...

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Probably 1 (Klinsman!)

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