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Ross Wallace for Eddie Howe?

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McGreal for Cotterill? Fox for Laws?

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Potentially but there have been at least two occasions when announcements of new signings this summer have come a couple of days after the player has actually signed. Scott Twine was the first, announced on a Sunday but the interview he did referred to the previous Thursday as yesterday. It was the...

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mybloodisclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:26 am
Could do with Sarr and Denis going seconds before the window slams shut.

I'd rather they went before a week on Friday

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Dean Bowditch? Remember him scoring against Watford, can't recall if it was his debut. Think it was his only goal for us

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Friday 5th August. Birmingham 1-1 Huddersfield Saturday 6th August Norwich 2-0 Wigan Bristol City 2-1 Sunderland Burnley 2-0 Luton Barnes 11 Preston 2-2 Hull QPR 1-3 Middlesbrough Reading 0-2 Cardiff Sheffield United 1-1 Millwall NAP Stoke 1-0 Blackpool Swansea 2-2 Blackburn Sunday 7th August Covent...

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Hopefully a new striker. Failing that, Jay Rod with 10-12
2-1 win at home, 1-1 at Ewood
Twine
Yes

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To answer the thread question - not in the slightest. A few weeks ago I might have said something different but the closer we've got to the start of the season, the less confident I've become. Was always going to be a summer of change, but I think it's been way too much of a turnover. Fully expected...

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———————————Muric ————Harwood-Bellis—Egan-Riley Roberts——Cullen———-Cork———Taylor ——————-Brownhill—Bastien —————-Rodriguez———-Twine BPF, McNally, Thomas, Vitinho, Maatsen, Lowton, Tucker, Barnes, Richardson Shameful bench unfortunately - back down to the absolute barrel scraping of last season but wi...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 28, 2022 11:08 am
My first thought, but we'll see.

Saw Lowton mentioned with WBA the other day. You'd think one of him or Roberts would go

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They never came out and said he wasn’t for sale and the player was clearly gagging for the pay rise or he’d have signed a new deal at Coventry. The statements in their local media said something like “The deal is dead for now”. He’s the player Kompany wants in that position, I can absolutely see us...

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Let’s assume he has gone, along with Cornet, for an estimated £40m combined (top side and no doubt in instalments). Who are we buying to replace them? We need four players in the attacking areas in for that by my book. I think it’s highly likely Callum O’Hare and Manuel Benson are going to be two o...

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I can't imagine Everton are going to spend more than 15m on McNeil, which IMO would be terrible business considering the likes of Lewis-Potter have been sold for 20m+ I like Dwight and would much prefer him to stay. But wasn't it zero goals and one assist last season (and plenty of below par perfor...

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Huddersfield 1-1 Burnley Brownhill 18
Blackpool 2-2 Reading
Cardiff 1-2 Norwich NAP
Rotherham 0-2 Swansea
Blackburn 2-1 QPR
Luton 1-0 Birmingham
Hull 1-2 Bristol City
Wigan 2-3 Preston
Millwall 0-0 Stoke
Middlesbrough 1-1 West Brom
Sunderland 2-1 Coventry
Watford 0-2 Sheffield United

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I tend to judge the size of a club by when they last won a major trophy and so by that logic you've got to accept that Coventry are a bigger club than us and that Burnley are a little tinpot. Nothing to be embarrassed or upset about but just the truth of the matter. Would you consider Wigan a bigge...

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I'd say for any of these young players we are signing - don't get too attached to them. I'd say virtually all of them will have release clauses in their contracts which end up being considerably lower than we think it should be. It's the ALK model isn't it? Sign for cheap(ish) and aim for a smallish...

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1. West Brom
2. Sheffield United
3. Watford

Top scorer - Viktor Gyokeres

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Cap wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:04 pm
Chelsea interested in Cornet https://talksport.com/football/1140782/ ... tielemans/

That reads very much to me as an agent trying to ramp up a little interest in a client who he expected to be far more in demand than he is proving to be

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As usual, the answer is somewhere in the middle.

World beater? Of course not. Capable of doing a decent job for us next season, particular with us now in the Championship? I'm pretty confident that's a yes

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Killed us on two fronts that injury to Ben Mee. I think we'd have stayed up with him in the team, and it also brought Collins more to the attention of teams - think we could have kept him otherwise

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claretcarrot93 wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:17 am
Pope
Trippier Tarks Mee Taylor
Cornet Barton Defour McNeil
Wood Ings

Easy

I'd certainly have Ward over Taylor. And wouldn't have Barton - don't think he played 20 PL games for us in any case. Not sure about the wingers either

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Think this will be a landslide for Pope - Heaton was brilliant for us though. Best two goalkeepers I've seen play for us

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Count me in!

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Rileybobs wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 18, 2022 6:40 pm
That’s not accurate. When he left we were 16th in the league, above Leeds and 5 points above the drop zone. Our points per game reduced very slightly after Wood left.

The last league game he played was at Leeds. We were two points away from safety after that game

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Was a big fan of Chris Wood, he did very well for us.

Let's not change history though, he was a massive part of the reason we went down

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There’s various differing reports about who’s staying and going so I thought I would put it all one thread: The squad going into the season. Goalkeepers: pope (looking likely to go), Hennessey, BPF Right back: Lowton, Roberts Left Back: Taylor, Dodgeson Cb: Collins, Long, Thomas Cm: Brownhill, Helm...

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PremierLeagueClass wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 03, 2022 4:10 pm
Highlights what a poor season Westwood had.

Was awful. Dyche keeping him in the team was a huge error

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BOYSIE31 wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:22 am
Can't be true Tony told us he had signed

He didn't though did he. He said it had been agreed, but that's a big difference from it being signed

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Cork not had his option for another year taken up either according to the Athletic

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groove wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 01, 2022 8:30 pm
Does the winner of this qualify for the world Cup? Or is there another round?

Winners play Wales in Cardiff. Winners of that qualify

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Taylor has had some shockers in the last few weeks. Didn't have the best of seasons, far from on his own there though. I think he'd be very good in the Championship though and agree with the suggestion above that Roberts Collins Mee Taylor would have the look of a very good back four for that level.

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It's worth noting we generally show up when it matters on the crunch final day clashes. Won the title at Maine Road 1960. Got the point needed at PNE in 1973 to clinch the 2nd Division title. Beat Orient in 1987 when the stakes were far higher than Sunday. Beat Plymouth in a relegation decider in 1...

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I get the impression he wants to move for his career rather than money though I think that's spot on. I don't think it's anything to do with money really. He's 29, it's his last big contract/move, I think he genuinely wants to move to further his career, which we certainly can't blame him for. I wi...

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Not quite as over the top as Lampard & Derby three years ago. You’d have thought they’d won the Champions League that night. Then they lost the final. I think a big part of that was because it was against Leeds and there was a lot of bad blood between the teams after the spygate incident earlier in...

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Wed May 11, 2022 9:50 pm
Not mathematically.

Of course it would be a massive help.

If we drew at Spurs and lost the other two and Leeds drew with Brighton and lost to Brentford, would it still not mathematically matter?

Every point is crucial

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Next England Test coach. Interesting appointment

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What is Pep meant to do about Grealish not scoring at least one of his two clear chances to win the tie? Or the 8 clear chances they missed in the first leg? Or Laporte completely sleeping from 89 minutes in this match. Easy to point the finger at Pep but he’s delivered a masterclass in both legs. ...

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Another CL nightmare for Pep? Since leaving Barca, his record over the last 10 years (considering he's managed Bayern and City in that time) has been awful

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I think 39 points might be the number needed. I'm struggling to see both Everton and Leeds getting to 40.

Next Saturday is crucial - think if we win against Villa we'll have a very good chance

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25,000 first class runs for Alastair Cook - some career he's had

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Papabendi wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:33 pm
Lowton is slowly turning in to a world beater

Don't think anyone thinks that.

I definitely think Roberts has been disappointing though

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I've missed the last two at Brighton & Palace so was really looking forward to this one. I'm not one to question Dyche but I'm surprised Cork hasn't got back in, We're also missing Ben Mee, our most important player, and Erik Pieters. But we should not have lost that game. Pieters has been a big mi...

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Another good day out spoiled by a very bad result. I’m finding it hard to keep going with my support for Dyche with his team choices and tactics. Cork should have played, Jay should have started, McNeil needs dropping. Cork not starting is baffling. Dyche has got that badly wrong, Westwood has been...

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There was another thread for the player ratings for the Chelsea game. That had the usual number of posts.

Just checked - the thread is at the top of page 2

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Take the City game out, I think we have a chance of a point or 3 in every other game.

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 05, 2022 5:23 pm
so what do you put that down to?

Good question

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To be fair when he burst onto the scene at 19 years old, scoring and assisting plus was in the 21s side, it looked like he had a big future. The player of back then scores or assists in the first half today. Biggest disappointment I have with McNeil is that he's no better player now at 22 than he w...

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Pieters out for a few weeks according to Dyche

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 05, 2022 4:36 pm
and Lowton

100% this.

Just don't see it with Roberts. Been very underwhelmed by him. I expected him to be a lot better going forward, and I think he looks pretty suspect defensively.

Maybe he can improve, but I'd certainly be bringing Lowton back in

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dsr wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:04 pm
I think the last one we missed was Matty Taylor against Leicester in the year we went down and they stayed up - with that miss playing a large part in both.

Andre Gray certainly missed one at Reading the season after, not sure if there's been one since

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