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the_fat_shearer

To be fair, I thought the sprint was alright. It definitely made Friday more value for money for the spectators and Alonso doing so well has catapulted him up the order and made it more interesting and as has been mentioned, Perez so low down the order was quite a change to the norm. Not sure I agre...

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claretblue wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:37 pm
...also Jack Cork!

Too many to remember!

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I don't even know who I would vote for. Too many good names, when you see that Heaton, Tarkowski, Keane and Pope all became England internationals it's hard to choose. In terms of best signing do we factor in finance or only ability? Chris Wood has been a great signing but cost £15m whereas some of ...

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I was relatively young at the time so don't remember so well but why was Futcher released?
A goal every other game is top drawer! Was there outrage?
(What was the messageboard reaction

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Looking at the stats, his career seemed to die at that stage with his record at Crewe. Had his legs gone?

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Queue 10 years of people posting on this board linking is back to him/suggesting we might go in for him

Good luck to the lad.

Will be interesting to see what development fee we get.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:49 pm
There isn't an Essien link at all - he trained with us for a few days through a favour to a Burnley fan before he returned home. I think he'd been at Man U and he was staying at the hotel run by said Burnley fan. But there really isn't a link.

Ah. Makes sense.

Thanks

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I'm sure I've heard it before but can someone remind me of the Essien link?

Personally I think he's one of the best players in Premier League history (because football started in 1992

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Pretty much each to their own as you can see on here and what suits your wants and needs. I'm mid-30s, been driving since I was 17, owned a car from my early 20s and only had 2 cars - Mitsubishi saloon for 10 years and Skoda estate for the last 4. Both were second hand cash. Mitsubishi £6K, Skoda £4...

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OssyClaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:52 pm
Am I reading that right? Chris Long was signed by us for over £1m?!

My thoughts too!

Was it that much??

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I honestly don’t agree, Lingard and JWP don’t get into England’s starting eleven and neither are better than what’s already on the bench. They would literally be going to make up the numbers. If Maguire won’t be fit for first two games then extra CB is the right decision. I'd agree with that. We we...

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TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 07, 2021 4:19 pm
Do England take one unfit player to every tournament? Is it an unwritten rule that we have to?

Nah, we've not done that this time - both Henderson and Maguire are carrying injuries so we're at least up to 2 on this occasion

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I think that we've opened Pandora's box so I think there's no going back and while I'm not a big fan of VAR, I think that if it were implemented better then it would improve the game in general. It was never brought in to tell if someone's toenail was onside or offside but those decisions are the on...

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6.21 for Chris Wood

Would he be having to score 56 league goals to get close to 7?...

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Personally I don't mind the away goals rule. I don't find teams overly defensive at home and I think it's a better solution than a lot of games which drag out to 120 minutes and then are decided by penalties.

I do object to the away goals rule only counting after 120 minutes though

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What we're really missing from the squad is an injury prone player...

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I was on a weekend away in the Bath with 15 mates and left them there to head to Wembley.

It was weird not seeing any claret scarves out of car windows until about the last 20 minutes of my journey to Wembley.

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warksclaret wrote: ↑
Mon May 24, 2021 7:13 pm
West Ham-Coufal, Souchek, Lingard, Dawson

Along with Moyes running the ship well this is a big reason for WHU's success this year.
Shows what wise investment can do.

the_fat_shearer

Being based near London would like either Brentford or Bournemouth to come up.

The missus is big on Bournemouth seen as I convinced her to come to the last away game there with a stop a nice pub for some lunch in the New Forest and she's after a repeat!

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It took Sean Dyche a while to move him from left back ti the centre when many of us thought that mive should have come earlier. But of course Stephen Ward came and was suoerb for us at left back. A lot of players learn the trade at full-back before being brought into the centre. We did the same wit...

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I loved it at the time, as a youngster, but reflecting on it now, it just goes to show how much he'd been gotten to.

Was voted the greatest moment on Sky Sports or something like that a few year ago I think (?)

Even if he did lose it, still a great watch to this day.

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I think that Cork is a strong, strong player for us but I also massively appreciate Westwood - his delivery at set plays are crucial to our tactics, his passing forward into the channels and over the top likewise and he has an engine like no other in the team. Happy to see him on the scoresheet yest...

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Holding up the ball/winning free-kicks is the order of the day for Mr Wood.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 27, 2021 11:54 am
Cheltenham have been at Gawthorpe ahead of today's game at Morecambe. Bristol City used to train there too if they were playing in the NW during the time Cotterill was manager.

Never knew that. Good to see the club keeping good relations with previous players/managers.

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Duffer was interviewed by Henry Winter featured in the Saturday Times today.

Nice full page article and a few mentions about Burnley, Wade and Dyche in there, even mentioning they use Barnfield to train at for all their North-West games.

Worth a read if you fancy a Saturday paper.

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Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 10, 2021 3:03 pm
Paul Weller was one of the worst players I have seen grace Turf Moor.

You mustn't have seen many Burnley games then!

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Pricey, but good quality and I've had a couple for ages now. BUT if you can get black it's better than white which is constantly in the wash as soon look grubby. Black were sold out when I got mine (Because that's how things always seem to work for me!!) Maybe it's good you got white as reusable on...

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In some ways these stats just go to show how good our defence is. It's natural for us to question the strikers, and yes, we could have done much better, but it really shows what a solid unit we are overall. I think that this year our players have really had a bad time with injuries and it seems like...

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As someone pointed out on the other thread it has to be confirmed as concussion first, but then of it is, I think from the rules he's definitely out if the Fulham game, though someone else may know better

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Zlatan wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 13, 2021 4:45 pm
If it’s confirmed as concussion

True

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Put on the other thread but seen as this one is specifically on Mee, isn't it 6 days before you are allowed to train again after a concussion, so Mee out of the Fulham game?

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Concussion means 6 days before they are allowed to train again, doesn't it?

So not available for the Fulham game?

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Boring....goal of the season competition finished!

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Thomas the Tank sans engine, every day of the week! 100% agree At least with Lafferty there was decent potential there. For Thomas it must've been more a case of trying not to smile when speaking with Southampton about the "negotiations"... After 24 games with us, Thomas was averaging a red card ev...

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Considering how many games he has played, personally I question his ambition. Should have asked to move on years ago to get game time, comfortable waiting for a game rather than playing week in week out. Easy for us to say. Would I question his ambition like you? Yes. Would I blame him for signing ...

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jdrobbo wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 10, 2021 2:37 pm
Worst miss: Sterling

Best miss: Gifton’s penalty that all but ended up on the cricket square next door!

Ha!

Seems like someone has mentioned it by the time I post!

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I would have thought that someone would have mentioned Gifton's penalty by now. Some poor fella in the away end high up must've felt the force of that one!

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How many games have we started with a front two of Vydra and Barnes? Can't remember many.

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They’ve had 10 years of him though, just seemed a weird appointment. Surely he was part of the problem, if he wasn’t then what had he been doing? As I said, he'd been there for years but the key point is not as number one. Different ball game when you're number one and steering the ship compared to...

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Longsider wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 03, 2021 5:10 pm
Is this first time for Richard Nartey on the bench.?

Nartey, Nartey, very Nartey...

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Very similar to us sacking Laws when we did. He’d taken us down. Obviously not up to the job. Decision to appoint that looked weird to the outside. Kicking around the play off places. Just started to look like we were losing touch with the promotion race. Does Tindall going look so harsh in that co...

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I suppose we should have rested everyone at Anfield as they hadn't lost there for almost 4 years and we'd have no chance of getting something from there so save everyone for Villa at home? I understand your point of view but every point is vital in this league and we could still easily rest players ...

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I hope they sign Brady on. Yes, he's had injury problems but I think he's been performing at a very good level this season and had a good run. You might argue that you want to replace him with better but we've seen in the last year or so that replacing players out of contract even with the same stan...

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Yes, I would definitely count it as televised. I watched the MK Dons game on my TV. I had the FA Player app on my phone and had it casting to my TV through Chromecast. Yes, it's a different bit of technology and not everyone might have the ability to do that but by the same measure, I don't have a S...

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Don't sell the ground.

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I got the Tenda Nova MW3 (4 units) for £80 about a year ago. Totally improved my wi-fi in areas of the house. I was on a very slow internet connection at the time (only about 6Mbps download). That speed was still working for my streaming needs but Chromecast in the kitchen was awful. Mesh Wi-Fi comp...

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HIS BROTHER No need to shout... I posted originally because I misread a message from the club which I thought said he himself had tested positive. I had seen the stuff about his brother but the club posted something on social one minute before my post here. I quickly realised that I had misread the...

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Edited. Post - CORRECTION:

Misread the club message, it says Bardsley's isolating following a postive test, doesn't say it's him

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Going back to the original post with a misunderstanding/incorrect word... I was driving my missus and the parents-in-law around Central London 2 or 3 years ago (it was a Saturday, not too bad traffic...) and we drove past MI5 at which point mother-in-law said, "oh, there's where James Bond works... ...

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So are the clubs getting any extra money from Sky/BT or is this just Sky/BT making a bomb?

Burnley get X amount for TV money and people currently pay X amount for their TV subscription to watch the Burnley games on TV so these are extra shown on PPV. Surely the club should get a payment for those?

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He seems to have been around for ages, 30 isnt a bad age for how we defend, and the fee is reasonable. Think he is a perfect 3rd choice CB defender for us, can cover RB in emergencies too with Lowton not yet fit. Hopefully there's lefs in this, he makes us instantly better defensively than any CB p...

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