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I live two minutes from a beautiful Mediterranean beach here on the Costa del Sol and I am not looking forward to all the bloody tourists from Madrid, UK, Germany, Scandinavia etc coming down here taking up all the parking spots, clogging up the beaches and restaurants etc. :lol: …says the expat li...

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Tall Paul wrote: ↑
Mon May 30, 2022 8:58 am
Don't you think he'd taste a bit bland?

He probably tastes like chicken.

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To be fair I'd rather eat Michael Owen than corned beef.

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I'd prefer our squad to be based on football ability rather than "diversity ratios" thanks. What would we need to fulfil some ideal diversity target exactly? At least 2 oriental, a couple from India (one Hindu / 1 muslim), a Pacific Islander, 1 Arab, 1 AmerIndian and an Eskimo + 1 transgender, 3/4 ...

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claret2018 wrote: ↑
Sun May 29, 2022 8:08 pm
£4.50 expensive?? Have you been to a pub recently?

I had the pleasure of paying almost £8 for a pint in clitheroe last weekend.

I thought the same. I'd consider anything under £6 cheap in Leeds.

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Top Claret wrote: ↑
Sun May 29, 2022 6:34 pm
Forest will be back in the championship this time next year along with Bournemouth.

That’s what people say about every team promotes from the Championship. You don’t know who they will sign so can’t claim that with any certainty. Can’t imagine many people thought that Brentford would finish 13th.

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BurnleyFC wrote: ↑
Sun May 29, 2022 6:26 pm
Dyche to Forest at Christmas or before.

Absolutely nailed on.

Can’t see Forest sacking Cooper less than halfway into a Premier League season.

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Loads of England fans boo national anthems too. Seems an odd reason to want them to lose.

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Fantastic for us in the Championship and really made us exciting to watch. Quite a bit out of his depth in the Premier League unfortunately, and we sold him at just the right time.

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I appreciate that it's just my opinion that Collins looks to be a better prospect than Keane. I don't think anyone will offer to buy him for 25m right now but I'd argue that given the length of his contract and age people would probably know we would want more so that may be why. Be very interestin...

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I was just trying to find out if you don't think many players are worth high fees, or just our players? Whether or not a player plays for us doesn't affect my judgement on their value. Pope's our best player, but even his value is diminished by virtue of him being a goalkeeper. I doubt anyone else ...

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I can't believe I've just read someone say we might have stayed up with Dyches tactics in the last game when Jackson had to jump through hoops to get us to the last day fighting because Sean couldn't get us to that position. Think I need to take a break from here!! Maybe re-read what I wrote, and i...

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Thu May 26, 2022 2:48 pm
why is it unrealistic ? As an example and with zero thought time Jed Wallace on a free would be better than JBG

Would Jed Wallace be better than McNeil and Cornet, if they were to leave for example? I'm not saying that we can't improve on any of our players.

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Collins is younger and already looks a much better player than Michael Keane who we got 25 million for over 5 years ago. Why is he worth less? What would you value him at? I wouldn't say he looks a much better player than Michael Keane, but each to their own. As a direct comparison with Keane, Kean...

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I'm rather hopeful that wont be the case tbh. I don't think it will be hard to improve anything other than our back 5. All depends who gets the managers job though of course. Tarks and probably Pope are going to be our biggest miss obviously Be as hopeful as you like, but it's unrealistic to expect...

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Not necessarily you I'm pursuing Riley as to be fair you have offered up some debate, not that I agree with it all mind :D The tactics thing is something we won't ever agree on. I've watched games this season where changes have been required, think Westwood, cork. I would use the word "stale" tacti...

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Penwortham_Claret wrote: ↑
Thu May 26, 2022 2:34 pm
We would set up in the exact same at ever game regardless of the opposition.

I don't have a clue how anyone can have watched us over the past 10 years and reached that conclusion.

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When was the last time you saw a player move for 30m and you thought, yeah he's worth it? I think Dennis at Watford was bought for 3m and likely to be sold for 30m. He only scored around the 10 mark I think. I'm not sure where we're really going with this. Of course there will be examples of player...

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Conroy92 wrote: ↑
Thu May 26, 2022 2:18 pm
you stated a player in 9 months is unlikely to have doubled/trebled in value. I give you Nathan Collins who is certainly worth double than we paid!!

I doubt very much that we'll be offered £25m for Nathan Collins this summer.

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Thanks for your support Conroy. Rest assured it was not meant to be Dyche bashing but in reading it back, and reading some comments, I can see why it was perceived as that. I was trying to emphasise how the role of the modern coach had changed and how excited I was that that could be coming to our ...

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I don't think Warks is being too unfair with this assessment, I think it sums the last 18months up pretty well. As usual you have the resident posters (quite a lot that were telling fans to suck it up under Dyche as it was as good as we were hoping for) trying to beat him with a stick for it, witho...

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I totally get what you are saying and I think we hit a ceiling. The problem is when I watch a match, I want to be entertained. For me and I'm sure many others that was no longer the case. It's a fine balance but we became far to reliant on the tried and tested and it became about staying in the lea...

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It might have been the best Burnley side in terms of quality of players, but the football they played in the last couple of years has been pretty awful. Dyche did a great job, we all know that, but at the end of the day, the football on the field was in the most parts boring and a huge turn off for...

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There is not a manager out there that ticks every boss for Burnley, particularly now we have been relegated and the appeal of the PL diminished. From being sick as all clarets for Sunday and most of Monday, this news now excites me and made me positive again. In my eyes what did we need from a new ...

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9 months ago he had never played in the premier league and was being used as a wing back. I'd argue he's now proven he's an attacking player who has adapted well and got a good return in his first season, he still looks a little raw at times and I think there will be more to come. I think had we st...

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Who’s Kompany?

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Cruciate injury is a long layoff, 6-9 months. He won't be fit until November-February, split the difference and say transfer window. Then there's fully match fit to consider which generally adds another month to get first team ready. Then match sharpness. Barely play may have overstated it but I th...

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He will barely play this season, and will likely not be match sharp til the following so while two years makes sense from that perspective it's a gamble that he'll still be up to it and I would hope comes with a significant wage cut. Said weeks ago of the three OOC forwards he would be my renewal p...

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I think he's proven he can cut it in the PL, can score, create, run at defenders etc. He's got CL experience, is only 25 and has 4yrs on his contract. If we'd stayed up we would've been under no obligation to take the relegation release clause amount. I know it's fashionable to down talk our player...

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GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑
Wed May 25, 2022 1:02 pm
4yrs left on his contract, all of his previous European experience, coupled with his age and PL experience, plus no visa issues.
Easily get £30 million.

You think his value has more than doubled in 9 months?

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Taylor seemed to be carrying a knock going as far back as the Watford game when he was moving like a carthorse. He’s usually one of our most athletic players. I wouldn’t be surprised is he was carrying an injury in the run in.

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AwayClaret wrote: ↑
Wed May 25, 2022 10:11 am
If it is Kompany then can't see him coming unless he's been promised decent players funds. According to the "experts" on here we don't have a pot to **** in

You don’t have to be an expert to know we don’t have a pot to **** in. That’s not to say we won’t borrow a pot.

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He’s nowhere near top four quality, but then again £17.5m is nothing for some clubs.

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elwaclaret wrote: ↑
Tue May 24, 2022 8:58 pm
Could be I thought Ben W still posted occasionally but of course could be dual account from different IP’s. Seems a similar relationship for sure.

I haven’t seen Ben Wickes post since, well, probably since we signed Phil Jones.

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Isn’t blakesboots the artist formerly known as Ben Wickes?

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If iFollow are stopping 3pm streams, I presume this means that there won't be anything available to view on IPTV?

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Steddyman wrote: ↑
Tue May 24, 2022 1:07 pm
This article says that Burnley will find out today if Kompany still wants the job. Also says he will be given a budge of 130 million euros!

https://www.voetbalnieuws.be/news/66161 ... eytransfer

130 million euros

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On the timekeeping thing, a Leeds supporting mate of mine reckons that they delayed the second half kick off of the Leeds game so that our respective games would restart at the same time. But then there was a further delay in restarting the Leeds game so they actually ended up a couple of minutes be...

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I've been thinking whether McNeil could play in the number 10 role, or even on the right of a front three. Both sound good in principle but the more I think about it the more I'm not sure. McNeil likes to pick up the ball extremely deep, it's one of the reasons that he fails to affect games regularl...

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You missed a bit out. MSD do make money from interest......as long as we can afford to pay that interest. And there are question marks against that which is presumably one of the reasons why they've called forward the debt repayment. The Athletic is saying required to pay a “significant proportion”...

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I think it’s pretty likely that Brentford would have got a result if they weren’t down to 9 men for a significant period of the game.

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Not that I agree with the line up per se, but I don’t think the idea to go out to draw the first half and assess what was going on at Brentford was a bad idea. Obviously Collins’ ridiculously stupid hand ball totally scuppered that plan - and despite changing to a more offensive lineup at the break ...

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Raconteur wrote: ↑
Mon May 23, 2022 6:31 pm
Isn't he supposed to be at a emergency meeting with the premier league today. So maybe he is a tad busy today.

What? Too busy to tell some blokes on a football forum that everything’s going to be fine?

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..accepted but we have been without a full time manager since Good Friday.The great majority of clubs in a similar situation will always comment about who is acting manager, and provide a time frame for the new one I think there were a few very good reasons that we didn’t make an announcement about...

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50/1. If you trust your local radio then lump on.

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Jesus Christ, we’ve been relegated for less than 24 hours. Get a grip people.

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It sounds to me like he thinks it’s a time to reflect over the summer and see what the future brings.

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expoultryboy wrote: ↑
Mon May 23, 2022 2:57 pm
Hoping for a Sheffield win , as i enjoy going to the city ground .

Absolutely no chance Sheffield will win.

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I haven't seen a great deal, but the bits I have the standard has looked pretty poor. Huddersfield supporting mates of mine think they're nowhere near good enough to go up, yet they've cruised to the play-off final. Fulham and Bournemouth have been promoted at an absolute canter, Fulham were useless...

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What makes people think we would be able to take Huddersfield's players or manager?

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