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martin_p

Well that’s my exercise sorted for the day!

martin_p

Why are we so keen to sell our best players? What’s wrong with having the strongest squad possible? The squads we’ve has in previous Premier League seasons have usually had a very obvious strongest 11-15 players with the others being ones where you’d worry if they were in the team. It’d be great to ...

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I’m paying as much attention to this result as a did the Genk one. A good training exercise (although it’s always nice to win).

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Firthy wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 25, 2023 5:41 pm
Not necesarily, even Nixon has said negotiations are ongoing with Tella so things are happening, just not fast enough for some.

Yes, but it’s not this is it.

GetIntoEm wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 25, 2023 12:05 pm
Tella inbound. Medical before the end of the week

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 25, 2023 3:02 pm
No closer to agreeing a fee with Chelsea for Maatsen according to Nixon.

That implies we’re still actively pursuing a deal?

martin_p

Hang on, you said amber… which is yup, slap bang between yellow and orange! Some pictures it looks more yellowish so yeah, you are being pedantic It was based on the amber and black kit of the late 19th century, although I think I’m remembering rightly that the club initially marketed it as our ‘or...

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Think it was 2000/01. We had a yellow third kit released in March 2001 which was gone by the end of the season.

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Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 25, 2023 2:46 pm
This one

Don’t think that was ever worn was it?

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 25, 2023 2:47 pm
Does the p in your username stand for pedantic? Christ

If you think not calling orange yellow is pedantic then you need to look up the definition of the word!

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 25, 2023 2:38 pm
I don’t know for sure but I’m guessing this?

Third kit 2002-03

That was famously amber and black, not yellow.

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 25, 2023 2:18 pm
Have to say though, I love that design. Arsenal kits consistently the best, I think.

We need to hire their designers, if not price setters!

Not a fan, looks like a jaundiced zebra!

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Arsenal away. Yours for only £110. https://arsenaldirect.arsenal.com/Mens/Kit/Arsenal-23-24-Authentic-Away-Shirt/p/MHR69268010-S?glCountry=GB&glCurrency=GBP&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI94PH0vKpgAMVrpaDBx1WXQ6CEAQYASABEgKqF_D_BwE Have a read of the marketing bullshyte after the price. You can get it for £80 (...

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Firthy wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 25, 2023 11:18 am
The same Jonny Evans that's just signed a short term deal with Man U??

I think that was literally a two week deal so he could play in some friendlies.

martin_p

Must’ve been postponed as according to the records the game wasn’t played until 21st Feb. 1-1 draw but we won the replay 3-0 5 days later at Roker Park.

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AmbleClaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:48 am
Apparently it was Watfords new home shirt,badges got mixed up in the factory.

I don’t remember Watford ever having claret on their home kit.

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Personally I think it looks more Burnley than either of last season’s efforts (although I did like the black one). At least it’s actually a colour we first wore as an away shirt nearly 50 years ago now. But away kits are now becoming the avenue for clubs to look at non traditional colours as a lot o...

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This will probably end up being known colloquially as the '5hit stain shirt', a bit like the old 'bird 5hit shirt'. Each to their own - I loved all three of last years and to some on here they were awful. End of the day, it's just a shirt! I hope the third kit is more appealing to my own tastes or ...

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It’s ok. A long way from being our worst ever away shirt like some are saying, IMO.

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https://twitter.com/burnleyofficial/st ... E57lKLwfdQ

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Be interesting to see what colour they do the massive dude-whatever logo on the kids shirts. Clearly the yellow of the home shirt isn’t going to work.

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If you think ours is a bit naff this morning the BBC has done a little survey of other clubs second and third strips. Have a butchers at Arsenal's. https://twitter.com/bbcbreakfast/status/1683717172613337088?s=46&t=kK7u9-AzjuhaTt4NuYDJWw I think the biggest take away for me from that piece is the i...

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BacupClaret wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 24, 2023 2:53 pm
Tony, he played on the Turf in Alan Stevensons testimonial

Remember him being the big draw for that match. I was certainly incredibly excited that a million pound player was playing at the Turf.

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He probably won’t but he came onto the Uptheclarets message board to discuss it with other fans. I know the idea of discussing something must be foreign to you, Socrates. To quote your namesake, ‘The highest form of human excellence is to question oneself and others’. At the time, he did stress tha...

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pushpinpussy wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 20, 2023 1:58 pm
Dack is on trial at Preston. would be a decent signing for them

Impersonating a footballer.

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wilks_bfc wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 18, 2023 7:56 pm
Why would you need to sign a deal to play in pre season games?

Isn’t it like an unnamed trailist playing?

Presumably so they can pay him, although that also seems odd.

martin_p

Going to look like a different United from a distance.

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 19, 2023 8:28 pm
In Tesla’s position.

He was electric!

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beddie wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 19, 2023 12:30 pm
Putting aside his personal issues I think he’d have been an excellent signing for us, assuming he’s still fit.

I suspect staying in this country was the last thing he wanted to do.

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Bairstow looking dodgy again.

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Apparently all the best supporters in French football, whatever the club, were at the Lorient game.

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I wasn't expecting a signing announcement so early in the day - don't know much about him to be honest but it looks a potentially exciting signing It’s very unusual isn’t it. Leads me to believe they’re making time for more announcements and want them spread out over the day. One at midday and one ...

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jrgbfc wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 18, 2023 5:17 pm
I'm going tomorrow as well. Weather looks decent fortunately. Went to Hoylake in 2006 when Tiger won and the course was all going brown, no danger of that this year!

I’m just picking up my son from Hoylake, it’s freezing!

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Same outcome. In practical terms yes, but it does mean it’ll cast a shadow over his future. The first trial didn’t cast him in a great light. If I believed I wasn’t guilty (as he does) then I’d have preferred a jury to reach that verdict rather than got off because the alleged victim can’t go throu...

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The charges were withdrawn rather than him being cleared, there is a difference.

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Let’s hope for a flurry of announcements before the end of the week then! Trafford, Redmond and Amdouni?

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Flicking through Twitter thought this was a new signing at first!!

https://twitter.com/burnleyofficial/st ... E57lKLwfdQ

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It’s incredible how many people were lauding our ‘new approach to transfers’ and how much better it was than under the old regime. They didn’t want to listen to those who pointed out how much easier it was shopping in the Championship with parachute money. But guess what, now we’re back in the Premi...

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Personally I’m glad we’re not Luton’s first home game in the Premier League!

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I know what you mean but there is no evidence to show it’s not. Even when an offer is accepted and medicals are about to or have taken place we have have pulled out on several occasions in the hope that some other player we prefer more might yet become available. I get the impression we mess around...

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wrj20 wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 13, 2023 2:21 pm
Gordon Cowans won the European Cup with Villa too.

Peter Crouch played in the Champions League final, and scored twice as many England goals as Wright and Cole combined

Yes, but Wright and Cole won League Championships and various cup competitions.

martin_p

If you’re looking for a winger I’m sure Tony Morley will trump Aaron Lennon. A league championship and European Cup winner.

martin_p

This is an interesting point. He is a contracted Burnley players so how come he’s only rocked up at training now? Does suggest the reunion is something of a last resort… Because he played in the Premier League last season so his season finished a lot later than ours. A few Premier League teams have...

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Yes Tella has been exceptional inchampionship. But. Is he good enough for the premier league. When Southampton were in premier league they deemed not. And shipped him on loan to us. What has changed since? A full season playing competitive football at a decent level. You could see him develop over ...

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bobinho wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 13, 2023 12:11 pm
VK says he’s the man, then he’s the man.

Has he said that?

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I think that's a strange view imo. I'd argue that the majority of our fan base would be creaming themselves if we were linked with a striker that had just played half a season for United and was a Dutch international who had scored a couple at the World Cup. I appreciate you said you are taking the...

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He played a lot more times for United than someone who was underwhelming would have done (I'm not saying he was great btw, because he wasn't, but he played a role) and he was signed because of what he'd previously and the United management team recognised that He might well be only here because he ...

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Doesn’t look any more pleased to back than we are to see him, but presumably if the club is releasing a video we’re intending to keep him so let’s hope he discovers some form. I wouldn’t read anything into that video. He looks as pleased as anyone would to have a camera and mic shoved in your face ...

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Its not a fair comparison though Its not a new signing, its a player returning from a year on loan in which he played half a season for a team that finished third in the premier league I’m trying to take the emotion and history out of it. He had a great 30 minutes at the World Cup then a decidedly ...

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I just wonder how excited I’d be to see him rock up if he’d never played for Burnley before and all I knew about him was his World Cup cameo and his half season at United. I’m not sure I’d see it as a great signing.

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Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 13, 2023 11:07 am
https://twitter.com/BurnleyOfficial/sta ... 3115153418

Wout back and looking forward to it

Wish the camera had stayed long enough to see his reunion with Roberts

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