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Cost of ticket = £nil (paid for by share sale, club credit, but last year of that - though as we're in the corporate section, next year will be an interesting decision. If we fluke our way to stay in the PL, it will be nil again next year!) Pint of lemon and lime = £2.55 or £2.80 depending who is wo...

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I've just been trawling through to see what the lowest number of points has been from the bottom two in the Premier League in a season and found these two. 2004/05 - 45 points - West Brom (30) and Sunderland (15) 2021/22 - 45 points - Watford (23) and Norwich (22) I was wondering whether that might...

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JR1882 wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:47 pm
Can’t imagine GK training is much fun for the 3 of them when the elephant in the room knows he isn’t going to play.

Is the elephant better at kicking than the other three goalkeepers? I can see that he might fill the goal well.

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Agree with most of this. I think there is a subconscious bias that means referees shy away from making certain calls - big club equates to hassle, Luton/Brighton/Bournemouth have favourable media narratives. In the EPL, it really is quite pronounced against us. My gut feeling is that the Kompany fa...

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If I said Sheff Utd or Luton need a keeper that saves the first shot on target to keep them in games. Would you understand the point better, Without needing to defend the keeper? I understand why we need a goalkeeper who saves every shot, not just the first. But just as importantly, we need a man w...

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I think most Premier league keepers save that shot yesterday. Anything within reach from a standing position should be saved. Trafford gambled left, instead of watching and relying on reflex. It's not a major error but don't make out no other keeper saves it. Give over. Rely on reflexes? If keepers...

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I'm trying not to personalise it with him and just state what we need from a GK. The game is over for us in the prem if we concede first. If their first shot is a full blooded volley from the edge of the goal area, then it's irrelevant who the goalkeeper is. Look at the defenders who let him get th...

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I agree Boss, but the added time wouldn’t have been for those instances A team could kick off and playing back to the keeper who could stand there for 45 mins and there would be no added time Granted it wouldn’t be very interesting to watch, but probably more enjoyable than what we have seen this s...

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The bottom line is, we can't afford a GK who regularly lets his first shot on target in. Yesterday, Arsenal, Liverpool, Everton, City to name a few. We need far better. If you're criticising Trafford because he let in a goal volleyed from the edge of the six yard box, then you've left reasonable cr...

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Ric_C wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:47 am
Look at Onana yesterday, not the best GK but he pinged the ball the length of the pitch to setup Rashford's goal. Muric has that in his armoury, Trafford doesn't

Trafford played at least 3 long, accurate balls to the right wing yesterday.

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17 3 15 17 I didn't think he was anywhere near as bad as other people do. Semenyo's foul for the non-booking wasn't much. He and Taylor were running shoulder to shoulder and Taylor had little or no interest in staying on his feet. Where he scored quite well was that he didn't give so many trivial no...

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Check the Total and Percent columns, not long balls. Verbruggen is deployed way less but his accuracy is way, way above Trafford's. His worst is better than all but 3 of Trafford's, his 2nd worst is better than all of Trafford's. He's a more accurate passer. Which is what makes the reliance on Traf...

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Firthy wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:08 pm
I seriously wonder if there's something in Traffords contract that he has to start every Premier game if fit. I can't think of any other reason why Muric isn't getting a chance after the mistakes Trafford has made.

You can stop wondering. There isn't.

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I’m not a regular contributor on UTC but I always really enjoy reading comments and seeing what other fans are thinking on the current status of the team. Since day dot I’ve been perplexed by the Trafford situation and felt the casting aside of Muric was rank man management. For my money, it should...

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GK: Trafford and Muric STAY - Peacock-Farrell GO, Vigeroux - I know nothing about him except that he's a goalkeeper. Full back: Vitinho, Taylor STAY - Roberts, Assignon GO Central defenders: Beyer, Ekdal, Al Dakhil, O'Shea STAY - Delcroix, Egan Riley GO (isn't he a full back?) - esteve, McNally DON'...

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Foster has been a huge, huge miss. Fofana gash today and if he carries on like that there’ll be a good case for bringing Amdouni in to replace him because he’s not done any worse than that. I thought Amdouni showed a bit more effort in his sub appearance than we have been used to, which is a good t...

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The difference today was absolutely the GK. 3 shots on target and 2 went in...... We were the better team today. To lose 2 nil is gutting. To be fair, he would probably have saved the second shot on target if it hadn't been deflected. But you have a point about the volley blasted past him from 6 ya...

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Jamesy wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:09 pm
Good point. It would be a nice gesture to freeze season ticket prices for anyone who had held one continuously for a period of ten years or more.

Perhaps with an exemption for the first post-covid season?

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I'm implying that they can't be as regular as some are making out - especially for a team that played so expansively! And by the same definition, Trafford's mistakes can't be as regular as some are making out. He also let in less than a goal a game. Or is it suggested that playing in the PL is diff...

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:58 pm
Must have been an strange coincidence then to concede less than a goal a game for all of last season with such a mistake prone keeper.

Are you implying that a goalkeeper who concedes less than a goal a game in a lower league, can't be a mistake-prone keeper?

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Judging from the vocabulary of the article, I would presume that the "middling sort" is used because the author thinks too many plebs would understand what he meant by "middle class".

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This is really two different types of scenario. One, someone in the last few days of life and suffering badly; two, someone who may have a year, two years, ten years, even fifty years to live. The first scenario shouldn't be used to justify the second.

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Vim Fuego wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:04 pm
He is an absolute genius with how he can spray a pass quickly

With Brownhill being suspended, surely the ideal time to play Muric.

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I personally don’t like situations where governments who I have no faith in at all are making decisions based on factors about my family and in a way micro managing everything … I’m fairly sure the likes of Boris Johnson when he was in power with his rules for the masses and rules for himself and h...

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DAFTER! It was reductio ad absurdum. It's supposed to be daft, because all this nostalgia and romance about the jolly pitmen and their desire to stop people working is ridiculous - not least because there is no way that the pits would be open now even if John Major (not Margaret Thatcher) hadn't cl...

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Seriously considering not renewing The excellent work VK did the season before has been eradicated by some unknown belief that he could move to another higher level by buying inexperienced young guys who knew nothing about the Premier League And even when it was clear this plan was not working he f...

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Why are there no campaigns to reopen the pits? There must be plenty of people still around who worked in the pits as young men and would be only too anxious to send their grandchildren down there. Can't something be done? We could do with more fuel self-sufficiency and there is loads of coal still d...

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We are half way there with the 'Do not resuscitate' scheme. My own opinion is, there is too much money in medicine sales keeping older people alive when they have no quality of life. So they will be kept alive. If money is the concern, there is far more money involved in seeing your loved ones payi...

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Because what is the alternative? There has been £80 million of external investment into a business like Burnley with no equity, publicity or anything? There are mystery individuals who lend tens of millions to pay off loans when required? ALK couldn't find enough money to pay the former owners up f...

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Hi dsr, yes, the club's owners/shareholders owed the club (July 2022 accounts) £115 million. ALK borrowed £65 million from MSD immediately before they bought the previous directors' shares in Dec 2020 and a couple of days later transferred this loan to the club. We also know that repayments were ma...

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I'd have Boyd ahead of Blake in my team. Apart from the goal v Man United, Blake didn't really do much in the PL for Burnley.

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A good meal in the Longside Lounge. I'm almost tempted to go home after that! (The way Bournemouth played against Man C, I have no expectations of getting a result.)

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I think we once played an all-English XI under Dyche. Possibly not the starting XI, but the XI on the pitch after some subs came on.

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Strong parallels between Louis and VK Loved at first but made bad decisions and ultimately was disposed in Jan 1793. Louis XVII died aged 10 in 1795 and made very few decisions because he was a prisoner of the republic, kept in solitary confinement in a barred room (with no toilet) which became exc...

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Equally, missing saying that most of that money was already committed to pay wages doesn't "fabricate" a strong argument that it was all borrowed by new owners to but the club. UTC We know that ALK have taken £115m in money out of the club. We know that £65m of this was borrowed by the club at high...

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Whatever the reasons and sources of the cash, we do know that up to July 2022 the owners had taken £115m out of the club by way of interest-free loan and that the club had had to pay many millions in interest to service it. The loan and the interest paid could have been used for other purposes, eg. ...

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I don't think that's really a scenario. It's not as easy as many think to asset strip a business, particularly a football club, so what would be in it for ALK? They'd just be making their shares worthless. At present, it is to ALK's advantage to keep BFC running because the assets are greater than ...

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I was told months ago that VK had money tied up in the Trafford deal … City have a buy back clause of triple what they paid for him, meaning VK would make a profit of 300% on the deal .. That’s why he doesn’t get dropped and keeps defending him ! Of course people will try to say I’m wrong & he can’...

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Also famous for scoring all 4 goals for Villa in a 2-2 draw with Leicester.

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Perhaps it's time for a more experienced director of football to come in.Roberto Martinez or similar may help our direction. VK seems devoid of a plan ABor C and a fresh slant may help him What is your idea of what a director of football would do? It can be a huge range of things depending on the c...

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Poulton-le-Claret wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:26 am
No, I just think VK is stubborn and feeling like he has to play his big money signing.

Which is why Tresor and Ramsey have about 6 starts between them?

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I am beginning to worry more about next season than this one. There seems to be a total expectation that we will be promoted back into the PL when it is just as likely that league one beckons. There are hardly any redeeming features that suggest that the weaknesses in the team and management that a...

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I don’t know what some fans watch, I think he’s technically brilliant and see a real player in him. Some of the dribbling and turns are outrageous bits of skill, the structure of the team is just terrible. The sides so bad it’s easy to scapegoat the player who runs around like a headless chicken th...

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Well what is ? The post office are saying there could be 300 plus who were correctly convicted and they have the “evidence”. Why for one second would we believe one word they say or a shred of their so called evidence ? Remember the innocent and possibly the odd guilty person have already suffered ...

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bfc8 wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:38 am
Root 66 not out 66 when I looked.

Is that a tribute to the late Fred Elliot?

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Why would the offer have been illegal? Surely the club could make an offer to buy shares at whatever value and on whatever terms they deem reasonable? No. If the club has paid £x to the majority shareholders, and they also want to buy the minority shareholders' shares, they are supposed to offer th...

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Taken a long time for a lot on this board to realise that Brownhill is at best a poor championship player. True enough. You've clearly forgotten last season when he proved himself to be a very good championship player. Those of us with longer memories, memories that go back a full season or more, h...

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I think the answer is as simple as saying that tall players are better headers of the ball than small players.

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The stuff that was originally added to make long life milk, is now added in smaller doses to ordinary milk, which is why it lasts longer. As for going off, there is little danger in drinking sour milk. You can buy it off the shelf. And even if drinking sour milk is in some way bad for your particula...

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