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gawthorpe_view wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:40 pm
We've got to catch Luton first!

Not necessarily. Beat both and give them both a 6 point deduction, we finish above and relegate Everton and Forest, all other things being equal.

We can dream. And should.

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Muric is 6’4”, same as Pope- it shows. Not sure the relevance of pointing out that Muric is 2 inches shorter than Trafford. Anyway, Trafford is a decent but raw keeper, abused unfairly on here just because people want Muric, but Muric has stardust about him. Telling him (effectively) in the summer ...

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Look folks, those things are now done, we were wronged in those games, but if we all stay as we are from now until the final game, and we win that final game, we stay up (assuming the two further 6 point deductions happen). Everton are at Arsenal in the final game while we play Forest here. Can’t gi...

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If's and but's, I'm just happy that we have shape and are being competitive, no one can argue, we've been dreadful and deserved to be where we are. The point of this thread is that is simply not true. Those robberies late in those games would have seen us 1 point from safety after Forest get their ...

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Muric - 9. Immediate and massive improvement in distribution (the best in the league, and one of the best on the planet) and box command (not great but far better than Trafford). Shot stopping fantastic too with a pair of top stops. Usual chaos with Aro, can’t explain quite why he was taking free ki...

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You know, it was incredibly annoying having halfwits slating Kompany after a defeat.

Now we have them doing it after a win. The only controversial thing is why this board allows threads like this to develop. Feels like wading through a cesspit. Only came on to do my player ratings.

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A 5
B 5
C 10
D 10

A shocker. Gave us nothing until the late Toney assaults, missed the pen, fell for their cheating, too slow around the putch, game too quick for him

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Utterly weird. Trafford makes numerous mistakes and keeps his place. Last week he does nothing wrong and gets dropped. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see Muric play, but still, bloody odd! Not really Mistakes are mistakes but last week both goals could be avoided with a great shot stopper - low p...

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Brentford goalkeeper (and Palaces) are the worst two in the EPL for conceding more than their expected goals (yes, James is 3rd bottom of that, via Opta). So that gives us hope. That and their injured defence.

Can’t make Wolves so going tomorrow and am cautiously optimistic.

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Some interesting comments on the podcast today guys. We have scored a lot of own goals this season. Fan engagement has been poor. We aren't Universal Studios, but we should be gathering information from supporters about how match days are going and what will get people through the turnstiles earlie...

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Players with at least 5 goals and 5 assists this season in the Premier League: Ollie Watkins, Mohammed Salah, Leon Bailey, Son, Cole Palmer, Bukayo Saka, Julian Alvarez, Anthony Elanga, Phil Foden, Darwin Nunez, James Ward-Prowse, Matheus Cunha, Martin Odegaard, Erling Haaland, Declan Rice, Rodri. ...

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Linked In profile suggests his time at Man City was the link between players, families, agents, management etc.

Just goes to show what stuff goes on behind the scenes. Unclear the exact role he had at BFC as Chief of Staff.

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All three are young lads with a spirit that is welcome, a strut, but raw edges that get exposed at this level. That gets harder to live with for a defender where mistakes need to be every few games not every few minutes. I would sign all three though given the chance. Also helps if we have 6-10 Fren...

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reading the above reminds me of this and the 'not your dad's Burnley" bravado of Burnley FC's commercial director - which is not an uncommon feature in modern club running, but is part of the ongoing charge to diminish the need for 'legacy fans' - which is an absolute nonsense for all clubs, partic...

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The whole lack of information is sad. So if the Early Bird price is scrapped and when relegation is confirmed do I want to pay a big increase when quite a few of the home games will be a push. (I live in Lincolnshire). Will this be the time to go back to picking games home and away and letting some...

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I think there is a good player in Tresor and it may well be that he's someone who, if he is here next season (and I have to say the fact he's been so absent since Christmas and now describes himself as a "ghost" does make me wonder if he's below the threshold for the permanent move to be mandatory)...

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I don’t think it really works like that. It does work like that in terms of assessing the teams chances to win a game. Which is basically what all the chat on here does. Money spent on non-playing players, either as a future investment or a fall back if injuries occur, aren’t as relevant as money s...

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Heartwarming, no pun intended, to see Lockyer travel down, walk onto the pitch, and thank the paramedics who saved his life. Simply wonderful. He owes them a debt he can never repay, nor would they want him to. Can’t underestimate how galvanising the effect on Luton was, a shame if it isn’t enough. ...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:19 pm
You're right about QPR - the only time he played in a losing Burnley team after the game at Sheffield United was in the FA Cup defeat at Manchester City

Yes, league game I meant, should have stated that.

Losing to Man City away is no crime though

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Just got in from watching women’s Championship at Bramall Lane (good quality and no diving), so haven’t read this thread yet, but am predicting Page 1 will be usual suspects posting “you see, this is why Burnley are so bad and worse than Luton”, and Page 2 will be, well, absent from those posters :...

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Only started one of our three defeats too last season, the one at Sheffield United. He came on as a sub in the other two. Was actually out injured for the QPR defeat and hasn’t played a minute of a lost game since Sheff Utd away, as far as I am aware. Was in that ground tonight and the memory still...

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Just got in from watching women’s Championship at Bramall Lane (good quality and no diving), so haven’t read this thread yet, but am predicting Page 1 will be usual suspects posting “you see, this is why Burnley are so bad and worse than Luton”, and Page 2 will be, well, absent from those posters :l...

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Burnley 1-1 Brentford Fofana 34

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Week 29.
Saturday 16th March

Burnley 2-2 Brentford Fofana 25 mins
Luton 1-2 Nottingham Forest
Fulham 0-2 Spurs NAP

Sunday 17th March

West Ham 1-2 Aston Villa
12 Goals

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Would be great news if we hadn’t (though from earlier reports I fear we have). I’m still angry about his “contribution” at home to Luton and really struggle to see him coming good. If, indeed, we have signed him I suppose he might be effective in the Championship but he comes across as really not w...

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The days of communication are pretty much long gone these days I'm afraid, which is ironic given the numerous platforms, apps and machines/devices that are prevalent in today's society. As for BFC, we are now being treated in the typical American way. All top show with very little or no substance. ...

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Good report. Not sure about the toenail though. Watching on TV live as soon as the goal was replayed it was obvious the shirt sleeve was further ahead than the defenders so I wasn’t nervous while VAR checked it. Would have been just our luck though to have them do what they did to Jay at Bournemouth...

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But he's only scored 4 all season. Scored 7 including in the Europa League and EFL Championship. Didn’t start a league game for Beyer until late January. Got 4 since. Averaging a goal per 90 minutes. Third in the league behind Guirassy and Kane on the per 90 min goals (ignoring those with only 1 go...

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A player coming back from a career threatening injury ‘may’ not be fit for 90, or even 60, minutes. Kompany will know. From memory Brownhill made 3 clearances inside our own box, something I doubt JBL would offer. Thought it was the right decision to be pragmatic. 4 attackers versus a resurgent West...

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Generally I am a believer in putting things out there. Rare in house interview with Esteve and Assignon yesterday. The young 21 year old Esteve was on about his wife taking time to settle. Must be tough coming from overseas at such a young age. These kind of things make fans appreciate the players a...

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Thing is, football does weird things, but for a side like us to survive we need goals. That guy can get them, he has shown that. Looking forward to Foster or Amdouni coming back in rested to partner him because Odobert in the hole isn’t the answer. We are in that last chance saloon where we have to ...

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Trafford 6 - could have saved each goal but were really difficult to do, top keepers can though Assignon 6 - error for the equaliser after doing the hard bit, summed him up, not just up and down during a game, but during a move O Shea 7 - stuck to his task but nearly played his man on a couple of ti...

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Or…..Luton, Sheffield and ourselves all draw away and close the gap to Everton and Forest, but we do it against far superior opposition.

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England very good today, bookings were mainly deserved. Not sure I have ever written that exact phrase.

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Great battling performance. No one can surely be negative today. Both teams had chances to win it. Yes but some muppets will. He put defensive reinforcements on, changed formation, very nearly worked. Ings looks reborn against us, can’t really blame finishing of that quality, but, as I say, some wi...

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I like Assignon but he doesn’t seem the brightest at times.

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The defence isn’t good enough and that is the problem all season, but they are young and have growth in them if we can keep them together. Pace at CB is a welcome thing and we have a bit.

Will need 3 to win today though of course. West Ham poor but still ripping us apart at times.

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I get that I just think that's an incredibly superficial level of comparison. Even the goal involvement similarity is misleading- going off your rough ballpark stats McNeil had a direct goal involvement every 200 minutes, Odobert 220, except McNeil did so in a far more defensively minded team and o...

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McNeil for me is now the real deal. He has impressed me so much since his move to Everton, particularly since SD became manager. Now more of a goal threat than ever https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dwight-mcneil/leistungsdaten/spieler/584769 I agree. However, a worse output than Odobert this season,...

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They're not remotely similar aside from being young left wingers. McNeil was a more orthodox, go on the outside and cross player, with an awkward, deceptive dribbling style, predominantly left footed, and an incredible work rate, his biggest issue was often trying too hard. Dyche said as much of hi...

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I noticed that their birth dates are only 6 days apart, based on the date they will turn 20 in the November following their breakthrough 2nd half of the season. The similarities don’t end there. That season, when we had the miraculous escape, Dwight got 3 goals and 5 assists in about 1,600 minutes. ...

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Despite the silly thread premise I’ll bite and suggest Kompany will be the better manager if in charge of England or Man City. His problem has been he overestimates what his players can do and overthinks things, Dyche’s tactics in charge of those bigger teams would fail, dramatically. Our problem ha...

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Tweeted the lads about this one, but one of the biggest curse stories is about the Mayo Gaelic Football team, who reportedly failed to show respect to a funeral as they returned from winning the 1951 all Ireland Football in Dublin. The priest who was leading the funeral procession supposedly put a ...

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Looks like we nearly broke 2 of Derby’s records this season.

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That above list of players leaving you could add a few to that where I would expect top flight interest, here or overseas. The hard bit is going to be keeping the ones we want while raising enough money to offset the relegation impact. Only after that can we think about new players, personally I onl...

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I’ve just checked and after the 3rd week in Feb Sheff Utd would have the same points ,we would have 2 more,and Luton would have 1 more. That’s not what we are talking about though. You are referring to PGMOL accepted errors. I am on about things they haven’t accepted - Luton’s equaliser, Villa’s pe...

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With the greatest of respect but I could acknowledge we'd been unlucky if we signed 4 fit strikers all good enough for this level and then they all got freak injuries and couldn't play. But when you go into a PL season with one forward of the quality required, (ignoring anything that was known abou...

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Maybe not an unpopular opinion, but here goes: I thin VK needs to evolve the style next season in preparation for the premier league. This maybe perceived as an arrogant thing to do, but for me if the end goal of the 4 year plan is to become a decent premier league outfit, he needs to ditch the ult...

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I had a dodgy looking doorbell call last year while I was away working. Said to them “can you wait 5 minutes, my mates and I are just finishing a hand of poker, be right down….”. Needless to say, they sodded off :lol: Anyway, Ring doorbells…. I’m led to believe that the wired version (which I have) ...

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Sorry for the delay. Foster having a severe mental health problem, then surgery, plus Koleosho missing most of the season, Beyer missing most of the season, and having a huge number of points taken off by officials, some being 3 point swings (Forest, Luton and West Ham where a stonewall penalty wou...

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