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CoolClaret

Our opinions differ and I really cba to have an argument about it but I thought he was poor post WC for us. And in his brief appearances for us this year. There’s a player in there for sure but certainly not one that played well consistently in the league below or this year to warrant being selecte...

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Hes not even showing the occasional nice bit of play anymore that we all got a bit excited about at the start of the season, hes an empty shirt and needs to be taken out of the firing line. Id even prefer to try Tresor there over him at the moment. He had 15 minutes at the start of the match agains...

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Both Dyche and VK have undoubted qualities and some failings. It feels like we have gone from one vast extreme to another Dyche Percentage football Emphasis on hard graft Focus on experience Too loyal with the squad to make changes required not willing to take a punt on the foreign market Kompany P...

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Needed a new PA system since this one was first installed.
Awful sound quality and to mask that they turn the volume right up. Can barely hear yourself think let alone the person next to you.

CoolClaret

Exactly this! Its not about individuals, its about a team and we are a better team with him in it. If you listen to the latest Ben Foster podcast, Jay himself talks about the importance put on the strikers in stopping the ball coming through the middle into the central midfielders. Who's more likel...

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forzagranata wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:18 pm
There will almost certainly be significant part payments due from last summer's spending on players.

Yeah for sure -

Again, not saying it's catastrophic at all, just seems like spinning our wheels in all honesty.

CoolClaret

all transfers were over fairly lengthy deals, with parachute payment, championship tv rights, wage reduction, and contract reduction for those staying we wont be much worse off. certainly not catastrophic levels. we could handle at least 3 years in the championship without promotion, at current spe...

CoolClaret

One of my favourite ever Clarets tbh. Reads the game as good as anyone. Convinced if he'd have had just a tad more pace/athleticism he'd have been playing for a top 6 side for the majority of his career. Damn shame he hasn't featured in a midfield three this season; even for 30 minutes here and ther...

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people claiming we will be financially screwed due to relegation clearly have no idea about how business works, i'd stay out of that conversation. Our income wont drastically drop next year, all the old heads on big wages will be gone, our wage bill is already massively reduced over last time. Para...

CoolClaret

Just a note on Zaroury - Hull fans calling for him to be dropped already. Really hope he turns it around there as we need either a good fee or him in form next season. This is the point though. He's clearly a talented player who's been horrifically managed this season, like a lot of them - he's a y...

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cblantfanclub wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:02 am
Agree a lot of this board is the same old voices who can't make a point (usually a variation of the same one) and then leave it alone.

In fairness, there's those that trot out retorts and attempt to justify the season/performances, then the repeated "debate" unfolds, rinse repeat.

CoolClaret

I take it you were in attendance yesterday. Do you think we have 'bottomed out' and can only improve from now on? That defeat and performance yesterday disgusted a large cross section of our support. Football's an expensive hobby around here for a lot of people especially when things aren't working...

CoolClaret

Thats fair, we had a lot of pace also in the back then with maatsen and THB who could get back THB definitely couldn't get back - that was one of the only gripes against him. Recall him getting burnt at home against Hull fairly early on a few times. Maatsen could get back but was often high and wid...

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I would be able to accept losing any games if our team put in the same effort Luton put in week in week out. They keep themselves in games and give themselves a chance Fair play, last thing Luton want to be doing is moving to a new stadium Tbf, their new stadium is going to be even further/closer t...

CoolClaret

We have had the same badge on kits for years, the kits don’t change the fact we have a league 1 keeper, a cb playing left back and no proper right winger starting games Not denying any of that - I'd just like a change and I think the majority of fans prefer the (new) old badge but yeah the kits thi...

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123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 18, 2024 5:28 pm
Aye 2 and 3 would have made the difference this season

Not as daft as it may sound... look good, feel good... get good results!

CoolClaret

Getting very bored with the false equivalence to Sean's first PL season. I don't think Dyche failed in his first PL season at all. If anything he over achieved being a Matty Taylor penalty away from staying up. He went up first time with a team with little budget and spent hardly anything and came v...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 18, 2024 5:12 pm
Watford didn’t.

Parallels with Sean quite a bit; very similar playing profiles, similar ages/results when prematurely potted by Watford... Both went on to win promotion with their next club.

CoolClaret

Edgware is just off the Motorway, has a large park and ride car park next to the Tube/Bus station and the Northern Line runs from there right through the centre of London all the way to Battersea Power Station.

I did the exact same trip September 2022.

CoolClaret

See you tomorrow.

CoolClaret

I'd have Rob Edwards all day, just saying.

CoolClaret

More anti BFC over the top nonsense. Who is battering us every week? Since that Brentford away pathetic performance we’ve generally competed in games. So who is battering us? We’ve lost by 2 goals twice to Liverpool in two good games. 2 goals to City twice. Arsenal battered us at home. Those 3 team...

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KRBFC wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:37 pm
If we lost the play off final last season and we were currently 4th/5th in the Championship (like McKenna)

VK would have more support on here…..

Strange how it works

What are you on about? McKenna has Ipswich at the top end of the Champ on a shoestring after coming up from League One.

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KRBFC wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:33 pm
Promotion in first season seemingly raises expectation through the roof, killed by his own success.

Expectation to not get battered every week whilst ostracising most of the team that got promoted in the first place.

CoolClaret

1) Not have an absolute motley crew of random players that look like they've never met each other let alone had a training session before
2) Some decent kits
3) Sack off that monochrome badge/media crap and return our badge to the 1978-2009 beauty

CoolClaret

You'd assume because he's deemed them not good enough at this level, and the evidence strongly suggests that Kompany isn't either. Based on how he's run the team this season if he had been in Alan Paces job he'd have potted the manager ages ago. Bingo/Jackpot/Right on the money. This is EXACTLY IT ...

CoolClaret

From hero to zero in months, f**k all loyalty to the man that got us here. Couple of mistakes, have a poor season in the league above and you’re done it seems. Kompany is 37, Ronaldo is 39. Thiago Silva is 39. Kompany should probably still be playing, he’s a rookie in management, learning the ropes...

CoolClaret

Of course you’re on here loving it, go on lad get stuck in, this topics right up your anti BFC street. Anti-BFC? Get a grip, just don't like getting twatted everyweek, whilst doing the same thing every week. It's embarrassing this, it's just those that seem to be dazzled by VK that somehow think it...

CoolClaret

I'm sorry to burst your bubble but Burnley has been the laughing stock of the PL. One lucky season finishing 10th won't change that. It's a terrible team and VK made you guys look good last season for the first time. Then to blame him for getting beaten by better teams with more money and better pl...

CoolClaret

No idea who they were but certainly not Malcolm Jenkins. Saw that tweet- don’t ever recall hearing he was an investor in the club. Malcolm Jenkins has been involved for quite a while I believe - https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11708/12439457/malcolm-jenkins-two-time-super-bowl-champion-inve...

CoolClaret

Mason Holgate is a complete fraud of a footballer.

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:00 pm
JBG has a year option in the clubs favour

Aye - see the photo I attached

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spt_claret wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 18, 2024 1:46 pm
Hell's bells.
I'd exercise Gudmundsson's option and I really wish I didn't think that.

We have to. He's still one of our best players.

Wouldn't surprise me if he could play in a double pivot in the Champ. Classy player.

The gaps in the rest of the squad are massively concerning though.

CoolClaret

I thought JBG and Taylor had another year after this? Jesus, that's scary if not. Not always the most accurate for valuations/wages but I can't see Transfermarkt being wrong here. This summer coming up is vastly different than summer 2022. It's absolutely massive and could be disastrous if we don't...

CoolClaret

The minute 'anti-football' was a tag used by Chelsea against us, the club should have been merchandising that, owning and embracing it. Anti-football in the modern overpaid diva sense. Anti-football, pro-footie. God how good would that have been. Christ I really miss what we were four seasons or so...

CoolClaret

The main problem (which I highlighted a while ago now) was that the players with PL experience that played in the Championship were coming towards the end of their careers, and had one final season in them as a swan song. Ashley Barnes a case in point. Part of the summer recruitment should have inc...

CoolClaret

We are never in the foreseeable future going to win the Premier League title, nor finish in the top four or seventh for euro comps anymore. Why can't we qualify for Europe again? We would get shedloads of cash for dropping down, playing in a level playing field league with more exciting free flowin...

CoolClaret

Read it again, a goal a game or an absolute goal scoring chance - fact watch last season back We had the best defence in the Championship and played an extremely high line. A lot less protection for the goalkeeper and a lot more sweeping up required. Not many could do what Muric did in that role la...

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I looked back at last season on all the games i recorded and highlights for the championship. A few things that people seem to have forgotten in my opinion. Muric made a lot of mistakes and gifted a goal a game, or an absolute goal scoring chance a game with some bad positional play and pass choice...

CoolClaret

I think a lot of people really underestimate mentality's role in sport. Past a certain level of fitness and technical skill it's all about mentality. It's huge mate, you can't quantify it either with stats and data. Not only in football but in combat sports - how many fighters run through everyone ...

CoolClaret

It seems more and more people see that there is a case for starting Muric over Trafford. There is and has been for a while. But I would have thought the majority of those same people would at the same time refrain from thinking it's reasonable to distastefully label one of our own young players a c...

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:21 am
Spot on, and we’d all be saying that VK has such a good track record signing players that took us up last time that if he were given £100m he’d have taken us to Europe.

Crazy some of these debates happen.

No one thought he'd whiff £100m in positions that we didn't need, that's the difference.

CoolClaret

***Ric_C's content*** Agreed with a lot of this - good post, just this point: I think VK should stay, but we really need to get a grip on what to do in the summer. His style WILL NOT WORK in the prem for a club the size of ours. It's ok buying good ball players in the championship and having 65% po...

CoolClaret

I honestly don't think we'd be any worse off.

CoolClaret

We will finish on 28 points. Forest will finish on 34 and be deduced 5 points. We will go down. We will get 138 points next season. Europa League the season after. Not sure about the one after, my crystal ball ran out of battery. This is verbatim exactly what I/others were saying happy clappers wou...

CoolClaret

Apart from maybe a couple of our players I really can’t see any club wanting to buy them, I just haven’t seen an improvement either in quality of player or playing style. I’m not calling for VK out but we look completely lost. O'Shea, Koleosho definitely improved (kolo till injury) - rest of the yo...

CoolClaret

Sheff United lost their two best players to start the season, (one of which to us btw) and are sat on the same amount of points as we are at the foot of the table. Summer was an absolute madness - I have no idea wtf the team is meant to be in terms of identity/playstyle, I have no idea why some play...

CoolClaret

I disagree. It’s not fag packet maths, it’s taken from transfermarkt in terms of what they’ve spent vs us and our spend is a pittance compared to teams outside the relegation zone. - Fulham are a slight exception but even they are €68m last summer, €72m year prior. €140m in total. - Palace €78m las...

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Royboyclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:33 am
Fully take your point......which is why I'm still struggling to understand this massive contrast from last season to this.

It's a real shock - I've never seen anything quite like it whilst supporting the Clarets, well never seen anything like it in football in all honesty.

CoolClaret

We will always be there since many decades ago. But, as DCWat points posts, important players like Benson and Zaroury need to be influential, as they should have been this season. Aye but what I'm saying there's hardly going to be a buzz of going in a new direction - poor campaigns can lead to a ma...

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