- Search

Royboyclaret

It could be the pre-season game at Bury August 68: 701571-4.jpg This is Bury 1967 taken at Gigg Lane in which the stand behind looks similar. imgID104505144.jpg.gallery.jpg Ah right, now it all makes sense, Bury it is then in a pre-season friendly at Gigg Lane. Clearly the team photo was our early ...

Royboyclaret

1.jpg Another great team photo W_C_Z. Is that before the first game of the 1968/69 season at the City Ground, Forest? The team that day was......Thomson, Angus, Latcham, O'Neil, Waldron, Merrington, Coates, Lochhead, Casper, Bellamy & Thomas........A young 20 years old Martin Dobson and Len Kinsell...

Royboyclaret

Any body got a pic of Burnley v New Brighton fav 1957. We played in navy shirts which I think is the only time ever. I remember when Burnley took to the field nobody cheered as they thought it was New Brighton. Still a mystery why we played in Navy For anyone who has the "Burnley....A Complete Reco...

Royboyclaret

ClaretTony wrote:Wasn’t referring to the YouTube but the pic. No way as I can see of determining which of the two games.

The youtube clip shows Noble scoring and wearing No.7, which he did at Arsenal in '74/'75.

In the pic he's wearing long sleeves and and he wore No.2 in '73/'74.

Can't be much clearer than that.

Royboyclaret

Not sure whether that Arsenal v Burnley pic is 73/74 or 74/75. We sort of wore that kit at Sheffield United but only the shirt. We had white shorts and claret socks that day. Definitely '73/'74 in the pic in post #185. Take a look at the youtube of Noble scoring in post #191. He's wearing No.7 and ...

Royboyclaret

Like you Roy I am a little sceptical as to the figures - especially as he has not said what data he has used - can't imagine we have records at companies house going back that far - though I do like the fact we are the only founder member with an overall profit - though it looks like we have swappe...

Royboyclaret

@KieranMaguire looks at the 4 primary types of financing in football - then looks at the entire history for financial performance in football and finds only 11 clubs have a trading profit over their lifetime - we are one (coming 5th overall - top of the founder members and some £362m more than them...

Royboyclaret

Worth pointing out that at the exact time of leaving Mac was far from a fan of the Club, and Bob Lord in particular. Plenty of animosity between the two and some of Mac's departing words as he left us included " Good enough for my country but not for my Club."

Royboyclaret

Simply the best.

Royboyclaret

That first league game at Leeds was the first time I visited Elland Road. Still remember it but for very contrasting reasons. We played really well to win 3-2 for the first of several away wins that season, but proudly showing off my Claret & Blue scarf on the way back to Dad's car some Leeds fan de...

Royboyclaret

Steve1956 wrote:I'm sure there is a you tube video with Noble scoring ..maybe 73/4

Steve, that was the following season '74/'75 when Uwe scored in a 1-0 win.

Royboyclaret

Didnt we win there 1-0 in that kit ,? Think it was 1-1 with a Brady own goal giving us a point. Remember the first away game of that '73/'74 season at Sheff Utd when we ran out in that kit. It was quite a shock to the system as we'd only been used to a white alternative shirt in previous seasons. O...

Royboyclaret

Steve1956 wrote:Roy can you name the guys in the yellow strip though?

Wouldn't know where to start, mate. Well, apart from 3 or perhaps 4.

Can anyone else?

Royboyclaret

Steve1956 wrote:You sure know your stuff Roy,I wasn't even born...imagine that.

I thought I was the luckiest little lad in Lancashire, I could actually watch them train at Gawthorpe from my bedroom window.

Royboyclaret

Cleveleys_claret wrote:Used to love away days at their place. That huge stand behind the goal bouncing. Not always had the best results but worth it for King Arthur

Played in beautifully by a Messi-like Alan Moore.

Royboyclaret

image.jpeg image.jpeg image.jpeg Can anyone put names to the middle team can only make out Adamson. Steve, that's 1955 at Gawthorpe, the first summer we moved in. Back Row......David Smith, Les Shannon, Harold Rudman, Colin McDonald, Bobby Seith & Doug Winton. Front Row.......Billy Gray, Peter McKa...

Royboyclaret

Cheers again W_C_Z for the team photos.

This time 1960/61 (after Pilky had departed for Bolton) and 1962/63 (with the Wembley strip), I think.

Royboyclaret

Tricky Trevor wrote:You are always my first port of call. Who is the player to the right of Harry Thomson, in the middle photo? I know the rest.

Trevor, that's Freddie Smith.

Royboyclaret

First pictures ive ever seen of the old brunshaw road stand. Andy, that stand had a life of some 61 years, from 1908 until it was used for the very last time against Sunderland in April 1969. Took a while for it to be replaced though and the Bob Lord stand was opened against Villa in Feb. 1974 and ...

Royboyclaret

Looks good, unveiled at Arsenal tomorrow, then.

Royboyclaret

Superb team photos W_C_Z.

Perhaps 1967/68, 1964/65 and 1963/64 in that order.

Be quite something if we could assemble team/squad photos for every year of the Club's existence. I have some from the 1880's, 1890's and 1900's.

Royboyclaret

ClaretTony wrote:Never mind that, what a fanstatic player getting the shot in

Looking beyond Brian in the photo, is that hoarding separating the CFS terracing to the Longside?

Would that have been one of the last home games before the CFS terracing was demolished in 1967/68?

Royboyclaret

agreenwood wrote:The bit about wages was interesting.

I don’t think it was long ago he was saying that fees aren’t the problem, but wages were.

Well, wages certainly wouldn't be a problem bringing a player here from Leeds.

Royboyclaret

Quicknick wrote:Informative post. Both sets of fans in the CF End.

Aye, no segregation of fans back then, Quicknick. And no bother whatsoever.

Full team was......Des Thompson, Jock Aird, Harold Mather, Jimmy Adamson, Tommy Cummings, Reg Attwell, Billy Gray, Jimmy Mac, Bill Holden, Les Shannon & Brian Pilkington.

Royboyclaret

Brilliant footage. 52,011 attendance and 48,284 for the replay on a Wednesday afternoon which we lost 1-0. http://www.uptheclarets.com/fixtures-results/195354-results" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Superb footage and first time seen, for me. The match was in Jan'54 and it's odd to s...

Royboyclaret

Apparently nothing it but not sure why you’d be gutted, he doesn’t play. Simple answer to that is we'd be losing our finest footballer since Jimmy Mac. If, as Dyche now says, he's back running on the grass, perhaps in a month or so time he'd be ready to form a partnership in midfield with Drinkwate...

Royboyclaret

Looks like I'm in a minority, along with C&J, who would be gutted to see him leave.

Royboyclaret

It's getting harder each year, look at the likes of Derby, Leeds etc. Yeah we were fortunate with the first promotion under Dyche, everything just went our way, but Rovers look miles off that right now. From a financial point of view they are hardly geared up for a promotion push. With a Wages/Turn...

Royboyclaret

The steelwork was done by Watson’s of Bolton and the towers were identical to those at Burnden Park. If memory serves there were 48 bulbs on reach tower. Those original floodlights lasted just 18 years before being replaced in the mid-1970's at a cost of £30,000. The new lights were first used for ...

Royboyclaret

Roy Stephenson in the Blackburn side that night. He'd been at Burnley for 7 years from '49 to '56 and was a decent little player. No real recollections of that game but remember Dad taking me to Peel Park (perhaps a couple of seasons later) for the switch on of Accy's new floodlights when we were th...

Royboyclaret

tim_noone wrote:CT has it....

Aye, on closer inspection CT has it because the new CFS opened in August 1969.

In fact the last game for the CF terracing was December 1967.

Royboyclaret

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote:Is this something Burnley has/currently do?

No indication from the accounts that Burnley adopt this policy, although clearly many PL clubs now do.

Simply means that we wait say three years, over installments, for the full transfer fee to be received.

Royboyclaret

Great pic of Ralphy, all about blood, sweat and tears and how he always gave his last ounce of effort in every game.

Shot of the ground looks to be dated in the early 80's with the sloping back of the Bee Hole End.

Royboyclaret

For anyone left wondering how Arsenal made a widely reported £45m transfer budget pay for over well £100m of purchases @SwissRamble explains all https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/1161170044086341632" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Top drawer analysis yet again from Swiss Ramble....

Royboyclaret

Couldn't manage for the same reason he had to finish playing though Must be the briefest managerial career of all time. Hard to believe Martin will now be 70 years old, seems like only yesterday he was here at Burnley but he was 36 at the time. He said he was bitterly disappointed by his decision t...

Royboyclaret

Shearer, for me, nailed it on MOTD when he said Barnes now has the belief that he belongs in the Prem.

That belief counts for a hell of a lot when goal-scoring opportunities arise at this top level.

Royboyclaret

ClaretTony wrote:About four months

Buchan must have had serious doubts regarding his ability to make that transition from player to manager. The two year contract he was offered remained unsigned and just 110 days after his appointment he quit.

Royboyclaret

EarbyClaret wrote:CT's post #53 - who is the other goalkeeper next to Alan Stevenson and who is on the end of the front row next to Eric Probert?

cheers

Jeff Parton & Paul Bradshaw.

Royboyclaret

Not for one minute do I think we've reached the peak of our potential spending power. The overseas broadcast Income has just increased by 35% for the current three year deal and with the continuing emergence and growth of the Chinese market there's no reason to believe a similar increase won't be av...

Royboyclaret

Is that a young David Davies interviewing Casper?

If so, he was on the BBC News channel just last week reviewing the newspapers.

Royboyclaret

Morgan was here from 1960 when he was 16 Fair enough, had it in my head Morgan became an apprentice in late '61. On that Tottenham pic, of course we played them again some seven weeks later in the FA Cup Final. Between the league game on the Turf and the Wembley final we played 13 League and Cup ga...

Royboyclaret

ClaretTony wrote:Pitch looks in good nick for the Spurs game

Look at the packed Longside. 46,810 on that day in March'62.

Royboyclaret

Not sure he ever played in the first team and don’t know a lot (anything) about him, but that’s who it is. Pic probably 1959 so aged about 16. Gonna be a bit later than that, George, because Willie Morgan only arrived here in October '61. So either late '61 or even '62 when Morgan would have been 1...

Royboyclaret

How do you remember goals that were scored over 50 years ago,the memories of some posters on here amazes me,I find it hard to remember last seasons goals. Steve, great memories last forever. That win against Liverpool was very special, Irvine scored the first with the best header I've ever seen fro...

Royboyclaret

Oo_George wrote:Here is the rest of the OP’s picture.

Blimey, Willie Irvine looks about 14 as well.

Who's the lad in the middle?

Royboyclaret

Ralphy, great player and a very humble man. One of the very best.

Two of my favourite goals of Ralph's, against Liverpool on the Turf in '66 when we beat them 2-0 and against Napoli the following January when he played centre-forward and scored in our 3-0 win.

Royboyclaret

Willie was 17 years old when he arrived here, but he looks more like 14 in the photo!! Reputed to be the first British player to have his own fan club. He replaced John Connelly in our team in the early sixties and later both John and then Willie left us for Man Utd, both terrific players and yet co...

Royboyclaret

Let's say you worked in sales, with a relatively low basic salary topped up by commissions, and you had a period in which those commissions went through the roof for reasons that you could only partially control - and you knew that as a result, while it was nice while it lasted, those commissions w...

Royboyclaret

Spijed wrote:But even though we can pay transfer fees can we afford to pay the wages as well?

Spijed.....it's all there in #3631 & #3633.

Royboyclaret

Lord Beamish wrote:We have pots of cash but can’t get deals over the line because of our wage structure. Whichever end is up, however you look at it, we can’t compete in the Transfer Market. Saying we choose not to is making a virtue of a neccesity.

To avoid repetition, see post #3631.

Search found 3498 matches