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Some suspicious betting from a Kosovan IP address this weekend. Rumours linking this to organised crime gang involvement.

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bfcmatt wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:36 pm
Belle from Romania. she arrived extremely skinny.

Coming over here, eating all our Bakers.

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Burnley1989 wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:00 pm
Literally the first time Ive heard the term Dogso, had to google it.

Cant actually believe that's a term by the way, how long has that been a thing haha

Introduced by Bobby Madley a few seasons ago.

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Dyche to Burnley?

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Interesting the ref didn’t give Munich a penalty at the other end as he described it as a “kids mistake” apparently. I've always thought that a player should have to place the ball down with their hand before taking a free kick to remove any ambiguity of when it's been taken. There's more reason to...

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That’s the kind of decision I would expect a PL ref to give and be backed up by VAR. The officiating, on the whole, is much better in the CL.

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Mainly watched the City game but was flicking between the two. Watched the last 10 of the Arsenal game - what a wally Saka was playing for a penalty there. Just put it in.

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Just had a look at those minutes conceded. We are not outliers from minutes 30-45. We have 8 scored and 12 conceded. Similar to several. Don’t know about just the last few minutes of the half. However where we ARE outliers (with Sheffield) is minutes 76-90. We have 6 scored and 18 conceded. But our...

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randomclaret2 wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 09, 2024 5:48 pm
I wonder how Mr Pace would vote ?

Probably the same way that I would if I was personally offered £20m for BFC to play a league game abroad.

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Just wanted some info on buying a season ticket, if I buy one , can I sell my seat when I can’t travel up from the south? Just to follow up on the other replies you've had about the ticket exchange. This season the system has worked well because all home games were sold out at the beginning of the ...

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FYI, I went on my account last night to renew my dad’s ticket - he pays up front. I pay by DD and my ticket was showing up as able to renew. When I went back on today to check, it’s no longer possible to renew but when I go onto purchase history it shows the season ticket as purchased so seemingly h...

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Not renewing my ticket and the wife's due to club removing my seat for corporate although my wife's seat is unaffected. There offer is I can sit somewhere else in the ground but the offer does not include my wife. So much for 30 years loyal support. Just money grabbing Americans comes to mind. Was ...

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Let them all go, we don't need a single one of them I think you're underestimating the value of contiunity. Brownhill for example is the club captain and was one of the best midfielders in the Championship last season. It's vital for me that we retain a core of players who we know are good enough t...

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People quickly forget how poor the standard is in the Championship. Half the teams there basically roll over for any half decent side. The standard isn't great, that's for sure. But only 2 teams win promotion automatically, and as things stand we're going down as the second best team. We have to be...

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Is it a guessing game? Not saying it's a direct comparison. Just that it wouldn't be totally surprising if it's true. Players and agents plan and track out their careers. Well I think Jude Bellingham, like Lionel Messi, Mbappe etc, will have a lot more bargaining power when negotiating a contract t...

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Some people have never played Football Manager and it shows. Quite common for players to sign for clubs upon having agreed a certain amount of playing time conditions. Fairly well known isn't it that Bellingham turned down Man United and chose Dortmund because they promised him consistent first tea...

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There is clearly something somewhere to explain the change from ever present to not even being on the bench. The club doesn't help speculation with their lack of info on such matters of injury, illness etc - always respecting player's right to privacy. Bloody club, respecting their employees’ right...

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Tbf Laws took over a squad that had its heart ripped out and basically admitted they downed tools. Kompany brought up a squad on a massive high and was backed in the transfer market and hasn't done any better. Laws was a bad appointment, but he performed roughly as you would expect, given the squad...

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He’ll be a v good champ defender , if we keep Beyer, Taylor, & Muric ( unlikely but still ) we’d have a cracking back line . He’s a very decent CB , but no hint of Rolls Royce like a Keane or Collins , but does the basics very well, taste for goals and can pick a pass . It’s his short game which is...

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Leaving aside the question raised by others about what the penalty for breaking this contractual agreement would be, how exactly would this be enforced? If a player believes they are physically fit enough to play, and the club disagrees, then who makes this call? I can’t for one minute believe that ...

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People acting all mardy like we were relegated today!!! We weren’t. We were relegated around November time…. It may have felt like it, but the reality is quite different. Beating say Bournemouth at home and winning an eminently winnable game against Everton yesterday would have left us joint on poi...

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I like O’Shea. He’s a bit raw but he’s got a good mentality and aggression. There’s plenty of other players I’d be calling out before him.

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And you're certainly the poster with the most bizarre use of cherry-picked stats to suit whatever you've got into your head. We are absolutely shite at defending and that's a huge reason we're going down with a whimper. Absolutely. Whenever I see this posters name there inevitably follows some real...

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Sorry to divert but not worth a new thread… what was the fuss about Wolves’ goal being disallowed? They have a player stood in an offside position directly in front of the goalkeeper with the sole intention of impeding the goalkeeper’s line of sight and ability to attempt a save. Then complain when ...

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Just seen this back on MOTD and not a denial of a goalscoring opportunity.

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I wouldn’t call the clearance off the line from a poor O’Shea back pass as a regulation save, the clearance stopped a clear goal Yes, all saves stop clear goals though, that’s what goalkeepers are there for. It was a good clearance but one I would expect him to make. He’s made better saves since co...

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How does that work then, if muric directly made an error that resulted in a goal he’s sole to blame. But when he directly stops a goal which wouldn’t have meant we wouldn’t have won’t the game he isn’t the reason we won the game. People can’t have it both ways There's no point keep going round in c...

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123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:32 pm
So if muric is a fault for the lose today he’s the sole reason we beat Brentford then for stopping the one off the line?

No.

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But it’s easy to say that, there is no guarantee that we don’t concede in the second half, doesn’t need to be a debate, I just don’t think muric is the sole reason we lost the game Yes. Equally we don’t know that we wouldn’t have won 5-0 had Muric not made that mistake. But these are hypotheticals....

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As I have said though we lost the game because we didn’t score not just because muric made an error. We beat Brentford 2-1 because we scored 2 goals not because muric stopped one of the line or made a 1on1 save from wissa Well yes, but if we didn’t concede the goal, and also didn’t score, we would ...

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In my opinion the error is just a factor in losing the game and the decision making to try the pass to start with is terrible, abit like when Trafford plays the ball to brownhill at palace when he had a simple pass to Taylor wide or when O’Shea played a criminal pass into Berge at wolves away. You ...

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aggi wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:10 pm
I viewed the red card as harsh as I'm aware that Muric is generally pretty sharp and pretty committed at coming out for that kind of thing but if you based it on the average keeper then I can see why it was given.

I think that Muric was already about 30 yards from his goal.

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Muric DID NOT cost us the game today. It obviously did. I can't quite believe anyone can suggest otherwise. It is the clearest error leading to a goal that we have conceded all season. The bonkers thing is that there were 10 seconds of the half to play and he was trying to thread a ball through a c...

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this season has just felt like a massive wasted opportunity. They only had to pay attention to what Southampton did and how that ended to know that having a team with too much youth and inexperience was always going to end in relegation. Yep. And you’ve got to wonder what the mood and unity is with...

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Agreed, it was because a professional footballer couldn't control an easy pass along the ground. Yes, but mistakes happen. The problem is we are set up in such an over-exposed way that these mistakes are inevitably punished. In terms of standards, I’ve observed a real lack of work rate from a numbe...

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It was obvious in July what would happen this season, staggeringly inept summer transfer window. I'm just someone who thinks chopping and changing managers doesn't often end well and he deserves the same opportunity as Dyche does to bring the team back. Pressure is on now though, top two next seaso...

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aggi wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:55 pm
Yep, you get a double chance of being rewarded.

I’m surprised Garner wasn’t awarded a penalty for doing this exact thing today.

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Yeah Vinny is sloppy and has sloppy standards which is why he is at Gawthorpe 12-14 hours a day. It’s possible to work long hours and still fail to instil the correct discipline and standards in your team. Today’s red card wasn’t through a lack of discipline, but we have seen numerous examples of t...

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We also play better when we go down to 10 men. That's why we have the most red cards in the PL as we need to go up and gear and catch the opposition by suprise. Good tactic. A concerning thing for me is how we don’t appear to get any worse when we go down to ten men. This suggests that the eleven o...

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I thought at first, muric is clearly getting there but I think the argument is that if O’Shea doesn’t make the tackle McNeil doesn’t take the heavy touch and is clean through. If that’s at the other end I’m asking for a red card. Inconsistency still stands, Tarky should have been booked for a foul ...

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I'm talking about the same few people on here, I bet they lost their **** when we lost at home to QPR last season too. Maybe there are a few that go overboard, that’s fair enough. But it’s hard to argue that they’ve not got a point. This season has been an absolute disaster. We don’t seem to have d...

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BurnleyFC wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:32 pm
Definite red for me.

Regardless of him being last man, I thought it was a high and dangerous lunge anyway.

Possibly. Was he sent off for that or denial of clear goalscoring opportunity though? The challenge didn’t look dangerous, although it was high.

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I sometimes wonder whether our players know how to interpret the digital match clock on the big screen. There’s a real lack of ability to adapt their game to the situation. See also the complete lack of urgency when trailing a game with a few minutes to go.

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Should this have been a red card? I haven’t read the match thread so not sure if discussed there. But on the feed I watched it seemed like the ball was comfortably going to reach Muric before McNeil had a chance to get to it. I could be completely wrong given I only saw it from a limited angle.

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The level of hysteria is bordering 'nutjob' status for some. I don’t think there’s much, if any hysteria to be fair. Our fans have been very patient this season considering we’ve won just 19 points from 32 games. Kompany is very lucky to still have credit in the bank from last season, and perhaps i...

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I do get the impression that he’s worried about Benson proving him wrong and his lack of game time has an element of self preservation. I think it’s much more likely that he feels Benson won’t offer enough over the 90 minutes, and he may be right. But of course there are many other players who don’...

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The fact is we played well until the goal. We actually defended with aggression and were the only side looking to play football. I wasn’t concerned about a lack of first half chances as long as it was 0-0 as the game would open up in the second half. Obviously that goes out of the window as soon as ...

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We really are our own worst enemies. Last week with a few seconds of the half left Fofana concedes possession cheaply when he could have held the ball or drawn a foul. And then this. Where’s the game management and intelligence. This game was there for the taking, and still is. But I suspect we won’...

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Best case you get a penalty and the opposition get a player sent off. Worst case the ref waves play on. There's no downside to diving and a considerable upside so it's no surprise that teams do it. Even worse is that VAR encourages diving, because if you dive and in the process of doing so the oppo...

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Rowls wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:25 am
You've wrongly inferred again here.

When I spoke of incorrect inferences I was referring to the accusation of "snootiness".

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Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:25 am

Well I certainly caught a few with the blandest of baits in using "Christian name"

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