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taio wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:43 pm
You are right to recognise that Muric played really well but at the same time keep things in perspective given we played 90 mins against ten men and a team in poor form.

Couldn't think of the word, thanks!

Perspective!

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:38 pm
Almost like our control of the game had something to do with it...

or having one less player than us...

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I've taken the time to read all your other posts and note with interest you claimed Brentford weren't interested for 75 minutes. Bizarre and unusual thing to make up if you aren't trying to let us know why it isn't very good that we won. It's very transparent that you're doing it in the "Arijanet M...

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Correct - did I say it wasn't? No you didn't, but I did wonder what relevance your post had and assumed it would be Muric, being I was responding to a Muric picture, on a Muric thread. Hey, I'll agree, if we're threading balls through to have a goal scoring chance in the first 10 minutes to get an ...

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What is the point in supporting Burnley if you are falling over yourself to explain why it's not that good when we win? What are you getting out of it? Clearly you havent read all my other posts on yesterdays game, if this is what you're reading into my post. Muric done good, and silenced a few dou...

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:16 pm
Hey count me in if we're threading balls through to have a goal scoring chance in the first 10 minutes to get an opposition player sent off and/or a penalty.

Just may work

Theres me thinking it was Cullen threading the ball, through my non Kosovan tinted spectacles.

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:10 pm
Can we do it?!

If every team puts in a 15 minute performance against us and we only have to play 10 men for 85 minutes of a game, then yes.

If it's normal circumstances, then just maybe.

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Both the Luton goal and the one yesterday were clear fouls. Bizarre that anyone tries to argue differently. Less bizarre, more agenda driven. You’d think with the bogey man out of the side now and a win under our belt, this messageboard would be a little less combative. Then again, reading on here ...

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Muric 9 - collected crosses, dominated his area and (importantly) threw in some match winning saves. Also in the first half kept us on the attack quickly. Assignon 7 - Standard Assignon. Solid performance with a few lapses in concentration. O’Shea 6 - seemed to lose a lot of duels with Toney and the...

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Excellent performance today, kept us going forwards (quickly), claimed his crosses and, whilst addressing any doubts, made match winning saves. But… before the jizz fest gets too out of hand - this was a Brentford side, in poor form, down to 10 men after 5 minutes. If Muric performs like this for th...

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I don't know, we seem to have long since adopted the Man City tactic of deliberate fouls whenever there's chance of a breakaway (aka The Rodri). Unlike City we never get away with it or, as with Berge today, we don't even manage to bring the player down while accruing the booking. Rotational foulin...

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Kompany knew how to mix it as a player too, remember? He no doubt actively encourages it. Kompany didnt play in the era where kicking the ball away or giving the ref verbals was an auto booking i.e. from this season. I might think Kompany makes a lot of strange decisions but encouraging his players...

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No intelligence. No discipline. See Assignon feigning a head injury and giving his opponent a free shot at goal as a result. Pathetic ill-disciplined mob and it doesn’t reflect well on the management. On another day Assignon gets a red. His yellow was ridiculous, for kicking the ball two yards away...

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Ings scores two (one ruled out) and intercepts a tap in for one of ours in his own box...

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Ingsy give us a break, lad

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:54 pm
Yet to see any examples of this famed 'shot stopping'

Because Trafford has been the problem today.

He lives in your head rent free.

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Delcroix's turn for a brainless booking

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Assignon you silly sod!

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Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:27 pm
Westleigh has gone now, EasyasBFC is back.

I saw Carwin make an appearance this week too.

Poster has more usernames than BFC has wingers

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It would be interesting to see how many previously spent money on the ground but don’t anymore. Certainly my food fell into this bracket and I’d often spend probably more at the ground than my pie and peas in the pub. The new pies are horrific though and I’m not spending another £4 on a drink to re...

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ClaretAL wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:44 pm
Which pub are you going to that you can get 4/5 beers for £17 and serve pie and peas?

One of those Cark Cloud has mentioned

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Its been a while since I did a quick survey of your matchday cost, which in some cases was quite eye watering, but I wonder (pre-season ticket pricing announcement) what the cost of the average matchday is now we're in a cost of living crisis. Maybe an idea to try identify how much is actually spent...

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We could very well be short of wingers. After signing them all, we'd be fairly brainless to ship out all of Koleosho, Odobert, Twine, Benson, Zaroury, Churlinov & Redmond. That's even assuming we don't sign Tresor, Bruun Larsen or auto renew JBG's contract. It would be very Burnley though to sign f...

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Any Wingers or CB's?

We're short on them.

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Is this the default position of anyone who dares to criticise Saint Vincent? I've been a season ticket holder since 1990 if you must know. Then you should know better than to ‘expect’ Burnley to be competitive in the PL. We have relatively small spend (yes even including the £100m we’ve spent acros...

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fidelcastro wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:02 pm
At this level, I at least expect us to be competitive, which bar a few exceptions, we just haven't been.

Born yesterday or just been supporting Burnley since 2016?

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Row Z wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:37 pm
And yet Muric cost a small percentage of that of Trafford and yet managed to put Tella clean through countless times last season to score, win penalties, win corners etc with exactly this long range pass ….

... in the championship.

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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? If you gave examples of the Luton keeper conceding from players unmarked in the 6 yard box, indicating they should have ...

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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. Prime Schmeichel concedes the first yesterday (a free volley inside our six yard box), against Arsenal (I assume you mean Odegaard...

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We will never know what's happened behind closed doors, but I think it's becoming clear that something has happened. I suspect Muric has done something to completely break his relationship with VK and therefore VK has absolutely no intention of playing him... whether that's to the detriment of Traf...

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Ric_C wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:47 am
If he'd have brought Muric in sooner, and we'd be trying to play the same style as last season, there would be nowhere near as much dissent in the stands as there is now.

You assume the results would have turned out different, of course.

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I think the biggest argument for dropping Trafford is reflected by the scores he's now getting for a perfectly fine performance in which he played to instructions. He's becoming a lightening rod for the teams failings. 100% agree with this. Personally, I think his career with BFC is already dead fo...

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Obviously not any of the kicks to touch, but you know that. I'm talking about the pass directly to one of the Bournemouth players in the first half that led to booking from the crowd. And can you not read where I said " not condoning the booing" People have a legitimate view of Trafford's shortcomi...

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BurnleyFC wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:56 pm

We huffed and we puffed but we’d still be puffing now trying to blow their house down.

Verbatim this is what I said coming out of the ground

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Stop making things up, you call out others for it....He misplaced a simple pass straight to a Bournemouth - not condoning the booing but don't make out it wasn't a dreadful error that could have cost us. Sure… The one he knocked out of play was ‘straight to a Bournemouth’. Even then ‘that could hav...

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I'm not justifying anything, just asking the question. I arrived very late today, just as the players were coming out. I didn't pay much attention to the line up. I heard a small amount of Muric chanting but it was clearly a minority. As I've said previously, it's all on VK anyway and I suspect the...

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Do you think he's really getting that much abuse? I sit in the Jimmy Mac and I don't think he was getting pelters all day. There were moans and the odd boo when he messed up his distribution but not as much as some are suggesting. I don’t remember many players getting boo’d when their name was anno...

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jlup1980 wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:45 pm
I still think he's getting off lightly.

Stop reading here

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jojomk1 wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:24 pm
A finisher he is definitely not

That’s fair, based on todays debacle

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Couldn’t trap a bag of cement today.

I wonder if he’s just a finisher in the Andre Gray mould.

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Rileybobs wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:47 pm
It’s not Kompany’s fault that some of Burnley’s fans abuse one of their players.

In fairness, it’s a brainless minority just as it is on here who choose to single out one of our own for abuse. Even clearer to identify the brainless when they defend the abuse.

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Certainly the waiting list will be gone for next season.

I can see a small amount of churn but aside the club doing something mental like adding 10%+ to the pricing most folk will be back to see if VK can repeat his championship magic.

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CrosspoolClarets wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:21 pm
Not as subtle as your usual efforts. Must do better.

Properly lost his gift in his old age.

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Yes, Burnley were at a financial disadvantage in 2021/22 when BFC were relegated. Then Everton signed Dwight McNeil, plus James Tarkowski, who was OOC ahead of 2022/23 season - season 4 if we continue your 1,2,3 list. Burnley didn't play Everton in "season 4." Both Burnley and Everton are now in se...

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their (weak) defence will be based upon the double jeopardy aspect in that they've already been punished for it, so I cant see any further points deductions for Everton. Forest may well get off too. I think the point (Paul Waine accurately makes) is they've been deducted 6 points for breaching spen...

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Their second breach is 2022/23. The penalty for the second breach (and Everton's appeal) comes later. Which is the point I made when I posted 'Obviously, the penalty (six points) may or may not not apply but my point remains.' Even so, whats to suggest we werent already at a disadvantage due to the...

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Couldnt edit so:

This relates to the three seasons previous. i.e 2022/23, 2021/22 and 2020/21. McNeil signed for them in July 2022. Obviously, the penalty (six points) may or may not not apply but my point remains.

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Paul Waine wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:00 pm
Don't think you've quite lined up the seasons.
The second breach of FFP is for the season ending 2022/23.

This relates to the three seasons previous. Obviously, the penalty (six points) may not apply but my point remains.

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bumba wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:34 pm
We aren't getting relegated because of Everton, we're being relegated because of ourselves.

Kudos for a valid point well made.

Not sure what relevance it has to my original post, but nevertheless well done.

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