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I've probably posted too much on this but anyway. Why do the local courts, the court in Manchester, The Supreme Court, the court of appeal and the European court of Human Rights have the right to stop parents taking their child on a two hour flight in a last try to save or prolong his life? He seem...

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Without going into the details of the case, which I doubt anyone on here has any real knowledge of, the thing that troubles me about this case and the previous one of its type at Great Ormond St, is the demonization of the hospital and the doctors treating/caring for him - professionals doing their ...

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As part of the evolution of Burnley under Dyche as a Premier League side, we need to bring in players gradually who are technically better than what we have. In doing so, we need to maintain that fantastic dressing room spirit we have which contributes a lot more to our success than some seem to re...

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I definitely think we'll be in the market for a striker this summer, perhaps 2 given our European commitments. If Dyche wants Jay, then that's fine by me. We know we're getting a good character in Jay (is he still really good mates with Jack Cork?) who has a real affinity with the club and so there'...

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It is also a function of us moving back to 442 - we keep the wide players narrower to help us keep control of midfield. Whenever we've played 442 it's been to the detriment of the wide players, who have had to sacrifice themselves a bit. It doesn't help when we struggle to control the midfield, as a...

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Read my post below. Do you think the pressing game suits him? Barnes is also a target man and yet he offers more all-round that Wood. Bit weird that this has become the theme of the player ratings thread, but I think anyone querying whether Wood fits into the framework needs to just look at our ope...

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I guess it's an easy one with regards to whether his workrate is up to scratch - SD won't go for him if it isn't. He certainly has the ability and would walk (no pun intended) into our starting 11 based on that. I fancy us going in for him in the summer if wages isn't a problem. Indeed - and his at...

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I don't pay that much attention to that. Tom Heaton played for a side that got relegated. There's far too many variables to think there's a correlation. He'd be our ideal support man behind Wood. However, if Stoke do go down, there will be a lot of clubs interested, overseas too. I don't think its ...

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Indeed. Hopefully the difference will be stoke don't have the quality of chelski Indeed, but hopefully there are also some lessons for us to learn about how we go about things - pushing on one at least one of the full backs, as well as the wingers, a bit more to stop Stoke picking passes from deep ...

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If Stoke do go down, I'd love us to go for Shaquiri. The sort of player we're missing in my opinion. I can see the attraction, but I'm not sure the trajectory of Stoke since he signed for them is a particularly good advert for us signing players of his ilk. I've seen his work rate criticised a few ...

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Looks very much like Stoke are going to try and imitate Chelsea - two up top, 3 at the back, 2 holding midfielders and Shaquiri trying to be the extra man both up front and in midfield.

Will be interesting to see how that goes.

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Sidney1st wrote:Recent 5yr contract, according to the article, so won't be cheap.

Depends on what release clauses were included. It'd be a surprise if his agent didn't push to include some get-outs in a deal as long as 5 years.

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So ratings.... - 6 - Made one good 1 v 1 save first half, other than that it was quite routine apart from the two goals - I thought the first was unlucky, but he might have done better, and the second half was just a good finish (and Ward unsighted him), so no blame there. However, once again, his d...

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They play in a way that means they always have an extra man. Every time they attack they had an extra man. Made it look like we were playing with 10 men. When you play 442 vs 532 you either need pace to break away which we don't hence why they cleverly pushed so far up the pitch or you need your st...

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I'll post ratings later, but I don't think its a coincidence that the two teams that have completely outplayed us - certainly at Turf Moor - this season have played in a similar way - quite direct, very physically strong down the centre and focusing on fixing our centre backs and then exploiting the...

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You would seriously consider dropping Westwood? Why? He’s been immense. Big fan of Westwood and he's had some excellent games recently. However, I thought he was below his best - not bad, just below par - on Saturday and it's fair to say that despite winning them our last two games have been charac...

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Our 4-4-2 system worked a treat against them last season at Burnley when, after a slightly dicey start where we got done on the counter, we more than matched them: our narrow back 4 out of possession matched up well against their front 3, our midfield 4 went against their midfield and wing backs, an...

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I think the problem can be more the amount of travel time the EL entails. Last week Arsenal were in Moscow; that's a substantial flight back, across time zones - they probably didn't get back to the UK until around midday on Friday and they played Sunday lunchtime. Even the longest away trip within ...

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Brunt is too old now. Regarding Dawson, I'm not against it, but whilst we's played plenty of Premier League games, he's only really gravitated to playing at centre back this season, and its not been a successful one for WBA. He's also very right sided and ideally we could do with another centre back...

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I thought Hendrick might come on for Lennon too and play narrow on the right side. I also agree Hendrick isn't particularly well suited to the number 10 role as he's a central midfielder. As Macca suggested above, when he was in advanced postion yesterday he lost the ball sloppily and gave Leiceste...

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Players who have the humility to fit into our squad and the quality to help us maintain a top-half spot whilst we juggle Europe won't be easy to find. There aren't too many from the relegated teams that I'd be that interested in though. Maybe a couple from West Brom - I'm a bit doubtful of both Daws...

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We didn't miss what Hendrick "gives us" The 2 goals we scored were from the forwards combining, a Strikes never give up a lost ball, which got us the corner. I think Hendrick not playing as shown us what he gives us, or more about what he doesn't. 11 goals in 400 minutes off football , when he hasn...

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Chilwell was impressive going forwards on his left foot, but his defending for our opening goal was abysmal and we got at them a bit down their left early on. Vardy and Mahrez are light years ahead of the rest of their team though. Was a bit relieved they didn't bring Albrighton on given that they h...

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Agreed, and we also missed what Hendrick gives us as a third midfielder. The Leicester goal came because our midfield wasn't able to get close to the second ball (I think Westwood got caught between attacking it and holding his position, to be honest) and so Leicester were able to get out easily and...

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Don't have a problem with anyone arguing Guardiola deserves to be manager of the year. In some respects it is a compliment to us as a club and our players as it suggests it's not all down to Dyche being a genius. I can understand the argument that the way City have dominated the league warrants the ...

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I watched the game and don't need any information off a tintanet stat site. After we scored our 2nd goal,Harry Maguire pushed forward at every opportunity, he was enabled to do this because our forwards failed to close him down. This is why we was over run in midfield during the second half. Our fo...

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Amazed anybody can give Westwood a ‘5’ - particularly based on stats rather than just watching the game. Westwood put in a real shift defensively and was extremely neat and tidy on the ball. To repeat, it's based on my own eyes not the stats - it just so happens the stats support the view. He certa...

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That score suggest you've been smoking the spice. :lol: :lol: :lol: My opinion pal. I've just checked Whoscored.com incidentally, and it has him making 31 passes today -fewer than usual (and less touches than Cork, which is unusual in itself), and only having a completion rate of 61% (Cork's was ab...

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He did really well today, kept his focus, did the basics ever so well. He's a bit slow on the turn (and that would be exposed in a less rigid set up), and I'm not sure he reads the game and anticipates things as well as Tarky or Mee do, but he's a match for anyone for pace in a straight line and whe...

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Bit lucky to get away with Cork's handball given he'd just overruled the lino to ping Maguire to a ball-to-hand handball, but he then appeared to be consistent in turning down a similar shout from us. Would like to see the possible foul on Lennon immediately after that shout again. But he had contro...

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Just incredible.

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God, that was hard work for all of us. Player ratings reflect that we weren't at our best for long periods, but we showed our character, rode our luck and got through. Pope - 8 - Made a couple of great saves, particularly one in the first half, although the tension showed in his kicking second half ...

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So it seems that one reason the family area is full is because lots of people have tickets in there who possibly shouldn't. I don't know how big that issue is but if it's widespread, it might in itself be a good reason for a review and that review might in itself reveal we have a bigger spare capaci...

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I'd start with Wood and Barnes tomorrow, particularly if JBG is fit to play. But if he tempted to switch it right round and play Vokes ahead of 3 against Chelsea.

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claretandy wrote:I was 16 when it was built, i'm now 38 and take my 10 and 7 year old on, next question.

When you reached 18, until you started taking your kids on, by the rules should you have been allowed to stay in There? Genuine question.

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Claretspice, with respect, I think you are ignoring what I am saying if you conclude that we have the right capacity. You don't know what the impact would be of us having the right capacity in the right ratio of seat type, because we don't have it!! And anyway, it is a long term thing that the club...

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The family area is full to capacity, if you are going to move it then it needs to be to a bigger area, not a smaller one. BTW i've sat in there since the stand was built, and i aint moving ! It would be quite rare for someone to have legitimately had a ticket in the family stand since it was built ...

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The capacity at Burnley now is almost exactly what it was 25 years ago isn't it, and significantly more than it was 30 years ago when sections of the ground were out of bounds? So not sure where the idea the capacity of the ground now has dramatically reduced over the last 30 years has come from. Th...

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Good, solid player who keeps the ball moving nice and smartly. If anything, he's got a better range of passing than Defour - as he showed when he put Lennon in space to create the chance from which Barnes missed his kick first half, he's got a zinger of a cross field ball in his locker that Defour d...

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You can argue that it is because of the legends and folklore that the successes of the 60s created that Orient really mattered. Without that history, Orient might not have led to the massive rebirth that it did. But it just so happened that around about 1987 there were a lot of Burnley supporters wh...

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It is a smaller game than the one we lost to Leicester 3 years ago when they beat us 1-0 and we went down, for a start. It's also undoubtedly smaller than the draws with Boro and Brighton in the run in 2 years ago. It might be as big as or bigger than the game against Leicester 4 years ago, when we ...

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This sort of story is going to happen a lot and its probably wise to ignore all the speculation until it has a bit more in it - certainly in the case of players with 2-3 years left on their current deal. Mee might move on, Brady might move on, Defour might move on - but they probably won't all move ...

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"daylight" - that's the word I was looking for. But arise_sir_charge disagrees. According to him, Vokes was onside, even had it come off Wood. So there's something or somebody wrong, somewhere. Yep, daylight was the word they used at one point, I'm sure of it. I think the problem here is that there...

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He did track back, lots. Perhaps not as effectively as we'd have ideally liked, but to say he didn't track back is plain wrong. I don't recall oncr seeing him standing watching us defend when he should have been involved. He was trying but it's an area of his game where he needs to improve his readi...

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The rule hasn't changed as it's written in the book- but the I interpretation officials are asked to give definitely has. At one point, it was certainly the case that the interpretation was that (to give the benefit of the doubt to the attacker) there was no need to flag for offside unless there was...

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I didn't think there was much to choose between the levels he reached last week and those he reached today, to be honest. The difference was more in the quality of the opposition, and the way they set up. West Brom were crap, Watford weren't. West Brom appeared to start with a game plan that involve...

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Pope - 8 - apart from one dropped cross late on, really solid under pressure from the high ball, and made a couple of excellent saves. Lowton- 7 - stuck to his task terrifically and might have had an early assist when Wood was flagged offside. Ward - 7 - similar to Lowton albeit without the assist b...

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Realistically, since the top six have become so entrenched in the Premier League can any other club, including West Ham or Everton, reasonably expect to do much better than 7th and the odd cup run, unless they have major investment? West Ham and Everton have a significantly better chance than we do...

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Seems fair enough to me, particularly as it appears the sanction on this occasion is a slap on the wrist.

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Not sure I agree with your point above, Dyche spent time under the great Brian Clough. I think we are still on a journey that could lead us to much better things than you can imagine. If that happens, fantastic, but none of us can assume or expect it will happen. Seventh with the odd cup run is the...

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