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JohnMcGreal

Update to my earlier post. I phoned the ticket office today regarding the missing money for my ticket resale for the Liverpool game. The lady said they were having some issues with the system but she could add the refund to my On Account manually, this she did and its now showing in my account. Sam...

JohnMcGreal

Same issue here. I'm still waiting for my refund to be credited for the Everton game over 2 weeks ago.

JohnMcGreal

He’s obviously not ‘injured’ then. I used to know what players were available but everything is so secretive now. Wouldn’t be surprised if Benson and Zaroury’s noses have be put out of joint by being binned off after the efforts they put in last season. Which probably means they won't be as useful ...

JohnMcGreal

I'd just assumed Benson has been injured / unfit for pretty much all of this season. This suggests that maybe he has been available but is just out of favour? Either way, he's not getting near the team for whatever reason. It's not too surprising to see him wanting a move. I imagine there'll be a fe...

JohnMcGreal

Aston Villa 3 Burnley 0
Watkins 9 mins
NL2

JohnMcGreal

Rowls wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:10 pm
The political benefits of Brexit are here already

Political benefits such as 5 different Prime Ministers in 7 years?

That just screams a politically stable nation that's on the right track, doesn't it.

JohnMcGreal

Trafford 9
Vitinho 5
O'Shea 6
Beyer 6
Taylor 6
Odobert 7
Brownhill 5
Berge 5
Tresor 5
Amdouni 5
Foster 5

Gudmundsson 6

Did well to keep the scoreline down.

JohnMcGreal

It might have been utterly tinpot but it certainly gave people a good laugh.

JohnMcGreal

Trafford 7 Vitinho 7 O’Shea 8 Beyer 7 Taylor 7 Bruun Larsen 4 Brownhill 7 Berge 8 Odobert 7 Amdouni 6 Foster 7 Trésor 6 Rodriguez 6 We look a completely different team with Foster in the side. We took our chances when they came and defended well. We never really looked in any danger. Massive 3 points!

JohnMcGreal

Rowls wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 21, 2023 4:43 pm
In all seriousness, I truly think the PL should have called their bluff, wished them well and kicked them out.

Completely agree. There's still time yet.

JohnMcGreal

kentonclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 21, 2023 11:32 am
With Mary Earps donating £10k for every penalty scored?

We are living in an age of diversity after all

She's not the one running her mouth off making silly claims

JohnMcGreal

He should put his money where his mouth is. 100 penalties against Mary Earps with him donating £10k to a charity for every penalty he misses.

JohnMcGreal

Amdouni has good feet and looks technically decent. However he's a complete passenger for most of the game and has been pretty ineffective overall. Like most of our players. That said, it's the manager's job to build a functioning and competitive team out of the players he has available. So far it's...

JohnMcGreal

Thursday 21st December Crystal Palace 1-1 Brighton Friday 22nd December Aston Villa 3-0 Sheffield United - NAP Sat 23rd December West Ham 1-0 Man-Utd Fulham 2-0 Burnley - Iwobi 20 mins Luton 1-2 Newcastle Forest 1-2 Bournemouth Spurs 2-1 Everton Liverpool 2-3 Arsenal Sunday 24th December Wolves 0-2 ...

JohnMcGreal

The club needs to be that stepping stone for players to prove themselves in the top flight/english football, other clubs do it and do it well whilst building up the club itself But that's nothing new. The club has been a stepping stone for players for pretty much its entire history. Off the top of ...

JohnMcGreal

I imagine if the club failed to sell a single item anywhere in the ground for a couple of consecutive home games they'd soon shape up.

JohnMcGreal

I think it was actually Vitinho's cross which Godfrey managed to take off Amdouni, not Bruun-Larsen's.

A fair and honest report as always. Let's hope we improve for Fulham.

JohnMcGreal

Trafford 4 - Big errors which lead to goals. Poor Vitinho 5 - Best of the back 4, which is worrying Beyer 4 - Poor O’Shea 3 - Shouldn't be near the team Delcroix 4 - Out of position probably, but still poor Bruun Larsen 4 - Tried but his deliveries were hopeless Berge 6 - Ok Brownhill 3 - Dreadful. ...

JohnMcGreal

Spijed wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 16, 2023 9:56 pm
And what's the "long term project"?

Nobody knows for sure, but it looks like Phase One is to get relegated so that the players we signed in the summer look a bit better.

JohnMcGreal

CrosspoolClarets wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 16, 2023 6:28 pm
We were 6 points behind Forest after we were robbed there in September. We’ll be 6 points behind tonight.

I get the sentiment, but this season isn’t gone yet.

When you've only managed to get 8 points all season a 6 point gap is a chasm.

JohnMcGreal

Bugger.

JohnMcGreal

Odobert needs to stop giving the ball away. Almost everything is bouncing off him to an opposition player.

JohnMcGreal

Friday 15th December Forest 1-2 Spurs - Johnson Saturday 16th December Bournemouth 2-1 Luton - Solanke Chelsea 2-0 Sheffield United - Palmer Man City 4-0 Crystal Palace - Alvarez Newcastle 2-1 Fulham - Isak Burnley 1-2 Everton - Keane 18 mins Sunday 17th December West Ham 2-0 Wolves - Bowen Brentfor...

JohnMcGreal

Burnley 0 Everton 2
Doucoure 51 mins
NL2

JohnMcGreal

I’m not on here for a political debate. I just don’t think Lineker should be spouting his political views on platforms like twatter whilst he is a BBC employee, and their highest remunerated one at that. Surely platforms like Twitter are exactly where he should be airing his personal views? He shou...

JohnMcGreal

Still important that lessons are learned though in my view. I'm not getting into the politics of it. It would be outrageous if we don't learn and implement lessons from Covid. Completely agree. I just think it's worth pointing out that this isn't all about hindsight, because the people in charge kn...

JohnMcGreal

To learn lessons that will play an important role in responding to emergency situations in the future. They already had the opportunity to learn lessons from Exercise Cygnus in 2017. They didn't learn them. They continued to mismanage the NHS along with pretty much everything else and lo and behold...

JohnMcGreal

Crystal Palace 0-2 Liverpool
Brighton 3-0 Burnley - Mitoma 12 mins
Man Utd 2-1 Bournemouth
Sheffield United 2-0 Brentford
Wolves 2-0 Forest
Aston Villa 2-2 Arsenal - NAP
Everton 1-1 Chelsea
Fulham 1-2 West Ham
Luton 1-3 Man City
Spurs 1-1 Newcastle

27 Goals

JohnMcGreal

Brighton 3 Burnley 0
Ferguson 8 mins
NL2

JohnMcGreal

At least his attacks on women were only verbal this time. A step in the right direction, I suppose.

JohnMcGreal

Trafford 6
Vitinho 6
O'Shea 6
Ekdal 6
Taylor 6
Bruun Larsen 4
Brownhill 6
Berge 5
Koleosho 6
Amdouni 5
Rodriguez 5

Gudmundsson 5
Tresor 5

Never looked like scoring. Gave away another soft goal. The opposition took all 3 points without having to really do anything. Again.

JohnMcGreal

Wolves 2 Burnley 2
Amdouni 12 mins
NL2

JohnMcGreal

Wolves 2-1 Burnley - Amdouni 14 mins
Luton 0-3 Arsenal
Brighton 2-2 Brentford - NAP
Crystal Palace 1-0 Bournemouth
Fulham 2-0 Nottingham Forest
Sheffield Utd 0-9 Liverpool
Aston Villa 2-3 Man City
Man Utd 1-1 Chelsea
Everton 1-3 Newcastle
Spurs 2-1 West Ham

36 goals

JohnMcGreal

Rowls wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:04 pm
The snowflakes in the windows of the club shop are wrong -AGAIN!- for the second year running.

Who's responsible for this mess?

Won't they have melted just after the scheduled kick off time anyway? No need to panic.

JohnMcGreal

Trafford 7 Vitinho 7 Beyer 8 O'Shea 7 Taylor 8 Brownhill 7 Berge 9 Koleosho 8 Brun Larsen 7 Amdouni 7 Rodriguez 7 Gudmundsson 7 Just what the doctor ordered! Huge relief to finally get that monkey off our back at home and at the same time putting an end to a horrible run of results in emphatic fashi...

JohnMcGreal

Most do if the money was equal. Players aren't going to America & China & UAE for the quality of football it's the money. If you offered them the same money & inclusion & give them a choice where do you think they'd pick? Some just go where they can get paid the most money. Some play in certain cou...

JohnMcGreal

gandhisflipflop wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 01, 2023 9:39 pm
Every player wants to play in the PL

That's just not true.

JohnMcGreal

I think the vast majority of fans want Kompany to stay for the long term but are also realistic enough to understand that there's only so long a run of defeats can stretch before the inevitable happens.

We desperately need to arrest this slump. There's no better time than tomorrow.

JohnMcGreal

Arsenal 3-0 Wolves
Brentford 2-0 Luton
Burnley 1-1 Sheffield Utd - Berge 14 mins
Forest 2-2 Everton
Newcastle 4-2 Man Utd
Bournemouth 1-3 Villa
Chelsea 2-2 Brighton
Liverpool 3-0 Fulham
West Ham 2-1 Crystal Palace
Man City 5-1 Spurs - NAP

37 goals

JohnMcGreal

Burnley 2 Sheff Utd 1
Amdouni 9 mins
NL2

JohnMcGreal

A handful? If we did, that would be made up on the sales of others so it would balance out and we’d be in profit Make your mind up. You said we won't lose money on any of them! :lol: Seriously though, I admire your unshakeable belief in something that nobody, not even the board of directors, knows ...

JohnMcGreal

NewClaret wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:52 pm
We haven’t paid anything. He’s on loan.

I thought I'd read that his move had been made permanent after so many appearances. Maybe not, then.

JohnMcGreal

Not sure how much we ended up paying for Tresor but he's not on that list.

JohnMcGreal

We paid a very high price? No we didn’t We’re paying average to low prices for these players, you’re behind the times in regards to transfer fees These are not big fees, none of them, they’re just more common now for Burnley and that’s where the issue lies with some of you it would appear. We'll ha...

JohnMcGreal

Sigh People just don’t get it Players are mostly young and will improve Players are mostly on long contracts, this makes a big difference Several players were held in high regard/ones to watch, across Europe before coming here - Tresor and Amdouni being examples More often than not the transfer fee...

JohnMcGreal

I'm getting pretty fed up with the constant digs at the fans, as though we're the reason the team can't stop losing.

I fully expect another email from the club this week with some new suggestions on how to make everything better.

JohnMcGreal

I'm not saying it would be the right call but any manager who's in charge of a team that can't stop losing will soon find that his position is untenable.

The next few weeks are massive. He has to arrest this slump, somehow.

JohnMcGreal

Trafford 6
Vitinho 5
O'Shea 6
Beyer 5
Taylor 5
Gudmudsson 7
Brownhill 6
Berge 7
Koleosho 7
Amdouni 7
Rodriguez 6

That was a really sore one. Should never have thrown that away.

JohnMcGreal

What I don't understand is why lose optimism. The opposite is so depressing. It's easy to say that. But when you're losing every game (7 on the bounce now in all competitions and 7 on the bounce at home) it's pretty hard to feel optimistic about anything. Anyone who still feels optimistic at this p...

JohnMcGreal

Very grubby and very sad to see our great club on the wrong side of things in this way.

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