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Five centre halves now. Six if you include Thomas.

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:06 pm
Doesn't look like you watch at all!

Oh I do. I also don't expect keepers to save shots that are going wide.

So go on, when did Barnes last get anywhere near 20 goals in the championship?

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:02 pm
Again, I disagree. His chest control and ball holding is superb. His heading is decent and his snap shooting sharp. Buries penalties too!

That's because you always watch a different game.

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 5:50 pm
Whilst that is an opinion, to which you are entitled, Fidel, I think it is a bit derogatory about a fine Claret.

Not really. Barnes is a very limited footballer.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 5:56 pm
Think it is season long loan but awaiting details

They got the earlier signing details wrong, so it's probably for a month.

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 1:01 pm
I have been following the Prem since we left.
Those 2 players are very clever.

They might be, but neither of them have bagged twenty goals at championship level.

Barnes will do what Barnes does, play for a free kick and fall over at every opportunity.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:55 pm
No. They’ve changed it to a three year deal.

In that case, pretty shoddy communication from the club. Not for the first time.

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Quicknick wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:24 pm
I don't remember Paul France. I do remember Gary France.

And I'm the opposite. I don't remember Gary France.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:36 pm
Burnley announced this as a four year deal this morning, they’ve now changed it to three years. You would hope the club might have got that right.

I’ll go and change it now on here.

Is it three years with the option of a fourth?

If so, maybe that's where the confusion has come from.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 11:29 am
Good bloke is Paul France - at Barnsley now

Is he really? I never realised. Never heard anything more about him once he left us.

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Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 11:25 am
I'm going to have to sit down & have a cup of tea.
Not used to us signing so many players so quickly.

Indeed. I haven't been as excited since Paul France and Ian Bray arrived in such quick succession.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 11:15 am
A few hundred grand but I suspect City will have done what they did with Kieran Trippier & Ben Mee, allowed a low figure but with a huge sell on percentage.

Won't do them much good with Mee now!

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Any idea on how much compensation we've paid?

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:14 am
Check again end of season, should both get a fair cracking. Their ability and lnow how is far above the Championship.

Remind me of the last time either of them scored twenty championship goals?

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Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:23 am
If it wasn't for West Ham then England would never have won the World Cup. I think its unquestionable that West Ham are one of the top 10 biggest clubs in English football

West ham didn't win the world cup. England did.

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West Ham are completely bum licked by the media, like they're a massive club, but yet they've never won the league.

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 1:48 am
Both players are 20 goals a season in the Championship.
Do not underestimate the ability of either. We are very lucky to have them still. The others are unproven. Hopefully good enough too.

I see you've resorted to just making **** up again.

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I remember inadvertently knocking his glasses off his face when we scored a goal at Carlisle during the fourth division championship season. He was absolutely fine about it!

RIP Rocky.

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 28, 2022 9:27 pm
I would say it’s almost certain Collins is leaving

I wouldn't say it was certain at all, but he's Bambi on ice anyway according to you, so who cares?

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She’s sharing pictures claiming it was photoshopped, with pictures of the originals and their composites. Now, I’ve done lots of photoshopping in my time, and I’ve photoshopped many people out of images, added limbs to other peoples bodies and rebuilt backgrounds, - the ones she’s sharing claiming ...

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In terms of staff, very much so. It was a local journalist who reported that Hodge had gone and, believe it or not, I got the exclusive on Ally Beattie going. The club don’t report stuff like that now although they did announce that Dyche and his team had gone. 😀😀 Was any reason given for needing a...

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Lady Victoria Harvey has just had a hissy fit on Piers Morgan's show on Talk TV, using the 'F' word before the watershed. She claimed she knew for a fact that the infamous photo of Prince Andrew with his arm around that young girl was fake, as the man in the photo was actually Epstein!

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:24 pm
I don’t know to be honest since Martin Hodge left.

Is it just me, or are things far more secretive under the new owners?

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:52 pm
Recruitment department I would imagine. That’s how it usually works. Kompany has already spoken highly of them.

Who heads the recruitment department these days?

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Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:30 pm
If he’s good - Kompany
If he’s rubbish - Pace

Many a true word said in jest!

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Out of interest, who will have scouted this guy?

We don't even know the coaching staff yet, do we?

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I wouldn't want Hoddle or Waddle anywhere near our club after that 'Diamond Lights' song.

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Guller Bull wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 27, 2022 3:48 pm
What happened to Joel Mumbongo? Did he transfer permanently to Stanley?

Released by us at the end of the season.

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League one player of the season too, so he must have something about him.

I'm happy with this signing

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I can take or leave Glastonbury when it's on the telly, but the thought of camping in a field of **** for several days really doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 25, 2022 5:34 pm
Haven't we offered him a deal, and time to recover from his injury with us?

If we haven't then surely he'd have been released when the other six were announced.

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bumba wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 25, 2022 5:27 pm
Has anything been said about Vydra? Has he signed or left? We've announced Cork and presume both got offered at same time

Probably biding his time in the hope that another club comes in for him. You would hope there would be a deadline though.

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Marney&Mee wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 25, 2022 4:53 pm
Rumour from a decent source. Rather than pay out Dyche in full, we are still paying him £110k a week. Is that visible in the accounts?

I'm not saying it's the case here, but people's "decent source" often turns out to be complete codswallop.

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Loyal Supporter wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 25, 2022 5:02 pm
The cutting is from March 2021!

What cutting?

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Conroy92 wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 25, 2022 4:06 pm
Always makes me laugh how much people love to quote the orient game but no one ever seems to say, "remember the days when we won the league".

Probably because you have to be bloody old to remember that!

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Has Weghorst going to Besiktas on loan been mentioned yet?

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KRBFC wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 25, 2022 3:52 pm
What has our entire history got to do with Dyche? we've played 7 seasons in tier 4, naturally we quite clearly aren't a tier 4 side.

I never said we were.

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You might want to include the little matter of the end of the maximum wage into those statistics. It could have been the death knell for Burnley. It very nearly was. The last ten years have been incredible for the club and town and Dyche was a major part of that. He never liked Dyche. He was consta...

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 25, 2022 3:44 pm
you can't have VAR in only a handful of grounds, it's either all or nothing

It should be, but the cup competitions have had different rules, depending on whether the ground is var installed or not.

It's not right, but then again, if we didn't have var in the PL we'd have stopped up last season!

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2 Bee Holed wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 25, 2022 3:31 pm
You never win owt with kids.

I doubt we would, but thankfully we still have plenty of experience in the squad to complement the younger pro's

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We were so successful under Dyche that there is now a young generation of Burnley fans who assume we're a "natural" kind of tier 1 / tier 2 club. For them, it's the "norm". For a few others, the continued 'success' of staying in the PL erodes the context that older fans might have. It's difficult t...

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Shaggy wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 25, 2022 3:11 pm
About his level for hoofball with 35 year old pro’s

And some on here actually thought he was a better manager than Rafa Benitez

What a strange man you are.

To have this level of disrespect for our most successful manager since Potts.

Bewildering.

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ksrclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 25, 2022 11:10 am
You’re going to have to let it go at some point mate. He’s gone and he can’t hurt you anymore.

Skipton is wetting himself at the thought of us signing inexperienced younger players.

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Not a cat in hells chance will the old firm fans tolerate Dyche, his style of football and the players he targets. I do hope he gets a job soon so he can get off our wage bill and we can finally get rid of all things Dyche from the club. You do realise that you're unlikely to see a manager at Burnl...

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Never heard of CJ Egan Riley.

Hope He's good.

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Funkydrummer wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:21 pm
I'll arrange the whip round for the boat hire.

No need to go overboard.

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Goody1975 wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:18 pm
2010/11 - 14,930

The Brian Laws effect.

2014/15 - 19,130 (Premier League)

The Lee Hoos effect.

It seemed to get lower under Howe and even Dyche for a while.

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Will we be able to pay on the gate?

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He's starting to remind me of Robert Maxwell.

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Tall Paul wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:49 pm
How do we know the fee if it's undisclosed?

Someone saw it on the internet.

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