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So he struggled because of Dyche not due to the league itself and to further back your point up you want to ignore his spell at United houseboy ? Not because of Dyche but because of the style of play…..possibly. And I didn’t ‘ignore’ his spell at United I said I didn’t know what had gone on there a...

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I’m not ignoring anything. I’m saying : 1) the World Cup can often give a false impression as to how a player will perform at club level 2) it is a big risk and a lot of money based on his current salary for any premier league club to buy Weghorst given how he has played in this league so far. Not ...

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Couldn’t agree more but until there are better safeguards regarding some of these owners then these issues will continue at clubs. Agreed totally. I don’t have the answers. I think though the other problem is it only seems to be relatively small clubs who get punished in this way. Clubs with financ...

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Punishing muti-billionaires in some cases, will mean nothing to their finances. So a pointless exercise. And secondly, how do you bar dodgy owners from owning a football club if there are no buyers for that club? I cannot disagree with you but I do know that punishing fans and the club whilst the g...

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If it's wrong to make the fans suffer points deductions because of the illegal payments, then by definition it must be wrong to let them celebrate points "earned" because of the illegal payments. Wigan won promotion last year, while (and presumably because of) spending money they didn't have. Logic...

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To come on as sub yep ! In all seriousness you just can’t go off the world cup and any international football as a yardstick for whether they are good enough for premier league or not. There’s countless examples of clubs buying a player who has had a great international tournament at over inflated ...

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How do you know it didn't work between Dyche and Weghorst? Largely because his strike rate in a major league was spectacular until he had to play Dycheball. I don't know what happened at United because I don't really care but his goals in Holland, Germany and Turkey were there for all to see. And a...

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CleggHall wrote: ↑
Tue May 30, 2023 11:55 am
But the fact remains he is simply not good enough to play in the PL, for United, Burnley or even Luton.

But he is good enough for Holland in the World Cup.

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I find it rather sad that many on here seem to be happy, or at least not in the least bit sad, that a football club, with fans and a community, are in desperate trouble. Almost making fun of it. Points deductions are wrong, I've said it before and I will keep on saying it, because it punishes the fa...

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Each to their own but nothing would ever persuade me to have a tattoo, let alone the full sleeve type. Never in even the most drunken stupor have I ever even considered it. I personally see it as disfigurement. If those with sleeve tats feel a bit silly when they do go out of fashion it’s their own ...

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Congrats to Sean definitely but I am disappointed they stayed up yet again by the skin of their teeth. They have toyed with relegation too long and though I have no dislike for them they need a relegation to re-group I think. Super goal that kept them up though.

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Paul Fletcher

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Too many but:
Whiteman - Roy Harper
Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Days - The Kinks (or Kirsty Mcoll’s cover)
Echoes and Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Refugees - Van der Graff Generator

To be honest I could be here all day.

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I’ll be there. Day before my birthday coincidentally. My daughter got four tickets the day they went on sale. She came to our house and waited till they went on sale. Joined the online queue twenty minutes before they went on sale and was about twenty thousandth (literally) in the queue. They are go...

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The speedway / stock car track basically followed the touchlines and bye lines with the corners "rounded off" Aah yes. I can get that. Wondered if it might take a bit of physical alteration. It also answers another question: what was viewing like at a game with a speedway track there? Answer: there...

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Can I just ask, in my ignorance, how the hell did they have speedway there, it looks square. I know they did of course but I’m struggling to work out from that pic where the track was.

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Ask any Rovers fan and they will tell you Brereton is actually sh!te. Yes he scores a few goals but apparently offers nothing and ‘disappears’ for long periods of the game. Their best period of the season was actually when he wasn’t playing.

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I like most things, especially a bit of spicey, but pepperoni with mushrooms is excellent.
I must say though that although I like both sweetcorn or pineapple shouldn’t be within a mile of a pizza. And stuffed crusts don’t exist in Italy to the best of my knowledge.

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Why do some people some people think Luton going up would be better for us than Boro? They finished third, 5 points ahead of Boro, with far better recent form. They might struggle in the PL, but so would Boro, and so might we. Take Akpom out of that Boro team and they are ordinary at best.

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Don’t quite see the point of this thread given some Clarets pre-disposition to criticising and a seemingly illogical tendency toward hating some individuals/clubs. It seems obvious that Weghorst is going to be mentioned a lot but given that VK has said he is going to have talks with him (good) to se...

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At Ewood they wouldn’t have scored if we were still playing now. On run of play they got exactly what they deserved, beaten by the Champions. As others have said we deserved to lose one game all season at Sheff U. WBA needed a last minute scabby equaliser so I would also suggest that wasn’t a game ...

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Apart from the obvious at Bramhall there were one or two where we got a result against the run of play. WBA comes to mind and, dare I say it, Ewood. We could have lost either of those on run of play but, thankfully, we didn’t. And although I didn’t see it I believe Coventry away was a bit nervy. It’...

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JohnMac wrote: ↑
Tue May 09, 2023 9:43 am
I can't see there being a Gyorkes deal with Coventry, he is valued at £25m according to the media and other Clubs are seemingly interested.

Plus if they go up they might want to keep him.

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Benson wrote: ↑
Mon May 08, 2023 10:38 pm
No drugs, just a sexual deviant then Sidney ?

Who’s Sidney? And what has he to do with sexual deviance? Curios.

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42 and never done recreational drugs. Never smoked either Just to add some balance. To be honest I am a lot older but have never smoked cigarettes. I think many younger (I use the term loosely 😊) people use drugs a lot less than my generation did. Personally my belief is that it is each to his or h...

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I had a thought reading this thread. Much condemnation about drug use coming from a bunch of guys whose average age puts them as part of the ‘swinging sixties’. Statistically there is a better than average chance many of them have indulged in the past (given that it seemed more did than didn’t back ...

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Daft question - of course he’s a claret hero. It was ball to hand in any case. No guarantee Rovers would score either. 10 years of service is not undone by a potential ball to hand penalty which could have lengthened the pain of not getting promotion again for Rovers I’m not questioning his overall...

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If it was accidental, as I think it was, then he is no hero because he didn’t intend it. If it was intentional then it was stupid because Muric had it fully covered and he could have cost us two points. Either way it’s not in any way ‘heroic’. If we are going to beat Rovers I’d prefer to do it witho...

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I think it’s a bit odd that some fans hatred of Rovers runs to celebrating one of our players getting away with handball in the penalty area. I’d like to think it was accidental as there was no need to do it intentionally as Muric had it fully covered behind him. But just supposing the ref had given...

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scouseclaret wrote: ↑
Mon May 08, 2023 7:00 pm
If only Manuel Benson hadn’t curled in one of his specials the other week…

Hell, I read curled one out there. I thought I didn’t see him have a sh!t on the pitch.

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durhamclaret wrote: ↑
Mon May 08, 2023 8:48 pm
Only once at the Turf, beating Barrow in the Lancs senior cup,
Once away, that famous night at York.

Twice. Orient and last game of ‘74 at Deepdale when we got the point we needed for…well I never… the second division/Championship champions trophy.

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Was very busy yesterday and only just seen this this morning. Just browsing the BBC sport app for anything Burnley related and actually did a full blown double take on the headline. Someone posted about ‘500 good news’ posts but what do they expect. It’s not just good news, it’s the best. Couldn’t b...

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By the way you mentioned people from school there, I often wonder how many are still around. I know Hawkeye went quite young and I think Mick Byrne is gone. Only person I see now is John Winfield (who I went through primary with too) but I only see him when someone dies cos he owns Fred Hamers.

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Hi Ian, I wasn't actually the oldest in our year, that was Ewan. I think his birthday was the 6th. Also Janet Bridge who was a day older than me and Gus Hargreaves who was a day younger. I used to run a bit up til nearly 8 years ago when I broke my hip cycling. I finally had a replacement OP last A...

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Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑
Thu May 04, 2023 10:25 am
But they won the World Cup.

Yeah I know.

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Just tickles me how people have no issue with Southampton (as a random example) but we've won more than them and yet we get stick, makes no sense I have the same issue with West Ham. Always touted as a big club but silverware haul isn’t great and they have never been champions of England...ever. Al...

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The very, very haunting "The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". Worth reading the story about this tragedy if you're remotely interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A I think I have a listen to this about once every few weeks. As you say a truly haunting account of a real tragedy. Supe...

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Apologies. Didn’t realise there had been a thread already. Only found out tonight.

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Apologies for missing this thread. I started one earlier.

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Just read tonight that Gordon Lightfoot died on Monday aged 84. Writer of some superb songs with an easy almost lazy vocal style. If You Could Read My Mind is probably his most famous, along with Sundown, and my personal favourite, the epic The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the true story of the s...

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70 in Septober. 😆 Hey bud,if you’d been a few days older we wouldn’t have been in the same year. Seems a long time since Beaumont, Grocott and the like were hitting us with sticks and trainers. Can still see the shock on Beaumonts face when I came second in the school cross country once. I wonder w...

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nig1954 wrote: ↑
Wed May 03, 2023 2:54 pm
68, will be 69 in June. First game was in November 1961 but my first recollection of an established team was in 1963/64

Exactly the same here bud. 69 on 1st June. Be at Etihad the night before to see Coldplay. Should be more fun than watching Burnley play there.

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Bearing in mind that paper lasts for ever (more or less) and is infinitely renewable, while the electricity used to power mobile phones is not, I suspect the environmental benefits aren't all they're cracked up to be. You could well be right. It depends if we use paper quicker than we can replace t...

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Everton for the drop I hope. Decent club but they need to have a season in the Championship to ‘re-group’ I think. They have spent too many seasons now flirting with relegation. West Ham I’m hoping will drop (but I don’t think they will). Other than that I don’t care, unlike a lot on here I have abs...

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To be fair it's public knowledge that our manager is on the shortlist for 2 of the biggest clubs in the country, that in most normal seasons play in the CL / EL - something City would like on the CV of Pep's future replacement. The state that both of them are in at the moment it seems difficult VK ...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 30, 2023 11:05 am
Or typical of the Football League who allow clubs to offer no match programme. It’s a tradition of English football all the way down to local non leagues.

I know it is Tony and it’s a fine tradition but if clubs want to go paperless it’s good for the environment surely?

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basil6345789 wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 29, 2023 10:13 pm
Looks more like Bluebottle

You dirty rotten swine. You deaded me.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 28, 2023 11:30 pm
It is compulsory in the Premier League - Blackburn claim to have a digital programme but I've not been able to find it.

Typical of the PL. Don’t miss any opportunity to get fans to spend money.

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What an odd thread. Unless I’ve missed something VK is our manager, why are you discussing his replacement? It’s bad enough when the media ‘sell’ our players/managers, we don’t need our fans doing it as well. It smacks of the same attitude when we get a new player, how much can we sell him for. Are ...

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Speaking of also ran’s. I have always thought that the Champion’s League is probably the most inappropriately named tournament in the world given that most of the teams in it aren’t. How do you qualify for a ‘champions’ tournament for finishing fourth? Ridiculous money making excercise.

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