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Muric 8 - passing sublime and got us out of jail half a dozen times, no chance with the goal I felt. Vitinho 7 - only weakness that final ball O’Shea 7 - a mix but a vital assist and turning into a leader Esteve 8 - numerous match saving moments, just a couple of minor errors Taylor 6 - final ball d...

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We lack the final ball but look good between both boxes. It really is that simple.

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No. Must not lose. They will only drop with another points deduction and if that was 3-4 points we are close.

The main thing is we are playing well, have some resilience, and have a chance, even if the odds are against us.

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So unlucky, the Wolves guy tried to do a Cruyff turn and tripped himself up and lost balance. Very poor reffing yet again, but our switching off on the stroke of half time has cost us many times.

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Nottingham’s Coote on VAR predictably, given it is Forest we are trying to catch. Already shafted us this season. I know that there is some suggestion he is a County fan, but they shouldn’t be constantly giving us officials from our rivals cities. There are 20+ of them, why the heck do we get the sa...

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Someone at the club should clip all the game chaining injustices that have cost us points this season, and send them to the Premier League and the PGMOL and ask them for their explanation as to how so many can happen to 1 club. You can only send a certain amount of megabytes on an email. Pretty sur...

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Good report. Interestingly, regarding the “almost impossible” rebound chance for Jay, Understat gave it 0.51 expected goals (51% likely to score) and his header they gave as 3% likely.

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Tuesday 2nd April Newcastle 2-1 Everton Forest 2-1 Fulham NAP Bournemouth 2-1 Palace Burnley 2-2 Wolves - Fofana 30th min West Ham 1-2 Spurs Wed 3rd April Arsenal 3-0 Luton Brentford 2-1 Brighton Man-City 2-1 Aston Villa Thursday 4th April Liverpool 4-0 Sheffield Utd Chelsea 1-1 Man-Utd Sat 6th Apri...

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Genuinely believe two things.

1. We win on Saturday, we stay up.
2. We would deserve to.

(don’t think we will win, but we have a good chance)

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Dwight is a 1-2 trick pony but he is super at those things and you can carve out a solid PL career doing that. Whether Wilson hits those heights with a different bag of talents remains to be seen. Great potential though and we were right to sign him, as with Koleosho.

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Didn’t escape me that all 4 subs have solid PL pedigree. Why we haven’t played Jay and JBG more surprises me.

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Sat Mar 30, 2024 3:48 pm
I've never truly believed that there's any sort of agenda to get us out of the league, but my god this season I'm having a hard time truly believing that there isn't anymore...

Naivity can be a good thing. Trust me, I mean it as a compliment.

There clearly is, at minimum, a subconscious bias.

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Well, I’ve picked up my passport this morning and after 300 miles on the road am about to fly and land to a Clarets win. But what a farce, Home Office told me the only reason slots opened up in Durham was due to a “technical error”. The civil service are indeed a farce, whatever your left or right v...

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Apologies if already discussed, but I sit in between two pensioners in the BLS, and both when the subject of renewals has been discussed in the past say the same thing. “At £275 a season, we’d be daft to give up these seats, we can pick and choose our games”. They go to about half the matches. I’d ...

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You can't hang 52% of the population because you don't agree with their decision. That's not democracy. (Even hanging the 48% who voted the other way, albeit more democratic, wouldn't be appropriate for a modern western state.) Tempting though. Particularly with the likes of Casper above ;). Gosh, ...

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Back in August we signed a player who months before StatsBomb had described as the European Messi. Now a few on here pan him for workrate. OK, he hasn’t quite clicked as much as we would like, but his winger and striker partner have both been stuffed mid season, and we have lost confidence as a team...

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EU barstewards You are right. I’m still hunting furiously for a passport renewal appointment today so I can fly on Saturday, and there is a lot to slag off this government for. Such as, they have details of those of us with 10+ year old passports, so why not write to us, informing of this EU rule a...

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For those asking for a stat with more context. This shows that his shot placement is better than average (so it's not just a case of hitting shots right at the keeper) but that goalkeepers have overperformed against them. Could suggest that he's been unlucky not to score more. Thanks for adding mor...

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I booked a non refundable £2k holiday yesterday, to leave on Saturday for the EU. Today, after seeing the BBC website, never having heard the 10 year rule, I checked my passport and despite having plenty of time left it was 10 years and 3 months since issue. I then checked the Urgent 1 Day passport ...

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So if you bing all your shots straight at a keeper it'd be 100% accuracy. With such a small discrepancy in these I wouldn't read into it in anywhere near the way you are doing, and it's the wrong way to use statistics. If you are correct, and like very often with stats, I don’t feel you are, there ...

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4th highest in the Premier League at 52.5% on target, via The Other 14 account on Twitter X. Only bettered by Isak, Ferguson and Doucoure. Hasn’t scored enough of his 21 on target, but that will come. We’re lucky to have him. The names at the top of the list are all really good players. https://x.co...

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Newcastle 3-1 West Ham
Bournemouth 0-1 Everton
Chelsea 3-1 Burnley Palmer 31st min
Nottingham Forest 2-1 Crystal Palace NAP
Sheffield United 1-1 Fulham
Spurs 3-0 Luton
Aston Villa 2-1 Wolves
Brentford 1-2 Man-Utd

Liverpool 2-0 Brighton
Man-City 2-1 Arsenal

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Chelsea 3 Burnley 1

Palmer 25 mins

NL2

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Got to applaud the rise for the majority, working age adult tickets. Though I do sympathise with concession customers, the club clearly feel they don’t get enough for those seats and to be fair to them most other leisure activities don’t offer such levels of concessionary discounts, e.g. theatres. M...

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Wales hanging on a bit. Just cannot see it for them sadly. As for England, that mistake by Pickford was the equal of anything Trafford has done, and the mistake by Dunk the same in relation to our CBs (reminded me of Beyer vs Palace). You need real class to excel at this level including the EPL, som...

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Not sure this is clever. Best case, 1-2 points added back. Worse case, 3-4 more points taken away. As it stands they should finish above Luton. Take more points away, it starts to become less likely. We could be kingmakers in the final game even if we are down, we may have to decide who we want down...

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Good luck to him. Last summer I felt we were too ambitious in thinking that our manager would get some big hitters over the line, because that is what he did the year before, relative to the division. Trouble is, in the EPL that higher standard of player has many options. When we look at the ones wh...

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xG, xG differential and xG prevented/expected is good to look at for some trends - to try and use it as quantitive metric for deciding on goalkeepers ability with such small differences like that is a bit silly. The main football analytical advsiors such as DribLab tend to disagree. Also, when we l...

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Two crucial points: 1. Fantastic for James, warm congratulations, reflects well on Burnley, and shows how well regarded he is, including by me, even if I would have chosen Muric this season. I have no doubts he is the number 1 heir apparent, should be for us and for England. Ahead of Ramsdale in due...

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Got to say I really appreciate the efforts he has made in two successive seasons to help his team out of a hole……

…..in a parallel universe somewhere.

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It looks more like Gascoigne than the guy who has never won anything and blew his chance to do it with England. And I’m thinking of the 60 year old Gazza with that grey beard.

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Glad he did well. I’m not questioning VK’s decision to make Trafford first choice, I’ve no doubt Trafford will become a top GK, but he did wait far too long to make a change in goal. Just as Muric was expected to bide his time, Trafford would also have accepted if he had been benched before. These ...

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10 is Heaton at Old Trafford when we drew 0-0. Agreed. I would also argue Trafford at BHA was close. A 10 is when you walk away from a match knowing that keeper was never going to be beaten. But, I say again, Muric was excellent. Not match fit. Not match sharp. Pummelled by Toney. Exposed twice by ...

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Interesting that ten posters gave Muric 10/10 on the ratings for the Brentford game. That's 'Out of this World' according to the guide there. Out of this World. Was Muric's performance really 'Out of this World'? A.9 is excellent and that is certainly a term I would use for it and the rating I gave...

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As Colborn says, 4 of the top 6 have missed most of the season, and the games they played in we often lost so we can’t say it was apples and pears. We simply haven’t been able to get the right team out, partly by accident and partly by choice. It would be amusing if Muric gets in his 10 appearances ...

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For me - this is the sliding doors moment. Had that goal stood, Forest were beaten. Foster would not had been sent off, and may not have had his subsequent issues and I'm certain he would have contributed to better performances following that game. We would ultimately have had a better start to the...

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the BFC statement on it says different The Fan Advisory Board currently consists of 22 members, all members are season ticket holders. representing under 18s, 18-24s, 25-34s, 35-44s, 45 -54s, 55-64s & 65-75s. Amongst the members, some of the members also represent gender, disability, ethnicity, rel...

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I hadn’t realised that while we play Forest, Liverpool will play Everton and could beat them at Goodison to win the league and relegate Everton at the same time. That would probably make it the best day in the club’s history, makes our achievement at Deadwood look second rate. It would also be very,...

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So Everton's FFP breach penalty will be set lower because they've incurred one before; on that basis Everton can presumably now spend what they like as their next breach would incur a 0 points deduction and the one after that a two point addition. That logic would certainly mirror Everton fan’s sen...

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The age old question of club or country is doing the rounds on twitter. Thought I'd see where people are at on here. 1) Would you rather Burnley stay up this season or England (or your alternative country) win the Euros this summer? Choose one. 2) Would you rather Burnley win the FA Cup next season...

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Is it not illegal in other industries to trade at a loss year after year, why should football be any different? That isn’t always true though, if a country, who shall remain nameless but it begins with CH and ends in INA, has companies that deliberately undercut our domestic firms with “loss leader...

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One point people need to remember about the disallowed goal against Forest back in September. There was 22 minutes played after the disallowed goal which was ample time for Forest to have scored an equalizer had the goal been allowed. The resulting kick-off instead of the offside free-kick would ch...

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VAR gave the correct decision on Saturday - even Frank admitted it. What NewClaret refers to are the incidents where it was inexplicable to not get the decision (at least one we had a letter of apology for). When we get into things like West Ham H (Coufal), Villa A (Ramsay) and Bournemouth A I’ll ac...

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The whole point of these rules is so clubs with wealthy owners can’t blow others unfairly out of the water with director’s loans etc. As they are a bigger club with a bigger turnover than all of the bottom three, Forest (this season not last) are allowed to spend more in any event. So there should b...

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I was sitting watching them review the offside laughing to myself hysterically. It was like they were trying everything they could to get our player offside so they didn't have to revert the refs decision on the penalty. If it was a closer call, no doubt it would have been given offside, even if on...

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This will be my final say on this thread which I know almost all will scan through because of it's length (give a sh!t btw it's just observations of someone who played at a decent amateur level but the skill set of certain positions in a team remain relevant) Muric yesterday completed what are clas...

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ClaretsPadiham wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:20 pm
How’s the thread got this far and Ryan Giggs hadn’t been mentioned once ?

Because he is not even the best Welsh left winger to come here, let alone the best left winger.

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Entertaining thread. 50 posts about football and 150 posts about a misguided attempt in society at large to remove all definitions of a woman / girl. Now we have no women of the match, gender neutral toilets, no safe spaces for women, no fair competition for women, no “she” allowed in emails in favo...

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Walker——-Kompany——-T Silva——-Bale
Ronaldo——Lampard——Rodrigo—-De Bruyne
——————Rooney———Ibrahimovoch

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Lovin' your optimism. Heart says I hope you're right, head says we'll fall short by whatever means. I think all our heads say that. We have left it too late. We kept playing some players whose form wasn’t good enough. But the chance is there. That’s key for us, players, fans, owners. To believe. An...

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