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Also seems like Dyche and Pulis’ conviviality helped keep this one smooth. I wonder whether the Vokes thing might still happen for Boro IF Burnley are successful in luring Jay Rod (or other forward).

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Apparently ‘promised’ a move when Boro didn’t bounce back as Southgate told him he wouldn’t be considered for England playing in the Championship. He agreed to give it a year and has fallen out of the England frame. This was the talk up there immediately after the end of the season - the only surpri...

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Their fans seemed surprisingly non plussed on the forum I read, by all accounts he’s not been in good form over the last season. In fact plenty of them seemed quite happy to see him go. Im sure Sean will sort him out. I wonder if they’ll get it over the line in time for Sunday’s friendly. And will h...

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....can only assume we must have received some encouragement from player / agent to move for Jay.

WBA don’t seem to have a lot of options in attack though, assuming Rondon’s off, so they’re bound not to let go easily.

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I’m sure the Boro faithful will be delighted to hear Burnley being regarded as a bigger club. Lol. That Michael Keane equaliser in the Championship run-in just got bigger. On another note, Pulis is clearly happy to dispense with him, and he knows a bit about centre-halves. I wonder if it has somethi...

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Lindegaard 7
Lowton 7
Ward 6
Mee 6
Tarkowski 7
Cork 8*
Westwood 7
Jbg 7
Lennon 6
Vokes 7
Wood 7
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Barnes 6
McNeil 7
Taylor 7
Hendrick 6

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Another one bites the dust for me. At least I can go on the Thursday.

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I think Mawson is rated as more of a footballer than Gibson. And footballing centre halves are all the rage.
Gibson blamed for a few goals and penalties conceded in the Championship last season.

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Reading Boro forums the fans seem to suggest his form has nosedived badly in the last 18 months or so and they seem to want rid. If this is the case, Dyche could be the man,

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Can’t be that easy surely

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Has great potential - really liked the look of the left side with Taylor and McNeil, against a tiring team granted but both players can look after the ball.

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Excellent feature from Tony Dewhurst - used to enjoy his colourful pieces when covering the Clarets for the Telegraph back in the Mullen era.

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Nasty.
And that's from a happy clapper.

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I think its handy to watch the press conference - I watched it on the Mirror Sport website last night. You hear the questions and the whole thing has more context. I didn't think it showed anything more than the usual we have heard from Dyche over transfers, certainly didn't see it as a cry for help...

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Nick Powell is a player I've only seen in despatches, but always looks like he had quality to be unlocked. I think the most disappointing thing about 'not getting anyone through the door yet' - apart from the fact that our manager's pre-season plans have been acutely undermined, is the fact that we ...

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It’s only a small thing but Mee seems to be in a similar boat to his departed best mate at Burnley Scotty Arfield. Maybe fans find it hard to understand but maybe he just feels ‘he’s been on the bus for so long’ as Arfield put it. And with Scotty leaving (despite an offer being laid down for him age...

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Excellent news, top pro. Probably our most consistent player once he’d reclaimed his position from Bardsley last season.

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I think Aberdeen at home is a big test but I'm sure we'll be playing the same team (or a variation of our 'strongest' team) as this match is so much more representative of a proper game compared to Sunday's friendly. IF we get through, I'd imagine we will feel a weakened team in Turkey - and to be h...

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Other than Pulis showing an interest in Vokes, is there any reason to suggest we’d entertain selling him?
Pulis should just take Crouch and we can stay out of this particular merry-go-round.

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I asked a chap with young kids how he’d got them there and he said they’d both had season tickets since they were one. I guess this is technically possible, though I’m not sure how many points 7 or 8 consecutive season tickets gets you -not as many as 5000 does it?

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What a phenomenal football experience that was. Loved how friendly and convivial the people were but for 90 minutes there was no love lost. Proper atmosphere, Had a feel of Burnden Park in the 80s. The huge graveyard next to the stadium, the long dusk and the ‘har’ rolling in just added to the spect...

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Irrespective of some eye catching signings, I’d have fancied Brighton to progress this season in a similar manner to us. Hughton’s an underrated manager and they are a club with excellent infrastructure and community focus.
Good luck to them, don’t mind them myself.

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ClaretTony wrote:The allocation is the total we will get - absolutely no reason to go any higher because we've never taken that many to Southampton.

Did we not take more for that 2-2 draw under Owen Coyle when the Southampton fans invaded the pitch?

Apologies- just seen this has already been raised?

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The World Cup has been a great success and Russia should be congratulated. I never had a problem with it being hosted there, at least it was a country who had never had it before. Hard to make a similar case for the state of Qatar. It’s a truly bizarre choice of host where the legacy of the competit...

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I'd wager that in two years time England's midfield will be boosted by Ryan Sessegnon and Lewis Cook, two excellent technical players who get on the ball, seemingly with the right work ethic and attitude, working under good managers who are likely to play them every week. Barkley is an enigma, could...

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The team has indeed done well and we should be proud they reached the semis. But averaging less than ONE shot on goal against anyone half decent is a glaring fault in any team. With the exception of our excellent set pieces, the football has been as turgid and awful as I have seen England play in a...

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Well we did try in the first half and Croatia were all at sea, missed chances cost matches. Ultimately they have better footballers than us and that counted for something. England are only really set up to play in fits and starts, not enough ball players. And a team like that weren’t quite good enou...

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Anyone know of anywhere with a big screen that will permit kids? My nephew really wants to go and see it somewhere like Manchester where there will be big screen and a crowd but the only one I can find in Manchester is over 18's. I doubt there will be anything closer than Manchester. Perhaps the on...

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Surely you are kind of born in to supporting England (insert country here) as you are to supporting Burnley. Always considered it one and same thing, albeit the Burnley moments are more personally rewarding given the intensity and the personal sacrifice we all make to support them. One things for su...

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BBC are suffering a dearth of commentators in the post Motson / Davies era, although Motty was hard work with England. Mowbray is very ordinary. On the flip side, John Murray’s commentary on bbc 5 live for the Russia v Croatia game last night (with Dion Dublin) was sensational. How they can have a c...

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It’s the first time we will have faced a team with a high quality midfield pair. I think Colombia would have beaten us had they had James fit. That said Croatia must be feeling fatigued at least a little bit, and if they play as poorly as they did v Denmark we can beat them. It’s set to be very tigh...

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Feels early. Still struggling along with my World Cup team.

This....can wait

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I wouldn't drop Sterling for Sweden.
This is exactly the type of team where we might need him.
And having come this far...

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Sorry if this has been covered but shouldn’t non playing players (eg:Trippier and Meunière) not be replaced by substitute defenders if they did play, like the fantasy Premier league.

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Hotel booked

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I’d rather listen in Alex Scott than Alan Shearer any day of the week. At least she speaks in the right tense.

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Chelsea last season, sold ticket two days before to my mate in London. Worst call of my life!

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Not really for me to do that QTT. Plus its at least 20 pages long. I'm sure now its in the public domain it will be swimming around on the internet soon enough.

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I’ve nothing against Harry Brooks and he’s done a lot of good for both Lowerhouse & Burnley Cricket over the years but a Lowerhouse club president having flyers posted through doors in Clitheroe explaining his disgust at the way the won they league (paying amateurs) was an odd one. I live round the...

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Jared Borghetti - possibly the cheekiest

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I love that Negrete goal. There were some sensational goals in ‘86. Vasily Rats and igor Belanov scored awesome goals for Russia. And Denmark’s dismantling of Uruguay had some super team goals, Elkjaer, Laudrup and that Hummel kit.

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Bit of a daft question really as you don’t have to choose. 1990 World Cup was a really big thing for me as a 16 year old. Burnley we’re struggling to get out of the fourth division in those days and it was a different kind of feeling watching England but I remember where I was and who I was with for...

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When my 8 year old asked me who was the best player I’d seen play for Burnley, I told him there were two: Kieran Trippier and Robbie Blake. I’m well chuffed he’s in there, I think his performance in that game at Ewood was also right up there in the best I’ve seen, along with Blake’s in the Tottenham...

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If the Champions League has been a premier league game, I’m sure he would have been retrospectively punished for the challenge on Karius.

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Great read. 47,000 on a January midweek in the European Cup. Just imagine that.
I love the way you can see the lights at the back entrance/exit of the Longside. I had that view for many years (later) looking from The Bob Lord Stand on midweek nights. Shame about the late one conceded mind.

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Might explain his obvious discomfort in the last few games of the season.

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And sheffield United away - until we beat them under Owen Coyle.

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Blackburn - until Sean Dyche arrived

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Was fortunate to attend this yesterday. Had pretty much everything - The noise of 40k of each clubs at Wembley is really something to behold. Nice to experience such an occasion from a neutral objective, even though I was rooting for a Villa victory. Having witnessed Fulham’s display in the flesh I ...

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Hazard likes to stick his arse out and falls over a lot. I think he’s a very talented player (obvs) but he’s quite selfish and does go missing in games. He did look good when he came in at Turf against a tired team. But it was a mere cameo compared to many others mentioned.

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