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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 01, 2020 5:48 pm
it will take more than 4 wins

It'll take 5 (or the equivalent).

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I know we benefited from it today, but what an absolute joke that was! Everything from the screen announcements, the tannoy that you couldn't hear properly, the time it took, and then the decision itself, which is the shape of someone's football boot. It has to go! :x Absolutely, and don't forget i...

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Pope 6 (first goal?) Bardsely 5 Tarks 4 (must have been a great party, but sobered up a bit at half time and had a better second half) Mee 6 (wasn't invited to the party, so had an early night) Taylor 7 (another who gave the party a miss. Good lad) Cork 4 (pi**ed and wants dropping for that) Westwoo...

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Would everyone on here be backing him up had the joke been aimed at an asain person, or a gay guy, or is it OK because it was aimed at a disabled person? At least double standards are still alive in 2020. The thing is Grumps, I would in no way seek to justify a joke like that or similar jokes as I ...

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People these days are very, very quick to point the finger at others as somehow that makes it less likely their own "private" lives will come under scrutiny and it sets them up as people with a higher moral fibre, but almost certainly the very fact that they are pointing fingers means they're not.

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Me and the Mrs will be renewing and we’re on the lookout for a nearby seat to buy my son his first season ticket. He’s only three so it’s likely I’ll just be buying a seat for future use (as it will be me who ends up on sat on my loner if we can’t find seats together). BFC match days are as much a ...

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Making decent signings in January is notoriously difficult and yet we desperately seem in need of a freshen up. IMO SD could do a whole lot worse than asking Chelsea to let him stay and then, having spent ages getting him physically and mentally fit, let's start playing him and see what the second h...

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I think there's lot of guff being spouted about our "style of football" and how some "supporters" have had enough of it. I think it's probably a bit of a smoke screen for some who have found the PL buzz wearing thin and have forgotten about the wilderness years from 1976 until 2009 (and a few after ...

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Is there a nicer programme on tv? Touching human interest stories and fantastic craftsmen and women who produce amazing repairs on treasured family heirlooms. I think the Christmas edition just shown on BBC 1 is the best thing I've watched over the the last week. Would recommend watching on 'catch-...

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He's done very, very well for himself, especially when you consider he couldn't even make it into our first team when we really were crap. Good luck to him. I wonder if there's a Phelan there connection tbh.

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The change in the throw in rule that now seems to allowrunning and not releasing the ball from behind your head Also an interesting trick perfected by long throw merchants of effectively launching the ball with one hand the other guiding the ball This is difficult to spot Throwing the ball chest he...

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As someone pointed out on here a short while ago, the offside law was originally brought in to prevent "goal hanging" and was never intended to be used to wipe out goals like the Wolves goal yesterday. The whole thing has become stupid and is turning genuine fans off.

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And Anderson STILL hasn't made a ton. How on Earth does he keep his place!!???

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It's still down!!!

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Pope 7 Bardsley 6 (gives way too too much room and ground sometimes) Tarks 8 Mee 8 Taylor 7 (really unfortunate to make the error as he's still MILES better than Pieters) Cork 5 Westwood 6 McNeil 7 Hendrick 5 Barnes 6 Wood 5 Jayrod 6 JBG 6 Brady N/A United are no great shakes these days and I was at...

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I'm CERTAINLY not calling for SD's head, but I do find it rather worrying that a couple of years ago we were largely giving the "top" teams a real game, especially at The Turf, but we seem to have regressed in many ways, rather than move forward and we most often seem to give them far less trouble. ...

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He was very quick to card our players (but all were pretty much deserved), yet he really didn't want to card United and seemed to bend over backwards not to. I've always thought he was very good, but these days he really does seem to have a rather worrying "rapport" with some of the bigger teams/pla...

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It may or may not have been a good idea to give McNeil a rest right now, as he's only young and he's getting through loads of work and is often our only means of taking the game to opposition, plus the games are coming thick and fast, BUT tbh I don't think SD can rest him just now as however you dre...

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This thread should be re titled. "The F.A. Cup. One game a season". (Anyway I'm going to it, seeing as I'll have to wait a year for the next one!!

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TBF CF, Lennon IS rubbish! JBG isn't and has just been very unlucky injury wise, but like everyone else I fear it may be something which is now plaguing him and which he never fully shakes off. P.S. Why wouldn't SD start Drinkwater with Hendrick AWOL and bring JBG on to the bench? We'd be narrower, ...

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Free Bene and 'ot at the Turf New Years Day apparently. (Anyone under 5 gets a can of Red Bull)

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This is our first season after promotion in 1947. Five wins and five draws in first ten and then defeat at Preston on Boxing Day. https://www.uptheclarets.com/fixtures-results/194748-results Some big crowds there!! But how bizarre to play Preston home and Preston away on consecutive days! Both with...

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Be happy to see Preston do it (after almost as many false dawns as Leeds in the PL era!) but definitely don't want Leeds. Bristol City would be a change!

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At Northampton away in the '91/'92 4th Div Championship season we had a huge following. At half time the announcer gave the gate and added "weeeelcome Burnley!!!" with a gleeful laugh!

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I believe that was the game where a high clearance got stuck behind the sign at the front of the Longside. The most tragic of accidents occured a couple of days later when young apprentice, Ben Lee, tried to retrieve the ball. And that extremely tragic event caused the postponement of our away fixt...

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rob63 wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 18, 2019 10:58 pm
Red Bull Burnley?

If that EVER happens I'm off!!!

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<t>I know it's something of a side issue to the thread, but that link to what really lies behind Red Bull Leipzig, is actually very interesting. I was aware that Red Bull owned the club (as they do Salzburg), but I wasn't aware that it's so controversial. The second I see the word "franchise" in abs...

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Richardson is the brightest star at the moment I'd suggest. He is part of the England set up for his age group I believe, but there appear to be others there with real potential.

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In all fairness the VAR officials have become more important than the actual referee! And as for linesmen!!!! I don't know why we even bother with 'em these days!!!
(Although I suspect we can credit the liner with an assist for our winner against The Toon!

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 16, 2019 9:50 pm
I hear they ran out at H/T on Saturday!
Surely a hanging offence?

I saw people using thermometers to check the temperature of their drinks and preparing snotty e mails to the club and the local rag as a result of the results!!!! ANOTHER hanging offence apparently!!

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 16, 2019 9:48 pm
There will be a safety certificate in place.

TBF, the club have made it clear that there is.

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It really sounds like a non story/moaner tbh. As mentioned already, many of us go to loads of away grounds and almost all are more "modern" than The Turf, but every single one has squashing, pushing, shoving and congestion on the concourse before the game, at half time and after the game, especially...

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Can't see the Supa Dupa clubs letting that happen. They don't want to share out equally what's on the table now, without having, from their perspective, more outstretched hands to satisfy. My thinking was that a PL 2, as long as it has "big" clubs, may be perceived as a superior product to the curr...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 15, 2019 10:06 pm
As reported last Thursday, back in training and ready for a games programme.

PS4?? Wii??

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Apparently yes, he has been abducted by aliens, although apparently recently he's been returned, but his bottom is very sore, so he's not on the grass yet.

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damo_whitehead wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 15, 2019 9:10 pm
Absolutely! Also... how drunk was Dennis Law!

I think just VERY old!! (And to think I saw him play....Crumbs that makes me.....!!!!

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Tied on and richly deserved!!

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If you're going to watch a winter based sport in the north of England you're going to get more than your share of days like yesterday. Weather very poor, awful to play in and to sit watching in, plus two fairly evenly matched teams and somewhat attritional. Not exactly pretty! If you're not used to ...

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Does all this make a PL 2 featuring the best of the current Championship (and maybe one or two other big hitters like Sunderland, Ipswich and Pompey for example) all the more likely? But that would then involve Sky and other interested broadcasters paying much bigger fees to screen the games.

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Palace won't sell Wilf at ANY price as he's THE biggest reason they stay fairly comfortably in the PL each year. I'm actually worried we could get dragged in at some stage as we are quite capable of going on a poor run with poor performances, especially if we lose a couple of key players, just as mu...

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It's a really, really difficult and at times controversial area and it really could do with "officially" clearing up. Players tend to put the ball out when an opposition player is down because they believe it's the "gentlemanly" thing to do AND because they believe it will be reciprocated if they or...

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He (Wood) was not flagged offside for the high ball he failed to control all alone in the area. It WAS a sitter missed! (Just saying like)

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They've now been invited up to Lowerhouse for an "insurance job"!!

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Pope 7 Bardsley 7 (Weird how he kicked the ball out for their player diving over, but not when Pieters was clearly hurt! Bozo!!!) Takrs 7 Mee 7 Pieters 5 Cork 7 (Fantastic at times and so much like his old self, but then sloppy and ponderous at other times) Westwood 8* (Made the difference and showe...

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He seemed to lose control/authority following the incident where 2 Newcastle players bumped into each other and he gave a foul against us. I think all the players found it perplexing and realised from that moment on that he really didn't have much idea so it all degenerated. He even caused controver...

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gawthorpe_view wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 14, 2019 11:02 am
T shirt weather for the Geordies.

No doubt there will be some bell end wearing NO t shirt (or ANY shirt) with his belly and his massive titties out and thinking it makes him a "proper" Toon supporter. It doesn't. I just makes him look a kn*b.

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Turned out nice for it!

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I've said often that if you're going to play only one up front, then it really has to be Barnes (if fit) He can hold a ball up and he's much more mobile AND he can buy those cheap (joke) free kicks. Wood is hopeless on his own up top.

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Positive news, especially Westwood, but I really wish Taylor was fit.

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Has Casper shrunk? Can never forgive Waldron for not managing to bring down Macdonald in the FA Cup semi, despite hanging off his waist for what seemed like 10 minutes. :lol: Having said that you have to admire a guy who can run like an Olympic sprinter with a bloke hanging off him. True, and then ...

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