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One positive from today is the good work the club are doing with regards to food collection and helping the needy

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Harsh. No Everton fan but I do think they've been treated badly with this decision

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Dylan John Thomas' cover of The Strokes Someday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTo7_CN81SM&ab_channel=DylanJohnThomas Also did a good cover of Johnny Cash' Ring of Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOxLaPN91bM&ab_channel=DylanJohnThomas Finally his cover of The Beatles All My Loving completes th...

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Set to be David Moyes replacement as West Ham manager

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Arsenal 3 Burnley 0 - Martinelli 18 mins

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Bob Dylan did a majestic acoustic cover of The Byrds 60's pop classic "My Back Pages". It was quite a turnaround for Dylan to cover The Byrds as the Byrds has already successfully covered a fair few of Bob Dylans songs

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I've heard that the atmosphere at the Emirates is now one of the best in the division

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I was told that Dave Burnley missed the 1985 Easter Monday trip away to Wigan due to uncontrollable diarrhea

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You make a fair point, DA. One summer's spending doesn't make a team, but we already had a team, and one that pi$$ed the league and was literally 8pts or something away from being the best Championship team in the history of English football, and all this after about four weeks of pi$$ing about exp...

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We can all get bogged down in the finer details of transfer expenditure, value, priorities etc, but fact of the matter is, no club that is among the top 10 spenders in Europe in any given season should get 11 games into the season with only 4 points to show for it. You can talk about value, inflati...

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Palace's have a net spend of £160m over the last 3 seasons whilst Burnley has a net spend of £80m. Palace have been a long time established Premier League team whilst Burnley has been up and down about 5 times Palace have had a settled squad with incremental change whilst Burnley had to pretty much ...

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All incomings from last summer and this summer significantly exceeds the sale of those. It is also not the point. The point is we’re shite and offer next to nothing. That’s fine but I can’t do with pretending like it’s par for the course? Who have Palace signed in recent years? They’re more or less...

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Spiral wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:14 pm
I'm trying my best to grasp it, believe me.

No doubt you're a very genuine and honest poster but for whatever reason your interpretation of the point im making is miles off target

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I'm gonna summarise your post and excavate it to lay out the function of what it is you're saying in each paragraph. 1st sentence/paragraph: the standard of the PL requires that teams play total football in order to survive 2nd paragraph: we do not have the personnel to play total football - to do ...

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40 million on who? Football inflation has not gone up 3 fold. Absolutely no way. You think Jeff Hendrick would cost 24 million in todays market? No chance Brady £15m Hendrick £11m Defour £8m Westwood £5.5m JBG £3m Pope £1m Ave cost per player 1st season in Prem League under Dyche - 2.5m Ave Cost pe...

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The first Dyche PL season we signed Marvin Sordell, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Kightly (after a loan), Paul Robinson and Steven Reid for peanuts - it’s very different than the summer window just gone. The lowering of expectations is truly remarkable. I guarantee no one on the board thought we’d be on 4 poin...

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Still came down to the last day. After 2/3 years of naff all investment Naff all investment = not selling your best players. Give Kompany Pope, Mee, Tarks, Collins and McNeill and we'd be midtable no problems. You guys really underestimate how much quality we lost and ironically one of the reasons ...

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The 1/5th of the value comment isn't accurate at all. We've spent £100m this summer. As I said, the challenge with new players to the PL is to develop them whilst still getting results. That means you need some experienced PL players alongside them. The fact is that expecting us to stay up this sea...

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The Dyche comps are very different as well - signed mostly journeyman, Keane aside (believe he was a loan first though) in that first PL season and nearly stayed up. Not true, Dyche signed the journeyman once he had built his team of 6-8 quality players. He made a choice to hold on to his good play...

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Those players like Pope, Collins, Tarkowski, and McNeil weren't ready made when we got them, they were coached brilliantly and developed to get them to that level but we were still able to get results at the same time. The same could happen to the likes of Beyer, Cullen, and Zaroury. No signs yet t...

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But McNeil, Pope and Tarky weren't ready made when we had them were they? No they weren't we bought them in a period when we went up, down and up and has time to let them develop. The point is Burnley lost all those players in one go whilst at the same time financially being in a tough position so ...

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Anyone who thinks at this level our players should be just wellying it in to the stand are either idiots or very hindsight driven. What Beyers mistake shows is that along with Zaroury not making a sudden impact on the two games he played is that those thinking Muric, Ekdal, Cork :lol: , Benson and (...

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I never applaud them off at home because I leave immediately but I find it hard to believe you thought we deserved to win. Its a little sad that the guy who runs this forum cant tell the difference between not losing and not winning but for someone so consumed by their own self opinion and importan...

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Burnley 0 Palace 2 - Ayew 24 mins

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Everton 1 Burnley 1 - Tresor 40 mins

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It was - never suggested it wasn’t… still, following on from 6/7 seasons in the big time we were a big player for the league. No one is saying that we should be a ‘top PL side’ or suggesting the moneh suggests that - more for the spend we should be more competitive. Kompany took a relegated side no...

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I think what Salisbury is alluding to (and doing so very badly) is that there will be a number of fans who go on pretty much every game on the supporters coaches and regardless of whether they can make it they will buy a ticket and get the points allocated for it. For the odd game they cant make the...

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Seems like the club is trying to help improve things for those who attend matches but it would be nice for them to also think about the fans who watch the game on TV. I thought the drum was an excellent idea and I think it would have really enhanced the viewing experience for us armchair supporters ...

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For me it has to be when as a young lad I bumped into my them hero and favourite player George Oghani. My dad had dragged me out shopping with him at some DIY store as he was putting some shelves up in my bedroom. As we were coming out of the store we saw Oghani who was about to go in. I shouted his...

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EFL Cup switches to 12 aside for 4th round then for the final it goes to 13 aside and you can name two keepers.

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That should never be handball but based on current rules his arm is up in the air so if its struck his hand it should be a penalty

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Bournemouth 0 Burnley 1 - Foster 74 mins

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Think it was around Mar/Apr 91 when I found out we'd sold Winston White to West Brom. That was my Don McLean moment but in my case it was the day the football died

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You know full well an attack doesn't have to be physical. Motorists are being attacked financially and by increasing measures under the guise of safety and climate change. ULEZ zones, 20mph speed limits etc. Pick a side DA you coward. The hottest places in hell are reserved for people like you. I d...

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You don't drive to home games do you DA..... I used to but I got attacked so often I didnt think it was worth it anymore. Respect to the brave soldiers out there who have the courage to get in their motor vehicle and make the treacherous journey under constant attack from...from...from........from ...

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groove wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 26, 2023 10:18 pm
It's another attack on the motorist, that's what it is.

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I haven't listened to it but he sounds like a beaten man and not sure he'll be around much longer.

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I think I've heard the same things as Lowbank and I've posted it 6 times on here but has been deleted every time. I went to post it a 7th time and it was deleted before I even posted it.

I'm hoping if I write in a more cryptic way below the mods might let it stay.

Talking low bull bank is sh*t

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Definitely short on a quality defensive midfield signing (Cork 2017) so in the meantime I think the only option is for Brownhill to play alongside Cullen. You then have a choice to play either Berge, Amdouni ormaybe even Ramsey in the No10 role behind Foster and then you need to pick your two winger...

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If only we hadn't loaned out our 6th choice centre half we wouldn't be struggling this season

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I used to own this one as a kid and memorised every ground and a lot of the stands https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235115882418?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=235115882418&targetid=1404115579173&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9046313&poi=&campaignid=17218284410...

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StayingDown4Ever wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 22, 2023 5:34 pm
You should be put on trial for suggesting such a ridiculous thing.

Relatively speaking I thought this was one of his more sensible and accurate suggestions

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Trending all over Twitter and people are absolutely furious about it. I expect a joint statement tomorrow from FIFA, UEFA, the FA, the BCC and Gary Lineker at the very least to address such a serious matter

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Personally I thought this international break would have been the perfect time to get rid and replace thim. With 3 winnable games and a very important 9 pts up for grabs I fear we have already probably thrown away any chance of us staying up this season.

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Is there any chance you could add another category to the Burnley Predictor Game please? I was thinking you could maybe get a bonus point if you correctly guess how many times jedi_master mentions the word drum on the match thread.

Let me know what you think?

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Rick_Muller wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:13 pm
I’m not watching it to be fair. Just making a general observation that this will be “the norm” for Liverpool games more often than not

Well you generalisation was completely wrong based on what actually happened.

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Rick_Muller wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:06 pm
As soon as it went to VAR irrespective of whether the decision was right or not - Liverpool would benefit

Yep as proved by the decision that went to VAR minutes earlier for a Liverpool penalty that went Everton's way

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Brentford 2 Burnley 1 - Foster 52 mins

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I've often noticed that fans really get behind the team and make a lot of noise when they get a player sent off. Im not sure if its allowed but instead of waiting for the ref to send one of our players off we could just start the game with 10 men and get the crowd behind us from the first whistle. I...

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