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We win our game in hand and we're out of the bottom 3.
In fact we go 16th!

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:19 pm
Everton seem to be ready to stuff Mr Dyche and his team. Iwobi and Maupay sold. None in.

None in?
Does news not travel north of the border?
A couple of v good signings, and Maupay no loss.

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Thank God! Really? So you don't think a player of Dier's quality and experience would add something to our squad? (Not the greatest player to win an England cap, obviously, but an established PL player who has been on the periphery of the England squad for about a decade). Edit: Also just thought -...

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Not sure in our current state we’d have gone to Luton and won, especially with the euphoria / bounce they’d have had with it being their first home game. We could easily have been looking at three defeats. Both games were very tight affairs last year that could have gone either way and we didn’t be...

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The supporters coaches were stuck in a traffic jam at the top of Ormerod Road, heading towards the Fire Station, half an hour after the game. (No idea why they were going that way.) I wouldn't be surprised if the team coach was on the M65 before they were. Interesting, but still most likely that th...

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Great.
Brooks on VAR again.

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The defended well, Foderingham was excellent, and they scored a good goal and had another good chance (despite our huffing and puffing I never felt we were actually going to score). They can be proud of their showing. I consider they competed better then we did. But we did score, and Jayrod should ...

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I just don’t buy that these morons left the house that day thinking ‘right, today lads, we’re going to brick the Aston Villa first team coach’. One of them has picked up a brick and decided that the next coach that comes along is getting it, and another has filmed it for a laugh. The next coach app...

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Next international break is after next weekend against Spurs. The next game being the away trip to Forest on 18/09. I think the most rational and reasonable of us have understood this since the fixtures came out. We've had 3 almost free hits at home, Luton away postponed - (potentially dodged a bul...

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Father Jack wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 27, 2023 10:45 pm
If it hadn’t picked an arbitrary point next to a junction I would have questioned it more.
Live and learn

We all live and learn. It appears to me that the J6 (Rishton) is exactly the midpoint of the motorway, so that explains it.

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Yes, maybe your search was too vague, but if you look at the actual google map (rather than the above satellite view) it clearly marks the slip roads on both sides of the junctions with their correct numbers.

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Father Jack wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 27, 2023 8:15 pm
Ok google maps is wrong for junction numbers.

It isn't, and I don't think it was earlier today.

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DCWat wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 25, 2023 10:46 pm

Fair play to Southampton if they’ve got £20 million and a sell on. That’s bonkers.

Do you think that Leverkusen will be able to sell him on for a profit?
I wish him well but I'm not sure if his value will go up further.

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Cirrus_Minor wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 25, 2023 6:32 pm
Woy

If you mean Hodgson, I'd say he's one of the safest. Highly respected at his home club, fan favourite, and has been doing a great job there.
The board will be happy with mid-table, so not under a great deal of pressure.

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We will definitely be in the bottom 3 by tomorrow afternoon, but we could lose on Sunday and still exit the bottom 3. That would depend on one of Everton and Wolves losing tomorrow and Sheff Utd dropping into bottom 3 on Sunday if they lose to Man City by more than we lose to Villa!!! All - of cours...

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I think he could have been a great player for us in the Championship, but he picked up a serious knee injury and has been out for about 6 months.
That, plus our promotion, probably ended our interest in him.
Excellent acquisition for Hudds if he recovers his pre-injury form.

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daveisaclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 25, 2023 8:36 am
Nobody on here would want us to be the lesser part of such an arrangement.

Whilst this is certainly true, it would be interesting to get the views of supporters of Bury, Oldham and Rochdale, should they have been offered such an arrangement in recent seasons.

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Blyclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 24, 2023 8:34 pm
What’s point putting up a link in Dutch

You could try clicking on the blue sentence under the Dutch text that says "Translate post". It works for me.

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Being rivals and being friends are too totally different things.
Perfectly possible that they have a lot of mutual respect for each other and I'm certain that Barnes would never be happy to see a fellow pro out with a long-term injury.

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Both are decisions that at least inconvenience us and help our opponents and neither are our fault I don't think the Luton postponement benefits Luton at all. Newly promoted teams usually raise their game in their first home game,(so we've dodged that), and I expect us to be way stronger later in t...

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Where is all this money coming from, I'm not complaining just curious We won't be paying anything like all of it up front, we have a good wedge of PL money to come in if we stay up, and it's highly likely that the value of a number of these players will go up significantly over the next 2 / 3 years...

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Surely if this was the case and they are delaying till after the game then we would of walked away from the deal? Seems mad that they could have that option when were paying £14 mill or whatever it is If VK wants him then there's no logic in your argument. He'll just miss the one match, as will any...

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Probably depends on who we are playing and how long the players have played together.
I guess you could say that the first team was similar to the one that lost 6-0 in March, whereas the 2nd one, deliberately picked by VK, to try to counter City only lost 3-0 in their first competitive game together.

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Just laugh it off and say you dropped a clanger and tune in for more of the same next week. Wasn't going to dignify your posts by replying, but just to point out that laughing it off and admitting to getting it totally wrong is precisely what I did in my earlier post. Why you see the need to contin...

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Wow, could this guy have been anymore wrong!? 😆 Absolute codswallop. I think it was a reasonable summary of the situation pre-match, that many would have gone along with. Villa do have injury problems, Everton did play well last week and Calvert -Lewin was in the starting line-up. Nobody, absolutel...

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Villa / Everton will be interesting and a closely fought match I reckon. Everton very good last week and defensively sound as you would expect. Calvert-Lewin back today so they might score. Villa very poor defensively last week and without Mings and Buendia. Bookies seem to strongly fancy Villa, but...

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Villa will win easily today. Really can't see there being much in it. Everton played well last week but can't score. They will - typically - be hard to breakdown. Villa's defence was shocking last week, and now they've lost both Mings and Buendia to long-term injuries. (It's fair to say though that...

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"A person is guilty of a littering if they throw down, drop or otherwise deposit, and then leave, any litter in any open air place, including private land and land covered by water."

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Littering is a criminal offence.
Just saying.

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Villa beat Everton 3-0 tomorrow & they go 2nd bottom Chelsea beat Luton Friday and we are out of the bottom 3 by Friday evening 🤣 Or put more simply - if Everton beat Villa tomorrow by any score, (then Chelsea beat Luton.........) So we're probably out of the bottom 3 going into next Saturday's gam...

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We're steadily climbing the table.

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I hate that song. Why we began singing that in the late 80’s/early 90’s I’ll never know. We used to sing “Oh when the Clarets go marching in”, and it can be clearly heard on the Orient videos out there, so we hadn’t changed it by 1987 anyway. Please go back to that version. TF&C is cringey. Certain...

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Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:33 am
We took the heart out of WBA when we signed Dara
They lacked a leader and missed a playmaker in cm and a striker

Agree. I expect WBA to be well down the table this season. They've already lost to that lot down the M65 and things don't look as though they will get any better given their finances.

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Spijed wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 18, 2023 6:17 pm
Imagine Boycott trying to play Bazball

I think that Khawaja countered "bazball" quite effectively in the Ashes series playing very much what might be called "Boycottbat"

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Quicknick wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 18, 2023 10:01 pm
BHA and Fulham will be our rivals.

BHA likely to challenge for Europe again. Is that what you meant by rivals?
(Think Fulham will be a bit short of that but should do ok)

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Conroysleftfoot wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:44 pm
Can't believe how poor West Brom are, especially after the run they put together last season.

No real surprise.They are in desperate financial trouble, haven't spent any money and have lost some of their best players.

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DAVETHEVICAR wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:21 am
Will definitely be watching and shouting at the TV from time to time
Hoping for an England victory,obviously .

I would have thought that like a good number of us you would be working on a Sunday morning?

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FFS, Charles wouldn't be able to point to Burnley on a map,let alone name the current manager. Drop the pathetic cap doffing, he's nowhere near interested. I'm no royalist, but Charles has appeared to have a genuine interest in the town, and visited and promoted the town and its heritage. (I think ...

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You can say that again!

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BurnleyFC wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 16, 2023 5:58 pm
The tubby-little Gladstone Small impersonator is a bellend of the highest order.

Absolutely nothing wrong with Gladstone. Always seems a decent guy. I've always liked him, and he doesn't steal a living at our expense like Crooks.
(Unless something about GS has passed me by).

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I thought we had our targets and valuations and we were prepared to move on to other players if we couldn't sort out deals quickly. Seems we've gone back on that approach and are willing to get mired into a complex transfer situation. I would assume that this negotiation is now between Ramsey's age...

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Not sure how he can discuss terms of another contract with Villa now, for a buy back that may never happen I agree that that's difficult, but you have to look at it from Ramsey's point of view. He can't be bound by a fixed contract to return to Villa unless he has some guarantee about the terms and...

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From the 11th of April this year - so not long ago. He should forfeit his match fee and be permanently relieved of VAR duties. "The PGMOL has dropped Michael Salisbury from refereeing duties for this weekend's Premier League fixtures after his controversial mistake in Brighton's loss to Tottenham. S...

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With St Johnstone cancelled, maybe we could have friendly against Luton? They don't have a game and could do with some practice.

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It seems increasingly difficult for us to get players over the line lately. Well we've managed 11 so far, there's still two and half weeks to go till the window closes, and generally clubs do most of their transfer business in the final 48 hours as there's a domino effect when one transfer triggers...

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Chaos. Took over an hour to get out We booked there as we knew we be running close getting there in reasonable time Thanks. That's what I expected, we also used the same parking app, but booked a space about 600 yards north of the stadium in the direction of Deansgate (for the same price) and were ...

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No catch at all. Not used it for Burnley Tesco, but have used it quite a few times, including parking at Tescos across from Old Trafford for the league cup game last season. Always use Old Trafford Tesco for the cricket, but didn't use it for the Carabao Cup game, since I thought it might take a wh...

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Bosscat wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:40 am
I don't sit near any foul mouthed idiots ... the people around me are very genteel and lovely folk ... what they might say about me is another matter

Same.

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randomclaret2 wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:10 am
Another unintended consequence of all seater stadiums. I wonder if your ' neighbour' reads this board ?

He might do.
What's his seat number?

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Having two friendlies against decent opposition at this stage of the season as players arrive and bed in can only be a positive. Surely?

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Yes, we will be at the bottom of the table for a couple of weeks however Vincent will make the most of the time with bonding the players and possible even bringing in another signing or two. Have faith and don’t waste time doubting. UTC! As previously pointed out, not playing doesn't necessarily me...

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