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jlup1980

Lets be honest, we're already up. I honestly think we'd still be ok if we lost every remaining game (not a theory I'd like to test out though!!). If Boro and Luton continue at the average points per game they've had this season to date (1.73 Boro and 1.70 for Luton) then they'll end up on 80 and 78 ...

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But do we really want to foster a spirit of "you're not good enough, these lot are better, we can't win so let's not try"? If we rest the better players for City, there is every chance they'll be upset about not getting the chance which might affect their league form anyway. It's a toss up between ...

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I suppose that's the big question. Which is better - win the league with 100 points but lose to City, or win the league with 99 points and win the FA Cup and qualify for Europe? I say give it our best shot for the Cup. I'm still disappointed about that Watford match twenty years ago. Trust me, if I...

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Strongest team possible tonight. The Championship is the focus. 100+ could well be possible. We can still break the record for most points in the Championship if we hit another streak. The City game is a distraction and not worth risking any injuries over. I genuinely wouldn't be bothered if we sent...

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As soon as he's fully fit he has to come straight back in to the starting 11 for me, he's our best CB and we've missed his passing ability at times. Ekdal has done very well but he's not at the same level as THB yet. We're in an unbelievable position of having a crop of highly talented CB. Ekdal an...

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I hope there's a player in him, but like virtually everyone else, I've not seen anything to get excited about yet. Having said that, I'd like to see him start vs Wigan. He hasn't started a game with our proper 1st team yet so it would be interesting to see how he gets on. We might find we have a dif...

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The rest of the league have had us and Sheff Utd up since Christmas. Boro have been playing catch up and it's much easier to do that than stay in front, especially when someone is closing in. If Boro catch Sheff Utd it'll come with a change of mindset. Suddenly it'll be theirs to lose and that's a w...

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Desperately sad news. RIP Tony Johnson. The authorities really need to get a grip on the hooliganism that is creeping back into our game. It has never been welcome, certainly not for 95% of supporters. Maybe a tragedy such as this will make people think twice in the future. I hope so as away days ha...

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One game at a time. The Fulham game takes on as much meaning as last night now. It's a huge game for us. Let's try and build momentum and see where it takes us. We're in a better position now than anyone dared to dream we'd be in before the West Ham match. I didn't see 2 wins happening at all. Finge...

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Not saying we should sign him, just think it's interesting that he's been made available, especially given the facts that Ings / Austin are injury prone and Shane Long couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo. He looked like a masterstroke of a signing when he first arrived but he's been quite poor sin...

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Chelsea have accepted Wolves' £18,000,000 bid for Tammy Abrahams. £18m seems a lot on paper but in theory he should only go from strength to strength. He struggled in a poor Swansea team last season but his combined record for Bristol City and Aston Villa is very impressive for a lad of his age; 42...

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Apparently in the crowd at the match tonight. Wonder if it’s to watch burnley or Huddersfield. Just the kind of striker we are looking for if it is to watch burnley. I've been saying for a while we should go for this lad and Watkins from Brentford. It makes even more sense if Huddersfield want him....

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I was surprised we let him leave on a free to be honest. Always seemed to do OK on loan. Would have made sense to give him another 2 years and send him back out on loan until someone offered us cash for him. Mind you, 100k for him is small fry vs PL money these days!!

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Steve1956 wrote:He's a horrible little man is that Hughes,don't think he'll ever get another job,here's hoping anyway.

He's on the scrapheap with Moyes, Bruce and Pardew. Not sure any of them will get a decent job again... which isn't a bad thing!

jlup1980

Doubt he would have been sacked at Huddersfield or Cardiff for the same reason that it would have been stupid for him to be sacked here. Not sure I agree. Again I'm talking about performances. They're have been several performances this season that left us wondering whether Dyche had lost the playe...

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Dark Cloud wrote:They knew what they were doing when they sacked the moaning one off as they were clearly looking at the upcoming fixtures which gave the new guy a honeymoon period with pretty much guaranteed wins.

Absolutely. Even Mark Hughes would have stayed with 3 wins I reckon!!

jlup1980

Football is a fickle game. Fans will ebb and flow with results. I've tried very hard to stay on Dyche's side all along but felt that certain defeats were unacceptable due to their nature. Losing is one thing, performance levels are another. Some of our defeats have been so soft it bordered on embarr...

jlup1980

Today is a free hit. Huddersfield and Fulham are must wins. If we take 6 points from those two our season changes in an instant. The only issue is I don't see us getting a point, nevermind 6!

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Nil nil written all over it. Two sides highly unlikely to score in a brothel at the moment!

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We miss him badly for his versatility and endeavour. You always knew you'd get maximum effort from Scott and he'd be straight in our team at the moment, whether that's on the wing or in the number 10 spot. Good luck to the lad, it seems to be going well for him.

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To me that is accepting relegation. There is a reason these players are not playing for top championship teams or in the premier league. And I know this approach has served us well in the past but we are no longer in a financial position where it is necessary for us to find bargains all the time. W...

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He has not impressed me at all in his sub appearances (was very poor against Arsenal), and you would have to think that Dyche has assessed him in training and doesn't feel he is good enough. That calls a lot of questions over his signing/who actually signed him. What I would say is, after the Evert...

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We create more money than Championship clubs, but their owners are still willing and able, to bank roll them beyond what they create. In the real world Burnley can't do that. You can only spend the money once, and when it's gone......... Frustrating, but we do what we need to do to survive. Surviva...

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ClaretTony wrote:Spend that much and the wage bill would rise to a level at which we can't cope. It's the wage bill that becomes the most important, not the transfer fees.

True, but we spent nearly £30m on two players who haven't really featured. Makes you wonder why we didn't just stump up for Dawson and Jay Rod!

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You might want to rethink your right-back for two reasons. 1) Lowton has been horrendous recently 2) he's suspended As much as I don't want Ben Mee at left back, I'd go Heaton Bardsley Tarkowski Gibson Mee JBG Westwood Cork McNeil Hendrick Barnes Must admit you're not far off their CT. I'd like to ...

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We're playing the little old Burnley card too often in my opinion. We're comfortably in the top 50 richest football clubs in Europe and possibly the world, yet we still make out we can't compete with Championship clubs, nevermind PL clubs! Is this the wider issue? We need to shed the small club ment...

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If we beat West Ham we might get a few more through the gate but I don't see us getting anywhere near 5 figures.

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If we ever see Defour in a Burnley shirt again I'll be amazed. He's clearly got a serious problem and is highly unlikely to put in a genuine run of games again. He's not been on the receiving end of a bad tackle since he's been with us; it's just niggly injuries which must be related to his earlier ...

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I've only ever witnessed that boredom and lack of interest in a game once before and that was at the end of the Cotterill era. For all of his detractors, Cotterill wasn't a bad manager, and neither could anybody say that about Dyche it was just that the players back then needed a different voice - ...

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Ask any Derby fan and they'll tell you he's a player who comes alive in the final third. I can only assume he's deemed surplus to requirements at the moment due to the fact we never have the ball in the final third.

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Sub bad for good and I agree OK, let's do that. The point still stands that he doesn't deserve to be singled out in a squad of players who are all under performing massively. Taylor has less PL experience than anyone else so I'm willing to cut him a bit more slack. I think there's a good player in ...

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It isn't just time though, is it? The squad needs massive investment next month. I just hope the board back him. Assuming the players we're after will come. Investment won't happen. We all know that. The Board wouldn't spend when we were at our strongest last summer so they sure as hell won't sign ...

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Play the game the right way? Pretty but losing regularly? Ok then... As opposed to playing ugly and losing regularly? The Fulham Board shot themselves in the foot over the summer and made Jokanovic the scapegoat. It's well known that Jokanovic didn't want most of the players the Board signed; they ...

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agreed. He has earned the chance to pull this around. How much time would you allow him then? I agree that he's banked enough credit to be given time to get us out of this rut but, and it's a BIG but, this rut has now lasted 12 months. Every other PL and EFL club would have sacked him by now. We're...

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Taylor has been as good as anyone else this season so it seems harsh to single him out. Mee has been as poor as anyone for starters.

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Arfield would walk into our team at the moment. His versatility was invaluable and hasn't been replaced.

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Heaton
Bardsley Tarky Gibson Taylor
JBG Hendrick Cork McNeil
Vydra
Barnes

Just the 5 changes for me.

jlup1980

If Dyche goes I'd look at Jokanovic. He's had two promotions from the Championship with Watford and Fulham, plus he plays attack minded, entertaining football (this is a must for me) . You won't find a more suitable manager for us currently, certainly not one who's openly available. Best case scenar...

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Dyche has been loyal to too many underperformers for too long. I suspect the noise levels will increase significantly if we fail to produce against W Ham & Huddersfield. With SD consistently struggling with a Plan B (plus clueless using subs to change games) then the challenge to keep us in the PL ...

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There was a limited amount of booing at the end directed at Dyche but as people have said above the ground was less than a third full by then. I personally shouted 'Rubbish Dyche' from not far behind him in the Bob Lord at the third sub. Not something I make a habit of but i lost my rag with his su...

jlup1980

How can we vocally support a team that quite frankly gives us nothing to get behind? The team today was as workmanlike as it gets. No pace, no creativity, no flair, nothing. I'm a fan who likes to sit on the edge of seat and get into a match. I'm vocal whether we win, lose or draw if the performance...

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It's time to write off Ward and Defour. They won't get back to PL fitness levels again any time soon and in Ward's case he's probably too old anyway. In fact, we've got a full rebuild to start going off today's shambles!! Might as well get Nahki back from QPR and start planning for Rovers away next ...

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Hart 3
Lowton 3
Taylor 3
Gibson 5
Tarkowski 3
Mee 3
Westwood 4
Cork 4
Hendrick 5
Barnes 3
Vokes 3

McNeil 3
Gudmundsson 3

Despicable all round but I felt we also took our only average performing players off. Hendrick was the only one likely to make anything happen and he was hooked!

jlup1980

It's the same thing I've been saying for months now. Back him or sack him. Big changes are needed, whether it's players or the manager is up to the Board, because to be honest we're ready relegated. Currently we're sitting in a tide waiting to drown rather than trying to save ourselves. Today was pi...

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Today was a gimme. All he had to do was say "watch the Long penalty incident and tell me how it differs from Tarkowski on Ramsey last season" and leave it at that. A direct comparison with two predictable and expected outcomes.

jlup1980

I don't understand the comment about Marney. He hasn't played for us since 22nd Jan 2017. Obviously we would have finished higher than 7th had he been available last season. We haven't missed Marney as such, we've missed having a 5th centre mid due to Defour's lack of availability and Sean's stubbo...

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A winger and a centre mid must be the top priority in January surely? And I mean first team quality players as well. Injuries have hampered us all season so replacing Marney and Arfield must be our number one aim?

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It wouldn't make sense to allow him to walk away next summer. We're already short in midfield so I'm glad he's signed an extension. However, 12 months sounds like a compromise on both sides. If we saw him as an important player surely we'd be offering 2 or 3 years? Extending Defour's deal was anothe...

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Hart
Bardsley Tarky Mee Taylor
Westwood Cork
Lennon Barnes Brady
Wood

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