Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by TVC15 » Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:03 pm

Robbie Blake
Tripps
Ings
Glen Little
Sir David Eyres

If I was to do a 5 for those years in the wilderness it would be
Paul Comstive
John Deary
Roger Eli
Neil Grewcock
Steve Davis (mk 2)
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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by lakedistrictclaret » Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:07 pm

Brian O'Neil
Ralph Coates
Willie Irvine
Glen Little
Robbie Blake

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by claretabroad » Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:21 pm

Steve Harper - I know it doesn't make any sense. Every year there was a 3-5 game purple patch where he was unplayable. The rest of the season he might as well not have been on the field. It says everything about his career that the best goal he ever scored got wiped from the record books when Aldershot went under.
Inchy - I was lucky to get into the changing room before a game and he was really welcoming and funny. He was also merciless in some taking the **** banter with John Pender. Top bloke.
Glen Little - Probably the one player who I thought would have an extended premier league career. Took over matches and all while constantly in a state of falling over but never actually hitting the floor.
Kieran Trippier. Early on I looked at him and said to many people that he would end up playing for England. I like him because he proved me right (and I'm often so very, very wrong). Left it all on the pitch every game and when he did leave us did so in a classy manner.
Ian Wright. I still can't believe he played for us. Every goal he scored was so important in our chase for promotion and I get to wind up my Arsenal supporting mates by relentlessly referring to him as 'Burnley legend Ian Wright'.

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by MattBFC » Wed Apr 03, 2019 3:26 pm

Robbie Blake
Ashley Barnes
Ted McMinn
David Eyres
Ashley Westwood

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by expoultryboy » Wed Apr 03, 2019 4:11 pm

Dobo , taffy , hamilton , little and mainly for "that goal" elliott . Anyone else have the same problem , that you kept on changing your choice !

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by SussexDon1inIreland » Wed Apr 03, 2019 4:55 pm

Dave Thomas
Martin Dobson
Leighton James
Ben Mee
Ashley Barnes

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by willsclarets » Wed Apr 03, 2019 5:08 pm

Glen little
Ted McMinn
Adrian Randall
David Eyres
Paul Cook

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by depechedingle » Wed Apr 03, 2019 5:28 pm

Billy Hamilton
Robbie Blake
Michael Duff
Tom Heaton
David Eyres

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by depechedingle » Wed Apr 03, 2019 5:31 pm

The wife's choices (not a poster on here, well not as far as I know)

John Francis
Steve Davis Mark 2
David Johnson
Marlon Beresford
Clarke Carlisle

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Gunfury » Wed Apr 03, 2019 5:54 pm

Billy Hamilton
Mike Phelan
Alan Stevenson
Steve Davis II
Marlon Beresford
.....I think

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by moaninclaret » Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:05 pm

Blake, Ings,payton,Elliot,Little, all fantastic players who hardly ever had a bad game despite the result

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by evensteadiereddie » Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:11 pm

Harry Thomson
Geoff Nulty
Ralph Coates
Steve Kindon
Graham Alexander

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by AlargeClaret » Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:14 pm

In no order

Joey Barton
Danny Ings
Tom Heaton
Robbie Blake
David Eyers

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by claretfern » Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:22 pm

Andy Lochhead
Willie Irvine
Dave Thomas
Martin Dobson
Glen Little

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Bop » Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:24 pm

Dobson
Noble
Steven
Blake
Little

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Stockbrokerbelt » Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:33 pm

David Eyres
Andy Payton
John Deary
Ben Mee
Dean Marney.

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Vino blanco » Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:41 pm

Jimmy Mac
John Connelly
Ray Pointer
Brian O'Neil
Willie Morgan
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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by willsclarets » Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:44 pm

Good to see so many mentioning glen little, I think his type is sorely missing from the game these days. Everyone's athletic and anodyne, but someone with a languid style who uses a bit of guile to beat a man or create a chance is so much more entertaining. At the higher level, Matt le Tissier, Waddle, Hoddle, Dennis Bergkamp to name a few; people who show imagination on the pitch seems to be lost to running stats.

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Darthlaw » Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:45 pm

Ted McMinn
David Eyres
Glen Little
Robbie Blake
Cant decide between Ashley Barnes / Michael Duff so it’ll have to be 6

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Conroy92 » Wed Apr 03, 2019 7:12 pm

Glenn Little
Graham Di Branchio
Robbie Blake
Michael Duff
Keiran Trippier

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Vegas Claret » Wed Apr 03, 2019 7:16 pm

pretty impossible to just pick 5 but I would go with
Heaton
Trippier
Eyres
Deary
Conroy

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by boyyanno » Wed Apr 03, 2019 7:19 pm

Little- Loved at every club he's played at and different class for us.
Blake- His performance against Tottenham is the best performance I've seen from a Burnley player. Also a different class for us and returned to add to his own legend with the promotion under Coyle.
Tripps- Bought into the club completely, had great desire and showed that he was a future England right back.
Duff- Bought for peanuts and aged like a fine wine. Bit of a weird one because he was never a great player through most of his time here. A lot of fans (myself included) have a bit of cult status for him, partly because he was terrific in his later years, contributing massively to our success, but also partly for that dance when we won in the play offs. Also see the below for more.
Scott Arfield- Scored big goals in his whole time here and I thought he was a great player that proved a lot of people wrong. Will always remember the goal at Ewood and the celebration with him and Duff hand in hand running towards us.
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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by mdd2 » Wed Apr 03, 2019 7:20 pm

Bert Freeman
Trevor Meredith
Ian Britton
Parky
Wade Elliott

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by aclaretinstevenage » Wed Apr 03, 2019 8:24 pm

Dave Thomas
Brian O'Neill
Steve Davis......yes him!
Colin Waldron
Martin Dobson

In any order.

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by dandeclaret » Wed Apr 03, 2019 8:37 pm

Robbie Blake

Glen Little
Kieran Trippier
Jay Rodriguez
James Tarkowski

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by warksclaret » Wed Apr 03, 2019 8:40 pm

Brian O Neil
Dave Thomas
Martin Dobson
Leighton James
Peter Noble
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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by warksclaret » Wed Apr 03, 2019 8:47 pm

There are some great nominations-I did mine without scrolling down first. Having just done that it has made me realise how as a club we were really blessed with a big number of legends. I was in my selection very influenced by watching the team in the late 60's early 70's when we were quite a formidable team for any opposition. Thanks BFC for the memories
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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by BurnleyFC » Wed Apr 03, 2019 9:13 pm

Glen Little
Wade Elliott
Robbie Blake
Ben Mee
Dean Marney

Mention for Andy Payton as well.

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by levraiclaret » Wed Apr 03, 2019 9:20 pm

In my 60th season watching the Clarets, with some gaps, so I am bending the rules.
Old times:-
Tommy Cummins - coz I bought beer off him and he scored a memorable goal at the Bee Hole end in his final season.
John Angus - coz I bought buckets, spades and fishing nets off him and he was cool, collected and quietly hard. I remember him bouncing Dave Mackay across the ed shale track in front of the Longside.
John Connelly - coz I bought fish and chips off him, saw him score many great goals and he was part of the World Cup winning squad.
Brian Miller - coz I delivered milk to him and he served the club so well.
Jimmy McIlroy - coz he would have sold me a dummy at any time.
Honourable mentions to Jimmy Robson (scored 5 on my first match), Brian O'Neill, Frank Casper,Ralph Coates, Martin Dobson and Peter Noble

Recent times:-
Arfield
Duff
Trippier
Heaton
Barnes
Honourable mentions for Barton, Jones, Marney, Elliot, Vokes
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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Nonayforever » Wed Apr 03, 2019 9:30 pm

For me, these players created excitement whenever they received the ball ;-

Dave Thomas
Ted McMinn
Wade Elliot
David Eyers

and now -
Dwight McNeill

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Marty Dobson » Wed Apr 03, 2019 9:41 pm

Martin Dobson
Leighton James
Dave Thomas
Colin Waldron
Frank Casper
I admit I'm stuck in the early 70s.
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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Cirrus_Minor » Wed Apr 03, 2019 9:42 pm

Ralph Coates
Martin Dobson
Brian O'Neil
Frank Casper
Willie Irvine
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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by ClaretinJapan » Wed Apr 03, 2019 10:32 pm

In no order:

Roger Eli
Rooster
Billy Hamilton
Ted McMinn
John Francis

And a special mention to Neil Grewcock and Ian Britton!

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by boatshed bill » Wed Apr 03, 2019 10:38 pm

Could be loads... but tonight

Brian O'Neil
Adam Blacklaw
Glen Little
Super Johnny Francis
Leighton James
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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by JimMcDonald » Wed Apr 03, 2019 10:52 pm

1.Robbie Blake
2.Robert Blake
3.Rob Blake
4.Bob Blake
5.Bobbie Blake
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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Tread Warily » Wed Apr 03, 2019 11:07 pm

Jimmy McIlroy
Brian Jensen
Tom Heaton
Ray Pointer
Glen Little.

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Better Call Saul » Thu Apr 04, 2019 5:00 pm

Ralph Coates
Ralph Coates (so good I named him twice)
Brian O'Neil
Leighton James
Martin Dobson
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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by turfytopper » Thu Apr 04, 2019 5:04 pm

Ralph Coates
Martin Dobson
Peter Noble
Andy Payton
Michael Duff

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Malvern claret » Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:23 pm

Willie Morgan
Brian O’Neill
Leighton James
Martin Dobson
Andy Lochead

The first time I ever saw Dave Thomas I thought he was going to be my favourite ever player but he left Burnley too early to have the impact for us that I hoped he would.
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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by DomBFC1882 » Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:44 pm

Glenn little
Robbie Blake
Danny ings
Kieran trippier
Tom heaton

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Middle-agedClaret » Thu Apr 04, 2019 9:51 pm

Willie Irvine
Leighton James
Wade Elliott
Billy Hamilton
Steve Kindon

Very difficult to call...

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by Claret Toni » Thu Apr 04, 2019 9:59 pm

Brian O'Neil
Wade Elliott
Willie Morgan
John Angus

and the legend that never was, but still a favourite:

Colin Blant

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by ontario claret » Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:32 pm

Name any 5 you want. Just make sure you include Peter Noble. The man was pure class both on and off the field.
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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by tim_noone » Fri Apr 05, 2019 1:14 am

Great how many times Brian o Neil's Name is mentioned on The Thred.... Along with others of the time oh to turn the clock Back!!

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by THEWELLERNUT70 » Fri Apr 05, 2019 1:39 am

I'll try to be a little different. I'll do one from each decade as a Burnley supporter

Peter Noble
Billy Hamilton
John Deary
Robbie Blake
Tom Heaton

Actually scrap that, that's probably my top 5 anyway :o

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by CharlieinNewMexico » Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:51 am

Stevenson
Noble
Defour
Barnes
Barton

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Re: Your 5 favourite Clarets of all time

Post by exilecanada » Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:16 pm

For me this must be split into two groups, because I missed a whole generation due to exploring the new world and getting footy news over ‘ere was like pulling teeth for quite some time until the Internet came along and games were available on telly. I’ll call them “old school’ and ‘new school’.

Old School:
Brian O’Neil
Colin Waldron
Jimmy Mac
Martin Dodson
Andy Lochhead


New School:
Tom Heaton
Robbie Blake
Ashley Barnes
Joey Barton
Kieran Trippier

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