Here we go again.
This is the usual fun title (acceptable in previous matches) and a simple welcome from Madge, to get us ready to punch above our weight and cheer on our heroes.
If either falls by the wayside, that's me done.

Right, now here we go.
Madge has been double training since lockdoen and yet taped in her shoebox as a precaution, I understand. The Holyone is strict!

This has made her doubly fired up!

I can sense a pent up desire in our heroes, to get the season rolling. The smell of 3 points has drifted into their nostrils!

Let's do this!

Come on you Clarets!

Ah! the match thread here's to us breaking our duck and taking down the Seagulls.

Madge we love you


she's gone noooooooo why

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:22 pm

Ah! the match thread here's to us breaking our duck and taking down the Seagulls.

a bird in the hand is worth 3 points!

UTC

What channel is it on?

Today's Lineup:

Team news

Pope, Lowton, Tarkowski, MEE, Taylor, BRADY, Brownhill, Westwood, McNeil, Barnes, Wood

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

so pleased for him...and us!

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:28 pm

Madge we love you


she's gone noooooooo why

we don’t do sexy football!

Great to see Mee back. Massive game, his inclusion is a big plus. UTC!

Nice to have a stronger bench utc

Stephens not even on the bench ?

Ben Mee returns and we're also starting TWO wingers! We really need to win tonight, and I actually fancy us to do just that. COYC!

Great news about Mee. I'm a little surprised Jay hasn't come in but I can totally see Dyche's reasoning for sticking with Barnes, he needs to recapture his form. Strong performance and 3 points please lads.

Glad to see Mee back also no Dale Stephens

Feels like a "season starts here"" moment.

Fantastic to see Ben Mee back, how he's been missed.

No Dale Stephens in the squad.

Is Stephens injured or not eligible to play against his former team?

Also good to see JBG on the bench as an option.

Not sure about Barnes and Wood up top, but it's a huge boost to have the Mee/Tarks pairing reunited, and 3 strikers on the bench, blimey! when was the last time we had 3 strikers on the bench. Hopefully they won't be required, but I'd rather have the options available than not.

Stephens is exhausted after providing full details on the weaknesses of his former employees

Much better team

I'd have preferred Jay to Ash, but maybe against Brighton its the right shout. Either way I'm happy.

Come on you CLARETS

Huge game this, happy to see Mee back and delighted Stephens is nowhere to be seen

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and to all the clarets around this sphere in which we reside on called planet earth. Triple points needed this evening, no ******* about tonight lads.

Stephens injured.

Colburn_Claret wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:40 pm

Much better team
I'd have preferred Jay to Ash, but maybe against Brighton its the right shout. Either way I'm happy.
Come on you CLARETS

My thoughts exactly.

Jay and vydra in lockdown got us some great results as a pairing, and brought us some great football, but let's hope tonight is the the turning point, time to start being positive UTC.

Rileybobs wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:37 pm

Is Stephens injured or not eligible to play against his former team?

There can't be a rule on that, he's our player not a loanee.
Perhaps he's injured?

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:39 pm

when was the last time we had 3 strikers on the bench.

Last weekend I think! We had 4 strikers on the bench v Chelsea

CardiffClaret wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:46 pm

Last weekend I think! We had 4 strikers on the bench v Chelsea

Made a nice change from the usual defenders and goalies combo

boatshed bill wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:45 pm

There can't be a rule on that, he's our player not a loanee.
Perhaps he's injured?

I didn’t mean a rule, more a contractual clause insisted upon by the selling club. Although I appreciate that is very unlikely.

Well the folk running the board obviously wish to change it from what was started by HolyCustard and continued by me, these last years.

Madge, for some reason, has been frozen out. She is packing her bags, as I type. She knows where she is not wanted.

Similarly, I am out of the matchday thread. When we win, Naughty Madge will make an appearance (until she gets removed).

What a shame that folk who have never taken part, think they can change everything and rake out the uniqueness and fun?

Thanks to all who have shared the fun and emotion, over these past several years. Stay safe and always, Up the Clarets.
IanMcL

Bardsley must have got injured while isolating?

Rileybobs wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:50 pm

I didn’t mean a rule, more a contractual clause insisted upon by the selling club. Although I appreciate that is very unlikely.

Injured, or not quite up to speed.
I have to say he looked way off against Chelsea.

Better balance but as previous post I would have preferred jay for ash.

If I were Jay I'd be pretty hacked off tbh. He was outstanding the second half of last season. Did more than enough to keep the shirt.

IanMcL wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:53 pm

Well the folk running the board obviously wish to change it from what was started by HolyCustard and continued by me, these last years.

Madge, for some reason, has been frozen out. She is packing her bags, as I type. She knows where she is not wanted.

Similarly, I am out of the matchday thread. When we win, Naughty Madge will make an appearance (until she gets removed).

What a shame that folk who have never taken part, think they can change everything and rake out the uniqueness and fun?

Thanks to all who have shared the fun and emotion, over these past several years. Stay safe and always, Up the Clarets.
IanMcL

Madge must be about 50 now

IanMcL wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:53 pm

Well the folk running the board obviously wish to change it from what was started by HolyCustard and continued by me, these last years.

Madge, for some reason, has been frozen out. She is packing her bags, as I type. She knows where she is not wanted.

Similarly, I am out of the matchday thread. When we win, Naughty Madge will make an appearance (until she gets removed).

What a shame that folk who have never taken part, think they can change everything and rake out the uniqueness and fun?

Thanks to all who have shared the fun and emotion, over these past several years. Stay safe and always, Up the Clarets.
IanMcL

This is a shame Ian, I don’t personally care about the name of thread or Madge but do understand tradition and see that there is only fun in it so don’t see any harm. I truly can’t understand why it keeps getting removed. We aren’t part of the inner workings of the board so there may be correct and proper reasons but it seems a bit petty to me hey ho.

Stay safe yourself

This match would have been a 'local game' for me as I moved to Chichester recently so about an hour away.

COME ON SUPER BURNLEY OUR SEASON STARTS HERE

Having said that I cant stand watching these empty stadium games and that fact we get so unfairly treated by refs and VAR so I prefer to 'keep an eye' on things on here.

UTC

I don't like this stat. Mind you how many times have we played on a Friday in the top flight.

Stephens must not be fit, or I would have expected him on the bench instead of Thompson

the sooner some folk get back to live football the better says...

After a few days of below normal temp's here n SW Ontario, and our first snowfall of the season, we're now back up to well above normal temp's, currently 19 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. Final golf game of the season booked for Saturday.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out our next two games are key if we're going to survive. I really don't understand why JRod isn't starting, we're much more of a threat when we try to keep the ball on the deck.

Come on you Clarets!

There were 4 covid positives in the PL last week. As the club tell us nothing could Stephens possibly be one of them?

Good to see Ben Mee back. Come on you clarets.

The JRod situation is a bit hard to swallow. He's a better player than Barnes and the team plays better with him in it, yet after 9 months out (and before he got injured Barnes wasn't in great form), he has come straight back in.

Lets hope they keep someone close to their right back-Lampety. He ran riot at Turf Moor last game of season. If the coaches have not even thought of this, then there is something seriously wrong in the way we prepare

We beat Palace last time by nullifying Zaha, largely through Bardsley and Brownhill supporting each other

Just saying !!

I’m expecting Barnes to score tonight, against his old club

The stats sound good, but we need to make a result happen tonight, it won't be handed to us despite our recent good record at the Amex.

Brighton beat Burnley 2-1 at Turf Moor on the final day of last season, but that is their only win in six Premier League fixtures against the Clarets (D3, L2).

Burnley are unbeaten in the past four league meetings at the Amex Stadium, although three of those games ended in draws.

Brighton have won just one of their past 12 Premier League home matches (D5, L6), and are winless in seven at the Amex Stadium since beating Arsenal in June.

Graham Potter's side have allowed their opponents just 21 shots on target in this season's Premier League, a joint-low with Manchester City, who have played one game fewer.

The Clarets are without a victory in seven Premier League matches, their longest winless run since an eight-game streak two years ago. That sequence ended with a 1-0 victory against Brighton in December 2018.

It's worrying that they don't give teams many clear cut chances, means any half chances we'll need to take tonight, and that's been our achilles heel this season our finishing has been surprisingly poor.

Bigvince wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 06, 2020 5:17 pm

I’m expecting Barnes to score tonight, against his old club

Mee too.