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Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 26, 2025 7:15 pm
Yes.
Saw Tresor was on the bench.
Last 10 minute hattrick?

10 min hat trick and then hopefully a quick sale trying to recoup the £15m we splurged on him.

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The Barn field ( let's not bother with a tender)
stadium

( i speak from experience)

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Whoever it is will be based on a bad start and I have to admit that if Scott Parker doesn't get an early vital win then the sheer unpredictability and bloody mindedness of our owners( shown in full this summer) could easily force him out. I'm not sure I'm seeing ' bloody mindedness ' on the part of...

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Do we? It feels as if most (all?) civil service departments moved over to home working during Covid, resulting in a substantial fall in productivity. But with that now behind us, a large proportion of civil service employees continue to work from home and pre-covid productivity levels have never re...

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willsclarets wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 09, 2025 2:58 pm
It doesn't look like Tresor has done anything in preseason to convince Parker he's worthy of a place in the squad.

....or he's still AWOL

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FCBurnley wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 09, 2025 2:07 pm
Sonne ? Why

I'm.not sure that many of us have had the opportunity to see much of Sonne therefore it will be interesting to see how he performs against some fairly testing opposition

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But Colburn, Burnley are not in a position to splurge £20m + on a player who is high risk due to potential injury risk, not fitting in or whatever else. We've seen that too many times in recent years Weghorst, springs to mind, he simply didn't want to play for us, whilst others have mysteriously dis...

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Romano said broja deal was done and medical completed etc yesterday. There was a clip of I think Raheem Stirling being asked who was the funniest player at the club, he replied well he has just left us, it was broja Broja may well have the last laugh. Based on reports from my Evertonian colleagues,...

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I went to see oasis at Heaton park just before they split up and it was one of the worst gigs I’ve ever been to. They sounded crap and the crowd was full of idiots. I went last night and it was one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to. They sounded brilliant. The crowd was a mixture of all ages. A lo...

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Very predictable attacking from England. Their keeper Guiliani can pick those balls out of the air all night.

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Fara Williams....giving me a headache. With a voice like that, how can she be a BBC soccer pundit?!

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I've just done a little reading up on Tuanzebe. The Daily Telegraph online describes his years with Man U as being "plagued by injury ". He's aged 27 but has close on just one hundred first team appearances for the various clubs he's played for. With the various injury woes of Tresor, Beyer, Foster ...

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"Part of the Union " is most likely the hit song that people may know, but most of their music was much more involved than that.

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Watched much of it on TV and let's remember that live broadcasting technology and sending it worldwide has improved significantly in that forty years. That said, the BBC did a good job in that broadcast which allowed the top bands of the time to perform three/four songs before giving way to the next...

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Another shout out for Clayton Street chippy in Great Harwood.
Also West End chippy in Oswaldtwistle. I know this will be a little contentious but they serve the Blackburn delicacy the 'John Bull' which is a deep fried ball of spiced meat mixed with potato. Great with mushy peas.

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Had one some years back and as suggested above, the 'bowel prep' was more tricky than the procedure itself!

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And if only there was a message board where people could ask for such advice, advice that is so often given. Indeed Tony. And thankyou everyone for tips/advice re transport/food/beverages etc. The thinking behind my initial enquiry was on from 'googling' Bee Network I discovered that and I quote "F...

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I'm heading to The Lowry to see "Dear England "....theatrical interpretation of the Gareth Southgate's tenure as England Manager. Just wondering if any Manchester based clarets have tips on accessing the Lowry from Castlefield Station and then catching trams to the Lowry....is Castlefield the best s...

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Very arrogant performance from England. Far too much strutting around with little urgency and no product. The third Senegal goal summed up things up.

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Reading the article, they agreed to a mortgage in 2007 at 6.59% which from memory, was a rate quite a bit higher than high Street banks were charging at the time.

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Memory must be playing tricks on me or it maybe a different gig, but don’t remember the Alarm supporting U2 at Milton Keynes.Although they may have done and I was too under the influence. RIP Mike Peters, another gone too soon. Hey Top Tier, you're making me doubt myself!! U2 played a gig billed 't...

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Mike Peters who fronted the Alarm in the early 1980's has passed away aged 66 years. The Alarm were a very exciting early 80's band who fused 'punk' with Bob Dylan inspired songs. I saw The Alarm somewhere in Manchester (might have been the Poly) and supporting U2 at Milton Keynes Bowl He subsequent...

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Subject to current negotiations being concluded on loanees/ contract ending, desperate need for players capable of playing up to PL standard in attack and midfield. I'm thinking a smaller squad of good players who can 'make a difference ' rather than a large squad of pointless bench fillers.

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How can we be hanging on against nine men?!!

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Sorted!

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I was in the same year as Andy at Fearns senior school, Stacksteads, Bacup so he would have been aged 62-63. I think the school has since been renamed. Met him in the Thomson centre bar, Burnley, a year or so after leaving school...round about 79/80. The barman wasn't in sight so Andy went behind th...

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Our recent record of scoring from direct free kicks is poor. We have to go back to Ross Wallace and Robbie Brady for any sort of consistency. Scott Twine had a skill in that department but he was deemed to be lacking elsewhere. Brownhill has taken a number of free kicks this season but we shouldn't ...

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Indeed Elizabeth. 'Lottery ' would be an apt description. We struggled against West Brom and given you actually have to score goals to progress in the play offs maybe the best we can hope for is a series of frustrating 0-0's and scrape through on penalties

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BleedingClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 01, 2025 10:35 pm
Flemming?

He is our second highest goal scorer this season (Brownhill being top) so with that in mind unlikely that he wouldn't be included in a team!

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Spent my early years in Bacup, First game was at The Turf v Newcastle Utd with Malcolm McDonald in their team. A fairly dull 0-0 end of season fixture in the old First Div round about 1975....and whilst being unremarkable I was hooked.

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There really is a huge selection of great ales out there. We were just discussing our younger days, when we started drinking in the mid 70s, the other night. Whitbread Trophy, Stones, Brew Ten, Youngers Tartan, thankfully we also had some Tetley pubs in Skipton as the aforementioned were bloody dre...

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It hasn't been brewed for quite some time but Timothy Taylor's Porter is my all time fave beer. The best pint was served at the Staff of Life, Todmorden. Beyond that, Salopian and Ossett do some great blond beers, Ossett in particular can be found at the swan with two necks. A trip to the Rivington ...

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rosswallacefreekick wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 21, 2025 7:03 pm
Benching Foster seems harsh, but he’s not been at it recently. Hopefully he’ll sub on and score a brace.

Looking forward to seeing Edwards.

Fosters general play has been OK but it's a team lacking potency up front. Hopefully Edwards can help offer the final touch we have lacked all season.

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I like the sound of that. Please tell us what the process is, what “force” if any we could use when carrying this out. I’d also like to know what terminology I should use so that everyone knows I’m the good guy, and also what arguments could use in my own defence when I undoubtedly end up in court ...

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agreenwood wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:42 am
He’s “back on grass”.

So like Benson and Redmond....out indefinitely

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Tend to agree with Jakub. It's frustration. Groundhog Day...is a good anology. Three points off second place today...and that gap will grow as we continue to fail to find the net in 'must win ' games. Unfair to blame Parker. He witnessed the Alan Pace 'fire sale ' as he moved into his office at the ...

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The Chamionship have got us figured. Pack the defence, kill the game and youre guaranteed a 0-0 against Burnley. Time for Shelvey and Benson to mix things up.

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Let's hope, that unlike Redmond, warming the bench isn't too much for them.

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AmbleClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:32 am
The way she announced it as if it would make a blind bit of difference just shows how far removed politicians of both colours these days are removed from the average person in this country.

Surely not. Sir Keir is a man of the people.
His dad was a toolmaker you know

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Both the axing of Burnley A &E and also the construction of a hospital on a remote hill location (Blackburn Royal) were sold to the general public on the the pretext that efficient bus services would serve both. Shame on both NHS management and local Councils that the various parties have chosen to ...

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Irk, The Chameleons "Script of the Bridge" is one of my favourite post punk albums.

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I've never visited any of the former Nazi extermination camps but as reflected elsewhere above, the Ann Frank house in Amsterdam is sobering enough. I would tend to agree with evensteadiereddie, in that I am struggling to understand how the events in Gaza over the last fifteen months can be seen as ...

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Darnall,
Tremendous line up at that Lincoln folk fest. A tad jealous that you saw Sandy Denny. She was slightly before my time. Someone who died young (in 1978) but left a rich recorded legacy.

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...and that's why he cost £19m

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13 to go. It's heading towards another 0-0 yawn. Time to bring on Bashley.

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JR1882 wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:06 pm
He is magic he’s disappeared!

They seek him here,
They seek him there!

If he's refusing to play I'm presuming that is breach of contract and he shouldn't be getting paid.

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GetIntoEm wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:59 am
Glad about traff

Certainly not at 20m.

If we go up we should ask for 40

Didn't we buy him for £19m? He's subsequently had PL and Championship experience. £20m would be an insult.

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.....and In other action, Womens FA Cup 3rd round, Forest v Burnley. Anyone have an update?

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On the face of it they did treat Tony Mowbray in a fairly shocking manner. He was seemingly doing a solid 'under the radar' tyoe of job in slowly building a team with minimal funding. They allowed his contract to run down with no communication with him. He packed his bag on his final day...and that ...

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Why? Because referring to dvalley69's reference to him working with zilch all resources but keeping Everton in the Prem, Dyche did an even more impressive job of that at Burnley. Though accepted, he had to resort to "Dycheball" in doing that. It was a level of football that a small club such as Bur...

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