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Unlucky today but don’t forget who we were playing. Current Champions, probable champions this season and we almost held them. We will play a lot worse opposition this season.

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I once got one when I had tickets in the Stretford end at Old Trafford. It was the only way I was going to get away with wearing my Burnley colours without getting punched.

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Totally agree with the original idea. All the other confederations have preliminary rounds for the minnow countries. Could quite easily have got the draw down to 48 teams and had 12 groups of 4 this time. The international breaks are to frequent nowadays. Alternatively, make the teams play without t...

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I can actually see this sacking working in our favour. No matter who comes in they’ve got to negotiate a minimum of 8 European games, Nuno’s squad, who probably aren’t to happy with the sacking and a lunatic of a chairman.

Recipe for relegation (maybe).

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Chester Perry wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 09, 2025 12:11 am
It is a club Sean Dyche would love to manage - having experienced the current owner of the club as an opposition manager would he want to work for him? Not that it is likely they would come in for him.

Dyche would probably chin him.

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Would love to have a cup run. There’s not been too many in my 50 years.

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A few years ago there was a Northern Europe league touted containing the likes of Rangers, Celtic, Gothenburg, Brondby, Ajax and a few other of the larger teams from this area. It could have been a jump up for all these clubs to have competitive games.

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Luckily we get all games live in Australia. But it’s no wonder that people are still using Amazon fire sticks etc. when the game isn’t even being broadcast in the UK. Annoying the pubs can’t show it though.

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Someone mentioned earlier about incorporating a new cricket club pavilion into the stand. If an agreement could be made this would be by far the best way to go. County class cricket pavilion and 1000 stand, 6000 safe standing stand behind our goal with some decent facilities in the middle.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 25, 2025 2:45 pm
Do you mean the black shirt? I think that might be the goalkeeper shirt.

Yes that was the one. Away of goalkeeper, it definitely looks better than the white one.

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The away kit looks ok. Home kit just looks like a mess.

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He’s like an Australian Sam Allardyce

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Just think. If Frank Teasdale had banned Elton Welsby from coming on the Turf we wouldn’t have been able to abuse him.

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Can’t see past Sheffield united to be fair. Sunderland on a really bad run.

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Watched the last 20 minutes of the Leeds game. There was no way they weren’t winning that. They were pretty much camping the Plymouth box the whole time and the ref was giving them everything.

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The one thing I noticed was on the FA Cup weekend when Preston played Villa we won our league game. Had we been playing in the FA Cup we would have been heaps of points behind and playing catchup with a midweek game. Turned out to be a blessing.

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Would much rather see it split between the Championship clubs than the Premier league clubs.

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Leeds have pretty much made clear they will be investing in players and now the rumours about Farke. Imagine you’d just won promotion knowing you probably won’t play or manage for the club again because the board of directors have no faith in you. Hopefully this unsettles them enough over the next 2...

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We’ve played our best all season against teams that come out at us and give it a go. Sheffield United have no choice but to do that. They’re not good enough to beat us though so we’ll turn them over like every other team that’s has give it a go.

Our issue is we can’t break down teams that dig in.

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Trafford booked for time wasting. Why you’d have to waste time playing 9 men is beyond me. Jeremy booked for falling in the floor after a foul.

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Since Watford went down to 9 we’ve looked shocking.

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This reminds me of a game at Valley Parade a long time ago.

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[quote=Quicknick post_id=2528382 time=<a href="tel:1742856396">1742856396</a> user_id=642] Apart from the WBA match at home, we've had some really good wins lately. We're top of the form table over the last eight games. Of course we can win it. And in the last eight games we've made up three points...

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This time last year the table after 38 games was

Leeds 82
Leicester 82
Ipswich 81

We all know what happened next

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92 will be enough. You only have to look at the 2 teams that dropped points in vital home games this week. Us and Sheffield Utd. More will be dropped over the next 10 games as teams become desperate for playoff places and to avoid relegation. It’s the same every single season despite the gap. It’s s...

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I’d just like to see referees have to watch a game back and explain their decisions. Have the integrity to admit their mistakes. If the couldn’t see something because they were facing the other way, or a player was obstructing their view, say so. It’s a part of the game, no one is 100% perfect 100% ...

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Just to put it in to perspective…no team that has averaged 2 points per game has ever not been promoted to the premier league. The record was Leeds last year with 90 and Sunderland the same about 10 years prior.

If 92 points doesn’t get us up then we have the unluckiest season ever.

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22 unbeaten and there’s still people thinking we can’t get promotion.

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Just had a $50 on us winning the league at 18/1. That’s long odds for a team unbeaten in 21 and only a few points behind with 13 games to play.

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And the winner of tw@ of the day goes to the original poster of this thread. Seriously, there’s 12 games left yet. Get a grip.

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Played very well overall today, just the usual final third issues. Stonewall penalty if the ref hadn’t had a bet on a 0-0 draw. And how that Norwegian bloke made 4 professional fouls in a row without a booking was bordering on ridiculous. Very frustrating.

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Last kick of the first half explains why no one wants to pass to Foster. Couldn’t hit the net if he was stood in front of it.

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This squad should be beating the likes of Oxford 2-0 at worst. Parker needs to have some faith in his defenders and let the midfield players go forward and be creative.

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Some people have wanted Parker to fail since he arrived on day one. Same people whinge every week after we get a 0-0 draw with the league leaders and big scorers who are unbeaten in 10. Same people whinge about the football and stay at home despite having a season ticket, then whinge about the atmos...

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Back to Burnley on a match day.

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Swings and roundabouts. Some refs wouldn’t have given a penalty on Sunday. Not saying it wasn’t one, just interpretation.

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In. But only if he allows the team to show some flare and creativity. Who cares about losing shape in the Championship. Half the teams couldn’t score in an open net anyway. Might as well gonall out to beat them 5-3.

If he can’t see this then he has to go.

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We’re not playing that bad. All this team is lacking is creativity and some flare upfront and we could score 3 goals a match. It’s really frustrating and hard to watch the lack of forward play and not playing the ball out of our own half.

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FeedTheArf wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 29, 2024 10:58 pm
What am I missing with the Vinicius Jr thing?

It seems like the player, manager and everyone connected to Real Madrid have massively thrown their toys out.

Claiming European bias now. Have they forgotten Messi was South American?

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Yes. Those results that show we’ve lost just one game this season. Some people on here seem to think that we’re supposed to be as good as Man City.

Row x wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 26, 2024 6:18 pm
Those results that put us 2nd.. are those the results you are referring to?

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Absolute bllx that. I would rather we stayed down and played progressive football. could not give a monkeys about promotion but as I said on the "Zzzzzz" thread this is not good to watch. Still think SP will get us promoted but it's dire football. Yeah let’s play fancy VK football, stay down and go...

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Hi. Does anyone here play EA24. I’m finally at a level where I can semi compete at division 7 and wouldn’t mind some games using lesser teams instead of having to play with Real Madrid all the time just to compete.

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Wow. Talk about over reaction. We got beat 1-0 by the team with the best defence in the league. Yes we had a weakened team but the way I saw the game is we just struggled to break through their defensive midfield play.

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Jamesy wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 11, 2024 2:08 pm
What about the Burnley Tunnel in Melbourne? I’ve been through that a few times.
UTC.

It actually links Burnley and Blackburn, both suburbs of Richmond in Melbourne.

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I don't wish to sound ignorant but what is there to actually do there? Of all the great places in the world i reckon Saudi would be somewhere near the bottom of places i'd like to visit. Scuba diving is world class. Scenery and ancient temples. That’s about it really. Jeddah and Ridyah are quite mo...

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A couple of the teams in Saudi are huge, such as Al Hilal. I’ll never forget the AFC Champions league final agains my Aussie team WSW. They lost to some dubious refereeing decisions and a hell of a lot of heart. At the time it was like watching a Championship side against a League 2. It was a full n...

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Never fell out with him. Had faith in him next season but hey, if Bayern Munich come calling, who wouldn’t go.

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This time last year there were plenty of supporters saying they wished we could just reject promotion and stay in the Championship for the very reasons we are discussing. The gulf is to large and those big clubs get everything there own way.

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Dyche had gone stale. The drive and desire he had in the first years at Burnley had gone. After the 7th place finish he expected to be given at least some funds to build a team that could compete in the Europa and match the 7th place finish again. Those funds never came. He was outbid on most of his...

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I did not read that at all in the summary. For me they were pointing out playing out is fine… given the opportunity to do so, but doing so every time against a high press is suicidal. The difference last season was that we could and did mix it up… if there was a high press, we launched it long and ...

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