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Has Frank-Petter Kval been mentioned, he of the infamous Darlington game?

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1989_claret wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 17, 2025 8:51 pm
The exact same one. Pretty obscure I’d say.

Yep. The other Paul Robinson was a pretty obscure signing too

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Paul Robinson (no not him). Signed on loan from Wimbledon in the 00/01 season. Striker who started at Newcastle. He missed a golden chance to score on his debut. Played three times for us. The player that Gullit famously dropped Shearer for before when they lost at home to Sunderland. Gullit was pr...

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McVeigh did well but it was Gray & Jones, both returning to full fitness, who made the difference. Isn’t it strange how a cup defeat is always included in a long run without a win yet ignored when it breaks up a winning run. I thought it was 19 league games, to be honest. 18 years ago now which is ...

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BuryClaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 17, 2025 10:58 am
Besart Berisha

Fernando Guerreiro

Paul McVeigh

I liked McVeigh and he was a big reason we ended the 19 game winless run under Cotterill. I was disappointed we didn't sign him, but we did get Blake back instead.

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CyrilEbokiPoh wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 16, 2025 10:59 pm
Had to read that.

What were they hoping for exactly?

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/june ... -home-kit/

I've no idea. And don't they realise they were in control of how big of a reveal it would be?

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Rovers have gone down the monochrome badge route for an away kit - seemingly forgetting that it now looks like a Yorkshire rose. :roll: https://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/cwgallery/4025-blackburn-rovers-25-26-macron-150th-anniversary-third-kit/4025_blackburn_rovers_25_26_macron_150th_anniv...

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Dean Bowditch - I remember seeing him score a hat trick for Ipswich, so I was excited to sign him. I was wrong.

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Phil Gray is one I always find weird. We signed him on a free after we got promoted in 2000 (and I remember being impressed that we had a FULL, current Northern Irish international playing for us - how times have changed!) and he scored on his debut away at Bolton in our first game in the Champions...

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clarets1978 wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 16, 2025 1:20 pm
I think it was the shortest Burnley career (about 5 minutes on the pitch). I used to work with someone that told me that stat all the time

Who holds it now? CT's post sounds like he lost the record.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 16, 2025 11:50 am
Neil Edwards although he did hold a club record for a good number of years

Go on, I'll bite... what record?

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As a youngster, I used to enjoy going down Gawthorpe and standing at the fence, watching the players training. Not been down since the new training ground was built, I guess one can't get any where near now? I once went down at half term when I was 14 with my mum and we ended up chatting to Stan fo...

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I do remember the Wood signing being questioned as we'd just sold Gray but still had Vokes. Wood didn't feel like the Gray replacement a lot felt we needed.

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Steddyman wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 10, 2025 2:33 pm
Didn't we pay close to that to a Championship team nearly 10 years ago to sign Andre Gray? Doesn't sound a massive inflation for 10 years.

I think a better comparison is the £18 million we paid for Chris Wood (Championship golden boot winner) in 2017.

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distortiondave wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 09, 2025 10:43 pm
Do you say Yes to everything now, Fretters? Surely not!

Yes

No, but I did start agreeing to more stuff I was invited to. I'd go to things I couldn't really be bothered with, and it was at one of those that I met my wife!

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I remember laughing at Yes Man by Danny Wallace years ago. Completely changed my approach to life, too.

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His assist for the first goal I'd seen against Blackburn in my lifetime.

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Good thread. A shout for Lucas Moura away at Ajax to complete his hat trick after Spurs had been 2-0 down, sending them to the Champions League final.

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Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 02, 2025 8:26 am
The sponsors will be pleased, you are drawn straight away to their logo.

Well they would be if they still existed

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bumba wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 02, 2025 7:33 am
Least it's released before you go to nursery

It wasn't, I go to breakfast club from 7:30.

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Had a dream last night that Brownhill is modelling it and this is how they announce his new contract... I was convinced it was real!

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I remember we'd once made profits on both Blake and Akinbiyi, yet they were still playing for us at the time.. work that one out. Cotterill was brilliant in the transfer market.

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CyrilEbokiPoh wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 26, 2025 9:34 am
To all those mocking the shirt. This looks like a brilliant story. And has certainly made people talk. Which was probably half the aim.

I don’t know their story but sounds like a good one.

Three shirts of future clarets in that first pic, along with Lucketti who I think Stan very nearly signed.

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I've just realised (without being surprised) that nothing ever came of Alastair Campbell's son tweeting that Tella is a done deal. What does he get out of doing that? Surely it just reflects badly on his dad? (And I'm aware of his dad's association with things that aren't quite true, before anyone j...

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I've been to New York twice. The first time, I met two Burnley supporting locals and it turned out his dad worked with my dad.

The second time, I bumped into a lass I went to uni with.

One of the biggest cities in the world, 2000 miles away!

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Good sponsor, as others have said, they're a great, local business.

As an aside, I see PNE have followed our lead and gone down the 'iconic floodlights' path with the design!

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Very much a myth perpetuated in the main by Burnley fans - perhaps a confusion with the fact that as a result of promotion we will not get the year 2 Parachute Payment - that will be distributed evenly between the 20 Premier League clubs Has the football league ever pushed for it to be split throug...

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That video contains the worst game of table tennis I've ever seen and I've got two kids under 9!

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Goliath wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 19, 2025 9:54 am
Don't forget Ryan Noble, we couldn't have done it without him

Absolutely, apparently he was great in the dressing room

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Dyche's 2013 summer transfer window, bringing in Arfield, Jones and Heaton on frees (+ Kightly on loan) is the best transfer window I think we've ever had. It was transformative beyond belief.

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Who was the right back Coyle signed on loan that quickly got injured? Russell was he called? Duff ended up playing there.

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I'd completely missed this, but it's brilliant and I'll be taking the kids for a nosey.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4gjygg91vo

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Many of last 6 teams to go back down have tried to play pretty football. You just can't do that as a promoted team and I think we've a far better chance of surviving under Parker, who knows how to set up a team defensively, than we had under Kompany.

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My last season ticket was 2023/24. We seem to do very well when I step away (22/23 and last season) so I've avoided getting one for next season - so expect the title! Seriously though, having two young kids and running two businesses means disposable income can be at a premium, so sadly my season ti...

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The Roy Grace detective novels by Peter James, set in Brighton. They've since been made into an ITV drama ('Grace') with John Simm.

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Roosterbooster wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 14, 2025 7:13 pm
Could argue that if we'd scored both of those that we'd have stayed up at Villa's expense, given Vardy scored immediately after Taylor missed his

Or possibly Leicester's expense so there'd have been no title for them the following season. Taylor's penalty was a bit of a sliding doors moment.

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MrTopTier wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 11, 2025 6:00 pm
Just an opinion Fretters nothing more, happy to be proved wrong if/when there are significant numbers of them out on the streets.

Fair enough!

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MrTopTier wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 10, 2025 7:16 pm
I think in life, you sometimes hear of an idea and you think that could work.

It sometimes takes a big leap of faith, like flying metal boxes or landing on the moon.

This is not one of them.

Can I ask why you think that when they're already working very well in many cities around the world?

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Just spotted BBC and Netflix have released 'The Bombing of Pan AM 103' - a six part drama around the Lockerbie disaster and fight for justice

Sounds very similar to Lockerbie from SKY which was only released recently.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 4:07 pm
Spotted her, she looks to be smiling too so must not have been giving me a bollocking

She's pointing at something though, probably at something you'd done wrong

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 12:47 pm
Haven’t spotted her

Go to 4 mins 24 secs on this video and look at the bottom left hand corner.

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Andingle wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 8:03 am
https://youtu.be/4RZ4xrPT1qA?si=L9mawOwoAJzCd2V4

Just spotted my mum on that video! Thanks for sharing.

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Just noticed the game kicks off at 15:01. Is this to get round the Saturday 3pm blackout?

It can't be that easy to get round, surely!

Edit - should have Googled first, it's to raise awareness of the British Heart Foundation's Every Minute Matters campaign.

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I liked the video put out recently of the players rating each other. When Anthony was asked who had the best first touch, he said "definitely me". Love that self-confidence and he's absolutely right, too!

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Advice required please. We want to take our son to a European Grand Prix next year for his 21st birthday present. I was thinking of the Hungarian Grand Prix, we’ve never been to Budapest or Hungary and thought it may be more doable, from a ticketing, accommodation, logistics and cost perspective. L...

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American Manhunt - the search for Osama Bin Laden, a 3 part behind-the-scenes documentary on Netflix. The final episode with the very risky Navy Seals raid on the compound is particularly interesting - although it was real life, the actual events unfolded like something out of a Hollywood action mo...

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Cracking touch and finish from Bowen.

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warksclaret wrote: ↑
Fri May 16, 2025 1:58 pm
There's a reason he's only played 7 times for a PL side that has, bar one point, the worst points tally in history

Maybe they'd have got more points with Chaz playing every week!

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The 2 full back positions are the priority for upgrade as that’s where the premier league quality and threats lie for example Salah, Mitoma, Mbeumo, Semenyo, Doku, Son, Saka etc. Pires in particular would be very disappointed but it’s a needs must for me. I agree. I wonder if Charlie Taylor could b...

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I think he likely got more pelters for signing Nick Pope after Charlton had just been relegated, especially as Boro' (who went up with us) signed Victor Valdés. That said, I don't particularly remember him getting pelters for either Heaton or Pope.

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