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Motörhead- The Game

Build steadily up to that song as the teams come out. Sorted…

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“A legend like David Dunn”?

We don’t need him…we’ve got Kevin Ball!

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Herts Clarets wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 13, 2024 8:14 am

On match days Bernard would wear a black blazer, white shirt and a BFC tie and no matter how smartly he dressed, always looked as though he had just finished repairing machinery.

You’re not joking there Herts! I think everybody who ever met/knew Bernard would agree with that comment.

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Had a few brews in his cubbyhole with him , always well humoured and up for tale and a laugh . he told me once a director who shall remain unnamed " to get up to the roof level and change a light bulb in the Cricket Field Stand now !! " . Bernards answer made me laugh then and still does when I thi...

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Firstly Paul, what a lovely tribute to someone who clearly meant so much to you. I'd know Bernard for donkey's years because of him working at the club and our shared passion for everything BFC. Just before he left, he took me into a little cubby hole (I'm sure it was in the cricket field stand) wh...

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For those of an “older” persuasion you may remember Bernard Darwin- especially if you worked at the club in the late 80s/early 90s through to the mid/late 00s. Bernard and his close friend Jim Thompson were partners in crime for decades- firstly on the turnstiles back in “the glory days” and then be...

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Looks like a 4-4-2 to me: Hladky Roberts O’Shea Esteve Pires Vitinho Brownhill Cullen Koleosho Rodriguez Foster Definitely interesting to see Trafford and Zaroury missing- am assuming that Trafford is off and that Zaroury has a slight niggle that we don’t want to exacerbate unnecessarily. Think we’r...

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It was being discussed on episode 2 of mission to Burnley.What music would you like the players to walk out to this season? I still think of the Turf when I hear the Arcade Fire track wake up. https://youtu.be/sJRPPUr1yic?si=kuCqdol-kizb6jkq For me…we need to turn the ground into a seething, bubbli...

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123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:30 am
There isn’t many managers who go from number 2 to number 1 at the same club and end up successful

Tindle tried it at Bournemouth and it didn’t work
Shakespeare at Leicester and that didn’t work

Are two recent ones I remember

*cough* Jimmy Mullen *cough*

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As long as the newly appointed manager has a big say in who the DOF is. They need to be able to work closely together as to type of player required and the manager/head coach then also needs to have the final say. I would prefer the manager to choose the DOF, as someone in the game that he already ...

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Am surprised it’s taken Andy Holt this long…

No doubt either Coleman or Bell said something yesterday which proved to be the final straw.

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Fly fishing- am secretary of a local trout fishing club (Nelson Angling Association) who have the rights to Upper and Lower Coldwell reservoirs. If anybody on here is interested in joining us then get in touch… Reading- Mostly history (WWI, The Holocaust, anything BFC related in particular) but also...

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Hasn’t Bernie been fined something like £600m? That, alongside legal fees, reputational damage etc is probably a fairly hefty punishment for him…

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Not fussed if Mike Garlick is never involved with the club again…but would like think that John B will still have some input/role in some way even if it’s only informal; his business links in the far east could help open doors there.

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Not appointing John Bond…

We definitely wouldn’t have had to endure the managerial decisions that followed him. We wouldn’t have signed some of the players we did.

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COBBLE wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:11 pm
Is there a particularly Belgian equivalent of the omelette?

Flemish Stew
Fries with lashings of mayonnaise on them

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Anyone know why the Leyton Orient keeper is taking so long to sign? The media were telling us it was pretty much done a week ago. I’m not that bothered but just wondering why it’s taking so long to announce given how quick the O’Shea deal/announcement happened. Free transfer on July 1st when his Or...

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Did the Fan Advisory Board know about this (and indeed the membership scheme)? it wasn't reported in the output from their last meeting About the whole rebranding exercise that is going to be happening over the next few years? I think I’m on fairly safe ground when I say yes they did know! As to wh...

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Ray Deakin
Andy Payton
Frank Casper

Just off the top of my head…

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The first thing to do will be to make sure that we’ve ticked all the boxes on the PL/Sky’s list of non-negotiables required for hosting PL games with all the requisite media facilities….

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The only way I’d re-sign Barnes is on the basis that he is to play solely for the U23s as an overage player and help bring them on. This being a hybrid first step on his coaching career. There’s plenty of other teams who do this type of thing and it’s probably the next step forward for some of our o...

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Covid…the time we’ll look back on as the moment when the phrase “Avoid like the plague” was proven to be a fallacy!

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The highest paid on screen talent that the BBC has under contract displays his own political opinions…hardly news; he’s been doing it for several years now. Even though he is a ‘freelancer’ though and not technically a BBC employee Gary Lineker is in an invidious situation because, rightly or wrongl...

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It’s an article written by Nixon; he’s shit-stirring, it’s what he does.

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Thanks Tony- good to know my memory isn’t completely shot to pieces!

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Think I read somewhere that Pickford didn't want Billy Mercer at the club as he had his own preferred coaches..... I may be wrong but didn’t this situation arise at Bolton when Judas left us? Manager brings in new coach against the wish of the player who had a trusted and long lasting professional ...

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123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 27, 2023 9:00 pm
The only reliable source of information is that YouTuber, obafemi has been a done deal twice according to his sources

Twice?

Please tell me he used the phrase “To be sure, to be sure…”

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Flying Without Ings wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 19, 2023 2:03 pm
So much for Pace’s recent interview stating we don’t really need to bring anyone in over January (not that I’m complaining)

We don’t *need* to…but we *want* to; and we’re doing so from a position of strength!

It’s good to be a claret…

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Club shop…£25

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box_of_frogs wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:41 pm
Nail on the head. No professional footballers give a flying foxtrot what’s written on on a message board.

Kyle Lafferty…‘nuff said!

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To be fair Maguire was okay at the World Cup and I admire Southgates loyalty but my God there should be a place for JT even alongside Harry if need be, he'd certainly learn a thing or two about defending from probably Burnley's greatest ever centre half. “Burnley’s greatest ever centre half”??? You...

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Also Vince Overson too. Without getting too much into ‘six degrees of separation’ territory it is possible to link both Vince Overson and Sean Dyche too as not only do they both come from Kettering but they attended the same secondary school (Henry Gotch/Ise Community College/Kettering Science Acade...

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Why does everything come with a but? Why can't fans just be positive and think on the bright side. We've scored the 2nd highest number goals in the league... BUT... But nothing. Not so much a “but” more a recognition that up front is the one area where we are light in numbers. Being proactive is su...

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We're the 2nd highest scorers in the League. The top scorers have scored 1 more than us. But we’ve let several leads slip and not been able to regain the advantage…10 points lost due to this already I think. We need another option up front as Barnes is past it now and Jay Rod will struggle to see o...

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We obviously have an issue scoring goals, or at least scoring more than one in a game. We don’t currently seem to be deploying a “number nine” in the traditional sense of the word as Jay Rod is coming very deep and seems to be a “false nine”. In the short term I think we can muddle through for a lit...

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Out: Norris, Long, Lowton (purely as VK doesn’t want them here so get shut and give some leeway on the wage bill). Barnes (no longer good enough for this level) Plus anybody who the club feel aren’t good enough / who need loan football to help their development. In: Striker (x2)- happy for these to ...

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 30, 2022 5:09 pm
Who’s left to leave after Max?

Taylor or Lowton would be my only thoughts- simply because of their salaries…

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Kevwando wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 22, 2022 1:09 pm
I can see us selling Roberts if the right bid comes in.

I can see us selling EVERY player if we get the right bid in…not a slight on the club; just a statement of fact!

Without a billionaire owner every clubs is like this!

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Now this one will be difficult…

I can see a lot of sentimental votes for one player in particular (Blake) which makes this incredibly hard to call.

Chris Wood surely has to be in there for his consistency over several seasons but choosing the other striker won’t be easy.

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joey13 wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 14, 2022 9:16 pm
It was , Blackpool Pleasure Beach .

Frontierland /Pleasure Beach at Morecambe had one too….

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claretandy wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 11, 2022 5:24 pm
Nixon saying that it would have to be more than 20, Boden saying that there's nothing to stand it up at this end.

Feels to me like Wolves are trying to unsettle Nathan Collins prior to making a ‘lowball’ offer that we feel we need to accept as Collins wants to move…

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Wouldn’t have said annual? I know they’re replaced occasionally. Just thought ours looked in mint condition last year & can’t see why we’d replace it? Especially since it’s not seen much use last year… As CT said; our pitch is 12 years old- the Desso Grassmaster pitches are only designed to last 10...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 24, 2022 1:52 pm
Just to confirm - there are no home games this year

If it’s because of work being done on the pitch and they need it all sorted and safe for the start of the season then that’s not a bad thing…

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Regarding Kompany, sounds like you're announcing him today or tomorrow. The work permit saga must have driven you nuts, and it's curious why that took so long (to do with coaching qualifications or... couldn't he have just applied for citizenship?). More that priority is being given to Ukrainian na...

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I'd imagine Mr Pace and his pals would cack themselves if all of Dwight, Wout, Charlie and Nick decided to stay and see out their contracts. Let's hope relegation kicked in some big pay reductions. I’d imagine that the rest of the championship would “cack themselves” even more at the prospect of co...

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I can see 9 being needed- if not 10. 1 x gk 2 x centre halves 1 x left back 2 x centre midfield 2 x wingers (L+R) 2 x strikers I can see either Norris or BPF leaving and Pope is almost a certainty to go. Collins may go if a good enough offer comes in and there’s no way that we can do a promotion pus...

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Longsider wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 10, 2022 10:45 pm
Heard a strong rumour we care in for an ex Man City defender. Can't reveal my source bit it's very reliable.

Delph would be my bet…

Yes he’s 32 but he could cover both left back and midfield for us for a year or two whilst we develop long term replacements.

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2009-2010: Alexander, Blake 2014-2015: Trippier, Ings 2016-2017: Keane, Barton 2017-2018: Defour, Marney 2018-2019: Heaton, Berg Gudmundsson 2019-2020: Mee, Taylor 2020-2021: Tarkowski, McNeill 2021-2022: Pope, Cornet Bit of a different formation than most: …………………………… Pope ………………………… …………… Tarkowsk...

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dsr wrote: ↑
Fri May 20, 2022 5:56 pm
They might just about have a sensible argument if a player they could have sold was stuck in the reserves draining their resources…

You mean like Gylffi Siggurdsson who has likely cost them £20m in wages this season despite not been available for “undisclosed” (

) reasons.

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I wonder who is making these sort of decisions, alongside Rodriguez’s contract extension, in the absence of a management team. Alan Pace… If Barnes is going then I’d say that we are confident about signing a replacement for him. I’d also suggest that his drink/driving conviction last year hasn’t do...

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