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Dubravka 7 Walker 8 Ekdal 8 Esteve 8 Hartman 8 Cullen 9 Ugochukwu 8 JBL 6 Hannibal 7 Anthony 9 Foster 8 Sonne 7 Laurent 7 Tchaouna looked pretty good too. Very happy with that today. The experience of Dubravka and Walker may prove key this year and I thought the other new signings showed lots of pos...

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I'd take that bigbillysboots if available please, and with the others looking for two. Number is 07800 787 286. Thanks

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Hi Gilly, glad you're doing well for yourself old bean. Do you think it's right to pay £58 to take a 13 and 11 year old to a game? Genuine question. You may have clocked from my triple-lock dig that I was talking more about the Over 66 price. Regardless, it's not really about whether you're doing w...

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Yes please if still available. Number is 07800 787 286. Thanks

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The Shire Claret wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 11, 2025 11:26 am
I think it's more principle than price

Sure. I'm just surprised people are miffed by it - it's only a matter of time before the £30 cap increases.

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Why are people complaining about paying £29 to watch us in the Premier League at Old Trafford? Hardly surprising given the £30 cap hasn't increased since 2016 whilst just about everything else has - including your triple locks - and an Adult ticket was just under £50 when we went there over 15 years...

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claretgilly wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 27, 2025 8:51 am
RIP Willie.

You’d think the club might have paid tribute to him and his achievements by now.

https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/con ... -1943-2025

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RIP Willie.

You’d think the club might have paid tribute to him and his achievements by now.

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Please could I just take one of them?
olivermichaelgill@gmail.com / 07800787286

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Would be interested in 1 adult ticket if still going. Thanks

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I couldn’t care less if I never saw Hladky play again but that is a free kick from the top drawer. See link below. And I wish we had someone in our squad who could deliver a set piece like Brady did today on a few occasions. We don’t. https://x.com/emiratesfacup/status/1895820424606347302?s=46&t=-CS...

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Enola Gay wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 01, 2025 4:34 pm
As well as Brady hit the freekick, everyone in the stadium bar seemingly Hladky knew where he was going to put it and he wasn't ready.

I don’t think Hladky is great from what I’ve seen, and certainly based on today, but have you seen the free kick from behind? Who saves it, then?

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Hladky 5 Sonne 3 Worrall 3 Esteve 5 Pires 5 Shelvey 3 Brownhill 4 Benson 4 Sarmiento 4 Koleosho 3 Foster 4 Barnes 5 Edwards 5 Flemming 5 Laurent 5 Banel 5 Parker misread that completely. But the ones he picked must do better. If Shelvey isn’t prepared to run I don’t want to see him again - lucky to ...

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Trafford 7 Roberts 7 Egan-Riley 8 Esteve 8 Humphreys 7 Cullen 7 Laurent 6 Hannibal 7 Anthony 5 Foster 4 Flemming 6 Edwards 7 Brownhill 6 Foster simply has to finish one of those two sitters and whilst I think his contributions have been good it’s rightly -1 for each of his misses. I enjoyed today, a...

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Hladky 7 Sonne 7 Egan-Riley 8 Worrall 7 Humphreys 7 Shelvey 7 Hannibal 8 Pires 6 Benson 6 Barnes 7 Sarmiento 7 Esteve 7 Bauress 7 Edwards 8 Enjoyed that. Think Shelvey could be a good signing purely for his forward-pass mindset. Thought Hladky was very good including on the ball (bar one hiccup). Go...

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Trafford 7
Roberts 7
Egan-Riley 8
Esteve 8
Humphreys 8
Cullen 8
Laurent 6
Anthony 6
Foster 8
Hannibal 7
Flemming 5

Sarmiento 5

A win’s a win. Should have been out of sight in 1st half.

We have now lost FIVE of the last 100 at this level.

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Trafford 7 - Great save, still faffs about too much at times Roberts 5 - Lucky boy Egan Riley 8 Esteve 8 Pires 4 - Garbage. Play Humphreys Cullen 5 Laurent 6 Sarmiento 3 - Was he playing? Anthony 5 - End product is atrocious, and he’s soft Foster 5 Flemming 5 Hannibal 6 - Seemed to improve us a bit ...

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Trafford 7 Roberts 7 Egan-Riley 8 Esteve 9 Humphreys 7 Cullen 6 Laurent 5 Anthony 5 Foster 5 Brownhill 5 Flemming 6 Need to be doing more at home in the coming games. They’re obviously a threat but they weren’t that good. What really frustrates me is when we did get further forward, how slowly the t...

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Trafford 7 Roberts 6 Humphreys 7 Esteve 7 Pires 4 Cullen 6 Laurent 5 Anthony 3 Brownhill 6 Sarmiento 7 Flemming 4 Rodriguez 6 Koleosho 6 Have to do more than that at home. We basically have all the play but it’s exactly where they want it, side to side, and the keeper doesn’t get tested at all. Flem...

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Trafford 6 Roberts 6 Egan-Riley 8 Esteve 8 Pires 7 Cullen 7 Brownhill 5 Anthony 6 Koleosho 4 Sarmiento 7 Flemming 5 Liked our performance tonight and we were robbed by a useless referee. Considering his performance the rest of the match it’s almost no surprise he gave a foul there, despite how diabo...

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Trafford 6 Humphreys 5 Egan-Riley 6 Esteve 8 Pires 6 Cullen 5 Brownhill 4 Anthony 4 Hannibal 6 Koleosho 4 Foster 5 Roberts 6 Frustrating. Need to come out firing at home and zip it around rather than this laborious sideways stuff. Would have been nice to set up like this last year (try not to get be...

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Trafford 6 Egan-Riley 6 Worrall 6 Esteve 8 Pires 6 Cullen 6 Brownhill 7 Hannibal 5 Koleosho 5 Anthony 5 Foster 6 Flemming 7 Sarmiento 7 Laurent 7 A few of the old chaps walking out the Bob Lord declared it rubbish. I thought the 2nd half was good against another set of sh!thouses. 1st half was prett...

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Trafford 4 - he probably didn’t do that much wrong, but how often does he choose the wrong pass and/or slow it all down. Roberts 4 Egan-Riley 6 Esteve 5 Pires 3 Vitinho 3 Brownhill 3 Massengo 3 Houtoundji 3 Foster 4 Rodriguez 3 What the hell was that. Teams can have a slow start to games but they ne...

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Hdlaky - 7 Roberts - 7 O’Shea - 8 Esteve - 7 Pires - 7 Cullen - 7 Brownhill - 8 Koleosho - 6 Vitinho - 7 Foster - 7 Jay - 7 We weren’t great 1st half. Cardiff hounded well but were out of steam after an hour, probably wondering how they were 3 down too. Took our goals well and managed to score 5 fro...

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Excellent game and advert for Lancs League. Great knock by LH number 8 when it looked to be all over. I was pretty square on for the run out appeal late on. How the square leg umpire didn’t give it I have no idea

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And I’m sorry, not ratings related, but wtf is going on here

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Muric 6 Assignon 5 O’Shea 5 Esteve 5 Vitinho 4 Berge 6 Cullen 5 Odobert 3 Brownhill 3 Bruun Larsen 3 Foster 3 Ekdal 5 Gudmundsson 6 Summed our season up really after a decent first 10 minutes of possession but no end product. Just totally weak (mentally and physically) and naive, they tore us apart....

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Mercifully did not attend or watch this one. That itself is such a sad indictment of what has happened this season. Full of optimism I went to every home and away game until end of November. I lied to my employer about being unable to go to Germany in early October to ensure I could go to Luton on t...

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Trafford 4 Assignon 4 O'Shea 5 Estève 4 Delcroix 4 Ramsey 4 Berge 6 Brownhill 3 Odobert 4 Amdouni 3 Fofana 5 Guðmundsson 4 Taylor 4 Rodriguez 5 I don’t know what to rate tbh. They were so superior it was embarrasssing. Under Sean Dyche we gave these teams a game and anyone who considers this team re...

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Trafford 5 Assignon 7 O’Shea 5 Ekdal 4 Vitinho 4 Brownhill 4 Berge 5 Ramsey 3 Amdouni 3 Odobert 6 Foster 6 Estève 6 Fofana 8 Gudmundsson 6 We nicked a point from behind which is novel, and Assignon & Fofana were positives, but let’s be honest that first 70 minutes was unspeakably bad, just totally n...

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I sat in the Fulham end for their game v Brentford a few months ago. We were in the new stand and the concourse genuinely seemed like a Pret a Manger. Salads and juices galore. It was quite unbelievable.

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The Sunday Times had some comments on our leadership too

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Trafford 4 Vitinho 4 O’Shea 5 Beyer 5 Delcroix 5 JBL 5 Brownhill 4 Berge 5 Odobert 5 Amdouni 5 Jay 4 A weak, dreary, nothing performance - again. Really struggling to identify with this team, majority of whom have no credit in the bank from last year’s record-breaking season as they weren’t there. U...

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Trafford 6 Vitinho 5 O’Shea 5 Ekdal 6 Taylor 5 Larsen 5 Berge 5 Brownhill 6 Koleosho 7 Rodriguez 5 Amdouni 6 JBG 5 Other subs: pointless How many times. This week it was O’Shea/Berge; next week it will be someone else. There is no one-size fits all “philosophy” for a team outside the top 6-8 in this...

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Trafford 6 - not much to do but did it well. There was one flap, but this guy is not the issue in this team. Vitinho 5 - he isn’t good enough defensively. I don’t know what Roberts has ever done wrong tbh and he’s better placed to help us see a game out at 1-0. O’Shea 6 Beyer 6 - that wander into mi...

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Trafford 5 - he is obviously a decent GK with good potential, and has been a scapegoat at times (how many more points would we have with Muric in goal?), but he simply has to be more commanding for the 2nd. Goalies get loads of protection so if he’d at least gone for it and missed, half a chance he’...

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Muric 5 - don't mind what he's trying, but when there really is no pass on, you don't try and force one Roberts 5 - wondering if Lowton might be better tbh Harwood-Bellis 7 - Looks more than good enough, great assist Taylor 6 - he's a left back Maatsen 5 - easy to say "a professional footballer shou...

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Pope 8 Roberts 8 Tarkowski 8 Mee 9 Pieters 9 Lennon 8 Cork 8 Brownhill 9 McNeil 9 Rodriguez 8 Weghorst 9 Absolutely loved it. We've got our zip back - keep playing like we are at present and we'll stay up comfortably. Have to say I thought Harry Kane was outstanding. He links play nearly as well as ...

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Pope 7 - credit to the defence, didn’t have loads to do, but couple of good stops. Kicking still could be better. Roberts 8 - enjoyed his performance, he has a lot to give. Tarkowski 8 - doubted him after Leeds; didn’t put a foot wrong. Mee 9 - our captain. Won everything. Pieters 8 - solid against ...

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https://twitter.com/kieranmaguire/statu ... 32960?s=21

Thread here is decent

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Pope 7 Lowton 8 Tarkowski 8 Mee 9 Pieters 8 Gudmundsson 8 Brownhill 8 Westwood 8 McNeil 9 Wood 9 Vydra 8 Brady 7 Very enjoyable. First half is as good as I’ve seen us, and second half epitomised what we do best - never once felt seriously threatened. May I suggest those who call for Dyche out when w...

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Thanks for the kind tributes to a great man. My grandad, Derek, led a wonderful life and achieved great things, but first and foremost he was devoted to his wife Kathleen, seven children and his many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The 1980s was before my time, but I know what Burnley Footbal...

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You really think they came up with the name or give a toss what it is? It’s simply a UK company that would be a shareholder. The new owners would be ALK Capital, not Calder Vale Holdings/ABC Co/123 Co or whatever the hell they called this UK company

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It’s Pinsents, they’re named on the Companies House docs. They’ll be advising Alan Pace and friends. What is pretty clear is they’ve registered a new company locally and with the news reports about the takeover, it feels like progress. The company’s name, its registered office address and certainly ...

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:47 pm
I know the owner of that building, I’ll do some digging...

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It's the offices of Pinsent Masons, law firm

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It was probably a 30 second conversation. As far as Sky etc are concerned it'll be ALK Capital / Alan Pace buying

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Claretgilly - Would you have any idea how long companies would normally be registered, before any takeover occurs please? Hard to say really, it's just one of many things that the lawyers they're paying handsomely will have on their 'Steps Plan'. Registering a company is pretty straightforward, and...

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A company called Calder Vale Holdings Limited has just been registered on Companies House, Alan Pace among the directors. Suspect the deal is quite close to completing.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/12919689

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Pope 9 - Pickford can pass though yeh? May as well put Maddison in goals on that basis

Bardsley 8
Long 8
Tarkowski 9
Taylor 8

Pieters 8
Westwood 8
Brownhill 8
McNeil 8

Wood 7
Rodriguez 9

Vydra 8
JBG 7

Imagine

This group never ceases to amaze me. Up them Clarets

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