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claretbob

To be fair to him he’s always taken the banter pretty well from my experience and he’s taken plenty around the Ribble Valley in the last ten years from us resident Clarets.

claretbob

Great to sign such an experienced player who is not here as a youthful gamble that might make money for our owners but as a sign of intent we are going to try and stay up this time. The defence,which is going to be key for us,has been sorted nice and early so we can be properly drilled and ready for...

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Looks a very interesting signing and according to my missus who is chinese the characters on the side of his head mean”everlasting”. I’m not sure whether that describes his love of Burnley or the fact he has a good engine but it does rather make you reach for the Charles Buchan Burnley book and sigh!

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Edwards transformed our season and his tracking back is on a different level to Bennie. My hunch is that due to lack of playing time at Sporting he struggled with the relentless nature of the Championship and his form dipped. If so, after a full preseason we could see a real player emerge with a hig...

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He is rapidly becoming my favourite player. Keep up the good work Connor.

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19 January 2013. The snowball and it’s all gone to pot since. Madame Desai has had her revenge and don’t we all love it. Venkys are death by a thousand cuts and with a bit of luck that long overdue relegation to the lower leagues is just round the corner.

claretbob

Very happy with this. Had the pleasure of meeting him at the Barrow services a couple of years ago and he came across as a very decent guy. Dodgy tash but we can forgive him that and has generally played superbly this season.

claretbob

Really sad to hear this news. I’m another Clitheroe claret who spent many happy away days with him, Big Dave and many more. I first met him whilst still at CRGS when he was working outside the school and threatening Rovers fans with his pickaxe! That gave him a fearsome reputation amongst us at firs...

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Second Tier are desperately trying to flog their patron scheme so only focus in depth on half the games and expect you to pay for an extra hour covering the remainder instead. As has been said they hate Parker with a passion so for the last few games we have been dumped behind the paywall. Their hot...

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Touch and go on Cullen who has been back”on the grass” the last few days but will be assessed tomorrow whether he is available for Leeds or not. All in all a very clear summary of exactly where we are which with the exception of Benny’s injury all sounds pretty promising. Good luck trying to guess t...

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Lankies harking on about the War of the Roses is on a par with Rovers fans reminding us about 1995. Embrace the present folks and be grateful that we have supplied England with another sublime batting talent in Harry Brook.

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Putting a positive spin on things we still seem to have a lot of Saturday 3pm kick offs which is certainly a relief. Not great for the diehards but live away games at Millwall, Bristol and Norwich will save the rest of us some cash!

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Since he played every match for the team that finished second in the championship last season I’m pretty sure he will see himself coming here as no.1 next season.I can’t see Trafford staying here if someone is mad enough to pay £20m for him.

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Had mine a couple of months ago and as in most cases the issue was a large polyp. Surprisingly little discomfort and a visit to the dentists is far worse. Well worth doing but looking at the inside of your bowel on an HD quality screen is certainly a strange sensation and not one for the squeamish.

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I think Claretskeith has a point. It is looking horribly like Foden and Bellingham can’t play together but impossible to see Southgate dropping either. I’d prefer Bellingham to be the one who keeps his place but Foden at and Gordon or Eze playing on the left wing would surely make us more threatenin...

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Scott Parker is a strange one. His two promotions are almost taken for granted and the 9-0 humiliation at Liverpool and subsequent interview made much of. Gary O’Neill has proved himself to be a really good premier league manager so perhaps Parker’s inept premier league record, which is on a par wit...

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Pleased with this. Have no doubt he can still be a threat in the Championship and he bleeds claret and blue. Always room for some old heads in amongst the youngsters.

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Personally I hope VK fails miserably because that will prove last season was down entirely to his own arrogance and stupidity. If he succeeds it will look like he used us by persisting with his nonsense football style to appeal to suitors whether or not we suffered on the pitch.That would be annoying!

claretbob

Maybe I shouldn’t have let a bad experience when I was dragged along by a mate to a DM gig 40 years ago cloud my judgement all these years! We were intensely tribal about music in those days as well as the football but I suppose those old musical spats seem a bit childish now. The football rivalry s...

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How we could ever have gone from the Clash and Joy Division to the likes of this lot and Duran Duran in the space of a couple of years remains utterly baffling to me but each to their own of course.

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Pretty sure Rocky got arrested in the Waddle 97/98 season when we won 1-0. Wasn’t he watching outside the ground and cheering us on?

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Can remember being taken to a Braves v Dodgers game in 1984 and being told that it was their equivalent of an English “soccer” derby even though the teams were thousands of miles apart so we should treat it as such. We started up a rendition of F…. Off Dodgers which didn’t go down well and were obli...

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Yesterday was one of those days when the team really needed us and it was great to hear the CFS bellowing out our anthem which was echoed by at least three sides of the ground. A big improvement on Villa which was embarrassing. I felt proud to be a part of that support and even us family standers ar...

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I wouldn’t worry about that. I seem to remember Gareth Bale had similar shocking stats until he played against us and he did pretty well thereafter!

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But isn’t the point that it is matches and training sessions that gets the new players up to speed? If we were playing our relegation rivals at home don’t you think Vinny’s approach might have been different? Call me an optimist but I think he is taking the opportunity to bed these players in knowin...

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Apart from the opening game, we hardly set the world alight for a good number of games. Not only did we draw almost every game, we got our ar#e handed to us on a plate by Sheffield. It wasn't until Sunderland away that things truly picked up and that was at championship level. You do realise that a...

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I was another who caught the train to Liverpool on a number of occasions in 86/87 just to watch Trevor play for Everton. We were utterly dire and it was a welcome relief to watch the football he inspired them to play. If it hadn’t been for Heysal they would have dominated Europe.

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It’s weird how opinions vary. Max Rushden and Charlie Baker on TalkSPORT on the Saturday morning were talking about how brilliant we looked playing out from the back and taking the fight to CIty. I thought that was a little exaggerated but we were certainly not woeful.

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I think we have to assume when Ramsey signs Twine is off on loan.My 8 year old will be gutted. Wore his Twine 11 top all last season when he hardly played and now this!

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I’m surprised no mention of Vitinho at LB. He played ahead of Taylor in that position last season so why the assumption Charlie starts tonight. I’m another in the Muric camp so
Muric
Roberts
Beyer
Ekdal
Vitinho
Cork
Brownhill
Berge
Zaroury
Redmond
Amdouni

claretbob

Looks a top signing. Vinny can’t complain about not being backed. What must Dyche make of it all! The days of Dale Stephens seem a long time ago.

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winsomeyen wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 02, 2023 8:33 pm
God bless the guy who threw the snowball.

Seconded!

claretbob

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 26, 2023 12:48 pm
I think your info is way off.

Everton's wage bill is around £160m

The Planet Football website for one lists the wages paid for 22/23 and Everton are 12th with 43m. No idea how accurate these figures are but they do allow a comparison between different clubs.

claretbob

On a wage bill comparison Benfica’s latest salary figure was £41m so on a par with Everton and certainly more than we will be paying.it’s fair to say they get better value for money than the Toffees. Leicester paid nearly £80m in wages to get relegated!

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For comparison on the Ai scout website the transfer value for Benfica’s starting lineup was €237m and for ours €30m. It was a hell of a win and I am adopting the Rowls approach. Benfica are 9th in the European football club rankings ahead of Man Utd and Chelsea and we are 126th. It’s a statement win...

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Delius and Debussy. My dad’s trad jazz obsession has not caught on but I can handle a bit of Fats Waller on stride piano. Thankfully I’ve so far succeeded in hooking my kids on SLF, the Clash, Joy Division etc so away trips are a very noisy experience with my 8 year old drumming away madly in the ba...

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Chelsea will be desperate to tie Maatsen down to a long term contract so will be making lots of positive noises to him. Once he signs Poch will quietly suggest that he won’t get past Chilwell and Cucurella this season so go out on loan and assuming he performs the year after will be his chance. I ca...

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Certainly looks an exciting prospect and amazing how quickly it all happened after the initial news broke. Looks like We can all go back to trusting Sacha again after his Verbruggen faux pas. Does make you think that a lot of the transfer noise is designed to throw our rivals off the scent because h...

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Pickles is a man after my own heart. Clitheroe beat their u-21s 4-0 recently. I would love to see the first team lose by the same amount. Having said that most of the Rovers fans I knew in 87 wanted us dead as a club not non- league so a Bury scenario would not be too upsetting. We can but hope.

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His recent stats make impressive reading. According to Fotmob in 39 games since the World Cup break he has scored 27 goals.In the 25 games last season before the break he scored 2 in 25. If he keeps up that rate of increase we have a superstar on our hands!

claretbob

The hooligan element amongst that working class fan base almost destroyed football in the 70s and 80s.I loved that intimidating Turf atmosphere as a young lad but I’m not sure I’d enjoy it now with two young kids in tow. I loved my indie bands in the 80s and 90s as well but they played to students a...

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Ironically when football was so cheap that anyone could attend the wider community had very interest in the game. I remember being in between jobs and deciding to spend a few hours in the local library reading all the Times football reports from 1960 about our glorious league triumph. To my shock th...

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The point remains the same. Lousy k-pop band £200 your world renowned band £60 New Order/ Coldplay £100 etc. The quality of any experience can rarely be defined by its monetary cost but its popularity in the global market can. Premier league footie and K-pop are at the top of that league table and a...

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Tickets to take my 8 year old to see a k-pop band in London are £200 each and no we are not going. Our joint season ticket at the Turf isn’t much more than that! Football compared to the rest of the “entertainment” industry is still relatively cheap. What you need to find is a hobby/interest/passion...

claretbob

Who’d have thought it. Life in the White Rose after all. About time we won one of those.Yorkshire’s recent record against the Lankies was rivalling Rovers against ours!

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Well done Luton. High energy and physical football at its best which served us well in 2016. Tv revenues do level the playing field but even so the likes of Sunderland could easily reach similar turnover to the 180m Everton and Leeds managed which dwarfed our 125m. We can’t always rely on them squan...

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Happy to see Luton win this one. Don’t want a team who could average 45,000 a week anywhere near the premier league.

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Ipswich looked a pretty strong outfit against us and that was after making wholesale changes as well. I can really see them pushing for a top 6 finish next season. Shout out also to our old friends PNE who delivered just when we needed them to.

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JJ is doing a wonderful job as a cheerleader and comes over fantastically well. I’d be worried like Spiral if he was the new owner but the fact he has happily admitted he would always defer to Pace on financial matters and Vinny on football ones is reassuring. We always have to punch above our weigh...

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Clitheroe which was once full of cocky, arrogant Rovers fans but for the last ten years or so has been a very pleasant place to live in. Thank you Sean Dyche. PS. It looks like Vinny is keeping up the good work.

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