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UK and West Indies (I think) still use the 'Dukes' ball while everyone else uses the Aussie made 'Kookaburra'. The Duke swings more/for longer and was traditionally thought to maintain its shape for longer than the Kookaburra, but in recent years (lots of excuses given) that no longer seems to be tr...

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clarets1978 wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 16, 2025 1:27 pm
A full month before the first game of the season and another half a month before the window closes. I dont think we are anywhere near this level of panic yet

There's some who enjoy a good panic... Prefer it to cricket in summer.

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Just back from two weeks on a cruise ship and still pondering Australia for a month or two over the winter... I have a source for test match tickets.

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burnley007 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:29 pm
Is he going to Germany?

ollieclarets8 wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:33 pm
Burnley or Wolfsburg.

I've not checked on a map, but I'm fairly sure that Burnley's not in Germany

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bfcmik wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 13, 2025 3:08 am
One has to wonder why the club employs the people they do when there are posters on here who are far better scouts and coaches.

Legends in their own lunchtimes some of 'em

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LHofR wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 12, 2025 1:03 pm
...I guess we have a lot a supporters who don’t know there are two O’s in football!!

To be fair, a lot are still busy working on the arse/elbow differentiation

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Away on my holibobs but going to the rematch next Thursday

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 08, 2025 10:39 am
Or maybe football professionals know a lot more about the game than the average fan?

Heretic alert , heretic alert!... Burn him!

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The Shire Claret wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:13 pm
To be fair we were the first game on against Man City 2 seasons ago

Less of that fair/accurate/considered/reasonableness stuff if you don't mind; this is uptheclarets, where uninformed off the cuff bitching is the order of the day

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Had the misfortune of “meeting” him once. Ramsbottom United were at home to Great Harwood. He’d turned up with some mates to “watch”. But they spent the whole night in the cricket club drinking. Of course it got to them making demands on the tv channel they wanted, and they got louder and louder. W...

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Murger wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 07, 2025 10:49 pm
We can’t carry on waiting around. It’s time to withdraw the offer and move onto other targets. He’s had more than enough time.

That's where the professional/grown up bit comes into play; there's no sense in withdrawing any offer until we've definitely secured JB's replacement.

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CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 08, 2025 12:09 am
Lads.
... you can’t do straight-line extrapolation on this board!
Dande will give you a 100 lines.

Presumably not straight ones?

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Even as a big fan, it's hard to disagree with that. There are some long periods of nothing much happening. The daily 1 hour highlights shows are unmissable TV in our house (away this week so hoping they are being recorded) but to watch the whole day on tv is dire, only surpassed by going out onto t...

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Agreed-says a lot about the lad if there is no substance in the story Look back through this thread and others on here; to see that there's no shortage of people ready to make unsubstantiated claims; they disappear into history unless one of their best/blind guesses comes true, in which case they'l...

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Chester Perry wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 29, 2025 11:26 am
Maybe but the Trafford family farm is just outside Cockermouth

More sheep around Cockermouth than Carlisle

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... a profession where women.... you'd throw a massive wobbly if men were discriminated against and paid less. I understand that female actors in the blue movie industry earn substantially more than their male counterparts. Then again, that may in part perhaps be comparable to the 3 set/5 set argue...

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dandeclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 26, 2025 12:13 pm
They didn’t concede from them last season either…… you know, to give a sense of balance.

Erm, look at the top of the page, this is the UpTheClarets Board... We don't approve of having a 'sense of balance' on here.

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And fortunately Man City aren't the type of team who employ very expensive lawyers when things don't go as they want. Don't you read this message board often? It's full of people who know more about legalities than any fancy lawyer... actually a few of them know more about everything than anyone el...

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Taking Newcastle players in part exchange would surely mean paying a smaller sell on fee to Man City Exactly, we sell them Trafford for £20 million, plus four players whom we and NU publicly agree are worth a million each. Newcastle's FFP problem of selling us those four for only 4 million being of...

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ArmchairDetective wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 23, 2025 10:34 am

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A good start... The plane's got past Elland Road without him being hijacked

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Spijed wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 22, 2025 9:15 pm
Brilliant finish

Resale value just gone up by a couple of million?

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Wed May 07, 2025 7:29 pm
His best moment came in the commentary booth !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKWKId7IONY

I watched that game on TV with a bunch of Derby supporting friends... Definitely one of life's better memories

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I think I read somewhere that to be eligible, players had to be under 21 on 1st January 2023, that being the year in which the competition (qualifying) commenced. The idea being that this gave the opportunity/option of keeping the same squad together for the whole tournament.

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Who is the woman doing the pitch side presenting and interviews? Her screechy voice is seriously annoying.

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ollieclarets8 wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 21, 2025 2:23 pm
Does anybody know much about how good he is?

Never mid how good he is, does anyone know how to pronounce his christian name?

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Good luck to him, I hope he's as successful with Cheltenham as he was at Turf Moor. The only problem might be if Cheltenham win next season's FA cup while his Andalusian club win the Spanish cup

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 20, 2025 7:52 am
Doesn’t sound promising and would suggest Sacha’s report was inaccurate.

Wow

Sacha gets it wrong, or perhaps bullshits for clicks, who would've thought it

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Joe Worrall is another who surely signed to be our first choice and only got replaced by CJER because of injury... Without that injury to JW, CJ might have been heading out of the door this summer without any of us grumbling. I saw Nahki Wells get a mention further up; am I right in remembering that...

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We see so much ugly uninspiring graffiti so to see something as likeable as this is just great. A massive well done to the artist. Aren't we taught that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'; so someone else might like what you or I consider 'ugly and uninspiring' and therein lies the problem: If ...

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jedi_master wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 18, 2025 9:07 am
Brutal start...

How so? September might be hard work, but based on last season's performances/results we could well be top of the league at the end of August.

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I guess that nowadays any sportsman/woman/person, will need to have a publicly accessible social media presence to keep their sponsors happy; a major downside of that being that any twonk who has an issue with their performance, has an easy route to vent their spleen. It's- not even necessarily a re...

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... this thread is so annoying. Actual transfer rumour and everyone keeps on arguing their personal opinions on players previously linked and ignores it. That's not fair; people are only making one post each to register their opinion, the rest of their posts are needed to justify why their opinion ...

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I know we have been down this road in the past but some posters said they heard... Just take everything with a pinch of salt and don't stress about it. Like most message boards, this one has it's fair share of posters who enjoy pretending that they're 'In the know' and/or that they 'have contacts' ...

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...If you’re looking on Instagram and stuff like that … you will find the ‘me me me’ people but they are a massive minority That (for me at least) is the biggest problem with 'Social Media' as a whole. Bigots, political/religious/social extremists and everyday cranks have always seemed to speak wit...

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jdrobbo wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:53 am
Awesome player but picking a midfield is bloody hard...

Picking a GOAT midfielder's easy... His name's Blake, Robbie Blake

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Aclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 12, 2025 8:24 pm
Havnt a clue what all that means... Great getting old ain't it

I reckon it must be one of those newspaper 'spot the ball' competitions. The paper's going to 'partner' with Burnley by only using photos from our games for people to mark their Xs on

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Dazzler wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 11, 2025 10:48 am
The human race is being driven to extinction.

Is that necessarily a bad thing? I'm sure that most every other species on the planet would be glad to see the back of us

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Dark Cloud wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 11, 2025 7:34 am
Do they still make creosote? It's foul stuff!!

Yes, but only for sale/use by commercial buyers such as farmers, otherwise it's 'creoCote' rather than creoSote.

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Br Careful what you wish for...
A lot of people seem to be calling for/advocating the sort of approach we took and results we achieved under that Southgate chap. One wonders how many (some names I definitely recognise) are the same people who called for Southgate to be potted.

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TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 10, 2025 8:33 pm
I was creosoting the fence...

Me too.... Not the funest of tasks.

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What's with Kane disputing the decision to blow for half time? What's he want, extend it until he loses the ball?

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...If we bought him for £15 million, sell for £30 million that's £3 million, leaving us with just a £12 million profit. Not much is it? Conversely £12m profit on a 15m investment equates to 80%, which spread over two years, is 40% per annum. If you consider this 'Not much' would you mind posting de...

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distortiondave wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 08, 2025 10:48 pm
Yeah, but what's the prize?... I honestly don't know what the material reward for winning this is.

It saves you from having to turn out for a friendly against Senegal.

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Quiet on here; is everyone busy wracking their brains as to who to blame for it being so boring/pedestrian now that Gareth Southgate's no longer around?

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The type of animal cruelty noted in the original post is hardly new, I can recall 50+ years ago when a group of lads from a nearby town considered that a fun way to end an evening out at the local pubs and night club was to drive out to a nearby village and feed domestos-soaked bread to the ducks on...

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... So why are the XG numbers different on different websites then? Because 83.72% of all statistics on the internet are plucked out of thin air. It's also helpful to have a range/variety of statistics available on the internet to ensure that everyone can find a statistic somewhere which will suppo...

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... when they get knocked off and killed it’s never their fault and they were the kindest sweetest kid ever to walk the earth... I've often suggested (or growled it towards the TV News at least) that being a wrong 'un is good for your life expectancy: Whenever you listen to the interviews about som...

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Surely the answer to out of contract players such as Brownhill potentially disrupting a club's salary scale is to pay a salary consistent with all the other players, plus a separate 'signing fee' which is payable over the duration of the contact, or paid off as with a 'sell on fee' should you later ...

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I wonder if Yates deliberately follow them on the previous stage as a bluff. My thoughts too: Had Yates made this move on the previous or any other day, Carapaz and/or del T would have likely recovered the lost time using those high intensity power attacks on the following day, by going on Saturday...

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Interesting but im not sure it's that simple to be honest... The author may not have come up with the correct answer, but transfer market success is dead simple, in fact any idiot can do it: just read JakubClaret's posts,because he knows exactly how to do it should be properly and let's be honest, ...

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