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Stay.

It's been awful this season, but we're effectively down now. So the only question worth asking is "Who is the best manager to bring us up next season?" I'd say the guy who achieved the (joint) fastest ever second-tier promotion.

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AlargeClaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 16, 2023 12:34 pm
… Perhaps they could spend £250k on some media ponces to redesign the badge ? And come up with some bland corporate “ sash” while opining it’s “ vibrancy , freshness , sustainability, diversity, strength” etc etc

Hey! That’s what I do for a living.

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Definitely keep him. We need 4 centre halves. Beyer, Ekdal, Al Dakhil, McNally. That's one are of the pitch already sorted.

Go forward with the aim of securing two quality players for every position.

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Sign Akpom.

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New Brew’m. Quality, local, inexpensive craft ale. Round the corner from the Mechanics.

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What was Tella’s celebration, or lack of, about?

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“Becken-Beyer, Becken-Beyer, Jordan Becken-Beyer”

To the tune of “Give it up.”

Simple and more likely to catch on.

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He was ill last night. VK said. Seen as anything else is speculation and we will never know any different, let’s go with that. I sat behind 4 numptys last night who were wanting Muric to make a mistake from minute one just so they could slag him off. I usually keep my cool but I lost it with them. 1...

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Where is the improvement in advertising and sponsorship? One example of improvement in sponsorship would be the partnership with Classic Football Shirts. I work in advertising, I’m currently working on one the largest sports brands in the world, and these collaborations are very important. It’s not...

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… I also questioned walking back to the car how they would adapt it to 11 after the next game, assuming we win. They cant keep it to that tune because it doesn’t scan. Easily done as others have pointed out. “Here we go-o, eleven wins for us in a row” Or “Here we go-o, we’ve won eleven games in a r...

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Muric 9
Roberts 8
Beyer 8
Ekdal 8
Maatsen 9
Brownhill 8
Cullen 9
Tella 10
Zaroury 8
JBG 7
Barnes 8

Foster 6

Absolutely loved it today. Singing “Burnley’s won ten in a row” will live long in the memory.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:47 pm
Thomas is included

In your article yes, thanks.

I meant in Ric_C 's list on his post.

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Missed Bobby Thomas too

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Big argument around us in the Longside upper last night with four gentlemen calling him “rubbish” and a few in front of them defending him. Comparing Muric’s aerial ability to our last keeper is ridiculous. Nick Pope is one of the best in the world. We’re in the Championship. In every other aspect o...

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He was voted League One player of the year whilst at MK Dons and scored some stunning free kicks for them. In one of his earlier cameos for us at the start of the season didn’t he take a free kick that went mighty close, or it might even have grazed the woodwork? Hit the post first game of the seas...

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HistoricalClaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:22 pm
fella they announce them any and every day cos it literally doesnt matter

Absolutely does matter. Burying news is a rookie mistake. Club is becoming increasingly media savvy.

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I'd be surprised if any signings are announced on a match day. Media team will be busy with that.

I haven't kept a record of the days on which each signing was announced since the Summer, but from memory they tend to be Tuesday – Thursday on non-match days. (I could be wrong.)

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It's encouraging to see quick wins over the past few years like the two new accessible stands, LED screens, Fan Zone, hospitality renovation, general maintenance / tidying up of the ground etc. Are the BL and CFS going to be standing in their current form in 50 years time? Clearly not. We can argue ...

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Conroy92 wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 13, 2023 4:08 pm
All my people right here right now
Do you know what ameeeeen

I saw this on Twitter but I think we can personalise it more.

Al Dak-hil is a Claret now
You'll never beat Ameeeeen
Yeah, yeah

Lets try and get the Cricket Field to keep it on tempo!

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Interesting how Weghorst is adjudged to be "mouthy" when reacting to some of Messi's petulance yet Roberts is " a proud Welshman" when he yaps at Weghorst.... We’re not talking about Roberts we’re talking about WW. I simply gave an additional example as a few posters were saying the assessment of h...

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blatherwickstattoos wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:18 pm
They aren’t in until tomorrow I think. Benson and anas both back in Belgium over the weekend

Muric was in Switzerland. They were obviously given a few days off after Bournemouth.

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He was also mouthy in the WC QF resulting in Messi telling him "shut up bobo (stupid boy)."

Plenty of incidents to suggest he's a difficult personality.

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Lewis Richardson scored for Grimsby 3 minutes after coming on.

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I’m going to sound ignorant here but this thread indicates a lot of people watching today. How? Dodgy streams all the way? Being shown abroad?

I’ve been stuck with Radio Lancs!

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If Cork and Cullen are injured at the same time we’ll struggle.

Refusing to celebrate promotion before it’s done doesn’t mean we’re not enjoying this fantastic season.

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14.5 points clear of third (when you consider goal difference) after 25 games. Phenomenal.

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Remember the Sunderland game. They couldn’t press us for 90 minutes.

If Stoke haven’t scored at the hour mark I’d back us to win and score at least two.

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His passing and ball carrying is eye catching but he’s almost always in the right position defensively too. And when they full backs are out of position he’s already there to cover. When he does, rarely, get caught out, he has a turn of pace to get back.

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I saw that. Fantastic gesture. Came across really genuine. Said he wanted to give back to the Burnley community because he's really appreciative of the welcome he's been given here and is conscious of those that might be struggling this Christmas. Top man.

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Muric 10
Vitinho 10
THB 10
Beyer 10
Maatsen 10
Cork 10
Cullen 10
Benson 10
Brownhill 10
Zaroury 10
Barnes 10

Tella 10

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Blackburn obviously.

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I’m reaching here but I saw starting him as captain as an olive branch from Kompany after Saturday’s events.

A different style of leadership. One I definitely prefer.

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Peacock-Farrell 6
Lowton 7
McNally 6
Taylor 7
Roberts 6
Benson 8
Egan-Riley 6
Bastien 6
Gudmundsson 5
Costelloe 5
Barnes 7

Zaroury 8
Brownhill 6

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Kompany pointed out in his post-match interview that seven goals this season have come from / involved Muric. He’s integral to the way we play.

I never want to see a repeat of the Blackpool game where a significant amount of home fans got on his back. Let’s get behind him.

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That Turkish striker is a must. He’s been key so far.

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Muric Lowton-THB-Taylor-Maatsen Cork-Cullen JBG-Brownhill-Tella JayRod I think it will be that except Roberts will start ahead of Lowton. JBG won't play 90 mins but we have lots of options off the bench for that position. Looking forward to see more of our attacking players with several yet to featu...

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Muric 7
Roberts 5
THB 7
Taylor 8
Maatsen 6
Cullen 7
Cork 5
Vitinho 6
Brownhill 6
Tella 7
Rodriguez 7

Churlinov 6
JBG 7

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 01, 2022 1:09 pm
Is that all people are concerned about - how we announce it?

Probably because we don't have much to say about the player because no one's heard of him! Sure he'll get a warm welcome though. Glad we've got another Striker in.

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bfcmik wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 31, 2022 10:19 am
One could just as easily use Tella instead of Jay.

Absolutely on two counts.

1. Tella has been different gravy.
2. This isn’t great statistical analysis. Was simply responding to the direction of thread.

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Yep I’m prepared to give him time. Really like the bloke and he’s doing so many things right.

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Sorry but he gets caught out of position and isn’t commanding in the air.

He’s been brilliant for us though. I’ll back him 100% at the games. And yes, his passing has been good this season.

Not unhappy with him. But looking at the first eleven and it’s definitely an area in which we can strengthen.

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He’s shown in the last two games he can tackle too. He even won a few headers last night!

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Muric 7

Roberts 7
THB 8 - commanding. Just imagine if we had two centre halves!
Taylor 6
Vitinho 7

Cork 8
Cullen 8

JBG 7
Brownhill 7
Tella 8

Jay 8

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Benson 8
BPF 6

Really enjoyed it!

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Predicted league goals scored based on:

Games Barnes has started: 35
All league games: 85
Games Jay has started: 153

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Shrewsbury letting us have the ball non stop, not even challenging, just sitting in and saying break us down - and we aren’t doing. Happy to hear that as that’s an area we need to improve in ahead of the next two games where that pattern will likely play out. Makes tonight a good opportunity for th...

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https://www.fotmob.com/match/3992759/ma ... vs-burnley

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Dream on. He's still very much PL class... and the chances of us signing an expensive 30-year-old are close to zero.

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Three fantastic finishes. (Especially as finishing has been a problem.)

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Muric 6
Roberts 5
Harwood-Bellis 7
Taylor 5
Maatsen 5
Brownhill 7
Cork 6
Cullen 5
Vitinho 5
Rodriguez 7
Tella 8

Barnes 3
Bastien 7

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Darko confirmed on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/burnleyofficial/sta ... u4TMZ-rhiQ

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