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Big Vinny K

On world rankings the Americans should be favourites, so no need for them to recruit other countries. We are only favourite in 3 singles matches today (I assume based on world rankings). They just haven’t been a good team and it looks like they are without a leader. DeShambles acts like a leader bu...

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Sorry for the delay replying to this. Last season I was slating Parker from Oct to Jan and then praising him from Feb to May. It really was a season of two halves and he redeemed himself. This season there has to be more pragmatism, I agree with that. But the blueprint was Frank’s Brentford when th...

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Yep can’t wait. One of the best sporting events ever. Beth Page historically a really tough course but i’m guessing they will cut a lot of the rough back to suit the Americans. I fancy Europe too. They are underdogs and you can get nearly 2/1 on them. Personally think that’s big and overlooks that a...

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Arh the stalkers here Have you the evidence then that Burnley fans or members are advertising, and selling tickets at vastly inflated prices If you have, I take it you've reported it, and you can produce the responses of those reports on here Or were you just bored, and thought you'd have your dail...

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Row x wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 23, 2025 2:44 pm

But I've seen/heard nothing that its actually a problem at our club....

That’s your obituary sorted

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Good listen that. One of my favourite players ever for Burnley and the best keeper I have seen at the club. And an absolutely great bloke too. Sounds very articulate and loves the game still and looks like he will have a good career whatever he does next. If he’s serious about a sporting director ro...

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Troy Deeney says 'If Burnley are to stay up it will be because of him'. Nice sentiment even if it’s utter ******** Troy Deeney taken over from Garth Crooks for picking the team of the week on BBC. Not exactly the thinking man’s choice but on the plus side it’s impossible to be as annoying as Crooks...

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I thought the game yesterday was excellent. I said on the way home that they should show the game first but it will probably be last. It was a proper game of football. Awful weather but loads of good football on the deck, plenty of chances, great saves, great tackles and TBF referee did well too. Fo...

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I don’t go looking for it. I think we are lucky to have someone like Parker in charge and think he’s done a great job since coming in. Tbf has it ever been any other way on the Turf (or any football ground) ?? They’re used to a very useful song sang by fans “Attack, attack, attack”….just in case th...

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Row x wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:23 pm
Seems like you're the ideal person to attend the forum with the Chairman and put him right about the issues
Are you putting your name forward?

I’ll do that if you hand yourself into the authorities for online stalking

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I feel as if our club has slept walked straight into this situation and don't seem that fussed about it. Think it’s more a case of them simply not knowing what they are doing…..or at the very least not understanding the potential consequences or risks. And when these consequences emerge the issue i...

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Leisure wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:23 am
I understand from someone in hospitality, that when ordering 4 away tickets they don't have to give any info as to who the tickets are for.

Yep think that’s correct - only change this year is that you have to order them online yourself whereas last season the hospitality team did it for you.

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Hi Leisure, if you buy a Premium membership for £150 you can buy 1 away ticket for £30. It's been posted on here before that it is hospitality membership that can buy 4 away tickets. I'm pretty sure Clarets numbers are required to buy Premium membership. I don't know if club makes any further check...

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Ronaldo mark 1 For Real Madrid v Barca at Nou Camp - back in 2003 I think. I was there for the game that Barca fans were trying to throw a pigs head at Figo and that it was so bad that Figo could not take any corners ! Strange atmosphere as no (or a handful only) Real Madrid fans and 100,000 Barca f...

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Take the punishment for breaking the law deliberately

Change your cruise control setting to comply with the legal speed limits

Really is that simple.

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I wonder how much actual football those complaining in this thread watch. In the last week alone Inter v Juve, Juve v Dortmund, Liverpool v Atletico Madrid and Brentford v Chelsea have been great ….. and Arsenal’s performance v Forest was excellent too. I find the worst part about the Premier Leagu...

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Another falls into the trap Have a look where I've been critical of.... Catering Tickets Cricket field moves Loyalty points You'll find plenty of posts, I've asked others to do it, and guess what, they've gone quiet, I guess you'll be the same You need to take a break from this board. You seem to w...

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Well I wouldn't, which was exactly my point when I said "come out" in my post, so if you read the post in the first place instead of persistently trying to fall out whilst defending the club's every move even though it's not been fully thought out, you'd have realised when I was referring to. So to...

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If you mean the words in the planning application, the club have to provide a supporting application form. The club are just paying the planning agents to do their job. It won’t have cost them any more or less to include this context as part of the application. If you mean that the player arrival s...

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planning statement in support of application: '...Overall Strategy This application supports the Club’s three-year improvement plan which seeks to enhance the experience for players and fans. Shortcomings have been identified in the arrival process for teams on match days. The current arrangements ...

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I've only seen it in the fanzone, you order at a screen and pick it up at the counter, just like all the major fast food outlets. I never buy food on the ground, people moan about it, yet still do it, more fool them. Maybe they are hungry ? Maybe they expect a decent level of food to be available a...

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Personally I like this kind of stuff and seeing some insight into players real lives and personalities. Last 3 years or so we have seen more inside footage of the players than in the rest of our history put together. That’s a positive from me as I find it interesting and I enjoy seeing the players a...

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No idea why these changes have been brought in. Road closures, moving people out of the car park at short notice, closing routes to the ground all for what ? For a few fans to see the players get off the coaches ? How many of our fans are going to turn up to the ground 2 hours early just to see the ...

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I've never been aware of any such rule on 75% and I can't recall a Burnley game being abandoned and the result standing. Something in the back of my mind recalls 75 minutes being the point that the result stands if a game was abandoned. Not sure if that’s still a rule now (or whether it ever was !)...

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Anyone on here born in 1976? 1976 is the only year of birth not to produce an England footballer in the 20th century. What were you all doing? You mean in the year of the Great Drought ? Dehydrated babies apparently There was a study done of all the babies born that year and there were less doctors...

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Wow, so many recommadations! thank you! think iv decided on a night in Naples then head down the coast to Pompei. then to visit Sorrento and Capri… any further advice is welcome 👍🏻 so many nice places to see so little time! If that’s where you are going then I’d definitely recommend a visit to Posi...

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just looking at flights and it’s much cheaper to fly to Trapani, have you been to Trapani? is it worth a visit? Don’t know anyone that’s been other than to fly there. If you are going to Sicily the nicest place is Taormina - stunning town.it’s also next to Etna if you want to visit a volcano that i...

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ŽižkovClaret wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 05, 2025 3:02 pm
Ok, which queue would you have been in 10 years ago?

Are you pis-sed ?

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Lake Garda or Lake Coma much nicer than and cleaner than Sorrento in my view. Verona beautiful city and lovely places like Simeoni and Como along the lakes. Trains are excellent too - as they are in most of Italy (with the exception of Naples !!) Other area we loved was Lucca in Tuscany - not on the...

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The new visa system requiring non-EU passengers to give Iris and fingerprint scans, for one thing..... That didn’t happen. It was just one very long snake like queue with people showing their passport and getting it stamped the good old fashioned way Crack on though making stuff up Maybe it’s just ...

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quoonbeatz wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 05, 2025 1:19 pm
No queue, no passport checks, you just sail through to the exit. Proper.

Oh yep - had the same come to think of it in June when I flew from Milan to Spain

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Sure, not like anything happened to markedly increase the volume of "non-EU" passengers You are talking nonsense. There was hardly a queue for the EU passport control - how would that be explained based on what you are saying ? And why would the airport have been like this for the last few months ?

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quoonbeatz wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 05, 2025 12:57 pm
Flew into Lisbon from Paris the other day, off the plane and in an uber in about 20 mins, most excellent airporting. Travelling EU to EU is superb.

Yes the EU queue was enviously small !

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ŽižkovClaret wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 05, 2025 12:35 pm
Given the cause, is that really on them?

That’s not the cause.
Been like this for months apparently
Not sure why you would mention that

It’s pure numbers of people who are non EU and no electronic machines for the non EU

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Sh-itshow of an airport still.
Ridiculous queues when you land for passport control

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I saw the programme and what puzzles me is surely the players saw the properties they were investing in. Did they get to own any of these properties, if so they may have deliberately been overpriced but surely there is still some equity in the property which if they were to sell it could pay off so...

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Spijed wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 03, 2025 6:19 pm
Obviously you never watched us in the old 3rd & 4th division then.

I have watched us in every division and I’d still say Leon Cort is one of the worst defenders I have seen play for us. And at least some of those back in the 1980s cost us virtually nothing !!

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Well it can if you’re making fortunes on others. As I said anyone with an understanding of our accounts and the size of our wage bill and other big costs would know that we cannot afford to make too many of these mistakes in the transfer market. The decent profit we have made on 2 or 3 players only...

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Lu-tze wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 03, 2025 5:21 pm
As memory serves..
Wayne Thomas 1.5mil.. Kyle Lafferty 4mil.. Leon Cort 1.5mil…
Laughing all the way to the bank!

Not on the Leon Cort one - we had our pants royally pulled down on that one by Stoke and Pulis. One of the worst players I have seen play for Burnley.

Big Vinny K

We made £50m+ on Odobert and Trafford combined. I’d be amazed if it was anywhere near that with sell on clauses, agents fees etc. Overall the point still stands that a club like Burnley cannot afford to make too many £15m (or thereabouts) mistakes. It’s not just the transfer fees either - all these...

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Donnarumma has always played behind world class defenders, so hasn’t been that exposed. He may be the one who’s not ready for the Premier League. Really ? Have you seen the Italian national team defence in the last few years ? He’s been exposed just as much as any top class keeper has since he brok...

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I moved to Octopus around 3 years ago and generally I think they have been far better than all the other providers I have used down the years. I moved to their agile tariff a couple a years ago - only have my electricity with them but the agile tariff can be really good and there are usually a coupl...

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Not sure after watching that documentary that the first conclusion you make is how stupid they all are. As was said the managers like Wilkinson, Fergie, Graham etc were held in massive esteem and were very much the ones in charge. Someone like Wilkinson endorsing these guys would carry a lot of weig...

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It does sound like the IFR will have genuine powers including removing owners, directors and senior staff from football clubs if they are threatening the existence of a club. Hopefully this will avoid the situations like at Bury and Morecambe. Possibly would have avoided Morecambe situation - not s...

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Rowls wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 02, 2025 7:05 am
That was Joey Barton but we don’t talk about him these days.

Except on the numerous Joey Barton threads.

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Give over. Give over what ? You think if he would have seen Mount pulling Walker before Walker leant on him he would have still given the penalty ? Or do you seriously think that referees are not scared of the repercussions of turning over a VAR recommendation ? Because if they weren’t I think give...

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Does the same argument apply to the penalty overturned in the first half or was re-reffing that one fine? The difference between the 2 is that for the first one he thought it was a penalty from his angle because he could not see that Mount was actually fouling Walker whereas on the second one he ha...

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How does pulling someone’s shirt from behind make them fall forward ? It’s blatant cheating and simulation. Amad obviously feels his shirt being pulled and then decides to try and get the penalty. If he doesn’t deliberately fall forward and the force of the pulling stops him from running forward the...

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If anything every generation is getting smarter because the improvements in technology. I think it’s naive to suggest otherwise. Depends what you define as intelligence really If it’s thinking for yourself, researching things, making things, engineering skills, tradesmen skills, teachers, etc then ...

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Conroy92 wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 24, 2025 11:21 am
Again, applying the one game logic.
So it's ok for you to criticise after one game (spurs) but not ok to be positive after one game (Sunderland).

As far as I can see from this forum he hasn’t been positive since we won Burt Freeman got the winner against Liverpool in 1914

It’s painful

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