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manuelbenny

Asda may object if Joe Bloggs' minimarket is taking customers from them. But that doesn't give them the right to close roads and tell people that Joe Bloggs isn't accepting customers. BRC is entitled, if they so wish, to close the route from the cricket club to the Long Side Stand with a fence on t...

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Row x wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 23, 2025 3:38 pm
I know, fancy putting more money into the cricket club, absolutely ridiculous.

Really?

manuelbenny

I'll say it once again, the only point I was responding to, was that Pace was trying to ruin the cricket club, which is nonsense Mobility issues, fans being moved etc are a completely different issue which I'm not mentioning Okay then...so you tell me why the fans have been switched? What's the rea...

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The cricket club is mainly for away fans, who now find it easier to get access Previously coaches dropped away fans by the turnstiles, who went straight in and spent money with BFC, now they are dropped by the cricket club, so spend their money there. Your previous anti American comments led me to ...

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I also read, every home game, releases from the cricket club, and Burnley police that the cricket club is the place for away fans, that's what its aimed at, take away fans to somewhere else nobody would go to the cricket club When I go away, I usually follow the police advice as to which pubs to go...

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I dont know what he thinks, but his actions have only made it easier for the majority of customers to access the cricket club, and as such taking away business from the football club, to the benefit of the cricket club I think you are using the wrong argument to forward your dislike of the american...

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https://www.burnleycricketclub.com/blog ... park-press

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To be honest I can see Pace' and the Burnley Board's point of view a little as it's taking punters away from the BFC fanzone
But I don't see the club objecting to the Royal Dyche and all the other pubs under the culvert who have turned their establishments into shrines to the football club

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"Pace waging war against the cricket club" That's a weird suggestion, most of the cricket clubs income on match day is from away fans. The new set up, with away supporters coaches parked right outside, means more might go into the cricket club, whereas before they went straight into the ground and ...

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I parked my car on the tennis club but Belvdere Road was condoned off at the fire station so I turned right after Thompson park on Ormerod Road before I got to lights so I could park at the tennis club. This was about 1pm. I then headed towards the pubs under the culvert and walked past the cricket ...

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Curious whether there were major problems with ticketing access yesterday? The guy in front of me in JHU wouldn’t get his season ticket card to work, he had two and neither worked, he was being told to go to the ticket office and miss kick off. He was incandescent and refused to leave until a super...

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Rather than give it up altogether, perhaps he might consider getting a transport wheelchair? Presuming he's got someone fit to push it, of course. It's how my mother used to get there for a few years till we pushed the boat out and went in hospitality. You can always find somewhere in the ground to...

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The game has tied itself up in knots regards handball and offside. Hannibal jumped. You can't jump without using your arms. Imagine doing the fosbury flop without using your arms. Offside was originally introduced to stop players "babylining"..now we have a system where a player's toenail is offside...

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I personally don't think it was handball. I think football has tied itself up in knots with handball. Handball should be for deliberate use of the arm or hand to control the ball. Hannibal went to block the ball and u can't just cut your arms off. He wasn't even looking at the ball All this was his ...

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Why have two legs and then just one leg for the final like we have now??? I think one-off eliminators and semi-finals are a good idea, personally, and makes it more fair. Reward the team who finished higher in the table with home advantage in one-off games. Play-offs are great and keep the season al...

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What if the "sustained shirt pulling" starts inside the area and finishes outside....do they give a free kick outside the area????

What an absolute corrupt load of rubbish

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Enola Gay wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 26, 2025 11:57 am
Overreaction much?

Overreaction? Absolutely not. Nothing better than celebrating a goal but now we are drowned out by that stupid Norwich City crap.

manuelbenny

My dad never went on against Sunderland due to these daft changes. It took him all his time to navigate Ormerod Yard due to serious, grade 4 arthritis in his knee. The best thing is he could cycle to the Turf as it's low impact but there's no cycle stations....even though we have this fantastic "tow...

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Surprised Ekdal is in again....

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So what that he 'probably' wasn't going to get the ball, it was still a foul and still a penalty.
It was similar to the Mason Mount penalty England v France in the last World Cup. Mount was probably never going to get the ball but he was barged in the back...VAR gave a pen for that

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Ekdal is steady enough (in championship), but I don't think he's going to get picked ahead of Humphries (if fit), Worrall, Tuanzebe, Bayer (if fit).
Wouldn't be surprised if he leaves to be honest

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I cant see Ekdal playing much...to be honest. I don't think he's good enough

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Claretnick wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 29, 2025 9:45 am
It's what we had to do in the days of the segregated Longside and Bee Hole end terracing.

I am not so sure about that? It's a long time ago but from memory, I recall you could turn left on exiting Longside and Bee Hole

manuelbenny

There's people with mobility issues. It's going to put half an hour on people's journey home.
Pace is becoming dictatorial. We got the stupid Norwich City goal music gimmick...now this...

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Have we had any confirmation whether home fans will still be allowed to walk along the path alongside the cricket field to and from games. It will be an absolute joke if home fans in the North Stand will have to walk all the way around the ground and cricket field to walk towards town or Queens Park...

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Never relied on pace, proven at Premier League, great experience to call upon, showed he can still play against Millwall in final game of the season, great guy to have around the place as proven last season.

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I don't understand the height factor being relevant: who plays long balls or plays aerially in the Prem? It's not really part of the game anymore. If he survived in the Championship then I'm sure he'd do that side of the job in the Prem. The real question is his positioning & pace at the top level....

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aggi wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 13, 2025 11:04 am
Are there many teams that play with a Dan Burn equivalent up front?

This thread did inspire me to look at the "aerial duels" stats though.

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But my favourite was Hountondji. 1 header won, 13 lost.

How many goals did we concede last season? that's the best stat

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To be fair Parker put his faith in Joe Worrall. Other than for a broken foot, CJ may not have had his chance. As for his skill on the ball and his passing range - THB had that and it didn’t help Southampton whatsoever did it? Not just most conceded but also fewest scored. We need a “stopper” and bu...

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Seriously what is everyone going on about?!?! CJ is going to be a huge miss..absolute brilliant player. Why oh why Kompany treat him the way he did only he knows. Quite clearly, an absolute superb footballer as he showed last season. Great on the ball, best passer in the team, aggressive, a bit of a...

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I don’t think he owes us anything. We gave him a job. He gave us promotion. At this point, I’d say we’re even. I do hope he stays, but you could see the appeal of taking over at an established and very well run PL club. Is there such thing as an established premier League club?...especially when it...

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Who decided NNN is a Rovers song? We've been singing it from the early 70s (as far as I go back) so not sure how any one knows. It seems unlikely a song containing the word Rover would somehow be turned into Burnley B*stards out of the blue. I mean which seems more likely Rovers fans sitting on a b...

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Technically not great in terms of what Cullen does in controlling a game of football and picking up the ball from deep, but arguably, technically, the best finisher/ball striker at the club. A real gift in knowing which positions to take up in the box. Brownhill could have more goals this season if ...

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Casper2 wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:27 pm
That’s because he was .

I don't think he was....

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Everybody was saying Ash was past it two years ago....never relied on pace. still could do a job

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Trafford 7
Pires 8
Roberts 7
Egan Riley 7
Esteve 8
Laurent 8
Cullen 8
Brownhill 6
Edwards 8
Antony 8 (brill today, shame about the finishing)
Flemming 8 (best game today)
Foster 6
Hannibal 6

manuelbenny

2014 is my favourite, completely unexpected. We won promotion at a canter with a wafer-thin squad. Any other year, we would have prob won the league but had to contend with Leicester who won the Prem two years later. We had two of the best players I have arguably seen in my 40 years watching the Cla...

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So just because he was in charge of Southampton, who were always going to struggle to stay up, he can't analyse football?
I get it, being in charge of a team who gets relegated or are on course for relegation means he's never going to get a job at a big European club but......oh hang on!

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Goal music is embarrassing and cringeworthy....and extremely tin pot
Not befitting of a great club like ours

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Or 15 defeats in last 173 Championship games!!

manuelbenny

I don't think it would have been possible to predict his growth to be honest. Even Parker said today that CJ was surprised that he turned to him when Joe Worrall was injured. But how he's grabbed his opportunity. Parker also confirmed that his contract is at an end this summer, something one new po...

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fair enough...cheers ClaretTony....
can't see any reason why he wouldn't want to stay here.

Scott Parker has really believed in him this season

manuelbenny

Why are there mentions of a four-year deal? Could his agent have leaked that it's a 4-year deal, ie. 3+option of a further year. I am just guessing. The fact that the club tweeted that it was a 4-year deal and the lack of any news coming from the club would suggest there's no urgency over his contra...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62009389

four years according to this

UTC homepage is guided by the club. We have seen it before where the club holds an option on a player without publicising it.
I am just guessing though....it's 3 or 4 years according to which articles you read

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https://x.com/BurnleyOfficial/status/15 ... 0329322497

3 years contract according to article, but four years according to this official BFC tweet. Maybe it's 3 year with one year option?

Other media outlets have suggested four years

manuelbenny

my feeling is that he's signed for four or at least the club has an option on him.

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https://x.com/BurnleyOfficial/status/15 ... 0329322497

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