If we’re relegated there won’t be a fire sale. A couple will inevitably leave (plus Jay, Cork and squad fillers deemed not good enough), a few will be loaned but most will remain. It’s a completely different scenario than following the last relegation. We’re building something not starting from scr...

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 01, 2024 9:45 pm

He missed all of pre season injured and went off injured against Villa, he came back like 6 week ago playing for the 21s but I don’t think he’s been featuring for them recently which suggests he’s injured again

He played against North End on December 19th

Westleigh wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 01, 2024 1:46 pm

Towneley as in Burnelee.

Towneley as in that is the correct way to spell Towneley .

Check out the history of Rugby Union. In the very early days a try was of no value, it just allowed a side to score a point from a conversion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rugby_union#Scoring Scroll over half way down for the table that shows the history of scoring. They often used the ...

Forget the Cricket club prior to 1882 for a minute .. they tried to establish their own football section on a couple of occasions during the period prior to Burnley Rovers moving over to Turf Moor .. In simple terms your research has found Albion Mill - Burnley Rovers (1874) - Burnley FC (1882) as a...

…. And of course when I say Burnley, I am referring to the club that became Burnley, through various moves prior to being directly connected to the Cricket Club… Albion Mill’s weavers shed team. All good stuff .. one question - Does the Albion Mill team link to Burnley Cricket & Football Club or ou...

Just from what I have seen. It’s the same why I was saying last season that Foster will be good in the prem (even though his championship was poor). Benson has all the attributes to be successful in the prem. like I said the negative side of me thinks the likes of Koleosho and Odobert are playing b...

Final fixture list for our club as Burnley Rovers ... the newspaper that day also carries a report of Calder Vale CCs game against Padiham Church .. the 19th century cricket reports are very interesting too.

RVclaret wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:00 am

I highly doubt we have ‘loads of money’ while also highly doubting we absolutely need a fire sale of players and complete squad rebuild. As ever, the answer is probably somewhere in the middle.

I would imagine so

Vegas Claret wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 31, 2023 7:23 am

we have loads of money, we won't be giving players away this summer

'Loads of money'

Time will tell on that one ..

Association rules - the well documented change in 1882
but note the comments about the tent and the bridge (Holme Road)

*based

Very interesting, as reading that, it kind of assumes that there was a mixture of codes in that match, seemingly London and Sheffield. Also interesting to note the kick off time of 3pm, as that is the time the FA adopted for it's kick off times. Coincidence though, maybe? It's certainly quite diffi...

Gazette - 13th January 1877

As an aside Burnley Rovers were founded in 1874 according to the Burnley Gazette of September 26th that year which to my mind makes our club 150 years old in 2024 ? Regardless of the rules debate the club itself was clearly founded in 1874 not 1882.

Belvedere's second XI played as Calder Vale in the East Lancs League a few seasons ago .. I have a match report from 1877 concerning a game between Burnley Rovers and Burnley Football and Cricket club played at Calder Vale .. it mentions the print works end which also goes a long way to confirming w...

DingleDangle wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 30, 2023 11:29 am

Strange one, as Calder Vale and now Burnley RFC play at Holden Road in Reedley.

Yes I don't know much about the Rugby club or their history but I have been known to watch Belvedere at Holden Road.

The current Burnley RFC previously known as Calder Vale were founded in 1926. Not sure why they adopted the name or if they ever played at Calder Vale at any point but their first fixture was played at Simonstone.

In that case, I might know who your son is, and if I’m right he helped my son out massively recently. He also wants to get in to physiotherapy so reached out to him particularly around best educational paths and he was super helpful, so thank him for that 👍🏻 I'll pass that on .. good luck to your s...

.. same sort of local gossip as the bloke who told a friend of mine that the senior club physio 'Paul' a 'life-long friend' of his from their school days at Habergham had revealed x, y and z to the bloke about goings on at Gawthorpe .. the senior physio in question being my son who by the way is not...

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:03 pm

You are right, we were a rugby club and changed code in May 1882 at the Bull in town.

In academia we have a term for this .. we call it the invention of tradition . A surprisingly common barrier to learning that academic historians come up against on an all too regular basis.