I can’t believe we haven’t sold out for Thursday some folk are all talk and no action.

What an opportunity to see Burnley in Europe no doubt in years to come they will lie that they were there

Yes its a really poor show if we dont fill the Turf.I was there last time we were in Europe and the place was rocking.

All that effort and excitement to get into Europe and apathy. We lose the right to gloat at the feeble efforts of the smaller Lancashire club who bought their entry.

I’ll be there, but not looking forward to a loud Aberdeen contingent, compared to fart in wind efforts.

bfcjg wrote:All that effort and excitement to get into Europe and apathy. We lose the right to gloat at the feeble efforts of the smaller Lancashire club who bought their entry.

Yes were often slagging the gates of Blackburn..wouldn't surprise me if they get the better crowds.

25 quid, on tv, school holidays not excuses but reasons

No reasons....AC Milan full house.

Spike wrote:I can’t believe we haven’t sold out for Thursday some folk are all talk and no action.

What an opportunity to see Burnley in Europe no doubt in years to come they will lie that they were there

My ST is in the CFS however as taking kids going in the JML, so got a paper ticket. Def keeping it for proof

AGENT_CLARET wrote:25 quid, on tv, school holidays not excuses but reasons

TV is a **** poor excuse, £25 isn’t a bad price however much you moan about it.

I’m disappointed, we are the ones that look Tin pot whilst calling Aberdeen tin pot?

Burnley1989 wrote:TV is a **** poor excuse, £25 isn’t a bad price however much you moan about it.

I’m disappointed, we are the ones that look Tin pot whilst calling Aberdeen tin pot?

Aberdeen and Scottish football not a big draw for us but Burnley and a pem team scalp is a big draw for them = a full house for them

Clarets fans moan moan moan. fill it we are plastic don't fill and we slag each other off. I bet like me 2k or 3k Burnley fans are on holiday what the frig do you want us to do fly back.FFS

^ all the more reason to get a full house if you're playing Aberdeen AND Scottish football at the same time..

Every ones got commitments to family and work that's paramount...but so many were screaming they didn't have a ticket for the away leg you would think this game would sell out. I'm sure Glasgow Rangers or AC Milan would have.

I guess its holiday time

rumpus wrote:^ all the more reason to get a full house if you're playing Aberdeen AND Scottish football at the same time..

A club with the European heritage of Aberdeen is a draw for me and British (and world) football owes Scottish football thanks for the passing game. Plus from a Claret point of view Aird, Blacklaw, Lochead, Morgan, and Arfield.

Just be ******* glad we are in the top flight of English football and playing in Europe and stop the ******* moaning and be glad we don't play Maidstone, Barnet Torquay anymore on Friday and Tuesday night ffs be happy with what we have and stop picking ******* holes in it all the bloody time Jesus christ some fans are NEVER HAPPY

^ Arfield? Ex falkirk Arfield?

Did you hold him in high regard?

levraiclaret wrote:A club with the European heritage of Aberdeen is a draw for me and British (and world) football owes Scottish football thanks for the passing game. Plus from a Claret point of view Aird, Blacklaw, Lochead, Morgan, and Arfield.

Arfield is CANADIAN lmfao

We have about 40k fans that attend games. Some all the time and some on occasions.

But it's sad if more decline to go rather than do.

AGENT_CLARET wrote:Arfield is CANADIAN lmfao

Wrong... He was born in livingstone Scotland

AGENT_CLARET wrote:Just be ******* glad we are in the top flight of English football and playing in Europe and stop the ******* moaning and be glad we don't play Maidstone, Barnet Torquay anymore on Friday and Tuesday night ffs be happy with what we have and stop picking ******* holes in it all the bloody time Jesus christ some fans are NEVER HAPPY

I used to live in Torquay. Well not really live there..I used to go down there in my time ashore and pump the bejezus out of a girl who lived there.

Regularly watched Torquay as for some reason they often played on a Friday night before Friday nights became a regular fixture slot.

They were poor. Good rivalry with Exeter though, I liked them. They had a proper daft bunch of supporters who enjoyed a good scrap.

Quite a lot of away supporters made a weekend of it in Torquay, especially the ones from up Lancashire/ Yorkshire direction.


Did you ever do that?

The first time Scotty set foot in Canada was when he played a CONCACAF qualifying game in Vancouver. His father was born in Scarberia (that's Scarborough, Ontario to you non-Canucks), but moved back to Scotland, where Scotty was born. As for plastic pitches, it's better to play on "The Frozen Tundra".

rumpus wrote:^ Arfield? Ex falkirk Arfield?

Did you hold him in high regard?

I do.

Having just looked at previous years attendances for premier league clubs for the first game in this micky mouse cup they average out at about two, thirds full for home games which is about what we will probably have.

Full House! Fake news, move on.

It’s true. If it were AC Milan we’d sell out. Should be selling out regardless of who it is given it’s our first game in Europe for so long, embarrassing.

tim_noone wrote:Yes were often slagging the gates of Blackburn..wouldn't surprise me if they get the better crowds.

Blackburn’s first game in Europe vs Trelleborgs got a gate of 13;775 so you’d like to th8nk we’ll get more than that.

Winstonswhite wrote:Blackburn’s first game in Europe vs Trelleborgs got a gate of 13;775 so you’d like to th8nk we’ll get more than that.

That’s well upset me! So I could have gone to the Trelliborg game!

Winstonswhite wrote:Blackburn’s first game in Europe vs Trelleborgs got a gate of 13;775 so you’d like to th8nk we’ll get more than that.

What I'm saying is there's a lot of obsessing about their crowds ...ours aren't that impressive.

Arsenal's ground was three quarters empty for their early EC rounds last season. Stop moaning and a message to those going on: get behind he team from the kick off and sing and shout your hearts out!

Why do people get in such a state about the size of crowds?

What I'm saying is there's a lot of obsessing about their crowds ...ours aren't that impressive.

Blackburn where in a proper European comp so hardly comparable.

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Vino blanco wrote:Arsenal's ground was three quarters empty for their early EC rounds last season. Stop moaning and a message to those going on: get behind he team from the kick off and sing and shout your hearts out!

Thanks for the tip, I was just planning to drive 150 miles and stay stum.

Vino blanco wrote:Arsenal's ground was three quarters empty for their early EC rounds last season. Stop moaning and a message to those going on: get behind he team from the kick off and sing and shout your hearts out!

Hardly a fair comparison. Arsenal had umpteen consecutive years of Champions League football up until then. Hardly surprising that they couldn’t get excited about a Europa Cup group game.

I do find it a bit disappointing that a good proportion of our fan base can’t get up for what is a truly historic occasion, but hey, if they don’t want to come, they don’t want to come.

Too many do stay stum, levrai. At least that was my impression on the six games I flew back from Spain to watch last season.

Scouse, don't care if it's a fair comparison or not, it's a fact.

Vino blanco wrote:Too many do stay stum, levrai. At least that was my impression on the six games I flew back from Spain to watch last season.

Are you on the baccy run..

No Tim, I am simply on the visiting family and visiting Turf Moor run. Has to be done, my friend.

Not everyone works 9 till 5.

Vino blanco wrote:No Tim, I am simply on the visiting family and visiting Turf Moor run. Has to be done, my friend.

Good answer

Sh*t ground no fans, sh*t ground no fans!!

When we got 7th and qualified for this I was convinced that I’d struggle to get a ticket as I only make 3-4 games a season from Ayrshire

But I’ll be there tomorrow can’t wait just hope that some more fans get out there and buy tickets

Never understood they point of view that some would go on if the opposition were of a higher calibre. When people say it is only Aberdeen does the fact that the other team involved is Burnley not matter ?

If your stance is that you would make more effort if it was a fashionable club we were playing you must find yourself asking which team you actually want to watch.

rumpus wrote:I used to live in Torquay. Well not really live there..I used to go down there in my time ashore and pump the bejezus out of a girl who lived there.

Regularly watched Torquay as for some reason they often played on a Friday night before Friday nights became a regular fixture slot.

They were poor. Good rivalry with Exeter though, I liked them. They had a proper daft bunch of supporters who enjoyed a good scrap.

Quite a lot of away supporters made a weekend of it in Torquay, especially the ones from up Lancashire/ Yorkshire direction.


Did you ever do that?

Over 44 years I have been to every single away ground Burnley has ever played at in one season or another. some of those grounds aren't in the football league any more and some grounds have been knocked down and replaced with new one's and I have done those also. Does that answer your question.

claretonthecoast1882 wrote:Never understood they point of view that some would go on if the opposition were of a higher calibre. When people say it is only Aberdeen does the fact that the other team involved is Burnley not matter ?

If your stance is that you would make more effort if it was a fashionable club we were playing you must find yourself asking which team you actually want to watch.

If money is Tight (no job or young family) and it's on tv IT MATTERS

If you work shifts and it's being played on a Thursday night and you don't have any holidays to take at work IT MATTERS

Some people need to take off their claret tinted glasses off and stop slagging fans off because they won't/can't go to the match and think yourself lucky you can

AGENT_CLARET wrote:If money is Tight (no job or young family) and it's on tv IT MATTERS

If you work shifts and it's being played on a Thursday night and you don't have any holidays to take at work IT MATTERS

Some people need to take off their claret tinted glasses off and stop slagging fans off because they won't/can't go to the match and think yourself lucky you can

Did you read what I said or just make stupid stuff up for a reason ?

My point is those who aren't going purely due to it being Aberdeen and not some glamour time, if you are still struggling with this ask someone else to explain it to you.

Read what I put.............it reads like this. for a game against the likes of Aberdeen and things are tight or difficult some fans will pick and choose the games they watch.

You put.....
If your stance is that you would make more effort if it was a fashionable club we were playing you must find yourself asking which team you actually want to watch

if it was more of a glamour game some fans will make more of an effort to find the money or find a way to get off work doesn't make them any less a Claret

I have been watching Burnley for 44 plus years now. I have enough points to have gone to the away game at Aberdeen but like for the home game this Thursday I'm 4000 odd miles away on holiday. because I didn't fly back and make the effort to help fill the ground
Should I find mysef asking which team I actually want to watch

Like I said in an earlier post there are reasons not excuses some fans aren't filling the ground on Thursday

if you are still struggling with this ask someone else to explain it to you.

See you in Istanbul, Spike.

The Enclosure wrote:Yes its a really poor show if we dont fill the Turf.I was there last time we were in Europe and the place was rocking.

If we had played games bang in the middle of Burnley holidays back in the early 60s, then i bet there would have been a very poor attendance.
Burnley used to be virtually deserted for the wakes weeks.
Not quite the same nowadays, but still the majority of families away during this fortnight.
I know very few who are going on tomorrow, but it's not due to apathy, they're all away, like us

Vino blanco wrote:Scouse, don't care if it's a fair comparison or not, it's a fact.

An irrelevant one.

Must admit I'm really surprised.
There's no chance I'd be missing this.

I'll admit there's a bit of disappointment we didn't draw someone further afield, but mainly for the away trip... which would be hard to get a ticket for anyway.
However, as a home game it's a fantastic occasion. I'd rather we played Aberdeen than someone I've never heard of - who knows how many times in my life I will get the opportunity to watch us in Europe.