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daveisaclaret

Hard to imagine how we will cope without him in the dugout.

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Hard to imagine anyone saying with a straight face that he's better than Peacock-Farrell who has been pensioned off to Denmark, never mind Muric. An utterly shite goalie and a very suitable symbol for this whole wasted season.

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Think the answer to the OP question is actually just yes.

Changed personnel too much, changed style of play too little. We've got a lot better (still not good enough) as VK as started to adapt the way we play to the players we now have and the league we're now in but on day one it really was both.

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Quite startling to say last season's team hasn't been dismantled. Yesterday we had 7 players signed this season, 2 players signed in January 2023 who barely played last season, last season's 2nd choice right back playing left back and Brownhill.

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Darthlaw wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:52 am
I don’t get why he’s dreadful though.

The rest of us are left to determine if you really don't get it or if you're pretending, as it was very obvious.

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Trafford and Assignon both let it go. Doesn't matter much as conceding a corner shouldn't be a big deal, it's just unfortunate that we can't defend them.

Nothing Trafford could do about the first goal either. The second however he was dreadful for.

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Hard to tell yesterday as he contributed literally nothing, but he was playing high up wasn't he?

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Had to have a laugh when our fans were moaning about Fulham wasting time at throw ins and they weren't taking as long as ours.

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Westleigh wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:58 pm
No slight on him ,I just couldn’t remember all of them ,however Jay went away to richer pastures where a lot of them were moved on to keep the club financially viable,

He was our record fee received at the time and was moved on to keep the club financially viable

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Jay Rodriguez has played for us for longer than other clubs combined, not sure why he wouldn't be in the second group.

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jedi_master wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:48 am
Quite a few in that boat - some of them not even out on loan.

Think most of them will either be candidates for selling for a tidy profit or out of contract. Roberts and Cullen seem to be the main two in that position to me.

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Either the red card was significant or Kompany has watched Vitinho play since and decided it's Roberts that needs to go. Either is a little scary imo.

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Was his form poor in the second half of last season or did he have the best game of his life v Rovers, go and play in the World Cup 3rd place playoff and come back with unrealistic expectations from the fans? You can't quibble with the decision to play Koleosho and Odobert ahead of him using hindsig...

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A bizarre and pretty crap situation imo. Our first choice right back from the start of the season gets a red card (and not a particularly poor or impactful one) and all of a sudden he's a bit part midfielder/left back. Then you send him on loan with no obligation to buy meaning in Summer we either h...

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aggi wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:35 pm
That expenses figure is a bit misleading though as it includes running their constituency offices so has staff and other business costs in there.

Important to note how many of them use this to give a family member a wage, though.

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Does Kompany not know that Benson shirks out of training continuously?

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From the promoted squad, players are now featuring for the following clubs -Norwich, Southampton, Bayer Leverkusen, Millwall, AGF, Schalke 04, Kasımpaşa and Chelsea. Total revenue received in transfer fees: Zero. It's a reasonable point in terms of the club's supposed model but I would assume in th...

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Let me ask you question. If you're ten, and you want to support a club, do you support City, who win every week, often win trophies and the whole affair around the match day is catered just to your liking OR do you pick Burnley, getting pumped most weeks, sitting in a cramped, dilapidated old stadi...

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I think you have misread what I said.

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As a Dyche lover, I don't think Dyche would dream of putting Benson on a football pitch and I think that's a knock against Dyche.

It's also just more made up **** though.

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Pickles wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:46 pm
Yes. If a team can afford to keep a player because they play ten to fifteen minutes per game then absolutely fair enough.

Averaged 45 minutes in the league games he appeared in.

It really feels like you are just making **** up here.

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He played 37 games last season so 10 games is actually quite far off.

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123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:28 pm
That wasn’t benson alone though was it, twine scored the opener against Rotherham away

I don't know what point you think you're making.

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How did he seal the title for us for 2 weeks, we draw 0-0 to reading, draw 2-2 to Rotherham, lost 2-1 to QPR then beat Blackburn. Can’t take the 4 outstanding goals away from him, opposition managers probably did say kick him but they couldn’t get near him. The quality of full backs he came up agai...

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123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:17 pm
That 2 weeks didn’t win us the title, the 10 wins in a row did

That's why I wrote sealed the title and not won the title. Bizarre interjection.

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A massively talented player, however the problem with Benson is that the opposing manager simply has to say to the full back marking him "hit him hard but fairly" in the first few minutes. Then you wont see him again for 4 weeks Makes you wonder why the opposing manager didn't say this at any point...

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The difficulty with offside is that its determination is black or white. You are either offside or you are not. Whatever rule you apply to determine that will still need to be measured and it’s the accuracy of the measurement system that is the problem. So, if it’s an armpit, a toenail or daylight,...

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Decision to sign him looks odd, I think that's clear. But it feels very possible we start next season sans Foster, Amdouni and Rodriguez. I'm not totally convinced VK sees it this way but in that scenario Obafemi will look like a decent player to have around.

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Don't think that one is a foul. Equal contest between the goalie and attacker to win the ball and the goalie wasn't strong enough. Totally different to Trafford/Adebayo

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Takes a special kind of rube to believe he's a Burnley fan in any meaningful way.

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Try reconcile the summer and this season being two different time periods and you might work that one out. Not sure this adds up. In August he was worth the big new contract but 76 minutes of football later he's not good enough? I am overlooking the thing you made up about training as I'm a kind-he...

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It's difficult to reconcile the Benson who cops out of training and obviously isn't good enough with the Benson who signed the bumper contract extension in the summer.

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Virtually every team in the Championship runs at massive losses, it's nothing to do with the owners (other than they all keep subsidising it). For the past 5 years total wages in the Championship have been higher than total revenues. Preston are a good example, generally around mid-table each year ...

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Anonymous Claret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:09 pm
What did you expect then?

I expected the many interesting posts from people giving their views on conscription, and I think it is silly that there are also posts which treat this as a genuine suggestion/possibility. I thought I had been pretty clear about it.

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Anonymous Claret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:00 pm
Did you miss the bits where the OP asked people what their sentiment on the idea was or where he asked how people would react if conscription was brought in?

Nope

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Blackburn Rovers aren't big enough to spend decades in the PL they were always going to fall from grace once the Walker money had either gone or the PL became so big it was no longer a factor. The losses are incurred because the Venky's throw £20 million into them every season because otherwise the...

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Pearcey wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:12 am
I think most are aware of that aren’t they? It’s a hypothetical question that people are responding to.

Maybe I'm being too literal but I think all of the posting about it not being possible/practical and about why conscription is wrong are not answers to a hypothetical.

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What's really scary imo is that the conscription story is obviously a lot of confected nonsense made up by someone who wanted attention, the OP points that out, and still the majority treat it like a legitimate proposal. Where is your media literacy and your critical thinking?

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Don't really understand the criticism of anti-Venky Rovers fans. They bought an established Premier League club and turned it into a crap Championship team (with a stint in League One thrown in). It's a disgrace that that club runs with such losses and under decent owners it wouldn't.

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The rumours about Trippier's indiscretions appeared on a Sunderland fan messageboard in the week before the derby. Critical thinking skills may be required to consider if they are real or totally made up.

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I think owning Burnley legitimates their role within the football business industry. It wouldn't surprise me if ALK ends up as a talent/football agency kind of business providing finance and AI expertise to the marketplace. Not sure what a relationship with Dundee can achieve because I don't know h...

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getbennyon wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:00 am
Is he a liar?

He's deeply dishonest yes, a liar.

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He's a racist, sexist, homophobic ****. I think people should have the decency to say they agree with him rather than hiding behind the idea of lots of others agreeing with him.

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I think being the junior partner in this kind of arrangement is probably pretty miserable, but being the senior partner probably isn't particularly impactful. If we can get players playing in the SPL (which we managed last season with Egan-Riley) then good for us, but you have to ask if the loans he...

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Weirdly Mott the Hoople was the same thought I had when I saw this thread. Didn't really pass me by as they'd finished before I was born, but a brilliant band. This would be my pick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJeU37u ... ople-Topic

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Think it's fingers and toes crossed that the deal to sign Ramsey includes an automatic buyback upon relegation, as is reported Cameron Archer's move from Villa to Sheff United does. Sounds like he's a good player at Championship level but it's an unfathomable amount of money to spend on someone who ...

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Had a look down the list and counted how many of them I think look like good signings for the Premier League in the short term. Didn't get past the fingers of one hand.

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Transfermarkt fees are just added by volunteers to the site. They don't know any more than you or I do and thus you shouldn't put any stock in the fees as listed. They probably broadly relate to the reality (as it would if you asked me how much our signings cost) but it is not privileged information...

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Very funny from the commentator to talk about Ridsdale's time at Leeds without mentioning the whole running the club into the ground thing.

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Being an absolutely dreadful England manager probably isn't helpful in the knighthood discussion.

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