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Didn’t John Murray in that 68/69 season beat some record about scoring in successive games? Well, John scored 8 goals in those 8 games including the first 6 games on the bounce. Only the Ipswich home game he failed to score which was the 7th in that sequence. Probably only Willie Irvine or Tommy La...

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1961/62 remains my favourite season when we were smashing every team in sight.

That said, I'd loved to have seen the 1920/21 season when we went 30 games unbeaten. That must have been one hell of a side with Halley, Boyle & Watson and the rest.

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Aye, '13/'14 was a bit special with Tripps, Danny Ings and the gang.

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Question is would Sean really want to finish 7th again and all that it entails?

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cricketfieldclarets wrote:Thats 3. Makes it 48 - i wasnt far out

Ok, '69/'70, '74/'75, '14/'15, '16/'17, '17/'18, that's five more plus the '68/'69 season and the current one.

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cricketfieldclarets wrote:We were **** for 49 of them!

No, not at all.

We've had some very good sides during that 51 years, particularly the '73/'74 side and also the '09/'10 & '14/'15 sides were decent enough.

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Couple of snippets probably worth adding to that. In the middle of that run we thrashed Don Revie's Leeds 5-1 and I think it was one of only two defeats for them in the whole of the '68/'69 season. From that run we went almost 51 years until the last few weeks when we won three consecutive games in ...

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Aye, that was the '68/'69 season. Harry Potts was not best pleased after we'd lost 0-4 at home to Liverpool. He then brought in several young players into the team who then went on to win 8 games on the bounce, 6 in the League and 2 in the League Cup. The players included the likes of Dobson, Murray...

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Lord Beamish wrote:Basil Dearing. Employing him as your Legal Representative was essentially a Guilty Plea.

To be fair it was Basil that recommended we re-valued the ground, which was subsequently valued much higher and at a stroke we were no longer insolvent.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

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From the description it sounds as though it may be Jim Thompson. Great bloke if it is and I wouldn't disbelieve any information that comes from him. We have a Board member that has been on the Board for almost 33 years and been at the club for many years prior to that. I recall the same director te...

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The whole situation is a shambolic mess, very little to choose between Anderson and Bassini. But reading the club statement they were pinning their hopes on Bassini inputting sufficient funds into the club which in itself smacks of pure desperation. However, saying all that, I think they need to mov...

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They have been not been paid either so it would be a breach of employment law for the league to effectively force them to cross picket lines Edit https://twitter.com/MarcIles/status/1122071905891168257" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Cross picket lines !?...........Surely this is dam...

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Was a lunchtime kick off on Thursday. But is that the best the league can come up with? What a joke organisation they are. No matter, the EFL would have forced Bolton to play today's fixture had their U18's not been involved in a match on Thursday, bringing concerns about potential player welfare i...

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At least we now have clarification, the two outstanding games will be played.

Today's game would have gone ahead had Bolton's U18's not played on Thursday night. That youth team would have represented the club but for obvious duty of care issues of having played two days earlier.

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The bonus in 2016-17, just for stopping up, was £12m wasn't it? I would have thought that much was paid again. Which leaves about £10m extra for the extra 10 places. The financial accounts to Jun'17 included a total Wage bill of £61.2m, there's no indication at all within those accounts or the note...

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If it was 'entirely predictable' in 2016, then it should have been for this last year. It's the wage bill that has doubled in that time, not the bonuses. And it doesn't take a lot of working out why......... Defour, Brady, Cork, Wood, Walters, Bardsley and even Hendrick etc. They weren't coming her...

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But no one would have predicted the £41 million in the Champions promotion year either. Bonuses aren't a new thing for us. The £41m for 2016 was entirely predictable, a basic of £28m plus £13m bonuses. The 2015 figure was £29m so a realistic increase from the previous year with a promotion bonus in...

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aggi wrote:I see that Dyche was repeating this after the Chelsea match. A little disingenuous.

Indeed.

A total of £82m which represents a 33% increase on the previous year. An increase very few will have predicted.

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Gordon Harris....played only twice more for us after this game. Appeared to leave under a cloud. The next game, at Sheff U, was he involved in an incident which may, or may not, have hasted his departure?? Firstly, some cracking highlights there of the game against Arsenal. We'd played them four da...

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Great shout, Claretforever.

We have proud history at our Club which should never be forgotten.

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One of the things I took from that Newcastle Utd deep dive was that in the PL the standard model for valuing PL cubs (a buzz topic on the thread in the last couple of weeks) is The Markham Multi-variate Model - the details of which can be found here http://www.sportingintelligence.com/wp-content/up...

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@KieranMaguirre provides a timely graphic illustrating the % change in wages for PL teams last season from the year before - some surprises https://twitter.com/KieranMaguire/status/1119234292448731137" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Very difficult to draw meaningful comparisons when ...

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[quote="Chester Perry"]Hipper - indeed 2014 was wages of £78m so have risen £40m in the period - last season was substantially less than the Championship year before I'm thinking the link to which Hipper refers is Crystal Palace not Newcastle, in which case the Wage bills quoted are reasonably accur...

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Eagerly awaited book. Thanks for whetting the appetite, Dave.

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Chester Perry wrote:click the icon 5th in on bottom right of screen

Ah right. Confirmation then that staff costs, on the whole, have a strong correlation to finishing position. With always the odd exception, like us.

Love the bit about Aston Villa, this "prestigeous club from Birmingham".

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Interesting little video of the cost of avoiding relegation from the top flight - In Italian but with subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQoSdGyeo-A" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Don't see any subtitles CP........which is a shame. Notice KPMG are responsible for the video, t...

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[quote="Chester Perry"]Apparently Newcastle have posted their financial results though they are not yet available at Companies house - A huge payback to Mike Ashley will no doubt enrage fans (loans have to be paid off at some point), there are plans for a better transfer budget next season. https://...

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Only caught the 2nd half but Ajax were outstanding. Their movement and vision at pace was superb to watch. Totally bossed Ronaldo's mob. Great football Superb result and performance from Ajax tonight, on the back of a 4-1 win away at Real Madrid previously. And all achieved with a Wage bill of just...

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Has to go down as one of the greatest moments ever in sport, the kind of story that's impossible to script. What is it about great sporting achievements that reduce a mere mortal to tears. Happened first to me as a nipper in 1960 when we won the League and again some 50 years later at the Play-Off f...

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and following the last post this morning we now hear that there are stories Chelsea are talking to prospective buyers https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6919569/Chelsea-targeted-three-groups-2-5bn-race-buy-club.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; So, 15 years ago Abr...

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Heaton 6 Lawton 6 Tarks 6 Mee 8 Taylor 8 Hendrick 6 Westwood 6 Cork 6 McNeil 7 Barnes 6 Wood 8 mom We were poor first half, but clearly better than them. Easy to see why they've struggled. We were awful second half, until we finally kept the ball on the deck and played football, instead of hoof bal...

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Posted a bit about China's Belt and Road Initiative (a new silk road) and how it is using soft power (often via football) to help smooth it's economic objectives. It turns out that the Premier League are investigating Southampton's owner Gao Jisheng after news emerged that the Chinese State has eff...

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Clearly the greats of the past would still be greats today. I mean, take Don Bradman, how many Tests did he play against Bangladesh, Zimbabwe or Afghanistan? How many rock hard, perfect, covered batting decks did he bat on? How many runs did he score with a lightweight trampoline of a blade on grou...

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Tricky Trevor is partly correct. The referee did disallow the goal originally but then did award it.burnley won 6 -2 having won by the same score at Birmingham a few days earlier. It was in 1961 and amazingly the first time I could find the result of a midweek match was to read the national newspap...

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With the latter stages of the European club competitions kicking off this week @SwissRamble looks at the financials (revenue & wages) of those still in the competitions - The gaps illustrate how comparatively even the competition is in the Premier League (Their are clubs in the Championship that sp...

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Seriously wonder if this was a slip of the tongue from our manager.

The club took steps to make the 2016 bonus difficult to identify in the accounts, after which in 2017 & 2018 only the consolidated Total Wage bill was made available for scrutiny.

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Colburn_Claret wrote:Anybody remember how much our share of the sky money was for finishing 7th compared to 17th.
As long as we remain in the prem, a very generous bonus scheme is our only way of staying competitive with our peers.

For 7th we received £119.5m, compared to £104m for the previous season.

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Just listened to SD's press conference, he said the wage bill is 59m, with the rest being bonus related. Very interesting, so £22 million in bonuses for finishing 7th and qualifying for Europe. Information that would not normally be shared with supporters, certainly was not shared in the previous y...

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Is this not because of the bonuses though? So whilst technically true it's a bit misleading. Bonuses are now consolidated within the Total Wage figure in the accounts. It makes the Wage graph in the link somewhat misleading in that the 2016 figure of £27.1m excludes bonuses. They ought to have incr...

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Price of Football does a deep dive into our Financial Accounts for 2017/18 - he is very positive about us and has been for quite some time - not bad for a life-long Brighton fan http://priceoffootball.com/burnley-2017-18-i-thought-you-were-dead/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I expe...

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Papabendi wrote:why is our player amort more than Bournemouth's?

Virtually the same as Bournemouth.

In that financial year we added the likes of Cork, Wood, Wells, Walters etc. at a cost of over £43m.

All those would be depreciated over one year of their contract terms.

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Spurs announce new World Record Profits the day they officially open the new Stadium - @KieranMaguirre has a gander https://twitter.com/KieranMaguire/status/1113741213520232449" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43628485" onclick="window.open(this.hr...

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Last years Scottish National winner Joe Farrell is today's market mover for The National. 50s > 20s (20s in places) However there has been no Welsh trained Grand National winner for around a century I think Appears to have been some serious money this morning for Joe Farrell, last years Scottish Na...

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Wage growth in the Premier league has been phenomenal since it's inception and now people talk of wages in the 100's of thousands of pounds without the slightest trace of a wince, it has become such a norm - the only surprise comes when clubs don't have any players on those kinds of salaries (I am ...

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SGr wrote:Pre-tax figure of £45m.

The estimated Profit of £58m was based on a Wage bill of £70m.

The actual Wage bill of near £82m represents a staggering increase of 33% on the previous financial year.

Other than that, the headline figures are in line with the estimate on the Money Tree thread.

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Assume the pic was taken at Gawthorpe. Been trying to research when the club/bob lord bought the land at Gawthorpe. I know Lord became a Director in 1951 and Chairman in 55 so I assume it was in the period ? It is Gawthorpe which Lord purchased in the summer of 1954 for £200,000. Alan Brown had fir...

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More evidence of that is the team photo of the 1959/60 season in the Gallery at the link in the OP. No John Angus or Alex Elder, in fact no full-backs at all !! No John Connelly or Ray Pointer. I must have been watching a different side !........At first I thought it may have been an International b...

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Thank you. I’ll add it to my collection. Wonder why Jimmy Mac was missing? It made me think it must be earlier. Around that time some of the omissions from team photo's were a little bit strange. Your photo was during the 1955/56 season and regulars in the side that season included Jimmy Mac, Pilky...

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Canyou help me with this one, Royboy. It appeared on twitter today advertising an exhibition at Gawthorpe. No year. 5730F9E8-7105-4C17-870B-6B219E9EBBD3.jpeg Aye, that was 1955. Back Row......David Smith, Les Shannon, Harold Rudman, Colin McDonald, Bobby Seith and Doug Winton. Front Row......Billy ...

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An interesting and challenging (if you are not fully au fait with finance/economics) read about why the authorities in European football are not using the correct model of profit and loss for FFP. https://vysyble.com/blog-13th-march-2019" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I suspect this...

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