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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:27 pm
whatever happens momentum is big for us, we go down doing well then it will set us up to do well next season

As long as we keep the squad together.

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35 games in and Kompany still hasn’t realised you can’t play fanny around at the back footy in the Premier league. Works great in the Championship though where you don’t get punished. Maybe he’s prepping them for next season.

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Was a great weekend and the result capped it off. Hats off to the guys that organised it for us. And what a great pair of blokes Mike and Nathan were. Very friendly.

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He’s celebrating the fact we’ve won a game and given him an outside chance of staying in the premier league. We were dead and buried a few weeks ago. I’d be celebrating too.

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Been around since the early days of clarets mad. I feel like there was a board before that too but I’m 45 now and can’t remember what I had for dinner yesterday.

My young ones are into reddit and other social media sites I’ve never even heard of nowadays.

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I spend a lot of time in France, the perception that the French are not responsive to non french speakers isn't true. Depends where you are. Are there any French speakers left in Marseille? I’ve never had any issues in France. Always used the little bit I learned at school and found the French poli...

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Interesting. Princess Margaret was a regular visitor to Wycollar when I was a kid. believe her best friend lived there. Wonder if it’s related.

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This time next season we will be romping away in the Championship 15 points clear and all the doom mongers will be saying how wonderful we are.

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If you’re into live bands etc spend an evening in Long Island City just across the bridge from Manhattan (nice walk too). Also there’s an old railway walk in South West Manhattan somewhere. (Google it). I enjoyed it and there was a great breakfast cafe at one end of it. And do a comedy club. Plenty ...

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dougcollins wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:36 pm
If only it was in the north.

Nowadays anything above Watford is classed as the North. Definitely in terms of funding. It’s the same here in Australia. NSW now stands for Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong. Everywhere else gets nothing.

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I think it had more to do with the management of the past. VK integrates foreign players well.

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He’s a decent player that didn’t have the best of times at Burnley (to be fair young foreign players never really do). Definitely not Premier league quality but I’d take him in the Championship. From what I saw of him in A league he’s got a good work ethic, a good footballing brain but lacks technic...

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Yes. Then promoted into that European 3rd tier crap. :lol: For now. Eventually a closed shop and a top tier competition only will be the outcome. That is what they set out to do with the Super League. Let 'em off the Championship will become the top tier of English Football and we'll be Champions in...

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I’m actually going to buck the trend and say I’m pleased with this decision. UEFA and FIFA are corrupt to the core, once again showing that with the Saudi World Cup. This paves the way for a break away World Cup.

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The North has always been an inconvenience for London. Should have joined forces with Scotland years ago.

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Back in the day they’d have got a good beating from the locals.

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Villa fans are from Aston, a city in its own right, similar to Salford and Manchester. Everton is just a small suburb in Liverpool and Vale fans will tell you they’re from Burslem. Actually, Stoke wasn’t really a place, it’s a mass of towns placed together under one name. City Centre I believe is ca...

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First one I give the referee the benefit of the doubt. No doubt whatsoever, from his angle it looks like Kolly tripped over the defender. However, that’s what VAR is for and there was no excuse for Pawson not to give it. Disgraceful VAR. Second one referee saw it and got it right. Then Pawson seemed...

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Played really well for about 75 minutes, then sat back and let West Ham have a go which cost the game. Some wild shots today as well that really should be at least on target. We just can’t cut a break but we definitely lack experience. VK looked down and out at the end of the came. Pace looked angry...

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India which such a good batting line up corruptly chose a bowling pitch. And deservedly lost.

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Will you be brewing quality or quantity? I brew 1 gallon batches from grain. Takes a few hours but a lot of that is waiting time. Once you get the hang of it it’s pretty easy. You can pretty much experiment and brew as you please. I’ve currently got a on choc-vanilla stout, a raspberry wheat beer an...

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I’ll pass on the OFC. There’s literally no competition in it and games are win by rugby scores. Even New Zealand aren’t really at Australia’s level. Most here think the OFC should just merge with the AFC.

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Unfortunately the AFC and the majority of its members supported the Saudi bud over an Australian one. Given the public outrage at the money spent on their last losing bid to Qatar, Australia rightly decided not to bid for this one as the chances of beating the oil state it is between slim and none. ...

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The way I see it we have played 3 games in which I would have expected some sort of result, all 3 away from home. Out of those we won 1, drew 1 and lost 1. Its not all bad.

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Looks like the boards in meltdown. Onwards and upwards. We go on.

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Not corrupt. Just absolutely useless.

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That elbow was a sign of frustration, firstly for the goal that wasn’t and then at being held in the box, which is a penalty for Man City any day of the week.

Luckily, the way the fixtures fall he is only going to miss a week or so.

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But only by a few degrees; the canal itself runs more significantly in the 'wrong' direction - from the Caribbean to the Pacific you're travelling NW to SE. Costa Rica I liked, but of 80+ countries and territories we've been to, I'd rate Panama second only to Bangladesh on the list of places I woul...

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Interesting fact. When you cross the bridge of the Americas in Panama you actually trace South to cross into North America and North to travel into South America.

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I visited Costa Rica and Panama in 2019 just before Covid. Stayed in Sam Jose and spent a week in Arenal national park. Very easy for me to get to from Sydney. Costa Rica was pretty special, seemed fairly safe and had amazing scenery. Panama was a bit meh. In Panama the old city was nice, too many A...

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The Premier league was formed so the top clubs didn’t have to share the TV money throughout the league. Parachute payments were a sweetener to keep 3 promotion and relegation spots.

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All my life some Burnley fans(if you can call them fans) have always needed to find a scapegoat in the side, no matter how good we are. Really pisses me off. Get behind the team and ALL the players or **** off and watch that team down the road.

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At least we will give it a good go. Last quarter final I remember some idiot decided to share the prize money and the team went out with a whimper.

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2 hot balls in that draw for sure.

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Watford really are trying to cheat there way to the end of this match.

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Wow. Kompany is brutal. Dropped Muric for BPF at halftime.

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I’m still confident that we’ll win this.

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Well run clubs like ourselves and Norwich are punished every year with the constant threat of relegation because we can’t possibly compete with clubs who are allowed to run up 100s of millions of debt in order to secure their place in Europe and attempt to win the Premier league. It’s almost impossi...

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Former youth claret Cameron Howieson played in the World Club 1/4 final tonight for Auckland City. Unfortunately they lost 3-0.

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I gave Weghorst a bit of slack when he wanted his move to Besiktas so he could play at the world cup, although I'd hardly call the Turkish league better quality than the Championship. I possibly expected him to come back next season had we gone up and put himself back in the Premier league shop wind...

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We have double headers over here. Ladies play 2 hours before men’s game. Usually get there for second half and it’s ok to watch.

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I think we’ve done ok tonight. Tested against the best and worked out where we are at. Not many teams will go to Old Trafford and win. Think the Bournemouth game will be a much fairer assessment.

Onwards and upwards. UTC.

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TPClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 10, 2022 8:44 am
Killer edge. We are top scorers in the league

We are. But we could have been out of sight.

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Shite I missed it. I was going for draws in all 4 games. Actually have the a bet on it for proof. Anyway...the rest

Morocco 2 Portugal 2 NAP
England 1 France 1 Kane 6

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If he chose to come back to Burnley in January I'd have him in a heartbeat. He'd tear up the Championship and give us that extra killer edge we've been missing.

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Netherlands 2-0 USA NAP
Argentina 0-0 Australia
France 4-1Poland
England 2-2 Senegal Kane 6’
Japan 1-3 Croatia
Brazil 4-1 South Korea
Morocco 0-0 Spain
Portugal 2-0 Switzerland

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Group A Winners Netherlands Runners up Qatar Group B Winners Wales Runners up USA Group C Winners Argentina Runners up Poland Group D Winners France Runners up Australia Group E Winners Spain Runners up Germany Group F Winners Belgium Runners up Croatia Group G Winners Brazil Runners up Cameroon Gro...

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I , like most clarets realise that it was time for SD and his team to move on when they did ( probably best at the end of the season, he would have kept us up, had he stayed on imo ). But that’s all water under the bridge now. We have a new manager, team & training staff, who, I hope in time will s...

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I remember how excited I was about the meeting in 2002/2003. It was the first time I’d seen us play United, and sadly I was one of the the only Burnley fans at Tod High, it was totally United dominated (I bet it’s not now). We gave it a really good go on the night - I remember Glen being excellent....

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