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ClaretTony

Slightly off topic....my first time queuing for a ticket at the Turf was against Everton for the FA Cup tie 67/68 right up belvedere road ...it all seemed pretty exciting...they wouldn't queue like that today!! And still some moan. :roll: I remember being in a queue with my dad back in the 1950s. W...

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Root gone for 14

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Good to see all the red at Lord's today. You can't expect the Aussies to ditch the baggy green but they've joined in with the red numbers.

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Sixty years ago we were just one week away from the start of a momentous season and on this day in 1959 we played a practice match on the Turf. This is the first of a series of articles that I'll be reproducing during the season as we chart the 1959/60 season all the way to Maine Road in May. See li...

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Bosscat wrote:Jason Roy what a tit

3rd ball edge to keeper

We've got our first run though since

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First under-23 league review of the season

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Cajun wrote:That great photo in the article CT, do you know what the match is? Can't work out the opposition. Can date it a little from the fenced off area in place at the BeeHole End. Appears to be Willie Morgan and Brian O'Neill in photo but who is shooting?

Pic is Villa in 1966

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83/1 at half way / another 75 required

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Lancs Senior Cup 1st round draw

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Can anyone, regardless of academic ability start a uni? It’s a business and anyone can set up a business. They need to be attached to an existing university to offer degrees and they’ve done that with University of Lancaster just as UCFB did with New Bucks University. Meanwhile UCFB is expanding wi...

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claretblue wrote:befour he's playing or sold?

Playing - it didn’t sound too optimistic from Dyche

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His agent has indeed knocked it back. Let's hope we see him in a claret and blue shirt sooner than later We hope so but we can’t be confident. He came back twice last season and looked nowhere near fit so we haven’t seen a fit Defour for 18 months. Imagine being able to select your midfield from Co...

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2 Bee Holed wrote:I think you will find that building is next door to Old Trafford Cricket Ground.

They do also have a building in Trafford Park though.

Thanks - the one in Trafford Park was the only one I could think of but I thought it was still in use. I’d forgotten about their building by the cricket ground.

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Bosscat wrote:Bloody McInally called us Villa on Saturday Nights Commentary on GotD .........

At least they play in Claret & Blue - Barnsley don’t

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ZizkovClaret wrote:Decent location considering the new metrolink line

I’m not exactly sure where the line goes but it can’t be far away from there

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This beats the half and half scarves at Old Trafford two years ago that had the Villa badge on.

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Simple answer to that is we'd be losing our finest footballer since Jimmy Mac. If, as Dyche now says, he back running on the grass, perhaps in a month or so time he'd be ready to form a partnership in midfield with Drinkwater. If that happened I'd be backing us to finish top ten at worst and maybe ...

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I went past the building not long since. It’s in Trafford Park but I thought it was still in use.

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Bosscat wrote:Me too I would be gutted... I would love to see a fully fit Defour in a Claret shirt again.

I think we’d all like to see a fit Defour but will he ever be fit? He’s not been since the start of 2018.

But, as I posted further up, it was no more than an enquiry from Antwerp.

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I’m assuming this is where it will be with Tony the Tiger on the wall.

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Royboyclaret wrote:Looks like I'm in a minority, along with C&J, who would be gutted to see him leave.

Apparently nothing it but not sure why you’d be gutted, he doesn’t play.

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Royboyclaret wrote:Those original floodlights lasted just 18 years before being replaced in the mid-1970's at a cost of £30,000. The new lights were first used for a Lancashire schoolboys match in February 1975.

Different kind of lights installed in the 1970s, around half the number of bulbs.

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Quickenthetempo wrote:He's deleted the tweet but has retweeted an article by HNL Sports but it's written in Belgian.

That’s why I couldn’t find it and then the retweet appeared

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Just seen he’s retweeted something. If he’s put his name to it, even just a retweet, there will be something in it.

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He’s the one who broke the news of his move to Burnley but I can’t find anything from him today on Defour

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In a dim, dark corner of my mind there is something that tells me that the floodlights were second-hand and bought from the army - Aldershot maybe? That match was the one and only time my younger brother went on t'Turf. After seeing the lights he wanted to go home and spent the entire match sulking...

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To be honest I'm sick and tired of the exposure Leeds get. It's the third time this season. A good reason for thinking about cancelling my Sky subscription. Come on Sky there's 23 other teams in the Championship. Are Salford actually behind Leeds in the exposure they are getting from Sky? Already b...

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One addition to this is that Blackburn didn’t invite us when they switched theirs on and that upset Bob Lord.

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Herts Clarets wrote:"but they are still members of a lower league "

I really couldn’t leave that line out - brilliant from Don Smith at the Express

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Only 2,000 more on for the previous home league game against Arsenal and we were only playing a second division club in a friendly

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The suggestion that we were pants for the first part of the season due to the idea of rotating squad players is nonsense I didn't suggest that it was due to that - I was merely pointing out that when we did go in for squad rotation we didn't do very well. We were changing names, changing systems, e...

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A look back to 1957 when our first floodlights were switched on

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Longside4evr wrote:And if you look at the top of the Beehole end it appears they are putting the rest of the shuttering in for the concrete steps

I think they were just the steps you used to get onto the terracing once you'd gone through the turnstiles on Bee Hole Lane.

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I'm not saying either of them should be dropped, but it's never made sense to me that just because you win the same team must play the next match regardless of the opposition. I know SD likes continuity (and we're only on game 2!), but occasionally a bit more rotation during the season might be goo...

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Man of the match & player ratings result from Southampton game

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I mean the Beehole was extended in 1970, not when the photo was taken. Bee Hole extension was slightly earlier than that. Lot of clues there - it's the old cricket ground without the car park on one side and no sign of the new pavilion but the date of the pic has to be after the floodlights were er...

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MalaysiaMo wrote:If John B wants to sell supporting Burnley to local Singaporean heartlanders we'd be better off meeting in a bar that shows the football and where locals hangout, surely?

He's actually wanting no more than to meet up with some fellow Clarets. They've met there before.

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Reported by Burnley that it will be moved to Sunday should Wolves progress in Europa League so I expect it to be confirmed on Friday.

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Go even further than that - the gym isn’t there at the back of the Longside. When was that built? I’m sure it was around 1961.

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cbx750 wrote:Summer of 1970 I think.

Can’t be 1970. Work started on the new cricket field stand late 1967 and its still there on that pic.

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Great pic of Ralphy, all about blood, sweat and tears and how he always gave his last ounce of effort in every game. Shot of the ground looks to be dated in the early 80's with the sloping back of the Bee Hole End. Early 80s - the sloping back of the Bee Hole End disappeared in the 1960s and the pi...

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Leisure wrote:Don't think that it'll be played on the Tuesday as the Wolves game is going to be on the Sunday before, so will be the Wednesday.

I would think so but the Wolves game is still, ridiculously, scheduled for the Saturday - I did put provisional on the fixtures.

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tim_noone wrote:Anne widdecombe in the Nude???

I didn't think there would be a requirement to add the two words 'within reason'.

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Full draw now at link
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At least a home game

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I’d rather draw anyone but them

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I’ve updated the sticky after tonight’s results. Now ready for the draw.

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Thanks! so 23rd August is the final deadline,according to the fixture list they are scheduled a trip to Rotherham on the 20 August,so that must be in major doubt as well. It seems harsh but there has to be a cut-off point sooner or later,otherwise the whole fabric of the league comes under strain. ...

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Bury’s game against Gillingham this Saturday has just been suspended

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northernpowerhouse wrote:I seem to remember him having a barnstormer of a first half at Old Trafford but apart from that wasn't given many chances.

He was brilliant that night

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