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Reply | burnley and sheff utd both win
at 02:24 22 Jan 2023
To be fair, 3 of those 10 aren't at the club any more so their wages are nearer to £nil.
The funds for this season's push are from selling virtually every saleable asset last summer. The surviving high wages are the ones we couldn't sell (Brownhill excepted). The new owners have taken £140m out of the club to pay their debts to the old owners, so we aren't awash with cash. |
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Reply | Refereeing query
at 17:31 16 Jan 2023
Go back a bit further, and the rule was that the ball wasn't in play until it had travelled its own circumference (about 27 inches). If that law had still been in, Mitrovic would have been able to take it again - which is probably why it was there in the first place. |
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Reply | Are Burnley fans being a little over confident .
at 17:32 8 Dec 2022
Only if Zaroury comes with him!
As is always the way, when things go well, football fans get overconfident; when things go badly, we get underconfident. It should be a good game - every chance it will be a lot closer than either set of fans is predicting. |
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Reply | Burnley player connections
at 09:11 8 Dec 2022
Dave Thomas, as per original post. I believe he won promotion with Burnley in 1972-73 and also won promotion with QPR in 1972-73, having been transferred in mid-season. Surely unique? |
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Reply | Caged canaries match thread
at 13:06 3 Nov 2022
Four long injuries that I remember - all lasted over a minute, so that's at least 5. One red card, at least a minute. 6 substitutions, one of which I timed at 80 seconds, and Rotherham certainly didn't hurry their others. Bags of time wasting. |
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Reply | Burnley
at 00:33 11 Feb 2018
As you know from the match at Turf Moor, Burnley don't play like that every week. Unfortunately the loss of Dufour and Brady has hit the creative side of the team quite hard and forced a change of formation due to lack of midfielders. And we had an off-day as well. |
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Reply | The Official Swansea City Versus Burnley FC Match Preview and Thread
at 00:27 11 Feb 2018
To be fair, a lot of it is injury related. Heaton, Bardsley, Tarkowski, Dufour, Ward, Brady and Wood would all have been playing today if fit. Having said that, it sounds like we were a bit negative - they kept saying on Radio Lancashire that Swansea weren't very good either! |
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Reply | Burnley
at 01:01 7 Feb 2018
Elsewhere or nowhere. It's fair to say our defence is better than our forwards - in 16 games that weren't against the top 6 clubs, we've scored 12 and conceded 6. It's not that we're especially defensive, just that (particularly with Brady and Wood missing) not that incisive.
Lennon looked good last week, though. He'll help. |
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Reply | Burnley
at 23:56 6 Feb 2018
Lost 3 away games all season - at Leicester, Man City, and Crystal Palace. How dodgy is that? 
Maybe Saturday will be the fourth - it depends how much you've improved since the game at the Turf. But don't rely on us having got worse, because (apart from a few more injuries, which we can cope with) we haven't. |
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Reply | All down to the lawyers now......
at 01:44 14 May 2015
If QPR had been able to show mitigating circumstances, that they were trying to get things under control, the "contracts signed before we knew the rules" thing would have been a valid argument. But QPR signed, if my memory is correct, 19 players on permanent deals or on loan during the Championship season, when they already knew they were way over the limits. The FL isn't going to take the pre-signed contracts argument.
Some clubs - Burnley for example - had to make sacrifices to comply. We had to sell Charlie Austin, for example, partly because of the FFP rules (and partly because we don't have a super-rich owner who can pour in silly money and not care how it's spent). Maybe it's not particularly nice of me to think that just because we had to follow the rules, so should others even if it makes them suffer; but it's only human. QPR were sticking two fingers up at the rules all through the season. No wonder the FL isn't happy. |
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Reply | Europe in or out
at 01:35 14 May 2015
Why should leaving the EU make any difference? I'm very much anti-EU, I think the organisation is anti-democratic and rotten to the core, but if you think they will renege on all their international treaties and stop trade between the EU and the UK, just because they're in a big sulk; then you have a lower opinion of them than I do.
As you may or may not be aware, international treaties are now controlled by the World Trade Organisation. (This system replaced GATT some years back.) The UK is not a member in its own right, because we're in the EU bloc. But if we left, we would join other individual countries like the USA, Canada, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Liechtenstein, etc., etc., as an individual member. The agreements the EU has with them would be equally binding on us.
Secondly, as has already been pointed out, we buy more from them than we sell to them. (These figures include the Japanese cars.) If trade stops between the UK and the EU, our balance of payments improves. The EU voters would not like the idea that all the jobs in the EU that depend on sales to the UK have suddenly been cut off. |
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Reply | Most apathetic election in history
at 00:41 17 Apr 2015
But do we really want the election to be decided by people who know nothing about the candidates, and who don't care? The candidate first on the ballot paper would IMO have a big advantage. |
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Reply | Anyone else seen this? Bradford fire looks like it may have been arson...
at 01:34 16 Apr 2015
A cigarette smouldering for half an hour could have caused a fire. Or he could rig up an electrical fault - a man with his supposed experience of starting fires and getting away with it would surely have had little trouble in a tinderbox like that stand. That sort of fire leaves little evidence. |
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Reply | Anyone else seen this? Bradford fire looks like it may have been arson...
at 23:28 15 Apr 2015
Eight fires done in the middle of the night with insurance receipts making personal profits for Heginbotham. And one done on TV in full view of the press with maximum loss of life and no possible profit for Heginbotham. To me, the first 8 may well be suspicious and not coincidental; but not the ninth. It's too much different.
He could have burned the stand down in the middle of the night, or even half an hour after the match. Horrible coincidence for me, accompanied by negligence to the point where a manslaughter charge should perhaps have been made. |
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Reply | Coins, Bottles etc
at 11:04 13 Apr 2015
And you think that's all right? If someone wants to watch a football game with friends who support another team, that's an offence that justifies physical violence?
I've been to plenty of non-segregated matches and celebrated with opposing fans nearby. Unfortunately they're non-league, or rugby, or cricket, or in America. It can't be done here because there are too many people with no self-control and apparently no desire to have any self-control. |
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Reply | Sky Games
at 23:04 2 Apr 2015
Sky were always going to televise every Man City and Chelsea game. Sky have a lot more games than BT, but BT get a share of the first picks of matches; but Sky get to choose on which weekends BT get the first picks. So Sky made sure that all BT's first & second picks are out of the way before the end of March, so Sky can get every Chelsea game and every Man City game in the run-in. The QPR-Chelsea game was always going to be on Sky, it was just a matter of what day. |
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Reply | Sky Games
at 13:37 1 Apr 2015
Not to rain on your hopes, but every Chelsea and Man City game in April is on live TV. I suspect every May game will be too. |
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Reply | LFW Election 2015 Straw Poll..
at 00:05 31 Mar 2015
I want to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. Ever since they decided the IRA bombers in Gibraltar should have been allowed to go about their business, I've been agin them. They've done nothing to make me change my mind.
Bear in mind that part of the pan-European conventions is the abolition of habeas corpus for UK citizens. In most European countries, the police can hold you for as long as they like without charge. And under the European arrest warrant, there is no protection from wrongful arrest by a foreign jurisdiction.
I'd gladly give up the European Convention on Human Rights for the return of Habeas Corpus.
As Tony Hancock said, "Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?" |
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Reply | Leicester
at 23:47 30 Mar 2015
Not quite all Premier teams have a rich owner. Burnley don't. They put in about £8m or so between them to buy the shares, and made about the same amount in loans (since repaid) when the budget went awry, but that's all they've got. |
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