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There's still money in the pot. The new(ish) owners aren't shy about borrowing.

Who knows what he wants? He's being very professional about it and saying nothing. The chances are he would get a big wage rise at Burnley, depending what his current contract is of course, and there's no doubt he enjoyed being at Burnley (but also would no doubt enjoy staying put assuming he's in the first team). He could be anywhere on the scale of "in the managers office screaming to be sold" to "let it all happen as it may, I'm happy either way" to "Burnley was a stop gap, my place is here and I'm not leaving" - we wouldn't know. I don't know the evidence on which Burnley will struggle. We've made some (on the face of it) good signings and had a couple of good friendly results, win at Benfica and draw at Betis. It proves nothing but I reckon the omens are positive.

Burnley have Beyer, Al Dakhill, Ekdal, and now O'Shea, and perhaps have other priorities. It's already hard to fathom which two of the first three will be first choice, and Harwood-Bellis may not be guaranteed a place.

Perhaps Miss Pace (who is from Utah, not Burnley) simply wasn't up to date with the "black people are different" agenda. What relevance is it that Tella is black? If you prick him, does he not bleed? Can we not dream that one day he will live in a nation where he will be judged not by the colour of his skin but by the content of his character? If every time you make a comment about someone who happens to have darker skin than you do, you have to think about how other people will view the alleged connotations, then you get towards the idea that it's safer not to comment at all; just to ignore them for ear of offending someone who is wanting to be offended. In Burnley, Nathan Tella is a footballer. His skin colour is irrelevant. I am sorry if, in Southampton, he is a black man first and foremost and a footballer only in footnotes. Let him be himself. We need to get away from this idea that black people are different. They are not different, they are human beings.

True enough. Especailly as Obafemi is out injured to the new year. I think the management are hoping that Amdouni, Trafford, Beyer, O'Shea, Loleosho, and Larsen will have some impact though. Though as they are all centre halves or wingers (apart ftom the keeper) we might see some odd formations!

Good for Katharina. As a football chairman, he's doing a very good job so far. (This video excepted!) But as an "investor", he has taken over £100m out of the club for his own personal use (ie. paying for his shares) and is costing the club about £10m per year in interest and fees. Swings and roundabouts. He's borrowed big again for this year; presumably because it is low risk for huge rewards, and if the club goes bust he hasn't lost much. Potentially scary stuff.

Burnley have already signed 6 players on transfer fee this window, and are hoping for at least 3 or 4 more. Paying what the asking club wants at the first time of asking, will add perhaps £20-30m to the total cost. Sunderland fans feel similar about Burnley's bidding for Clarke. I suspect that Burnley won't bid enough for Southampton to be willing to sell. But we'll see.

First 12 games - won 4 drawn 7 lost 1 = 19 points Next 34 games - won 25 drawn 7 lost 2 = 82 points. On the first day of the season, we didn't have Tella, Zaroury, Benson or Beyer. It definitely took time to get up to full speed, so if we hadn't been so good might have been a problem. (West Brom and Middlesbrough made poor starts as well, and never caught up.) As for chasing Tella, Nixon (believed by some to be the fount of all wisdom about Burnley) reckons the bid is £9m and Southampton want £13m-£15m. Make of that what you will.

Might not be a matter of sulking. If Tella wants to join a PL team and get a PL wage, but instead is forced to play in the Championship on a reserve team wage, then he might (I only say might) be just fed up enough that it takes the edge off his game. Not deliberately, but just human nature - do we put in the extra mile when we don't respect your employer? Naturally I hope he comes to Burnley, but Burnley are not all that flush with cash because the owners haven't finished paying for the club so will probably want a chunk of the TV money. We might have to sell before we can buy, certainly before we can buy for £25m.

Look out for the wheelchair matches. If you've seen what is (somewhat misnamed) "wheelchair rugby", which is what rugby union passes off as their version of the game, it's nothing like. It's basically the same rules as rugby league, with 6 tackles, tries scored by touching down, passing, offside, and so forth, but with tackling by tags rather than bringing the man to the floor, with 5 a side, and with kicking done with a clenched fist or wrist for obvious reasons! The players may or may not be disabled from the waist down (they don't need to be, able bodied people can play too) but from the waist up, they are properly fit, active, strong rugby players. The final is Friday evening 18th November, BBC. Almost certainly England v France, which may or may not negate the purpose of playing the tournament in the eyes of the OP. 😉

I've seen this sort of stat about global warming published before, and I'm interested to know how anyone can possibly know this. After all, to say categorically that the temperature rise between 5 million BC and 4,999,900 BC was less than today, you need to know pretty exactly what the figures were for those two years. Where is the data?

VAR doesn't get involved with the position of the ball at free kicks or corners. Besides, the part of the ball on the ground is so very close to the line that the ball must have been overhanging the line which is all that is required.

It's because of Michael Fish that the BBC always panics and predicts the weather to be as bad as it can possibly be. They don't mind being wrong pessimistically, but they think they'll be shot if they ever fail to predict a storm. Yr.no, a Norwegian site not given to panics, predicts a quarter of an inch of rain between now and kick-off, another eighth of an inch during the match, and winds about 30 mph (gust speed not estimated). It'll be reight.

There's no doubt that more of Burnley's long balls are "safety first" defending. Your manager alluded to that in one of the post-match interviews when he said that your tactic of winning the ball early doesn't work against Burnley, essentially because our defender don't take chances - they get rid, rather than risk losing the ball. Sean Dyche has consistently been out of sync with other managers in that he very much emphasises two cardinal virtues - keeping the ball out at one end, and scoring at the other. The rest is detail and no more than a means to an end. If he believes his players aren't that good at pretty and dangerous passing at the back, he suggests they don't do it. It's very efficient, and as can often be seen (SAturday in a gale being a case in point), "pretty" football is bad to watch as well if it isn't done well.

If conditions massively favoured hoofball merchants, then perhaps Southampton would have won. Only one team this weekend played more long balls than Burnley, and their name begins with S, and they aren't Sheffield United. Burnley 83, Southampton 98. Check the stats. https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/clubs/total_long_balls

It's a small town (35,000 population, a bit smaller than Fareham) and has Burnley one side and Blackburn the other, bith five miles away. Hence an absolutely tiny catchment area. They'll be able to spare 1,500 tickets.

My guess would be that by pretending that £5m is a loan fee, Liverpool can stiff Burnley out of £1m because Burnley are entitled to 20% of the profit.

I'm a football fan. You want me to be fair and rational as well? I can't do both. OED definition 1.1 of intervene: "(of an event or circumstance) occur as a delay or obstacle to something being done. ‘Christmas intervened and the investigation was suspended’ " The referee occurred as an obstacle to Burnley defending properly!

A helpful but accidental intervention. He didn't do anything, but he still intervened. I'm not blaming him - well I am, but I don't think he was at fault. It was just sod's law - a law that hasn't done us any favours in the last few minutes this season.

In five+ years in charge, Dyche has very very rarely brought an extra defender on to hold on to what he's got. Sometimes he's brought an extra defender to play as a sort of stopping midfielder, but he doesn't go flat back five. Anyway, we didn't have any centre halves on the bench - he could have brought on a third full back, but that would be a strange sort of tactic! He has been known to bring on an extra forward and switch to 4-4-2 if he thinks the opponents are putting us under too much pressure. Evidently he didn't think that applied yesterday. There wasn't a lot form Southampton after the shot which Pope tipped onto the post, IMO. It took a helpful intervention by the ref to put us off our stride and give you the chance to score - if that hadn't happened and it had finished 1-0, it would have been just like so many other home games where those tactics have worked. Barnes is a very good forward for holding the ball up and stopping the opposition playing, better than Vokes for that, and Wood hasn't played for weeks; NKoudou is more an attacking winger than a defensive winger, and Marney (midfield) hasn't played for over a year. Obviously bringing on no subs didn't work, but I don't think it wasn't a wrong tactic. However you look at it, Dyche isn't clueless. Dyche isn't clueless.

If they pay Dyche four or five times what he's on at Burnley, they'd be paying a sight more than £6m. I don't know for sure what his basic salary is, but I'm sure it won't be less than any of the players; and the players' bonuses last year for those that played most of the games were £500k. The manager's bonus wouldn't be less than that. Dyche has signed three new contracts in his time at Burnley, the most recent being this summer. He knows his worth, and so do Burnley's board of directors.

Thank you. I hope you're right about the score. I've always quite liked Southampton too, partly because of the Cup Final win against Man United in my youth. My brother was a United fan in those days (before he saw the light and started supporting his local team) and it made him a little bit unhappy. And Le Tissier, of course.

We didn't park the bus at Chelsea, Man C, or Man U, so I doubt we'll do it at Southampton. Admittedly we only got 2 points from the 3 games, so you've got a chance. Same team as last week v. Man City. At least, we've only made 3 team changes since November, so I'm not expecting any changes from the win v Man City. 4-4-2, guaranteed, though one of our wingers (Barnes) is really a centre forward, which introduces some flexibility.

Clearly this follow-through thing is a serious problem at Burnley. Watch this video of Adrian Heath (former Burnley manager) doing a side foot pass. The young lad he was passing to must have been terrified!

The BBC story says nothing about Ings moving to Liverpool. It just says that Liverpool will make a bid to sign him. I doubt they would pay a big enough premium to make it worth Burnley's while, and I doubt Ings would want to go anyway - not if he wants to play for England. Sitting in Liverpool reserves behind Sturridge, Sterling, and their new big summer signing (I'm sure they'll splash out in summer), isn't going to get him an England place.