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The best bit about Football Tonight was us being the opening match, followed by some piss taking of a gormless United fan in the audience and their defeat being shown immediately afterwards. The rest of it was absolute dross.

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I can only recommend [your team here] Player from my time with it. The quality is way better now than it has been and there are a solid 10 minutes of highlights, with commentary. It also has an app now as well so you can watch it all on your phone or tablet. You can also listen to match commentaries or watch the entire match in full a couple of days later. I assume the product is the same for every side.

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The stuff on Clarets Player has been really good so far. Chic in live commentaries and you can't go wrong. Can be as cheap as £42 for the year too.

£37.99 actually - leaving you with enough for a cup of Bovril and a Hollands Balti Pie at half time. ;)

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Boro were class first half today, it was a rout for the opening 30 minutes but we started to take the foot off the gas and second half it was easy street. No real desire to push on, disappointed we didn't score more.

Fabbrini though, my god. He looks twice the player Tomlin is, a wonder goal and two assists today. Made the Bolton midfield look silly numerous times too, he's nimble and the ball sticks to him like glue. Downing was awesome as well.

I'm definitely more upbeat but we'll see how it goes against Derby, two ex-Real Madrid back room staff face off against each other.

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Good win for Ipswich, both our loanees (Fraser and Maitland-Niles) looked good and I thought Seers was excellent.

Imagine Wednesday will be in the running come the end of the season - played some nice football but a weird lack of urgency until the last five minutes.

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Feel we're a little unlucky to be losing at half time.

Say thank you to the nice Mr McGregor for a point.

An absolute howler from the Hull keeper.

When Twitter announced four minutes added on at the Ipswich match, I could not help fearing the worst. But we held on.

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Fulham were awful in the first half against Brighton. They looked really good, then Cairney scored a blinder of an equaliser for us just before half time and the tides turned. We were the better team for the second half and didn't deserve to lose due to yet another shocker of a defensive error. Fulham seriously need another center back and a bit of defensive training from somewhere. Long gone are the days of Hodgson.

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Good win for Ipswich, both our loanees (Fraser and Maitland-Niles) looked good and I thought Seers was excellent.

Imagine Wednesday will be in the running come the end of the season - played some nice football but a weird lack of urgency until the last five minutes.

I don't think we really expected much from the match going into it, so on balance we've got to be happy with it. Far from a drubbing. That said, as you said, it was a bit lame. That's fine, but for a team that has announced to the world they're going to play aggressive attacking football it seems a bit amateurish and incoherent.

An interesting one, as long as they learn the right lessons it was probably a good day at the office though.

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Another good win for Ipswich - I haven't seen any replays yet but I imagine Burnley will be smarting after hitting the post (couldn't really see it as it was up the other end to me) and then having an amazingly clear chance where whoever it was hit it straight at Bialkowski when it seemed if he hit in anywhere else he'd scored in the first half. 470 away fans apparently which is a bloody good effort on a Tuesday night.

Especially as you lost - aha! There was a moment early in the second half, when a Burnley player looked to make an upfield pass and instead hoofed it into one of his team mate's faces and it went out for a throw in and I thought "This is the most Championship game ever" and I wondered why I'd rushed home from work, pretended to listen to my other half, eaten my dinner too fast and then force marched into town to watch it. Then we scored two and we're top of the league and football is great etc.

Maitland Niles was magic again; he is really good and it's looking like an excellent bit of work to get him for the season. Murphy definitely looked off the pace but Freddie Seers continues to be quality and good to have McGoldrick on the score sheet again. Still think we need a proper right back but Knudsen at left back seems really solid and a very good buy. Although I don't think we'll ever score from one of his long throws (and every single one of his short throws is a foul throw).

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Pretty gloomy around our place at the moment since we've come out of the blocks looking completely unfit and shite again. Chris Powell also seems to have reverted back to being the most overcautious tactician in the football league so it's not much wonder crowds are really dropping and enthusiasm waning.

Feels a bit shite that we've seemingly pressured Alex Smithies, who's been with the club since he was in single digits, out to QPR as well though I can see the logic financially. He was the last of our promotion-winning squad which seems mental since it was only three years ago. Apparently the Coady money went to offset losses (sensible, but never very satisfying from the supporter's point of view) but this fee will be spent on the squad and I think our survival will probably hinge on how well we do it.

Thankfully we seem to be drawing the line at flogging Butterfield with Derby and Burnley having put bids in (Burnley offered £2.75m plus Marvin Sordell then presumably came back with an improved offer of £2.75m with no Marvin Sordell). I'd really fear for us if he was to go.

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Burnley 1 Brentford 0


Clarets finally got a win this season at a sunny Turf Moor. Michael Keane scoring twenty minutes into the first half against the run of play. From that point onwards, Brentford were second best, even though they played some neat and tidy stuff without really threatening until the last couple of minutes when Burnley went into kamikaze defending mode. However, according to my programme, the goalies wear #27 and #28, so obviously that makes the entire club worse than Hitler.


Burnley still clearly re-adjusting to the Championship, especially the defending, where it seems that if the centre back pulls out a gun and shoots his opponent, the referee will take a look and then wave play on. At the end of the first half, McCormack made a massively wild tackle on Ben Mee, and as the Brentford player began skull-fucking the left back's still twitching corpse, referee Webb ran over and brandished a yellow.


Burnley look fragile, though there were some signs of the team that got promoted two seasons ago. Boyd and Darikwa (a future star) combined for some lovely stuff on the right wing. The midfield is still totally non-existent after twelve months, Arfields confidence is on the floor and David Jones isn't a creative midfielder. He's got a lovely left foot, granted, but it is a shame is right one is more suited to being wielded in Alistairs Cooks hands.


You know how Gary Lineker was completely useless outside the 18 yard box? Lukas Jutkiewicz is exactly the same, but in reverse. He carries the goal threat of a three day old bread roll. We've signed four strikers, plus tried Juke, Sordell and Vokes. Our top scorer is a central defender.


Not perfect, but a confidence builder.

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Leeds 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday

A bit of a dull draw for the Yorkshire derby. It was fine, a great goal from Wednesday to go one up, but then they wandered back into it and once they scored it was 100% always going to be a draw.

In terms of current form and results it's fine, but if there are any aspirations for the top few positions these are definitely all going to count against us at the end of the season. If we pretend that isn't meant to be an aim we're ticking along quite nicely though.

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Boro fans, what should we expect from Carayol as a loan signing?

Quite pleased with Emyr Huws coming in as well based on seeing him play against us. Mind you I've seen some right cloggers have a field day against us in the past so maybe I should try not to get my hopes up.

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Burnley have signed Joey Barton on a free transfer. Genuinely unsure what to think about this - we've been crying out for a central midfielder with quality and he is most certainly it. More off-field baggage than a branch of Millets, but maybe that is now a few years ago so...

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Yeah I thought that seemed strange since a lot of your success seems to have been built on a tight squad pulling in the same direction, staying under the radar etc. Doesn't really feel like a Dyche signing to me but it's one of those that could easily up looking a bit of a masterstroke.

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For anyone who missed this thing of absolute beauty, here it is

https://youtu.be/ca7GV35xt8M

I met him and a few of the squad on Saturday in a Sheffield casino. I was a bit drunk and said it was a good goal but not to do any of that next weekend against Boro.

He just looked at me puzzled and laughed. Turns out he can't speak English :lol:

The big guy Nuihui(sp?!) was with him and Semedo who I recognised.

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