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  1. Perhaps the point is that two magpies are joyful but when one squishes itself under the bus, there's only one left and that feels the sorrow. As for the OP, both magpies have to be visible from basically the same spot to count. And perhaps you don't see both at once, but you can only count two if it is impossible for it to be the same one twice.
  2. But then, Burnley had the Tella miss when he was clean through, only partly impeded by Lenahan, and missed when he should have scored. Extra chances both ways. The second Archer penalty claim, it seemed to me that he was running towards the ball and then moved right, into the Burnley man, and caused the collision. If the Burnley man did wrong, what did he do? It's got to be more than just being there. Obviously we're both watching with biased eyes, so who knows.
  3. That seems a fairly frequent, though surprising, viewpoint from several Middlesbrough fans. After all, the ref had two penalty claims that could have gone either way, and Middlesbrough got the benefit of both - the pull back of Brownhill not given, the touch on the boot of Archer was given. Surely if the ref was bent, those decisions would have gone the other way? Or are you saying that he gave so many bad decisions during the rest of the match that they more than offset the two penalty decisions? Forget the offside. We don't have VAR in the Championship (praise the Lord!) and so line
  4. No, Sheff United is when we go for the league title. 😀 (Though we would need them to lose against either Norwich away (possible) or Wigan home (unlikely) for that to happen.
  5. If Burnley and Middlesbrough both win the next games, then our match against each other would see Burnley 16 points ahead and you having 7 games left. In that case, a Burnley win would put Burnley 19 ahead and you'd have 6 left. So that would clinch promotion. If, I said. If.
  6. I had to pay to watch the boring football - this is the first "free" year! 😀 You're right that the 2022 accounts aren't there, though for Companies House purposes they won't be due until 30th April. And yes, it is a bit mad that half the payment was in club credit (which it wasn't for majority shareholders), and isn't fair on people with no good reason to want it. Like I said, my own personal self-interest trumped any high-minded principles I might have had about refusing it! The issue with a leveraged buyout that doesn't normally apply to companies' loans is that the new owners h
  7. All true - well, almost all. The figures you quote are from the 2021 accounts, but they do include a note that a further £40m was borrowed after year end. The buyout really was leveraged to the extent that they paid £15m down, they borrowed £100m in in 2020-21, and they owed a further £50m to the majority owners. That's probably what the £40m after-date borrowing went towards. It's a huge leverage and it should absolutely be banned. There was another £15m or so paid to minority shareholders, me being one of them. I don't know if it counts a hypocrisy, but I did benefit from the deal
  8. That's a good point about the write off possibly affecting ffp losses. Perhaps the delay is because if (and hopefully when!) we get promotion, then the value of the club is such that the owners could sell up and repay the debt, so the problem (if that is the problem) would go away.
  9. I've told you why I think they might have changed the auditor. Because it is possible that the auditor might believe that the £150m owed by the owners to Burnley FC is not worth £150m, because of doubts whether the owners could pay it. Three months isn't a long time to for an auditor to pick up a new job, with a complicated ownership structure, and dot every i and cross every t in time to sign it off. As for whether it's completely innocent, I have definite doubts as the suitability of our owners financially. (On the football side, they're doing fine.) But I can't see any reason
  10. No-one has claimed there was no reason for the transfer ban - the reason is they haven't submitted the accounts. And no-one has claimed there is no reason for being late - the reason is they changed the auditor.
  11. That's a nonsense rumour. Burnley is the one club (except perhaps Man United) that that couldn't apply to, because the owners have taken out £150m by way of a series of loans. If they were putting money into the club to fund transfers as well, the two would contra off. Burnley FC made combined losses of £2m in 2020 and 2021, and that's before the FFP add-backs such as academy costs, so we're well in profit there. No reason to suppose that 2022 would be any different. Then in summer last year, we sold players for £70m and bought players for £20m (that's where the funding came from) whi
  12. The thing about the money is that the new owners took about £150m out of the club to pay off the old owners. About half was profits generated during the Dyche PL years when the old owner wasn't investing very much (presumably so he could take the money for himself when he left) and half via loans. The PL parachute money had to go on loans, and the wage billed was slashed by selling basically everyone saleable apart from Roberts and Brownhill. It was the proceeds of sales (about £70m) of the likes of Cornet, McNeill, Collins, Pope, that funded the new purchases, 16 players for about £20m tot
  13. Not really a PL squad. Of the 30 players who've played a first team game this season in all competitions, only 8 have ever played in the PL. Look on the bright side - the so-called "curse" is clearly dead.
  14. Vincent Kompany at Burnley hasn't finished his badges either, and needed special dispensation at Anderlecht (and I believe at Burnley too) to take the jobs.
  15. Yes, we have undersoil heating. And hopefully we have pitch heaters as well, because it was minus 6.5 this morning at 9 am and is forecast to get colder - that might be testing the limits of what undersoil heating can do.
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