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You'll enjoy it I'm sure, small plates mostly, looking forward to your review.

i understand this is a transfer thread and we're all arguing , could a better contract hold our proven players? are we on self imposed wage cap? is gestede a dickhead ? (definitely yes) , did the groundsman change his lucky underwear ? did the tea-lady serve coffee ? but we forget the important question , nobody is asking WHAT IS OUR AMBITION THIS SEASON ? or next season this question answers everything ... so many interviews ... gestede,VI,suhail and even the data guy.. not even LT asking ... or is the answer TRANSITION PERIOD FOR 3 YEARS the restart TRANSITION for some weird reason ...current set has skillset for playoffs ( i know many disagree ) ...just my opinion

My lad won the spin the wheel thing from the fanzone where you go on the pitch at half time and pass into the target. I gave all my details, etc and was told I'd receive an email the following week. 2 weeks later and still nothing. I'm going to call tomorrow but wondered if anyone had experience of the match day team who run these things and who I'd contact. Saves me wading through the switchboard

Yep, not like he has earned mega bucks in his career so far. I'd imagine his contract with us will be the most lucrative one he has had so far, and now he's proven himself in this league he'd earn more in his next one (at another club).

Aye, I understood that. Sorry if it wasn't clear.

Yes agreed... probably worth £250k a year at least for him to stay in the Championship. No one at the end of their career, when you are literally talking about two or three years, walks away from that amount of money.

The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet The best intro ever committed to vinyl.

The friendly is on Wednesday later this week, he wasn't in the squad for a league game at the weekend. Not sure yet why he wasn't involved, but seeing as it is a loan with a view to permanent, I won't personally prefer it if his loan wasn't great and he ended up back here Players improve by playing, and learning from mistakes, O'Riordan should be left in league one for the full season (barring us having a injury crisis), and brought back next season. He is young with plenty of time on his side to get to the required standard before we need to rely on him Edit - Duru not mentioned as injured

I don't buy this at all. Who in Norway is going to pay him what he could earn in the Championship at another club? I'd be amazed if he goes back to Norway in the summer.

Not even as squad filler in Duru's case it seems. What's going on there? Not in the matchday squad but in a friendly tells me he isn't injured, unless he has only just come back from one and they're easing him to fitness. Otherwise he has played a whole 2 games for them and then become surplus to requirements. Great for his development. If O'Riordan isn't ready to handle Paul Mullin then I'd suggest he isn't ready for the Championship yet. It could be a good learning experience for him though, but I don't know if I'd be in a hurry to recall him in Jan unless he progresses more by then.

Sorry for your loss SC. If there's such thing as a 'happy death' it sounds like your mum experienced one. Also, its the order of things mate. We are meant to outlive our parents. Hope your family can take comfort in the fact that your mum and dad are reunited. Take it easy pal.

Same as last year.

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37 points will most likely be enough to avoid relegation. Parker's thinking is that if I can nick 1 here and there off the big boys and get 3 points in their "must win" fixtures Burnley will have a chance of staying up. It's a tricky spot to be in. Parker's job is to manage a football team an ultimately stay in the division. If he does that he'll keep his job, get more money, and perhaps move on up either with Burnley or elsewhere. If the football on offer becomes pragmatic and dare say it, boring, fans will get agitated. As you say, finding the balance is hard. I think Parker is on the right track. Bore the life out of the big boys and do whatever is needed to stay up. A second Premier League season is more likely to beget a third.

No the "fixation" is on what seems to be Suhail and Gestede's dumbing down agenda and the fact that we will be here again in less than two years. Endless fresh start syndrome....

Will be interesting to see how they play in the 'must win' games against their fellow relegation contenders. They were hardly 'entertainers' last season despite co-walking the league with Leeds. I guess you have to play to your strengths - particularly if the alternative is Kompany / Martin style! The problem with the ultra-safe style is that, at some point, elements of the fanbase will want to see more entertaining football (as we saw here with Allerdyce), and then the club has to decide whether to take the risks. I used to doubt that the smaller clubs could survive any other way but the likes of Brentford and Bournemouth have shown it can be done by good - flexible! - coaching and mixing up your play to suit. You don't need a 'philosophy' - just know the game and how to adapt, as Frank and Iraola seem to do. Your point about the money is a good one if we are to believe what we are told about the financial position over there in Yorkshire.

The BRFCS Law of Entropy: every thread, over time, descends into posters arguing with Chaddy. While the budget has clearly been cut, I’m struggling to believe that our road to the promised land was going to be paved with improved 4-year contracts for Travis, Dolan and Hyam, plus Ba’ath and Weiman creaking another season out.

One swallow doesn't a summer make but obviously to you clappers one good win justifies everything that has gone on. We'll revisit this in a few months and see if genuine concern is indeed misplaced or being a mushroom wins the day.

I wonder if something like this would work with Cantwell dropping deeper? Toth miller carter Wharton Alebiosu Hedges Cantwell Tronstad morashita Ohashi Gudjohnson I thought we looked decent when we changed system to hold on on Saturday, could be useful against the better sides?

Almost as though between April and summer he concluded that staying here beyond next summer was no longer an option. Perhaps linked to the fact the club has been unwilling to extend any senior contract and has sold off everyone else of quality.

Sorry for your loss

These are the same players you'll be hating on in a couple of years when they leave for the same reasons as those this summer, by the way.

Perhaps Tronstad does want to go back to Norway. If that is the case, maybe just maybe we should be trying to persuade him to change his mind.

Tronstad's interview was Summer 2025 with Norwegian media https://www.brfcs.com/forums/topic/37711-2025-summer-transfer-thread-😂/page/413/#findComment-2735208