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Generally a leaky defence isn't down to just one player :pond: As GWL reported this almost-signing yesterday, Sawyers would be an almost direct replacement for John Swift, so that's one position taken care of. Don't know much about Egan but the belief is that he could push Dean for his...

After 3 years of planning, an indoor centre built and then 3 years of running, we're shutting down our academy. It costs a fortune to run, we have a meagre budget and we're in a hugely competitive catchment area. With EPPP thrown in it seems Benham has decided to cut his losses in the investment...

We've been making the most of the stats model for four or five seasons, not just this last year or so - last year was play-offs, year before was promotion and year before that was play-offs. This is the first season in four that we've not been pushing for promotion, and our performance over the...

I didn't say they tried to get him sent off, I indicated that his own behaviour caused himself to get sent off as he wasn't able to deal with being targeted. Perhaps I'm confusing the two, but they were angered by Hyam's awful tackle and paid particular attention to him after. That's not...

You're right - we'll have to disagree. With regards to your last point about our players targeting Hyam, we certainly did, but I don't think it was in order to get him sent off. Instead was because they'd just seen their best mate have his leg broken in multiple places by a reckless tackle and...

But your own picture indicates that Hyam's leading leg doesn't connect with the ball! As you point out, Judge has stretched for the ball, but he's won the ball and Hyam's front leg has missed it. Zoom in on my picture and you can see that he totally wipes out Judge's leg with his leading knee...

The reason his leg is broken is because Hyam throws his entire weight into the challenge from point blank range, yet his leading leg doesn't win the ball. His leading leg is still off the ground when his knee clatters into Judge and breaks his leg. He wins the ball with his trailing leg after...

Not sure why it's pathetic - Shawcross knew he was going to injure Ramsay, but he wasn't concerned as he wanted to get the ball. Same with Hyam today, he knew he was going to crash into Judge and, unsurprisingly to everyone in the ground, has broken the poor lad's leg. There is no way a...

It wasn't two footed, but flying into that tackle at such short distance from the opposing player is intended to hurt and injure - it was wreckless, wild and overly physical, and was wholly intentional, it actually reminded me quite a bit of the Shawcross tackle on Ramsey a few seasons back...

How you feel about your season right now Frustrated How you would have felt in the summer about where you are now A bit disappointed Quickly describe how the season has gone for you What can go wrong will go wrong - terrible managerial appointment last summer, injury crisis, having to...

We released our 14/15 accounts today as well. Matthew Benham's total commitment to the club reached £76m last year - what a hero :eyes: This figure is up £30m from the previous year, with the majority of that figure relating to financing our new stadium. I read somewhere that there was an...

That's basically it. Derby could have been 4-0 up by half time, but we were the better side in the first half of the second half and at one nil we should have seen it out - Derby hadn't threatened at all in the second half until we made our substitutions and went deep. I thought it was a cross...

Brought that upon ourselves. Took the lead and Derby were offering nothing at that point, but then we went so deep and invited Derby to have a go. Given they're much better footballers than us the final result was always a likelihood if we decided to stand on our 18 yard box.

Likewise :D

Where did you find out in the end - press or forum? Got any links as I'd quite like to have a read through. Thanks

Not at all mate, as mentioned I was only going on a bit of insider knowledge and could very well have been incorrect myself. The first Bees fan to bring it up can be a bit off on things, but then it was confirmed by a couple of others shortly after that. Seems a sensible bit of business for us...

Unfortunately not, so feel free to treat it as lies :) It was confirmed by a couple of very much in the know members of the fan base last year that we'd bought out the clause. Given their accuracy on almost all other points, I'm inclined to believe them in this instance.

Seems like we bought Oldham out of their Tarkowski profit sell on clause last year. Good move that.

£6m would be funny money, so would imagine it'll be something like £3.5m upfront and £2.5m on promotion. We've also got £3m on promotion from the Gray transfer, so we could be looking at £5m+ if they go up this season! Come on Burnley!

Without being too cynical or mistrusting, it would seem as if this is a convenient reason for both club and player to present. It's certainly sad news to hear of his mother's illness and we all hope she's comfortable. In any walk of life it's never easy when a relative or friend is unwell and it...