[Archived] Nickos Thread

[philipl]

OK, got their 4 points from the three games so play-off is still on as a possibility but forget about automatic promotion.

Briatore and Mittal discovering they need more than a few bob to win football matches. Shame.

[bob fleming]

Anyone want to discuss closing gaps? Andy Cole being past it?

That was merely a final flicker of the candle before it goes out

As for the Gap closing, I need more evidence but obviously the Premier League does need a team who can do what Derby County have done this season.

[Yorick]

Anyone want to discuss closing gaps? Andy Cole being past it?

Thats a daft wind up. The fact that Cole is even turning out for the Dingles (like Wright and Gazza at similar career stages) obviously proves that he's well past plying his trade in the Prem.

[Flopsy]

Anyone want to discuss closing gaps? Andy Cole being past it?

Yeah Im sure that what you said when Ian "So Wrong" Wright signed for you

Just been to Stoke, going great, but would love to face them in the play-offs.

Im sure you would, and if it was a choice between Stoke being in the Premiership or the Dingles gettign a step closer then its inbred @#/?s all the way for me. I really really hate stoke, nasty town and very very nasty fans

In the semis or the final.

One point off the top six...is that whining the sound of fear?

Hardly, Its just that we hadnt thought that Derby's lowest ever points scored record will be broken just one year later

[Hughesy]

Nicko - id love to see Burnley come up, that we we are gauranteed 6 pts off another team and also someone to laugh at come the end of the season

[modes98]

The fact that Cole is even turning out for the Dingles (like Wright and Gazza at similar career stages) obviously proves that he's well past plying his trade in the Prem.

Exactly. That and also the fact that he couldn't make it in to a weak Sunderland team and Dwight 'my legs have gone' Yorke can.

[nicko]

Andy Cole. Four goals in two games. Clearly past it...

Just accept the fact that a bright and smart young manager is on your doorstep with the bottle to bring in players during the window - and the wit to see the potential in a proven goalscorer for a team that makes chances galore.

I couldn't give a toss about their signings of Ian Wright and Paul Gascoigne although - as I recall - both did a decent job in their time at Burnley. Wright helped them go up, Gazza was a saved free kick from the play-offs.

I'm not interested in history lessons, just the present.

Your neighbours are going for the play-offs, fans are coming in to watch attractive football [most of the time] and their appointment and signings are paying off.

By the way...Quinton Fortune IS training with Rovers.

[modes98]

Andy Cole. Four goals in two games. Clearly past it...

Just accept the fact that a bright and smart young manager is on your doorstep with the bottle to bring in players during the window

By the way...Quinton Fortune IS training with Rovers.

If you drop down a level then it becomes easier. I'm sure if he had moved to the scottish leagues he would have a similar ratio. The man is a goal scorer, and always will be, but he is past it in terms of Premier League ability.

All he has done is loan a couple of players who aren't good enough for a bad premiership team and a youth player who stands no chance if he stays with arsenal.

Dingles will not be in the premiership next season. Should they fluke it by some miracle then they will not top Derby's meager points total and go back from whence they came. Quality may not be a must in the Championship but it most certainly is in the Premiership.

and then we have Quinton Fortune and that refers me back to my previous point. Maybe Dingles want him.

[Flopsy]

Quinton Fortune IS training with Rovers.

Is he on a free then? I think he's not a bad signing, gives us cover for CM and at a push LM.

best of luck to the Dingles, that build up of hope which is then dashed, makes it all the sweeter

[1864roverite]

Alan, its time to put you in a reality check about your hopes and aspirations for little old Burnley.

Coyle, on the face it it is doing a good job with the tools he has got. Dont you think that if he was such a revered manager, one of the miuch bigger clubs in that Division or one even lower, would be banging his front door for him ?

Fans pouring in to watch good football ? I note a slight increase in the home gates but the average still havers around 12679, the just managed 14000 home fnas for the Arsenal game.

Andy Cole is definately past it. I note this mornings press as saying AC has been given inspiration from a manager that believes in him, well sorry about that Andrew, but every manager that has signed yousince you departed our beloved BRFC has loved you enough to pay you vast amounts of dosh but you only found the net once ! WTF is all that about ?

I watched SSNews this morning and note with interest that the bookies are not following your notions Alan. Burnley are not even mentioned in the top 12 betting for promotion. Now then, I wonder who is wrong ? YOU or them ?

Watford and WBA are far better organised teams and look set to be automatic choices despite each having odd results recently.

Bristol City are a much better organised team than Burnley.

Stoke are a strong uncompromising outfit who can score a lot of goals both home and away.

Charlton and Ispwich are good footballing teams, both of whom are difficult to beat and bth who have the experience of the run in.

Plymouth are outsiders but a good solid team, as are Wolves, Palace, Hull and Cardiff not to mention Norwich who are 6 points of a play off spot.

BFC have some daunting games on the horizon. Home against the likes of Watford, Wolves, Barnsley,Cardiff, Sheffield U and Charlton whilst away they have got to go to Palace, Stoke, Hull and Preston as well as Southampton and Plymouth.

Thats one hell of a run in, 10 games versus play off/promotion rivals and a deadly derby vesus the nobenders !

Dont think you have your bet sealed, in fact its a loser Alan.

Finally, as a side issue, the whining is the sound of the aeroplane engine being tested as it prepares for its annual flight over dingleland with the message

"YOU FAILED AGAIN, THE GAP IS AS WIDE AS EVER, LOVE BRFC"

[Yorick]

" I really really hate stoke, nasty town and very very nasty fans"

As opposed to Burnley of course.

[SAS]

Alan, its time to put you in a reality check about your hopes and aspirations for little old Burnley.

Coyle, on the face it it is doing a good job with the tools he has got. Dont you think that if he was such a revered manager, one of the miuch bigger clubs in that Division or one even lower, would be banging his front door for him ?

Fans pouring in to watch good football ? I note a slight increase in the home gates but the average still havers around 12679, the just managed 14000 home fnas for the Arsenal game.

They give each season ticket holder 2 free tickets for 3 games, thats why they have had a recent surge in attendences, really they should have had 21,000 at each of those 3 games, but they got 14-16k i think

And for the arsenal game they HAD to buy a ticket for another game as well as the arsenal one...

[Flopsy]

" I really really hate stoke, nasty town and very very nasty fans"

As opposed to Burnley of course.

Take this from someone who's had to do lots of work in Stoke, Burnley just has a problem with the gene pool being shallower than a puddle of spiders pee. Stoke is much much much worse

[T4E]

Anyone want to discuss closing gaps? Andy Cole being past it?

When we talk about someone being past it, we are primarily talking about Premier League level. This is because we are a Premier League team, with Premier League ambitions and a Premier League mindset. The Football League is something that we give not much more than a passing thought to. Mainly because we don't have to.

If you want to discuss the Coca Cola Championship then perhaps a messageboard for a top half Premier League team is not the one for you.

Although admittedly some people seem dead set on indulging you, heaven knows why.

I'll remind you all of something -

Q: What do you really think of Burnley?

A: I don't really think of Burnley at all - Simon Garner.

[nicko]

I watched SSNews this morning and note with interest that the bookies are not following your notions Alan. Burnley are not even mentioned in the top 12 betting for promotion. Now then, I wonder who is wrong ? YOU or them ? [LET'S SEE...7TH, ONE POINT OFF THE PLAY-OFFS...HMM, OUTSIDERS.]

Watford and WBA are far better organised teams and look set to be automatic choices despite each having odd results recently. [bOTH BEATEN.]

Bristol City are a much better organised team than Burnley. [PROMOTED SIDES ALWAYS TAIL OFF.]

Stoke are a strong uncompromising outfit who can score a lot of goals both home and away. [0-0 AT BURNLEY - COYLE DEBUT.]

Charlton [AWAY WIN] and Ispwich [FIRST TEAM TO DRAW AWAY] are good footballing teams, both of whom are difficult to beat and bth who have the experience of the run in.

Plymouth are outsiders but a good solid team [bATTERED AT BURNLEY RECENTLY], as are Wolves [WON AWAY], Palace, Hull and Cardiff not to mention Norwich who are 6 points of a play off spot.

BFC have some daunting games on the horizon. Home against the likes of Watford, Wolves, Barnsley,Cardiff, Sheffield U and Charlton whilst away they have got to go to Palace, Stoke, Hull and Preston as well as Southampton and Plymouth. [sO THAT'S TWO MAJOR RIVALS AT HOME AND TWO MAJOR RIVALS AWAY.]

Thats one hell of a run in, 10 games versus play off/promotion rivals and a deadly derby vesus the nobenders ! [YEAH, MEANINGFUL GAMES...REMEMBER THEM?]

Dont think you have your bet sealed, in fact its a loser Alan. [NEVER SAID IT WAS SE ALED BUT I THINK 20 TO 1 WAS A RATHER SHREWD BET.]

Finally, as a side issue, the whining is the sound of the aeroplane engine being tested as it prepares for its annual flight over dingleland with the message

"YOU FAILED AGAIN, THE GAP IS AS WIDE AS EVER, LOVE BRFC"

[AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL...THE GAP THEN WAS ABOUT 90 PLACES...]

[DudeAbides]

This Coyle love in needs to stop...

maybe join a dingle board or something.

[Bazzanotsogreat]

Take this from someone who's had to do lots of work in Stoke, Burnley just has a problem with the gene pool being shallower than a puddle of spiders pee. Stoke is much much much worse

Flopsy – are you talking about stokes notorious hooligan element? ( Naughty 40, even though their more than 40 lol) or people from Stoke in General.

It’s a pretty big area to suggest any sort of inbreeding, unlike burnley.

And Nicko , will you stop the Wum act, its getting a little tedious.

[LDRover]

Flopsy – are you talking about stokes notorious hooligan element? ( Naughty 40, even though their more than 40 lol) or people from Stoke in General.

It’s a pretty big area to suggest any sort of inbreeding, unlike burnley.

And Nicko , will you stop the Wum act, its getting a little tedious.

On the subject of the N40, read the two books by Mark Chester - 'Sex drugs and football thugs' and 'The Naughty Forty.' Really good accounts of back in the day from a bloke who appears to have definitely lived it.

[they_think_its_all_rover]

QUOTE(1864roverite @ Feb 13 2008, 09:25 ) / QUOTE(Nicko)I watched SSNews this morning and note with interest that the bookies are not following your notions Alan. Burnley are not even mentioned in the top 12 betting for promotion. Now then, I wonder who is wrong ? YOU or them ? [LET'S SEE...7TH, ONE POINT OFF THE PLAY-OFFS...HMM, OUTSIDERS.]

Watford and WBA are far better organised teams and look set to be automatic choices despite each having odd results recently. [bOTH BEATEN.]

Bristol City are a much better organised team than Burnley. [PROMOTED SIDES ALWAYS TAIL OFF.]

Stoke are a strong uncompromising outfit who can score a lot of goals both home and away. [0-0 AT BURNLEY - COYLE DEBUT.]

Charlton [AWAY WIN] and Ispwich [FIRST TEAM TO DRAW AWAY] are good footballing teams, both of whom are difficult to beat and bth who have the experience of the run in.

Plymouth are outsiders but a good solid team [bATTERED AT BURNLEY RECENTLY], as are Wolves [WON AWAY], Palace, Hull and Cardiff not to mention Norwich who are 6 points of a play off spot.

BFC have some daunting games on the horizon. Home against the likes of Watford, Wolves, Barnsley,Cardiff, Sheffield U and Charlton whilst away they have got to go to Palace, Stoke, Hull and Preston as well as Southampton and Plymouth. [sO THAT'S TWO MAJOR RIVALS AT HOME AND TWO MAJOR RIVALS AWAY.]

Thats one hell of a run in, 10 games versus play off/promotion rivals and a deadly derby vesus the nobenders ! [YEAH, MEANINGFUL GAMES...REMEMBER THEM?]

Dont think you have your bet sealed, in fact its a loser Alan. [NEVER SAID IT WAS SE ALED BUT I THINK 20 TO 1 WAS A RATHER SHREWD BET.]

Finally, as a side issue, the whining is the sound of the aeroplane engine being tested as it prepares for its annual flight over dingleland with the message

"YOU FAILED AGAIN, THE GAP IS AS WIDE AS EVER, LOVE BRFC"

[AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL...THE GAP THEN WAS ABOUT 90 PLACES...]

I was quite pleased with Hull's performance last night... what do you make of it Alan? play-off worthy?

Pretty much like Rovers Vs Arsenal... a VERY depleted squad. No; Folan (3 goals in last 2 games), Windass (top goalscorer), Hughes (Man of the match the past few weeks), Garcia (tricky winger who'd been on mint form lately) & Dawson (left-back).

Ended up playing Hendrick Pedersen at left-back! ...but still managed to get a 1-1 draw against a Norwich side who havn't lost in 13 games.

Watford are dragging out results, West Brom, for some reason don't have a game for about 2/3 weeks!?!, Bristol City, you say will tail off, I'm not 100% convinced they will... they keep finding those results... I think teams have started to fear playing them now they have a bit of a reputation for getting good results.

I've already said about Stoke (and I 100% agree about their fans! complete bunch of brick-throwers!)

Plymouth, I keep thinking their out of it, but then the CCC is soo close, they win when everyone drops points, and they're back in it.

Wolves look a bit poor, despite having one of the better teams on paper.

Charlton are topsy-turvy, but I think they'll sit comfortably in one of the play-off places.

Ipswich... I'm hoping for their form to tail off... but I can't see it, and I see a whole host of teams banging on the 6th place's door right up until the end... whether Ipswich will keep it up or not... who knows!?! ...but I think they might.

Alan... what's your take on the Leeds appeal?

Do you have a better understanding of it? i.e. what were they deducted 15 points for? how are they appealing it? do you think they'll get the points back?

& didn't the football league give Leeds the "golden share" on the grounds thay wouldn't appeal!??

[philipl]

20/1 good bet that. Mind you, bookies usually get their pricing right to avoid going broke.

[philipl]

And Nicko , will you stop the Wum act, its getting a little tedious.

About as likely as you voting Liberal I would have thought.

[LeftWinger]

VC Bet are offering Leeds at 80-1 for the League One title.

If they get the 15 points back - they'll only be 3 points off top spot - although having played 2 games more.

[Flopsy]

Flopsy – are you talking about stokes notorious hooligan element? ( Naughty 40, even though their more than 40 lol) or people from Stoke in General.

It’s a pretty big area to suggest any sort of inbreeding, unlike burnley.

And Nicko , will you stop the Wum act, its getting a little tedious.

I never suggested Stoke was full of inbreeding - although if you go out to Burslum, you have to suspect something's going on.

No I said Burnley just has a problem with inbreeding, Stoke has worse problems than that.

And the Stoke fans are dreadful, I dont know any club thats played them that has a good word to say about them.

[Lurid Coat]

Just accept the fact that a bright and smart young manager is on your doorstep with the bottle to bring in players during the window - and the wit to see the potential in a proven goalscorer for a team that makes chances galore.

"Bottle"? You don't think this has got anything to do with the fact that Burnley actually had money to spend, while we didn't? Also, bringing in players like Andy Cole might be a wise move if you're in the CCC, but not if you're a Premier League team like us. If we were to strengthen our team, we'd need to spend a lot more than what the Dingles spent on Andy Cole - money that simply wasn't available to Hughes this window.

[modes98]

If we were to strengthen our team, we'd need to spend a lot more than what the Dingles spent on Andy Cole

He is only on loan.

Dingles Transfers, I don't see them spending any money at all. All they did was reclaim money by selling the magical Andy Gray, who has set the world alight with 0 goals for Charlton. No other Dingles players in double figures in the scoring charts. When Akinbiyi and Blake are your top scorers you have something to be concerned about.