[Archived] A Break With Tradition

[dingles staying down 4ever]

He might but I guarantee he'll have a better time sitting in the away end. I've been on occasion with my mate years ago and stood with the away fans in the cricket field half of the Longside. Great craic! Once they know that we were BRFC fans but there to support their team they treat us like celebrities.

I was in the away end the day they nearly went out of the league. I was not the only Rovers fan there. Dingle coppers could not work out why so many Orient fans had East Lancashire accents...Class

[sambo]

You can't support Rovers and like Burnley.

I hate the scum, and they hate us. I'd hate a Burnley fan to like us

[USABlue]

I've been to see Burnley play with my Uncle and enjoyed it.

Did that happen before or after the game?

[rover6]

Abbey, like the proverbial stopped watch, is finally right.

Saying 'I like to see local teams do well' marks you out as a post-Sky, Nick Hornby reading, football-as-a-pastime, Arsenal admiring, Guardian reading idiot.I'd rather remove my eyeballs with a rusty spoon than sit in the Blackburn End.

No Nay Never.

Yes, I'd much rather be the bigoted, neanderthal, Daily Star-reading, Arsenal-detesting-for-xenophobic-reasons, eyeball-less, rusty spoon collecting kind of genius.

Rivalry is fine but the vicious hatred is stupid. It legitimises the thugs on either side, anyone with the slightest level of intellect can see that.

The fact that some people do claim to want to see local teams do well might actually be progress. Rather than describing this attitude as "post-Sky" - maybe you should call it "post-enlightenment".

[Majiball]

Ah well all dreams come to an end!

From BBC Gossip:

Bolton want to replace boss Gary Megson with Burnley manager Owen Coyle in the summer. (News of the World)

[nicko]

Ah well all dreams come to an end!

From BBC Gossip:

Bolton want to replace boss Gary Megson with Burnley manager Owen Coyle in the summer. (News of the World)

The story is simply not true.

Dream on...

[CAPT KAYOS]

The story is simply not true.

Dream on...

But it must be NIcko ... its in the NOTW

[SamDingle]

Yes, I'd much rather be the bigoted, neanderthal, Daily Star-reading, Arsenal-detesting-for-xenophobic-reasons, eyeball-less, rusty spoon collecting kind of genius.

Rivalry is fine but the vicious hatred is stupid. It legitimises the thugs on either side, anyone with the slightest level of intellect can see that.

The fact that some people do claim to want to see local teams do well might actually be progress. Rather than describing this attitude as "post-Sky" - maybe you should call it "post-enlightenment".

Geekiest post ever... FACT.

"maybe you should call it "post-enlightenment"... Christ on a bike, grow a pair, weener.

[trs]

The story is simply not true.

Dream on...

It will be one day me thinks

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

The Dingles seem to agree that Coyle would leave if the Bolton job became available, but I doubt Megson will get the boot until Summer at least.

[Gav]

Geekiest post ever... FACT.

"maybe you should call it "post-enlightenment"... Christ on a bike, grow a pair, weener.

Why don't you feck off back to your own site you boring ****

[incecticide]

Geekiest post ever... FACT.

"maybe you should call it "post-enlightenment"... Christ on a bike, grow a pair, weener.

What an idiot... you've just proved you're still "pre-enlightenment". Not least by stating an opinion and following it up with "... FACT."

[tony gale's mic]

Granted being 23 years old by virtue of my age I'm pretty much "post-Sky", but I see the Dingles as something to laugh at rather than figures of hatred, since we've always been miles ahead of them for as long as I can remember. I guess the sentiments might be different in the older fans though when the rivalries were more close fought.

I guess though, with the boot on the other foot, if I was a Burnley fan of the same age, and our rivals were winning major honours, hosting European nights and having had some of the best players in Europe play for them at various points, then I might feel a little more hatred/jealousy too.

[incecticide]

Agreed, jealousy plays a massive part.

[The Prof.]

Ggmmm...phhhh...aaarrg... hhhhhhmmmphhh phh....ughhhh.

Yer mums yer dad

Yer dads yer mum

Yer....

Nope can't do it.

Traditions a fine thing to be savoured!

[incecticide]

Yer mums yer dad

Yer dads yer mum

Yer....

Tell me if I'm wrong here Prof, but I hate that song for the following reason: If your mum IS your dad, and your dad IS your mum, that doesn't make you interbred - it makes you the product of the union of a transsexual/transvestite couple.

Also, isn't it 'inbred', not 'interbred'?

[The Prof.]

Tell me if I'm wrong here Prof, but I hate that song for the following reason: If your mum IS your dad, and your dad IS your mum, that doesn't make you interbred - it makes you the product of the union of a transsexual/transvestite couple.

Also, isn't it 'inbred', not 'interbred'?

No inbred misses a syllabel out and it doesn't sound proper.

[incecticide]

No inbred misses a syllabel out and it doesn't sound proper.

Best reason I've heard for singing "Big FAT Sam's blue & white army!" as opposed to "Big *pause* Sam's blue & white army!"

[OhmiBRFC]

Absolutely Abbey, thats the bottom line for me

I agree aswell.

[thenodrog]

Tell me if I'm wrong here Prof, but I hate that song for the following reason: If your mum IS your dad, and your dad IS your mum, that doesn't make you interbred - it makes you the product of the union of a transsexual/transvestite couple.

Also, isn't it 'inbred', not 'interbred'?

Me too. It's likely been made up by some of our inbreds...... and we do have plenty!

[USABlue]

Tell me if I'm wrong here Prof, but I hate that song for the following reason: If your mum IS your dad, and your dad IS your mum, that doesn't make you interbred - it makes you the product of the union of a transsexual/transvestite couple.

Also, isn't it 'inbred', not 'interbred'?

Now there is no need to be getting all technical on us now.

Nicko, weren't Bolton a bit interestedd in Coyle before they signed Megson, I seem to remember you mentioning something about it.

[nicko]

Nicko, weren't Bolton a bit interestedd in Coyle before they signed Megson, I seem to remember you mentioning something about it.

That was the story , but it wasn't entirely true. Megson was always getting the job.

There's nothing in the News of the World tale from last week on the same subject.

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

And Gartside advising the Burnley board to give Coyle a go when Cotterill left is complete pish too, is it?

Me thinks Gartside wanted to see how Coyle does in the lower leagues before taking him on at Bolton, if so.

[nicko]

And Gartside advising the Burnley board to give Coyle a go when Cotterill left is complete pish too, is it?

Me thinks Gartside wanted to see how Coyle does in the lower leagues before taking him on at Bolton, if so.

Gartside was one of two people who recommended Owen for the Burnley job...along with Alex McLeish.

He was asked to and did - there was no other motive.

Megson and Gartside are close. That won't change.

[thenodrog]

Megson and Gartside are close. That won't change.

Thats a brave statement......... Allardyce and Gartside were close once too. Never underestimate Gartsides ability to find someone to fall out with in an empty room.