[Archived] Burnley Home Game

[ABBEY]

go on samantha pray tell how you got your info then because its certainly not by watching prem footy in the flesh is it?

[CAPT KAYOS]

I'll agree it's a tough league, but some of the hype you hear on here... you've been subscribing to Sky for too long.

Indeed SD indeed , but there ain't no slave (fool) to the glitzerama in my threshold - however beware as there are pitfalls and some of your illustrious bretheren in clarrot colours will fall victim (if not already)

[longsiders1882]

Its quite evident they are aware of certain factors but IMO are taking things as they come and even though this may be naive in one respect its refreshing in another and relects in a confidence in their team. Sounds to me they are of the aspect if they stay up they stay up - if they go do down they go down.

About sums it up for me - and I think most if not all. Of course a few months of all those decisions going against us, seeing our defenders left on their backsides by quality strikers whilst our forwards spend endless minutes in the pockets of world class centre halves will no doubt dent that somewhat but hey, I and many more like me will enjoy it for what it is whilst secretly believing the Coyle will work yet more miracles (it has to be secret, you can't admit to believing this)

Roll on the new season is all I can say and let the chips fall where they do.

[Billy Castell]

I think Burnley will enjoy this season whatever happens. The promotion was unexpected at the start of last season, and you get to play us in the league. You all know you have no money. So just enjoy it and I do hope you beat up the big 4 teams and give them a shock.

[waggy]

happier days for our rivals those were the days

[braddock]

if jensen concedes can we shout

'oooooooooooooooooo-beeeeeeeeeeeeeeas(t)'

he is a tubby get

[daveoftherovers]

'Tis true, Capt.

Stoke looked average if organised on their way to promotion from the Championship. Their biggest investment was on Kitson who flopped.

They then finished above your lot last season and avoided relegation comfortably, after winning just 4 points in the first 7 games.

I'll agree it's a tough league, but some of the hype you hear on here... you've been subscribing to Sky for too long.

Sam, true enough about Stoke, however, most teams that come up find it hard, Stoke were the exception, in the end Hull needed the Skunks to implode (Happily) and Boro just lacked the fight, so last season the teams that came up were very very lucky in that regard, West Brom looked a class act and absolutely bossed the Championship when they came up, their manager was no mug and their fans backed the players and the manager, however, they lacked goals, end of. So down they went.

I agree about the hype to a degree, but wait and see first, around October time when the big boys have embedded in their trillions of signings and the don't have's, like Rovers and the everyone else who won't finish in the top 5 start scrapping for their lives, their is a marked difference in pace, tempo, creativity and finishing, when in the prem the chances generally go in for the clubs in the top half, so you'll always need to score a goal or 2 yourselves. If you can't then you'll usually lose, and if your losing and chasing a game, you will get spanked on the counter, even teams like Everton, Spuds, West Spam, Villa work solely on catching you on the break.

Believe me fella, there is a big big difference in key area's, do not make the mistake of comparing cup games with the PL, ask the baggies and the Wolves, Sheff U's, Derby etc of the world, and all the others that have bombed. Survival first....

[Gav]

Great club steeped in history and a great football tradition.

Now not many of us would label burnley as being such a club, even the burnley fans never used to claim such an accolade, so why is this being peddled in the media? Have any of these hacks/pundits seen burnley play over the past 30yrs?

My only conclusion falls along the lines of the older misguided amongst the national media can just about recall them winning something in the 60’s, but great history and football tradition after winning the league once?

Maybe we’ll get similar accolades in years to come?

happier days for our rivals those were the days

They must have had 10k on that day Waggy becuase every burnley fan you meet attended

[jonv]

Probably been and discussed to the death... but the new Bumley crest is effing awful...

http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.ph...nley_FC.svg.png

It looks like a quick paint job

[SamDingle]

Probably been and discussed to the death... but the new Bumley crest is effing awful...

http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.ph...nley_FC.svg.png

It looks like a quick paint job

It's not the new one. It's an old one we're using next season to commemorate the 1960 Championship title.

Gav can tell you all about it, he's done a bit of research on the great old club...

[3rdpillar]

Without doubt there are players in clarot that have the abilty to win games in the Prem. They have a manager who is ebabling this. The cisern I see from the clarot point of view is.... no depth, not enogh good raw material for the manager to mould. I can not see clarots surviving in the Prem, they may well joinn the band of yo-yo clubs like bigClub and WBA.

clarots must enjoy thier meals at the top table, i truly hope the bring someting good for us to gourge on. What we must not allow is rotten meat and litter to surround their contribution, that would surely sour the experience for all.

[sambo]

I think we should have enough to beat them

Only concern is whether Sam gets the players up for it, in the same way Coyle probably will.

[SamDingle]

Without doubt there are player in clarot that have the abilty to win games in the Prem. They have a manager who is ebabling this. The cisern I see from the clarot point of view is.... no depth, not enogh good raw material for the manager to mould. I can not see clarots surviving in the Prem, they may well joinn the band of yo-yo clubs like bigClub and WBA.

clarots must enjoy thier meals at the top table, i truly hope the bring someting good for us to gourge on. What we must not allow is rotten meat and litter to surround their contribution, that would surely sour the experience for all.

I think someone has moved all they keys around on your keyboard.

[deryck guyler's spoon]

It's not the new one. It's an old one we're using next season to commemorate the 1960 Championship title.

Gav can tell you all about it, he's done a bit of research on the great old club...

"Great old club?"

Who are you on about?

[SamDingle]

Great club steeped in history and a great football tradition.

"Great old club?"

Who are you on about?

Try and keep up Spoony.

[3rdpillar]

I think someone has moved all they keys around on your keyboard.

I T A ( a reading method from the 1960s/ early 70s... Cant read or Spell

[ABBEY]

I think someone has moved all they keys around on your keyboard.

ITS BECAUSE YOUR KEYBOARD CATERS FOR CLOVEn hooVES

[longsiders1882]

Great club steeped in history and a great football tradition.

Now not many of us would label burnley as being such a club, even the burnley fans never used to claim such an accolade, so why is this being peddled in the media? Have any of these hacks/pundits seen burnley play over the past 30yrs?

My only conclusion falls along the lines of the older misguided amongst the national media can just about recall them winning something in the 60’s, but great history and football tradition after winning the league once?

Maybe we’ll get similar accolades in years to come?

Of course we are a great old club, steeped in football tradition. As it goes so are Rovers. Founder members of the football league (oh and we have won the top division twice by the way), Small northern town teams who have had success beyond their means.

We are of course more noted for our footballing than Rovers, perhaps largely down to our teams in the 60's. One of Shankly's favourite teams, described by David Coleman as the 'Pride Of Lancashire' and by Kenneth Wolstenholme as the miracle club I think we are rightly described as a great old club steeped in football tradition.

[mickbrown]

Burnley have a bid accepted for Tyrone Mears from Derby, a very average defender if I have ever seen one.....

[Claytons Left Boot]

It's not the new one. It's an old one we're using next season to commemorate the 1960 Championship title.

Gav can tell you all about it, he's done a bit of research on the great old club...

The crest must be from when you were called Buhnlah Rovers.

How may pots have you won? Three?

Come back when you get past our ten.

[Tris]

Burnley have a bid accepted for Tyrone Mears from Derby, a very average defender if I have ever seen one.....

Been on loan at Marseille all last season (and getting in the team).

That'll be a shock - Mediterannean climate and a home by the sea ... to where the M65 peters out in the Yorkshire foothills :!:

[SamDingle]

Burnley have a bid accepted for Tyrone Mears from Derby, a very average defender if I have ever seen one.....

And I'd imagine you have.

[Gav]

Of course we are a great old club, steeped in football tradition. As it goes so are Rovers. Founder members of the football league (oh and we have won the top division twice by the way), Small northern town teams who have had success beyond their means.

We are of course more noted for our footballing than Rovers, perhaps largely down to our teams in the 60's. One of Shankly's favourite teams, described by David Coleman as the 'Pride Of Lancashire' and by Kenneth Wolstenholme as the miracle club I think we are rightly described as a great old club steeped in football tradition.

Still waiting for any sort of explanation?

Don't tell me this is firmed up by David Coleman and Kenneth Wolstenholme

[deryck guyler's spoon]

One of Shankly's favourite teams

As were Rovers. Shanks was said to regularly eulogise about the Rovers forward line of Douglas, Dougan, Vernon, McLeod et al.

[yoda]

As were Rovers. Shanks was said to regularly eulogise about the Rovers forward line of Douglas, Dougan, Vernon, McLeod et al.

you can't use words like eulogise with the dingles deryck, they just get confused !

a bit like the BBC reporter who has written this today

"Burnley have had a bid accepted for Derby County defender Tyrone Mears.

The 26-year-old, who had a loan spell at Marseille last season, has also been linked with Portsmouth.

Mears will meet with Clarets officials to discuss the possible move to the Premier League newcomers when he returns from holiday.

Derby signed Mears, who also played for Burnley's arch-rivals Preston, in a deal worth around £1m from West Ham United in July 2007."

arch-rivals Preston! wtf