[Archived] Burnley Home Game

[The Prof.]

Our next fee for our new striker will be more than Burnley's whole years transfer budget. Just shows how big the gap really it!

[deryck guyler's spoon]

He says they weren't his! Must have been Ranulf's then I guess.

Ranulf had a torrid time on here and scuttled off a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps the find at his buddy's gaff might explain his absence as well as his claim that there are 22000 Dingle season ticket holders.

Hobnob Sir Ranulf?

[Ritchie]

Coyle succeeded in getting the best out of his players, whilst getting them to play some lovely football in the process. I'd wager that the fella is a fantastic man-manager too, which is just as important as being a skilled tactician in my book.

He may leave Burnley in the next couple of years, but if he does, the club will be in a much better position than it was prior to his arrival. That's good management and he deserves respect for that.

Our next fee for our new striker will be more than Burnley's whole years transfer budget. Just shows how big the gap really it!

I think that most clubs in last year's Championship had a bigger budget than Burnley's. Didn't prevent Coyle from getting the job done, did it?

I wouldn't be surprised if he proved a lot of people wrong next season.

[AggyBlue]

I wouldn't be surprised if he proved a lot of people wrong next season.

I too think they'll survive their first season.

Hopefully they'll do what many other have done before them and fail miserably in their second season.

Fingers crossed

[den]

Coyle succeeded in getting the best out of his players, whilst getting them to play some lovely football in the process.

Didn't see any of their lovely football in the play offs.

[Ritchie]

Didn't see any of their lovely football in the play offs.

They played Sheff Utd off the pitch at Wembley.

[sambo]

Ritchie

Are you a dingle?

You certainly seem to like their lot.

[braddock]

I would suggest Celtic is a somewhat larger club than Burnley yet he rejected their advances only a few weeks ago to stay at Turf Moor.

no he didn't

[den]

They played Sheff Utd off the pitch at Wembley.

They deserved to win mainly because Sheff Utd were dire. They didn't play any lovely football though.

[braddock]

They deserved to win mainly because Sheff Utd were dire. They didn't play any lovely football though.

yeah, and added to this there aren't any bikey's in the premiership

[ABBEY]

Ritchie

Are you a dingle?

You certainly seem to like their lot.

nail on head methinks sambo.

[Ritchie]

Ritchie

Are you a dingle?

You certainly seem to like their lot.

No... I'm just calling it as I see it.

They deserved to win mainly because Sheff Utd were dire. They didn't play any lovely football though.

They did at various times throughout the season, and were rewarded for it.

[braddock]

"Obviously it's Celtic you're talking about and nobody needs to tell me about the size of that football club globally.

"I think they'll (supporters) understand about Celtic and the attraction that would hold for someone like myself, growing up as a Celtic supporter.

"But it was all hypothetical, so the best way I can say is there was never any approach to the football club and I'm not going to get into the realms of talking about stuff that doesn't exist, and that's basically it.

"I said before there was no decision to make and there was never any approach to the football club.

"If there was an interest then I'm truly flattered because as, everyone knows I've said before, the size of Celtic Football Club and growing up as a supporter, I know what it means.

"But there was not anything to turn down and equally I'm still committed to Burnley Football Club."

hardly ruled himself out of the running

[yorkyclaret]

there was never any approach to the football club.

That sounds to me like he was 'sounded out' by Celtic but as he gave them no encouragemant they didn't persue it.

[den]

They did at various times throughout the season, and were rewarded for it.

You just said they did against Sheff Utd. Did they, or did they not?

[Ritchie]

You just said they did against Sheff Utd. Did they, or did they not?

They won the game convincingly... 1-0 flattered the Blades.

[den]

They won the game convincingly... 1-0 flattered the Blades.

I've agreed they deserved to win, but for some reason you reckon they played [using your phrase] "lovely football".

I only saw the play offs Ritchie, how many times did you see Burnley?

[yorkyclaret]

I've agreed they deserved to win, but for some reason you reckon they played [using your phrase] "lovely football".

I only saw the play offs Ritchie, how many times did you see Burnley?

We played far better football than the Blades, made several good chances without resorting to long ball stuff. There was probably a bit too much occassion on the day for it to have been a classic footballing display, the main thing was to counter their 'style'

Hope you are both happy with that

[den]

We played far better football than the Blades, made several good chances without resorting to long ball stuff. There was probably a bit too much occassion on the day for it to have been a classic footballing display, the main thing was to counter their 'style'

Hope you are both happy with that

You defended well against a poor side. You played hardly any football, put very few moves together and had very little posession. You still deserved to win, because you never looked like conceding.

How's that for the truth?

[Ritchie]

I've agreed they deserved to win, but for some reason you reckon they played [using your phrase] "lovely football".

I only saw the play offs Ritchie, how many times did you see Burnley?

A handful of times, but my mates who support the Clarets thoroughly enjoyed the football served up last season.

Considering they were less than complimentary about Cotterill's football, they are picky about what is good and crap football.

[yorkyclaret]

You defended well against a poor side. You played hardly any football, put very few moves together and had very little posession. You still deserved to win, because you never looked like conceding.

How's that for the truth?

I would say we stopped them playing and made them look a poor side, as we did with Reading.

Probably one of those things we would never agree on as we are looking from differant viewpoints

[BRFCGrez]

I, against my better nature, watched all 3 play off games. In the first game, Reading were the better team, and Burnley nicked a goal through a moment of madness. At Reading, they were battered first half, but did have 15 good minutes at the start of the second half to put them through, great. In the final, they were the better team, but through playing lovely football? No, through Sheffield being awful, and Burnley scoring a pretty good goal.

[thenodrog]

I would suggest Celtic is a somewhat larger club than Burnley yet he rejected their advances only a few weeks ago to stay at Turf Moor.

Don't be daft. They are a skint big fish in a small pond. Burnley are the opposite with much more money. The only thing that Celtic can offer (and granted it's a biggy as far as managerial cv's go) is European football.

[yorkyclaret]

I, against my better nature, watched all 3 play off games. In the first game, Reading were the better team, and Burnley nicked a goal through a moment of madness. At Reading, they were battered first half, but did have 15 good minutes at the start of the second half to put them through, great. In the final, they were the better team, but through playing lovely football? No, through Sheffield being awful, and Burnley scoring a pretty good goal.

How many chances did Reading create in 180 mins?

[thenodrog]

How many chances did Reading create in 180 mins?

On a serious note the first thing that you will notice in the Prem is the conversions from chances ratio. If you have a lot of pressure and don't score it's 90% certain that the opposition will nick a goal and you will be beaten.