The Dingles

[Colt Seavers]

Very true. I was just correcting the assumption that a rail problem caused only 800 Burnley fans to travel to London as that is demonstrably a false assumption. Lack of demand for tickets amongst Burnley fans was the real cause.

My point that Burnley fans didn't turn out in numbers to support their beleaguered team in a time of crisis remains valid regardless of our support in similar bad times.

 

[Mattyblue]

Oh I agree with you, difference being we never made out that we were some Uber-passionate unique fanbase back in the 2000s, they certainly always did and would prove it if they ever became the big boys in east Lancs…

[Colt Seavers]

20 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Oh I agree with you, difference being we never made out that we were some Uber-passionate unique fanbase back in the 2000s, they certainly always did and would prove it if they ever became the big boys in east Lancs…

Tremendous post. I'm right with you.

The other thing with me is that I can't ever forget (or forgive) the behaviour of the cockroaches calling themselves Burnley fans singing their Jack Walker song. It wasn't just a few morons in isolation either.

This is why I'm so keen for them to have a couple or three relegations.

 

Edited April 18, 2022 by Colt Seavers

[Guest]

27 minutes ago, Colt Seavers said:

Tremendous post. I'm right with you.

The other thing with me is that I can't ever forget (or forgive) the behaviour of the cockroaches calling themselves Burnley fans singing their Jack Walker song. It wasn't just a few morons in isolation either.

This is why I'm so keen for them to have a couple or three relegations.

 

Nah, give over, we've sung as bad for years. Reality is it would be good for us to have the old enema-e back in the same division to spice things up at least twice a season, at least until both clubs can get rid of the fungus that is eating them both from the inside 😉

[booth]

2 hours ago, longsiders1882 said:

The positive you have over us is that at least you don’t have to service exceptionally expensive debt from club income.

I was told by a Burnley fan yesterday, "ALK are Venkys without the money".

Venkys may have money but they rarely use it wisely. And on the very rare occasions they do it's offset by some other bonkers decision.

Like ALK, they created the debt which continues to rise so wake me up when it reaches £160m+ with zero positives.

And no, promotion from L1 was not a positive. In isolation it is, but all things considered it means we've been to hell and aren't quite back.

"Back" meaning financial security.

[booth]

8 minutes ago, Shirley Crabtree Wrestler said:

Nah, give over, we've sung as bad for years. Reality is it would be good for us to have the old enema-e back in the same division to spice things up at least twice a season, at least until both clubs can get rid of the fungus that is eating them both from the inside 😉

Do we sing gleeful songs about one of their previous owners/employees/legends being dead?

I'll point out many Burnley fans find it distasteful too.

The ideal thing would have been both teams in the PL - and we'd have probably been in a relegation battle with them.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

13 minutes ago, booth said:

I was told by a Burnley fan yesterday, "ALK are Venkys without the money".

Venkys may have money but they rarely use it wisely. And on the very rare occasions they do it's offset by some other bonkers decision.

Like ALK, they created the debt which continues to rise so wake me up when it reaches £160m+ with zero positives.

And no, promotion from L1 was not a positive. In isolation it is, but all things considered it means we've been to hell and aren't quite back.

"Back" meaning financial security.

If they’d just do one and leave us debt free, or even at the level of debt they came in on, they could stuff their money up their Chicken Choking arses.

[booth]

6 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

If they’d just do one and leave us debt free, or even at the level of debt they came in on, they could stuff their money up their Chicken Choking arses.

Yep, cancel the debt and sell the club cheap. The only thing with that is we know the fit and proper test isn’t fit and proper. We’d end up with someone like ALK.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 minute ago, booth said:

Yep, cancel the debt and sell the club cheap. The only thing with that is we know the fit and proper test isn’t fit and proper. We’d end up with someone like ALK.

I rather have ALK than the Chokers. As I said earlier at least we’d know what chip shop they go in.

[booth]

1 minute ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I rather have ALK than the Chokers. As I said earlier at least we’d know what chip shop they go in.

Be careful what you wish for, they sound like a right bunch.

Venkys without the money. What happens when they get Burnley in £160m of debt?

Alan Pace is from California. Now it's going tits up, he'll probably spend less time in Lancashire than Venkys do for fear of someone smacking him in the face with their battered halibut.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

9 minutes ago, booth said:

Be careful what you wish for, they sound like a right bunch.

Venkys without the money. What happens when they get Burnley in £160m of debt?

Alan Pace is from California. Now it's going tits up, he'll probably spend less time in Lancashire than Venkys do for fear of someone smacking him in the face with their battered halibut.

Or wasn’t it setting fire to Stan Ternent’s wife’s coat in a chip shop. Somebody will know the full SP.

Edited April 18, 2022 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[arbitro]

36 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Or wasn’t it setting fire to Stan Ternent’s wife’s coat in a chip shop. Somebody will know the full SP.

It was Jimmy Mullens wife in a Chinese takeaway iirc.

[den]

5 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Oh I agree with you, difference being we never made out that we were some Uber-passionate unique fanbase back in the 2000s, they certainly always did and would prove it if they ever became the big boys in east Lancs…

You’re getting confused with North End.

[LDRover]

3 hours ago, arbitro said:

It was Jimmy Mullens wife in a Chinese takeaway iirc.

I know for sure Jimmy Mullen went to Colne job centre to sign on in disguise after he got potted. 

[davulsukur]

8 hours ago, Shirley Crabtree Wrestler said:

Sadly for our six fingered cousins from down the M65, it looks very suspiciously like history repeating itself. No chairman, wholesale and illogical changes in the backroom staff, sacking of a tried and tested manager, bizarre noises coming from the ownership cadre.... yup! If I was a claret with half a brain (and let's face it there can't be that many with such relative riches in Burnleh) then I'd be having a long hard look at the 'model' for taking a well run Premier League family-oriented club and running into the ground for the benefit of folks in the shadows to be able to fill their dirty great pockets with lucre. Ahem, burnleh compadres, welcome to our nightmare of shit world!

Do their owners also have a footballing agency as their BFF?

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

I’m praying they stay up after todays game. I don’t think I could take a couple of 5-0 bangings if the come down.

[chaddyrovers]

11 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I’m praying they stay up after todays game. I don’t think I could take a couple of 5-0 bangings if the come down.

All depends who is in the dugout. As long as it's not Mowbray I will be happy. 

[Boroblue]

9 hours ago, Shirley Crabtree Wrestler said:

Nah, give over, we've sung as bad for years. Reality is it would be good for us to have the old enema-e back in the same division to spice things up at least twice a season, at least until both clubs can get rid of the fungus that is eating them both from the inside 😉

Even worse the guy there singing about put money into their club to save them. The inbred fuckwits.

[Mike E]

Starting to genuinely look forward to more tasty games next season:

Burnley, Preston, Blackpool, Wigan, Stoke.

Not that it would ever happen, but fate could even add Bolton, Accy, Morecambe, Fleetwood, or Crewe to that the following year.

My favourite season (can't remember exactly) was in the PL when there were 9 NorthWest teams: Mancs x2, Liverpool x2, Rovers, Bolton, Burnley, Wigan, Stoke.

 

Edited April 18, 2022 by Mike E

[Mattyblue]

What’s ‘tasty’ about playing Stoke, or Wigan, or Blackpool?

[47er]

34 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Starting to genuinely look forward to more tasty games next season:

Burnley, Preston, Blackpool, Wigan, Stoke.

Not that it would ever happen, but fate could even add Bolton, Accy, Morecambe, Fleetwood, or Crewe to that the following year.

My favourite season (can't remember exactly) was in the PL when there were 9 NorthWest teams: Mancs x2, Liverpool x2, Rovers, Bolton, Burnley, Wigan, Stoke.

 

Won't be tasty if we play like this. Can't see us beating any of them right now.

[Mike E]

20 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

What’s ‘tasty’ about playing Stoke, or Wigan, or Blackpool?

Always liked those games, myself. The more relatively local away games, the better.

[Mattyblue]

Ok, Wigan and Blackpool, Lanky games down the road, good for a few beers. Though still not sure what’s ‘tasty’ about them.

Stoke? Don’t particularly see the difference to playing a Derby or Forest 

[Mike E]

26 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Ok, Wigan and Blackpool, Lanky games down the road, good for a few beers. Though still not sure what’s ‘tasty’ about them.

Stoke? Don’t particularly see the difference to playing a Derby or Forest 

Does tasty mean something different than 'thing I like' and I'm using it wrong? 

[Mattyblue]

Must be crossed wires, I would take ‘tasty’ as in ‘spiky’, ‘grudge match’, ‘an edge’… ergo Dingles, at a push PNE and Bolton, not a trip to the Bet 365.