Championship - 22-23

[Mattyblue]

‘We DoNt wAnT ThAt DiNGLe BasTArD HeRE!’

[roverandout]

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

To be fair, our roverandout does like to oscillate minute by minute on all manner of topics.

I like to stay in the moment 

[Sweaty Gussets]

4 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

We are at humble brag stage now, I see. 

He's been there for a while. 

[Sweaty Gussets]

3 hours ago, arbitro said:

I really thought this season would be the one when we regain our position as Burnley's superiors but I was massively wrong. Kompany has done a terrific job, bought well and used the loan market excellently. But the thing I give them most  grudging admiration for is their spirit. How many times have they come back from behind to win? I'm guessing ten but maybe Longsiders or Sympatheticclaret can confirm. That ethos cannot be understated and drawing the obvious comparison with us they are streets ahead in nearly every aspect of the game. That might rankles with a few and it makes me sad but it's the truth.

Kompany for Tomasson? In a heartbeat.

We will always be Burnley's superiors, they are just temporarily above us in the table. Obviously 'temporarily' is a subjective term!

[Silas]

3 hours ago, longsiders1882 said:

I’m trying to remember. I think it’s 6 but I’ll need to check.

Don't bother, I think we're good. 

[Cherry Blue]

Cov 1 Norwich 3 after 20 mins. Cracking game!

[1874]

Parachute payments making a mockery of competition in this league

[1874]

9 minutes ago, Cherry Blue said:

Cov 1 Norwich 3 after 20 mins. Cracking game!

2-3 now only 26 mins gone

Edited January 21, 2023 by 1874

[chaddyrovers]

Sam Allardyce favourite for the Cardiff job with the bookies

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

10 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Sam Allardyce favourite for the Cardiff job with the bookies

Mm. Would they be interested in a swap  ? JDT for Big Samm?

[longsiders1882]

5 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Mm. Would they be interested in a swap  ? JDT for Big Samm?

Forgive me if my memory is hazy but didn’t you guys run big Sam out of town?

[Oldgregg86]

2 minutes ago, longsiders1882 said:

Forgive me if my memory is hazy but didn’t you guys run big Sam out of town?

If you guys is a bunch of dodgy agents then yes, we did

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

5 minutes ago, longsiders1882 said:

Forgive me if my memory is hazy but didn’t you guys run big Sam out of town?

Only the Chicken Chokers.

Lets put it this way - if by some miracle Big Sam rocked up at Ewood on Monday morning the derby game would take on another complexion all together. I’d actually fancy our chances.

 

Edited January 21, 2023 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[booth]

6 hours ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

We will always be Burnley's superiors, they are just temporarily above us in the table. Obviously 'temporarily' is a subjective term!

I don't know, their current good fortune on the pitch still masks issues underneath.

[DavidBrent]

3 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Only the Chicken Chokers.

Lets put it this way - if by some miracle Big Sam rocked up at Ewood on Monday morning the derby game would take on another complexion all together. I’d actually fancy our chances.

 

He’s not an actual magician 

[booth]

5 minutes ago, longsiders1882 said:

Forgive me if my memory is hazy but didn’t you guys run big Sam out of town?

It's must be very hazy as that's a massive simplification.

Whilst it would have been nice to have brought in a better manager, most fans would have been happy to keep SA there for the foreseeable. He even said himself he wanted to leave at some point, so it would have been intelligent to keep him here for stability, whilst conducting a manager search.

Unfortunately, "intelligent" to Venkys is to give an agent full control of the football club they've just purchased and agree with everything he suggests, even when people who have been at the club for 20 years are telling them it's all going tits up.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

21 minutes ago, DavidBrent said:

He’s not an actual magician 

He wouldn’t need to be.

[sympatheticclaret]

34 minutes ago, booth said:

Unfortunately, "intelligent" to Venkys is to give an agent full control of the football club they've just purchased and agree with everything he suggests, even when people who have been at the club for 20 years are telling them it's all going tits up.

This quote should appear in a Blackburn Rovers version of one of those " WW2 in 5 minutes " type of You-tube videos ... it rather sums up your past decade, sadly ...

[longsiders1882]

51 minutes ago, Oldgregg86 said:

If you guys is a bunch of dodgy agents then yes, we did

 

49 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Only the Chicken Chokers.

Fair enough, I could have sworn there were numerous on here wanted him out - and a number who were delighted when they got rid. My apologies if I’ve made all that up in my head.

49 minutes ago, booth said:

masks issues underneath.

What issues underneath? As far as I know right now everything is running fairly smoothly. I’m no fan of the leveraged buy out but so far they haven’t put a foot wrong - time will tell if their business plan is long term or just some asset strip. Not sure what you imagine is going on behind the scenes though 🤷‍♂️

51 minutes ago, booth said:

their current good fortune

No team is this far ahead, at this stage of the season, as a result of good fortune. After 28 games teams are exactly where they have earned the right to be. After 46 the best team over the course of the season wins the league etc.

54 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

the derby game would take on another complexion all together.

Agreed. I think if you brought Dyche in it would be different as well. I expect it to be different anyway, there is just no way they can put in a performance like the one at our place.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

The Chicken Chokers hire and fire - not the fans.

[JohnD]

The only good thing the Rao's did was getting rid of BFUS!

That doesn't excuse the unmitigated shambles ever since 😡

 

[booth]

9 minutes ago, longsiders1882 said:

What issues underneath? As far as I know right now everything is running fairly smoothly. I’m no fan of the leveraged buy out but so far they haven’t put a foot wrong - time will tell if their business plan is long term or just some asset strip. Not sure what you imagine is going on behind the scenes though 

No team is this far ahead, at this stage of the season, as a result of good fortune. After 28 games teams are exactly where they have earned the right to be. After 46 the best team over the course of the season wins the league etc.

I should have said Alan Pace’s good fortune. He was one bad appointment away from a catastrophe.

Objectively, he’s bought the club with their own money, overseen the sacking of your best manager and a relegation, and then bankrolled promotion from the championship all without putting his hand in his own pocket. What happens  when the bank of Dyche runs out?

[rigger]

I haven't cancelled my hotel in Wembley for the play-offs yet.

[longsiders1882]

1 minute ago, booth said:

I should have said Alan Pace’s good fortune. He was one bad appointment away from a catastrophe.

Objectively, he’s bought the club with their own money, overseen the sacking of your best manager and a relegation, and then bankrolled promotion from the championship all without putting his hand in his own pocket. What happens  when the bank of Dyche runs out?

Good fortune or good recruitment? 
 

Agree on the way they’ve bought the club. It’s now to see if they can make their version of ‘money ball’ work. Maybe it will but I’m not convinced. If Kompany takes us up (seems likely now) and keeps us up (a much bigger ask) then he will be on the move you’d imagine.  Can they get the next one right? Who knows, that’s why I’ll enjoy seasons like this one when they come along as you never know when the next one will be.

[booth]

4 minutes ago, longsiders1882 said:

Good fortune or good recruitment? 
 

Agree on the way they’ve bought the club. It’s now to see if they can make their version of ‘money ball’ work. Maybe it will but I’m not convinced. If Kompany takes us up (seems likely now) and keeps us up (a much bigger ask) then he will be on the move you’d imagine.  Can they get the next one right? Who knows, that’s why I’ll enjoy seasons like this one when they come along as you never know when the next one will be.

I doubt Pace knew who Kompany was. Someone at your club can pick managers. I think after Brian Laws someone must have decided never again. At the time Pace needed some good PR so he couldn’t get it wrong. I think that shows with the amount of time it took to bring a new manager in.

Like I said previously he did well to keep the club intact rather than changing everything. I think that was originally done for financial reasons than a considered decision.

It’ll be interesting to see if he wants Burnley to stay up, or do it on the cheap for the yo-yo money.