Christ mate …… our reserves won, kept a clean sheet and had 30 odd shots on goal. That’s hilarious? Wait till you see Tommy Cooper, you’ll piss yourself. What’s hilarious is you trying to stretch some narrative about how we’re rattled and then chucking in a nonsensical abusive term at the end against supports of a team with a double digit lead at the top of the table. Describing a 15 game unbeaten run as lacklustre. I’ll leave posting on here for a while. I’m actually a bit embarrassed for you.

That’s genuinely hilarious.

To reiterate again, excuses for what? We’ve won six of those nine. Conceded three goals. We’re more clear at the top now than at any time this season. What are we supposed to be making excuses for?

What excuses? We’re unbeaten in that period?

We’ve got a lot of injuries at the moment :- Benson, Rodriguez, Brownhill went off yesterday after half an hour, Maatsen and Harwood-Bellis are defenders but their passing is huge for us, Churlinov. Zaroury and Tella look a bit tired. They’ve played more football this year than any other season in their career. We’ve played 9 games in 27 days - it’s amazing how many we’ve won all told. We’ve a clear week before Wigan now. I expect a big performance then. Even yesterday we weren’t great but their keeper made three really good saves.

About 20 years ago. That was in a Burnley pub. And not football related - from memory the guy who did it was a Liverpool fan. I’m talking about a specific element of our away support and their conduct this year.

It’s just awful. Properly shameful stuff. Tempting to say all away followings have their problems, but there have been too many stories and incidents at Burnley away games this season. I think there’s a problem in our away support.

The other thing - if we go up and come down again …… so be it. In the same way it’s tough for Championship clubs to compete with Parachute Payment clubs it’s impossible for clubs our size to compete with about 60% of the Premier League. Even if we’re the best run club in the country (which we were for a while, and arguably you were pre-Venkys) your shelf life inevitable ends. It’s the nature of the beast for clubs our size.

Muric Roberts, Beyer, Ekdal, Taylor Cullen, Brownhill Zaroury, Benson All more than good enough I’d say. See how the striker develops. Short of a midfielder and I think we’ll probably buy Maatsen - who will also be good enough. We’re not competing with Chelsea and Mudryk. We’re competing with Crystal Palace - and they have James McArthur and Matete.

I wouldn’t be so sure about that. I think a good few of them could play in the Premier League. We gave United a game in the cup and battered Bournemouth at their place. Not all of them will make it. But I think enough of them will. The bottom half of the Premier League isn’t all that.

I think you’re dead right. I’ve rubbed some people up the wrong way by talking about how much better we are - but what I’ve also said is we’ve got a massive advantage over most of the division. Not just the parachute payments - but selling players for £70 million. It gives you a massive advantage, and whilst there is a lot of change to manage we should be going straight back up. Somebody said earlier that our lead reflects badly on the other promoted teams - and that is absolutely bang on. You need either amazing recruitment or fantastic coaching to try and compete - and even then the odds are stacked against you.

No he didn’t.

Actually did it during the game. We were that convincing I thought I’d have a look on here.

Minus £35 million net spend. Not spent as much on a single player as you did for Rhodes or Brereton.

Brewster and Berg will be on mega money at Sheffield United. They were £20 million plus signings. McBurnie was £20 million too Suggestion is our wage bill has dropped from north of £70 million to under £30 mill. We’ll make a massive profit this year.