Sometimes you need a flukey goal to get you out of poor run.

Crikey!

Nice to see Dack geeing them up before kick off.

I suppose he was just edged by Travis in the awfulness stakes. I'd have dropped both.

Never the same since he became a part time Dingle.

Somebody at Sky is taking the piss, we're now getting a montage of Steve Kean.

That's the problem with a thin squad, but JRC is worse than Travis at the back.

Nice of Sky to show our very worst moments of the season.

Morton is undroppable. Bringing JRC back is criminal.

It's nothing new though. Rovers have been Jekyll and Hyde since the Bowyer days. Prior to that we were pure Hyde.

Has he had a go at their fans yet?

Which is fine if you're basing it on just that. I'm basing it on Hirst being GB's top striker target, being chased all Summer and not bringing in anyone else whilst Hirst is being developed.

Maybe he'd have done a better job if he was paid in Revels.

Will goalscorer Dack start? If he does it probably won't be in the right position. Will Pickering be back? We know we won't have Brittain. Adam Wharton needs some game time. Another loss I'm afraid, but we get a better performance against Tony's strugglers.

Yes, so we can send him back. The point I was making is that if that's Broughton's idea of a rough diamond, I worry for the future.

I know we're all on a downer with JDT but this has got to be seen as a positive.

I got asked the same by one of our dingle friends on here. The answer is, I'd rather not have either. Pace couldn't afford Blackburn Rovers (for all the wrong reasons). Some day he may not be able to afford Burnley if ever they can't self sustain. He's obviously a very clever guy because if that day ever comes he won't be the one crying, he'll probably have doubled his fortune in the process.

We could be none league and I'd still rather be a Rover.

That's what I meant, it won't last without continual success (or "failure" of parachute payments). I think you'll get promoted and enjoy a few more years of success if I'm honest, but I can't see it being sustainable. If I were batting for your team, I'd be overjoyed with present success but in the back of my mind I'd be wondering who pays the bills if things go South with a dodgy managerial appointment or suchlike. Where you're lucky is I don't think he's completely changed the club and Burnley have been well ran/pragmatic for a while now, with people who actually care about the club. Our executive team run the club like a soulless production line, mass producing tins of failure year after year, which get ever more expensive.

It's still a very risky way to run a small club. He hasn't the personal wealth to finance the club. Like I said his current success is masking the clubs recent failures but it'll get to the point where there's no room for error. I'd say Rovers are the complete opposite. Badly ran, owners have lots of personal wealth, and with it lots of room for error. And f**k me do we keep making them.

Sorry to mention his name again, but when Kean originally came in he promised the owners better football, and his scumbag agent kept banging on about adding value to the squad. I imagine that proviso has never changed. And I don't believe for one minute that JDT signed George Hirst. That was clearly a Venkys order of, find an unpolished gem to develop into a £15m player. Very disappointing and worrying if George Hirst is Gregg Broughtons idea of an unpolished gem.

On present evidence JDT and Mowbray are stubborn to the point of foolishness but Mowbray had a lot longer to prove himself correct, and didn't. Kean shouldn't be in the same conversation. Took down the club almost single handed.

I was a bit unfair about Mowbray earlier in the thread. To be clear, Mowbray was nowhere near as bad as Coyle, and in a different universe to Kean. But he wasn't as self sacrificing and saintly as some believed.

That's a massive knee jerk reaction. And that's coming from someone who had several of them on Saturday in the match day thread. It's nowhere near as bad as Coyle and Mowbray. Kean, ffs. Those were the darkest days you can imagine. I'm amazed the club is still in business. Rovers have played well this season, we've ran some teams ragged. The defence have played exceptionally well on occasion, holding on to leads like never under Mowbray. Let's keep some faith that we're just having a bad run at the moment, something clicks and it'll turn around.

That's true but that doesn't stop me hoping that Alan Pace brings more misery to Burnley. He's doing a great job of distracting their fans from his failings but it could easily all go wrong. He's got a long way to match Venkys and co but let's not forget he's a rich fella spending the clubs own money at the moment and praying it doesn't run out. If Burnley don't get promoted I suspect they'll go the same way as us with the exception that the taps will be completely turned off.