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.

The rail disruption didn't seem to have the same effect on Liverpool or Man City fans going to Wembley. Perhaps Burnley just don't have a very good away support.

Very true . Unfortunately I showed a little less Christian spirit than you on this holiest of days and just couldn't stop myself from applying the salt.

Apparently this former 4th Division outfit took a paltry 800 fans to West Ham, having been offered 3000 seats. Nothing like getting behind the lads in a crisis.

I think Allardyce will come in, which tells us this is a last gasp, smash and grab. There is no plan for next year. Just a naked, desperate last throw of the dice. None of the named candidates including big Sam are better placed to keep them up than Dyche in my opinion. He and his staff won't have been cheap to sack either. This is officially where history will show when the rot set in folks. Good Friday 2022

I agree with this. It wouldn't be the end of the world. I would say he is generally respected by supporters but I don't see any real affection or love for him. There are large parts of his game that never seem to improve. He still reminds me of a raw youth player sometimes.

Great post: but next to Pickering you forgot to write (cat piss).

Following on from posting the above from the Talbot archive, I looked at Andy Crawford on Wikipedia. It seems that he scored only 39 league goals in his entire career. More than half of them in this promotion season. Looking at him and Garner on this photo and noting that they were both born in the same year I bet most supporters would have seen Andy as the more likely to become our all time leading goalscorer.

What a great link. Many thanks. Oh to have these four lining up for the remainder of this season

I would guess that relegation would cause the owners to use the parachute to square debts off. This would be prioritised over squad strengthening and would lead to Dyche seeing the writing on the wall and walking. They will appoint a vastly inferior manager, the best players will leave without being adequately replaced and another relegation will follow within three or four seasons. Only then will they resume their place in the correct order of things and our 'no nay never' song will no longer be so embarrassing.

Classic Mowbray today: He brought Buckley on to be creative, but moved him to fullback (where he can't play), because Nyambe (who can play there) was bizarrely subbed. He left the truly dreadful Pickering on the pitch rather than replace him with Giles who ended up playing God knows where. What was the formation when Hedges came on? Several players shouted to the bench for clarification. I don't even recall playing for a Sunday league manager who would wing it in such an amateurish fashion, and some of those blokes were an absolute shambles let me tell you. If we had any kind of normal infrastructure he would be sacked tonight and a lot of money would be dangled before an Allardyce type figure.

Agreed, dreadfully slow. He makes Tommy Spurr look like Alan Wells. (One for the old 'uns)

I would play: Kaminski Nyambe Van Hecke Wharton Giles Buckley Travis Rothwell Dolan Dack Brereton

That Leeds game was brilliant to watch as a neutral. Even better as a Rovers fan 😁

He looked to have hurt his left knee last night, just before we made our final substitution. He seemed to run it off ok but his general body shape, whilst always bulky, bothers me a bit. He is such an important, galvanising presence. Vital for any future success this season.

Yes I remember that. It ended up with David Mail of all people taking one at Stoke away and smashing it into the top corner. Ģarner, strangely enough wasn't one of those missing penalties though. I don't think he took one for us after about 1984 ish. Incredible really when you think about it. Of the current crop, the way Rothwell passes the ball crisply and accurately makes me think he would take a decent penalty. Not that I think he has the panache to step up however.

Burnley's games in hand have all but evaporated and they look vulnerable again.

Notwithstanding our superb defence, we have been poor on the ball and created very little for several games now. Today needs to be the day when we put the recent form to bed. I wouldn't expect us to concede today and expect it to stay goalless until deep into the game. Just hope Mowbray gives Brereton and khadra a decent run out rather than the last twenty minutes if we are needing a goal.

But still a child at 35.

I agree. I rated Stewart Downing whilst he was here but the Downing of two seasons ago doesn't get in our current side for me. A good indicator of our progress I suppose.

I remember that too. One or two posters speculated that Bigdogg may have been Paul Senior in disguise when he first started posting.

We need Dacky back. He always turned it on for the cameras.

Turns out Mowbray was right all those years ago. Defenders did come, eventually.

I'd love to see those too. I don't recall the Coventry fixture being televised but the Villa replay definitely was. There weren't too many home video recorders in 1980 and the format may have been a soon to be obsolete Betamax or V2000 which makes a YouTube upload unlikely. We can live in hope though. I digitise old 8mm cine film in my spare time. It would be fantastic if some silent colour footage from the terraces of say the Bryan Douglas era were ever to be unearthed. There will be loads of stuff like that in wardrobes and lofts around the town I bet.

Gascoigne and Beardsley in that team.