The more I think of it the more it tickles me 😄😄 Sean Dyche is easily the best thing to have happened to Burnley in the 40 odd years that I've been alive, he's a very good manager in his prime and he loves the Club! He's most clubs dream manager. Had he been given time and funds for a bit of a squad rebuild over the next couple of seasons he'd have them firmly fixed in the prem again. To replace him with the ultimate mercanary, dinosaur, Allardyce is the cherry on the cake 🎂

They'd have destroyed the championship (and us!!) next season if Dyche was still there. At least now we have a chance of possibly turning the tables back on them if their owners continue to make farcical decisions.

Haha as much as I respect him as a manager there's no chance I'd want him here. (and even less chance he'd even consider it anyway) Allardyce is history, I always saw Dyche as a more modern Allardyce mkII.

Admittedly i don't follow burnley (or the prem) that closely but it does seem a ridiculous time to sack him whilst theyve still got a vhance of surving the drop, unless he's lost the dressing room (which doesn't seem likely) or been eyeing up a move to a bigger club himself. They've been punching above their weight for years, selling their best players and replacing them with cheaper inferior ones (remind you of anyone) so it was going to catch up to them at some point! Any new manager will have the same struggles there and will never get the same respect that the fans have for Dyche.

The only people really making any money from being at our club are the players and their slimy representatives. Same parasites that are going to be laughing all the way to barclays when the likes of Lenihan and Nyambe start negotiating with other clubs

But how many of our Accedmy players have actual been sold for real money? Only Raya that i can think of in recent years

There's still the bones of a very good team there should a quality management team come in and there be reasonable funds available for them to build on what's there. But if Mowbray stays or is just replaced by another useless (never really)has been, then it won't be long until the remaining decent players we have left are replaced with a squad full of Hedges, Brown types!

Never have never will and not bought the physical paper probably since the late 90s or early 00s For me its biggest draw back in the day was it's 'late afternoon edition' which was often the first place youd get news or confirmation about transfers at the club. But that quickly became irrelevant once the Internet took off...

LET columns in general attract nothing but weirdos no matter what the story is about I recently got banned for simply daring critise/question LET darlings The Issa brothers 😄 and how they apparently have the council in their back pocket and get away with building all manner of grotesque buildings wherever they please even if they dont even remotely match the approved planning permissions (but thats for a different thread😅)

I don't even see the 'nice enough bloke' aspect, just an arrogant miserable bs merchant to me.

That is funny 😂😂 But tbf I actually have a lot of sympathy for Gallagher, he's just another player that's been badly managed and used over the last few years by Tony! but he had a lot of potential when we signed him,also his price tag was higher than it should have been, but again that's not his fault, just another shoddy deal.

How can the owners/employers of any multi million pound business just ignore stats like these 🤯 unless championship mediocrity is the aim. Personally I do think that is very much the aim! As the real cretins pulling the strings behind the scenes can get away with a lot more down here in the shadows outside of the Premier league spotlight.

I personally would like a foreign manager for a change!

Have any of the managers we've had under Venkys actually left another club to join us 🤔 I can only really think of Appleton (who had only been at a struggling blackpool for a few months at the time I think!) I cant see any manager that's currently 'happy where they are' or 'has other reasonable options' wanting to come here unless they where 💯 gurenteed a decent tranfer kitty and no interface in footbaling matters from above.

If the owners(whoever they actually may be) really give even the slightest shit they should roll the dice now and get a ball busting manager in for the remainder of the season with the offer of a huge bonus if wereach the play offs or higher if we got promoted

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yup, couldn't agree more

yep and im certain if we keep falling away, dont make the play offs and Mowbray goes... then you can bet your bottom dollar that at some point he will be blaming the fans for being pessimistic and never being fully on board ZZZzzzzzzz

Can Mowbray and his amateur hour cronies please all just feck right off. I've only ever personally disliked 2 rovers managers in my lifetime (40 years-ish!) and Steve 'crooked as the come' Kean was the other. Mowbray might be a more adequate manager than Kean(doesn't take much!) but in every other dept there's not really much between them, Mowbrays just a little older and subtler with his bs.

I was talking very specifically about natural finishing ability, not any players all around ability

Sorry but Bellamys goal scoring stats over his career would beg to differ 🙂

Yes they are. So why are you doing it 🤷‍♂️ Trying to have an unbiased rational conversation on here really is a waste of time and energy. Folk just stubbornly paint themselves into a corner with their precious opinions 😄

He didn't like it here from what i remember

Cole in his prime, no question! One of the greatest in premier league history (as his stats make obvious) Cole in the 18 months or so he was here, we probably got 2 good monthsout of him. Jansen, great player for us obviously and had many attributes that made him a far superior player all around than Rhodes, but purely as a "finisher" inside the area Rhodes was better, but Rhodes lack of attributes in most other areas meant he was not Premier league standard unlike Jansen

It's so sad from a football fans point of view seeing talent like Rhodes having their career derailed and ability wiped out because as mostly always they chose to chase the bigger money. Probably the most natural goalscorer that we've had since Shearer(and Garner before him) Looks like Adam Armstrongs career is now also going that way 😞