Evening all. Lots of green in the last few posts. Ah well, to be expected As for Kompany, I imagine he has a clear plan. Assuming he’s comparatively successful at Burnley over the the next 1 or two seasons (by comparatively I’m thinking gets us 8th to 10th) I’d imagine he will change his arm at a decent European team in Germany/Spain/Italy to continue building his CV and experience. If he gets us 11th to 13th then maybe he’ll be thinking about a Villa etc as his next step. I’m sure if the offer was right though he’d go to Spurs etc but just like City they will want a coach they see as the finished article, not one still learning his trade. He’s probably 4 or 5 years away from having enough experience to tackle an elite team and this assumes he continues to do well. But he’s only 37, he can afford to be patient. It’s great to see irony isn’t dead on here.

It's a near 20 year habit that you rightly suggest I should really break. I first came on in the day's pre-social media - my guess is to "trash talk" about an upcoming game and I've just stayed around. That said, this season, more than any since 2004, it has become clear the majority don't welcome my presence so you'll see very little of me going forwards.

Last night whilst drunk and still high on the match I posted on here. I shouldn’t have done, it was classless and I sincerely regret my decision. My apologies to you all. Mods: if possible can you please delete my posts from yesterday evening.

As you'd expect. Much ado about nothing. No investigation. We've been asked for our observations after Huddersfield complained. This is (apparently) a standard process. This is from the BBC article on the matter (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65364537) Nixon been using this as massive clickbait on Twitter, talking "match-fixing"

I probably have because it’s what I expect. The last game for me felt more the exception than the rule. Tuesday it’s a Burnley team trying to seal the Championship in enemy territory against a Rovers team scrapping tooth and nail to extend their season and get a shot at the play offs. If I’m wrong to expect a tight game fair enough but whilst I recognise we are an excellent side at this level you aren’t half bad yourselves when you click based on some of the games I’ve seen - most notably Leicester in the Cup and 80 minutes against Sheff Utd in the cup.

Not that I know of - but of course it is possible. We’ve got a big screen at the fan zone so he’s maybe preferring to be there as he is pre most home games 🤷‍♂️ Definitely not engineered though, absolutely no guarantee we win Tuesday so I’m sure the teams we put out were expected to win - and yesterday was as strong as we could put out. First half we had 87% possession, 16 shots and 9 corners so no doubt at all we tried everything to win but we spurned great scoring chances and their goal led a charmed life. Tuesday will be a nervous time for us both, expecting a tight, close game personally.

QPR was our strongest 11 bar Tella who is injured. Absolutely battered them first half but somehow didn’t score. Second they Nick a goal, time waste even more cynically, we go almost 2 - 4 - 4, all out attack, score but don’t then adjust and they Nick a second. Previous 2 weren’t so much intentionally weakened but were used to look at the squad and rotate. IF the EFL investigated nothing would come of it - otherwise why are we allowed a squad 🤷‍♂️ Personally think it’s a mistake to go into Tuesdays game under pressure especially when you have so much to play for but I understand Kompany’s logic about preparing for next season.

Be careful, you are close to resurrecting Theno’s Lancashire United here.

And I don’t think you understand how Twitter works …

That is simply your prejudice not something based on evidence.

Well he’s certainly not posted anything similar in a while.

Ok, I guess we have different experiences. Anyway here’s a corker from earlier in the season:

Are you honesty suggesting there aren’t Rovers fans all over Twitter etc ranting about Burnley? Now whether this guy is a special kind of loon I don’t know but I do agree if they can’t just enjoy this last 13/14 years whilst we’ve had the upper hand then I am a little sad for them.

That could cover a lot of the stuff on this thread as well.

Sorry, I thought you meant away prices.

Just for the record we’ve offered a reciprocal £25 ticket deal this season (which I still think is £5 to much) but not all clubs wanted to do that.

Thank the Lord we were no Fulham eh …

It’s your ground so your call. You can offer as many or few as you chose within the rules (2000 min I think up to whatever capacity you can offer). Doesn’t matter why you make the decisions you do - and people will no doubt have their own thoughts on the ‘why’s’ - everyone has to get on with it. For me, I can’t imagine it will have a significant impact on the result, the better team on the day will win - or the luckiest. I also don’t see it making much difference to our season either way. I’m sure some our our fans are disappointed but this sort of allocation has been rumoured for a couple of months now. I always planned to watch it on the TV anyway.

😂😂😂 this ‘super computer’ link might be fun to watch over the next few weeks - https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/championship/

*2 years if you only survive a year.

Here in peace. All things are possible, but happen less and less.

But are they in a row? Each draw happens weeks apart. Im not even sure if your number stays the same throughout 🤷‍♂️😂

But isn’t every draw independent of the previous one? Sure I read some interesting Derren Brown stuff on this.

A danger of administration apparently- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11873261/amp/Sheffield-United-introduce-extraordinary-cost-cutting-measures-avoid-going-administration.html With all due respect you also don’t have Foden, DeBruyne etc etc. If you watch part of our issue today was in every position their players were so much better than we face week in and out we could get near them in the press - and even if we did they had the quality to brush us off. I’m not saying you can’t learn something from today but for me the way you played against Leicester is what you should be looking for to beat us.

I appreciate you enjoyed it however the gulf to city is immense but to say Palace or Wolves etc? I don’t believe so. of course it is tough for any promoted team but I don’t think City are where you survive or go down. Go up, get recruitment right and you’ve got a shot.