Paddy Power advert

[boyyanno]

I have to be honest but I just don't get it!?

It's a little bit funny I guess but it's just made up crap really isn't it? No one actually thinks this stuff, what's the point of it?

[Pickles]

It's a little bit funny I guess but it's just made up crap really isn't it? No one actually thinks this stuff, what's the point of it?

Made up? This messageboard has had people questioning the style, comparing it to Dyche, complaining about Muric, wondering where the goals are going to come from, suggesting Taylor at left back, moaning about Roberts not overlapping...

People may think it's not funny and the accent... fair enough. But it definitely has more than a bit of truth to it.

[martin_p]

I know that but it’s all the same ignorant bo0ll0cks.

& btw for anyone that’s bothered, i’m not ‘offended’ more unbelievably bored of that depiction.

Surely can do something a bit better?

I’m a huge Dyche fan but it would be hard to argue against ‘rigid and direct’ characterising a large part of our football under him.

[burnmark]

Manchester accent

First thing I noticed when I watched it.

[criminalclaret]

No one is ‘laughing at us’, they’re laughing at a made up character for an advert.

It's called satire. Maybe the ones on here that struggle with that concept are the ones that moan the most about of it. Or maybe I'm a bit more thick skinned than most on here?

Harmless, tongue-in-cheek fun, by a firm known to use this for their marketing. Could have been one made at Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds and we'd all have a cheap laugh.

[criminalclaret]

I have to be honest but I just don't get it!?

It's a little bit funny I guess but it's just made up crap really isn't it? No one actually thinks this stuff, what's the point of it?

Exactly, its just cheap tongue in cheek shite football banter, hardly worth people getting upset about it.

Have a laugh, shrug it off and next week it'll be someone other team.

[Enola Gay]

That is comfortably the least funny, most predictable pile of witless shite I've ever seen.

I mean, sub-Mrs Brown's Boys shite.

[AlargeClaret]

Actually thought it was mildy amusing , it’s so tongue in cheek and typical of your generic old school fan who’s never happy . It seems to have offended a few curmudgeons and quite a few of the giddy “ when’s the next reveal video “ types too , which can only be a good thing .
It’s a bit of harmless fun get over it

[Boss Hogg]

Why is it embarrassing?

It’s in line with all their other fan denial type stuff, pick the obvious stereotype (which is present for good reason) and lay it on thick.

As said above, it represents a large chunk of this forum.

No it doesn’t and it’s cringeworthy.

[CoolClaret]

Made up? This messageboard has had people questioning the style, comparing it to Dyche, complaining about Muric, wondering where the goals are going to come from, suggesting Taylor at left back, moaning about Roberts not overlapping...

People may think it's not funny and the accent... fair enough. But it definitely has more than a bit of truth to it.

& there’s me thinking we had sold out pretty much every home and away fixture in the Champ, actually have a waiting list for season tickets and sold out every game in the Prem
(Bar like what 30 seats) before a hall has even been kicked.

So yeah, complete ********

[boyyanno]

Made up? This messageboard has had people questioning the style, comparing it to Dyche, complaining about Muric, wondering where the goals are going to come from, suggesting Taylor at left back, moaning about Roberts not overlapping...

People may think it's not funny and the accent... fair enough. But it definitely has more than a bit of truth to it.

They've just made up a fan who is unhappy with Kompany to get a few laughs from the previous perception that we played Brexit ball.

I'd actually find it funnier if the specific things you'd mentioned were included and the parody was a bit more accurate. I'm not offended that they've tried to use us for a laugh I just think it's a bit of a crap effort that left me thinking what was the point?

[sox8595]

I found it quite amusing, must admit though I'm easily amused,

[forzagranata]

It's called satire. Maybe the ones on here that struggle with that concept are the ones that moan the most about of it. Or maybe I'm a bit more thick skinned than most on here?

Harmless, tongue-in-cheek fun, by a firm known to use this for their marketing. Could have been one made at Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds and we'd all have a cheap laugh.

There's a bit more to satire than getting one idea (in this case "Burnley fans are thick Northern idiots") and then hammering it with a sledgehammer for three minutes.

[boyyanno]

I actually think it would have made for a much better and funnier parody if the same fan had been hailing Kompany as the new messiah while sticking his Sean Dyche posters in the naughty cupboard to join the OC masks.

[roperclaret]

Honestly I think I’m seeing this way different to most of you. I think this is a subtle compliment about how we approach games now. Clearly that’s not a real Burnley fan, doesn’t even sound remotely like he’s from the Town.

[Gordaleman]

In Hollywood, they say that ANY publicity is better than NO publicity. Well this is FREE publicity and it will do the club no harm at all.

C'mon you Clarets.

[Clarets4me]

a) Wrong accent although anyone south of Sheffield won't know that ...

b) If they'd have done it in conjunction with a few on here, it could have been a belter ... I was hoping he'd say " we've never really replaced John Deary "

c) Swearing unnecessary ..

Apart from that, mildly amusing ..

[criminalclaret]

There's a bit more to satire than getting one idea (in this case "Burnley fans are thick Northern idiots") and then hammering it with a sledgehammer for three minutes.

Where did you get Northern people are thick idiots from that?

I read that as harmlessly Burnley FC have been so predictable for so long that fans don't recognise what they are seeing now with such great football, all with an ironic twist.

It's a compliment more than anything and a cheap laugh at second, I'll take it.

Watch what happens when they do a Fan Denial after Everton lose to Luton, same reaction from their fans. It's all a pisstake.

[BurnleyFC]

I normally like the Paddy Power stuff, but that was garbage.

[Stan Tastic]

It was that unfunny it made me angry.

[forzagranata]

After this Sky documentary - there will be plenty of material for genuine satire.

[Steve1956]

It's shite, and embarrassing.

I like a man who gets to the point

[forzagranata]

And now Paddy Power's twitter admin has started blocking Burnley accounts lol

[yTib]

it's obviously pure gash but not even in the same universe as this betfair advert.

the lad on this is in need of a jacob rees-mogg level of a good hiding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3CKkQk ... fairRacing

[martin_p]

Well that’s the next Burnley based Paddy Power ad sorted. It’ll betray us as humourless miserablists who can’t take a bit of gentle ribbing.

[Pickles]

Well that’s the next Burnley based Paddy Power ad sorted. It’ll betray us as humourless miserablists who can’t take a bit of gentle ribbing.

With scouse accents.

[TheFamilyCat]

After this Sky documentary - there will be plenty of material for genuine satire.

Enough to fill a podcast?

[CoolClaret]

And now Paddy Power's twitter admin has started blocking Burnley accounts lol

Yup, blocked me.

Bloody snowflakes

[Burnley1989]

Yup, blocked me.

Bloody snowflakes

Irony

[bfcjg]

It's amusing,however if I was Dyche I'd be annoyed it is actually a slur on him.

[ChristheViking]

Senior male Burnley fan. Out of touch. Stuck in his ways. Believes only in his way. Resistant to any and every change.

I've no idea where they could have got this sterotype from.

[Inchy]

Why is no one else annoyed that the actor doesn’t have a Burnley accent?

[tarkys_ears]

Funny in only that way that appeals to people whom the betting companies are trying to appeal to.

[sound and vision]

Agree with the above two posters (bfcjg and CtheV), it is very funny and more of a slur on Dyche, Christ there are an enormous amount of embarrassing snowflakes on this forum!

[yTib]

anybody who uses the word snowflake is just a knob.

and my accent isn't particularly burnley any more as i moved to the north-east as a teenager.

kind of a weird lancashire-durham hybrid.

[sound and vision]

Hi yTib, thanks for your input!

[Shaggy]

Oh come on that pretty funny.

Too many sensitive sallys on here which makes it even funnier

[Volvoclaret]

Why is no one else annoyed that the actor doesn’t have a Burnley accent?

Do ALL Burnley fans have Burnley accents? Are certain posters so insular that they cannot comprehend that a Claret could be from Mancland?

[sound and vision]

Dunno I watched it on my phone but I could have sworn he was wearing red & white hooped socks. Apologies if it was claret but I've only bothered to watch it once!
Edit It was Claret & Blue socks! I know he's got a Manc accent but so what?

[Nonayforever]

It's a brilliant advertisement.
If you don't get it , then it's not aimed at you.
If you don't like it , it's not aimed at you.
It's an advertisement aimed at a certain sector of the public.
Paddy Power don't give a monkeys if it offends a few ( or many ) people who will never be customers of theirs.
It's an advertisement to sell betting, full stop.

[Raconteur]

Do ALL Burnley fans have Burnley accents? Are certain posters so insular that they cannot comprehend that a Claret could be from Mancland?

Absolutely spot on. My uncle who is an Officer in the Royal Marines in Landing Craft down in Hamworthy, Poole. Massive Burnley supporter but doesn't have a Burnley account. His son, my cousin has spent most of his life down south - Plymouth and now Bovey Tracy. Another big Burnley supporter. Listening to his accent, you would have no clue that he was from Burnley.
Not all Burnley fans have a broad East Lancs accent.

[Oshkoshclaret]

Senior male Burnley fan. Out of touch. Stuck in his ways. Believes only in his way. Resistant to any and every change.

I've no idea where they could have got this sterotype from.

I see where you're going with this but surely no Burnley fan would ever use a landline. Unless they had something to hide.

[quoonbeatz]

Do ALL Burnley fans have Burnley accents? Are certain posters so insular that they cannot comprehend that a Claret could be from Mancland?

I'm from Manchester.

[martin_p]

I'm from Manchester.

Did you recently record an advert for Paddy Power?

[Raconteur]

I see where you're going with this but surely no Burnley fan would ever use a landline. Unless they had something to hide.

Nah, they would have a burner phone.

[Goalposts]

The fact that paddy power is now putting the time and effort into an advert about burnley, just shows you how far the club have grown in the last year

[arise_sir_charge]

An observation from this and the transfers thread but Coolclaret is possibly the least cool claret there is.

Not in his dress sense or anything like that, I wouldn’t know he could be cool as cheese in that way but he gets awfully hot under the collar and anxious about things.

Maybe a name change to something like vexedclaret.

[Inchy]

Do ALL Burnley fans have Burnley accents? Are certain posters so insular that they cannot comprehend that a Claret could be from Mancland?

Bloody hell! Might had well have someone with a south East Asian accent doing the ad. PC gone mad

[bfcjg]

Anyone who takes that seriously ought to chill a bit.

[claptrappers_union]

Aimed at it's target audience and account holders