The Burnley way.

What did you expect?

There was a press release a month back saying we'll have to be patient for signings.

The chairman literally said it himself.

Its not July yet ffs

We wont get busy until 2 weeks before window closes. Be paitent

And so it begins.

It's almost like it is the first ever transfer window and people haven't seen how they work.

Jay rod to WBA will be done Sunday

Slow down bruv !
Softly, softly catchee monkey

Don't make me bring the panic button out!!

Calm down its only June, it's not like we are the only team not to have brought anyone in yet.
We don't even return for pre season for over a week.
We are not market leaders and cannot throw millions at it to force things through.

We will pick up the scraps and polish them up, making sure any fees paid are at the lowest possible.

Only the super powers are able to cherry pick players and get them in early to gel, the other 12 teams are all jockeying for position, wheeling and dealing.

We CAN polish a turd.

It doesn't matter how long it takes, what matters is bringing In the right players.

I would say that looking at what BFC have done in the last 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years - "The Burnley Way" should be taken as the prime model of how to run a football club. There won't be many football club chairmen or fans who look at "The Burnley Way" and sneer.

There must be a lot of disappointed wives and girlfriends of posters on this board If they're premature reactions are anything to go by.

I don't understand why people get so immersed with signings and transfers. You have no control over it. Why get worked up over things you can't control? Do you people get angry at weather? Do you wake up in the morning and instantly get angry because it raining. Do you look out the window and mutter '******* moon' before doing to sleep?

“But pre-season is a long period, so I think it’s good to get the lads away, and in that more confined environment where everyone is together for five or six days to allow us to get that bonding done, as well as the physical, tactical and technical work." - SD

Every year Sean espouses the importance of pre-season for his team and getting players in early. Every year the recruitment team don't deliver it.

We are now in our second concurrent PL season and we need to step up. If all the best players get snapped up by other clubs we are left dealing with the scraps. Small town mentality.

Dsr might be completely the opposite of me in everything else, but in how our football club is run and does its business, we completely agree.

Only about nine/ten clubs don't envy us.

at least its a Lansbury free zone now, be thankfull

Steddyman wrote:“But pre-season is a long period, so I think it’s good to get the lads away, and in that more confined environment where everyone is together for five or six days to allow us to get that bonding done, as well as the physical, tactical and technical work." - SD

Every year Sean espouses the importance of pre-season for his team and getting players in early. Every year the recruitment team don't deliver it..

Only so it allows for the

"Not Dyche fit"
"Need time to get familiar with the framework"
"Will get fitter/better with a full pre season"

Lines to be pulled out when things are getting tough.

Also sends a pull your finger out to the people doing our negotiations, whilst covering his own back.

The perception from other Managers is that Burnley are a very well run club. I've been told this by one of them.

Hard to recruit when we not 100% sure who we will be replacing. We might spend £10million on a replacement for Keane and then the Everton deal falls through.

We should be strengthening, not just replacing like for like if a player decides to leave us.

Karanka made a point of telling everybody that he did all of his transfer business early at Middlesbrough last season so that all of the players had time to bond as a group so that his team could hit the ground running.

Straight through the door marked Exit.

The atmosphere at the first home game last season against Swansea was very flat. I thought it would have been bouncing. I can only attribute it in part to the lack of signings that 'give that feel good factor'. That game cost us 3 points against relegation rivals and heaven forbid if we'd gone down that would, IMO have been a major contributory factor. I appreciate it's not easy but it's always better to do transfer activity early.

We backed the manager last season and the intention is to back him again with even more funds. Seems pretty reasonable to me let them get on with it and moan come September if it's not what you like.

ashtonlongsider wrote:That game cost us 3 points against relegation rivals and heaven forbid if we'd gone down that would, IMO have been a major contributory factor.

But we didn't go down and we were never in any danger after that so your point about early signings last season is completely irrelevant.

How about we start a new thread with different pictures of sticks to beat the club with.

Or maybe Mike Garlick should send a personal e-mail to those less patient ones amongst us and make up a few porkies.

Or we could wait until the transfer window officially opens.
Tick tick.

Its not August yet for ffs.

Or we could wait until the transfer window officially opens.
Tick tick.[/quote]

The transfer window opens on the 9th of June. It's contracts that generally run from the 1st July.

Just saying.

Spijed wrote:But we didn't go down and we were never in any danger after that so your point about early signings last season is completely irrelevant.

Think you need to read the whole post instead of just paraphrasing for your own agenda.

MACCA wrote:Calm down its only June, it's not like we are the only team not to have brought anyone in yet.
We don't even return for pre season for over a week.
We are not market leaders and cannot throw millions at it to force things through.

We will pick up the scraps and polish them up, making sure any fees paid are at the lowest possible.

Only the super powers are able to cherry pick players and get them in early to gel, the other 12 teams are all jockeying for position, wheeling and dealing.

We haven't actually sold anyone yet either.

ashtonlongsider wrote:Think you need to read the whole post instead of just paraphrasing for your own agenda.

The point still remains that despite not getting signings in early, the season couldn't have gone any better. It was perfect from our point of view.

It would be nice to get players in early and get the ground running also get there fitness levels up to peak standards . Also we have some decent fixtures in august what are winnable . Its looking like most of our deals will be done in august when prices start going down . We managed to get away with it last season with a good start to the season . Lets hope we can do the same again this year ans then when the signings arrive we can push on up the table

Last season we had momentum from the promotion season before.

This season we're going into after winning just 2 out of the last 16.

UpTheBeehole wrote:Last season we had momentum from the promotion season before.

This season we're going into after winning just 2 out of the last 16.

Considering we were never in any danger of going down last season it's no wonder we were able to wind it down at the end of the season. And the 2 wins out of 16 isn't that relevant if you are still getting draws, which we were. We comfortably made sure we didn't lose the games we couldn't afford to lose and won the games that mattered - Stoke & Palace.

Steddyman wrote:The Burnley way.

oh stop being a little bitch

Raggus wrote:Or we could wait until the transfer window officially opens.
Tick tick.

The transfer window opens on the 9th of June. It's contracts that generally run from the 1st July.

Just saying.[/quote]


No doubt you'll correct me again, but I'm sure that negotiations can take place from June 9th but players can't sign on the dotted line until July 1st.

What are the odds on Burnley "doing a Leicester" and winning the premier League? Do you think someone is trying to get longer odds before we start adding to our squad?

UTC

UpTheBeehole wrote:Last season we had momentum from the promotion season before.

This season we're going into after winning just 2 out of the last 16.

Momentum (as you mean it) in football doesn't exist.

Spijed wrote: We comfortably made sure we didn't lose the games we couldn't afford to lose

I'm not sure ragging a draw away at Sunderland could be classed as comfortable. We were outclassed all too often by our nearest competitors.

Tall Paul wrote:Momentum (as you mean it) in football doesn't exist.

Of course it does. A winning feeling is infectious.

Leicester stayed up and then went on to win the league, all from that winning feeling.

Teams come straight from League One all the way through to the PL. Winning feeling.

Our 08/09 promotion - winning feeling.

UpTheBeehole wrote:Of course it does. A winning feeling is infectious.

Leicester stayed up and then went on to win the league, all from that winning feeling.

Teams come straight from League One all the way through to the PL. Winning feeling.

Our 08/09 promotion - winning feeling.

And we went up on the back of a 23 match unbeaten run....and then lost at home to Swansea. You forget that momentum was irrelevant last season....lose away, win at home etc. Even after some bad defeats against the likes of Leicester & West Brom it mattered not on iota as we had the ability to bounce back at home.

box_of_frogs wrote:I'm not sure ragging a draw away at Sunderland could be classed as comfortable. We were outclassed all too often by our nearest competitors.

Absolute rubbish. Seriously with comments like that I doubt you can ever actually be happy supporting Burnley at the moment.

UpTheBeehole wrote:Of course it does. A winning feeling is infectious.

Leicester stayed up and then went on to win the league, all from that winning feeling.

Teams come straight from League One all the way through to the PL. Winning feeling.

Our 08/09 promotion - winning feeling.

How does your momentum theory apply to Chelsea winning the league last season after winning just two of their last ten games the season before?

Spijed wrote:And we went up on the back of a 23 match unbeaten run....and then lost at home to Swansea. You forget that momentum was irrelevant last season....lose away, win at home etc. Even after some bad defeats against the likes of Leicester & West Brom it mattered not on iota as we had the ability to bounce back at home.

Exactly.

Momentum maybe the wrong word. Momentum is a consequence of mentality and belief, not a cause unto itself.

Mentality and believe grow from winning games and they are damaged by losing games.

Stop filling your trousers you soft sh1te.

Steve-Harpers-perm wrote:Absolute rubbish. Seriously with comments like that I doubt you can ever actually be happy supporting Burnley at the moment.

Did you go to Sunderland away? It was appalling. How we drew I'll never know.