Credit where it's due and Luton are so lucky to have him.

He's done and continues to do a fantastic job at Luton.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/tf7ihsDtqQ2ZC2DA/

Can't not like him, didn't cry when Watford potted him, just got on with it and got their biggest rival promoted - that's statue stuff !

It’s amazing what being abit more presentable does for you, Luton are very much like us when we came up with dyche but because dyche was the face of it, he never got the respect or recognition the way Edwards is. I don’t see Luton ever finishing top 10 never mind 7th

A £23m spend and we have seen some of the most spirited performances seen in the PL this season . His handling of the Tom Lockyer near fatal incident was magnificent.He is for me close to being the PL manager of the season. If they stay up no question

He seems a top bloke and hopefully will have a long and successful managerial career.

Gary O’Neill is another that seems to have a lot going for him, but can’t take to him the same as Rob Edwards. He comes across quite full of himself at times in my opinion.

Did the dirty on Forest Green Rovers.

It will be interesting to see what happens when Luton are struggling and no longer the media darlings.
But, yup, he's done well so far.

ecc wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:45 am

Did the dirty on Forest Green Rovers.

Not so classy was he when he was negotiating with another club behind their backs?

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:17 am

Not so classy was he when he was negotiating with another club behind their backs?

It’s football Tony. Rotten to the core.
For what it’s worth my eldest son used to play football with and against him when he was a teenager. Was a lovely modest lad then and when Villa took him into their academy he didn’t change a bit. Nice lad from a nice family. His dad was a goalkeeper in the League of Wales, smashing bloke.

Do you know the ins and outs of that CT?

Jamesy wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:44 am

It’s football Tony. Rotten to the core.
For what it’s worth my eldest son used to play football with and against him when he was a teenager. Was a lovely modest lad then and when Villa took him into their academy he didn’t change a bit. Nice lad from a nice family. His dad was a goalkeeper in the League of Wales, smashing bloke.

He comes across really well, I have to say that, and he impressed me with his interview this week after they'd been hammered in the second half at Liverpool. No bullshit, just said it how it was and how difficult it had been for them.

Papabendi wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:45 am

Do you know the ins and outs of that CT?

Wrong direction - try ecc

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:50 am

He comes across really well, I have to say that, and he impressed me with his interview this week after they'd been hammered in the second half at Liverpool. No bullshit, just said it how it was and how difficult it had been for them.

And that was quite good when he intimated that the ref didn’t play the correct amount of stoppage time when they played United.
He said it was because they were playing Man United!

Jamesy wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:55 am

And that was quite good when he intimated that the ref didn’t play the correct amount of stoppage time when they played United.
He said it was because they were playing Man United!

I missed that - he's not wrong though

Why do we have Luton fans posting on here?

Where were you lot last season when you were 50 points behind Burnley?

They’re nothing we haven’t seen before, just another crap tiny club scraping a few results here and there playing turd lower league football. No different to Blackpool.

When they get relegated who are you fickle fair weather bunch gonna support then? Back to Burnley? or Everton?

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:07 pm

Why do we have Luton fans posting on here?

Where were you lot last season when you were 50 points behind Burnley?

They’re nothing we haven’t seen before, just another crap tiny club scraping a few results here and there playing turd lower league football. No different to Blackpool.

When they get relegated who are you fickle fair weather bunch gonna support then? Back to Burnley? or Everton?

Jesus Christ, who woke you up you odious individual?

Luton and Edwards are so good but we are so rubbish, yet we’ve taken 4 points off them and they needed a last minute rugby punt and foul to nick a goal.

Luton so good, I can’t remember the last time we lost to them.

Sadly they are better at managing games than us and more tactically astute.

Oh, and yes. We are rubbish.

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:07 pm

Why do we have Luton fans posting on here?

Where were you lot last season when you were 50 points behind Burnley?

They’re nothing we haven’t seen before, just another crap tiny club scraping a few results here and there playing turd lower league football. No different to Blackpool.

When they get relegated who are you fickle fair weather bunch gonna support then? Back to Burnley? or Everton?

Turd lower league football? They are more entertaining than us, they have a better style than us.
If they're lower league we must be Sunday league football

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:07 pm

Why do we have Luton fans posting on here?

Where were you lot last season when you were 50 points behind Burnley?

They’re nothing we haven’t seen before, just another crap tiny club scraping a few results here and there playing turd lower league football. No different to Blackpool.

When they get relegated who are you fickle fair weather bunch gonna support then? Back to Burnley? or Everton?

You don’t do yourself any favours do you ?

The biggest irony is that you seem angry about everything and everyone with the exception as to how rubbish we have been this season….which you seem fairly relaxed about.

Leopards and spots

123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:40 am

It’s amazing what being abit more presentable does for you, Luton are very much like us when we came up with dyche but because dyche was the face of it, he never got the respect or recognition the way Edwards is. I don’t see Luton ever finishing top 10 never mind 7th

Blatantly untrue this. Dyche got a lot of respect and still does so when you see his name mentioned by people in the media. The only problem Dyche had is sticking with us too long. Football became more pragmatic, though he still got credit for that, but it pigeon holed him. It will likely hold him back, but Edwards has some way to go before his stock is as high as Dyche's was in the summer of 2018.

Jamesy wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:14 pm

Sadly they are better at managing games than us and more tactically astute.

We will have to wait a while before that statement becomes actual fact.
Currently they are doing slightly better than we are, that's all.

What’s classy about saying I played against your dad ?

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:07 pm

Why do we have Luton fans posting on here?

Where were you lot last season when you were 50 points behind Burnley?

They’re nothing we haven’t seen before, just another crap tiny club scraping a few results here and there playing turd lower league football. No different to Blackpool.

When they get relegated who are you fickle fair weather bunch gonna support then? Back to Burnley? or Everton?

You're a strange bloke; always resort to exaggerated statements and extreme positions, which might be intended to challenge others' opinions but really just makes you look childish.

Yes they were a considerable amount of points behind us last season and yet this year have considerably bridged that gap - which is the whole point.
Rob Edwards/Luton have prepared for the league (from a worse starting point) far more effectively than we have, which is both a credit to them and also an indictment on us.

boatshed bill wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:14 pm

We will have to wait a while before that statement becomes actual fact.
Currently they are doing slightly better than we are, that's all.

That’s your opinion and I respect it. However I would say they are doing considerably better than us on less resources. They still may go down, but at least they will have made a decent fist of it in doing so.

CoolClaret wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:23 pm

You're a strange bloke; always resort to exaggerated statements and extreme positions, which might be intended to challenge others' opinions but really just makes you look childish.

Yes they were a considerable amount of points behind us last season and yet this year have considerably bridged that gap - which is the whole point.
Rob Edwards/Luton have prepared for the league (from a worse starting point) far more effectively than we have, which is both a credit to them and also an indictment on us.

You keep banging on about Luton, waxing lyrical about them just to hammer the team you apparently support yet I’m the strange one….

Luton are nothing special, just the 50th plucky minnow we’ve seen get promoted and scrape points playing awful defensive hoofball. They will probably get relegated too, at least the likes of Blackpool and Huddersfield actually managed to survive a year. You must have been creaming over Holloways Blackpool…

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:17 am

Not so classy was he when he was negotiating with another club behind their backs?

Didnt Dyche regularly do that with us...Palace, Sunderland, Everton?

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 4:13 pm

You keep banging on about Luton, waxing lyrical about them just to hammer the team you apparently support yet I’m the strange one….

Luton are nothing special, just the 50th plucky minnow we’ve seen get promoted and scrape points playing awful defensive hoofball. They will probably get relegated too, at least the likes of Blackpool and Huddersfield actually managed to survive a year. You must have been creaming over Holloways Blackpool…

You've clearly not watched Luton then because they aren't even doing that at all.

How are they playing "defensive hoofball" when they had 62% of the ball at the Turf?

I'm not 'hammering the team I support', just call it how it is.

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 4:13 pm

You keep banging on about Luton, waxing lyrical about them just to hammer the team you apparently support yet I’m the strange one….

Luton are nothing special, just the 50th plucky minnow we’ve seen get promoted and scrape points playing awful defensive hoofball. They will probably get relegated too, at least the likes of Blackpool and Huddersfield actually managed to survive a year. You must have been creaming over Holloways Blackpool…

It’s a bit of a strange take on things, suggesting that fellow supporters are creaming over other teams.

Of all the teams that we probably should compare ourselves against, this season, it’s those that came up alongside us.

Whether you like their style of play or not, it’s pretty fair to suggest that Luton has adapted far better (so far) and done so without making wholesale changes or spending significant sums.

Applauding what a fellow promoted team and their manager has achieved, whilst being critical of the approach that we have taken isn’t surprising - the two are not mutually exclusive. This season has been a bit of a **** show on lots of fronts.

It didn’t take a football genius to see issues ahead, by the end of our summer recruitment. Melodramatic comments about fans preferring other teams and wanting us to do poorly, is just nonsense.

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 4:13 pm

You keep banging on about Luton, waxing lyrical about them just to hammer the team you apparently support yet I’m the strange one….

Luton are nothing special, just the 50th plucky minnow we’ve seen get promoted and scrape points playing awful defensive hoofball. They will probably get relegated too, at least the likes of Blackpool and Huddersfield actually managed to survive a year. You must have been creaming over Holloways Blackpool…

You didn't see the game at TM, did you?

dougcollins wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 4:43 pm

You didn't see the game at TM, did you?

Two big lads upfront and hit it in the box high at every opportunity. We sat back and allowed them to have the ball and they were clueless and toothless.

Goliath wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 4:25 pm

Didnt Dyche regularly do that with us...Palace, Sunderland, Everton?

NO

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 4:13 pm

You keep banging on about Luton, waxing lyrical about them just to hammer the team you apparently support yet I’m the strange one….

Luton are nothing special, just the 50th plucky minnow we’ve seen get promoted and scrape points playing awful defensive hoofball. They will probably get relegated too, at least the likes of Blackpool and Huddersfield actually managed to survive a year. You must have been creaming over Holloways Blackpool…

Kompany possession based attacking football that's resulting in less possession than the opposition and minimal goals OR
Edwards 'hoofball' where they are scoring most games including 4 away at Newcastle and actually having more possession in games than the opposition?

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:24 pm

Two big lads upfront and hit it in the box high at every opportunity. We sat back and allowed them to have the ball and they were clueless and toothless.

Barkley best player on pitch by a mile.
62% possession
More shots and corners than us.
Better chances.
Various reports saying it was a dogged defensive performance from Burnley.

Think there is only one person who didn’t see the game.

They should have got a least a draw at their place too.

They have performed a lot better than us consistently all season….and tbh they are better to watch too (primarily because of Barkley running most games)

Big Vinny K wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:05 pm

Barkley best player on pitch by a mile.
62% possession
More shots and corners than us.
Better chances.
Various reports saying it was a dogged defensive performance from Burnley.

Think there is only one person who didn’t see the game.

They should have got a least a draw at their place too.

They have performed a lot better than us consistently all season….and tbh they are better to watch too (primarily because of Barkley running most games)

100% better to watch at the moment, cannot understand how anyone can defend our system or style this season if we even have one.
We're probably the most boring team in the league to watch

Although maybe more extreme than perhaps I'd put it, I see krbfcs point. I wish some of our supporters would reserve a bit of support and respect for Kompany given what he did last year. And for what it's worth I still think we finish above Luton.

willsclarets wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:34 pm

Although maybe more extreme than perhaps I'd put it, I see krbfcs point. I wish some of our supporters would reserve a bit of support and respect for Kompany given what he did last year. And for what it's worth I still think we finish above Luton.

I don’t think it’s all down to Kompany. A lot of fans are against the owners and this is the first real opportunity they’ve had to lay into them.

I do wish some fans could see the bigger picture. What is there to be gained by all this negativity? What outcome are they hoping for? There may be questions about the players lack of fight, but it’s nothing compared to the lack of fight shown by some sections of the fanbase.

Big Vinny K wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:05 pm

Barkley best player on pitch by a mile.
62% possession
More shots and corners than us.
Better chances.
Various reports saying it was a dogged defensive performance from Burnley.

Think there is only one person who didn’t see the game.

They should have got a least a draw at their place too.

They have performed a lot better than us consistently all season….and tbh they are better to watch too (primarily because of Barkley running most games)

Whilst Barkley was the best player and ran the game, we had more shots on target and a higher Xg. Luton are a one at best two trick pony.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:46 pm

NO

Please elaborate. As i understood it he talked to all 3 and interviewed with 1 or 2

Burnley Ace wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:21 pm

Whilst Barkley was the best player and ran the game, we had more shots on target and a higher Xg. Luton are a one at best two trick pony.

I don’t think the discussion is about the two games v Luton. I think it is highlighting what a decent job Rob Edwards has done and how he conducts himself.
It doesn’t really matter in the general scheme of things how we got on against Luton, we have seriously come up short in all of the other games bar two.

Goliath wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:30 pm

Please elaborate. As i understood it he talked to all 3 and interviewed with 1 or 2

Did he?

I must've missed all those stories!

The things you learn on here!

boatshed bill wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:14 pm

We will have to wait a while before that statement becomes actual fact.
Currently they are doing slightly better than we are, that's all.

Slightly better they have 50% more points than us and spent less than a quarter than us , but yes that’s slightly better

Goliath wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:30 pm

Please elaborate. As i understood it he talked to all 3 and interviewed with 1 or 2

I answered it, the answer is no.

willsclarets wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:34 pm

Although maybe more extreme than perhaps I'd put it, I see krbfcs point. I wish some of our supporters would reserve a bit of support and respect for Kompany given what he did last year. And for what it's worth I still think we finish above Luton.

Go and see what the bookies will give you on your prediction. Great odds I would think. Tell me how much you would be prepared to stake and I will stand the bet.

I don’t think Luton are any better than us in all honesty I’ve a feeling we will catch them and still drop.

Goliath wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:30 pm

Please elaborate. As i understood it he talked to all 3 and interviewed with 1 or 2

to be fair, this explains a lot

Gp8419 wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:51 am

I don’t think Luton are any better than us in all honesty I’ve a feeling we will catch them and still drop.

Ability wise I agree however I do think they are showing more fight and passion to beat the drop than us. They also didn’t spend anywhere near the same amount of money as us.

Jamesy wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:59 pm

Go and see what the bookies will give you on your prediction. Great odds I would think. Tell me how much you would be prepared to stake and I will stand the bet.

Nah, ill just continue to have the opinion we'll finish above Luton without betting money on it. I agree it's statistically unlikely, it requires us to hit form we haven't hit all season. But our run of games has been horrible, if I was going to bet on it now would be the time.

willsclarets wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:34 pm

Although maybe more extreme than perhaps I'd put it, I see krbfcs point. I wish some of our supporters would reserve a bit of support and respect for Kompany given what he did last year. And for what it's worth I still think we finish above Luton.

A reality check. Prices quoted currently on Burnley and Luton to be relegated at end of season

Burnley 1/6
Luton 4/5

People who feel we will finish above Luton at end of the season are just whistling in the dark and hoping for the best outcome.