Full disclosure

[BurnleyFC]

I’m incredibly fond of most of our previous managers, we’ve done a very good job with most appointments.

I didn’t want Scott Parker to get the job, I even said he wouldn’t have been in my top 100 shortlist. I didn’t like him because of the media portrayal of him being a bit of cockney wide boy. I was very wrong. He’s a very likeable person and a terrific football manager.

I really, really hope he gets all the support he’s going to need next season.

[CoolClaret]

I said the goals would dry up after the Leeds game when we'd scored 11 goals in 5 games. We scored 7 in the next 10. They dried up.

But yeah, I said Parker would have us finish 3rd-5th so I was wrong. How he achieved that didn't change my mind on him.

As I said I'm not going to get into my reasons, already had half a dozen notifications - it's tiresome for everyone. The thread was full disclosure and I didn't even post anything until ksr made a comment suggesting I had something to hide in my previous posts so I responded to say I don't, I own what I posted, I'm not going to lie about it and I haven't changed my mind.

2nd best xG differential in the league, 3rd most goals scored, least amount conceded.

Honestly, what are you on about? Why double down?

[BurnleyFC]

My reason for disliking him is fairly simple really,he’s a bellend.The clip of him at the training ground with Joey proved this.

Think it was Brownhill that recently said this was something and nothing.

[ksrclaret]

I said the goals would dry up after the Leeds game when we'd scored 11 goals in 5 games. We scored 7 in the next 10. They dried up.

But yeah, I said Parker would have us finish 3rd-5th so I was wrong. How he achieved that didn't change my mind on him.

As I said I'm not going to get into my reasons, already had half a dozen notifications - it's tiresome for everyone. The thread was full disclosure and I didn't even post anything until ksr made a comment suggesting I had something to hide in my previous posts so I responded to say I don't, I own what I posted, I'm not going to lie about it and I haven't changed my mind.

You did post something. You tried to show another poster up by going digging into his posts from over 2 years ago.

[Mattster]

You did post something. You tried to show another poster up by going digging into his posts from over 2 years ago.

I obviously meant I didn't post anything about my view on Parker.

[boyyanno]

I said the goals would dry up after the Leeds game when we'd scored 11 goals in 5 games. We scored 7 in the next 10. They dried up.

But yeah, I said Parker would have us finish 3rd-5th so I was wrong. How he achieved that didn't change my mind on him.

As I said I'm not going to get into my reasons, already had half a dozen notifications - it's tiresome for everyone. The thread was full disclosure and I didn't even post anything until ksr made a comment suggesting I had something to hide in my previous posts so I responded to say I don't, I own what I posted, I'm not going to lie about it and I haven't changed my mind.

You were wrong full stop. How he achieved that was with a 33 unbeaten run, 2 defeats all year and 100 points.

If you're unwilling to change your mind then please don't say it's because you didn't see anything worth changing it, the truth is you're not looking.

[ksrclaret]

I obviously meant I didn't post anything about my view on Parker.

Well you’ve made up for it since and made yourself look far more foolish than you tried to make another poster look.

[Bosscat]

Well you’ve made up for it since and made yourself look far more foolish than you tried to make another poster look.

Methinks the poster protesteth too much ksrclaret ...

[Mattster]

Well you’ve made up for it since and made yourself look far more foolish than you tried to make another poster look.

Haha, everyone tries to get personal so quickly.

[Clovius Boofus]

I like both Kompany and Parker. Differing styles, but they both coach a team to play it on the floor.

Same here. I also loved Dyche for what he achieved here, but I knew it was time for him to go. Those final season press conferences, where he came across, to put it kindly, like a man who needed another challenge. That said, both him and Stan are my favourite Burnley managers.

[Mattster]

You were wrong full stop. How he achieved that was with a 33 unbeaten run, 2 defeats all year and 100 points.

If you're unwilling to change your mind then please don't say it's because you didn't see anything worth changing it, the truth is you're not looking.

If you want to keep begging me for my reasons then go ahead. It's weird that you you seem to find my opinion so galling but are going out of your way over and over again to seek it.

[rincon]

Ticket office - used to have a personal touch, now a lack of empathy
Catering - rubbish and hasn't changed over the years, slow service and iffy staff, only upside is fair priced benny and hot
Managers - loved Dyche, liked Cotterill and Ternant, didn't like Howe much, Kompany no, Parker yes
Players - steve is key to us staying up if we keep him, Hanibal will be a cult hero
Alan - I like him and the board in general
Our fans - crap at times, but only when they've collectively 'turned' when they're 'at it' they're the best, we don't need drums or flags

[exilecanada]

Ash Barnes is the personification of Burnley FC and deserves a statue.

Full disclosure.

The above is arguably the most accurate post on this board.....ever

[ksrclaret]

Haha, everyone tries to get personal so quickly.

I’ve literally not made a single comment about your personality.

[Mattster]

I’ve literally not made a single comment about your personality.

I consider name calling to be getting personal but each to their own.

[exilecanada]

Full disclosure:

Supposed adults arguing on an anonymous message board, truly incredible!

[Bosscat]

Full disclosure:

Supposed adults arguing on an anonymous message board, truly incredible!

Its UTC its what folks do

[Guller Bull]

I dont like snakes
Or bears.

Parker is not my favourite BFC manager

I’ve never caught a sea trout.
Coyle is not my least favourite BFC manager
Vinny is is my second favourite BFC manager

Kippers- what a feckin waste of energy

Caravans are a bit **** but probably comfy.

Not a massive fan of continental cheeses but willing to be educated.

Not keen on Eurovision Song Contest any more.

[jdrobbo]

At a time when we didn’t have a pot to wee in, I thought (and still think) that Steve Cotterill was an outstanding manager for Burnley. If he didn’t have to sell Chappy, Blake, Gray, Ade on the eve of different transfer windows closing, he might’ve pulled off the impossible in one of those seasons.

Brian Easton is one of the most dreadful players to pull on a Burnley shirt.

[ksrclaret]

I consider name calling to be getting personal but each to their own.

I’ve not called you a single name either.

[Goliath]

At a time when we didn’t have a pot to wee in, I thought (and still think) that Steve Cotterill was an outstanding manager for Burnley. If he didn’t have to sell Chappy, Blake, Gray, Ade on the eve of different transfer windows closing, he might’ve pulled off the impossible in one of those seasons.

Brian Easton is one of the most dreadful players to pull on a Burnley shirt.

Agree with both. I'm not sure how Easton actually got a run of games, he was incredibly incompetent at that level.

[Guller Bull]

Gifton (bless his knackered legs) and Paul Stewart (bless his knackered mind) were shite.

Graham Branch was a multifunctional deity!

[Bosscat]

I’ve not called you a single name either.

Maybe he could look back through your posts and point out where you (didn't) call him a name ... I don't remember one

[Stockbrokerbelt]

I have pert bum cheeks.

[boyyanno]

If you want to keep begging me for my reasons then go ahead. It's weird that you you seem to find my opinion so galling but are going out of your way over and over again to seek it.

You've posted your reasons, you've also said Parker has done nothing to make you change them.

I've pointed out that everything that has happened is at odds with what you said, so your either wrong and willing to admit it, or you're wrong and unwilling (which is clearly the case). That's not an opinion it's just a fact.

Pretending you don't have an anti Parker agenda and that he just didn't do enough over the season isn't going to fool anyone.

[Mattster]

I’ve not called you a single name either.

How would you describe the word "foolish"?

[Mattster]

You've posted your reasons, you've also said Parker has done nothing to make you change them.

I've pointed out that everything that has happened is at odds with what you said, so your either wrong and willing to admit it, or you're wrong and unwilling (which is clearly the case). That's not an opinion it's just a fact.

Pretending you don't have an anti Parker agenda and that he just didn't do enough over the season isn't going to fool anyone.

Where have I put my reasons?

[No Ney Never]

Full disclosure.

Teasdale didn't do as bad a job as people think given his resources.
Barry Kilby is the catalyst that took us to levels we never thought we'd see again. The man is a legend, if anyone deserves a statue!
Despite all the good work by previous managers to consistently improve us, Coyle got us over the line. He earned the right to leave on his terms.
Eddie Howe is a fantastic spotter of young talent, he would have been great for us had he stayed for long enough.
Dyche made us a more professional and modern outfit, both in the development of our infrastructure and media projection. We stepped up in so many ways with him, but he stayed 18 months too long.
Company's championship season is the best football I've ever seen us play, the championship has never seen anything like it. On the contrary, I can't believe the debacle of his tenure in the following prem season, I reckon he knows on reflection that he should have built on the championship team.
Parker has done a fantastic job though it hasn't always felt like that as the season progressed, until SU went through a bad patch, I thought we'd fall short due to too many draws. It could be argued that because we made sure that if we couldn't win then at least don't get beat (Dycheism), that we were in a position to capitalise on SU's misfortune. Either way, Parker achieved the objective. The achievement of this team this season under his stewardship has been marvelous.
I believe that the togetherness of the squads that benefitted Kompany and Parker, the foundations were laid by Dyche. The man did so much for team harmony that has left a legacy on which others have found success, both players and managers.
I still want to see us play another season in the V shaped top, even though that particular season wasn't all that successful.
Tony Scholes should be given more inside access and allowed to report to us on here what's happening on a daily basis.

[boyyanno]

Where have I put my reasons?

On one of the 100 threads you posted them on prior to you taking a sabbatical because all your predictions didn't come true.

You've just said your opinions haven't changed so I'm well aware of them.

Parker won't see us score enough goals to get promoted. There's no chance we can continue to gain points as we outperformed our XG-, we won't finish in the top 2- there's shed loads of reasons you gave. I'm sure you can give us some more, but let's not pretend Parker could have done anything to change your mind.

[dougcollins]

I went fishing instead of going to the Orient game. You can cross my name off the list of 300,000 who went that day

I've said this on here before, I had every intention of going on but spent the afternoon in the Red Lion.

There were plenty of other Longside regulars in there.

I went to every away game that season.

[daveisaclaret]

I think the position Kompany and Parker walked into were both such that anything short of automatic promotion would have been a really big failure, although both managed to do it in a much more impressive manner than necessary.

I've come around to thinking that it is impossible now for a promoted team to stay in the Premier League (barring a strategy of spending hundreds of millions and accepting punishment later down the line) but I think Parker's Burnley have a chance to at least get into a relegation battle next season.

I think this season was really boring for a very long time. I don't know if it's reasonable to criticise it though.

I don't see any way ALK's ownership of BFC doesn't end awfully. It's a bit mind boggling to me that so many have bought into it.

I don't think a lot of Burnley fans are fully aware of how good a job Sean Dyche did at this club. In my eyes, considering budgets, he did things no other manager in England has done since and I don't think we'll ever see a similar manager/period of success at Burnley again.

[ksrclaret]

How would you describe the word "foolish"?

I am sympathetic to the fact that you've taken a lot of heat this season for your previously relentless hammering home of your views of Parker and the xG statistic, but saying your contributions have made you look foolish isn't calling you a name. I didn't say you are a fool, or even that you are foolish as a trait, just that today, on this thread, that I think you've made yourself look more foolish that the other poster you set out to.

Genuinely, I hope you manage to find some enjoyment watching Burnley again next season. We've got a set of lads who've given everything for us.

[Dark Cloud]

Dyche preformed miracles, especially in that first promotion season. He was clever and pragmatic and built much of what we are currently benefitting from. He's a hero. Kompany was superb and that promotion season was an absolute joy. He messed on his copy book with the huge mistakes he made in his second season when he showed a very arrogant attitude. Parker has been brilliant so far, but there's arguably a bigger test to come. We'll see.

[dougcollins]

Graham Branch was a multifunctional deity!

Did you mean 'malfunctional'?

[Cooclaret]

Full disclosure.

Dyche was excellent overall. Sometimes wasn’t happy with how he behaved around the media, but overall a good guy I think.

Dislike Kompany like I dislike Coyle. They both pulled the wool over my eyes and I’m annoyed at myself for allowing them to fool me. The football and the success was superb, but sheepsteeth and slabhead turned out to lack character.

When Parker was appointed, I was fairly happy. Had good form at this level so the appointment looked sound to me. He’s exceeded all my expectations, and it’s quite obvious he’s a team builder, excellent at motivating people and creating an excellent work environment for the players to flourish in. Speaks well, clearly has respect for people and it shows. Decent man I reckon.

As for Pace and the board, I’m reasonably happy with them too. Made good managerial appointments and behave like they want the best for the club. It may well be that it’s the best for the investors, but if it’s good for them it’s got to be good for us, so all power to them.

There are still plenty of people (certainly on here) who are still spewing because it’s going pretty well for us. I get the feeling there are those who can’t wait for it to go pear shaped so they can say “I told you so”. Their own self importance and their need to be right overruling the success of the club - it’s downright embarrassing to see, and just because they aren’t shouting from the rooftops, I just KNOW they are hovering, waiting for that moment. Whenever someone has something nice to say about Pace on here, the silence from some is deafening.

Because I have an enforced be quiet for two weeks when I say I love the chairman!

[Spike]

Kompany’s last season was the worst I have ever seen. It isn’t expansive football when we don’t get past the halfway line .

I still find it worrying how much it costs in interest payments to fund this project
We need to build on the team spirit not destroy it like we did under Kompany .

[Greeny]

Messrs Cotterill, Dyche, Kompany and Parker all had their highlights and low lights for me.

Eddie Howe wrong time for us.

For all of us on here, special times revolve around right time, right place. Owen Coyle and our wonderful cup run, Play Off win and that incredible first Premier League game night under the Turf Moor lights when Robbie Blake smashed in that volley to beat Man U. A lifetime of happy memories shared with my sons over that period at Wembley and Turf Moor will always top my BFC “happy place” chart.

Was gutted when he left, fully understand why he did. Would still buy him a pint if I bumped into him in the pub.

[Mattster]

...saying your contributions have made you look foolish isn't calling you a name. I didn't say you are a fool, or even that you are foolish as a trait, just that today, on this thread, that I think you've made yourself look more foolish that the other poster you set out to.

Trying to suggest "you're making yourself look [something insulting]" isn't calling someone that insult is a nonsense. You didn't agree with my opinion and your first response to that was to go to insults. It's fine, doesn't bother me, I think it's funny, just own it.

[ksrclaret]

Trying to suggest "you're making yourself look [something insulting]" isn't calling someone that insult is a nonsense. You didn't agree with my opinion and your first response to that was to go to insults. It's fine, doesn't bother me, I think it's funny, just own it.

Are you quite sure it doesn't bother you? You've done a great impression of someone who is very much bothered by it.

It wasn't name-calling, as you rightly imply now, but I can see how you might have felt insulted.

Who do you fancy for the first game of the season, Matt?

[Buxtonclaret]

I’ve never caught a sea trout

Come on, Casp.
Keep up!
Landed my first sea trout the day after Jeff Astle won the cup for West Brom.
River Slaney, Co Wexford!

[Mattster]

On one of the 100 threads you posted them on prior to you taking a sabbatical because all your predictions didn't come true.

You've just said your opinions haven't changed so I'm well aware of them.

Parker won't see us score enough goals to get promoted. There's no chance we can continue to gain points as we outperformed our XG-, we won't finish in the top 2- there's shed loads of reasons you gave. I'm sure you can give us some more, but let's not pretend Parker could have done anything to change your mind.

Yeah, I said my opinion of Parker hadn't changed (ie. that I still don't rate him).

You're picking out reasoning/things I said back in October and before. Lots of things changed since then, be weird if the reasoning behind that wasn't also changed.

He could have changed my mind. Still could. Just hasn't.

And I "took a sabbatical" because I was posters saying I should stop posting on here because I was saying that signing an unfit Jonjo Shelvey was a waste of money and that Bauress and McDermott were ready for some first team football. I was dead wrong there, obviously.

[Mattster]

Are you quite sure it doesn't bother you? You've done a great impression of someone who is very much bothered by it.

It wasn't name-calling, as you rightly imply now, but I can see how you might have felt insulted.

Who do you fancy for the first game of the season, Matt?

You disagree with my opinion and your first response is to stoop to insults and it's me that's bothered? Keep projecting, ksr.

And I'm not fussed who specifically, just an easier start than 23/24 would be great as a demoralising start destroying any momentum we can carry over is the last thing we need.

[ksrclaret]

You disagree with my opinion and your first response is to stoop to insults and it's me that's bothered? Keep projecting, ksr.

And I'm not fussed who specifically, just an easier start than 23/24 would be great as a demoralising start destroying any momentum we can carry over is the last thing we need.

I’ve read that first bit a few times now, but at the risk of insulting you, I’m not sure you’re making much sense.

Good point about momentum, Matt.

[Wile E Coyote]

check the BBC football gossip page, everyday its ARSENAL offer 80 million for so and so, UTD in for someone from Benfica for 100 mill, CITY looking at a deal for someone from Milan for 90 trillion etc, etc,
Nowhere will you find us mentioned.
the coyle,. dyche, kompany, parker periods must go to highlight just how well these men managed a low budget club into the top flight against all the odds.
Its all dependent on who owns us, and key appointments of our managers.
those that have brought success deserve all the plaudits going. we have been punching way above for years now.

[CharlieinNewMexico]

2nd best xG differential in the league, 3rd most goals scored, least amount conceded.

Honestly, what are you on about? Why double down?

You only need to read Mattster on Twitter to understand.

Embarrassed he’s a Burnley fan tbh.

[Venkys4eva]

Promotion under coyle was my favourite Burnley moment

Glenn Little is my favourite claret

I accidentally threw away my orient game programme in the early 00's

I really like Alan Pace

I still think Mark Monington was s**t

[Row x]

You only need to read Mattster on Twitter to understand.

Embarrassed he’s a Burnley fan tbh.

Full disclosure

I love a good dollop of over reaction on here
It makes me laugh, and laughing is good for you, especially on a Monday morning

[matttheclaret]

Yeah, I said my opinion of Parker hadn't changed (ie. that I still don't rate him).

You're picking out reasoning/things I said back in October and before. Lots of things changed since then, be weird if the reasoning behind that wasn't also changed.

He could have changed my mind. Still could. Just hasn't.

And I "took a sabbatical" because I was posters saying I should stop posting on here because I was saying that signing an unfit Jonjo Shelvey was a waste of money and that Bauress and McDermott were ready for some first team football. I was dead wrong there, obviously.

Just out of interest, 33 unbeaten, promotion, the goals were coming a lot more regularly the last few months - what would he have to do to change your opinion? Because if all that wasn't enough, seems to me that nothing will?

[Woodleyclaret]

I too thought Parker was an awful choice
Now I was wrong which doesn't happen often
I think most directors are in it for the money despite alleged love of their team
VAR and fast tracking shite refs are the worst 2 ideas ever.

[Selby Claret]

Full disclosure:
I wish we were in hooped socks every year
The PL sucks
Connor Roberts' moustache looks awful
As much as I admire and appreciate the efforts of the board and Mr Pace to date, I'm always slightly concerned what will happen next as he believes his hand is being guided by a man on a cloud