Think we can discuss this now ..
My Auto starting selections..
Mcniel
Taylor
Heaton
Barnes
Tarkowski
Wood
Westwood
Mee
Cork
A.N Other
A.N.Other
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Think we can discuss this now ..
My Auto starting selections..
Mcniel
Taylor
Heaton
Barnes
Tarkowski
Wood
Westwood
Mee
Cork
A.N Other
A.N.Other
We need a new right back.
We need a new left back.
We need to jettison a goalkeeper, Hart preferably.
We need to jettison Ward, Brady & Hendrick.
We need to replace Ward, Brady & Hendrick.
We need to jettison Wells and Vydra and find two replacements.
We will probably lose Tarkowski, but we have Gibson and Long.
We need to replace Defour x 2.
I hope Rigg is up to the task. :s
Like you BT I hope we make some wise moves in the summer transfer window, however I am not hopeful in our board of directors releasing the required funding to do so. I am not sure about jettisoning Vydra, I don't think he has had a chance yet. I would also like to make sure we retain the services of Nick Pope, but I feel the directors may be tempted by any offers received.
Like sinkov said; “To give the board their due, they have inadvertently blown one PL cliché right out of the water, the one about the PL being all about money, you need a lot of it, and you need to spend a lot of it to survive. Well we're going to be in the PL for 4 consecutive seasons after spending next to nowt. So obviously you don't need to spend mountains of cash, what you do need, as we have proved, is simply an outstanding manager.”
I like SD; I really do.
He is a perfect manager for the Board, players and fans-toes the party line and obviously gets the changing room onside.
And well done for him. Fair play.
Honestly and truly.
He has been brilliant for Burnley.
But (and a character in the Game of Thrones once said everything before "but" is bull****) here is the truth.
IF we want to move on and be not just a survivor in the Prem but a main or continuing player then we are miles away from where we need to be.
I get we have to consolidate; we have to be realistic; use what we have got to its best ability.
But after that?
Are we a one man manager that given the resources couldn't be bettered?
Or are we a club that wants to be better than this?
I doubt that most fans share my view.
We should be grateful--not complain--not want more--little club.
But there is a price that will be paid on our watch and that is relegation.
Are we a year by year tragic or do we wish to move forward?