Well done Burnley and your next mission is...

[champs95]

Someone above posted that Burnley fans are predictable - that should be the definition in the Oxford English Dictionary for the word 'irony'.

Irony: A Blackburn Rovers fan calling a Burnley fan predictable

You as fans are the king of predictability. No other club comes close. In fact, you're Champions League winners!

History is just that - history. What's happened in the past has been and gone. It's all about the direction both clubs are going and I know which one has the brighter future. Sean Dyche may well leave Burnley, but it'll be after he's saved us from Premier League relegation and aided us to become a settled Premier League outfit.

Owen Coyle - Sean Dyche

we all know how this ends.


You have to love this lads Milly. Check this one out -

Joined 2014

The other muppet - joined march 14

They choose their moments this lot don't they?
Funny, this is another lad we have never heard of duri

[bfc1983]

'Owen Coyle - Sean Dyche

we all know how this ends. '

Of course we know how this will end. SD is currently one of the best young managers in the country. Promoted or not he will be very sought after. That's what happens to nearly every club outside the big 6. You could say its the price of success. Do you think blackburn could hold on to Bowyer if he got you auto promotion? I very much doubt it.



'They choose their moments this lot don't they?
Funny, this is another lad we have never heard of during all the defeats, all the success.'

Should we just stay quiet and not say a word after 30 odd years of you lot giving it the big I am? Do we have to have come on here and been gracious in defeat 1st? Its called banter. If we cant give some back after all these years then when can we?

[champs95]

'Owen Coyle - Sean Dyche

we all know how this ends. '

Of course we know how this will end. SD is currently one of the best young managers in the country. Promoted or not he will be very sought after. That's what happens to nearly every club outside the big 6. You could say its the price of success. Do you think blackburn could hold on to Bowyer if he got you auto promotion? I very much doubt it.



'They choose their moments this lot don't they?
Funny, this is another lad we have never heard of during all the defeats, all the success.'

Should we just stay quiet and not say a word after 30 odd years of you lot giving it the big I am? Do we have to have come on here and been gracious in defeat 1st? Its called banter. If we cant give some back after all these years then when can we?

Banter is fine. If you'd posted here more than 15 times in 13 years you would've gotten just that. Banter. We get a lot of regular Clarets on here, a

[bfc1983]

I bet its quite easy to wish us well after being on top for 35 years. If we stay unbeaten to you for another 20 years then beat you 5-0 on the way to a promotion there wont be many wishing us well then. In the meantime we are gonna win the prem and you will win your last game of the season to stay in the football league.

Even on that day there was gloating from your lot.

All I'm saying is a lot of these lads have never seen us beat you. If they are like me and had stick after stick from blackburn fans with nothing to throw back (until now). Its not surprising some are on here giving a bit back.

I just hope it gets back to a normal derby now. Like we both have with Preston. Its all got a bit serious to be honest. Hopefully now we are playing each other more often and the hoodoo has gone it might happen.

[champs95]

I bet its quite easy to wish us well after being on top for 35 years. If we stay unbeaten to you for another 20 years then beat you 5-0 on the way to a promotion there wont be many wishing us well then. In the meantime we are gonna win the prem and you will win your last game of the season to stay in the football league.

Even on that day there was gloating from your lot.

All I'm saying is a lot of these lads have never seen us beat you. If they are like me and had stick after stick from blackburn fans with nothing to throw back (until now). Its not surprising some are on here giving a bit back.

I just hope it gets back to a normal derby now. Like we both have with Preston. Its all got a bit serious to be honest. Hopefully now we are playing each other more often and the hoodoo has gone it might happen.

Fair points, well made.
Equally, someone like me (37) hasn't seen a Burnley side beat us in a lifetime. For you to win one game,

[bfc1983]

I'm not writing off your successes. Winning the prem among those big clubs was some achievement, even with Walkers money. I don't think a town club will ever win it again.

I'm not being naive. I know we would really struggle if we get promoted. Keeping Dyche would be a good start but who knows whats gonna happen there. To be fair we just need the money but lets get promoted 1st.

As for blackburn... suppose it all depends on FFP for you. There's talk of changing the rules now so that could be good news. Also venkys... not gonna get started there.

i do think Bowyer is not the man to take you forward tho. Time to get a experienced man in and stick by him. Maybe take a leaf out of Burnley's book and get a tight small squad together who will play their hearts out for each other.

[claret1978]

Truth is that you lot boast about 35yrs.champs never seen a loss, i was one. but you seem to forget the years we were not in same div. we have played 11 times and granted that is to many, how many have we drawn?
Now the coin has fliped. swings n roundabouts!

[AucklandRover]

Truth is that you lot boast about 35yrs.champs never seen a loss, i was one. but you seem to forget the years we were not in same div. we have played 11 times and granted that is to many, how many have we drawn?
Now the coin has fliped. swings n roundabouts!

Claret1978 - the truth is (and we all know it), there is some validity in both ways of interpreting the 35 years business.
Either way, the whole thing is a pain in the arse for people like me who support Rovers, but don't give a toss for the whole local rivalry thing.
These topics come up time and time again, and then seem to roll on well past their sell-by date.
Any thread involving Burnley runs up a high score in terms of posts, while genuine BRFC topics struggle to get to double figures. That's not YOUR fault, obviously, but it does irritate me.
As for the regular excuse that it's all "good, fun banter"...well, I find it about as amusing as "The Collected Thoughts Of Micha

[champs95]

Truth is that you lot boast about 35yrs.champs never seen a loss, i was one. but you seem to forget the years we were not in same div. we have played 11 times and granted that is to many, how many have we drawn?
Now the coin has fliped. swings n roundabouts!

I said the games with Burnley where inconsequential, in short I couldn't care less about 35 years. We went in opposite directions for a long time. For many seasons we played in the Prem, fought out league titles, lost one narrowly, won another, played in Europe, more than once. Go to numerous semi finals of FA & league cups. Winning a league cup. Accepting relegation, winning promotion. The odd game, in the odd season out of 10 or 15 against Burnley was a distraction for that week. Then back to trying to cause damage to the best and biggest sides in the country, not turning up for one season, losing 5-0 and fkng off home (although that did happen over the years)

But that's

[tonymorleysbaldhead]

'Some take their children to derby games, and stand as grown men and sing gleefully about a chairman of a rival club dying on the board room floor'.

I agree, its wrong (I don't personally join in) - but unfortunately it happens at football matches, and everybody gets 'tarred with the same brush'.

A bit like when Bburn fans sang about Ben Lee, the young Burnley player who fell to his death in the nineties.

We have listened constantly over the years to the ridiculous 'ya mams ya dad' chant.
That we are 'interbred' or something.
That we share an intimate relationship with our sisters, etc.
That we have a strange number of digits on each hand.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
But all that's just banter, right ?

At the end of day, there are far more important things in life to worry about.