So, the Championship season has started **Spoilers**

what are they smoking at burnley ? or is it just supposed to be mind games. dyche never shuts up about the money other teams spend. now barton has joined in. everyone on the outside can see they have spent a load themselves :p
 
"andy" said:
what are they smoking at burnley ? or is it just supposed to be mind games. dyche never shuts up about the money other teams spend. now barton has joined in. everyone on the outside can see they have spent a load themselves :p
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I used to find Burnley a decent team. After Dyche waffles on about other teams' budgets and then forks out up to £9m on Andre Gray, it shows how deluded he is.

Burnley bid for both Tarkowski and Judge in the week leading up to our game with them last Friday. The bid for Tarkowski was around £1.7m - we rejected £4m + £2m for him last summer - and the offer for Judge was £1m... after we put an £8m price tag on him. Tarkowski was then urged by "associates" to not play for us against Burnley. Both bids have been rejected, and since they unsettled our players last week they've not been back to bid again. Such a lack of class, it's outrageous.

Obviously Burnley don;t have to meet our valuation of players, and that's fine, but to bid a combined £2.7m for players we valued at £13m total, shows that they were never interested in actually signing the players but just wanted to undermine our preparation for the match.
 
he comes across as deluded every time he mentions it. and barton in his latest comments comes across like ''well we dont get paid as much so dont expect us to win as much''

andre grey was a good buy. but then boro , derby spent well too. he keeps saying the pressure is on the teams spending big but he should be counting his own team! not sure its working anyway... ''Karanka on Burnley 'pressure' jibe: 'The pressure is for them that they're seven points behind us' ''
 
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Soaking wet on the way back from Preston. The Judge goal as something else - the unreal pass from Barbet and the control from Judge. If you watch the football league show tonight, keep an eye out for David Button's save; one of the best I've ever seen :eek:
 
toshj said:
Soaking wet on the way back from Preston. The Judge goal as something else - the unreal pass from Barbet and the control from Judge. If you watch the football league show tonight, keep an eye out for David Button's save; one of the best I've ever seen :eek:
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Cant disagree with the save, on a par with Pickford's a few weeks ago against Burnley.
The pass from Barbet was excellent, beat Cunningham all hands up.
Hope you enjoyed your day up here.
 
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dholdi said:
Cant disagree with the save, on a par with Pickford's a few weeks ago against Burnley.
The pass from Barbet was excellent, beat Cunningham all hands up.
Hope you enjoyed your day up here.
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Third time at Deepdale for me :) First time we secured the most undeserved of draws, and the other two times we've scored 6 in total. Quickly becoming my favourite away ground! Thought we deserved the win today based on our football, but you guys hitting the woodwork twice and having an offside decision go against you was us certainly getting the rub of the green.

Good luck with the rest of the season.
 
Andybtsn said:
What's this "Dave" like, tosh? Out of the country at the mo so struggling to keep up, another convincing win at ER!
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He's been my favourite player for years - a proper professional who just gets on with things. Despite his height and role, he's actually not very strong, so don't be expecting a bruising ball winner. He's excellent on the ball and rarely gets ruffled, plus his little shimmies and step-overs always fool players. Can pick a pass on the floor well and reads the game very well, but never passes it above head height

That said, he's not the best tackler and once booked he'll not make a tackle for the rest of the game.

He's had a strange career with us. Was a distinctly average midfielder in League One, but we weren't a great side then and he was a good option for us. In our promotion season a couple of years ago he was farmed out to Portsmouth in League Two as he couldn't even get on our bench. Last season we had Douglas out for a game and most of us were a little concerned about Toumani replacing him... and he was incredible. Then followed it up with even better performances on our excellent run before Christmas, after we started playing him really deep in the midfield; he'll come short to pick it up off the keeper. He ended up winning fans player of the year.

This year he had been ok, but about ten games ago his form properly dropped and it seemed as if he just didn't want to be here. And that's fair enough as the shape and face of the club has changed so much over the last year. It became apparent that he fits perfectly into whichever side he's playing in - if you're doing well and playing quick passing football, he'll look incredible. If you're not playing well, with the ball up in the air, then he's completely anonymous. He has absolutely no goal threat whatsoever, and all the composure he has on the ball in his own half completely evaporates when near the opposition area. In fact, there's a (really unfunny) running joke in the stands that whenever he has the ball in the opposition half all the fans shout "Shoot"... his last attempt a few weeks ago started with the ball rolling down his knee, onto his shin and then looped up to clear the stand - no doubt he'll score against us on Tuesday. Sad to see him go however, as he's the final one of the old guard.

Oh, and don't call him Dave, he hates it.
 
toshj said:
He's been my favourite player for years - a proper professional who just gets on with things. Despite his height and role, he's actually not very strong, so don't be expecting a bruising ball winner. He's excellent on the ball and rarely gets ruffled, plus his little shimmies and step-overs always fool players. Can pick a pass on the floor well and reads the game very well, but never passes it above head height

That said, he's not the best tackler and once booked he'll not make a tackle for the rest of the game.

He's had a strange career with us. Was a distinctly average midfielder in League One, but we weren't a great side then and he was a good option for us. In our promotion season a couple of years ago he was farmed out to Portsmouth in League Two as he couldn't even get on our bench. Last season we had Douglas out for a game and most of us were a little concerned about Toumani replacing him... and he was incredible. Then followed it up with even better performances on our excellent run before Christmas, after we started playing him really deep in the midfield; he'll come short to pick it up off the keeper. He ended up winning fans player of the year.

This year he had been ok, but about ten games ago his form properly dropped and it seemed as if he just didn't want to be here. And that's fair enough as the shape and face of the club has changed so much over the last year. It became apparent that he fits perfectly into whichever side he's playing in - if you're doing well and playing quick passing football, he'll look incredible. If you're not playing well, with the ball up in the air, then he's completely anonymous. He has absolutely no goal threat whatsoever, and all the composure he has on the ball in his own half completely evaporates when near the opposition area. In fact, there's a (really unfunny) running joke in the stands that whenever he has the ball in the opposition half all the fans shout "Shoot"... his last attempt a few weeks ago started with the ball rolling down his knee, onto his shin and then looped up to clear the stand - no doubt he'll score against us on Tuesday. Sad to see him go however, as he's the final one of the old guard.

Oh, and don't call him Dave, he hates it.
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TLDR

jokes. Cheers. Not sure what to think but I love Dallas so let's hope it's another cheap goodie in the bag.
 
Martini1991 said:
I still put some of the blame on the stubbornness of the formation/tactics.

It's why when we're getting linked with McMormack I think it's wasted.
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I can see your point, but Bamford bagged 17 league goals last year with largely the same squad, tactics and formation. None of our strikers, with the exception of maybe Stuani has any chance of reaching that, but Karanka obviously doesn't fancy him up front. A prolific scorer is a must buy imo.
 
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