England Failure Scuppers Clarets Euro Dream

Might have known!

Its been a horrible season WC, sorry but it has and listening to the few shouts for Laws to go plus seeing the few scattered 'Laws Out' banners around the place on Sunday summed it up. If Laws stays it's a disaster waiting to happen. Six points short of staying up, Six points to reap £48 million in one season not the same amount over 4 and let's be under no illusions,it might well take four seasons to get back as well! 42% of the poll think over 2 seasons as well but let's see. I have seen far too many tonkings, far too much poor,pathetic and passionless football this season to consider congratulating the Clarets on a job well done. We failed pure and simple. By the way when are we going to score from a corner?

You make a fair point but then we don't make the rules. Had we been harder,picked up more cards because of it, we may well have stayed up but in the process lost loads of respect as well. Having said that I wish we had done a Stoke in their first season and survived without playing too much attractive football. Then again considering we only lost out by six points. we might have stayed up with one or two extra Prem quality players in the team had we had the balls to fork out for them

Well it took the players the last game of the season to give a good performance and a good win over Spurs, if we had played like that 3 months ago we could have still been in the Prem and we looked a more balanced team with Bikey in defence. Was in the Directors box for the Spurs game and there seems do be a growing rift between Kilby who was sat alone with his family and flood who was sat with other Directors a fair distance apart. I'd like to know who's supporting Laws and who wants him out?

The thought of watching Burnley in late June / early July filled me with absolute......delight. Still, not to worry - European football was always a bit of an outside bet and at least my Anglo-Scottish memories remain at the top of my Europe file. Bit frustrating that two more wins would have kept us up. The games against Wigan and Portsmouth were crucial for me but I guess all clubs could say if this, but that and maybe, if only. Fact is, those at the top win the silver and those at the bottom go down. But live to fight another day.

TMP and positive in the same sentence GC....have a word with yourself...if we had bought Kevin Doyle we would have got less goals and been relegated but still have got our profit from selling him to Blackpool for 10 Million and a stick of rock....tmp I replied for you to save your blood pressure! p.s. I agree with you GC lots to smile about

It's been a horrible season tmp? Not for me, although I understand where you're coming from. First of all, it's been brilliant being back in the top tier after so many years in the wilderness, and more than that beating United, Everton and Spurs like we used to when I was a teenager,and thought that it was the natural order of things for Burnley to be in the first division, which of course it was back then. Promotion surprised me last season, I was expecting us to be challenging this season, but hey we got up there and wiped away our debts and are now sitting pretty compared to teams who are facing potential financial meltdown, and I don't just mean those we know about. Yes, it's a difficult league to break out of, but I really think that we'll be one of the strongest teams in the championship next season and we'll be back. There really is no point in crying over spilt milk, as Fedup says -why didn't we play like that against Pompey, Wolves and Stoke ? But we didn't, so down we go with valuable lessons learnt. I have an open mind about Laws, previous form doesn't apply in this case where he's got a good squad and can actually spend to strengthen. Am I talking about Burnley here? I sure as hell am , although it feels alien after years of struggling financially. Give Laws a chance, I think he may surprise everyone and like Grimsby, I sure as hell hope and think he will.

Are you seriously saying this team on its day were not good enough to get anything from Pompey home or away and Wigan. 12 points lost that we could surely have taken the required points to keep us up without chucking cash away needlessly,,,,,lol

Reminds me on Sunday Spurs put one onto Harry Potts way and we sang one ball we've only got one ball...I love our sense of humour......

What can I say? I am absolutely gutted by this news.