HFTL Preview Show: Burnley (H)

yeah so i think i think probably for the context of your listeners i think we categorize this into the change of ownership that's been what has been significant in terms of the change in culture and the change from where we were the last time you met us to where we are now um at the end of sean dash's reign five years ago now um we sold the club.

The old chairman, who was the chairman, so Mike Garlick, who was the chairman when you met us last in Shandash, in managerial reign, was a completely different club.

It was in local ownership.

We were treading water a little bit.

I'm not entirely sure that the previous owners were doing a particularly good job of burning either they were holding us back a little bit um and then they sold to alk capital an american outfit um alan pay is now our chairman um and that's where everything changed that season they sacked dash with i think if I remember rightly, eight or nine games to go towards the end of the season.

And Dyche, our most successful modern day manager, irrespective of the dinosaur tag.

Everybody knows Sean Dyche's football.

You know what you're going to get when you watch him play, his team's play, sorry.

And everything has changed since ALK come in.

Some things for the better, some things not for the better.

And I think probably the biggest context point point I can give for your listeners is that it feels like there's been an identity shift in Burnley and that's not one of the things that I think the ALK has improved.

I don't think we're seen anymore as being the gritty Lancashire, East Lancashire club that has Ben Mee and James Tarkovsky putting their faces on the line to stop a goal going in and Ashley Barnes causing a nuisance up front and you know the likes of charlie taylor and kieran trippier danny ing sam books the really old traditional burnley players that you knew from that decade and the you know turf more being an absolute fortress and burnley being a very difficult place to come we went through an evolution aok sack dash very very quickly after they took over um we got relegated that season and then since we got relegated we went from being an established premier league side to not once being able to stay in the league we've gone Relegated, promoted, relegated, promoted, relegated.

That's how ALK's run has gone.

And each relegation campaign has got steadily worse.

We've gone down with fewer points, less wins.

And every single Premier League championship rotation, we sack our manager and start again.

So we had Vincent Kompany for a championship, relegated from the Premier League.

Scott Parker, promoted, relegated from the Champions League.

And now we're under Nicky Haynes' reign.

And what has come with that is... um an identity shift on the pitch as well as off the pitch because we went from employing vincent company who was the new pet and it was pet football and like you say absolutely ran all over the championship got over 100 points nearly got record points a real force to be reckoned with that that's probably one of the best performances in a championship i think well i think we're up there as one of

the

greatest ever championship teams And then we were awful in the Premier League.

Vincent Kompany went and managed Vincent Kompany's career, not his team.

Got rewarded with a buying job despite winning, I think, four games all season.

Appalling Premier League performance.

yeah so i think i think probably for the context of your listeners i think we categorize this into the change of ownership that's been what has been significant in terms of the change in culture and the change from where we were the last time you met us to where we are now um at the end of sean dash's reign five years ago now um we sold the club.

The old chairman, who was the chairman, so Mike Garlick, who was the chairman when you met us last in Shandash, in managerial reign, was a completely different club.

It was in local ownership.

We were treading water a little bit.

I'm not entirely sure that the previous owners were doing a particularly good job of burning either they were holding us back a little bit um and then they sold to alk capital an american outfit um alan pay is now our chairman um and that's where everything changed that season they sacked dash with i think if I remember rightly, eight or nine games to go towards the end of the season.

And Dyche, our most successful modern day manager, irrespective of the dinosaur tag.

Everybody knows Sean Dyche's football.

You know what you're going to get when you watch him play, his team's play, sorry.

And everything has changed since ALK come in.

Some things for the better, some things not for the better.

And I think probably the biggest context point point I can give for your listeners is that it feels like there's been an identity shift in Burnley and that's not one of the things that I think the ALK has improved.

I don't think we're seen anymore as being the gritty Lancashire, East Lancashire club that has Ben Mee and James Tarkovsky putting their faces on the line to stop a goal going in and Ashley Barnes causing a nuisance up front and you know the likes of charlie taylor and kieran trippier danny ing sam books the really old traditional burnley players that you knew from that decade and the you know turf more being an absolute fortress and burnley being a very difficult place to come we went through an evolution aok sack dash very very quickly after they took over um we got relegated that season and then since we got relegated we went from being an established premier league side to not once being able to stay in the league we've gone Relegated, promoted, relegated, promoted, relegated.

That's how ALK's run has gone.

And each relegation campaign has got steadily worse.

We've gone down with fewer points, less wins.

And every single Premier League championship rotation, we sack our manager and start again.

So we had Vincent Kompany for a championship, relegated from the Premier League.

Scott Parker, promoted, relegated from the Champions League.

And now we're under Nicky Haynes' reign.

And what has come with that is... um an identity shift on the pitch as well as off the pitch because we went from employing vincent company who was the new pet and it was pet football and like you say absolutely ran all over the championship got over 100 points nearly got record points a real force to be reckoned with that that's probably one of the best performances in a championship i think well i think we're up there as one of

the

greatest ever championship teams And then we were awful in the Premier League.

Vincent Kompany went and managed Vincent Kompany's career, not his team.

Got rewarded with a buying job despite winning, I think, four games all season.

Appalling Premier League performance.