It was more important to take Zaha on holiday a day or two after Sam resigning. I mean all chairmen do it. Don't they?

COYP

unfortunately we have tried to run before we can walk Much as I think Sakho and Benteke are great players I feel that by paying such a large proportion of our budget on these two the squad is paper thin elsewhere. Dyche has built on Burnley's lower table squad by purchasing some hard working lower to mid table EPL players. This was what we needed to do.

Whose fault ? Who knows.

Picking up afew points of other posts.

DF was very close to sack when we lost to BC in cup. Delaney, Bolasie and afew others then joined and we started to climb. However in my view DF has shown in other positions he is not a good manager. He got lucky so why is he back as Director of Football

Pullis wanted his own players which in someways is fine but SP wanted a resale value players like crouch didn't offer that. Also Pullis didn't want Zaha.

Pardew did fine first season and first part of second. Then the train hit the buffers. We suffered injuries particularly to Bolasie and that hurt us. We got to cup final and lost slightly unluckily. I think the mistake was then an attempt to change style and rather than trying to increase depth of squad we bought Benteke and Townsend and also sold Bolasie. Bolasie wanted to go no doubt but the previous few months had shown our backup wingers were not adequate so effectively he wasn't replaced. Rather than spending Bolasie money on Benteke we should have got 2 good pros. Left Back problems who could have foretold he would be involved in the car crash.

FDB I think was given money to spend, he just didn't spend it. I think he was told you have £40-£50 million We suggest Sakho, but by deadline day we had 1 player and 2 loanees and no-0ne had left. We had lost our games and he didn't seem to be learning lessons of EPL. So I think that is point SP and DF took over and got Sakho and tried to get striker over line.

Can we get out of this mess? I think we can. But players like Ward, Hennessey Puncheon are who we have, there is no point in moaning. There confidence is low so support them rather than slag them off

1. Experienced Premier League managers like Pulis and Allardyce would rather defenestrate than spend another season with us.
2. Lack of long-term planning, and of the infrastructure and personnel which might allow us to plan for the long term.
3. On a related note, we always seem to be a transfer window behind, looking to plug obvious gaps that should have been filled months earlier in the previous window. Come January, this will be the case again; we should be in a position where we are looking forward, but we will be looking back.
4. A squad with too many players that are no longer good enough/were never good enough, who we haven't been able to sell and replace.
5. A squad with too many players who should still be useful at this level but who look like their form and confidence are shot after a dreadful couple of years.

Issues like these will continue to undermine the current and future manager(s).

Edited by the despotic banana (02 Oct 2017 1.48pm)

We discussed Silva before, he was always going to Watford.
Not sure if Dyche wanted to move South.?
And we all wanted Zaha to sign because he was going to leave again.?
And because both Burnley and Watford have started well Parish is at fault as usual.
All the Holers praising Bournemouth and Evertons transfer policies have gone quiet.
Early days though we just need a WIN.
All we are saying is give us a goal.!!!!

Palace 13th 2017/18.

Probably arranged way in advance where a key player was being aggressively courted by the likes of Spurs. As to his importance, injured 6 1/2 games; lost all 7; for much of which the only other serious absentee was Wickham.

There are better reasons for criticising the management than this clutch at straws.

this may be the case. Funny that when FDB criticised the players plenty of fans rounded on him saying it was bang out of order and poor management. The truth is too much for some people.