Alastair Campbell Summarises The MK Dons Game & Owen Coyle

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No Disrispect to Burnley, but we have been in the Premiership for 9 seasons. We have had the likes of Djorkaeff, Hierro, Jay Jay Ojocha, Nakata, Campo, Anelka etc. We have played in the Uefa Cup twice, we have better facilities, more money, more International players are known around Europe and are a bigger town with more fans. Yes Burnley got promoted through the playoffs and Coyle did well to acheive this but to compare the 2 clubs in stature is totally ridiculous. Burnley are comparable to Preston in size and acheivement so please don't speak nonsense. I like Burnley as a Club but some of the rubbish I hear about why would he move to Bolton as Burnley has more prospects and he has more chance of surviving is a joke. He would be on more money, have money to spend and lets face it would stand a better chance of winning something than at Burnley. We are 2 wins of 10th place for god sake.

Owen Coyle will be our next manager so I'd recommend you start planning for the Championship again.

Coyle will not be going to Bowton...END OF!



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interesting you cite your historical achievements Borgy, I suspect there is many a claret could do the same.

The reality is the here and now. Megson even said himself that finaces were shall I paraphrase .."restricted" at Bolton and that in fact I believe you are not that much better off than us. Burnley also are 3 points off tenth, but are two points ahead of BOLTON (granted you have 2 games in hand, but I know I would rather have points on theboard, you could just as easily get nowt from those games too)

It must hurt you to read that in fact you were able to compete in this league, but I fear that if OC went to Bolton it would indeed be a retrograde step because his job would not be easy. It isnt much easier at BUrnley tbh, but at least the fans acknowledge who and where we are, and the opportunity to play in the PREM has been realised for us. It would be great to maintain that, and if we did and OC then left I guarentee he would gain bigger plaudits than mere Bolton.

'Owen Coyle will be our next manager so I'd recommend you start planning for the Championship again.'

There's nothing better than reading the condesending views of some Bolton p*ick. It'll be very interesting to see how your hoofball lot take to attempting to pass the ball.

Let me guess, following Bolton is a way of life?

Borgy that was seasons ago. You're now Prem strugglers, like us.

Come back with your air of superiority when Bolton have actually been the Champions of England Borgy and not before then!

The thing is Borgy, IF we stay up this season (we are already virtually debt free btw) OC will get a BIG pay rise AND a decent kitty to spend in the summer, so why take a step sideways?
It's not even like he's a Bolton fan or owt, he only played for you for a couple of seasons ffs

He can earn more plaudits & better his reputation by keeping BFC in The Prem, than he would by keeping you lot up! (or even going back down)

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I can understand Borgy's post, we still go on about our European travels from 40 years ago ffs!

If Owen goes, and i believe he will, I for one hope he succeeds at Bolton.

Coyle made Burnley a sucess on the pitch, but off the pitch we are still light years behind.

Burnley have ONE training pitch, no astroturf, and if bad comes to worse the Turf Moor pitch isnt capable of handling training and match day.

Bolton have a state of the art stadium, state of the art training facilities, a premiership structure, a chairman much like our own, and with money to back a new manager.

Burnley's promotion earned us 60 million, yet we only spent 10% on signings.

Bolton have signed some WORLD class players like Campo and Anelka.

Burnley needed top get it right off the pitch IMVHO otherwise this trend of losing players (Gray/Blake/Lafferty/Coffie) and teams poaching or attempting to poach our managers (Leicester/Cotterill: Celtic/Bolton/ Coyle).

I hope he does'nt go but wish him and his staff well.

Well i'm glad you wish him well because wishing him well hurts our football club....each to their own on that.

As for some of your points, let's get some balance

State of the Art Stadium, in what sense or more importantly what is the relevance of this?

State of the art training facilities? Well the last time i went down Euxton Lane it looked anything but state of the art(compared with Brockhall), there isn't any indoor dome or similar.

A Premiership structure? I've no idea what that means but do know they're below us in the table

A chairman much like our own? I think that's an insulting thing to say about Barry Kilby, he isn't half the snake Gartside is.

Money to back the new manager? Again where's the evidence of this? Gary Megson said only on Saturday he had the smallest budget in the Premier League.

Another take on Bolton is that they are £62 million in debt, having lost another £8 million, which doesn't take a genius to work out when(not if) they get relegated they're finished.

I can understand some people being disappointed with the news he's going but can't for the life of my understand why anyone would wish him success at Bolton for two key reasons.

1. Success at Bolton will mean a negative effect on Burnley....no matter what Burnley will always be the priority for me, not Owen Coyle.

2. If he succeeds then our next manager or the one after will also jump to the sideways ship at the first available opportunity, we need to show our future managers that leaving Burnley will be a mistake not the best option.



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Bolton are an academy are they not? with that means MINIMUM 4 training pitches one under floodlights, one astroturf capable of holding games and indoors. thats a minimum. so training is better.

Premiership structure, that i wont go into on here.

Gartside has Bolton at Heart like Kilby has with Burnley.

Stadium, untill this season we had to come out and back in through the away end, which is a discrace now, even though we have 1300 Burnley fans in there.

But i do agree wishing Coyle luck with Bolton could hamper us in the short term, i dont care, he took us up, and gave us some fantastic times.

Wish him luck? I wouldn't p*ss on him if he was on fire if he leaves us to go to that tinpot hoofball shite from the Reebok.

Oh and Borgy - Pipe down you @#$%&