[Albion] Why did we sell Burn?

[Neville's Breakfast]

I suggest you forward your financial advice to billionaire Tony Bloom so that we wont have these things happening any more..

Why ? I’m just giving my opinion on a BHA football forum to BHA fans. I don’t give a shit about what the owner thinks about my opinion and he doesn’t much care what my opinion is. It’s all good..

 

[Easy 10]

Why ? I’m just giving my opinion on a BHA football forum to BHA fans. I don’t give a shit about what the owner thinks about my opinion.

Get with the program. He's a billionaire, therefore he can NEVER be wrong about anything.

We must all know our place.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Obi-Wan Kenobi: "But Master Yoda says I should be mindful of the future."
Qui-Gon Jinn: "But not at the expense of the moment...."

“It’s all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.”

Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall

 

[Easy 10]

“It’s all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.”

Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall

Fair play. Your Thomas Cromwell trumps my shonky George Lucas (and DRIVES home the point)

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Fair play. Your Thomas Cromwell trumps my shonky George Lucas (and DRIVES home the point)

If you want to trump Wolf Hall, you need the might of Barry Shitpeas. One of my favourite TV reviews.

https://youtu.be/0P-hPLgXB-s

 

[Bry Nylon]

If you want to trump Wolf Hall, you need the might of Barry Shitpeas. One of my favourite TV reviews.

https://youtu.be/0P-hPLgXB-s

Never seen that before. Thank you. Excellent!

 

[Easy 10]

If you want to trump Wolf Hall, you need the might of Barry Shitpeas. One of my favourite TV reviews.

Barry Shitpeas, almost Tuckerism legend

"All they did is watch people sweep up, and poke cobwebs, and read books. There was no WiFi, not even Buckeroo"

 

[kevo]

Same question this week.

 

[sydney]

Barry Shitpeas, almost Tuckerism legend

"All they did is watch people sweep up, and poke cobwebs, and read books. There was no WiFi, not even Buckeroo"

can only imagine how many Barry Shitpeases there are going about their daily shitheadery .....i'm sure there are 10's of millions of them.

 

[Springal]

I was pretty firm in my view that selling Burn was OK business and we'd be OK without him. But I think we've now made a huge mistake - if Bloom wanted to cash in to balance the books, I guess we can't really argue but from a footballing perspective it is terrible business.

I also think the club are not expecting Webster back until possibly Liverpool or Man City - but Norwich on 2nd April more likely to further compound our defensive problems.

 

[albionalex]

I was pretty firm in my view that selling Burn was OK business and we'd be OK without him. But I think we've now made a huge mistake - if Bloom wanted to cash in to balance the books, I guess we can't really argue but from a footballing perspective it is terrible business.

I also think the club are not expecting Webster back until possibly Liverpool or Man City - but Norwich on 2nd April more likely to further compound our defensive problems.

In the short term? Maybe. But it's the long term that will be most important.

 

[sydney]

In the short term? Maybe. But it's the long term that will be most important.

not sure how the Dunk/Duffy partnership has been written off by Potter when a few months ago we were top 5 for defence in the PL ....i find it hard to believe that the selling of Dan Burn has resulted in our current loss of any idea of how to win a game of football .....it just hasn't.

 

[GT49er]

not sure how the Dunk/Duffy partnership has been written off by Potter when a few months ago we were top 5 for defence in the PL ....i find it hard to believe that the selling of Dan Burn has resulted in our current loss of any idea of how to win a game of football .....it just hasn't.

One of the first things Potter did when he arrived was to bring in Adam Webster to make sure he had an alternative to the Dunk'n'Duffy set up. Believe it or not, the selling of BDB has contributed to our recent woes - we're short of cover at CB. We now have four players to cover three positions, and sometimes only two of the four have been available - it was definately a risky gamble selling one fifth of our CB options.
Selling Burn won't see us relegated this season; it may well, however, cost us our coveted top ten position.

 

[sydney]

One of the first things Potter did when he arrived was to bring in Adam Webster to make sure he had an alternative to the Dunk'n'Duffy set up. Believe it or not, the selling of BDB has contributed to our recent woes - we're short of cover at CB. We now have four players to cover three positions, and sometimes only two of the four have been available - it was definately a risky gamble selling one fifth of our CB options.
Selling Burn won't see us relegated this season; it may well, however, cost us our coveted top ten position.

i think Graham may have to play with what he's got , offence is the best form of defence and we have gone out and put in a couple of witheringly underwhelming performances , the latter in front of a decent crowd (in numbers) against a direct opponent for mid table glory .......at the moment i'm thinking Tony and Graham are thinking to ride this season out , get all our loanees back in , take stock and go again next season......there really isn't a lot left to play for unless we don't lift our game in which case we''ll be in a relegation ruck before we know it.

 

[GT49er]

i think Graham may have to play with what he's got , offence is the best form of defence and we have gone out and put in a couple of witheringly underwhelming performances , the latter in front of a decent crowd (in numbers) against a direct opponent for mid table glory .......at the moment i'm thinking Tony and Graham are thinking to ride this season out , get all our loanees back in , take stock and go again next season......there really isn't a lot left to play for unless we don't lift our game in which case we''ll be in a relegation ruck before we know it.

Yes, I think that is the best we can hope for. Will be fascinating to see which of our loanees around the Championship and Europe will push us onwards and upwards next season. Or - in a worst case scenario - will turn out to be only Chanpionship level anyway.
Hope the last bit doesn't turn to be the case!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

In the short term? Maybe. But it's the long term that will be most important.

Don’t get all this talk of the short term. Seems like trying to put positive spin on a bad transfer decision. I care about the short and the long term.

 

[Justice]

There is a lot more than £13m at stake finishing 9/10 which on current displays looks doubtful. Newcastle will probably finish above us at this rate which will be a f..king embarrassment.

 

[mona]

A bizarre decision when no replacement was possible.

 

[albionalex]

Don’t get all this talk of the short term. Seems like trying to put positive spin on a bad transfer decision. I care about the short and the long term.

So if we sign a striker and he doesn't score in his first two games, that would be a bad transfer?

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Wouldn’t it be cool if we could swap points with Newcastle since we gave our BDB away?