Welcome Burnley

And they got a great 'proper English name'.. fess up, that's the deal.

Welcome Burnley, for your 'Bob in the Bigs'.... Literally.

 

I was hoping for Sheffield United because I think they have staying power. Having Burnley and their Turf Moor ground in the league will be cool. Owen Coyle is great and Burnley play football under him. I also think it's good for Fulham to have Burnley in the league rather than a Sheffield United, a Newcastle or a Middlesbrough. It's just another small club in the premier which makes it somewhat easier (on paper at least) for Fulham to stay up.

Burnley, Hull, Wolverhampton, Stoke, and Birmingham... should all be weak next year. Bolton and Wigan shouldn't be getting much better. Wigan probably won't be as good. So hopefully Fulham can stay in the top 10 another season. I don't think we'll beat out Tottenham or Man City for a European spot next year. Who knows though. Man City and Tottenham are still just as likely to implode again with all their over paid stars.

 

Burnley...sure to be a FFC bogey next campaign, but otherwise I agree with Lyle's assessment (and sans middle eastern cash influx).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009 ... d-play-off

 

I'd add Pompey to that mix as well. Read somewhere the other day where Bolton are expecting to get a cash infusion from somewhere. Course you know how that goes.

As for the new boys though, Wolves may be pretty salty. They have some decent talent. Of course for all 3, we'll know a lot more after we see how they spend their money and supplement their squads. Of the 3, Burnley should be the odds on favorite for the drop. Which means they'll take 6 pts off of us.

 

Its been since 1951 since Fulham last won at Turf Moor, so nevzter and fulhamag are correct. And we're probably screwed.

But hey, we're in Europe!!!! :banana:

 

It's early and I may want to revise this opinion, but I don't see any of the three new boys going down. Wolves have some talent, more so than Bolton or Hull did this year. Brum have an experiences manager who I am sure learned from his mistakes, and Burnley can play some footy and have a bright young manager. Hull and Stoke will have a tough road to hoe, to name a few.

 

I'm glad Burnley got promoted because they have not been in the Premier League (at least for as long as I've been following it), and I like seeing different clubs make it.

On Wolves, I agree with SeveteM19 that Wolves have some talent--I noticed that four of the top eight players in the Football League in FourFourTwo's annual list are from Wolves.

 

It feels weird knowing that the team that lost an exhibition to the Cary Railhawks U23's (Now the Cary Clarets) back in July, is going to be playing in the EPL. Now granted I don't imagine any of the players I saw last year are going to be on the field in August but I'm looking forward to seeing Burnley next year. I hope they do well, just not as well as Fulham. And if they take Hull out in the process, I'm not going to complain.

 

Yeah, I forgot about them. They could be getting relegated soon as well. Blackburn is another team that has financial issues in their background. I expect Sam Allardyce to keep them up though.

 

OT: just always a mild irritant to me... That's Tough ROW to hoe.

But it MAY just be a typo.. maybe steve's like me and hears what he types in his head as he types it.

 

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11688_5351187,00.html

That's tough. With all of the "Coyle is God" signs and platitudes in Burnley, you'd have to think his departure would gut the club and town.

 

I personally have never tried to hoe a road but I am guessing it would be pretty difficult. That is probably why they use the big dirt moving equipment instead. :tongue:

 

You were right (damn, that hurt). Coyle was on Sky saying the same thing today.

 

Wolves are going straight back down, as would any team that had Mick McCarthy as their manager.

They should just sack him now and get it over with.