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Sean Dyche have got them double promoted to the prem, kept them in the prem and got them in Europe once and stayed in the prem for years, with barely any budget, with the same players, the fact they are sacking him is stupid but that should be us staying up.
 
This. Just a fresh start isn’t it. He’s been there what, 10 years now?
Yeah you do feel it’s gone a bit stale for them. I had them down as a threat towards the back end of the season, because their M.O has always been nicking unlikely points, but once that was gone, it’s not worth carrying on with that brand of football.
 

They are that poor that i doubt a bounce is even possible. Plays in our favour this imo. Feared Dyche more than whoever they bring in. Makes no difference to us either way though, we just need to concentrate on our own results and then it doesn't matter if they appoint the Lord almighty himself. 3 wins and we should be ok and feck Burnley. ;)
 
Weird.

A fair few who said there's no point sacking Lampard if we lost every game because we wouldn't get a new manager bounce, seem to be concerned that Burnley will get new manager bounce.
Yes, me included.

Can just see it happening for other's but not for us.

Must be more positive!

Anyway, hopefully Frank will have us picking up enough points to survive, one or two coming back from injuries.

We can do it.
 
Of course, from our point of view this smacks of desperation on Burnleys part. A recognition that if they didn't do something dramatic then they are not catching us.
This is a supreme piece of dice rolling. It could go either way.
They are still behind us on points and would need to do better than us in the final games. One would assume they have someone ready to announce as they waited 5 days after Norwich and they sacked the whole 1st team coaching staff. If they dont announce someone quick then that would mean they are worse run than us - which I find extremely hard to believe.
As things were going the momentum had swung our way and they must have felt they were going down.
This changes that dynamic - though not sure which way.
This is not good news for us!
 

By the way, for context, I think Burnley's desperate punt is less likely to work than if we made a similar move and replaced Lampard with somebody else after a hypothetical loss to United. Why? I am not sure there is somebody out there who could get a better tune out of the Burnley squad than Dyche. To his credit, he has done a tremendous job there. I don't think there is a huge upside available to them now - I suspect Dyche was wringing all he could out of those players. Had Frank lost to United, it would have been a lot easier to say that somebody else could do more than he was doing with our players. Even now, one wonders if Frank is getting all he can out of our squad, but the United win buys him time to prove himself.

We simply need to do what we need to do at home to Leicester. Win that and the noose tightens on Burnley - no matter who is in charge there.
 
For context Watford got 8 points in their first 8 games under Hodgson

Great new manager bounce that was
And we only got 9 points from the first 10 games under Lampard. If that was a new manager "bounce", the ball was punctured. And to be fair to Frank, Benitez had left the air out as he had only earned 5 points in his last 10 games, so context is everything.

What we do know is, if we cannot match Burnley from now to the end of the season, we have failed on an epic scale.
 

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