Ex Lion Tamer

If the top 6 all continue their current form to the rest of the season then they'll have the following points: Leicester 110 Ipswich 104 Leeds 97 Saints 96 WBA 94 Hull 89 Won't happen obviously

He dropped him for several games

That's exactly what we need! Someone to find a yard in the box, get on the end of a cross and score a tap in

No doubting his finishing but he's not a big presence up front. We need Ross fit and firing. Martin hasn't been given the tools that Adkins was

No i can't say it was convincing, but:

Martin is still waiting for his quality finisher to be fit. We're painfully lacking a big presence up front

We're unbeaten in nine games, we've dropped six points from the last 27, is it really realistic to think we ought to be doing better? If our form drops then sure, we can start aking questions again, but it's a bit premature based on one draw with Huddersfield

Worth saying that last season Burnley lost to QPR and drew with Birmingham, Stoke, Blackpool (twice), Cardiff and Hull. You can't always just pick off the lesser teams

I think he said Sulemana got taken off because he didn't do what was asked of him at half time

I agree

And would be calling him soft if he didn't call out the players for their poor 2nd half peformance

I do have a worry that he will never fulfill his potential. But we've got to stick with him in case he does. And it's only really his final ball that's the issue, he's beating his man regularly (I wasn't able to watch the Huddersfield game)

Tella is at his peak ability, whereas Sulemana could develop into a top player and be worth much more than anyone was willing to pay last summer. We definitely sold the right one

It's hard for the fans but honestly it's best that Burnley spend their resources sensibly rather than splurging £20m on Tella

We have another 20+ games to go this season that are more likely to be like the last 10 than the first 7. So the league table should look increasingly better for us. That may still mean playoffs of course

Yeah i don't think we're the finished article but it seems silly to take stats over a 17 game timeframe when we're clearly a better team now than in the first part of the season

We remain top of the form table over the past 6 games

10 goals in our last 10 games is another way of looking at it. Only Leicester, West Brom and Cardiff have conceded less

I'd loan in an ageing Premier League striker rather than rely on Ballard

I'd let him go on loan for the second half of the season, get some games. We'd have to replace Che if he leaves though

Remember when Yoshida was clocked as our fastest player back in the day? On that basis I'm going for someone totally unexpected, like Aribo

They only gave Ginola 17 caps so who knows how they'd have treated Matt

Transfer speculation was always fun (in my time anyway). It's just now it's all crammed into two short spaces of time

Maybe things are different now but it's worth remembering that last time we got relegated from the Premier League, we did better in our second Championship season than our first. So I'm not sure it's all or nothing, although obviously better to get promoted this year if we can. One nightmare scenario that is in my mind is if Man City, Chelsea and Everton all get relegated for financial irregularities. Then we'd have a heck of a job getting promoted, unless they get relegated and a points deduction in the Champ

There is talk that parachute payments will be reformed. There's certainly a lot of clubs who think they give an unfair advantage