Burnley

[Dan]

I was thinking the same - half expecting a trawler and a load of seagulls to be sailing towards him through the valley

I roughly translated it as "Sometimes you've got to be shit to appreciate how good others are. Except we're not shit, honest!"

Still doesn't really make sense.

[Rover the Top]

I want to know more: Did he just panic and start blurting out words like a politician, or is it something he's been thinking about for weeks? Has anybody told him it's one of the stupidest things anyone has ever said? Are his instructions to his team as nonsensical? I've not really paid attention to him before, does he regularly come out with crap like this?

[Dan]

I want to know more: Did he just panic and start blurting out words like a politician, or is it something he's been thinking about for weeks? Has anybody told him it's one of the stupidest things anyone has ever said? Are his instructions to his team as nonsensical? I've not really paid attention to him before, does he regularly come out with crap like this?

There's more in the same interview

“If you always do what you have always done, you always get what you have always got"

http://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/news ... 68637.aspx

[Ethiaa]

Sounds like a bad paraphrase of "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

[Rover the Top]

...like tossing a coin...

[Ethiaa]

...and expecting it not to fall due to gravity. I think Einstein may have been thinking in a larger context than which side it lands on, more about if it lands at all. Or in which physical plane it lands perhaps.

[Franco_ice]

The quotes sure can provide laughter.

[Rover the Top]

...and expecting it not to fall due to gravity. I think Einstein may have been thinking in a larger context than which side it lands on, more about if it lands at all. Or in which physical plane it lands perhaps.

Quite probably. It doesn't stop there being exceptions to the generalisation. There's plenty of situations where it would be insane not to expect a different outcome from repeating the same action.

[Dan]

...and expecting it not to fall due to gravity. I think Einstein may have been thinking in a larger context than which side it lands on, more about if it lands at all. Or in which physical plane it lands perhaps.

Quite probably. It doesn't stop there being exceptions to the generalisation. There's plenty of situations where it would be insane not to expect a different outcome from repeating the same action.

Like Burnley playing a football match this year?

[Ethiaa]

...and expecting it not to fall due to gravity. I think Einstein may have been thinking in a larger context than which side it lands on, more about if it lands at all. Or in which physical plane it lands perhaps.

Quite probably. It doesn't stop there being exceptions to the generalisation. There's plenty of situations where it would be insane not to expect a different outcome from repeating the same action.

Like Burnley playing a football match this year?

Sadly for Burnley they don't decide their results based on a coin flip.

If they continue to concede three and score none in each game, I'm going to side with Dyche/Einstein. There is a combination I wasn't expecting to see today.

[Rover the Top]

Surely the number of goals they score and concede is the result of their actions, not the action itself? He might not know much about mountains, but I doubt Dyche is telling his team to let in three goals as their gameplan. Simply put, if they keep taking shots on goal, should they expect not to score?

[Ethiaa]

Surely the number of goals they score and concede is the result of their actions, not the action itself? He might not know much about mountains, but I doubt Dyche is telling his team to let in three goals as their gameplan. Simply put, if they keep taking shots on goal, should they expect not to score?

I think scoring is an action as well as a consequence of shooting. I suspect that this level of metaphysical investigation may be part of the issue with his squad. They are too wrapped up in the philosophical consequences of their actions. It's not about taking shots, it's about the kind of shots they take. And if they looked in the box (that works on so many levels).

[Rover the Top]

I think the main issue is that their manager thinks football is something to do with only seeing mountain tops when you're a couple of thousand feet below them...

[Ethiaa]

I think the main issue is that their manager thinks football is something to do with only seeing mountain tops when you're a couple of thousand feet below them...

Luckily for them, they are being paid a fortune to hang on by their fingernails for 12 months. The fans might not like it but the club will be in a great position when they come down again. It's an audacious no risk strategy. We'll take the money and don't care if we don't win a game... so long and thanks for all the filthy lucre.





Unless Oyston buys them.

[Rover the Top]

It looks like there's more gibberish:

Weirdly you can be at your strongest when you are at your weakest, so there is strength in our moment now,

Did he have an empty bottle of JD by him when he did this presser by any chance?