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Burnley set to announce Dyche as new boss
6:00am Monday 29th October 2012 in Football
By Suzanne Geldard, Burnley FC reporter
BURNLEY are expected to announce Sean Dyche as their new manager tomorrow.
As exclusively reported in Saturday's Lancashire Telegraph, former Watford boss Dyche was offered the job towards the end of last week and asked for the weekend to think it over.
The 41-year-old watched the Clarets slip to a 4-0 defeat at Cardiff City on Saturday, having been invited to the game as a guest of Malky Mackay, his former boss at Vicarage Road and the man he succeeded as Watford manager in the summer of 2011.
In the meantime there was believed to have been an 11th hour push from some members of the board to plump for a more audacious appointment, with Blackpool boss Ian Holloway their intended target.
But Dyche was thought to have been favoured by three of the five directors and is understood to have now indicated that he is willing to accept the job.
He is expected to be installed as Eddie Howe's successor tomorrow after winning a majority vote from the board.
On Saturday, ahead of the game at the Cardiff City Stadium, operational director Brendan Flood posted a message on Twitter saying: “Appointing a new manager is legally/financially more complicated than it looks. We have five director opinions, some ambitious, some cautious.”
Dyche is believed to have been favoured by at least one of the joint chairmen following a rigorous and lengthy interview process conducted by John Banaszkiewicz and Mike Garlick over the last fortnight, before the rest of the five-man board got involved to assess the shortlist, which also included St Johnstone's Steve Lomas and Falkirk chief Steven Pressley.
Saturday's disappointing loss at Cardiff escalated the need to make a managerial appointment, and the board were believed to have met yesterday to bring their manager search nearer to a conclusion.
Caretaker boss Terry Pashley had previously bought the club time by overseeing the club's first back-to-back league wins of the season – the first against Holloway's Blackpool at Turf Moor.
After a humbling at the hands of the league leaders, Pashley said: “I've spoken to the board, but nothing in terms of what's going to happen.
“The chairmen have been asking how things have been going, but in terms of a new appointment nothing has been mentioned to me, no.
“We came down (on Friday) and after we got to the hotel I spoke to them, but not since then.
“I have nothing to report.”
He added: “If that was my last game, it's been an experience.
“I'm an employee of Burnley Football Club and I've been asked to do a job, and I've enjoyed doing it.”
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Comments (29)
9:30am Mon 29 Oct 12
The Chicken Lover says...
Burnley are on to a SEAN thing with Sean.
If your Burnley and you know it clap your DYCHE
DYCHES clarets are really really NYCE
I'm sure everyones favourite simpleton No Nay Never will be along to stink up the place with his Key Stage 3 level puns shortly.
In other news - Please make signing Paterson and Austin up a priority Sean.
I doubt very much Dyche was anyones first choice but at the very least we should get behind the fella and give him a chance to show us why the board were so impressed with him.
UTC
9:41am Mon 29 Oct 12
Real Lancs Assembly says...
10:51am Mon 29 Oct 12
Chrissaces says...
I have noticed there hasn't been any dingle posts on our blackburn pages for some time now, maybe because you have realised that in the same league, or one below us, that you lot are just inferior?! Hahahaha!
Go crawl back into your holes!
RTID
11:47am Mon 29 Oct 12
Midland Claret says...
That said he does have experience in this division and is generally held in high regard. Would sooner have him as manager that someone who has never managed at this level. We were lucky with Coyle who has since been found out as wanting. It is unlikely we would drop lucky again with another Scottish appointment.
11:52am Mon 29 Oct 12
The Chicken Lover says...
12:17pm Mon 29 Oct 12
vintageclaret says...
Good Question !!
Answer: It comes from after being half bred and born in Blackburn, supporting BRFC and not having the mental faculties large enough to get out of the situation. Such is the sad and sorry life of the deluded "fans" of BRFC
12:24pm Mon 29 Oct 12
The Chicken Lover says...
12:56pm Mon 29 Oct 12
Chrissaces says...
The sad life of a Burnley fan!
RTID
1:54pm Mon 29 Oct 12
eddyo says...
1:58pm Mon 29 Oct 12
rousman 2 says...
2:06pm Mon 29 Oct 12
vintageclaret says...
Neither sad nor sorry to be a BFC fan, but mire than happy and thank the lucky stars I am not a fan of the Chuckle Brothers Comedy Show.
Enjoy your moment of a false sense of security before reality kicks in especially when the financial situation and extent of indebtedness BRFC are in. It won't be too long before the administrators are knocking on the doors at Ewood
2:10pm Mon 29 Oct 12
rousman 2 says...
3:04pm Mon 29 Oct 12
midas says...
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It's always good to see that some Rovers fan will always come on to make us laugh. Bless em, it must be something in the water that makes them so delusional.
3:52pm Mon 29 Oct 12
raybren says...
3:53pm Mon 29 Oct 12
raybren says...
4:44pm Mon 29 Oct 12
RUinsane says...
I'm Free.
5:40pm Mon 29 Oct 12
no ney never says...
What is key stage 3?
Patterson - a sicknote who spends more time on the treatment table than on the pitch. Should have let forrest sign him when cotteril was interested.
No way can you be a Burnley fan. I don't know how you have the cheek to call anybody a simpleton with the crp you post.
still...
Terry's of Burnley
6:12pm Mon 29 Oct 12
burnleyglentoran says...
There's the vacancy at the most successful town team in England - Ipswich
And he may have even considered, for a second, joining the Bol-Ewood circus!!!!
BRKFC - JUST A HORSE FIDDLING LAUGHING STOCK NEAR SHADSWORTH
6:30pm Mon 29 Oct 12
kingy999 says...
8:08pm Mon 29 Oct 12
madari says...
Give the guy a chance, if he is given the opportunity to manage the Clarets.....onwards and upwards.
11:36pm Mon 29 Oct 12
claretmeandyou says...
10:39am Tue 30 Oct 12
midas says...
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What the board lack in so called ambition they make up for in common sense.
10:48am Tue 30 Oct 12
The Chicken Lover says...
I once again bow to your hilariously contrite rationale that decrees "No Burnley fan (me) can possibly think that another Burnley fan (you) is an absolute f***wit.
Good show.
I notice the AMBISHHON crew are in here now.
it makes my eyes bleed.
11:43am Tue 30 Oct 12
jellybiff says...
3:52pm Mon 29 Oct 12
Hi jellybiff,Bmouth fan here.Howe 'n Clitheroe nurses?
allegedly a lot of talk in Burnley about a health farm ;a clitheroe nurse and an ultimatum from a wife to go back home or else..
2:03pm Tue 30 Oct 12
jack01 says...
1 x league title
1 x fa cup
1 x uefa cup
That's it. Three major trophies.
No, the tag of most successful town team lies with your very neighbours - the Bol-Ewood circus as you put it -
3 x league titles
6 x fa cups
1 x league cup
So that's ten major trophies. Find me another town team with a better record than that.
At least we don't have our staff poached by AFC Bournemouth! The laughing stock of the Championship.
4:29pm Tue 30 Oct 12
no ney never says...
A number of clubs reside in places that were towns, and won plenty of silverware, before achieving city status. I've better thngs to do than pss about for the detail, but i'm willing to donate £100 to nspcc if you can prove that you are 'the most succesful town team in english football history'. Sincerely. I will even post the contact details of who ever receives the money from me on behalf of the charity, so you can check it out yourself.
So go on, prove me wrong. And remember...'the most succesful town team in english football history'. You say you are, I laugh and say you are deluded because you are not.
Terry's of Burnley
4:49pm Tue 30 Oct 12
no ney never says...
There were no such things when I went to school.
It explains the drivel, or maybe dribble, that you post. Don't worry junior claret, its clear now you are still only finding your way in life, so in future i'll handle your posts directed at me with 'kid' gloves.
All the best.
Terry's of Burnley
1:51pm Wed 31 Oct 12
jack01 says...
I've just helped you out - Rovers have won 10 major trophies in their history. I'm challenging you to find me another club based in an English town that has won more than that. There isnt one. The only existing town that comes close is West Bromwich, and its debateable as to how much of a town that is these days, being engulfed by the vast population of Birmingham and the West Midlands. Its no use saying x used to be a town but is now a city, because that then doesnt count, because it isnt a town, get it?
I don't believe Rovers are something they are not. These are the facts that I am relying upon. Best write that cheque for £100, if you've ever seen a chequebook.
4:18pm Wed 31 Oct 12
no ney never says...
Wolverhampton for example, won all their silverware as a town. They did not achieve city status until after the millenium. You have won no more silverware as a town than they did as a town.
Henning berg! lol. Now you have a hen, that just about completes the coup.
cluck cluck pwoar!
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