Premiership top six predictions.

@Kwek00 He's had a promising start. Early days, obviously.

@Burnley123 I have some respect for him as a coach... however, I think he's pigheaded when it comes to "vision of how he wants to play" vs "material that he has to play the game with". At times, it feels like a kid pushing the square figure through the round hole... Maybe he needs to grow up a little bit in that department.


But I wish him and Burnley all the best for this season. What he did out here wasn't bad at all, and he had a good run with Anderlecht considering the material they had to work with. But I think if he was a bit more pragmatic in his approach and understands the strengths and weakness of his individual players more, then it would have been better.

@Kwek00 The advantage he has is that we had to completely change the team from last season. For his first game, we had six of his signings making debuts.

The style of play and his contacts means we have been the first in the line for loan players from big premiership clubs, which helps. I agree, it is easier in your second job than your first.

The Championship season is long and it's a very unpredictable league. I'm cautiously optimistic after the Huddersfield win.

@Burnley123 I hope he does well... I know from people that know people that worked with Vincent, that he's not really the nicest person to work with. But I still support the guy as a Belgian coach trying to make a career abroad.

He's a pupil of Pep Guardiola and looks up to him a lot. To a point that it even becomes some perverse form of worship at times. I just think that to play like Man. City you also need people that can make the miles and be sharp for a long time. And that was one of the big criticisms when he was over here, that this ideal way of playing football [i](according to himself)[/i] couldn't be approached in a pragmatic way. Anyway, I hope to see Burnley in the big leagues again next year. I'll look at it from afar. Most of my attention will just go the Kanaries cause my football love has it's limits. I'll watch the important games in England and the European competitions. And of course, I'll OD on the world cup. Cause it's the world cup.

@Kwek00 Oh, hes' completely a Pep disciple. In his first game, he played last season's left-back and centre-back. It was very Cruffian Ajax/Barca and we played a high press with possession play. He has signed players to fit that mould and in *one* game, it worked really well with us winning 1-0 (but dominating play) away at a team who were promotion contenders last time.

Sean Dyche was our previous coach for years and he was the absolute opposite. He was very direct in the old-school British kind of way and very defensive. He was good at what he did though and kept us in the Premiership for years.

I appreciate your warnings and hear them. We will see how things go.

@Burnley123 I think championship should be renamed yo-yo league with all the same teams going up and down each year , my favourite league to watch with good exciting football