What will you miss/not miss about the Championship?

martin_p · Post by **martin_p** » Tue May 16, 2023 12:39 pm

With the season over and preparations for our return to the big league underway, what will you miss/not miss about the Championship?

Miss:

Without doubt the thing I’ll miss most is the lack of VAR. You don’t realise how much it’s killing the game until you go back to not having it. Being able to see the ball hit the back of the net, take a quick glance at the officials and then let rip with a celebration can’t be beaten.

Sky Sports Championship coverage - maybe this is a result of us being one of the bigger clubs in the league and us having so much success this season but I’ve really enjoyed Sky’s coverage. The general sneeriness and ‘we shouldn’t be there’ tone of the coverage we got in the Premier League was replaced by a proper look at what we were actually doing on the pitch. Prefer the presenters as well.

A decent chance of winning matches! - our last three seasons in the Championship have been incredible in terms of our win percentage. Hopefully it won’t be a massive struggle next season but I’m always apprehensive.

Opposition vlogs - there’s been some great vlogs about our games from fans of the opposition. Again it’s probably a result of us being a bigger fish in a smaller pond but it seems most opposition supporters are able to take reasonably balanced views of the game unlike in the Premier League.

Not miss:

ITV coverage of the EFL….. awful!

daveisaclaret · Post by **daveisaclaret** » Tue May 16, 2023 12:52 pm

Will miss being the best team ever. Won't miss the general standard of football being proper crap.

Carwin261 · Post by **Carwin261** » Tue May 16, 2023 12:55 pm

Will miss going on the Bastards forum,and laughing at the poor mugs,nearly all the other championship teams held their hands up that we were generally the better side ,but the poor sods were in bits when we won at the Turf,and suicidal when we won at Deadwood.

claretonthecoast1882 · Post by **claretonthecoast1882** » Tue May 16, 2023 12:56 pm

Miss
No VAR
Punctuality of TV games being announced
Whiny fans and the parachute payment comments
Being the best team by far
Witnessing just have s**t your local rivals are

Won't miss
The standard of referees (accepting the top flight has some poor ones this season has been eye opening just how bad the level down are)
Playing a team who will reduce our away allocation simply for being far better than them

Lord Beamish · Post by **Lord Beamish** » Tue May 16, 2023 12:59 pm

I’ll miss being genuinely competitive.
We’ll be nothing better than point-fodder for the Big Teams, next term.

I absolutely hate VAR. It, amongst other things, made me stay away from the Turf for nearly three years.
Seems that it’s going to be in the Champions next season, so it would’ve been a fact of life anyway.

I too will also miss the Away Fan Blogs.
Some of them have been so very well made and interesting.

jdrobbo · Post by **jdrobbo** » Tue May 16, 2023 1:00 pm

Miss: The amount of Tuesday and Wednesday evening games.

Not Miss: the lack of VAR

martin_p · Post by **martin_p** » Tue May 16, 2023 1:02 pm

Lord Beamish wrote: ↑
Tue May 16, 2023 12:59 pm
I’ll miss being genuinely competitive.
We’ll be nothing better than point-fodder for the Big Teams, next term.

I absolutely hate VAR. It, amongst other things, made me stay away from the Turf for nearly three years.
Seems that it’s going to be in the Champions next season, so it would’ve been a fact of life anyway.

I too will also miss the Away Fan Blogs.
Some of them have been so very well made and interesting.

I’m not sure VAR is coming to the championship next season. They’re using it in the play-off finals but I can’t find anything confirming it’s being introduced full time.

gawthorpe_view · Post by **gawthorpe_view** » Tue May 16, 2023 1:04 pm

Blackburn.

Lord Beamish · Post by **Lord Beamish** » Tue May 16, 2023 1:05 pm

martin_p wrote: ↑
Tue May 16, 2023 1:02 pm
I’m not sure VAR is coming to the championship next season. They’re using it in the play-off finals but I can’t find anything confirming it’s being introduced full time.

Maybe I’m wrong about that. I do hope you’re right. I wouldn’t wish VAR on any league. It’s fūcking dire!

gawthorpe_view · Post by **gawthorpe_view** » Tue May 16, 2023 1:08 pm

Winning pretty much every time we play.

Foshiznik · Post by **Foshiznik** » Tue May 16, 2023 1:16 pm

Miss
- Going into every weekend looking forward to the game expecting us to win or at least be close to winning.
- Sky Sports coverage. Really like David Prutton and the commentators (I think they are Bill Leslie, Gary Weaver, Jonathan Oakes and Daniel Mann?). Not a fan of Goodman and Hinchcliffe mind, but it's alot better than the majority of commentators in the Premier League who would wax lyrical about excrement, as long as Haaland, De Bruyne, Salah, Kane or Rashford made it.
- Actually being appreciated as a club for our achievements and football. I suspect it might be better for us under VK than Dyche but the media don't half hate that we are in the big boys league.
- Interacting with proper football fans. You don't get plastic EFL fans.

Won't miss:
- Unlike others, I hated the amount of poor referreeing decisions this year that would have been corrected by good use of VAR. The idea of VAR isn't the issue, it is the mismanagement of it that creates the issues most of you don't like about it.
- Having to watch the opposition put 11 behind the ball for 90 minutes and watch us go sideways 30 yards from goal for 80 minutes of the game (fortunately only happened 3/4 games).
- Clarets player and all the technical issues it has. I am sure the budget for this is less than a junior school radio station. At least in the Premier League there are many options available worldwide for watching us, although i will always hope we will one day have the ability to buy a virtual season ticket on one app and watch every game and show about Burnley like you can on NBA/NFL apps.
- Benson being booted into the air three times a game because he dares to take on the opposing defender.

beddie · Post by **beddie** » Tue May 16, 2023 1:17 pm

I’ll miss not winning most weeks and worrying if we’ll get enough points to stay up.

quoonbeatz · Post by **quoonbeatz** » Tue May 16, 2023 1:19 pm

Being in a competitive league.

tarkys_ears · Post by **tarkys_ears** » Tue May 16, 2023 1:41 pm

Foshiznik wrote: ↑
Tue May 16, 2023 1:16 pm
- Benson being booted into the air three times a game because he dares to take on the opposing defender.

YEH!! IT SHOULD BE US DOING THE BOOTING!!

Foshiznik · Post by **Foshiznik** » Tue May 16, 2023 1:44 pm

tarkys_ears wrote: ↑
Tue May 16, 2023 1:41 pm
YEH!! IT SHOULD BE US DOING THE BOOTING!!

Times have changed my friend...

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Tue May 16, 2023 1:50 pm

I'll not miss VAR one bit. It's absolutely garbage and it's been nothing short of wonderful not to have to suffer it, despite many refs being pretty hopeless tbh! We had some odd kick off times in the Championship, but I'm expecting that to get a whole lot worse (again!) and I can't help fretting that instead of turning up hoping (and many days expecting!) to win and see competitive football, we'll be turning up to loads of matches just praying we get a raggy point.

Tribesmen · Post by **Tribesmen** » Tue May 16, 2023 1:59 pm

Never want to see the Championship ever again , well in 20 years time maybe .

Spiral · Post by **Spiral** » Tue May 16, 2023 2:09 pm

I'll miss celebrating a goal when it's scored, and not when VAR gives it the thumbs up. That explosive immediacy is killed by VAR. I'll miss the number of Saturday 3pm games. I love the Championship so there's not a lot I can think of that I'll not miss. Unless we're sitting comfortable with a six or seven point gap from the relegation zone all season the PL feels like a grind. For Burnley, the Championship is like a loud, bombastic, fast paced action game where you're absolutely tooled up, and this season it's like we've been playing with cheats on, but the PL is like a survival horror game, and that's thrilling in its own way, but it's a stress at times. I just want to have fun as a fan, and the Championship is generally more fun to me.

blatherwickstattoos · Post by **blatherwickstattoos** » Tue May 16, 2023 2:38 pm

Miss - Saturday 3pm kick offs

Not miss - rushing at work to get ready to watch a Saturday 3pm Kick off (they seriously need to ban the 12pm kick offs though.

PremierLeagueClass · Post by **PremierLeagueClass** » Tue May 16, 2023 2:46 pm

Spiral wrote: ↑
Tue May 16, 2023 2:09 pm
I'll miss celebrating a goal when it's scored, and not when VAR gives it the thumbs up. That explosive immediacy is killed by VAR. I'll miss the number of Saturday 3pm games. I love the Championship so there's not a lot I can think of that I'll not miss. Unless we're sitting comfortable with a six or seven point gap from the relegation zone all season the PL feels like a grind. For Burnley, the Championship is like a loud, bombastic, fast paced action game where you're absolutely tooled up, and this season it's like we've been playing with cheats on, but the PL is like a survival horror game, and that's thrilling in its own way, but it's a stress at times. I just want to have fun as a fan, and the Championship is generally more fun to me.

Couldn’t agree more regarding VAR. Very rarely will I be celebrating a goal next season, because there’s a long wait before you actually find out if it’s a goal.

Jimmymaccer · Post by **Jimmymaccer** » Tue May 16, 2023 3:02 pm

I’ll miss the miserable git when we came off after that dreary Friday night draw against Sunderland saying “we’re going to blow it, and in any case, playing like that we’ll get smashed every week in The Prem”.

NottsClaret · Post by **NottsClaret** » Tue May 16, 2023 3:07 pm

Absolutely love the Championship. Enjoyed all of it this season and will miss everything about it. Lack of VAR obviously is up there, competitive matches (Blackburn at home aside).. the food choice at Hull City.

Maybe I'm a bit jaded after seeing us in the top flight a lot, which does sound ridiculous for a Burnley fan, but going to Rotherham on a balmy Tuesday evening to watch a proper match is always 100 times better than being VAR interrupted cannon fodder for the 'big' teams in the Greatest League in the World.

aggi · Post by **aggi** » Tue May 16, 2023 3:13 pm

As others have said, will really miss the lack of VAR. A development that is all about the TV audiences rather than the crowd at the match.

Won't miss the crappy refs. Not so much the big decisions, I'm willing to accept that some of those they may just get wrong, but just the lack of control that so many of the refs seemed to have.

JohnMac · Post by **JohnMac** » Tue May 16, 2023 3:18 pm

Will miss winning and being confident of not losing many of our games.
I won't miss EFL Highlights.

Juan Tanamera · Post by **Juan Tanamera** » Tue May 16, 2023 3:53 pm

The trick with VAR is to not score debatable goals.
It seems like some of you lot expect every goal to be scrutinized.
I'm certainly no fan of VAR but it's not every goal is it really?
Miss: Pummelling Venky's FC 11.
Not miss: As someone has already mentioned above, the constant whingeing about parachute payments.

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Tue May 16, 2023 3:57 pm

What I'll Miss

* 3pm Saturday kick offs (even though we've not had many, they'll be even rarer in the Prem)
* ITV Highlights vs MoTD
* No VAR (yes, we'd have had it either way)
* Beating b&st@rds twice a season

CnBtruntru · Post by **CnBtruntru** » Tue May 16, 2023 6:21 pm

Winning

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Tue May 16, 2023 6:27 pm

Miss, lots of Saturday kick offs, winning, beating bstards
Not miss, some of the appalling referees, chants of top of the league your having a laugh from fans who are watching us in first gear until we kick in .

equinox · Post by **equinox** » Tue May 16, 2023 6:28 pm

The jeopardy will be there for every single game next season, it went missing this year around February.

warksclaret · Post by **warksclaret** » Tue May 16, 2023 6:47 pm

MISS-winning almost every game
NOT MISS-some shocking grounds

The Hung Juror · Post by **The Hung Juror** » Tue May 16, 2023 7:09 pm

Yes, I will most miss not not having VAR, as stated above it’s garbage. It’s okay saying it’s the referees not the technology that is the problem, but whichever way you look at it the technology always need referees making subjective arguable decisions. With VAR it just takes them longer to get it wrong.

My point is that for match going fans it’s rubbish, taking all the spontaneity and immediate rush when a goal is scored. I’ll wager most of the fans in favour of it are armchair fans.

Oh and I’ll also miss 3pm kickoffs and Tuesday and Wednesday night games.

KlyBfc · Post by **KlyBfc** » Tue May 16, 2023 7:16 pm

Miss
- the 6 points off Blackburn
- being able to celebrate a goal in real time
- turning up with a realistic chance of winning home or away
- No VAR
- that regular winning feeling
- mainly Saturday 3pm kick offs
- the extra 4 games a season

Won’t miss
- not sure yet

Spijed · Post by **Spijed** » Tue May 16, 2023 7:36 pm

Interesting comments about missing 3 pm Saturday games.

We only had 21 out of 46 games on a Saturday afternoon this season.

Nonayforever · Post by **Nonayforever** » Tue May 16, 2023 7:41 pm

I will really miss the Championship. Loved every minute of every game I went to.
It rekindled my love of football.
Loved the extra games. FA Cup more interesting. I found the fortunes of other teams interesting ( Luton / Huddersfield)

Dreading next seasons VAR. It's a joke. Just another blokes opinion. I'd rather have a bad ref, I can laugh that off - it's life.

Back end of next season will be same old same old - M City / Arsenal / H Kane, yawn yawn.
The relegation scrap will be more interesting to watch as long as we aren't involved.

Spiral · Post by **Spiral** » Tue May 16, 2023 7:49 pm

Spijed wrote: ↑
Tue May 16, 2023 7:36 pm
Interesting comments about missing 3 pm Saturday games.

We only had 21 out of 46 games on a Saturday afternoon this season.

That's still, what feels like at least, 20 more than we have in The PL.

Claretmisterg · Post by **Claretmisterg** » Tue May 16, 2023 7:55 pm

As per many others will miss expecting to win and not having VAR.

Woodleyclaret · Post by **Woodleyclaret** » Tue May 16, 2023 8:05 pm

Nathan Tella and his goals

k90bfc · Post by **k90bfc** » Tue May 16, 2023 8:30 pm

It is the Best League in the World,How Proud Are We All,as Clarets,just to be there!

SammyBoy · Post by **SammyBoy** » Tue May 16, 2023 10:18 pm

Interesting to see the Championship commentary being highlighted here - I too have found this refreshing.

The EFL commentators seem to take a measured approach and actually try and give a balanced view of the game, unlike in the PL where it's some maniac sounding on the verge of orgasm whilst screaming "AND IT'S LIVE!!!!" and desperately trying to make the action fit whatever narrative he's been told to spin by Sky.

claptrappers_union · Post by **claptrappers_union** » Tue May 16, 2023 10:44 pm

The commentary is better, and I learn so much more about teams and players watching Championship games. You're expected to know who's who in the Premier League, and they're obsessed with tactics and decisions.

Having a match without VAR was refreshing

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Wed May 17, 2023 11:04 pm

3 points every week.

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Thu May 18, 2023 8:18 am

It being a 'shock' when we don't win.

Firthy · Post by **Firthy** » Thu May 18, 2023 8:36 am

No VAR and not walking away with the league