Chris Burke

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Cardiff stuff thirty nine -fifty four minutes.

[NYCBlue]

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These podcasts are so interesting. When you're a kid growing up watching football, you just assume everyone gets along with their teammates and acts professionally. I suppose that sort of sticks with you even as you become an adult. It's so funny to hear how stupid and childish some of the players are. And what's with Dave Jones's laissez-faire attitude to pre-season? No wonder we were shit in November. The players were already knackered.

[Moodybluebird]

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Burkey comes across as a great guy, really likeable. Like the fans he believes we should have been promoted under Dave Jones but gives a fascinating insight into what he believes held us back. Neither Chopra, Bothroyd or Rambo come out of the podcast well.

[the other bob wilson]

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Listening to that, I started wondering whether City would have been more successful without Chopra and Bothroyd as our two forwards? For all of the moments of brilliance they'd come up with, were they more of a hindrance than a help? Despite Bothroyd's tendency towards moodiness which may have led to his head dropping when things got tough, I would still have stuck with him because he was the best all round target man I've seen at the club and, overall, I'd say he was beneficial to the team because he made others play as well.

I'm not so sure about Chopra though, he was always a streaky type of player and this tendency increased during his second and third spells with us. Certainly towards the end of his time with us, I'd say off field issues affected him to the extent that physically, and maybe mentally, he was not in the sort of condition you'd expect from a Championship footballer - while I'd struggle to come up with a better alternative to him during his first season with us, we had Ross McCormack (a player who must have fitted in well at the Cardiff drinking club of the late noughties) already at the club and I think he had more to offer than Chopra at that time.

[J R Hartley]

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Parkin is starting to get on my tits with each podcast slagging Bothroyd and Chopra off.

If the guest wants to mention it let him bring him it up why he’s got to lead the guest to say negative things about them? We know you didn’t like them we don’t need to hear it every podcast.

[J R Hartley]

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Burkey comes across as a great guy, really likeable. Like the fans he believes we should have been promoted under Dave Jones but gives a fascinating insight into what he believes held us back. Neither Chopra, Bothroyd or Rambo come out of the podcast well.

Why doesn’t Rambo come out if it well? Because he bought a nice car? big deal.

Let’s not forget Burkey said he was home sick and wanted to move back north.,, and went to Birmingham.

[Hilts]

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Listening to that, I started wondering whether City would have been more successful without Chopra and Bothroyd as our two forwards? For all of the moments of brilliance they'd come up with, were they more of a hindrance than a help? Despite Bothroyd's tendency towards moodiness which may have led to his head dropping when things got tough, I would still have stuck with him because he was the best all round target man I've seen at the club and, overall, I'd say he was beneficial to the team because he made others play as well.

I'm not so sure about Chopra though, he was always a streaky type of player and this tendency increased during his second and third spells with us. Certainly towards the end of his time with us, I'd say off field issues affected him to the extent that physically, and maybe mentally, he was not in the sort of condition you'd expect from a Championship footballer - while I'd struggle to come up with a better alternative to him during his first season with us, we had Ross McCormack (a player who must have fitted in well at the Cardiff drinking club of the late noughties) already at the club and I think he had more to offer than Chopra at that time.

No we wouldn't have been better off without the 2 of them.

Chopra was still better than McCormack.

McCormack was being under used by Dave Jones though.

Maybe we could have sold Chopra and boosted our central midfield. A better solution would have been replacing the manager.

[The Bob Banker Spanker]

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A better solution would have been replacing the manager.

We did and we got promoted 2 years later

[BlueArmy 86]

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Burke comes across well, I liked him as a player as well.

The part about Bellamy with Superkev 😂 he mentioned how limited he was in his recent interview, but clearly respects his attitude and effort. I would love to have been a fly on the wall for that period.

[Hilts]

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We did and we got promoted 2 years later

Yeah and without Bothroyd and Chopra.😂

[The Bob Banker Spanker]

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Yeah and without Bothroyd and Chopra.😂

Bothroyd left because he thought he was bigger than us after his England cap and Malky got rid of Chops.
I’ve wondered if Ross McCormack was still on the books when Mackay arrived whether he’d have kept him...

[Michael Morris]

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Bothroyd left because he thought he was bigger than us after his England cap and Malky got rid of Chops.
I’ve wondered if Ross McCormack was still on the books when Mackay arrived whether he’d have kept him...

McCormack is currently at Aldershot. Made 2 appearances off the bench in the first half of the season.

[Zowhore]

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Dai Hunt gets a honourable mention,

I think this game Parkin referred to where Dai took the team talk was Kev’s testimonial not a pre season game?

[The Bob Banker Spanker]

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McCormack is currently at Aldershot. Made 2 appearances off the bench in the first half of the season.

He did really well at Leeds and Fulham after he left us. It was the Villa move that triggered the moment things went downhill in 2016.

[surge]

Re: Chris Burke

I know we all like Hudson, and he's coming out of these videos well, but shouldn't the club captain done more to make us a bit more professional?

Sounds like there was a really loose idea about standards, responsibility, professionalism from top down and that's why we didn't get promoted. Still, if it was so loose here and we competed every year how bad was it at other clubs?