It's all very tongue in cheek, only a madman would go into bat for Burke.
I just don't get the need to hammer the guy when it suits while flatly ignore the positives all after the bloke was sacked.
That doesn't matter.
The point is 'we' can't label all the piss poor signings as evidence of Burke's abject failure.
But with exactly the same amount of proof accredit all the quality signings to someone else.
As and when Walton or Ince are big money targets we'll get the 'infinite monkey'...
I agree the recruitment on the whole would seem to be crap, Burke paid for that with his job, fair enough.
Nobody said during Derby's interest in Stephens 'blimey that was a cracking bit of business by Burke'.
But it takes no time at all for the failures to be landed solely at his door.
I have...