'What exactly is the board's plan?'

If you had told me that one of the managers was to be sacked before Burnley faced Manchester United at Turf Moor this coming Wednesday, my money would not have been on Ruben Amorim.

The noise coming from the Burnley message boards is pretty clear: how is Scott Parker still in a job?

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Burnley have not won in 11 games, picking up just two points out of a possible 33. They sit 19th in the league, six points from safety and now face United, Liverpool and Tottenham.

But the numbers tell only half the story. On the pitch the team is painful to watch: sluggish, negative, lacking in confidence and devoid of all inspiration. And responsibility for that rests on Parker's shoulders. It is literally his job to get those players disciplined and in the right mental place for a competitive game of football at an elite level. I simply do not believe that Parker has the necessary edge and ambition in his armoury to compete at the highest level.

At one point in the game against Brighton, trailing 0-2, Parker moved to five at the back and took our only striker off. And at that point, fans turned.

Everything about the club feels in disarray at the moment, and the fans are not just turning on the manager, they are turning on the board too. Message boards and social media platforms question what the board are doing to progress the club (not helped by the purchase by ALK of Espanyol and their en-masse attendance in Spain to watch them play Barcelona this weekend).

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We are told that Parker's job is safe so what exactly, then, is ALK's plan to regain our place as an established Premier League side and stop this biannual hapless display in the top flight?

I am sure they have one, so some visibility of what we do next would be welcome.

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