Lionator Posted 25 March 2014 Posted 25 March 2014 Here we go then people... Marney picked up his 10th booking of the season tonight and will be banned. Huge loss in midfield for them and a very underrated player. Surely Drinkwater can't play as bad as tonight. If we win the midfield battle, I can see us winning.
LCFC1996 Posted 25 March 2014 Posted 25 March 2014 The Kasper/Wood goal seems to have blocked the utterly atrocious performance tonight, hope Nige makes a couple of changes. Ings, Marney & potentially Trippier missing for them, confident we can win if we play like we know we can.
Thameclaret Posted 25 March 2014 Posted 25 March 2014 Lionator.... You are certainly correct in you're assesment of Dean Marney and add this to the missing duo of Ings & Trippier and you have nothing to fear. Seriously, Marney is a very good player and watching him this season he provides the drive in Midfield. However, a high percentage of fans (Burnley included) thought we wheels would drop off the wagon when Ings was injured and then when Trippier was out then the world had fallen apart. However, in Mr Dyche we have a very good Manager who appears to have a solid contingency plan for each situation and I'm sure we will have eleven fit and raring to go players on Saturday. Reading a few of you're posts tonight it appears as though a number of posts suggest a few of you're players are having a mini slump. You're team and club have done great this year so keep the faith, we are both in the box seat and I really do fancy our sides meeting in the top flight next year. Enjoy the match if you're travelling Saturday and may the best football team win.....
jimmeh Posted 25 March 2014 Posted 25 March 2014 Haha! Need some fresh legs in midfield. My team would be. Kasper Moore Morgan Wasilewski Konchesky Knockaert King Drinkwater Dyer Vardy Nugent
One Legged Beaver Posted 25 March 2014 Posted 25 March 2014 I think we need some changes in midfield either for this game or the Wigan game to re-energise Drinky and James and help push us over the line. We have more than able replacements in Hammond and King so I would be shocked if they were to start one of the two games. Without a doubt the biggest game of the championship season so far and lets hope we can take the advantage in the title run
Bert Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 Great news regarding Marney. He's been key to them this season. If Trippier doesn't play that's even better. Be happy with a point here.
Heart-Shaped Fox Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 3-1 to them. Outplayed like Brighton away. Poor, lazy defending from set pieces costing us.
Fox_in_a_Box Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 It was a right barrel of shit tonight! Not good enough. Drinky, Nugent and Mahrez all had really poor performances, in fact they all did bar Kasper. We need to seriously up our game on saturday if we stand any chance of getting 1 point let alone 3. Must win if we aim to be premoted as champions.
Lionator Posted 26 March 2014 Author Posted 26 March 2014 Lionator.... You are certainly correct in you're assesment of Dean Marney and add this to the missing duo of Ings & Trippier and you have nothing to fear. Seriously, Marney is a very good player and watching him this season he provides the drive in Midfield. However, a high percentage of fans (Burnley included) thought we wheels would drop off the wagon when Ings was injured and then when Trippier was out then the world had fallen apart. However, in Mr Dyche we have a very good Manager who appears to have a solid contingency plan for each situation and I'm sure we will have eleven fit and raring to go players on Saturday. Reading a few of you're posts tonight it appears as though a number of posts suggest a few of you're players are having a mini slump. You're team and club have done great this year so keep the faith, we are both in the box seat and I really do fancy our sides meeting in the top flight next year. Enjoy the match if you're travelling Saturday and may the best football team win..... I'm quite enjoying this mutual respect between the two sides/fans. We normally hate promotion rivals. Obviously it will all disappear on Friday night but I'll be delighted when you go up (in 2nd). Dyche is a great manager and a top bloke, just like Pearson.
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 Lionator.... You are certainly correct in you're assesment of Dean Marney and add this to the missing duo of Ings & Trippier and you have nothing to fear. Seriously, Marney is a very good player and watching him this season he provides the drive in Midfield. However, a high percentage of fans (Burnley included) thought we wheels would drop off the wagon when Ings was injured and then when Trippier was out then the world had fallen apart. However, in Mr Dyche we have a very good Manager who appears to have a solid contingency plan for each situation and I'm sure we will have eleven fit and raring to go players on Saturday. Reading a few of you're posts tonight it appears as though a number of posts suggest a few of you're players are having a mini slump. You're team and club have done great this year so keep the faith, we are both in the box seat and I really do fancy our sides meeting in the top flight next year. Enjoy the match if you're travelling Saturday and may the best football team win..... Great balanced postI personally would love it if both Leicester and Burnley get promoted this year as clearly the best 2 teams in the division up to now Hope Leicester give you guys a good game at the weekend
red5 Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 I think we should start the same team, let them show tonight was a blip and get it back to how it was.
Brooksy Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 We've got a good record against the better teams this season and there's no reason why we can't continue that. I fancy us here, 2-0 win to end their unbeaten home record.
kingfox Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 Regardless if Trippier, Marney & Ings are all out, they are still dangerous and incredibly strong at home, last couple of weeks they have gone without Ings, and are still scoring & winning games easily. Vokes remains on fire, while Scott Arfield is also a very underrated player, he has been one of the best midfielders in the Championship this season, while I have always thought that Jason Shackell is an underrated defender. As for changes I really don't know, this side has done the business in big games this season, is it worth disrupting it for our biggest game of the season, or can we wait a week or so, when we face a lesser team like Sheffield Wednesday at home.
Thameclaret Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 Lionator... Just a matter of time before the usual odd "lunatic" appears and starts the us and them verbal warfare. As I said, the two best teams are there on merit and without doubt our team and performances in particular have shocked I would say 99% of our fans this year. We have a small number of talented players that I'm sure would do well in the promised land, what we appear to have in abundance is a great work ethic, togetherness and a never say die approach. I think the game Saturday will lift both sets of players and fans and I personally think it will be very close. Not heard whether Nigel was well enough to attend the game tonight, some positive posts on Clarets Mad about him making a good recovery and all Burnley fans hope he is well enough to travel with his team Saturday. Just one word of warning though, if he falls ill again he will have to endure an ambulance ride back to Blackburn Royal Infirmary... Best of luck
Alf Bentley Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid encounter Burnley FC.... The good news is that they were bold, took the plunge and got away. The bad news is that they ended up getting shot to fvck in Bolivia. So the omens say that we're going to win at Burnley playing bold, attractive football; we're going to win the Championship, but we'll end up losing in La Paz in the final of the Inter-Continental Club Jamboree Cup or whatever it's called (presumably after winning the Champions' League)
StanSP Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 Reckon we'll get something here. Like the QPR game especially, I thought the worst i.e. a loss. The lads got the job done though in the end and came out victorious with all 3 points. And same with Leeds to be honest. It'll be incredibly tight and maybe a bit cautious with a lot at stake - us needing to extend our lead and Burnley wanting to pull even further away from 3rd place. Definitely a bonus that Ings, Trippier, Marney are all out. They've still got very capable players, however. Arfield, Vokes, Mee, Heaton. They should not be underestimated, despite the absentees.
MC Prussian Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 It was a right barrel of shit tonight! Not good enough. Drinky, Nugent and Mahrez all had really poor performances, in fact they all did bar Kasper. We need to seriously up our game on saturday if we stand any chance of getting 1 point let alone 3. Must win if we aim to be premoted as champions. The concern that I have for Saturday is that Pearson is likely to come up with his favourite starting eleven again, meaning featuring players who've been playing regularly so often when they're actually in dire need of a rest. Yeovil at home was the perfect opportunity to spare a few key players for Burnley and allow the "fringe" ones to shine for more than just a few minutes. Then again... maybe that 1-1 draw tonight serves all involved as a much-needed rollicking and motivation for Saturday to up their game.
ScouseFox Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 Proper looking forward to this now. Before the last 2 games I was up for this but in a kind of not too much pressure way. Kinda like yeh it'd be great to win there, basically confirm the title in all but maths, but if we don't win we'll be about 5 clear with a spare game anyway. Now we have to get something and I really, really want a win and think it could be our final season defining game should we come up with the goods.
UpTheLeagueFox Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 I'd have four Burnley players in my Championship team of the year - Trippier, Shackell, Marney, Ings - and two, possibly three for Leicester - Schmeichel, Drinkwater and maybe Vardy. Still undecided on a couple of positions. I'd take a draw on Saturday. In fact, nine more draws would do me. Would love us to win the title but promotion the first concern.
CKB Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 We must do better than tonight no doubt about that and surely we will? this is a huge game and our players should be up for it just as Burnley's will be.. Now if for some reason we are just as poor then Burnley will beat us, i can't see Burnley being wasteful at home and us somehow fluking a draw...
Guest Col city fan Posted 26 March 2014 Posted 26 March 2014 I'd be happy to take a draw now. And I think it will be a draw. 2-2
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