Wheelton Blue

Exactly this. I think that the club are now just playing 'smoke and mirrors'.

Should be a sideways-sideways-backwards-sideways-forwards-sideways-backwards thriller then... 🤦‍♂️ I'm also going for 1-1

Ordered the short sleeved - thanks @Herbie6590👍

I'm certainly no fitness expert by any stretch, but I don't see what difference playing an extra 30 minutes would make to Dack at this stage. He's got plenty of time under his belt post comeback, he looks as fit as ever, and he's got 2+ days to recover for the next game. I think it's tactical on Tomasson's part.

I watched it on RoversTV & thought we played OK. There was plenty of effort for sure, just the usual impotence attack wise.

The top one is a done deal, unfortunately, but if Boro keep going then second place could get interesting. It's still Sheff Utd's to lose though, I think.

Fancy that, we go and get an equaliser in the dying embers of a game. What do we know, eh? 🙂 If I was of the Claret persuasion, I'd likely be comparing that to Aguero's title winning exploits in that QPR game...

Good point that, well done Rovers. The subs were awful though and nearly lost us the game as a result; the nothingness of Hedges and the aimless running around of Szmodics. Thank goodness Brereton remembered how to shoot.

Morton. Again.

Errrr......did I say that?

That's bollocks as you're probably well aware, but as par for the course with your lot, you're unwilling to acknowledge the reality of then and now.

The trigger for all of your success is simply down to the fact that you've had the ability (money) to buy better players than everyone else, and thus were able to attrract Kompany. Having Kompany in charge would mean jack, if all you could afford were the Sammie Smodizs of this world. Kompany probably wouldn't even be there, if that were the case. Anyway, we're going around in circles!

I agree with you, but having the best players - by far as in the case of Burnley - is a massive advantage. If a side is winning game after game after game, in most cases it's primarily because their players are so much better than every other teams' players. As a result, confidence, belief and a winning mentatlity will also increase. It all goes hand in hand. Burnley win so many games, some of which at the death, primarlily because their players - and hence confidence and belief - are so much better. Conversely, we don't win games at the death primarily because our players - and hence confidence & belief - are average. Put it this way. If we had Messi and Ronaldo in our ranks, the belief amongst the rest of the team would shoot up.

The squad at the start of the season wasn't as good as it today though, was it? Your squad now has the experience of playing and training for 20 odd games together. Back then, it was newly assembled and collectively untrained. I don't dispute that your team has a good mentatlity, which is largely down to your manager and coaches I suspect. But to attribute that mentatlity as the main reason you thrash virtually every other team out of sight, is a bit of a stretch IMO.

Burnley have had a massive financial advantage over the rest of the division. This aside, Kompany has done an terrific job in buying/loaning high quality players for the Championship and putting an excellent side together. Of that there is no question. Let's be clear though. The primary reason you're winning virtually every game by 2, 3 or 4 goals, is not because you have some Fergie'esque never-say-die-attitude and ability to scrape draws and wins from losing positions, rather it's because you're miles better than everyone else for the reasons above. If it nakes you feel better to ignore those reasons, and somehow portray your team's success as being down to a team spirit akin to the teams you mentioned, then fair enough.

Your implication, by name dropping some of the greatest teams of all time, is that second division Burnley are made from the same stuff. Aye, OK.

Brereton needs dropping, but I very much doubt that Hedges - if he's selected to replace him - will make much difference to our attack. Hedges is a bit of a nothing player to me. Useful at times and fairly tidy, but for an attacking player he doesn't contribute anywhere near enough goals nor assists.

Thanks for the reminder 🙂 "Resistance is futile"

FFS he just did!

The way in which VAR is used here seems to be the issue to me. Other countries - in La Liga for example - seem to operate it just fine.

Even if Pep did think that City were in the wrong, he wouldn't admit it publically. For starters, it would compromise their case. That's pretty basic stuff, Chaddy!

Of course he would! He'll be towing the party 'not guilty' line with the rest of them.

I don't disagree, although I can't help but think that we'd be swapping a player who might score, for one who never scores.

Same. I've tried tuning into the frequency which Chaddy posted earlier, it's a no-go for me. It;s not available through BBC online.

Publicly, Barca and Real are the ones pushing it. Make no mistake though, Europe's biggest clubs will be all over this behind the scenes, just as they were the first time around. The English clubs won't make the same comms mistakes twice. Last time, they quickly distanced themseleves as a result of the public relations disaster that it was. They'll now be biding their time, waiting for right moment and opportunity to publicly throw their hat in the ring again.