Rovers v Inbreds

[Dunnfc]

Think a few of those are a bit to flattering drog.

Travis for all his bite was average, allot of movesstall and breakdown with his sideways passing in the final third etc. 6

Dolan an 8!? Appreciate it was 3 am here and I went to work after but he wasn’t great. Tricks to nowhere and running in circles and a needless yellow card. 6.

Carter for me was a 6. Your forgetting his superb block in the first half when Travis have a hospital back pass and Burnley got in only for Carter to produce an epic slide in our own box. His giving the ball away was because rovers players were hiding not wanting or showing for the ball and moving for him, bar launching it to someone forwards marked not sure what he should have done. He was better than Hyam for me who’s become a bit of a liability.

agreed with Dack, looks slow. He’s probably the worst impact type sub you could make really.

 

[Husky]

I think when the dust settles on this one some may come to realise that it wasn't such a 'great' performance after all.
Taken in by the circumstances and atmosphere of a big derby game under the floodlights - especially as those that go to Ewood will know - the atmosphere is often quite dead - especially when the opposition don't bring very many.

If we were to 'role reverse' that game - we would be saying that it was a classic away performance - we went there and easily kept our rivals at bay by letting them have the ball in non threatening areas and defending well - i.e. Not giving them a genuine goalscoring chance the entire game and of course scoring and then seeing the game out whilst maintaining a genuine goal threat.

Bottom line: We did not create 1 decent chance at home to our greatest rivals and then had to suffer watching them celebrate a title win on our ground - which I think might be the only time it's happened in English football
They will get several decades out of that one.

Wharton and Smodics played ok, but the rest were decidedly average.

What the heck has happened to Dolan? I know he is not a genuine striker, but he has always looked like he had something about him - but he seems to have gone backwards of late.
Travis also looks leaden footed - like a veteran that has played a season too long.
We all know Brereton has been in Spain even since January and has not deserved a place in the team for ages.

Thought Burnley were there for the taking last night (maybe a few nights out here and there?). But ultimately they never really needed to step up a level.
Once again, as soon as we went 1 down you knew the game was up. If I had gone to the game I would probably have left straight after the goal It is that predictable.

 

[Dunnfc]

Totally agree with that husky. I was thinking before ht they were there for the taking.

 

[Alan]

That was a much improved performance compared to the away game.

Adam Wharton was immense. We had a clear penalty turned down. Our final ball and the lack of a striker let us down. I will not miss BBD but we do need to get a decent CF in asap.

Their goal came from a bad mistake from Carter. Hyam was also a bit suspect on occasions.

We have a squad of youngsters to build on for next season; we need a couple of ‘old heads’ and a Danny Graham style bloke in as CF.

Precisely what I've been saying all season.

 

[Alan]

We looked very good on the ball at times, without ever really posing a danger. Dolan must feel sick, if he'd have left that ball, Hyam surely would have scored. I thought we sacrificed allot protecting the defense and as a result we were far too slow to move the ball forwards and up the field. The balance was wrong. Barnes (thug life) was elbowing all game and generally just being a scrote. I honestly believe that was a handball for a penalty too in the 94th minute, our luck seems to be really out at the moment; Coventry GK goal, PNE own goal and this.

There's a few players I'd take out the side at the minute depending on injuries, Dolan hasn't done anything for quite a while in fact he's frustrating to watch at the minute. I'd push JRC into midfield ahead of Travis who again should be dropped for me. His constant sideways passing when advanced is particularly poor whilst he seems to lack any confidence in shooting. If you're playing midfield, then like QPR and Swansea he needs to shoot and contribute to goals. Put JRC in there and stick Brittain at RB in the next game, we might be more effective getting the ball into better attacking positions. I'd also stick Ayala in for Hyam at the moment who had another shaky/poor game.

It's worry and i have said all season our final pass is poor, our crossing is poor and don't get me started about our corner taking which is beyond diabolical. We must have had 10 Corners in that game and not one was of a good enough standard at this level. The fact this has been a constant thing all season worries me that the coaching is inadequate down at Brockhall.

Exactly my thoughts re JRC and Brittain.

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

I think when the dust settles on this one some may come to realise that it wasn't such a 'great' performance after all.
Taken in by the circumstances and atmosphere of a big derby game under the floodlights - especially as those that go to Ewood will know - the atmosphere is often quite dead - especially when the opposition don't bring very many.

If we were to 'role reverse' that game - we would be saying that it was a classic away performance - we went there and easily kept our rivals at bay by letting them have the ball in non threatening areas and defending well - i.e. Not giving them a genuine goalscoring chance the entire game and of course scoring and then seeing the game out whilst maintaining a genuine goal threat.

Bottom line: We did not create 1 decent chance at home to our greatest rivals and then had to suffer watching them celebrate a title win on our ground - which I think might be the only time it's happened in English football
They will get several decades out of that one.

Wharton and Smodics played ok, but the rest were decidedly average.

What the heck has happened to Dolan? I know he is not a genuine striker, but he has always looked like he had something about him - but he seems to have gone backwards of late.
Travis also looks leaden footed - like a veteran that has played a season too long.
We all know Brereton has been in Spain even since January and has not deserved a place in the team for ages.

Thought Burnley were there for the taking last night (maybe a few nights out here and there?). But ultimately they never really needed to step up a level.
Once again, as soon as we went 1 down you knew the game was up. If I had gone to the game I would probably have left straight after the goal It is that predictable.

I disagree. It doesn't come naturally to say these things as a Rovers fan, but Burnley are the stand out team in the division. They're 13 points clear, they're miles better than everyone else. And they should be, £90m is the parachute payment for clubs who've been in the PL 4 seasons or more (Burnley obviously were in there 6). So they've still got a PL wage bill and they've signed 24 players this season, and brought 6 in on loan, most fees these days are undisclosed but I bet they've spent a fortune. Because of their financial status, they also attracted a manager who spent 8 years as City captain working with Mancini, Pellegrini and Guardiola.

In every sense they're a PL outfit, and in every sense we're a Championship outfit. Its literally the reverse of 22 years ago when Stan Ternent was bemoaning that he's driving a mini and Graeme Souness is driving a Ferrari, after we pumelled them 5-0 at Ewood. But ask any honest Burnley fan and they'd have been relieved to come away with a draw from last night. They had 1 shot on target to our 5, 4 corners to our 10. For me we absolutely bossed it from about 15 mins in until they scored completely against the run of play. After that the game became disjointed as they were wasting time and managing to make it stop-start.

And I think its also worth mentioning that their previous 3 games will have had no relevance at all to this one. Its expected they'd take their foot off the gas after securing promotion, but no team has ever taken their foot off the gas in the history of this fixture. We didn't get the Burnley that QPR, Rotherham and Reading got. We got the Burnley that everyone prior to that this season got, and we were better than them.

 

[Drog]

Well said B&W. Burnley rolled up with one thing in mind and that was to beat us and rub their greatest rivals noses and promotion ambitions in the dirt. That was plain from their celebrations after the FT whistle. We faced a Burnley team and Manager well up for the task in hand and whilst a wonder strike won the match we gave one hell of an account of ourselves until the substitutions weakened our team and strengthened their team.
Their strength on the bench is greater as it should be after parachute payments and player sales (Pope est 10m, McNeil reported 20m plus add ons etc) whilst recent injuries to Buckley, Morton, Gallagher, Vale have left us thin on the ground.

 

[Drog]

From Facebook.....

"Burnley celebrated the finest night in their club's uninspiring history as they finally limped across the line to the 2nd division title, despite being 2nd best for much of the game to neighbours Blackburn Rovers, who's side largely consisting of future stars from their famous academy left Burnley's expensively assembled side resorting to time wasting and theatrics, whilst fewer than 2,000 of their fans who bothered to make the short trip to Ewood Park were left stunned into a toothless silence for large swathes of the game.

Nonetheless, the 2nd division title, (which is not considered a major trophy by serious clubs and does nothing to decrease the gulf in the major trophy count between Burnley and their more illustrious neighbours), will provide some relief to the residents of the 'close-knit' and family-focussed town with a deceptively large catchment area, and a Blackburn postcode, where anyone under 70 will struggle to remember genuine success, against the backdrop of one of the lowest life expectancy and literacy figures in the UK.

Once the homebrew hangovers dissipate, the banjos fall silent, the siblings are sent back to their own bedrooms and the realisation dawns that the electronic tag curfews have been breached, another short and disappointing term in the top flight awaits the fans of the big spending champions, formed in the shadow of the most successful town team in England, and who famously once smashed up their own town centre after a previous defeat by Rovers, meanwhile excitement builds at Ewood Park for a Rovers side bursting with young talent and geared for long term and sustainable success. "

 

[tonygreenbank]

From Facebook.....

"Burnley celebrated the finest night in their club's uninspiring history as they finally limped across the line to the 2nd division title, despite being 2nd best for much of the game to neighbours Blackburn Rovers, who's side largely consisting of future stars from their famous academy left Burnley's expensively assembled side resorting to time wasting and theatrics, whilst fewer than 2,000 of their fans who bothered to make the short trip to Ewood Park were left stunned into a toothless silence for large swathes of the game.

Nonetheless, the 2nd division title, (which is not considered a major trophy by serious clubs and does nothing to decrease the gulf in the major trophy count between Burnley and their more illustrious neighbours), will provide some relief to the residents of the 'close-knit' and family-focussed town with a deceptively large catchment area, and a Blackburn postcode, where anyone under 70 will struggle to remember genuine success, against the backdrop of one of the lowest life expectancy and literacy figures in the UK.

Once the homebrew hangovers dissipate, the banjos fall silent, the siblings are sent back to their own bedrooms and the realisation dawns that the electronic tag curfews have been breached, another short and disappointing term in the top flight awaits the fans of the big spending champions, formed in the shadow of the most successful town team in England, and who famously once smashed up their own town centre after a previous defeat by Rovers, meanwhile excitement builds at Ewood Park for a Rovers side bursting with young talent and geared for long term and sustainable success. "

That is brilliant!

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Crowd: 18,166 (2,244 away)

There’s some number fiddling going on again. 18166-2244 = 15922 Rovers. Considering the Blackburn End Lower was clearly sold out at 5000, they are saying there was 10922 between the Jack Walker and the Riverside. I have a panoramic photo of the whole ground taken five min before kick off which is unfortunately too big to upload. There is at least 10000 in the Jack Walker stand so are they trying to convince us there were only 922 in the Riverside? I reckon the crowd wasn’t far short of 21,000 in reality.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Just saw this the LT match thread which made me chuckle.
“9:24pm

Ugly scenes in the home end after a Burnley fan celebrates”

 

[tonygreenbank]

Crowd: 18,166 (2,244 away)

There’s some number fiddling going on again. 18166-2244 = 15922 Rovers. Considering the Blackburn End Lower was clearly sold out at 5000, they are saying there was 10922 between the Jack Walker and the Riverside. I have a panoramic photo of the whole ground taken five min before kick off which is unfortunately too big to upload. There is at least 10000 in the Jack Walker stand so are they trying to convince us there were only 922 in the Riverside? I reckon the crowd wasn’t far short of 21,000 in reality.

From the pictures on Sky it seemed a pretty good crowd on and I would have said about 20k.
The most enjoyable bit was seeing the pictures in the papers of totally empty seats in the Riverside and Darwen End after the final whistle as Burnley tried to have a party.

 

[Barmitzvah Boy]

Just saw this the LT match thread which made me chuckle.
“9:24pm

Ugly scenes in the home end after a Burnley fan celebrates”

That was in the JW Upper. It was not one act of jumping up he carried on doing it after some Rovers fans helpfully suggested he sat down.

It took the stewards ages to approach him and when they finally did he had taken a fair battering. One of the Rovers fans who punched him was arrested for common assault.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

That was in the JW Upper. It was not one act of jumping up he carried on doing it after some Rovers fans helpfully suggested he sat down.

It took the stewards ages to approach him and when they finally did he had taken a fair battering. One of the Rovers fans who punched him was arrested for common assault.

I didn’t think any of the inbred would be that stupid to sit in the Blackburn End or Riverside. That would surely have resulted in much worse injuries.

 

[Husky]

I disagree. It doesn't come naturally to say these things as a Rovers fan, but Burnley are the stand out team in the division. They're 13 points clear, they're miles better than everyone else. And they should be, £90m is the parachute payment for clubs who've been in the PL 4 seasons or more (Burnley obviously were in there 6). So they've still got a PL wage bill and they've signed 24 players this season, and brought 6 in on loan, most fees these days are undisclosed but I bet they've spent a fortune. Because of their financial status, they also attracted a manager who spent 8 years as City captain working with Mancini, Pellegrini and Guardiola.

In every sense they're a PL outfit, and in every sense we're a Championship outfit. Its literally the reverse of 22 years ago when Stan Ternent was bemoaning that he's driving a mini and Graeme Souness is driving a Ferrari, after we pumelled them 5-0 at Ewood. But ask any honest Burnley fan and they'd have been relieved to come away with a draw from last night. They had 1 shot on target to our 5, 4 corners to our 10. For me we absolutely bossed it from about 15 mins in until they scored completely against the run of play. After that the game became disjointed as they were wasting time and managing to make it stop-start.

Then I guess small spending little Luton are the kind of team we should spank at home.

And then London's biggest Championship club Millwall.

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

Millwall's wages are about the same as ours, and we might finish above them yet. Fair enough Luton's wages are lower than ours, so that's 1 club we're below who we should be above by the financial measure, whilst there's about 25 clubs in England we're above who we should be below by the financial measure.

 

[steve w]

And they call us horse fiddlers

Former Prem star Ashley Barnes BANNED from horse racing amid investigation

FOOTBALLER Ashley Barnes has been banned from attending any horse racing. It comes after the Norwich City striker was warned off by the British Horseracing Authority for failing to cooperate with a…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

And they call us horse fiddlers

Former Prem star Ashley Barnes BANNED from horse racing amid investigation

FOOTBALLER Ashley Barnes has been banned from attending any horse racing. It comes after the Norwich City striker was warned off by the British Horseracing Authority for failing to cooperate with a…

www.thesun.co.uk

The horse thing is nonsense pal, the chap responsible was Lithuanian or similar and only lived in Blackburn for six months. However this is funny and directly relatable to b***ley folk:

Man accused of having sex with a dog during street row with a woman

A man and a woman were spotted having a bust-up in Burnley, Lancashire, after the woman accused him of having sex with his dog - which he seemingly admitted later on.

www.dailymail.co.uk