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Belle Vue here we come
The statistics said...
We lost 2-3 to Watford - our second home defeat in a row. We scored first, Mark McGregor heading home on the half-hour mark. The lead only lasted for nine minutes, though. Graham Branch was deemed to have brought down Paul Devlin in the area, and Devlin duly despatched the spot-kick. It remained 1-1 until half time.
The Hornets took the lead via Heidar Helguson in the 55th minute, and went 3-1 up six minutes from time via a good effort from Lee Cook. Although the Clarets got one back via the on-loan Dele Adebola two minutes later, it wasn't enough.
Other results went against us, and we are now 20th in the table, albeit with a game in hand over most of our near rivals.
Our survey said...
Paddy:
After the high of Saturday, this was certainly an extreme low. Such an inept performance - against one of our relegation rivals - is, as far as I'm concerned, unacceptable.
Too many players just didn't show up today, and Ternent's decision to start with a clearly unfit Weller beggars belief. Unfortunately, you never know which Burnley team's going to turn up on the day, and if we put together many more performances like this we are definitely doomed.
The games against Wimbledon and Derby are now absolutely crucial, and realistically we'll have to win them both.
:
How can a team be so good on Saturday and so completely shite on Monday? The worst performance of the season. From goalkeeper to left winger, we stank - from top to bottom, with NO redeeming features. Which team will turn up next week, I wonder: Saturday's, or Monday's?
Give me strength to have to watch our back four, who've now conceded 157 goals in the last 86 League games. Indeed, if we have a defender in our midst, I am the Marquis de Sade.
Editor's note: hey, this isn't a porn site, you know! What kind of picture did you expect? Apologies to anyone who's disappointed at not seeing Woody in bondage chains or similar...
PS For anyone who's interested (that'll be just the one person, then), the Marquis was born in 1740 and died in 1814. Contemporaneous pictures of him are rare, but his skull is very famous!
Katherine:
Any skills we possess seem to have been left behind in Walsall. Relegation will be a certainty if we play like that again. Doncaster Rovers at Belle Vue, anyone? Words truly fail me.
Joan:
Can we get any worse than today? Awful everywhere on the pitch, including the referee.
John:
What a result!! A couple of turkeys up front; spuds at the back, with a carrot further behind; greens in the middle - all managed by gravy.
Try the café at Tesco's, Burnley. Sorry - which match did you want me to comment on...
Arundel v Shoreham
Arena Essex v Oxford
Rye & Iden United v Arundel
Uckfield Town v Crowborough Athletic
Eastbourne v Poole
Rye House v Newport
...or Burnley v Watford?
ARE YOU TRYING TO GIVE ME INDIGESTION?!
Firmo:
Oh my word, this was shocking stuff. We were awful. We were complete rubbish. This is the worst performance I have seen all season. If we play like this, we really do deserve to go down.
It's a depressing, familiar litany of players at fault today. An under-physical Branch for their second. A lightweight Roche and a badly out of position Jensen for their third. In other words, the usual suspects.
But let the finger point at a very usual suspect: Uncle Stan, the Teflon Man. Doubtless none of this will be his fault. It'll be the referee, it'll be the players, it'll be unusual variations in the Earth's gravitational field; but doubtless none of it will be Stan's fault.
I'm sick of watching us chuck goals in. When did we last play well at home? And when did we last have two good games in a row? Today we undid all the good that we did at Walsall. We dumped ourselves right back in the shit. We also kept the piss-yellow southern commuter wankers, Watford, in the Division. Great.
This was supposed to be one of the bankers. Well, we played crap. No-one was good, we were second to every ball; and the utterly shite, out-of-his-depth referee notwithstanding, we deserved to get beat. It's going to go to the wire, and I doubt that we have the balls to pull out of it.
Stan, you have to take the blame for this abject performance. I'm getting tired of giving away soft goals week after week. I'm sick of watching us not defend and giving ourselves a mountain to climb. Get out the way now, Stan - let's get an up-to-date manager in charge of our Club.
Pic of the day
See how that nice Teflon® coating repels all those nasty words!
Poll of the day
Question (as posed by our Chairman): "If you had a large hockey stick, would you beat Paddy around the head with it?"
No: 3.
Yes:
We think that's quite conclusive.
As with all articles on the site, the views expressed in the vox pop section are those of the individual contributors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Burnley FC London Supporters' Club.
