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One of their fans was complaining on 5 Live last night how they were hamstrung from commitments to buy load players when they went up. The lack of awareness that it was those deals that took them up, and they'd have to deal with that was staggering. Put all their commitment into getting promoted and nothing into staying there once up.
 
LondonMackem said:
“You can’t tell me their starting 11 is that much better than ours quality wise. No discernible style of play. We have the most long balls in the league yet 2 touches in their box. The worst passing accuracy yet all our passing is sideways. This guy won’t get us back up if this rot continues. It’s absolutely turgid.”

Absolutely insane considering they lost 3-0 and looked league 1 level :lol:
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That’s why our players have been linked to the big clubs around the world after half a season and bar walker id fail to name a player of there’s and they sit near the bottom and we are a few points off Europe. But aye same team man 🤣
 
dsr-burnley said:
The point is that our players should be better than that. We showed at the start of the season that Burn;ey's players can compete on level terms with Sunderland's players. But since then Sunderland have been sent out by your manager to go and win games; our players have been sent out to go and draw.

I thnk te problem yesterday was that it was a game that we (theortetically) had a chance to win, so of course the players were sent out in the usual style to keep possession and play the possession game until someone scores. This is never Burnley; when we play that tactic, we always let in the first goal. The last three games against Man U, Spurs, and Liverpool were more "free hits" in that we little theoretical chance of winning, and so the players had a bit more freedom.

Parker stifles them. He will not venture to try and win if it means risking drawing. He never would - that's why both our games last year were so dull (on our side at lease), because all he was interested in was defending. And it's why we had 12 0-0 draws last season - because even at home to poor sides, he wouldn't risk attacking when there was a point to be held on to.
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Said to my lad " all we have to do is let these have the ball long enough and they'll give us it back". Zero threat leading ultimately to an inevitable poor ball from someone .
 
Idlewild Mackem said:
One of their fans was complaining on 5 Live last night how they were hamstrung from commitments to buy load players when they went up. The lack of awareness that it was those deals that took them up, and they'd have to deal with that was staggering. Put all their commitment into getting promoted and nothing into staying there once up.
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At least they can go down knowing they finished 24 points ahead of us or some such in the championship. 🙈 That strange flex from both them and Leeds fans in the summer was strange. They pretty much came down and started with a huge head start to the rest of the league. Then spent daft money on getting even more players in with obligations then moan when the plan comes off.
 
Had a daft fiver on Burnley to win last night purely because I thought they had reached the stage of the season where it's win or bust and they'd really have to go for it.

I gave up on my bet before you'd even scored the first - the difference in quality between the sides was huge and they didn't even seem to have any fight in them at all.
 
Idlewild Mackem said:
One of their fans was complaining on 5 Live last night how they were hamstrung from commitments to buy load players when they went up. The lack of awareness that it was those deals that took them up, and they'd have to deal with that was staggering. Put all their commitment into getting promoted and nothing into staying there once up.
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It's still true. It's the same problem most teams make coming up from the Championship. The players you need to get promoted aren't the ones to keep you up

Amazingly teams never seem to get the message. Except us
 
dsr-burnley said:
The point is that our players should be better than that. We showed at the start of the season that Burn;ey's players can compete on level terms with Sunderland's players. But since then Sunderland have been sent out by your manager to go and win games; our players have been sent out to go and draw.

I thnk te problem yesterday was that it was a game that we (theortetically) had a chance to win, so of course the players were sent out in the usual style to keep possession and play the possession game until someone scores. This is never Burnley; when we play that tactic, we always let in the first goal. The last three games against Man U, Spurs, and Liverpool were more "free hits" in that we little theoretical chance of winning, and so the players had a bit more freedom.

Parker stifles them. He will not venture to try and win if it means risking drawing. He never would - that's why both our games last year were so dull (on our side at lease), because all he was interested in was defending. And it's why we had 12 0-0 draws last season - because even at home to poor sides, he wouldn't risk attacking when there was a point to be held on to.
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Understand your frustrations. I made a comment in our match thread that even after going a goal down it felt like you were still trying not to concede rather than trying to get yourself back into the game. At this point surely its better to go down 3-0 but actually have a go at teams rather than these 'without a whimper' performances.
 
Wakoro said:
Why do people keep writing Wrexham off when they've broke consecutive promotion records? They're in a fantastic position, already have higher revenue than every championship club bar the ones with parachute payments.

They've cracked America, what every club owners dreams of, selling boatloads of merchandise and attracting huge Americans companies as sponsors.

They've got big plans for their stadium and a popular streaming series.

They'll get promoted canny soon, might even do it this season through the playoffs, then they'll get even more revenue and sponsors.
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Cracking america doesnt mean you get promoted
 
LondonMackem said:
“You can’t tell me their starting 11 is that much better than ours quality wise. No discernible style of play. We have the most long balls in the league yet 2 touches in their box. The worst passing accuracy yet all our passing is sideways. This guy won’t get us back up if this rot continues. It’s absolutely turgid.”

Absolutely insane considering they lost 3-0 and looked league 1 level :lol:
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They were chasing our shadows at times.
 
dsr-burnley said:
The point is that our players should be better than that. We showed at the start of the season that Burn;ey's players can compete on level terms with Sunderland's players. But since then Sunderland have been sent out by your manager to go and win games; our players have been sent out to go and draw.

I thnk te problem yesterday was that it was a game that we (theortetically) had a chance to win, so of course the players were sent out in the usual style to keep possession and play the possession game until someone scores. This is never Burnley; when we play that tactic, we always let in the first goal. The last three games against Man U, Spurs, and Liverpool were more "free hits" in that we little theoretical chance of winning, and so the players had a bit more freedom.

Parker stifles them. He will not venture to try and win if it means risking drawing. He never would - that's why both our games last year were so dull (on our side at lease), because all he was interested in was defending. And it's why we had 12 0-0 draws last season - because even at home to poor sides, he wouldn't risk attacking when there was a point to be held on to.
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If that's how he's setting you up he's setting you up to fail, the idea that you can get promoted and spend 90 minutes controlling the game to eeke out a draw is deluded.

I also saw that video from before Xmas where he basically said the players (that he signed and prepared) weren't good enough to stay up.

If he or the players couldn't get motivated to give the extra 10% last night?

It's completely broken behind the scenes.
 
Ronan Harazi's Leg said:
I remember the away game down there and walking back to the car. I overheard a lot of comments saying how great they were and how they'd finish well above us. Their fans were generally a bit dick-ish. Shame.
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Last March I was away for a lads' weekend in Portugal and on our last night we had the misfortune to bump into a Burnley supporting weirdo (think Robert Smith meets Edward Scissorhands) who bored us all night with how much better than us they were; how they would beat us if we met in the play-offs; how they would hammer us if we managed to get into the Premier League with them - 6 easy points etc.

We're back to the same place this March and I really, really, really hope the bouffant-haired, pointy-shoe-wearing freak is there again. Words may be said.
 
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