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Hard luck

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 4:53 pm

Fantastic performance...we will be ok playing like that,Burnley of last season that.
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Re: Hard luck

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sat Dec 15, 2018 4:57 pm

Gutted with that. Thought it was a brave performance after a brave selection.

While it wasnt one that the neutrals will like. Who cares? It was a joy to watch defensively. And every player showed fight and determination.

Joe Hart made two outstanding saves. The back five were tough and solid. And Barnes worked his arse off.

It was an excellent tactical decision from Dyche. You cant go there and try and take the game to them. On another day Barnes excellent volley goes in and maybe Taylor gets a penalty.

Plenty of heart and plenty to be optimistic about.

Long sticking his head on one epitomises what we are about.

Next season style has to improve (for dyche as much as anyone elses interests) but for now thats exactly the sort of performance we need. Bring on Arsenal.
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Re: Hard luck

Post by Billyblah » Sat Dec 15, 2018 4:57 pm

Back to the same resolute defensive display of last season. Very unlucky to concede so late on but it gives confidence to haul us away from the lower end of the table during January and February
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Re: Hard luck

Post by MACCA » Sat Dec 15, 2018 4:58 pm

Hhhmmm pros and cons, we did well, were fortunate for it not to have been a deafeat by at leasr couple of goals, but offered diddly squat going forward.

Cruel in the end as it was so close, but we can't say we deserved anything other than 0 points.

GD could be massive come May, so not a bad day at the office IMO

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Re: Hard luck

Post by Longside4evr » Sat Dec 15, 2018 4:58 pm

Brilliant defending that such a same we switched off a little but can't fault that back to where we were

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Re: Hard luck

Post by BOYSIE31 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:00 pm

Not really went for a point and got nothing but at least the battling and defending was there - rather be in championship where at least we can have a go and not a boring defence v attack game

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Re: Hard luck

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:01 pm

BOYSIE31 wrote:Not really went for a point and got nothing but at least the battling and defending was there - rather be in championship where at least we can have a go and not a boring defence v attack game
Im probably in a minority but to me watching defending like today is as pleasing to see and often exciting as at the other end
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Re: Hard luck

Post by Stayingup » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:02 pm

Steve1956 wrote:Fantastic performance...we will be ok playing like that,Burnley of last season that.
Except we drew there last season. But not too bad.

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Re: Hard luck

Post by box_of_frogs » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:03 pm

A bit more time with this system and we’ll be ok. Just need the full backs to make more runs, giving us more options.

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Re: Hard luck

Post by burnleymik » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:04 pm

Probably a fair result, but gutted to concede so late after working so hard to keep them out all game. Some incredible effort from the team.
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Re: Hard luck

Post by bartons baggage » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:09 pm

BOYSIE31 wrote:Not really went for a point and got nothing but at least the battling and defending was there - rather be in championship where at least we can have a go and not a boring defence v attack game
You still a claret?
I thought you were destined to be a Bast@rd fan seeing as you loved fellating the rovers fans at Caligen Foam.

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Re: Hard luck

Post by claretcarrot93 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:14 pm

bartons baggage wrote:You still a claret?
I thought you were destined to be a Bast@rd fan seeing as you loved fellating the rovers fans at Caligen Foam.
Got what we deserved. I dont get people liking that performance, we barely attacked. I was bored watching it. We defended resolutely but you cant offer nothing going forward and expect to get something. I would have rather is had a bit of a go and got beat by a few.

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Re: Hard luck

Post by SussexDon1inIreland » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:18 pm

Best performance of the season

Gutted

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Re: Hard luck

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:18 pm

No I'm sick of getting tonked off the big boys Dyche changed like everyone wanted and we should have had a point...Hard luck boys
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Re: Hard luck

Post by Longside4evr » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:20 pm

claretcarrot93 wrote:Got what we deserved. I dont get people liking that performance, we barely attacked. I was bored watching it. We defended resolutely but you cant offer nothing going forward and expect to get something. I would have rather is had a bit of a go and got beat by a few.
we did have a bit of a go with a new formation that coped well for 93 mins
what you supposed to do 4th from bottom playing away at a team thats third top if we opened up and attacked we have got beat 5 nil
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Re: Hard luck

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:22 pm

claretcarrot93 wrote:Got what we deserved. I dont get people liking that performance, we barely attacked. I was bored watching it. We defended resolutely but you cant offer nothing going forward and expect to get something. I would have rather is had a bit of a go and got beat by a few.
Getting beat by a few? Fulham are 6 goals behind us. Had we lost 5 nil today we could be going bottom in the week leading up to xmas. And not many survive from that position.

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Re: Hard luck

Post by the_fat_shearer » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:23 pm

claretcarrot93 wrote:Got what we deserved. I dont get people liking that performance, we barely attacked. I was bored watching it. We defended resolutely but you cant offer nothing going forward and expect to get something. I would have rather is had a bit of a go and got beat by a few.
BBC report:

"It looked as if the Clarets had held on to a deserved point"

Neutrals don't agree that we got what we deserved.
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Re: Hard luck

Post by Gnulty » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:23 pm

Luck seems to increase when hard work is being done...

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Re: Hard luck

Post by Barry_Chuckle » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:23 pm

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Re: Hard luck

Post by EarbyClaret » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:26 pm

It's incredibly difficult to get anything off the top six this season - give me 1-0 v Spurs over 5-0 v City and 4-0 v Chelsea every time - the last three performances have been more in keeping with last season and all have been very close to the fine margins so often articulated by SD

I feared the worst given our season so far coming into the Liverpool game but since then much more positive about our survival chances.
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Re: Hard luck

Post by BOYSIE31 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:27 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Im probably in a minority but to me watching defending like today is as pleasing to see and often exciting as at the other end
each to their own but football is about having shots some entertainment and then hopefully goals

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Re: Hard luck

Post by Goodclaret » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:29 pm

claretcarrot93 wrote:Got what we deserved. I dont get people liking that performance, we barely attacked. I was bored watching it. We defended resolutely but you cant offer nothing going forward and expect to get something. I would have rather is had a bit of a go and got beat by a few.
Sorry, but what an absolute load of cr4p!! So, you'd have been happy for us to attack more but get beat 3 or 4 nil??? You are a very strange fan!

When you go away to a team like Spurs you have to try and keep in the game as long as you can. A point would have been a fantastic one gained. They didn't absolutely batter us which could have happened. Our overall play has been so much better in the last 3 games but it's very difficult to get anything against the "big" teams.

Anyway, enjoy wallowing in your own misery.
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Re: Hard luck

Post by Longsidebogs » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:29 pm

Gutted. Cruel to be denied a point after working so hard. We have to learn to concentrate for the full match!

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Re: Hard luck

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:30 pm

BOYSIE31 wrote:each to their own but football is about having shots some entertainment and then hopefully goals
Harts saves, our brave defending and bodies on the line is entertaining. More entertaining than West Ham walking through them.
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Re: Hard luck

Post by burnleymik » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:32 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Harts saves, our brave defending and bodies on the line is entertaining. More entertaining than West Ham walking through them.

..and the Palace game or the Watford game.

The big difference is the effort and teamwork, which seems to be back and the fans appreciate that.

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Re: Hard luck

Post by BOYSIE31 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:32 pm

One positive is that we could play 3 at the back with Gibson in for Long and play Lowton at right back and have a right good go at the lesser teams.

At least he tried something different

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Re: Hard luck

Post by BennyD » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:36 pm

I’ve just been on the Cross Cocks forum and, Jeez, they are the most graceless bunch of w4nkers out there. Personally, I hope they get their arses kicked in every competition they are still in and, at the end of the season, they lose Kane and diving Ali to some foreign outfit. They post like the witless w4nkers we know them to be but they can’t see the fact they really struggled to break us down this season before scoring in the 91st minute, and only equalised in the 93rd minute last season. If we are that bad, they can’t be that good in only just scraping results even when we aren’t playing as well as we can. F*ckwits, the lot of them.

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Re: Hard luck

Post by BOYSIE31 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:39 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Harts saves, our brave defending and bodies on the line is entertaining. More entertaining than West Ham walking through them.

But West Ham are not a top 6 side ?

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Re: Hard luck

Post by BennyD » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:56 pm

It doesn’t matter, they still walked through us.

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Re: Hard luck

Post by claretcarrot93 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:57 pm

Goodclaret wrote:Sorry, but what an absolute load of cr4p!! So, you'd have been happy for us to attack more but get beat 3 or 4 nil??? You are a very strange fan!

When you go away to a team like Spurs you have to try and keep in the game as long as you can. A point would have been a fantastic one gained. They didn't absolutely batter us which could have happened. Our overall play has been so much better in the last 3 games but it's very difficult to get anything against the "big" teams.

Anyway, enjoy wallowing in your own misery.
I am not miserable. I am reyt me lad

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Re: Hard luck

Post by TVC15 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:58 pm

claretcarrot93 wrote:Got what we deserved. I dont get people liking that performance, we barely attacked. I was bored watching it. We defended resolutely but you cant offer nothing going forward and expect to get something. I would have rather is had a bit of a go and got beat by a few.
F-uckwit

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Re: Hard luck

Post by claretcarrot93 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:01 pm

TVC15 wrote:F-uckwit
Nice.

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Re: Hard luck

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:03 pm

BOYSIE31 wrote:But West Ham are not a top 6 side ?
Exactly

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Re: Hard luck

Post by Loyalclaret » Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:14 pm

BennyD wrote:I’ve just been on the Cross Cocks forum and, Jeez, they are the most graceless bunch of w4nkers out there. Personally, I hope they get their arses kicked in every competition they are still in and, at the end of the season, they lose Kane and diving Ali to some foreign outfit. They post like the witless w4nkers we know them to be but they can’t see the fact they really struggled to break us down this season before scoring in the 91st minute, and only equalised in the 93rd minute last season. If we are that bad, they can’t be that good in only just scraping results even when we aren’t playing as well as we can. F*ckwits, the lot of them.
Comments in the Guardian match report are the same

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Re: Hard luck

Post by Goodclaret » Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:15 pm

claretcarrot93 wrote:I am not miserable. I am reyt me lad
Good stuff. Have a good evening then :)

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Re: Hard luck

Post by Nonayforever » Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:25 pm

It was hard luck.
We did defend for most of the game and looked comfortable doing so.
An immense performance by Barnes in the first half.
I enjoyed watching the game and we did create chances which will come now that we are more aggressive.

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Re: Hard luck

Post by Mala591 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:36 pm

Individual performances continue to improve along with work rate, tempo, aggression and organisation. The 5-4-1 formation might be 'understandable' against the top teams away from home but our offensive threat was virtually non existent.

A very good defensive display but back to 4-4-2 after the Arsenal game please Sean.
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Re: Hard luck

Post by jrgbfc » Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:39 pm

If your only game plan is stick 10 men behind the ball and waste as much time as possible then you don't deserve anything. Don't think I've seen a more negative display in all my years of watching us.

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Re: Hard luck

Post by ClaretRock » Sat Dec 15, 2018 7:39 pm

Personally I didn't enjoy watching that. While the defending was excellent and we kept it tight for 88 minutres we offered little to the game and I'm still worried about out ability with the ball. We have offered little all season and don't look like a premier League team. I'm affraid our organization and ability to defend is the only reason we are still in the leauge. It would be nice to see us play some football. At least we are not shipping goals now.

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Re: Hard luck

Post by bartons baggage » Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:19 pm

ClaretRock wrote:Personally I didn't enjoy watching that. While the defending was excellent and we kept it tight for 88 minutres we offered little to the game and I'm still worried about out ability with the ball. We have offered little all season and don't look like a premier League team. I'm affraid our organization and ability to defend is the only reason we are still in the leauge. It would be nice to see us play some football. At least we are not shipping goals now.
Wise words Claretcock.

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Re: Hard luck

Post by CombatClaret » Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:25 pm

jrgbfc wrote:If your only game plan is stick 10 men behind the ball and waste as much time as possible then you don't deserve anything. Don't think I've seen a more negative display in all my years of watching us.
Our resources are so disparate why can you not accept we have to play ugly to survive?

Against the top teams we're 1940s Belgium v Hitler's Wehrmacht.
You don't march out into an open field to take them on, you head to the hills to snipe, buy for time and make it as bl00dy difficult as possible.
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Re: Hard luck

Post by BOYSIE31 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:53 pm

bartons baggage wrote:You still a claret?
I thought you were destined to be a Bast@rd fan seeing as you loved fellating the rovers fans at Caligen Foam.
Dont know who you are talking about but must have the wrong person

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Re: Hard luck

Post by bartons baggage » Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:15 pm

[quote="BOYSIE31"]Dont know who you are talking about but must have the wrong person[/quote
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Re: Hard luck

Post by jrgbfc » Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:48 pm

CombatClaret wrote:Our resources are so disparate why can you not accept we have to play ugly to survive?

Against the top teams we're 1940s Belgium v Hitler's Wehrmacht.
You don't march out into an open field to take them on, you head to the hills to snipe, buy for time and make it as bl00dy difficult as possible.
I can take us playing defensively but there has to be some kind of plan or attacking intent to go with it. Even on the odd occasion we won a free kick in a dangerous area we were more concerned with wasting time. Sorry but I just can't enjoy watching us play like that, even if we'd have nicked a draw.

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