Today's Footy

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:52 pm

Cardiff.

SGr · Post by **SGr** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:52 pm

I remember we celebrated a point at Leicester like we’d just bagged the Europa League. Cardiff go there and get a win.

Worse team with less spending power than us this season, but went into it with a plan, and play with a plan. Different level really.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:52 pm

We need to win regardless of the other results.

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:52 pm

how do Leicester go from beating City and Chelsea to losing to Cardiff ?!!

Roosterbooster · Post by **Roosterbooster** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:52 pm

Devils_Advocate wrote:3-1 Wolves and Tripps has been awful

All coincides with Joao Moutinho coming on

The Fulham and Cardiff goals are a disaster for us

morpheus2 · Post by **morpheus2** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:52 pm

dougcollins wrote:The Leeds obsession is disturbing.

Have you tried hypnotherapy?

Pimlico_Claret · Post by **Pimlico_Claret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:53 pm

We at least have to show some fight tomorrow, won't be an easy game, but another lacklustre display will play into Huddersfield plans and if we lose there, well the fat lady will be warming her vocal chords unfortunately

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:53 pm

We only have ourselves to blame. 21 points better off this time last season with a weaker squad.

CombatClaret · Post by **CombatClaret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:53 pm

more than a win away from safety now

SGr · Post by **SGr** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:53 pm

dougcollins wrote:The Leeds obsession is disturbing.

Spot on. Pure small club mentality - Leeds fans won’t be sparing Burnley a second of thought.

jrgbfc · Post by **jrgbfc** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:54 pm

Looking very bleak for us and Huddersfield. Cardiff aren't a good side but they have that first season buzz about them where every game is a cup final. They also look like they'd run through a brick wall for Warnock, unlike our lads with Dyche these days.

ksrclaret · Post by **ksrclaret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:54 pm

Us and Hudds gone

Pimlico_Claret · Post by **Pimlico_Claret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:54 pm

Vegas Claret wrote:how do Leicester go from beating City and Chelsea to losing to Cardiff ?!!

How do Everton go from beating us 5.1 away, to losing to Brighton, a team we beat?

KefkaClaret · Post by **KefkaClaret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:54 pm

It's embarrassing to be below Cardiff

kaptin1 · Post by **kaptin1** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:54 pm

Beginning to get cut adrift

Ooogeorgeorgeoghani · Post by **Ooogeorgeorgeoghani** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:54 pm

We've had it

Claretforever · Post by **Claretforever** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:55 pm

These next 4 games have just got a whole lot more important.

SGr · Post by **SGr** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:55 pm

If we need to rely on newly promoted Cardiff to be beaten by a midtable club, then we deserve what’s coming to us.

Spijed · Post by **Spijed** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:56 pm

jrgbfc wrote:Looking very bleak for us and Huddersfield. Cardiff aren't a good side but they have that first season buzz about them where every game is a cup final. They also look like they'd run through a brick wall for Warnock, unlike our lads with Dyche these days.

It also helps when Leicester miss a penalty.

That goes in and it's a different story.

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:56 pm

SGr wrote:Spot on. Pure small club mentality - Leeds fans won’t be sparing Burnley a second of thought.

Can’t speak for others but I think myself and FactualFrank both have a dislike of Leeds because we live there. I dislike Leeds more than Blackburn as I’ve never really lived or worked amongst Blackburn fans.

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:56 pm

Pimlico_Claret wrote:How do Everton go from beating us 5.1 away, to losing to Brighton, a team we beat?

How do we go from 7th to being hopeless

fungus_the_bogeyman · Post by **fungus_the_bogeyman** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:57 pm

Six points adrift of Cardiff. Embarrassing. Lose tomorrow and we’re stuffed.

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:57 pm

Rileybobs wrote:Can’t speak for others but I think myself and FactualFrank both have a dislike of Leeds because we live there. I dislike Leeds more than Blackburn as I’ve never really lived or worked amongst Blackburn fans.

I dislike Leeds because they are Leeds

jrgbfc · Post by **jrgbfc** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:57 pm

Spijed wrote:It also helps when Leicester miss a penalty.

That goes in and it's a different story.

No one to blame but ourselves for our current predicament I'm afraid.

ewanrob · Post by **ewanrob** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:58 pm

Rather SD than me right now, he must know if we lose tomorrow his time is up.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:58 pm

Rileybobs wrote:Can’t speak for others but I think myself and FactualFrank both have a dislike of Leeds because we live there. I dislike Leeds more than Blackburn as I’ve never really lived or worked amongst Blackburn fans.

Yep, you need to be around Leeds fans every day to understand why we dislike them. Not all I might add.

jedi_master · Post by **jedi_master** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:58 pm

Starting to look like we need to take 9 points from West Ham, Fulham and Huddersfield.

The sad fact is I think we’ll be lucky to get 2 points. Call me a defeatist but I think the lights are flickering already, and they’ll be fully out by the end of January.

Roosterbooster · Post by **Roosterbooster** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:58 pm

Spijed wrote:It also helps when Leicester miss a penalty.

That goes in and it's a different story.

Yep. Missing penalties when Leicester are involved is a bad bad memory

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:59 pm

It was daylight robbery when we won in Cardiff. Unfortunately, the only embarrassment is us.

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:00 pm

Pimlico_Claret wrote:How do Everton go from beating us 5.1 away, to losing to Brighton, a team we beat?

Basic defending

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:00 pm

Some drama queens on here. No point being gloomy about our position following today’s results. We need to pick up enough points between now and the end of the season. Today’s results will make little difference. We need to get to 36/37 points to give ourselves a fighting chance. It’s in our hands and if we don’t do it we have no one else to blame.

ksrclaret · Post by **ksrclaret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:01 pm

Spijed wrote:It also helps when Leicester miss a penalty.

That goes in and it's a different story.

God the lengths you'll go to.

It's all Leicester's fault we are where we are.

morpheus2 · Post by **morpheus2** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:01 pm

Rileybobs wrote:Can’t speak for others but I think myself and FactualFrank both have a dislike of Leeds because we live there. I dislike Leeds more than Blackburn as I’ve never really lived or worked amongst Blackburn fans.

Big Burnley - Leeds rivalry in my family, always has been, both ways. About equidistant the football grounds where I came from.

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:01 pm

ewanrob wrote:Rather SD than me right now, he must know if we lose tomorrow his time is up.

I doubt he’ll be too bothered with £10 million in his pocket
Anyway he’s going nowhere

Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:02 pm

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FFS. 19 games to go. That’s half a season.

SGr · Post by **SGr** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:03 pm

Pimlico_Claret wrote:How do Everton go from beating us 5.1 away, to losing to Brighton, a team we beat?

Everton went from losing 6-2, to winning 5-1, to losing to Brighton.

The answer is simple: we’re sh*t.

jedi_master · Post by **jedi_master** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:04 pm

Hibsclaret wrote:D
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FFS. 19 games to go. That’s half a season.

We’ve won three games in our first 19, what evidence is there that we can from now get the 8 wins needed?

Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:05 pm

SGr wrote:Everton went from losing 6-2, to winning 5-1, to losing to Brighton.

The answer is simple: we’re sh*t.

Can you not find a nice warm oven to place your head in nicely....

Claretforever · Post by **Claretforever** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:05 pm

We need 7 wins and a couple of draws from 19 games.

If we can pick up 3 of those wins in the next 4 matches then it suddenly looks a whole lot more rosey. Forget the other sides, they weren’t playing the top teams so results can go either way. We have to beat those around us. We also could do with nicking a draw or two in games we wouldn’t normally expect to in any season.

Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:06 pm

jedi_master wrote:We’ve won three games in our first 19, what evidence is there that we can from now get the 8 wins needed?

Erm....let me think.....

First half of last season?

Roosterbooster · Post by **Roosterbooster** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:06 pm

jedi_master wrote:Starting to look like we need to take 9 points from West Ham, Fulham and Huddersfield.

The sad fact is I think we’ll be lucky to get 2 points. Call me a defeatist but I think the lights are flickering already, and they’ll be fully out by the end of January.

I’m tempted to agree. Absolutely need to not lose against Fulham and Huddersfield. A minimum of 4 points from those 3 games. And even then, that might not be enough. Today has really hit home how much trouble we are in. I’m beginning to go from concerned, to extremely worried

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:07 pm

jrgbfc wrote:No one to blame but ourselves for our current predicament I'm afraid.

Yep, we look incapable of getting 38 points, so the rest is irrelivent .

The only possible bonus is it looks like we may have to go at teams and try and win the game from the off.
The Huddersfield game has the makings of being a great end to end game.

Genuinely feel SD has 2 games to save his job.
As other than the actual results, the approach/performance/selection/tactics/players willingness may well be the nails in his coffin.

He can't set up to try and win 1-0 in the next 2 games IMO

ksrclaret · Post by **ksrclaret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:07 pm

12 points from 19. Anyone who thinks we can get out of the mess is in dreamland.

Any other season and we'd be well adrift by now. Luckily there are others sides who are really quite poor too, but today's results have done away with some of that reasoning.

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:08 pm

We've won 8 league games in a calender year. What makes you think we're going to change a habit?

SGr · Post by **SGr** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:08 pm

Hibsclaret wrote:Can you not find a nice warm oven to place your head in nicely....

That’s funny. Earlier this season when you didn’t like something I said you actually put forward an argument against it.

Sad!

Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:09 pm

ksrclaret wrote:12 points from 19. Anyone who thinks we can get out of the mess is in dreamland.

Any other season and we'd be well adrift by now. Luckily there are others sides who are really quite poor too, but today's results have done away with some of that reasoning.

We were in dreamland last season.

You are in bellendland all the time

Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:10 pm

Sgr and ksr

The dream doom monger team

ksrclaret · Post by **ksrclaret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:10 pm

Hibsclaret wrote:We were in dreamland last season.

You are in bellendland all the time

You were found out as being thick and full of sh1t long ago.

Remember to heed the warnings of the local constabulary and stay away from Charlie Taylor, sunshine.

Paul Waine · Post by **Paul Waine** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:11 pm

ClaretAndJew wrote:We only have ourselves to blame. 21 points better off this time last season with a weaker squad.

I'm wondering...."weaker squad" this season or last season?

I thought if we had two poor transfer windows, last Jan and last summer - no disrespect to the guys we've signed - but, no reason why we should think the squad we had for the first 19 games of 2017/18 is a weaker squad than the one we've got now - with full allowance for injuries in both seasons.

It's how we play tomorrow that will count, not how other teams have performed today.

UTC

Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:11 pm

Unlike u who was born to be thick as.....