This season it has been individual brilliance that has been our nemesis so I think we might have struggled against Ronaldo but I think we would have been fine in most games beaten the lower ranked teams and held Spain at arms length for large periods and might have got a draw. That is so far.

Don't think we would have qualified

We could give all this lot a good licking

Steve1956 wrote:Don't think we would have qualified

Don't kill it yet

Depends, if we had a manager with international experience we would struggle but might get a draw or even pinch a win and maybe get third in the group. With Dyche in charge playing the tactics he employs in the English leagues we would get our arses handed to us and get thumped

Top Claret wrote:We could give all this lot a good licking

Wrong site and wrong thread .

Devils_Advocate wrote:Depends, if we had a manager with international experience we would struggle but might get a draw or even pinch a win and maybe get third in the group. With Dyche in charge playing the tactics he employs in the English leagues we would get our arses handed to us and get thumped

I didn't ask you.

Ben Mee would have blocked that Nacho shot for the goal.

The greedy Portuguese winker wouldn't have had a hat trick because Pope would have saved his second.

Realistically we wouldn't beat a single team but who knows, we don't have any quality to break down the deep defending minnows like Iran and the top sides have too much quality for us to get out of our own half for periods.

Bin Ont Turf wrote:Ben Mee would have blocked that Nacho shot for the goal.

The greedy Portuguese winker wouldn't have had a hat trick because Pope would have saved his second.

Karius would have saved his second..

KRBFC wrote:Realistically we wouldn't beat a single team but who knows

I feel reasonably confident that we could give that Saudi Arabia side a game.

KRBFC wrote:Realistically we wouldn't beat a single team but who knows, we don't have any quality to break down the deep defending minnows like Iran and the top sides have too much quality for us to get out of our own half for periods.

I was rather hoping you were still sectioned and wouldn't have access to the internet.

Saying that though, we play like Iran and they won a game with an own goal so who knows

KRBFC wrote:Realistically we wouldn't beat a single team but who knows, we don't have any quality to break down the deep defending minnows like Iran and the top sides have too much quality for us to get out of our own half for periods.

Says realistically we wouldn't beat a single team then 'who knows'.

Posting for the sake of it.

Japebe43 wrote:Karius would have saved his second..

I can honestly say a 100 year old nearly dead person would have saved Winker's second goal

Bin Ont Turf wrote:Says realistically we wouldn't beat a single team then 'who knows'.

Posting for the sake of it.

Yeah because who knows? I didn't think Iran would win a game but they did.

0-0 v Iceland.

All you have to do is look at the level that some of these players play at. Our players ply their trade at the upper end of the Premier League, Iran's scorer (Moroccan) yesterday plays in the German second tier. There are a number of teams at this world cup that our team is capable of beating. Of those seen so far I'd fancy our chances against Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Morocco and Australia. Maybe even Denmark and Nigeria.

gawthorpe_view wrote:0-0 v Iceland.

Pretty sure Chris Wood would ( ) have scored the penalty.

gawthorpe_view wrote:0-0 v Iceland.

They have less to choose from then ASDA Tesco and Sainsburys and we would stuff them.

Top Claret wrote:We could give all this lot a good licking

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Got battered most games.

spain and portugal are the only two who would definately have beaten us in my opinion.
Russia may well have scored 5, but saudi's were worse than burton albion, so we'd have been ok against the hosts too.
nigeria, dreadful, peru were great in patches, but not good enough to beat us either.
Iceland were us in disguise, probable draw 0-0.
argentina , well messi looked like a lively lad, but tarks would have stifled his game this aft.

Spain v Burnley would be at least twice as big a defeat as Arsenal v Burnley a few weeks back. Even the Burnley players shadows would have been chasing shadows. We'd need both Nick Pope and Tom Heaton in goal to have a chance of keeping the score down to single figures. However, I'm not sure that Man City at their best could keep pace with Spain.

Paul Waine wrote:Spain v Burnley would be at least twice as big a defeat as Arsenal v Burnley a few weeks back. Even the Burnley players shadows would have been chasing shadows. We'd need both Nick Pope and Tom Heaton in goal to have a chance of keeping the score down to single figures. However, I'm not sure that Man City at their best could keep pace with Spain.

Don't be daft Paul.

Good question, I was thinking slightly differently. How would BFC do with a fit Renaldo through to the finals?

Deepnds, I don't think scoring a goal against Brazil then trying to defend against them for 85 minutes whilst hoofing the ball away would cut much mustard.

Surprised all of the negative posts. Forget us where would the countries be in the prem league. Spain prob challenging city, Portugal and France same as arsenal, most of the other would be around where we are and a couple in relegation worries or Saudi and Nigeria pushing for rock bottom.

Saudi Arabia and Nigeria would have struggled against Stockport.
Iceland (or Dyche-land as I called them yesterday) will be tough opposition for whoever they play in the competition. I wouldn't mind any of those lads wearing the claret and blue of Burnley next season.

Zom Zom wrote:Saudi Arabia and Nigeria would have struggled against Stockport.
Iceland (or Dyche-land as I called them yesterday) will be tough opposition for whoever they play in the competition. I wouldn't mind any of those lads wearing the claret and blue of Burnley next season.

Couldn’t agree more. A team of Dyche like players. I think With one or two notable exceptions they are probably slightly worse man for man than we are. Which means they would prob only be squad players.

gawthorpe_view wrote:0-0 v Iceland.

Would JBG change teams at halftime?

I think we could take on the minor teams with a good chance of results. C Wood is a far from world class striker and he know he is not however he scores consistently at the minor international level given his physicality. So if our defece holds and Barns and Wood up front..we could eek out some results...A lot of these minor teams are middle to lower EPL level if they do not have any standard out world class players.

I think people are massively underestimating the value of training week in, week out with the same players, coaches and manager. Sure the likes of Spain and Portugal have a few players better than ours, but can they genuinely achieve the same level of organisation and framework that we have developed over a full season? As we have shown, this counts for a lot these days.

Where we'd struggle however is with not being able to compete with the seemingly mandatory diving and cheating that is making the tournament hard to watch.

We'd beat Saudia Arabia.Nigeria and get a draw with Iceland and Australia.France are Arsenal of the tournament getting very dodgy pen.

I think we would struggle against the higher ranked teams but like the Premier League, be the best of the rest.

wilks_bfc wrote:Would JBG change teams at halftime?

No, he's a Burnley player, obviously.

This Mexico side is how I'd like to see us play, pacey fast attacking high tempo but defensively organised and willing to pass the ball.... very impressive I must say, no fear from kick off, fought fire with fire instead of trying to dull the game and getting spanked.

KRBFC wrote:This Mexico side is how I'd like to see us play, pacey fast attacking high tempo but defensively organised and willing to pass the ball.... very impressive I must say, no fear from kick off, fought fire with fire instead of trying to dull the game and getting spanked.

Perhaps I might be missing something but until the heart of the team was devastated by injuries that's how we played.

bfcjg wrote:Perhaps I might be missing something but until the heart of the team was devastated by injuries that's how we played.

I don't think we've ever played attacking high tempo football under Dyche and we certainly don't have pace like the Mexicans.

KRBFC wrote:I don't think we've ever played attacking high tempo football under Dyche and we certainly don't have pace like the Mexicans.

Chelsea away to start the ball rolling.

starting_11 wrote:Deepnds, I don't think scoring a goal against Brazil then trying to defend against them for 85 minutes whilst hoofing the ball away would cut much mustard.

That plan worked very well two seasons ago against Liverpool who had Coutinho in their side.

bfcjg wrote:Chelsea away to start the ball rolling.

A fine performance but high tempo attacking and pacey? never in a million years, we were trapped inside our own half for the entire 2nd half even against 9 men. Maybe you think Vokes/Brady/JBG are pacey players, I definitely don't.

Two more teams tonight I think we would do well against.

I don't think we would have beaten any of the teams who have played so far. Not courting argument, just my opinion.

Wed have beaten Tunisia. Can you imagine Barnes f in up those chances ?

JohnMac wrote:I don't think we would have beaten any of the teams who have played so far. Not courting argument, just my opinion.

Saudi Arabia?

Rileybobs wrote:Saudi Arabia?

Too slippery, a draw

To date even with my Claret glasses on we wouldn't have beaten any of the teams who have played in the knock out stages.

We'd have been the weakest side out of the 32 (33).

FactualFrank wrote:We'd have been the weakest side out of the 32 (33).

We'd have beaten Panama.