Unforgivable

[Milltown1882]

Cup quarter final on the line and they serve that up, to a man including the manager absolutely horrendous performance.

[daveisaclaret]

Personally I will forgive them

[DAVETHEVICAR]

Parker probably glad to be out of the Cup which we would never win and concentrate on the Championship where we have a great chance of automatic promotion

[Row x]

Cup quarter final on the line and they serve that up, to a man including the manager absolutely horrendous performance.

As long as they win on Tuesday it's totally forgivable

[fanzone]

Parker probably glad to be out of the Cup which we would never win and concentrate on the Championship where we have a great chance of automatic promotion

If that’s the case go out in round 3

[DAVETHEVICAR]

Silly reply

[evensteadiereddie]

Same here, I'm more interested in how Leeds, Sheff U and Rovers get on.
We were never going to be up for it and match Preston's desire to win.
It's their biggest game of the season, for us not so.

[Clive 1960]

all you ask for is for the players to show some effort sadly that was missing today..

[agreenwood]

I mean, it’s the first game we’ve lost since November and the first goals we’ve conceded since December.

We’ve had what we deserved in terms of the team selection and it’s been really bad, but let’s have some perspective.

[AmbleClaret]

We'd have only drawn City away anyway.

[JimmyRobbo]

I think it is quite forgivable.

I think I've already moved on. Something will have been learnt. Not a good game.

Bottom line: it doesn't matter.

[fatboy47]

Forgiven them already.

[wilks_bfc]

We'd have only drawn City away anyway.

I’m hoping that combination of balls drawn still happens

[BurnleyFC]

Would anyone want to endure the play offs after today’s horror show?

[Venkys4eva]

Who cares? The league is far more important. The only people who will give a flying duck are the ones with an agenda against parker. They will be out in force today.

[jedi_master]

Win at Cardiff and I could not give less of a ****, maybe that’s just me.

The big disappointment today is seeing how much poorer the likes of Worrall, Sonne, Shelvey, Sarmiento and Hladky are compared to our main men.

[ElectroClaret]

Win at Cardiff and I could not give less of a ****, maybe that’s just me.

The big disappointment today is seeing how much poorer the likes of Worrall, Sonne, Shelvey, Sarmiento and Hladky are compared to our main men.

Yes.
Let's just hope we don't suffer a spate of injuries to
key men in the run in.

[louieollie]

Forgiven already.

[BabylonClaret]

Who cares? The league is far more important. The only people who will give a flying duck are the ones with an agenda against parker. They will be out in force today.

Yes ish. Because that was a v winnable game to get to a quarter final. And a local rival to boot. And we put in a performance like that. Awful. I mean the ref didn't really help.much but even so it was terrible.

Sarmiento and Koleosho had flashes but were out muscled. Foster was his usual, Benson is never a starter anyway - always been better coming on in the lat 20. Shelvey awful, Sonne kind of alright, Worrall dreadful and Pires was well Pires (that's a liability), not sure the keeper does .such against any of those strikes really - he's been left exposed.

That's a game to try and get some minutes into possible bench players and pretty much all.of them failed to deliver - not sure how a y of that does much for confidence in the League.

[Goliath]

Win at Cardiff and I could not give less of a ****, maybe that’s just me.

The big disappointment today is seeing how much poorer the likes of Worrall, Sonne, Shelvey, Sarmiento and Hladky are compared to our main men.

To be fair to Sarmiento, he'd really started to cause them problems so Parker decided to take him off for the absolute novice Banal who offered zilch.

[Dyched]

Parker probably glad to be out of the Cup which we would never win and concentrate on the Championship where we have a great chance of automatic promotion

Why?? Were not gonna win the PL, why get promoted?

[RVclaret]

I just forgave them.

[bfcmik]

Disappointing rather than unforgiveable.

Poor choice from the manager to go up against a very physical defence with Benson, Sarmiento, Koleosho and Foster. 2 very out of form players and 2 with around 5 minutes total game time in months and little physicality between them. Foster should be physical but really isn't and the other 3 are ball players not strongmen.

[Dyched]

Who cares? The league is far more important. The only people who will give a flying duck are the ones with an agenda against parker. They will be out in force today.

Because maybe, just maybe we could have gone to Wembley. What a day out eh? 10,000s of Clarets young and old having a day we’ll remember forever. Anyway, Cardiff Tuesday. I’m sure we’ll be speaking about if for years to come.

[BurnleyFC]

To be fair to Sarmiento, he'd really started to cause them problems so Parker decided to take him off for the absolute novice Banal who offered zilch.

Sarmiento wasn’t great, but was the only one who actually ran at their defence, instead of the mind numbing pass it back and build out from the back stuff we serve up on rinse and repeat.

[winsomeyen]

Parker probably glad to be out of the Cup which we would never win and concentrate on the Championship where we have a great chance of automatic promotion

Absolute ********

[Juan Tanamera]

Personally I will forgive them

Forgive them for being absolute dogger?
Aye okay.

[agreenwood]

Winning at Cardiff is key.

You look a bit daft if you rest over half of your first team and then don’t win the game you’ve saved them for.

[TsarBomba]

Shocking performance, but hopefully it gives us a kick up the backside for the run in.

Won’t do us any good to dwell on it, we just need to move on and get ready for Tuesday.

[Row x]

Would anyone want to endure the play offs after today’s horror show?

Would anyone think we'd put that team out in the playoffs?

[Beagle]

Who cares? The league is far more important. The only people who will give a flying duck are the ones with an agenda against parker. They will be out in force today.

Rubbish. I like Parker but I was there today and I’m leaving ****ed off. I don’t believe you don’t understand why Burnley fans care about how **** that was today.

[winsomeyen]

Yes ish. Because that was a v winnable game to get to a quarter final. And a local rival to boot. And we put in a performance like that. Awful. I mean the ref didn't really help.much but even so it was terrible.

Sarmiento and Koleosho had flashes but were out muscled. Foster was his usual, Benson is never a starter anyway - always been better coming on in the lat 20. Shelvey awful, Sonne kind of alright, Worrall dreadful and Pires was well Pires (that's a liability), not sure the keeper does .such against any of those strikes really - he's been left exposed.

That's a game to try and get some minutes into possible bench players and pretty much all.of them failed to deliver - not sure how a y of that does much for confidence in the League.

Sonne should go far under Parker as he has the ability not to pass the ball forward.

[BurnleyFC]

Would anyone think we'd put that team out in the playoffs?

Because the play offs effectively become cup ties and if we go a goal behind, we’re toast.

[Juan Tanamera]

Yeah, let's keep forking out our hard earned and then forgive them for that utter gross.

[Row x]

Because the play offs effectively become cup ties and if we go a goal behind, we’re toast.

It wouldn't be the same team

[RVclaret]

Yeah, let's keep forking out our hard earned and then forgive them for that utter gross.

Keep? It’s the first defeat in 23 games you lemon.

[BurnleyFC]

It wouldn't be the same team

I don’t think the manager or first team have it in them to come from behind.

[Row x]

I don’t think the manager or first team have it in them to come from behind.

Norwich

[Bosscat]

Small consolation ... Norwich have just scored in the 89th minute at Bollewood

[jlup1980]

Unforgivable is a stretch. It was a worrying 90 minutes though. We were out fought, out run, and out played. We're not used to seeing that.

As many have already said, what it really showed was the gulf in class between our first 11 and the rest. We can't afford any injuries that's for sure. To a man, our back-up were diabolical today. Whether that's a lack of game time, or too many returning from injury I don't know. Parker won't have any headaches on Tuesday night - the 11 picks itself.

Final thought, I suggest Parker just didn't take the game seriously. The only thing you can say about PNE for certain is they're physical. Parker isn't stupid. He started Humphreys, Laurent, Hannibal, Flemming against them the other week. Starting with Luca, Sarmiento, and Benson today was a strange move. We were clearly never going to win the second balls. I hope his line up was more about getting minutes into players than anything else, as it looked like a line-up that had no chance of winning from the start.

[Tribesmen]

Its the league which is important which we all know .
It hurts to be beaten but we must move forward and get behind the team

[hoskinsgoalatswansea]

Personally I will forgive them

Personally I won't. FA cup 5th round against local rivals. Quarter final at stake. One step from wembley. It's not pre-season 80's manx cup.

Manager: Play your best team. Players: Take your chance, and fight to for your place.

Shocking from all concerned. Utter utter garbage

[THEWELLERNUT70]

I don't get a real hump losing any game if there's something there that you can take positives from. Today however I'll make an exception for because that was dogsh!t from start to finish

[Rowls]

It was a dismal and abject performance.

"Unforgivable" is rhetorical here but that was a sorry performance and we deserve better.

[Aclaret]

Small consolation ... Norwich have just scored in the 89th minute at Bollewood

[Row x]

Unforgivable is a stretch. It was a worrying 90 minutes though. We were out fought, out run, and out played. We're not used to seeing that.

As many have already said, what it really showed was the gulf in class between our first 11 and the rest. We can't afford any injuries that's for sure. To a man, our back-up were diabolical today. Whether that's a lack of game time, or too many returning from injury I don't know. Parker won't have any headaches on Tuesday night - the 11 picks itself.

Final thought, I suggest Parker just didn't take the game seriously. The only thing you can say about PNE for certain is they're physical. Parker isn't stupid. He started Humphreys, Laurent, Hannibal, Flemming against them the other week. Starting with Luca, Sarmiento, and Benson today was a strange move. We were clearly never going to win the second balls. I hope his line up was more about getting minutes into players than anything else, as it looked like a line-up that had no chance of winning from the start.

Like you say, we cannot afford any injuries, so the team selection was the right one

[daveisaclaret]

Forgive them for being absolute dogger?
Aye okay.

Yep, ****** off with it but obviously I will forgive them as will everyone else. There will not be one Burnley fan imo who will think after a win on Tuesday "I do not forgive the team for losing at Preston"

[Jimmymaccer]

Would anyone want to endure the play offs after today’s horror show?

First reaction no, Coventry seem to be on a run now and if we came up against them it’d be the Frank Lampard show……….but…….

We’d have a full strength team on the pitch………Wembley is a big pitch which would suit our play………and it’s like a lawn, not a paddy field like Deepdale.

Preferably not tho…….

Onwards and upwards……it’s a beautiful sunny day and we’ve got the afternoon to go for a fab walk, and finish with a beer at a wonderful country pub.

[Commy]

Hopefully QPR can do a job today and it won't have been that bad a weekend for the league.

[JohnMac]

'New Entitled' fans will be out in force today.