Its that time

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:10 am

Are we gunna win?

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:14 am

No.
And, tbh, I couldn't care less about this one - no injuries and no suspensions are our priority.
If Rovers fans are happy to have the bragging rights after a tin-pot trophy win, let them - it's another sign of their desperation.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:17 am

quoonbeatz · Post by **quoonbeatz** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:17 am

Longsider · Post by **Longsider** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:23 am

evensteadiereddie wrote: And, tbh, I couldn't care less about this one - no injuries and no suspensions are our priority.
If Rovers fans are happy to have the bragging rights after a tin-pot trophy win, let them - it's another sign of their desperation.

Totally agree.

Longside4evr · Post by **Longside4evr** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:34 am

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Don't need unnecessary injuries we haven't got the strongest backup in the world

Sutton-Claret · Post by **Sutton-Claret** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:40 am

evensteadiereddie wrote:No.
And, tbh, I couldn't care less about this one - no injuries and no suspensions are our priority.
If Rovers fans are happy to have the bragging rights after a tin-pot trophy win, let them - it's another sign of their desperation.

Sort of agree.... Ideal situation would be:

Minimum 0-3 win
Rest all the 1st team - give Wood a 30 min runout
No Injuries
No cards

Get this one out of the way and we can throw it in the next round

Steve-Harpers-perm · Post by **Steve-Harpers-perm** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:44 am

We should do however our recent cup displays doesn't fill me with confidence!

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:44 am

The reality is that a weak ref will allow all manner of assaults on the lads leading to injuries and/or retaliatory fouls and red and yellow cards.
I hope I'm just being a nervous Nellie and will be proved hopelessly wrong.........there's a first time foe everything

piston broke · Post by **piston broke** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:46 am

3-0 Clarets. They'll play a weaken team because of their ongoing relegation battle. Our reserves will do the job.

taio · Post by **taio** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:48 am

Fair point about injuries and suspensions but presumably Dyche will make a number of changes to mitigate this. So the number one priority is absolutely to win.

CFS · Post by **CFS** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:55 am

We could play a weakened team and get a ton of injuries and suspensions against Tottenham on Sunday. No guarantee these things.
0-4 HT
Wood 1'
Wood 2'
Wood 3'
Wood 45+1'

IAmAClaret · Post by **IAmAClaret** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:10 am

Any player could get injured in training - they don't only get injured playing games in the Carabao cup!

"We try to win every game" - show it, put the strongest 11 out.

And yes, I think we will just shade it 1-2

Goody1975 · Post by **Goody1975** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:13 am

If you enter a competition then surely the aim is to win it.

We may play some if not all of the players who haven't started the first two games but they are just as important as the current first XI to our Premier League survival and they could get injured or suspended just as easily.

The majority of our supporters DO give a **** about the result tonight and the club should do as well, momentum on the pitch and also in the stands is what we need to aid our league campaign, a defeat tonight will do us no good what-so-ever, we should take this seriously and learn the lessons of Accrington and Lincoln from last season.

IrkthePurists · Post by **IrkthePurists** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:17 am

Win the match, pure and simple.

The changes should be to accommodate players who are fit and raring to go but need game time, not to rest or protect anyone.

With the size of the squad now that could mean 7 or 8 changes, and cup runs are important to keep these guys (Pope, Long, Arfield, Barnes etc) on their toes because they will all have contributions to make in the league at some point.

I really don't get people suggesting we 'throw' this game or the next round, these games should be pivotal for lots of reasons.

bfccrazy · Post by **bfccrazy** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:20 am

Enough said .....

Big_Ears_BFC · Post by **Big_Ears_BFC** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:23 am

evensteadiereddie wrote:No.
And, tbh, I couldn't care less about this one - no injuries and no suspensions are our priority.
If Rovers fans are happy to have the bragging rights after a tin-pot trophy win, let them - it's another sign of their desperation.

If you couldn't care less about a derby against our oldest enemy what is the point ?

I'm well up for this and I hope the other 4,999 clarets in the stand with me are too !!!

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chekhov · Post by **chekhov** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:27 am

evensteadiereddie wrote:No.
And, tbh, I couldn't care less about this one - no injuries and no suspensions are our priority.
If Rovers fans are happy to have the bragging rights after a tin-pot trophy win, let them - it's another sign of their desperation.

This is just WRONG.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:27 am

Pathetic mentality from some. No wonder the atmospheres so bad at times.

Whilst its not the draw I wanted. I want to win every game against them and every competition we enter. Lets smash them.

IAmAClaret · Post by **IAmAClaret** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:29 am

From the LT Article:

Asked how seriously he was taking it, in terms of the League Cup being a distraction to their Premier League goals, Dyche said: "As seriously as every game that I’ve ever taken in my career.

"I’m a great believer that when that whistle blows, you’ve got to be ready to play it.

"Every game counts, for whatever reason, whether it’s in pre-season, when the mentality’s growing.

“All the games are serious for me, and this one is definitely serious.”

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sp ... f=mrb&lp=9

Ooogeorgeorgeoghani · Post by **Ooogeorgeorgeoghani** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:29 am

This cup Is a great opportunity to give fringe players competative game time, Rovers will want to win more than us , but we should just edge it on penalties!

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:29 am

As I believe the saying goes:

Get into em, F*ck em up

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:31 am

I love the idea that just because people are suggesting a few changes to the first team, they are automatically not as good as fans as you lot.

I can't get my head around the mentality that somehow this is a huge game. Have you lot been asleep for the past six years? If they win, sure we'll all be ****** off for a bit, but we rock up to Wembley to play Spurs on Sat whilst they play MK Dons.

Its all changed now, we can treat them like the **** of our shoes, just like they did to us and there is nothing they can do about it.

Just enjoy that feeling, rather than slagging off the other fans who are looking at this with their head AND their heart.

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:32 am

I'm hoping for a Clarets win as much as anybody else but I think in a competition that has started farcically almost as if to prove its irrelevance, we need to avoid injury. I am, of course, talking about the premeditated stuff some of the Rovers wannabees are likely to be allowed to dish out not the everyday injuries players can pick up irrespective of the opposition.
I just have a horrible suspicion Rovers will target any key players we put out, Lincoln-style. It's the only way they can win,after all.
A victory over the Ewood trash would be excellent, I'm just not sure it's worth risking our Premiership wellbeing, as it were.
We're playing at Wembley on Sunday, for God's sake - we really don't need this piffling little sideshow.

fatboy47 · Post by **fatboy47** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:35 am

we need to d1ck them

nothing else.

ExistentialWanderer · Post by **ExistentialWanderer** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:37 am

I had a dream we scored 3 times the other night at Ewood. It'll be annoying if we were to get beat but this is their biggest game of the season and as stated above. We're at Wembley this weekend while they're slumming it in League 1. I'd get over it pretty damn quickly. Still think we'll win 3-1.

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:41 am

Coming out of it unscathed with a win would be ideal preparation for Sunday.
Failing a win, I'll settle for unscathed.
Fingers crossed and, if you're going, enjoy it.
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FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:43 am

I expect we'll have a bit of a mix. Players such as Pope, Bardsley, Westwood, Arfield, Barnes and Wood I expect will see some action. I'd be surprised if it's the same side that started our previous 2 games.

bfccrazy · Post by **bfccrazy** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:47 am

Lancasterclaret wrote:I love the idea that just because people are suggesting a few changes to the first team, they are automatically not as good as fans as you lot.

I can't get my head around the mentality that somehow this is a huge game. Have you lot been asleep for the past six years? If they win, sure we'll all be ****** off for a bit, but we rock up to Wembley to play Spurs on Sat whilst they play MK Dons.

Its all changed now, we can treat them like the **** of our shoes, just like they did to us and there is nothing they can do about it.

Just enjoy that feeling, rather than slagging off the other fans who are looking at this with their head AND their heart.

Growing up, the first result I always looked for was the Burnley result. Like a lot of others though, the next result I'd look up was to see if Blackburn had lost..... I would hear "last one to cross the line is a Blackburn fan" from teachers and football coaches as a kid. I grew up with the knowledge that they were the bigger side, had the better players, bigger ground and was in awe a little of how they just seemed to be better than us. I had an ex whose dad had a box at Ewood who would always invite me to games but I would decline ..... I would get sly digs constantly from that whole family - especially bringing up the 35 years and how we would never match the "mighty rovers".

Well a few years on and the time has come where we are truly superior .. I don't want us to rest players and play an easy game and not care if we win or lose..... I don't want to lose the unbeaten record against them, the bragging rights. I don't want any ba*tard fan being able to have ANYTHING to ty and wind us up about for a second never mind make us "****** off for a bit".

I want us to beat them like I never imagined possible growing up. I want 5000 clarets in pure euphoria drowning out and deafening all the horse botherers in the whole town never mind the ground. I want Dyche to do his fist pump and for every fan to stay behind and demand our derby day heroes return to the pitch again after annahilating them.

It might be a game that is lost on people who have not lived in the area or were not brought up in the area - but hating the bas*tards is in our genes in Burnley, which makes it even sweeter to know our current positions...... and makes every second of our superiority that much better!!!

LLTV - UTC - BOTB

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:49 am

UpTheBeehole wrote:As I believe the saying goes:

Get into em, F*ck em up

about time somebody posted something worth reading on this thread

IAmAClaret · Post by **IAmAClaret** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:55 am

but we rock up to Wembley to play Spurs on Sat whilst they play MK Dons.

So f***ing what?! There is far more to football than 'The Premier League'.

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:55 am

bfccrazy wrote:Growing up, the first result I always looked for was the Burnley result. Like a lot of others though, the next result I'd look up was to see if Blackburn had lost..... I would hear "last one to cross the line is a Blackburn fan" from teachers and football coaches as a kid. I grew up with the knowledge that they were the bigger side, had the better players, bigger ground and was in awe a little of how they just seemed to be better than us. I had an ex whose dad had a box at Ewood who would always invite me to games but I would decline ..... I would get sly digs constantly from that whole family - especially bringing up the 35 years and how we would never match the "mighty rovers".

Well a few years on and the time has come where we are truly superior .. I don't want us to rest players and play an easy game and not care if we win or lose..... I don't want to lose the unbeaten record against them, the bragging rights. I don't want any ba*tard fan being able to have ANYTHING to ty and wind us up about for a second never mind make us "****** off for a bit".

I want us to beat them like I never imagined possible growing up. I want 5000 clarets in pure euphoria drowning out and deafening all the horse botherers in the whole town never mind the ground. I want Dyche to do his fist pump and for every fan to stay behind and demand our derby day heroes return to the pitch again after annahilating them.

It might be a game that is lost on people who have not lived in the area or were not brought up in the area - but hating the bas*tards is in our genes in Burnley, which makes it even sweeter to know our current positions...... and makes every second of our superiority that much better!!!

LLTV - UTC - BOTB

We need at least a 5-0 win

Claretrew · Post by **Claretrew** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:56 am

We should win at a canter, would love to see five or more but would settle for a scrappy 0-1win with no injuries.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:56 am

If they rough us up theyl have a job against the likes of barnes, bardsley, walters and co.

Its our oldest rivalry. The games gone sadder and softer if we dont want to win and only want to avoid injury.

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:59 am

we need to stuff these. this is the highlight of our season too

We may not play these again for years to come, so we need to make a statement and show our superiority. I'm sure Dyche will drill that into em to, no matter who plays

Goody1975 · Post by **Goody1975** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:00 am

Like I said earlier, losing does us no favours at all.

We might not have wanted this game but in many ways it is just as important as the game on Sunday.

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:04 am

To be fair, if we lose 2-0 it's ok, as long as Bardsley doesn't pick up a strain and is out for 2 weeks, or barnes gets 2 yellows and missis a game...

Get effing real.

I'd take a Barnes 3 game elbow ban and a Bardsley ACL if we beat those bast4rds 5-0 in their own back yard.
I will never forget that 5-0 feeling my whole life.

I want them to feel ashamed, humiliated and put firmly in their place!

Football is about making lifelong memories and stories,. avoidind bookings and strains rarely make interesting pub chatter later in life...

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:08 am

MACCA gets it!!!!
Absofuckinglutely

These games matter. Cup competitions matter. Burnley beating Blackburn matters.

Lord Beamish · Post by **Lord Beamish** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:15 am

I can't see any Tony Mowbray Team going out to play the rough stuff. It's just not how he plays football. I think Mowbray will try to out football us.

box_of_frogs · Post by **box_of_frogs** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:19 am

In case there is no stream available, will Radio Lancs have it online? Live in Suffolk now so won't be on local radio!

Walton · Post by **Walton** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:19 am

My prediction?

PAIN

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:21 am

Macca gets it in the sense that if some of our second-string players get injured or suspended then so er, ****ing what - something we all agree on.
Ward ? Hendrick ? Brady? Defour ? Cork? Any of those as well ? Mmmmm, I think not.
Anyway,I hope we're all as chipper tomorrow morning.

dsr · Post by **dsr** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:21 am

What's our ambition? To be like Stoke and West Brom, winning just enough games to stay in the Premier League but nothing else? Or to play football, to win cups? Once you give up all ambition to ever win a trophy, what's the point of playing?

box_of_frogs · Post by **box_of_frogs** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:24 am

I'd take Stoke and WBA's 'success' at staying in the PL. That will financially secure our club for the future.

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:31 am

Is this the same Stoke who got to the semi-final of the League Cup in 2016?

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:48 am

We shud be treating the cup with a strong team

Quickenthetempo · Post by **Quickenthetempo** » Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:01 pm

If we don't win it could knock the stuffing out of our season. Two defeats and a likely 3rd at Spurs going into an international break is not ideal.

We have changed style and formation this season, it's another game to get used to it.

How many players have benefited from a cup game at Burnley that aren't regulars in the first team? To progress their careers with us?

And that's before we mention who were playing. Swap the full backs that have come to play first team football and Wood up front. The rest need this game.