[Albion] Burnley vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[Bodian]

Burnley fans....

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I had an absolute shocker of a day, set off leaving myself a 3 hour window to allow for traffic, got to Hurstpierpoint and realised my ticket was on the console table in my hall. ****.
Quick turnaround but that set me back by an hour, I then ran into traffic jam, after, accident after closure, my arrival time was going up and up and up. With an hour to go until kick off I was still 120 miles away. I nearly threw the towel in.
I arrived in Burnley at 15:45 and sprinted to the ground only to find they’d closed the turnstiles and weren’t allowing anyone else in. ****. Legged it to the ticket office and pleaded with them, they escorted me around the ground and finally let me in through a side door. Managed to watch all of the second half.
All that effort for 45 mins of football, and if you think I’d ever do it again you’d be absolutely right.
UTA.

Brilliant

Sent from my SM-A600FN using Tapatalk

 

[rogersix]

Most bizarre Potter formation EVER I'd say.
Boy did good in the 2nd though (but you do wonder what goes through managers heads sometimes).

He's a visionary, (genius/madman), this and the arsenal game and I'm a massive potter fanboy

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I had an absolute shocker of a day, set off leaving myself a 3 hour window to allow for traffic, got to Hurstpierpoint and realised my ticket was on the console table in my hall. ****.
Quick turnaround but that set me back by an hour, I then ran into traffic jam, after, accident after closure, my arrival time was going up and up and up. With an hour to go until kick off I was still 120 miles away. I nearly threw the towel in.
I arrived in Burnley at 15:45 and sprinted to the ground only to find they’d closed the turnstiles and weren’t allowing anyone else in. ****. Legged it to the ticket office and pleaded with them, they escorted me around the ground and finally let me in through a side door. Managed to watch all of the second half.
All that effort for 45 mins of football, and if you think I’d ever do it again you’d be absolutely right.
UTA.

Brilliant and I’m so pleased you were rewarded for your perseverance,

I forgot my ticket on the way to Derby once, on the coach, so no chance of turning back. I rang the club, who knew what my seat number was, and told me to go to Derby’s ticket office.
In the meantime, the club contacted Derby, told them what had happened, so they printed me off a duplicate when I arrived there.

 

[Stat Brother]

Burnley fans....

View attachment 139489

They're just lucky they were playing us because that was where the loud cheering was from.

 

[Stato]

Watching the highlights on MotD I was happy to see Sean Dyche's players continuing to display the same support they always have done for his campaign against diving. Presumably Charlie Taylor throwing himself down and forward into the penalty area as if he'd been butted by a wildebeest rather than touched on the shoulder by Steven Alzate was a satirical comment on the diving of Burnley's opponents that his manager never ceases to mouth his disgust for.

 

[Dave Fishwick]

I am so glad we beat those neanderthal c*nts.

I completely disagree with the narrative on MOTD, whether Maupay is going for the ball or not you cannot put two hands onto an opponents chest and just push him over. Furthermore, there needs to be a crack down on this blocking off of keepers. It was quite funny when Brentford did it on Friday night but there's no way their goal should have stood.

Justice was ultimately done. Onwards and upwards from here

 

[OzMike]

Glad for the turnaround, but have to acknowledge that the players out of position for the first half was unforgivable, what was the tactic ?
We should have been 3 down as a result, which could have resulted in a 3 - 2 loss.
We will not be this fortunate every game, a top six team would have ripped us a new one.

 

[Loadicus Trux]

I am so glad we beat those neanderthal c*nts.

I completely disagree with the narrative on MOTD, whether Maupay is going for the ball or not you cannot put two hands onto an opponents chest and just push him over. Furthermore, there needs to be a crack down on this blocking off of keepers. It was quite funny when Brentford did it on Friday night but there's no way their goal should have stood.

Justice was ultimately done. Onwards and upwards from here

Mmm, would've been very interesting to hear Shearer's views if that had been a Newcastle player pushed over like that.

 

[BN41Albion]

Glad for the turnaround, but have to acknowledge that the players out of position for the first half was unforgivable, what was the tactic ?
We should have been 3 down as a result, which could have resulted in a 3 - 2 loss.
We will not be this fortunate every game, a top six team would have ripped us a new one.

Give Potter a break! So many times last season he got it right (particularly against the top teams!) but was let down by poor finishing by his forwards. At least he got the substitutions spot on which turned the game around.

 

[el punal]

Glad for the turnaround, but have to acknowledge that the players out of position for the first half was unforgivable, what was the tactic ?
We should have been 3 down as a result, which could have resulted in a 3 - 2 loss.
We will not be this fortunate every game, a top six team would have ripped us a new one.

Well we didn’t lose 3-2, so on your premise of “might have been if” we would have been 20 points better off last season. Regardless of how poor we were in the first half the situation was addressed and we improved to win 2-1, and that is the most important stat of all.

 

[dazzer6666]

Glad for the turnaround, but have to acknowledge that the players out of position for the first half was unforgivable, what was the tactic ?
We should have been 3 down as a result, which could have resulted in a 3 - 2 loss.
We will not be this fortunate every game, a top six team would have ripped us a new one.

Here we go again with the hyperbolic comments with 20/20 hindsight. It’s not ‘unforgivable’……he tried something (we don’t know exactly what or why), it didn’t work, he changed things, we won.

If we want a creative manager, then we need to accept there will be some tactics that don’t work.

 

[el punal]

Most bizarre Potter formation EVER I'd say.
Boy did good in the 2nd though (but you do wonder what goes through managers heads sometimes).

Wouldn’t worry too much. Potter set out to bamboozle Dyche, and everyone else, in the first half. Lull everybody into a false sense of security and then wallop, hit them with the real deal in the second half.
Marvellous. As Shakespeare would have it ‘All’s well that ends well’.

 

[nwgull]

Glad for the turnaround, but have to acknowledge that the players out of position for the first half was unforgivable, what was the tactic ?
We should have been 3 down as a result, which could have resulted in a 3 - 2 loss.
We will not be this fortunate every game, a top six team would have ripped us a new one.

So you want Potter sacked on the basis that we could have lost 3-2?

 

[Mancgull]

Burnley haven't won at home for 11 straight games. Thankfully we didn't allow them to break that record. That does look like a very serious trend for Burnley and almost like the Sheffield United trend at the start of last season. Dyche is apparently stalling on signing a long term contract. Yesterday the ground was only three quarters full. Hopefully the Burnley bubble is bursting and they'll slip down into the relegation places.
Next up for them, Liverpool away. They won there last season, but I doubt they will next week in front of a full Anfield.
Tough games for other losers Southampton and Norwich too. ( Man United and Man City).

 

[nwgull]

Burnley haven't won at home for 11 straight games. Thankfully we didn't allow them to break that record. That does look like a very serious trend for Burnley and almost like the Sheffield United trend at the start of last season. Dyche is apparently stalling on signing a long term contract. Yesterday the ground was only three quarters full. Hopefully the Burnley bubble is bursting and they'll slip down into the relegation places.
Next up for them, Liverpool away. They won there last season, but I doubt they will next week in front of a full Anfield.
Tough games for other losers Southampton and Norwich too. ( Man United and Man City).

Quite refreshing seeing as we seem to have a bit of a knack for helping teams to end these kind on runs.

 

[OzMike]

So you want Potter sacked on the basis that we could have lost 3-2?

Didn't about mention sacking anyone, just expressed an opinion.

 

[JonnyCLately]

We really are f**ked this season. What a piss poor team selection and squad we have.

Playing players out of position is usually the beggining of the end for a manager.

This aged well - you have won the worst human on this board award and that has some stiff opposition

 

[Hamilton]

I’m just relaxing in the fact that the opening game means nothing.

You can beat Watford 3-0 away on the first day and it doesn’t mean you are going to run away with the league.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk[/QUOTE

Means nothing !!!!

It’s 3 points and a good start

I think you were missing my light-hearted reference to our opening game at Watford.

I'm delighted. I was just saying - when we weren't winning - that we should all stay calm, that's all. Day 1 and all that.

 

[loco61]

great start : "three points" : I can´t wait for Saturday and a real crowd at The Amex again! #excited!