v Burnley (a) - 31/08/2024

[Waggy76]

1 hour ago, booth said:

Trafford, Foster, Esteve, Rodriguez and Benson were all expected to leave. It could be another firesale in January.

Trust me it will , if promotion is unlikely !

[booth]

5 minutes ago, Waggy76 said:

Trust me it will , if promotion is unlikely !

They think it will happen either way.

[Waggy76]

Just now, booth said:

They think it will happen either way.

We will see..

[davulsukur]

3 hours ago, Miller11 said:

Did you notice Benson stropping off “injured” in the dying stages? I’d be livid if one of ours had done that. Stories of unhappy and striking players usually have some basis in truth. I’m glad they kept hold of Trafford though, really bad keeper. 

I think anyone who took the piss out of Eustace for all his togetherness talk last year will regret doing so pretty soon. It’s helped us look the side most deserving of three points today.

What gives with this? Weren't clubs trying to sign him for like £20m? He was really poor.

[magicalmortensleftpeg]

48 minutes ago, LeftWinger said:

Worst decision ever

The flag was for Hedges being offside, not Dolan. Both are onside but Hedges is more marginal.

FWIW I think Hedges could have been done for fouling their defender (another marginal call) so VAR may not have saved us anyway.

[booth]

2 minutes ago, magicalmortensleftpeg said:

The flag was for Hedges being offside, not Dolan. Both are onside but Hedges is more marginal.

FWIW I think Hedges could have been done for fouling their defender (another marginal call) so VAR may not have saved us anyway.

He clearly fouled Hedges!

[bazza]

I feel sorry for referees in modern times. They are not allowed to use their discretion or common sense. They HAVE TO give a decision in accordance with the specific thing that happens. 

Football is a beautiful game and fans should be able to enjoy not only two teams going head to head but also the performance and character of the referee. Back in the 1950s and 60s we had good and bad refs as per normal but we enjoyed their idiosyncrasies . I always believed that the ref was totally honest and doing his job to the best of his ability. Some were real characters who contributed to the entertainment.

In today's game ALL the cards should never have been given in my opinion; to either side. It was a feisty game as you would expect but nothing happened that was vicious or dangerous. The modern football rules are stupid. Referees must be given back the right to use their own discretion for the good of the game.

If not you might as well have a Dalek on the pitch to enforce the law.

 

[Waggy76]

1 minute ago, bazza said:

I feel sorry for referees in modern times. They are not allowed to use their discretion or common sense. They HAVE TO give a decision in accordance with the specific thing that happens. 

Football is a beautiful game and fans should be able to enjoy not only two teams going head to head but also the performance and character of the referee. Back in the 1950s and 60s we had good and bad refs as per normal but we enjoyed their idiosyncrasies . I always believed that the ref was totally honest and doing his job to the best of his ability. Some were real characters who contributed to the entertainment.

In today's game ALL the cards should never have been given in my opinion; to either side. It was a feisty game as you would expect but nothing happened that was vicious or dangerous. The modern football rules are stupid. Referees must be given back the right to use their own discretion for the good of the game.

If not you might as well have a Dalek on the pitch to enforce the law.

 

Just imagine Souness & Keane playing today? 

[yankfan]

Sure it’s been posted but Scott was with the fans today

 

https://x.com/TheFLZone/status/1829974085482217507

[47er]

Proud tonight. We had 10 men and they had 12.

[47er]

14 minutes ago, magicalmortensleftpeg said:

The flag was for Hedges being offside, not Dolan. Both are onside but Hedges is more marginal.

FWIW I think Hedges could have been done for fouling their defender (another marginal call) so VAR may not have saved us anyway.

I thought the decision was for the block? and it was a poor decision.

We didn't get the rub of the green today.

[bazza]

I'm still grinning from ear to ear.😁

[Waggy76]

Just now, 47er said:

I thought the decision was for the block? and it was a poor decision.

We didn't get the rub of the green today.

That is an understatement, the ref was the 12th dingle... 

[Tom]

Hope Eustace gets the new keeper in after the international break.

Pears just isn’t up to it, didn’t have much to do today but still managed to look dodgy, for the goal he was heading across his goal so it’s difficult but still a bit disappointing but then the shocking pass right down the middle and the random coming from his goal to claim a ball that was never his stood out.

He then seemed scared to come for anything till late in the game where he had his one standout moment when he was decisive and came for a good punch.

Both he and his opposite number got lucky today with errors 

[only2garners]

4 minutes ago, 47er said:

I thought the decision was for the block? and it was a poor decision.

We didn't get the rub of the green today.

On a replay the ref can clearly be seen raising his hand and saying “offside”. 

[Miller11]

37 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

What gives with this? Weren't clubs trying to sign him for like £20m? He was really poor.

Came through City’s academy, so some nerd will have manipulated some “numbers” somewhere and given him an arbitrary base value of £15 million that all the other data led recruiters will adhere too. Honestly I think he’s a really bad keeper. Weak as piss, error prone, frequent lapses in concentration, positional suspect, and cocky as hell. I wouldn’t be in any rush to swap him with Pears.

[Rover_in_the_South]

5 hours ago, windymiller7 said:

Funny you should use the school teacher analogy - I was watching the game with my daughter's boyfriend (city fan for his sins) & when Parker was trying to square up to JE, he said

"It looks like the maths teacher trying to argue with the PE teacher - only one winner there!"  🤣

Brilliant, tickled me that! 

[USABlue]

On the disallowed goal my first reaction was that the dingle commited a foul.and the ref pulled it back cos he had blown.  At first I was pissed he did not allow the advantage.  Offside my arse.

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, adopted scouser said:

Hiya pal, I’ve had a bollocking for saying Blackburn instead of Rovers 😂😳

You get a round of applause from me for introducing the phrase spunktrumpet into my vocabulary.

Pure fucking gold.

[Upside Down]

Just now, USABlue said:

On the disallowed goal my first reaction was that the dingle commited a foul.and the ref pulled it back cos he had blown.  At first I was pissed he did not allow the advantage.  Offside my arse.

That was my initial reaction as well.

That game was so one sided from the ref it was like playing at old Trafford in the 90s.

[Exiled in Toronto Mk2]

Watched the game again and noted a few things more clearly this time.

After 15 mins the Clampitts were giving it the “Ole’s”, possibly the last noise they made.

Beck’s reaction to being shoved into the boards was more prolonged than a flash of anger or wtf? To mis-quote Bobby Goldsboro, he went into the boards a boy and came back on the pitch a man.

Mak’s header to Weimann gets better and better on each watching. He won the ball, directing it downward and perfectly into the path of the moving Weimann - a stunning combo of awareness and technique. I’m stretching here to thinks of a past Rovers player who could do that, Jim Fryatt maybe?

I wonder if, after the sending off, the brief from the gaffer was to keep fouling to try and draw a sending off reaction. If so, it nearly worked when Trav got himself shoved over off the ball. Also, Trav standing on the player’s hand was pure MacNamee.

All in all, a great derby, with incidents that’ll be talked about for years, if not decades.

[47er]

24 minutes ago, only2garners said:

On a replay the ref can clearly be seen raising his hand and saying “offside”. 

Well it wasn't offside was it?

[adopted scouser]

23 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

You get a round of applause from me for introducing the phrase spunktrumpet into my vocabulary.

Pure fucking gold.

Thank you darling, here’s another. ‘Shitgibbon’

[AllRoverAsia]

7 hours ago, booth said:

When Mak was sent off, Eustace was scribbling away in a notepad shaking his head, containing his anger, coming up with a plan. Very professional I thought with everything stacked against him. Many managers would have imploded.

Parker would have done a wee in his nickers.

[Darwen Rover 007]

I was a big fan of JDT and felt 'what could have been' had we backed him..

But honestly JE is the real deal.. no coincidence what he did with big club last year either..