boatshed bill wrote:I can't see us ever playing 4-3-3, Spice. Who would be detailed to track back? A point well made by KRBFC's analysis on this thread BTW.

What do you think we were playing today?

Its absolutely a system thing hindering the wide players and has been since Dyche arrived. Our defence and midfield play so deep the wide players end up defending in our own third and have to run the length of the pitch to attack often with very little support. Wood was so isolated today because th...

I like to imagine the OP is imagining the alternative to Pope would be not having a goalie. In which case he's spot on to be fair.

Why is it that when negative fans have a word with themself they're being smart, but when I do it I'm losing my marbles?

ablueclaret wrote:Cork Westwood at the base Defour the attacking force Taylor and Brady playing wide.

Never change, pal.

Dyche has a very specific view of wingers, and one that's seen him right. Scott Arfield is the embodiment of it. They are players who can support their full backs first, can complement their central midfield second and can attack third. It's been a massively successful model but it's been a model th...

They should hang him to death imo. Arguments will take place about whether he should be drawn and quartered, but that's secondary.

Dyche thinks he can play Westwood off the striker and it'll work. I like the positivity behind it but it didn't work last year when the striker was Vokes so it definitely won't work now when the striker is Wood. I reckon he could put out a winning team with any three of our midfielders, but for as l...

boatshed bill wrote:Was there a lot fewer police than normally necessary?

There would be 0 police for a typical friendly

It's an unusual position where I've told them my seat and asked to be unblocked

We are genuinely lucky that none of our wannabe hardmen in the CFS were brained with a wooden chair.

But thats the bit I don't understand. Hoolies are thick as pigshit. Always have been, always will be. Cops were posted around the ground, the back up police horses in the usual place and enough to police 200 + Hanover fans. I'm interested in whether it was organised by an evil genius, or just kicke...

When in the past have you seen a fair-sized police presence on a friendly match? When have you seen full body searches on the way into a friendly? Andrew Greaves has tweeted there was police intelligence that ultras would be here for this fixture. They threw seats into the home fans - people could h...

At least 100 seats were thrown. It'd only take one seat to kill someone.

Nobody deserves to be born looking like TB.

(Sorry!)

From what I saw, they were really quick to get into position. But it was the stewards who went into the stand. The police did a top job of watching the Germans.

I guess it was a matter of not antagonising the dickhead Hannover fans

To be fair, having today as a first game will be one hell of a story in 2070.

Huge questions need to be asked about this football team being invited to Burnley. The number of seats thrown over into the Cricket Field End, we should be thinking we're lucky nobody was brained and killed. Tweets are suggesting people in positions of authority knew ultras might travel. That is put...

Typically statues are erected in honour of people who have earned recognition within society. In the past, enslaving blacks was seen as a positive and those who did it were venerated. Looking back now, it seems people who enslaves Africans were absolute *****. They used to be really famous but now t...

Kevin Long is ten times the player Michael Keane will ever be.

I was a big believer in Andre, but he's at the very bottom of the list of brilliant young strikers we've had in the 21st century, He is so frustrating.

Been worse than Fletcher was, never mind comparisons to Ings.

People are saying on the tweets that Heaton has been funnelling money to ISIS.

bf2k wrote:What! He bought them!

Spent 9 (nine) million pounds on one of them and someone is sympathetic that they ain't scoring

Until today I've been Joey's biggest fan, but it has now become clear that he should commit harry carry

It is interesting to me that, assuming Sanders won't win, the next US President is going to be a right winger who is bad for our country and yet our focus is on Trump. Why?

I've run onto the pitch once ever, it was at Rotherham. We'd lost about 3-0, but I think results elsewhere confirmed we were surviving with a few games to spare. I found it a bit lacking, probably because I never thought we were going to go down and we'd just lost about 3-0. And I was in Rotherham.