Playing youngsters in th first team?

bfccrazy · Post by **bfccrazy** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:05 pm

Just discussing the Bolton scenario with friends and I remember reading a few times about Burnley being in a bit of a purple patch and sending out a team of youngsters (mainly youngsters?) who then went on to win a few games in a row.

It was before my time so can’t remember the exact story but wondering if anybody could enlighten me on it a little more please?

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:30 pm

You need to get out more....

bfccrazy · Post by **bfccrazy** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:35 pm

tim_noone wrote:You need to get out more....

Still waiting on a sponge cake....

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:43 pm

bfccrazy wrote:Still waiting on a sponge cake....

With fresh cream..

Royboyclaret · Post by **Royboyclaret** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:44 pm

Aye, that was the '68/'69 season. Harry Potts was not best pleased after we'd lost 0-4 at home to Liverpool.

He then brought in several young players into the team who then went on to win 8 games on the bounce, 6 in the League and 2 in the League Cup. The players included the likes of Dobson, Murray, Blant, Collins, KIndon & Smith.

Royboyclaret · Post by **Royboyclaret** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:03 pm

Couple of snippets probably worth adding to that. In the middle of that run we thrashed Don Revie's Leeds 5-1 and I think it was one of only two defeats for them in the whole of the '68/'69 season.

From that run we went almost 51 years until the last few weeks when we won three consecutive games in the top flight by two goals or more.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:07 pm

Royboyclaret wrote:Couple of snippets probably worth adding to that. In the middle of that run we thrashed Don Revie's Leeds 5-1 and I think it was one of only two defeats for them in the whole of the '68/'69 season.

From that run we went almost 51 years until the last few weeks when we won three consecutive games in the top flight by two goals or more.

We were **** for 49 of them!

Royboyclaret · Post by **Royboyclaret** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:10 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:We were **** for 49 of them!

No, not at all.

We've had some very good sides during that 51 years, particularly the '73/'74 side and also the '09/'10 & '14/'15 sides were decent enough.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:14 pm

Royboyclaret wrote:No, not at all.

We've had some very good sides during that 51 years, particularly the '73/'74 side and also the '09/'10 & '14/'15 sides were decent enough.

Thats 3. Makes it 48 - i wasnt far out

Royboyclaret · Post by **Royboyclaret** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:20 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Thats 3. Makes it 48 - i wasnt far out

Ok, '69/'70, '74/'75, '14/'15, '16/'17, '17/'18, that's five more plus the '68/'69 season and the current one.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:41 pm

Royboyclaret wrote:Ok, '69/'70, '74/'75, '14/'15, '16/'17, '17/'18, that's five more plus the '68/'69 season and the current one.

I wasn't being entirely serious.

FWIW In my lifetime the best seasons ive seen are:

1992
1994
2000
2001
2002
2009 (we actually weren't great at times - I think we were better under Stan in our first two seasons back at that level)
2014
2016
2018

and the back end of this season.

Last year was great. And 1992 my favourite. But if I had to pick one for style and results it would be 2014. We were incredible at times. Forest, Derby and wigan in particular.

Royboyclaret · Post by **Royboyclaret** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:48 pm

Aye, '13/'14 was a bit special with Tripps, Danny Ings and the gang.

Royboyclaret · Post by **Royboyclaret** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:53 pm

1961/62 remains my favourite season when we were smashing every team in sight.

That said, I'd loved to have seen the 1920/21 season when we went 30 games unbeaten. That must have been one hell of a side with Halley, Boyle & Watson and the rest.

South West Claret. · Post by **South West Claret.** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:16 pm

Didn’t John Murray in that 68/69 season beat some record about scoring in successive games?

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:26 pm

Royboyclaret wrote:Aye, '13/'14 was a bit special with Tripps, Danny Ings and the gang.

Ings and Vokes was a great combo. Marney unexpectedly brilliant. Absolutely dominant and another great pairing with Jones.

That said, overtaking BHA and Boro was great too.

TBF we have been blessed ever since Orient!

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:47 pm

bfccrazy wrote:Just discussing the Bolton scenario with friends and I remember reading a few times about Burnley being in a bit of a purple patch and sending out a team of youngsters (mainly youngsters?) who then went on to win a few games in a row.

It was before my time so can’t remember the exact story but wondering if anybody could enlighten me on it a little more please?

By chance really. We'd been hammered by Liverpool and had to play West Ham three days later with a number of players injured meaning we had to make a lot of changes. Lochhead, Coates and Collins were all ruled out while Thomson, who had made his debut in the Liverpool game, was dropped.

We beat West Ham and there was one change for the next match with Coates coming back in. Other than that, it was the same team for the next set of games with eight won on the bounce including two League Cup ties. It ended with a 1-1 home draw against Wolves.

Royboyclaret · Post by **Royboyclaret** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:52 pm

South West Claret. wrote:Didn’t John Murray in that 68/69 season beat some record about scoring in successive games?

Well, John scored 8 goals in those 8 games including the first 6 games on the bounce.

Only the Ipswich home game he failed to score which was the 7th in that sequence.

Probably only Willie Irvine or Tommy Lawton might rival that?

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:12 pm

South West Claret. wrote:Didn’t John Murray in that 68/69 season beat some record about scoring in successive games?

Three years earlier, Willie Irvine scored in seven successive league games, netting a total of ten goals. He did fail to score in a League Cup game in the middle of that run but I believe that remains a club record. The club tried to claim that Charlie Austin had equalled that record in 2012 but he actually missed a game during the run at Leicester but then scored in each of the next six.

Royboyclaret · Post by **Royboyclaret** » Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:16 pm

It seems Tommy Lawton scored in each of his first six internationals for England, although he had left Burnley for Everton by that time.

Will that record still stand?

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