The Live Match Discussion Thread: 2019/2020

[YoungWolf]

Is anyone going to watch palace v Burnley tonight?

Might watch the end of it after the league 2 play off final

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The most nothing game imaginable, literally nothing riding on it and two teams who are low scorers.

I've got the L2 playoff final on.

 

[AndyWolves]

Looking at the table palace have a shot at getting in the Europa mix if they win

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

It would need a lot of teams in front of them to collapse to get a Europa spot.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Leicester, Chelsea, United, us and Spurs to play. I'm going to say no.

They'll probably beat Villa though.

 

[sycophantia]

I'm watching it, I'm actually quite enjoying it .....am I losing my mind?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

They can win the other four and lose to us from that list. That would be extremely helpful!

 

[AndyWolves]

I'm watching it, I'm actually quite enjoying it .....am I losing my mind?

There's actually some football being played

 

[YoungWolf]

Burnley are 8th as it stands :icon_lol:

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Going on about last season and where they were at this stage..."after they'd been affected by the Europa League".

Er, their final game in that competition - 30 August 2018.

Stop it, it's such bollocks!

 

[PuntsWolf]

Can see burnley winning at least 3 of their last 6. Definite shout of another ho at the qualifiers!

 

[Jack Regan]

Going on about last season and where they were at this stage..."after they'd been affected by the Europa League".

Er, their final game in that competition - 30 August 2018.

Stop it, it's such bollocks!

Dixon blathering on that you need a massive squad to rotate players to be successful in it, otherwise your league form will suffer...

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Dixon blathering on that you need a massive squad to rotate players to be successful in it, otherwise your league form will suffer...

Yep. Gabby Logan parroting it too. "There's no doubt it affected their league form".

Please Gabby, I am quite a simple man, please tell me how getting knocked out of a competition in August means that you cannot possibly do anything else between October and December than lose 9 out of 11 games. I will accept that their journey all the way to <check notes> Aberdeen for one of the ties must have been an arduous one that took months to recover from.

 

[jd1981]

It’s very lazy work on the pundits behalf, problem is some people buy this BS to. Burnley were having shocking results until after Xmas wasnt until about April that they pulled away.
Their struggles were more down to the unbalanced squad and having 3 England goalkeepers on their books and not enough strength elsewhere.

 

[Tony Towner]

Burnley for reasons best known to themselves played friendlies in between Euro qualifiers. For the 3 weeks they were still in it post the PL starting they more or less played 2 different sides with the strongest playing in the PL.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Think Dyche tried to get them playing a bit more football early on too. But they can't do it, they don't have very good footballers, we genuinely should have hoofed them 6-0 at Molineux, they were awful.

After a while he decided to bin that and go back to the shithousing that he does quite well, if you like that sort of thing. Plus he was brave/desperate enough to chuck McNeil in out of nowhere and suddenly they had a bit of creativity where once there was none.

He's another one who like Howe, has wasted quite a bit of money but it never gets noticed. Gibson, Vydra and Hart last season is pushing £30m, one has already been released on a free and the other two hardly ever play. Hendrick was £10m+, you'd struggle to say he was really worth that at the best of times but it was 2016 when they paid that. Brady was £13m! £8m for Defour. Another £30m+ for not much.

 

[Deano]

I think Dyche has done a good, they're never going to be very good aesthetically but they're decent at the back and well organised. Some of those fees are over the top but don't think they've wasted as much as lot of other teams that are doing a lot worse - they must struggle to attract players, if you were a footballer you'd probably rather go to any Premier League side than Burnley so I can imagine they lose out on a lot of signings whenever there is competition.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Think Dyche tried to get them playing a bit more football early on too. But they can't do it, they don't have very good footballers, we genuinely should have hoofed them 6-0 at Molineux, they were awful.

After a while he decided to bin that and go back to the shithousing that he does quite well, if you like that sort of thing. Plus he was brave/desperate enough to chuck McNeil in out of nowhere and suddenly they had a bit of creativity where once there was none.

He's another one who like Howe, has wasted quite a bit of money but it never gets noticed. Gibson, Vydra and Hart last season is pushing £30m, one has already been released on a free and the other two hardly ever play. Hendrick was £10m+, you'd struggle to say he was really worth that at the best of times but it was 2016 when they paid that. Brady was £13m! £8m for Defour. Another £30m+ for not much.

Plus however much Drinkwater cost in wages and loan fee.

I like McNeil, i think he could be adapted into a very good WB too, looks to have all the attributes.

 

[AndyWolves]

Brewster looks decent, and not in a "he'll probably sign for Bournemouth" way

 

[Nando]

Yeh he's looking very decent.

Really exciting times for the national team if these players keep getting first team exposure.