Shelvey

[army88]

On point Ballcock , glad we didn't risk injury to essential players like Trafford , Roberts , Egan-Riley, Cullen & Anthony, Tuesdays game is far more important than a run in a cup that's lost its magic and realistically we were not likely to win.

Why bother waiting to get to this round then we could have bowed at reading weeks ago.

Also 2 million to us if we?d won at deepdale getting to quarters.

I don?t think it?s the fact we made changes that folk are annoyed about it?s that we just rolled over and had our tummy?s tickled , with who was on the pitch.

Posted before never did I put my boots on and go out thinking I?m prepared to lose - didn?t happen.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

In light of the last two posts, I can think of a better four letter word than 'fans' to describe the 7,000 who spent good money travelling to Deepdale to support Burnley in that 5th Round FA Cup game, it's ...................'mugs'.

My lad went with 3 of his mates, to say they were not impressed would be an understatement. At least Dyche was honest when he said the cup competitions held no interest for him so we did not go. Deceived badly were the travelling fans and got mugged off by BFC. I?m not impressed.

[Turf_Forever]

I'm surprised with Shelvey's showing, but the whole team was garbage. Something was badly wrong on Saturday. I'm not reading too much into it.

[Andingle01]

Why bother waiting to get to this round then we could have bowed at reading weeks ago.

Also 2 million to us if we?d won at deepdale getting to quarters.

I don?t think it?s the fact we made changes that folk are annoyed about it?s that we just rolled over and had our tummy?s tickled , with who was on the pitch.

Posted before never did I put my boots on and go out thinking I?m prepared to lose - didn?t happen.

I don't think any of us have ever put our boots on preparing to lose and I don't think the 11 starting Saturday did either.
We played the same "second string" v Reading & Southampton as we did on Saturday , resting players for the league games , nothing changed on that front.
That team in my opinion should have been strong enough to get a result Saturday but put in a cowardly performance, disappointing yes but I'm not overly bothered as I've said before , league games are the priority for me.

[kritichris]

The only determination the players showed was not to shake hands with Osmawotsic. You'd have thought after that gesture they would have been motivated to win for Hannibal as much as the club but no, we looked just like we were having a training session and a poor one at that.