It wasn't a fluke. A fluke would be something like a gust of wind changing the direction of the ball and blowing it into the net etc. It was unfortunate imo, but no fluke, because the Watford players had to be pressing us and attacking us and actually have a shot (whether it was on target or not) in order for it to be going in a rough direction of the goal. Without Watford being allowed to attack us, there is no goal. The only reason, again imo, that Watford were allowed to do this was due to the fact that MP changed tactics and went back to that horrible negative 4-5-1, which invited Watford on to us. But that's just the way I see it.
And went straight back up. Automatically. Again. With a threadbare squad. Limit transfer funds. Limited wage budget. Spending way less money than we have and most other promoted sides over the past few seasons. You seem obsessed with Burnley's result with Man Utd. But Dyche's reputation has been built on his achievements over the past few seasons and not just one game.
Believe it or not, I saw something on face book with a load of stills showing how Marshall was at fault and jak would have kept it out
Shot/cross, whatever it was, the point is, it had to be directed towards the danger zone, it was, and they scored from it.
I think Dyche has done an excellent job. But limited transfer funds and wage budget? I am pretty certain Barton was on a fair whack and Andre Gray was hardly the cheapest signing of all time was he. To make Burnley out to be some poor team in the Championship is wrong, they kept the majority of their side on top end Championship wages.
Are you saying that Clucas wasn't getting totally roasted down his side for the whole game? It was obvious to everyone wasn't it?
Sorry if I didn't make it clear to you (I thought it was obvious now Barton isn't there), I was relating to their year in the Championship. The post I quoted related in part to winning promotion with limited resources.
You seem unable to grasp the idea that I was discussing Saturday's games. In fact you seem obsessed with it.
Thank God for Phelan. If he hadn't shown interest we'd have Ehab in the dugout at the moment. Just begs the question - why force Brucie out? That was the key incident leading to our current difficulties. What was the plan there? Was there one? You all know who made that happen. Phelan should be celebrated. No one else had the stomach for it.
I'm not saying anything of the sort. But I am saying that we can't have been all that bad if we kept them to 0 shots on target away from home. We had the best chance of the game and it fell to our main striker, who Phelan was crucified for not starting only a week prior. Now Phelan picks him, he's the one letting the team down and it's still Phelan's fault.
I don't see how Hernandez missing a chance has anything to do with Phelan doing **** all for the entire game to stem what was obviously their most potent threat. Where have I blamed Phelan for Hernandez's miss? Phelan could put a bowl of grapes up front and turn up to the post match interview stark bollock naked and you'd still be 'Nothing to see here, it's not his fault'.
They had no shots on target so how big a threat was Amrabat? What did he do with the ball when he'd got past Clucus? Not much all things considered. Even for their goal he passed it to somebody else on the edge of the box who appeared to scuff his cross and only after a deflection did it go in off Dawson's thigh.
