Mcburnie

[JJ Sefton]

Needs to spend less time poking slappers.

 

[metalblade]

WTF!! we had 22 shots, McBurnie had 5 maybe 6 efforts on goal ffs. You wanting him to have a chance 1 yard out with their defenders stood cheering him on. This love in for this useless lump is getting out of control.

No mate it is the hatred from you and others that is out of control.

 

[Snowflake]

Half chances the only real sitter tonight fell to JLT

..and Ndiaye who should have scored in the first half and certainly should have scored in the second. As with many of our players he had to take a touch allowing the keeper to close him down.

 

[Blad]

Who was to blame for the other sixteen misses?

Not a £20 million striker who was bought to score goals.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

I'm not his greatest fan, but I thought he played well tonight. Worked hard, linked well, but for once actually got into the box & onto the end of some half chances (he didn't miss any sitters). Far more encouraging than we've seen from him before.

You can see he isn't fully fit yet, but he doesn't deserve to be scapegoated for tonight.
It's so overly simplistic to look at the scoreline and blame the striker. That isn't what tonight was about.

The one criticism would be, when MGW and Ndiaye are on the park we don't need McBurnie dropping deep looking for work. Be the focal point, but stay in and around the box. Work the central defenders and attack the near post when we're playing triangles out wide.
Oli, if you're reading this, watch Mitrovic as your homework this week.

 

[Blad]

No mate it is the hatred from you and others that is out of control.

Wrong, we are blades we want us to go up, we need goals to go up, we know McBurnie will not score these goals, you know he will not score these goals, but you will never admit it and will keep sticking up for him because you have shouted his praises all along and don’t want to look daft by now saying you have got it wrong. No shame in it we all get it wrong with players but everyone with a pair of eyes can see he is just not very good, everyone bar his day ones. Pathetic.

 

[Black Cloud]

Sorry, it’s very simple, he just isn’t good enough....Jebbo on Saturday please

 

[Harry's Game]

For a bloke who seems to fancy himself a hard man he has the strength of a butterfly who’s been unwell for a year

 

[metalblade]

I'm not his greatest fan, but I thought he played well tonight. Worked hard, linked well, but for once actually got into the box & onto the end of some half chances (he didn't miss any sitters). Far more encouraging than we've seen from him before.

You can see he isn't fully fit yet, but he doesn't deserve to be scapegoated for tonight.
It's so overly simplistic to look at the scoreline and blame the striker. That isn't what tonight was about.

The one criticism would be, when MGW and Ndiaye are on the park we don't need McBurnie dropping deep looking for work. Be the focal point, but stay in and around the box.

The thing is Ndiaye and MGW were in the main shite, too many daft fucking tricks.

 

[SwissBlade]

McBurnie was their best Centre a half, Cracking game defensively

 

[petcharlie]

NO SHARP NO GOALS SIMPLE

 

[Blade58]

A number of players I thought were disappointing tonight

Goals make prizes and we had enough chances to make sure we won the game

Can’t win every game but from being quite free scoring we’ve now fired two blanks

Need to snap out of it fast

Make sure our leading scorer is on the pitch Saturday

Hopefully Bogle is back

 

[CaptainMorgans]

The thing is Ndiaye and MGW were in the main shite, too many daft fucking tricks.

Wholeheartedly disagree. I thought they were both great. Always showing for the ball, working hard, aggressive, looking to create.
Lots doesn't come off, but it's a joy watching those two. They're ambitious with the ball and take ownership.

 

[SwissBlade]

McBurnie was their best Centre a half, Cracking game defensively

 

[Bladey_blade]

Not a £20 million striker who was bought to score goals.

Blinded by the fee

 

[Nelson1889]

I can accept him not getting service up to a point. But sharp has the same service but makes a difference by being an intelligent player putting himself about.

Mcburnie does neither of those.

 

[metalblade]

Wholeheartedly disagree. I thought they were both great. Always showing for the ball, working hard, aggressive, looking to create.
Lots doesn't come off, but it's a joy watching those two. They're ambitious with the ball and take ownership.

Simple is sometimes better than over complicating things.

 

[petcharlie]

Any one knows when he last scored a league goal for us?

 

[metalblade]

I can accept him not getting service up to a point. But sharp has the same service but makes a difference by being an intelligent player putting himself about.

Mcburnie does neither of those.

What did Sharp do tonight any shots on target ?

 

[robbiez666]

McBurnie was not the problem tonight. The state of some people on here who can't wait to slag some of our players off is pathetic.

Look at the in-game comments in the match thread. We all get frustrated with players but the abuse meted out during a game is pathetic.

 

[Sean Thornton]

MGW’s short passing game wasn't up to his usual standard tonight and Ndiaye was pretty much invisible after twenty minutes.

 

[petcharlie]

What did Sharp do tonight any shots on target ?

Did not know he was playing unless he came on late

 

[metalblade]

McBurnie was not the problem tonight. The state of some people on here who can't wait to slag some of our players off is pathetic.

Look at the in-game comments in the match thread. We all get frustrated with players but the abuse meted out during a game is pathetic.

Well said, wish some of our fans would fuck off to Hillsborough.

 

[Foxy]

Pelters again for the lad, while MGW gets clapped and ‘unlucky’ for tossing the ball to an opponent/out of play.

And again, called lazy, watch the Ndiaye chance, didn’t he head their corner clear then end up in arguably a better position than Ndiaye as one of the three?

I’m all for him and others having to improve, but he certainly gets the rough end of some folks mood.

 

[Grappler]

Wholeheartedly disagree. I thought they were both great. Always showing for the ball, working hard, aggressive, looking to create.
Lots doesn't come off, but it's a joy watching those two. They're ambitious with the ball and take ownership.

Not sure we can play both of them at the same time, maybe a bit too similar. Just thinking out loud (so to speak).

 

[metalblade]

Did not know he was playing unless he (SHARP) came on late

So you slag McBurnie and haven't even watched the fucking game fuck me our so called fans.

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

Mcburnie had 6 chances tonight off which 1 was on target

In fairness to him he had two chances on target, a shot in the six yard box that went straight at the keeper in the middle of the goal, and another which the keeper saved in the bottom corner.

What I will say in his defence is that we had 22 shots, 3 on target and 2 of those were his. Coincidentally when he had service to his feet. Once again when he plays the players revert to endless crosses to him when he's shite in the air. Play the ball to his feet and he actually makes the keeper work and looks like scoring. What's more annoying is that we play the ball to Billy's feet more often than not.

So is it Hecky's tactics? The players being lazy and just looking for an easy option to cross it to the tall guy? McBurnie convincing that team that he's good in the air and prefers that service when he's not? It's weird that we always resort to lumping it up to him or crossing it to him, instead of playing it to his feet.

I just don't see it happening for him here and we're stuck with him.

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

Great performance from young oli linking the play up and leading the line


The goal will come IMO

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Simple is sometimes better than over complicating things.

Sometimes. But if you're chasing a goal then you need to hold and give, but do it at the right times. You can do it slow, or fast but you need to get to the line. If you're going to hurt a team like Hull then you need to attack and there's only one way to do that and it's to get around the back.

If you play everything in front it's easy to defend. Give me MGW and Ndiaye taking it on the turn every day.

 

[wavy-blade]

Great performance from young oli linking the play up and leading the line


The goal will come IMO

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