' Burnley won't be bullied by Cardiff '

Burnley won't be bullied by Cardiff.



The Lancashire Telegraph's Burnley writer, Tyrone Marshall


Friday 28th September 2018


Saturday's encounter with Manchester City once again threw up the question of Cardiff's physical approach to the game, but Burnley are unlikely to be too phased by it all.

The Lancashire Telegraph's Burnley writer, Tyrone Marshall, says the Clarets will be more than capable in dealing with any physical challenges that may crop up and will stand up in the battle.

"Burnley have a reputation for physicality themselves," he explains. "When teams come to Turf Moor they always try to ensure they're involved in competitive games so I don't think Cardiff's approach - if they do go down that route - will be of any great surprise to them.

"I don't think there'll be any concerns over it and I don't think they'll be complaining about it either."







The value of a clean sheet

It's fair to say that until last week's 4-0 trouncing of Bournemouth, Burnley's start to this season was a subdued one dogged by silly defensive errors.

"They kept a clean sheet last week, but they're still showing signs of vulnerability this season," Marshall adds.

"The two goals that Burton scored in midweek were fairly sloppy, so there's a definite avenue there for Cardiff.

"The success of last season was built on clean sheets and they've not looked as solid defensively and they've not always looked a solid."

Cardiff's promotion was similarly built on a rock solid defence, with Warnock famously setting his side the target of 16 clean sheets as a way of securing a place in the play-offs. They managed 19.


However, Warnock believes the Bluebirds have done themselves no favours this season with defensive errors, lamenting "elementary mistakes" after the defeat to Manchester City.

"We've got to eliminate mistakes if we're to have any chance whatsoever," he said.

One suspects that the manager to solve this issue is the manager who will walk away with three points come Sunday evening.

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It's not until you see a photograph like this that you realise what a huge man Sean Dyce is.

So, they will keep the ball on the ground and keep it simple and fast. We can manage that if we take the ball to our court!

I'd LOVE to see us completely bully them on Sunday, play to our strengths and overpower them in the way we did with so many teams last season.

Come on you bluebirds!

I don't accept this stuff we constantly hear about Cardiff City being physical . It's not true as shown by the fact that we finished near the top of the fair play league last season. We are direct and fast , but that's not the same thing.
I can remember a time when you could kick an opponent out of the game , but you can barely get away with standing too close to them these days, so I can't see how it's possible to bully other teams.

We can possibly beat Burnley, and with a bit of luck we will, but it's realistically 50/50 starting and we mustn't get too psyched up with this "must win" nonsense or go further into panic mode if that doesn't happen . It'll average itself out over the season and, as I keep telling you, we'll finish about tenth, but our biggest danger is this snowballing communal bitch- fit because things aren't currently going as well as we'd like.

I don't accept this stuff we constantly hear about Cardiff City being physical . It's not true as shown by the fact that we finished near the top of the fair play league last season. We are direct and fast , but that's not the same thing.
I can remember a time when you could kick an opponent out of the game , but you can barely get away with standing too close to them these days, so I can't see how it's possible to bully other teams.

We can possibly beat Burnley, and with a bit of luck we will, but it's realistically 50/50 starting and we mustn't get too psyched up with this "must win" nonsense or go further into panic mode if that doesn't happen . It'll average itself out over the season and, as I keep telling you, we'll finish about tenth, but our biggest danger is this snowballing communal bitch- fit because things aren't currently going as well as we'd like.

Tenth? Not even the most optimistic fan would agree with that, can we stay up? We have a chance, that’s as good as I can see and trust me they call me Mr positive.

I don't accept this stuff we constantly hear about Cardiff City being physical . It's not true as shown by the fact that we finished near the top of the fair play league last season. We are direct and fast , but that's not the same thing.
I can remember a time when you could kick an opponent out of the game , but you can barely get away with standing too close to them these days, so I can't see how it's possible to bully other teams.

We can possibly beat Burnley, and with a bit of luck we will, but it's realistically 50/50 starting and we mustn't get too psyched up with this "must win" nonsense or go further into panic mode if that doesn't happen . It'll average itself out over the season and, as I keep telling you, we'll finish about tenth, but our biggest danger is this snowballing communal bitch- fit because things aren't currently going as well as we'd like.

Tenth? Not even the most optimistic fan would agree with that, can we stay up? We have a chance, that’s as good as I can see and trust me they call me Mr positive.

Well that's because they're listening to the press and pundits instead of using logic. Some apparent expert came up with predictions of our doom one day, the rest gradually followed and the hard of thinking believed it. We had a particularly difficult bunch of fixtures to coincide with the adjustment period and resultantly some bad results - hence the "snowballing bitch-fit" I referred to.
However, if a million people have a dumb idea it's still a dumb idea and this girly hysteria in the face of a bit of hard opposition to your intended outcome is merely a state of mind amongst some supporters. As long as it's not allowed to transmit itself to the players then it means nothing.

If we ignore the hot air being produced from the same press corps which confidently predicted a landslide victory for Hillary Clinton and a Remain vote in the referrendum then perhaps we can get on with the job without sobbing and wetting ourselves.

We can't successfully predict the future in fact, but we can create it. To a great extent then, the actual outcome is in our hands and will remain there until it's happened. We can see that there are a few problems , but they must be quickly corrected as we go, ( that's part of it), and there remains plenty of time to do so successfully.

Looking coldly and objectively at all the factors at work we have the rescources and ability to finish around tenth at the end of that process and whether we do so is in the hands of Sir Neil and the chaps at the sharp end. I have confidence in their ability to do their job if they are allowed to do so without too much hysteria from supporters.

I can't help but mention Dunkirk and wonder how these pundits would have assessed our chances of ultimate success as we were having to evacuate 264000 of our boys off of French beaches in fishing boats and river going day boats. Fortunately , we were aware at that point that there was time to turn the situation round if we used our limited rescources and time effectively and put the matter into the hands of men who act rather than talk till the objective was secured.

Footnote : of course they reversed all that after the war and the venal self seeking political bullshitters took over and began the process of marginalising the sort of people who'd saved them , but that's another story and I mention it only because it's a subject that's cropped up in several other threads.

SirJimmy
With regard to your first post i assume it was 'tongue in cheek' in terms of Dyche being a huge man! You know of course that NW and SD are not in context and standing next to each other- its 2 photos stuck on a stadium backdrop! I certainly hope Dyche hasn't got a bonce almost twice the size of Warnocks otherwise we're all in for a freak show type spectacle on Sunday!