Burnley: Fan View - 'It's not a blip, Clarets are in crisis'

Burnley's week ended with more questions than answers.

A point at Wrexham was followed by defeat at Swansea City and the Clarets find themselves rooted to the bottom of the Championship.

This is no longer a "blip" at the start of the season. Burnley are in a full blown crisis.

To be fair, they showed promise at Wrexham and Nicky Hayen took positives from the performance, saying the team were becoming more confident and comfortable.

His message was straightforward: Burnley need one win to restore belief. He also said new arrivals would bring fresh energy without the lingering burden of last season.

But what the Clarets' faithful are quickly learning is that what Hayen says and what happens on the pitch rarely match up. As was precisely the case at Swansea.

What little optimism the Burnley fans had tried to harvest quickly disappeared. The hosts won comfortably, exposing mistakes that undermined our better spells.

Football is decided in both boxes, and right now, that is where Burnley are coming up alarmingly short. The chances at one end are not being taken often enough and the mistakes and soft moments at the other end are being punished.

Max Weiss symbolises so many recruitment errors we have made this summer. He had relatively little to do at Wrexham, but made serious mistakes at Swansea to gift the hosts a goal.

I am sorry to say we simply can't afford to give a young goalkeeper time when the results are this poor.

Could he be doing more to stop the deluge of goals, or is he persistently exposed by the defending in front of him?

Kyle Walker brings experience and pedigree to the side, but has been largely a passenger, strolling casually up the pitch for Swansea's third. I would be happy if that was the last game he played in Claret and Blue.

Hayen is identifying individual errors and the tendency to surrender momentum at crucial moments as decisive faults. But the more pressing question is whether he is the man to lead Burnley out of this horrendous patch.

I don't want us to be a sacking club. I don't want a high turnover of managers. But I also don't want to be in League One. And that feels exactly where we are heading.

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