BURNLEY boss Stan Ternent admitted his new-look side played towards its potential for only an hour of Saturday's opening 1-1 draw at Wycombe - but insisted the Clarets were still good value for a point.

Ternent said: "I felt we started off quite brightly for 15 or 20 minutes then we lost our way completely and I was glad to get in at half-time just one down.

"I changed it and then I changed it again and I thought we had them on the ropes in the second half and we could have won the game in the end.

"But overall we've played perhaps an hour of that match at the pitch we need to be playing at, so all-in-all I suppose it's a good point away from home.

"All-in-all there's plenty of room for improvement but it's a good point for us away from home.

"It continues our run and now we'll look forward to a cup match at Manchester City and then get back up to Turf and see if we can win our home games."

Andy Cooke's 69th-minute headed equaliser means Burnley have now gone 12 League games without defeat and followed Ternent's second tactical switch of the afternoon.

He threw on Andy Payton to join Cooke and Alan Lee up front and the combination of Payton and Cooke paid dividends to reward Burnley's 1,400 following.

"The support was absolutely fantastic and we gave them nothing to shout about in the first half and that's not fair," Ternent added. "But they stuck with us and I think the supporters have gone home reasonably happy, although perhaps a little disappointed we didn't win the match."

The Clarets chief gave starting debuts to Mitchell Thomas, Dean West and John Mullin but there was no place in the 16 for Tom Cowan. "He could well be playing the next match and someone else might be out but that's the way it is. They're tough decisions to make but I prefer to make those decisions than the ones I had last time up," Ternent explained.

"And as the season goes on we'll need the full squad, there's no question of doubt in my mind about that because it's a long, hard season."

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