For Sean Dyche it was his first ever league game in charge and when Mark Yeates scored their second goal he must have been convinced he was heading back to Hertfordshire with all three points.
It wasn't to be and Dyche said after the game: "Overall I was pleased, the only disappointment was to give away two soft goals.
"But the reality is Burnley is a tough place to come. They have a very experienced squad and very talented players and they are another team who will be fancied to be up there this season. To come and take a point is pleasing but we do demand of our players to win and the idea was to come here to win."
Dyche added: "Burnley are a good side and they moved the ball well and we didn't move it as well as we hoped but we kept our shape well and were dogged. I thought the back four were excellent and the keeper, they calmed things down for us.
"We didn't play as well as we can using the ball but that will come, we had four players out there playing their first game for the club. They are learning and gelling.
"Big Chris (Iwelumo) played but he is not as fit as he would like to be because he missed a bit of pre-season. But he gave a good account of himself, Yeates nicked a goal, Craig Forsyth nicked a goal - so it was very positive from our point of view."
I'm sure Eddie Howe could hardly believe we were 2-0 down and facing defeat but he was clearly pleased with the late comeback.
"In the end it was a really good fight back," he said. "At 2-0 down with 20 minutes to go it was always going to be difficult, but Keith Treacy came on and gave us real impetus and the lads kept fighting for each other and we were really pleased with the point.
"In the first half we passed and moved the ball really well and created chances, then on the stroke of half time we found ourselves 1-0 down, which was a huge disappointment.
"Then we went 2-0 down and again we didn't feel we'd done too much wrong, but we kept going and got our rewards in the end."
It was Treacy who got the all important second goal and Howe said of his latest signing: "On today's display hopefully Keith will be a huge acquisition for us. He's got talent in abundance, he can go by players and he has two really good feet.
"When he scored with the header I even said to Jason (Tindall) 'I didn't know he had that in his locker!' But it was a great finish from him and in the end it's just a shame the game couldn't go on longer."