I think the players do contribute to an extent....nah fuck it you may be right they don't hardly contribute at all
One could argue we’ve never had the squad/resources to. Having gone out and spent big on strikers as well as bringing in far more attacking wing-backs, that no longer applies.
In the first half, definitely. We were unlucky. In the second half, we didn't create much. Lots of passing just outside the box without the final ball.
We’ve always played a conservative game. Even when winning L1 at a canter we dominated the ball but mostly won by the odd goal and generally only the lone striker gets a significant number of goals.
Almost like we’re missing a progressive midfielder.
Agree with much of this but Wright looks very rapid to me. There have been a number of occasions when he has shown this including the first time he touched the ball yesterday and against Leicester when he hit the bar and when he set Godden up for a goal (Watford match?). I can't think of a forward since Callum Wilson as quick. Simms I think is deceptive, a bit like Gyokrres, but only over a distance and seems very slow to react.
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He occasionally looks quite fast over the first 5-10 yards but then doesn't seem to be able to sustain the speed. Not sure if this is down to stamina or something else. Never looks like getting away from his defender.
He's not a good player when you compare him to Hamer, O'hare, Gyokeres and Sheaf.
However, this season compared to Eccles, Kelly, Wright, and Simms, he looks excellent.
Shfwf.
Been mulling this over (not the Q of re-appointing him, more the general scenario). Badlan came in with a track record of focussing on European scouting for a team at a higher level. We now have Dean Austin (who seems to have spent just 4 of the last 20 years focussing on recruitment!) and Jamie Johnson who has been working at lower-league clubs since 2016. The question is how much prior knowledge either of them had about some of our signings. Not bashing them by any means, just a bit of a head-scratcher.
Bit of a caveat: I suppose there wasn’t really an expectation for the relaxation of Brexit recruitment laws (I’m paraphrasing).
He has got to be one of the highest paid in the club. You expect a better performance from a senior manager in an organisation than an apprentice
Of course his fee is relevant
That shot he took on Saturday was league one standard at best, he’s got a long way to go before he reaches any kind of justifiable standard.
I agree it's relevant, I just think obsessing about and bringing it up all the time is pointless. It's also counter-productive because it's probably piling pressure on the player that isn't helping his performances. The deal is done, let's let him just play and see what he can bring to the table.
Tonight is the night Haji announces himself as a big player for us, he has to be making a impact against these
This is the moment where Haji Wright stands up and says - if you need someone who can score against a makeshift Rotherham defence, I am your man, and it will only cost you £7 million
I guess you weren’t around that season Mowbray lost most his best players and then we sacked him
A lot of you bedwetters will look silly if/when our team start to play well consistently. Every year we see these threads appear and every year most of you end up looking incredibly stupid
The reason Mowbray went IMHO was he insistance on waiting for players in the transfer market who were only going to come as a last resort and ended up with better deals leaving us no time to get players in to improve things.
Who was that defender that he was chasing all window? I can picture him but can't recall the name.
Think there was a few... Kevin Long from Burnley, Kelvin Wilson who was an absolute crock and then we ended up desperately scrambling round to sign a random Finnish crock Juhani Ojala or something.
Kelvin Wilson! thats the one, I could really picture him.
Ironically binned us off for Rotherham! dodged a bullet there as he only managed 8 games for them. I do remember that one rumbling on for ages
What’s your issue with the last one exactly?
we got great money for those we sold, and have spent more than we have in 20 years.
Should have brought hadji wright on in second half.
Oh wait a minute…
Oh wait a minute…
It’s a good thing we’re relatively irrelevant in the grand scheme of things because no-one outside of Cov seems to have realised that we’ve actually spent £8m on this clown. Would be the laughing stock of the league at a bigger club.
Clarissa Dickson Wright might even be a better bet. And she's dead.
