It’s a shame it’s ended this way… (22 Viewers)
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Otis
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Onyeka would make a a big difference, I'm sure
It's not just a flick of switch either. Look how we fought and battled at Southampton. We were fabulous that day. Real passion and determination.
Oxford beat Ipswich, problem is our top players aren’t performing, rudoni, wright have been nowhere near where we need them to be and I’ve said as bad as the defence has been it’ll be goals that cost us, we’ve always defended like that we’ve stopped scoring, we’re missing that creative player, we Can’t break teams down like we used to, 3 shots on target says it all
Ccfcisparks
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What about my post is trolling?
It’s proving to have been more and more the right decision to sign him.
You came on this forum all nicey nicey “oh i’m just a lurker wasn’t brave enough to make my account” and clearly it is just someone’s alt
Marty
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Both MVE and Sargent were both due to sign for Wolfsburg weren't they? And they pulled the plug last minute for both. KKH like you say was an obvious succession signing, we should see a lot more of him next year as you would expect MVE to move on.
SeaSeeEffCee
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That was two months ago.
AFCCOVENTRY
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We’ve been on a downward trajectory for months. We clearly can’t battle.
Whether or not KKH was a “succession signing”, the reality is that he’s been totally misused this season.
Otis
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And?
What difference does that make? Just shows we can put a backs to the wall performance in when we need to.
Should have still had enough to beat Oxford but we need to be at our very best every game with our best players, we can’t afford to be without EMC and Asante, they’d of been the difference yesterday but it’s getting harder to find excuses now, we’re just not playing well and dont Look like changing,
Lord_Nampil
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Haven't we brought a midfielder in to do that ???
Otis
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Disagree.
We were excellent against Southampton. We beat Bristol City at home (both December), Swansea at home, Millwall at home and Leicester at home.
It has been a bit of a spiral, but let's not make out it's all been downward.
Last 6 home games...
4 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat. That's very decent form indeed.
It's the away form that's killed us
Otis
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Exactly.
Ccfcisparks
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Christ
It’s not that I don’t rate Bamford (I suggested we should sign him when he was training here), it’s that I don’t trust Lampard to not just muddle through the same tactics anyway. That’s what he’s done with almost every other signing we’ve made this season.
We can sign as many new players as we like but unless we make the necessary changes in terms of tactics then it makes no difference (see: the results since we signed Esse etc) That’s why I don’t buy this argument that not signing Bamford (or anyone else) is the turning point - the turning point is up to Lampard.
Apparently we didn’t need him yesterday after all though - could’ve fooled me.
CCFC96
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Agree with this - it's also a dreaded downward trajectory from 1st to 1st (aware the gap to 3rd has closed from 10-12 to 5 points).
People just need to keep their heads a bit here. I'm fine with moaning about Norwich/QPR because those are games that Lampard was tactically naive, but this style of meltdown because we just couldn't get the ball in the goal despite dominating 90 mins is ridiculous. Like many have said, if Boro don't win tomorrow and we beat them, it could be a 3/4 point gap to them with a much better goal difference.
Fine margins at this stage of the season.
SIR ERNIE
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Credit where due, that's a great post.
AFCCOVENTRY
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Away form has killed us for sure. That’s why we’re so reliant on home form now. We dropped 2 points at home yesterday. There’s no hiding that. We really needed maximum points yesterday.
skyblue025
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Jim
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Just rewatching through the highlights again and there’s a bunch of chances that we were putting away for fun earlier in the season. Could easily have been 2 or 3 nil. That chance skimming their keepers chest for instance.
Players definately need a spark of confidence to just go for shots, chances, through balls and not second guess themselves.
Ironically, I think the Boro match represents a chance for the players to lift themselves. Instead of us being the target team, now Boro will be that.
Win that game and it could springboard the team for the rest of the season.
Players definately need a spark of confidence to just go for shots, chances, through balls and not second guess themselves.
Ironically, I think the Boro match represents a chance for the players to lift themselves. Instead of us being the target team, now Boro will be that.
Win that game and it could springboard the team for the rest of the season.
We have really only just scraped over the line in most of those games though.
People claiming we haven’t got a striker crisis because Simms and Wright ‘scored’ against Leicester. Simms didn’t know anything about his goal and Wright’s was from 10 inches . It’s the manner of our decline that is the most disappointing, from flowing champagne football and lots of goals to a stuttering total lack of confidence. Mentally weak all round, especially those excuses for forwards. If they can’t get going again we’re doomed to an embarrassing slide.
Otis
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If we've won 4 out of the last 6 home games and only lost 1, by very definition that is not downward.
Ccfcisparks
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This would make sense if the last game wasn't against the second worst team in the league, home games only make up half of your fixtures and our away form hadnt been turgid since November.If we've won 4 out of the last 6 home games and only lost 1, by very definition that is not downward.
Otis
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We did. But it wasn't disastrous that we didn't. Hull lost at home. If Sheff Utd beat Boro on Monday, which is definitely possible, we will have gained a point on both of them.
Really frustrating though that we didn't bag all 3 yesterday
Otis
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Agree on the away form. The home form has been very good.
Just saying it's not all downward
fernandopartridge
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I really wish SBT would make its mind up, we were apparently second best against Millwall and Leicester yet won both games, we must have some ability to battle. Obviously can't battle. The win at Middlesbrough was just over two months ago.
Otis
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It's so funny to see things get stretched.
It was that we haven't been good for weeks, then it was a month, then 2 months and now it's "months".
Keep going and we will be back in League 2 soon
fernandopartridge
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Lots of history rewriting going on, there have been been a few posts hinting that we were lucky to win a lot of games early season.It's so funny to see things get stretched.
It was that we haven't been good for weeks, then it was a month, then 2 months and now it's "months".
Keep going and we will be back in League 2 soon
Grendel
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I suppose some we were but conversely we could easily have won some of the games we’ve lost on this run
SeaSeeEffCee
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We edged the Millwall game for the most part and deserved to win but should have probably been 2-1 if not for Rushworth. Leicester we were genuinely diabolical first half and should have been minimum 2-0 down if not 3. Lampard changed it at half time and we were by far the better team second half. Unfortunately he’s not done that in the three games that have followed those two wins.
clint van damme
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We've deserved everything we've got and everything we haven't got.
Our home form has been, and is, exceptional, our away form has been awful for 2 months and is the reason we've blown our lead.
Not sure anyone can argue anything to contradict that.
fernandopartridge
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It's almost as if that's just the game really