I know most on here think we’re shite, but we’re really not, don’t be too disheartened by today’s showing, we’re an hard team to play against, you were never going to get an abundance of scoring opportunities I warned you all mid week.
Funny how games affect your mood. I cba for anything now it was that drab.
On a side note, the phone in has hit new levels of shite this season. Clive fucks off to find and interview MR and leaves Oggy taking the calls. It’s painful to listen to him openly conversing on air with the producer in between calls
Game was there for the taking, poor crosses or taking a second to get a shot away in the final third cost us today. Thought Sheaf looked ok, gave some nice passes but got caught in possession a few times and we would have been punished by a decent team. Allen didn't do an awful lot and it's someone we need to replace if possible, someone with a big of pace would be nice, Godden didn't get a sniff all game. Hamer was good.
We need to be putting these teams away if we have any serious ambitions this season, I know a lot are happy with suriving, but I think we're a comfortably midtable side, couple of real quality signings in key areas, I think we'll mount a play off push.
Game was there for the taking, poor crosses or taking a second to get a shot away in the final third cost us today. Thought Sheaf looked ok, gave some nice passes but got caught in possession a few times and we would have been punished by a decent team. Allen didn't do an awful lot and it's someone we need to replace if possible, someone with a big of pace would be nice, Godden didn't get a sniff all game. Hamer was good.
We need to be putting these teams away if we have any serious ambitions this season, I know a lot are happy with suriving, but I think we're a comfortably midtable side, couple of real quality signings in key areas, I think we'll mount a play off push.
Funny how games affect your mood. I cba for anything now it was that drab.
In games like today, it’s a harsh assessment. He’s a striker that needs service and he didn’t have any. He made a run similar to the one made v QPR but Giles put a flat ball to the near post and he didn’t pick him up.
Ngl, too many people put their expectations too highly for this one, predicting us to score 3 or 4 goals when that is a very rare thing for us under MR. Despite their bad start, Barnsley will do alright this year.
At least someone scored todayOn the contrary just had a shag
We’ve sold our head coach for €2M according to sky sports
This season, what do you mean by ambitious exactly?
I agree we will mid table, but I do think Barnsley will be thereabouts too because they’re a good outfit. They lost to an inform Luton team and a Reading team that’s on fire after going down to 10 men.
With all due respect to the people predicting wild score lines, you set yourself up to let down today.
Clean sheet and a point on the road is a decent result. There are positives, and things to improve but overall, it’s a decent point.
We’ve sold our head coach for €2M according to sky sports
I explained it in the next sentence, bit of luck, couple of quality signings and we could mount a play off push. We're a quality AM away from unlocking that defence today, for me Allen isn't good enough, he works hard and plays some nice balls every now and then, but lacks any pace and doesn't ever take someone on, never stretches a defence.
I think we're probably going to have to agree to disagree. His movement was non-existant, when on the ball he was far too slow which led him to give it away quickly on a number of occasions, and his touch was off.
Blaming it on lack of service just isn't correct in my view. Giles put in several crosses for him to get on the end of, but he didn't make an attempt at getting on the end of them. Instead he was often found behind both Barnsley's CB's (both of which are around the 6"4 mark), when he should've been making diagonal runs towards the near post, and getting in front of the defenders. Good crosses are rendered useless if forwards refuse to make the correct runs.
My expectations weren't inflated. If you read my posts at the beginning of the thread I was one of the few that accepted this was going to be a very difficult game. That doesn't mean we can't criticise a player's performance if it was noticeably sub-par.
I explained it in the next sentence, bit of luck, couple of quality signings and we could mount a play off push. We're a quality AM away from unlocking that defence today, for me Allen isn't good enough, he works hard and plays some nice balls every now and then, but lacks any pace and doesn't ever take someone on, never stretches a defence.
At least someone scored today
Sure I heard him ask the first caller he took whether he was at the game today!!!On a side note, the phone in has hit new levels of shite this season. Clive fucks off to find and interview MR and leaves Oggy taking the calls. It’s painful to listen to him openly conversing on air with the producer in between calls
His yellow card was stupid though - but he’s a great player.
I didn't think Giles delivery was very good today. But the rest of his game was fine mostlyFair enough, there was at least the one cross where Gooden made a run and he wasn’t picked up and cross went nowhere near him. Less than 30% accuracy for cross (6/21) tells the story for me. In fairness to you, it can be a two way street. Their commentators did mention a few times that ‘it wasn’t a great cross from Giles’ and as for Dabo, I can’t remember a cross of his threatening - maybe one?
Our best chance of a goal all game looked like it would be from a corner, where we had the best chance of the game.
The comment about inflated expectations was a general comment in response to people saying we’d hammer Barnsley - which I thought was a bit hubristic. It wasn’t aimed at you if you weren’t one of those people.
Obviously it was a hard game against a side we couldn’t find a way to unlock.
Godden had bugger all service and Sheaf is no Shipley and I don’t get the wankfest over Hamer. He is a booking in waiting all the time. Dabo was not at his usual level.
Decent point that gets you up the table and keeps the relegation places in the distance.
Fair enough, there was at least the one cross where Gooden made a run and he wasn’t picked up and cross went nowhere near him. Less than 30% accuracy for cross (6/21) tells the story for me. In fairness to you, it can be a two way street. Their commentators did mention a few times that ‘it wasn’t a great cross from Giles’ and as for Dabo, I can’t remember a cross of his threatening - maybe one?
Our best chance of a goal all game looked like it would be from a corner, where we had the best chance of the game.
The comment about inflated expectations was a general comment in response to people saying we’d hammer Barnsley - which I thought was a bit hubristic. It wasn’t aimed at you if you weren’t one of those people.
and I don’t get the wankfest over Hamer. He is a booking in waiting all the time.
He’s clueless to make such a commentMaybe it's the fact he's three games into playing in a new country and league and most people can already see that he can comfortably receive and play the ball in very tight spaces, pick a pass long and short, is highly competitive and gets stuck in, is responsible for our new threat from set pieces.
It’s an opinion old fella. I have to read some of your shit and clueless comes to mind too.He’s clueless to make such a comment
Can you not see the level Hamer is at ?It’s an opinion old fella. I have to read some of your shit and clueless comes to mind too.
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