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Post by fca47 on Jan 14, 2023 18:17:35 GMT
3 - Only because of the better second half. Pity it was too late, the damage was done.
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Post by worcesterstokie on Jan 15, 2023 10:55:42 GMT
7 I was there Switched Baker further forward at half time which worked well Deserved a draw today for sure but that's football Feel more optimistic after that second half than I have for ages and ages Same again next week and we will bear Reading
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Post by worcesterstokie on Jan 15, 2023 10:59:32 GMT
7 I was there Switched Baker further forward at half time which worked well Deserved a draw today for sure but that's football Feel more optimistic after that second half than I have for ages and ages Same again next week and we will bear Reading Was there. Thought our second effort was better than seen in several weeks but honestly effort is sort of a given basic. Too many players under performing and in wrong positions but with the squad we have no real alternate solutions. Our set play of free kicks and corners is awful. Ultimately whatever the general failings we simply don’t look like scoring enough. If we have to sell Soutar to start again so be it
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Post by lordb on Jan 15, 2023 11:13:32 GMT
Really interested to hear that. I thought the second half was as problematic as the first in a different way but perhaps you saw the bigger picture. Hope you are right. Its ridiculous reading this every week. That performance was void of any real quality what so ever. You are buying into the idea that running around makes things ok. Sheffiel didnt have to get out of second gear to score 3. Even on paper our team wreaks of desperation, and for efforts sake I dont really think Baker is trying. I dont think he was very good, and I dont think many of them were good at all. We are absolutely heading in one direction and play that way against reading and we will loose 2 nil. we never looked like scoring today and again we scored a lucky goal at best. Nope Second half we dominated, ball was in their half, we put them under pressure with good play on the edge of their box, crosses went in and so on Baker was back to his best second half All 3 of the midfield went from abysmal first half to very good second half, which is why we dominated that half Blades had two attacks on the break, the home crowd was nervous Another day that finishes 2.2 The Stoke fans present were in mutinous mood at half time and to a man clapped the side off at Full Time
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Post by independent on Jan 15, 2023 11:19:09 GMT
Let's get 20 points as quick as we can, especially from the teams around us. Then hopefully,AN can buy the players he wants in the Summer.
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Post by leicspotter on Jan 16, 2023 18:59:16 GMT
We lost to the better team, which isn't saying a great deal as Sheffield were pretty poor.
After 7 years we still don't have the 'balance' in the side / squad to allow us to get the best from what we have. This then means we play with 5 at the back just, it seems, so we can get Tymon on the pitch, 'cos he can't play LB or LW. It's madness, and repeating the same madness every week is beyond ludicrous. Tymon is one of our better players but that cannot justify creating our entire system around him.
This all points back to our not have a cohesive plan, from the top, to ensure that recruitment is planned to create the right type of squad...instead we sack a manager (MON) virtually at the end of a transfer window lumbering the new man with the old ones players...no other business would / could sustain itself being run that way.
That doesn't excuse AN setting up the way he did, or playing Gayle in midfield when he came on (wtf!) or being slow to change things in the second half or indeed the team being so awful for 40 plus minutes at the start. Our somewhat 'lucky' goal changed the complexion of the game and Sheff U were panicking...we failed to capitalise on that. a draw would have flattered us...but it was there for the taking
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Post by superpotter on Jan 16, 2023 19:44:30 GMT
0 Picking Laurent (league 1 player at best) Playing Wilmot on the right Not having Tezgel or DWP on bench
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