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Just as a point of order, the subs were made when we were drawing, not losing. We conceded the second goal two minutes after they came on. I think Bus will start the next game, remember he hasn't played a competitive game since December due to the winter break they have where he came from. Probably the best we can do for a couple of games is to give him about an hour. But who should we play him with? Currently I think Keane sounds like he is more of a threat than May, so maybe we need to try that combo and see if we can find one that works!!
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He is an aerial threat because he is 6"6. The opposition can't just leave him they have to put their big fellas onto him.
No they aren't all sitters, can think of 1 from the last time he started (Brum) which he should have got on target. Just because he was in the box it doesn't make them sitters. May misses twice as many sitters as Nuhiu (he missed an almost open net from literally 2 yards vs Brum) yet you don't get on at him do you?
There have been 5/6 managers this season comment on how good Nuhiu is at what he does, opposition defenders say how much of a handful he is and our player say they like playing with him. Does that mean that all these PROFESSIONALS WITHIN FOOTBALL are wrong just because a few who sit behind a computer screen (who only get to see highlights) say he is poor?
He is poor at heading but his link up play, hold up play and positioning are top notch. He would also run through brick walls for us and we play better with him in the team. Unless we get someone better in (and there are better before you jump at me and twist my words) he should be in the squad.
If Leicester can stay up then we should go for Chris Wood.
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Nuhiu is the best striker we have at the club and until we get someone in who is better and proves it, he should start. None of us have seen Bus play (other than the 30 mins other day) but he is hailed as the messiah?  give me fuc king strength!!
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As I said above, Bus is going to take time to first get fit and also just to settle. In the meantime Nuhiu is still our top scorer and Keane looks better than both him and May currently. Thurnscoe is right though, until we get someone better, Nuhiu should be in the squad if not the team. Over the course of the season I think May is probably the worst culprit at missing so called sitters, I remember two from tonights match. Who knows what Bus will turn out to be but he is worth a shot so that we can find out if he is any good.
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In a season of many black days, this was probably the blackest. Don't be fooled by Ipswich's lofty league position. This was a side who had picked up just one point out of nine in their last three against Rotherham, Brighton & Wigan and hadn't won at home this year yet we made them look like world beaters.
The starting line up was a bit of a surprise. It is pretty well accepted that Hutchinson can't play two games per week but he was included. We were told it would be a big risk to start McGugan but he was starting. Semedo didn't make it and Baker had returned to Chelsea. Presumably Jose not happy with the way his boy was treated.
Little surprise that SG went back to the rigid 442 that had failed in the first half against Cardiff (& so many other times) and little surprise also that it failed again. Don't be fooled by the score line. If Ipswich had won 5-0, it would have been a fairer reflection of their superiority & our ineptitude. This was far worse than Fulham, where we lost 4-0.
We gave the ball away straight from the kick off and it appeared there was little stomach for the fight. Why do the players go out with so little spirit or motivation?
Poor Ipswich finishing & Westwood kept us in the game yet right against the run of play, we scored. May challenged their keeper & he spilled the ball perfectly for Lee to tap home from 12 yards.
Maybe this would be the encouragement needed to step up our game? There was little sign of it as Ipswich controlled the game & had a number of near misses. Vermijl was lucky not to concede a penalty with a poor challenge. McGugan & Hutchinson were chasing shadows but we held on courtesy of the woodwork until half time.
Hutchinson, already booked in the first half, was doing his best to get sent off. Ipswich scored with pretty much a repeat of Cardiff's goal on Saturday. Vermijl gave the ball away & was out of position. Lees had to come across to cover. Dielna was left with the dilemma of filling Lees' gap or marking his man and while he hesitated, Murphy nipped in to head home.
Ipswich went close three times in quick succession with one header hitting the post & two other efforts just missing.
Hutchinson was replaced by Melo. We lacked any control or creativity. SG brought on Buxton for Vermijl and Nuhui for the limping McGugan.
Almost instantly, Buxton was caught out and Ipswich got a free ball into the box which was headed home firmly. The match was over at this point with our subs already used. May was consigned to the wing to accommodate Nuhui but it was just damage limitation as Ipswich piled on the pressure. We had isolated attempts. Keane had a shot blocked, Nuhui headed wide a half chance & Dielna curled a free kick over the bar.
Westwood - 8 - saved us from a real beating
Vermijl - 4 - destroyed
Lees - 6 - a beacon in a sea of mediocrity
Dielna - 5 - faced constant pressure
Mattock - 6 - average, which was better than most
Lee - 5 - scored but little else
Hutchinson - 5 - no influence
McGugan - 5 - not sharp enough
Helan - 5 - pretty quiet
May - 5 - worked hard, missed one half chance
Keane - 5 - rarely involved
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Melo - 5 - always on the back foot
Nuhui - 4 - one half chance
Buxton - 4 - way off the pace
Think SG has to accept that he got his tactics wrong. He continues with his rigid 442 and wonders why we start badly most weeks. When he gets more flexible, we do better but it is always back to 442 for the next match. As much as his substitutions were good on Saturday, they were poor last night. Melo for Hutch made sense but why bring on Nuhui just to play May as a winger when Bus needs game time. Also Buxton is well off match fitness & it cost us the match when Palmer was clearly a better option.
We are now 19 points off a promotion place and 9 points off a relegation place. If you split our season into five game chunks, we have got 8 - 8 - 4 - 8 - 9 - 2 points from each of them. We have been pretty consistent across the season until the last five matches, where we have had a serious down turn. Look at the league table & see what the effect would be of ten points to our league position. Add ten points and we move up two places. Deduct ten points and we drop twelve places. So whilst some may point to our tenth place, the truth is that we are far more likely to drop several places than rise several places. In fact, it is a freak that 39 points sits us tenth as at this stage in the last two seasons, it would have us placed 14th & 15th. In fact we are on target for 58 points, which is precisely what DJ got two seasons ago with inferior players.
A quick comparison with the same period of last season from when SG took over as manager to the 10th February shows:
2013/14 - P12 W6 D4 L2 F18 A7 Pts22
2014/15 - P11 W4 D3 L5 F9 A13 Pts15
The main difference is the goals. Last season, we had the Wickham factor but this season's loan signings are yet to have the same impact. While Derby signed Darren Bent, Jesse Lingard & Tom Ince, we have gone for more speculative signings.
Last season, we got 20 points from this time to the end of the season. If we do seven points worse over that period as well then we will finish on 52 points, a figure that would have relegated us two seasons ago.
I hope our season is over because the only alternative is a relegation battle. I do not think that will happen because Blackpool & Wigan are already tailed off so it only takes one of Millwall, Rotherham, Brighton & Charlton to perform averagely or worse for us to be safe. What we need to do now, is start preparing for next season. We need to start thinking about what team, formation & tactics we intend to use for next season & start getting the players used to that way of playing so we hit the floor running next season.
We have good players and if one of our strikers starts scoring then we could be promotion contenders. What SG needs is a little help. He is clearly a good coach but he needs to be given an Assistant or a Director of Football who can deal with tactics & formations because that is what is letting us down at the moment.
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Until the new owners are ratified and come out with there vision for the future then we will continue stumbling along. Maybe a Director of football will help our situation but at the minute all I hear is that SG is killing out players confidence. May onto the wing ffs when we had 2 players Mags and Palmer who could of played that role. SG doesn't seem to know what he is at. It's going to be tough going till the end of the season, we are devoid of any attacking flair. Out of those clubs you names MS I can only see Charlton doing worse than us and that's not a guarantee as they have attacking players. Cheers for the report.
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(11-02-2015, 12:52)Owlkev71 Wrote: "Nuhiu is the best striker we have at the club and until we get someone in who is better and proves it, he should start." 
That has to be the most disturbing sentence ever written on this forum
And I thought I was beginning to go stark raving bonkers. Thank goodness there's someone else out there that can see that a striker who doesn't score goals, is 10 feet tall and can't even head the ball, misses sitter after sitter is bloody useless.
As for May, yes he's missed a lot of sitters, but he's not been around S6 as long as Noopoo, so he can be given some more rope. Noopoo has used all his rope.
I agree with Imre that there was no reason to drop Palmer but bringing Buxton on was uncalled for. Buxton has been a good servant for us but he's had hgis day. He's yesterday's man. And as soon as he came on he made the blunder that cost us the goal.
The sooner SG goes the better and he should take Noopoo along with a number of other lower lights with him.
Thurnscoe, your comment that noopoo is best striker is about as sensible as your stupid signatures.
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Although May has missed quite a few, this is his first season down here, so I will give him a little slack.
Nuhiu is in his 2nd season and there hasn't been much difference from last season, he can hold the ball up  , but he cant head or shoot
I would like to see Bus start on Saturday, but I don't think SG will see it that way.
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