15-08-2022, 12:11
(This post was last modified: 15-08-2022, 12:14 by Salopbaggie.)
(14-08-2022, 18:14)Slick_Footwork Wrote: And there we have it.
2 points from 3 games...
How to analyse this performance? Well, we're miles off being a good side. So many none performers today.
Grant was absolutely appalling. Swift terrible. The central midfield duo happy to just tip tap around. Full backs absolutely dreadful...
But how long until we have to start questioning Bruce?
He brings Wallace to the club, who is clearly a crosser rather than someone with a creative pass and gets rid of Carroll and plays Grant on his own up top for 100 minutes...
He could at least throw on Bartley for the last 10 surely. But no, let's bring Adam Reach on instead...
No idea what position Robbo was playing when he came on...
And as for Phillips coming on at right back, is TGH really that bad?
The likes of Reach and Phillips are the players we should've been looking to get off the wage bill. But instead Mowatt goes?
Our best player sat on the bench watching that dross for 60 minutes... Bet he's really glad he turned down Galatasary and Champions League football now...
It's difficult to be critical after the Watford performance, but like I said in my last post, we saw this last season. Performing excellent to beat Fulham and then losing to Blues without laying a glove on them.
I just don't see what our identity is. We don't ever seem to to try and win away from home. Just seem to turn up waiting for the opposition to score...
We're miles off, with no money, and a manager who will not know a good player as long as he's got a hole up his arse... Just buys individuals with no idea of how they will fit into a system...
We should win the next few, but who knows what to expect from this team.
Some of your comments surprise me slick, but of course we are all entitled to our opinion and that is what make these forums interesting. We have been the better team in all three of our games so far, but its scoring that brings home the bacon and that is where we a lacking.
I did think some of your points a touch contradictory, Such as "Our best player sat on the bench watching that dross for 60 minutes" (which is probably a fitness issue, more than a tactical one). Then you say "a manager who will not know a good player as long as he's got a hole up his arse... Just buys individuals with no idea of how they will fit into a system."
I am also a little surprised at the criticism of Wallace, I certainly don't see him as just "a crosser of the ball", I suppose it is about your definition of a cross and a pass. To me a cross is putting the ball in a dangerous area and hoping for the best. A pass is when a player puts the ball exactly where they intend to for a team mate. Wallace is putting the ball exactly where he intends to, if the player at the other end does not know what to do with it that is not Wallace's fault.