06-02-2016, 19:45
(06-02-2016, 19:09)tidy Wrote:(06-02-2016, 18:55)Ska Wrote: Desperately poor from start to finish. An Irvine-era performance. Questions need asking and improvements need making.
I'm not sure it's actually possible to improve when Pulis is picking the team. It's been dire, defensive crap for weeks.
But previously, we have proven ourselves capable of playing better football (though not brilliant by any stretch of the imagination, and not really often enough for my liking either), so it clearly is possible. However, the last few weeks have been awful with no redeeming aspects whatsoever to our play; our injuries probably don't help matters, but Pulis does have to take direct responsibility for the constant overwhelming negativity of our performances. Today we still looked like we were playing for a 0-0 draw when we were already 1-0 down. As I said: it's not good enough, and it needs to change.
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