by RoyallyFcuked »
02 Nov 2014 23:15
Back from the stream? Your telling me there was a stream for this game?
Sadly we made the trip for another episode of disappointment. Disappointing from Adkins, the changes made to line up were just wrong. HRK instead of Cox? Not starting Mackie an even stranger choice.
Blackburn were the better side until they scored, after that when we eventually levelled the score we deserved it. I was actually optimistic at the start of the second half but the next goal was important and they got it. From where I was it didnt look it like it should have been free kick so I felt a bit robbed (might need to see it again), thought the ref had a dire game tbh. He made a ridculous decision to book Obita for basically backing Rhodes into the corner and also memorably gave them a free kick for foul almost exactly the same as one he had let them get away with moments earlier. Seemed like a lot of the 50 50s were going against us, but I'm not using that as an excuse.
Federici was ok, made one quality double save (looked like he made up for a bad connection to the initial effort), but didnt make it easy for himself for their free kick goal. Obita and Gunter wernt too bad although still think Gunter shouldnt be captain, but the positive in defence was Cooper. I would go as far to say start him with Hector next game. A lack of experience without Pearce I know but as we can see from him and Gunter, experience doesnt seem to mean much.
In midfield Blackman was probably our best player, seems to have the confidence the run at players now which is he actually decent at. There usually wasnt any decent passing options at the end of his run though, we are clueless in the final third. We just end up going backwards or passing it sidewards. On the rare occasions our players got into positions to shoot they didnt seem to want to.
I thought Akpan had a decent game, Norwood has some good ideas but some of his attempts to pull them off were poor. Didnt notice Taylor that much but he did have one good attempt in the first half at 1-0, a half volley that he caught nicely that was well saved.
Murray was alright again but looks better with Cox next to him, (probably starting to get frustrated with this team) HRK didnt offer much and noticeably didnt seem to want to win any headers. Williams looked decent when he came on, will be good to have him an McCleary back. Should see us create a bit more. There was still some hoofball going on sadly, in fact its looking like many of the problems that were present under McDermott are still there, like the lack of creativity and cutting edge in the final third which I reckon has basically been missing since Sigurdsson left.
