And I thought our performance against Birmingham was bad!!! First the excuses - the pitch was not great and it was very windy. Now the reality - we were outplayed by a mid Div 2 side. They had 12 shots (5 on target) to our 6 shots (2 on target) and 11 corners to our 1!! I lost count of the times we literally passed the ball to the opposition or passed it out of play. It was embarrassing! No-one comes out with any great credit. Jaakkola made a few good saves but his distribution painfully slow and awful! Barrow and Bacuna at least tried albeit not very successfully. And what was the idea in setting the side up with no striker? At… More →
It’s not the result. Leicester drew with Fleetwood. Stoke lost to Cov. It’s the manner of this result and recent results. Just shockingly poor and above all BORING! It feels worse than under Brendan (he had a transitional team full of kids) and Adkins (we were never so low in the league). It’s all becoming a bit desperate.....
Thought Omar looked brilliant. Other than that absolutely dire. Bacuna had a shocker. Kelly poor. Jaakkola slow and ponderous with every goal kick. Playing no strikers against a league 2 team :?: :?: :?: :?:
Omar was the stand out player, especially first half. Not quite as good as against Derby, but so much potential. How he's not played more is a complete mystery. Rest of the team really poor, but the set up and selection by Jaap was so negative. Jaakola was so slow and they completely had our passing out from the back sussed, so we had to go long, with two short wingers playing up front. Just didn't keep the ball all game, midfield completely invisible, apart from Kelly's inability to find a team mate with his passing. To his credit he did keep going and was marginally better as the game went on. So many players just look a shadow… More →
It wasn't just his goal kicks (many of which he kicked out of play!). When he had made a save and with Stevenage committed to attack, he failed to release the ball quickly to set up a counter attack.
Kelly was shockingly bad.
Yeah sorry, not just kicks. It was painful to watch and I can only assume he's been coached to take as long as possible with every distribution. The slowness permeates every member of the team though.
Agree with all of that but are you saying that the crowds reaction wasn't justified? You're playing no striker against a league 2 team and had 1 shot on target? it's not rocket since.
I'm done. Done with Stam Done with the players (barring Richards) Done with McShane being out captain.
Awful Boring Cold Disappointing Expected
Have to agree with previous comments regarding how poor this was. Yeah the fans did give some stick but why should players have to be treated with kid gloves to spare their wafer thin feelings. They are happy to take the plaudits with 30k+ supporting them at Wembley so when they can't be arsed to turn up for a game or three against the likes of Stevenage or Burton please spare me the sympaphy. And yes I am still going to Hull next week!
So over Xmas and New Year we've played... A team that were 20th at the time A team that were 23rd at the time A team that were bottom at the time And a League Two side P4 W0 D2 L2 Mental. I'm sure it doesn't help them, but the players surely cannot be too pissed off with getting stick from the fans.
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