No it isn;t!! Burton, Coventry, Sunderland and Peterboro plus one more. If we get a full house out of that lot, then we deserve promotion. I feel Charlton are the dark horses. Anyhow, I am not going to get stressed and Will enjoy what unfolds. As for Sunderland, I wonder if your players just got very, very nervous!! Perhaps 4th is the best position from which to make that final run for the automatics. I feel Pompey and Charlton are relatively free of nerves and piling the pressure on. Barnsley conquered theirs today.
Ross sounds pretty pissed at Baldwin and Flanagan, he usually steers away from criticism of individuals but not this time. I'd chuck Dunne in again, he doesn't look any better to me but he's bigger and he's a fresh pair of legs. I think Ozturk is ****e but maybe he would have done better today. Could be the case that Flanwin can be coached on what they did wrong today and do better next time. Learning what a short pass is would be a good start.
The back four have been ****e all season, and Ross spends a wasted £4m on Grigg when 2 good centre backs would have promoted us. I reckon Big sam is needed.
Tough run that mate, but suddenly all the games look tough. I don’t suppose any of us expected 4 teams so ****ing strong all season, I can’t recall it happening. Charlton are a real ****ing threat to whoever misses out as well they are absolutely motoring. Bowyer isn’t getting a 10th of the credit he deserves for that, utterly magnificent job he’s doing I can see him going a long, long way as a gaffer.
For me Honeyman left 09 well exposed in the 1st half, kept having a jolly cutting into the centre. We were 2 on 1loads on our right, everyone got dragged out the middle and Leadboots was no where in the centre to cover.
The 3 main attackers they had were full of pace, and it just showed how we are challenged by the immobility at the back. Sloppy, sloppy goals. Positive again though, Wyke was top class, am I right in thinking he was involved in all 4 goals? Deffo 3 of them. Finding his feet.
I'm now torn with our starting 11. Think we will revert back to the 433 but on current form would start with Wyke up front instead of Grigg. Need defensive cover again and just hope McGeady and Cattermole are good for the run in.
Coventry looked a handful yesterday and we need a plan B to combat speedy forwards. It could be as simple as playing with a sweeper, or having three at the back, or a designated midfield player staying closer to the back four, who knows, but our coaching staff seem as lost as Flanwin were yesterday, but just to lay blame on the players is not the answer.
Dangerous weren't they and their finishing was way above the standard we've faced for most of the season, don't think McLaughlin had a chance to save any of them. Earlier in the season I went to a couple of games and I think Wyke won one header if that, yesterday he won everything. He looks a different player just a shame him and Grigg haven't clicked yet. Maybe he'd be better partnered with Sterling, more pace to run onto flick ons.
Grigg is scoring regular though, so it’s a conundrum. Seems people aren’t satisfied with him but he’s scoring and the whole team is averaging almost double the goals per game since he came in. It’s a strange one, cos I kind of getting where people are about him, but I also see he’s doing what he does. Bit of a funny one.
Centre backs badly exposed by the centre midfield. We simply can't play with 2 Centre mids if Leadbitter is one of them he simply can't run. Power tried to combat midfield runners but also simply couldn't cope with it. A lack of pace throughout the whole team cost us yesterday defence simply had to drop deeper as we couldn't chase them in behind which left gap in front of them big enough to drive a cruise liner through. I don't think cattermole would have coped much better as he is also slow. Shipping 5 has been coming all season for me we always concede chances. The only difference yesterday was Coventry finished them all well. McLaughlin had no chance with any of them. Burton could have had 4 or 5 on Tuesday night but their finishing was poor. It's still in our hands though. Yes we've made it a hell of a lot more difficult in the last 2 games but if you had offered me this scenario at the start of the season I'd have definitely taken it.
I’ve been having a look at clips of that Miazga fella on Heftys advice and he looks ideal if we go up for me. Him and Pinnock would be ****ing ideal. Then we’d need a couple CM and we’d be pretty solid I think.
Highlights on Quest from ~42 minutes in https://www.questod.co.uk/show/efl-on-quest/video/efl-on-quest-130419/EHD_224122C
Could it be Flamagan n Baldwin are deliberately f*cking it up knowing they wouldnt be coming with us? They wont get a chance to play somewhere with the facilities SAFC have so quite happy to be league 1 and keeping us back.
