I seen the goals from last night, good solo effort from Hanlan but their defence looked far worse than ours for that goal. 2nd goal was really good from Nicholson as he was ready to pounce on a rebound off the keeper. 3rd goal was a free kick from Westbrooke which was obviously a cross but went straight in and the last goal was a very good header from Hare from a tight angle. Keeper probably should have done better but was still a good finish.
Following the match on live text, we seem to have had more attempts on goal today than in the last 2 league matches
Fleetwood currently 4up against Plymouth and Portsmouth 4 up against Crewe Doesn't make our result look so bad against Fleetwood
1-0 down and after 80 mins we haven’t managed a shot on target. Really really poor. Tisdale has his work cut out for him.
12 corners to their 2. their GK made 1 save in the 82nd minute we desperately need a striker now residing in the bottom 4 Why when we have up to 5 subs available do we wait until the 87th minute before we make changes I know PT has only just arrived but there doesn't seem to be a lot of improvement on BGs reign
I’ve said this from the start - we are light up top. We do not have enough goal threat as we don’t have enough strikers. That’s evident by having to put on Baldwin and Koiki - defenders - when we’re chasing the game. A toothless display and we got what we deserved - nothing.
Even 1st half but Swindon was poor and we looked poor as no creativity on the pitch. Then the 2nd half came and we went 4 at the back. Here is where it went wrong. We put a CB (Harries) in DM and put 2 DM's (Upson and Grant) in CM. No creativity whatsoever in those 3 - while having Westbrooke and Oztumer on the bench. Who ever idea was that deserves to be shot. Crazy decisions. We then wait until gone 70 minutes to bring on Westbrooke to give us some creativity as Swindon was there for the taking and never looked like winning. Then immediately after Westbrooke came on, Kilgour made a stupid foul and we were undone by a set piece which yet again showed our poor defending at set pieces. We looked a lot better once Westbrooke came on because we took Harries out of DM and Upson out of CM and had some creativity at last. Why on earth did we then put Baldwin on when 1-0 down with 5 minutes to and we were finally pushing Swindon. Yet again a crazy decision. And why not bring on Oztumer. Another crazy dumbass decision. No creativity on the pitch, our best creative players on the bench and some weird decision putting 3 players out of position and made some dumb decisions with the subs. We are allowed to make 5 subs now. Yet we only made 3 subs and 2 were defenders after being 1-0 down. Absolutely crazy stuff.
Spending £10 for each game at the moment, I rather give myself paper cuts between my fingers and toes with the money than pay to watch this. I think I will wait a few weeks now when Tis actually picks his line up. Have a good weekend everyone.
After seeing the line up tonight, no way am I spending money watching it. Here it is... please log in to view this image
I think it will be more like this... Literally defend all game long and be lucky to lose just the 3-0.
Err - where’s Hanlan? He’s not even in the squad. Please don’t say that we don’t have a single fit striker. I knew we were light up front but that’s absolutely ridiculous not having any strikers available 12 games into the season. FFS.
Injured. So yes.... no fit striker. Hence my joke of a formation, hence 90 mins of struggle, hence not throwing away £10 tonight to witness what will obviously happen. I soooooo hope im wrong but let be realistic here.
Because Upson is the more defensive option than Westbrooke. If we don't concede, we can't lose. That's the thought from the team selectors. But we as fans see it as if we don't score, we can't win. Is there any point playing Westbrooke when we have no front line to benefit from what Westbrooke can offer? Our best chance to score is set pieces and Westbrooke is our best set piece taker but our team selectors think Upson is Brazilian and is named Upsondiniho with his set pieces.
Wigan have been worse than us so they are there for the taking. We should win this if we go positive. However, Swindon have been worse than us, they were there for the taking but we went negative instead of positive and we were crap. So I can't see us doing anything tonight. Wigan has scored 9 goals all season and 1 player has 5 of them and he aint playing so we should be going for the kill but we chose Upson ahead of Westbrooke and no striker on the pitch.
Giles Barnes, Anthony Stokes, Craig Davies and a whole host of others are free agents and are strikers. Wael needs to get someone in pronto - this is farcical that we don’t have any strikers a quarter of the way through the season. How are we going to dig ourselves out of trouble with no strikers? Bonkers.
