To be fair Shrewsbury played very well. At times it looked as though they had more players on the field then us. They snuffed out our midfield and were in the faces of Honeyman, Smallwood and Docherty all game. They played the pressing game very well and slowed the game down when they needed too. A very professional performance by them and the new manager bounce was evident. If they have a game midweek they will struggle because those players put in two performances in one today and will be dead on their feet tonight. City started well for five or ten minutes and it looked a home win was a foregone conclusion which is when it probably went wrong. Too many casual passes backwards, then sloppy in midfield resulting in nothing clean cut up front and some players taking their foot off the gas and relying on others. Cotterill had us worked out, he knew he had to stifle Honeyman, close our fullbacks down and give us no time to play out of defence. We looked to have a lot of tired players out there today. But surely we knew this league was never going to be walk over, didn't we ?
A rest? Players used to play more games on far worse pitches with opponents free to kick lumps out of them with no protection from the referees.
Same old, same old. Grants three in the middle put under pressure by four in the opposition. Tired legs in a few players maybe but still three against four. Grant refuses to acknowledge when the system fails to work. He never changes it when it’s not working. He proved he was no good in the Championship when you need managerial nous. What’s changed , nothing, even if he got promoted who would want him managing them in the Championship anyway.
If your talking about past Hull City teams that's probably why the only silverware in our trophy cabinet for 100 years was the Div 3 North title 48/49, runners up Div 3 59/60, Div 3 winners 65/66 and the Sunday Mirror Giant Killers Cup.
Just heard McCann on Mudbank with David Burns but bizarrely the signal seems to be cut over by some Farming Digest prog with John Tondure chatting to some beswick
Onwards to the away game at Blackpool.Today's performance wasn't pretty,a chance to put that right on Tuesday night but a real shame we're not allowed in!!!
We were out thought, outplayed and out enthused today. Deserved nothing. Poor decision making on and off the pitch and a confusing team selection. If we have been sussed at this level (repetitive tactics), it could be a long winter. Hope it's a blip, all teams have them, but theres a definite lack of quality in midfield and in attack which is a major cause for concern. Blackpool away will tell us a lot about this teams character.
Didn't see today's game but it was clearly very poor. Like many others on here. I think the manager should have gone at the end of last season. But he didn't, and to suggest he should go now as many are doing on Humberside doesn't make any sense to me, even if I am also anxious every time we lose a game that this will be the start of a slump and he won't know how to arrest it. For the moment, prepared to hope we can bounce back as we have after previous defeats this season. But if he plays Adelakun again ahead of KLP and tells Burnsy he's doing really well for us, I'll lose patience again.
No, I was talking about the likes of George Best who, at the same as age as KLP, played 59 games in the season Man .utd won the League, on mudheaps like those at Derby and Leeds, having lumps kicked off them by Harris, Smith, Hunter etc...And a host of others who were playing similar amounts of games in those conditions.
The games gone soft mate. Jimmy Hill started the rot highlighting on telly when a penalty or a goal should be allowed or not. Now its an epidemic, lose the ball and you fall down. As Linekar would say 'force the ref into making a decision' Call me old fashioned but what happened to playing to the spirit of the game ? But its too late now, the horse has bolted, the games in the knackers yard.
You got half the score correctly which all the experts, saying Shrewsbury would score nil whilst we romped to a 3, 4, or 5 nil victory didn't
And I bet you would rather have had his life for a while. I think he was still KLL's age when he bit European Player Of The Year. We have had players who we have said were young and not to be rushed who were older than Best was when he retired before they broke through.
From the hdm Tom Eaves (for Smallwood 62): At least kept the linesman honest with plenty of flag work to do. Glanced a header wide. 5/10
