Great point, good battling performance. Particularly impressed by McLoughlin and Smith, and Ingram was superb. He’s a better shot stopper than Baxter. We’re v lucky to have two excellent keepers.
Can't complain at a point. Currently we're toothless upfront so goals are at a premium but given our generosity in front of our own goal this season then a clean sheet is to be applauded. At times our close passing game looked good. In one word: promising.
If you can’t score, make sure you don’t concede. With the worst defence in the league, I welcome Rosy’s philosophy of making it hard for teams to break us down and score. Might not be pretty but the rate we were conceding goals was horrific and unsustainable. At least now, we look more organised and solid at the back. Attack obviously needs work but we’re playing central midfielders as wingers and are missing our best three forwards.
Ditto, spot on post. Whilst Ingram kept us in it with a few excellent saves, they didn’t score.....tough. We had chances to score & nick it, quality up top blatantly lacking. A nervy last 10/15 mins with subs to defend a point, but well defended as a team. Good point, away, against one of the top teams, would most def have taken that ahead of the game. Still buzzing like the proverbial ...... Well done also to the travelling support, safe journey back home.
Crawler Mrs Sumatran has already got dibs on my last penny. She does allow me some spending money though.
Rosie has managed us for four games, two of which have been clean sheets. That’s already twice as many as Arveladze managed. Good start.
The disappointing thing for me is that we went through that process of tightening the defence and becoming hard to beat last season and havent kicked on. Yes, we had three forwards missing, but we did make 16 signings. It was almost seasons team minus KLP.
Tetteh, Oscar, Allahyar, Traore, M'hand were unavailable. Christie, Figs, Tufan, Pelkas played. Sinik was in the squad. The Chelsea lads were cover for injuries at the end of the summer window when players were dropping like flies. The others were realistically signed for the 21's as prospects. It'll be interesting to see what the squad looks like after the walking wounded return and 2/3 tweaks in January.
Watford boss Slaven Bilic: "The first half wasn't good enough but in the second half we created more than enough chances to score but the finishing touch was lacking. "I remember three or four minimum of these massive chances that we missed. We are disappointed with the result, big time, and frustrated, but I'm very pleased with the way the guys played." On Senegal forward Ismaila Sarr not being available for the game: "Of course we are missing Sarr. If he was here yesterday he would play of course. He didn't come, he wasn't at training yesterday so he was out and I was totally concentrating on the game. "Is he expected back soon? Yes, of course. Sarr is a great player." Hull head coach Liam Rosenior told BBC Radio Humberside: "I'm really pleased. Watford are a very very good team, have been on a good run and have outstanding attacking players at this level. "We blocked shots, defended set-plays really well and created chances of our own. "I'm delighted with the attitude, discipline and energy of the players and was delighted with the reaction after the game because they were disappointed not to win. That's the kind of attitude I want at this club."
I think a big part of how Rosenior has stemmed the ride of goals conceded is by having us control the ball so much better. Under Arveladze every game was end-to-end chaos, we were never far away from conceding a goal. From what I've seen of us under Rosenior that's completely changed. I thought the Reading game was a really good, controlled performance but a freak defeat, and that's the only result in his four games that wasn't a big positive. Overall I really think the turnaround has been better than he's been given credit for so far.
Think the shackles-off post McCant and general feelgood post takeover might have seen Shota home last season, but his points per game were marginally better than grunt mcfuck. Shota obviously lost the dressing room when some bigger experienced egos came in. Around about West Brom the communication broke down. The Acun regime. It starts here.
Is it a coincidence that Macca is back in the team, we look much more assured coming out from the back? I guess the fact that Greaves by accident to some degree playing left back and has excelled there has opened up a spot for the left footer.
A really pleasing performance, in games before you always had the feeling we would concede at some point, but yesterday, even though we had a scare or two, I felt more confident whilst watching. We certainly looked better organised, and now Greaves is playing left back, this lends itself to Macca getting back in as the left-sided centre-back, and he is far better on the ball than Figgy. Yes, it was a disjointed first half, but with all the stoppages this was the main reason IMO, as Liam said we kept the ball well which meant they didn't have it so much. Second half even though both sides could and probably should have scored, I felt overall we shaded it, Christie had a really good shot saved, and Tufan had to hit the target a player of his quality. Nevertheless, it would have been hash on either side to have lost and a draw was a fair result IMO. I'm torn between Ingram and Seri for MOTM, I thought both were excellent, and Seri certainly is getting about better and tackling back. Though Christie/Jones/McLoughlin/Greaves were also all very good, Christie is a real player, and barring injuries I can't see Coyle getting his place back. No one had a bad game, so credit to all for the performance. Roll on Sunderland, they are doing okay, so won't be easy, but things are certainly looking up. Worth mentioning, losing Pelkas is a bit of a blow, arguably if he hadn't gotten injured we may well have got the win. Let's hope it's nothing serious.
