Thought Christie looked out of sorts again when he came on. Almost like he couldn’t get his legs moving.
According to HDM LR has said Tufan has 'some issues' outside of football, hence the early substitution last night.
Can’t believe some people are using stats to try reason about the result. You can bend stats whatever way you like, but at the end of the day we exhibited the same problems as the last handful of league games and I just don’t think that is justifiable.
Felt frustrated with the game last night, which was interesting as listening to Humberside, Rosie stated he thought (to paraphrase) the 'frustration' of fans and himself was a good thing as we are expecting much more, so I got it spot on. Everything that probably needs to be said has been said, yes we have players out of position / not quite good enough players as most teams have, started off fine then lost steam and credit to Pearson he adapted his tactics / gamelan - which I'd like to see us do or the players do or feel free to do. Result good enough, entertainment - frustrating...
We are clearly still a work in progress - we can argue about how quickly that progress is happening - but I am a bit bemused as to what formation Liam actually wants to play when he has his squad assembled. He seems to want to play 4-4-2 or 4-4-1-1 with 2 wide midfield players, which has left the midfield 2 of Seri and Slater looking overrun at times. And pretty much everyone agrees that,as we currently don't have any wingers except Lokilo who was injured, we're playing central midfield players Traore and Twine out of position. Liam himself in his RH interview last night said he wants to play Twine more centrally. But if he plays Twine as a central midfield 2 with Seri, we'll be even more overrun. And if we do bring in 2 wingers this week and he wants to play 4-4-2, I really hope they can carry out defensive duties as well as attack.
Wells was clearly offside and the touch from a Hull City player preceding him receiving the ball was a ricochet, not a deliberate action. So correctly ruled out but heart-stopping when Lino doesn’t raise his flag for ages.
It is starting to feel maybe 433 is going to be our go-to formation, with 2 wingers and Delap/Davis if front. But then you have Twine/Tufan/Traore/Slater/Seri all vying for the midfield 3 plus a defensive midfielder yet to arrive. Though 4411 might be an option, but like you, I am not sure what the plan is, hopefully LIam does.
He didn't seem to have a clue. The ref was staring him out for what seemed to be about 5 minutes - clearly the ref thought it was offside. I've seen VAR react more quickly
I think they were having a discussion about it. I thought all the officials were poor last night. Greaves got booked early for very little, then Bristol repeatedly got away with fouls, without a card, before the ref booked a forward for a fairly innocuous touch on Ingram.
