I think it was very odd when Rosenior brought Vaughan on and then also switched Coyle to his wrong side, and switched Twine. It meant Twine was far less effective, but also we were even weaker down our left than before. I think Vaughan has promise but isn’t up to it yet and needs a loan out. He was as weak as dishwater for their third. Christie ahead of Coyle on the right and leave Vaughan benched would have been the better option in my view, thus leaving Twine on the left. Frustrating game because what Rosie said was right - we were the better team by far for 60/minutes and the ref gave us nothing. Delap was constantly fouled but got perhaps one decision the whole game.
These 'risk reward' retorts (as in 'it's worth the risk') are an absolute load of bollocks! First off, we aren't scoring many goals at all. Second, we aren't really getting that many quality chances either. We have to largely rely on individual brilliance and errors from the opposition. Thirdly, we have no idea how many more chances we would create and goals we would score were we to stop ****ing about and instead play the ball more quickly and more directly (NO I'm not talking about aimlessly hoofing it). I'd hazard a wild guess that we'd create and score more. Instead we continue with unnecessary risk taking, which we saw return yesterday, which also happened to see us gift a goal to them, by putting our midfielders into a high risk situation where costly mistakes can & do happen. It's madness with the players we've got.
you dont even try to say anything useful you are even critical of somebody saying the pass to Seri was unnecessarily risky is your view that the pass to Seri was a good choice?
It think it was telling that Delap thought his best option was regularly to try to take on 3/4 defenders rather than look for an effective pass
OLM. at least call out the other 2 while you are at it. I appreciate the role moderators play, but come on, a moderator with such obvious bias and setting a great example with abuse just isn't right. The inputs of Syd & MO are equally repetitive (and with the added bonus of being generally wrong).
Enjoy the rest of your day arguing with people you don’t know on the internet, I’ve far better things to do.
you are still being ridiculous you imply you need to know somebody personally before you can discuss Hull City tactics with them
Have to admit I've not gone back through the last pages this week so sorry if this has already been mentioned but... The thing which frustrates me most is how completely ineffectual we are at set pieces but also at actually winning a header from a cross (if we get one) in the opposition's box. I remember shortly after he arrived LR saying what an important source of goals set pieces were in the Championship. But I now get the impression we are so focussed on scoring beautiful goals through passing through a team on the floor that we never even look like scoring from a setpiece or a header. It does feel a bit of the 'my way or the high way' school of coaching to me, but it severely limits the number of chances we create. I really like Delap but even he I have to say gives me the impression at times that he waits behind the centre half hoping he 'll miss a cross rather than actively challenging for it.
I’m just a poster, posting my opinion like everyone else, I’ve not done any moderating on this thread.
I stopped replying quite early in the piece because I recognised it wasn't worth it (around the time he pressed me for my view on conceding goals in Europa league games from 10 years ago). Perhaps you could similarly recognise that your vendetta against me is verging on an obsession. You can call me names and insist I've misinterpreted posts all you want if that's what gets your rocks off though.
I get frustrated that when the wingers get the ball in a bit of space, instead of crossing the ball, they run at the nearest defender then decide they dont want to risk losing the ball by trying to go past them and pass back to the full ,back or midfield player who in all likelihood was the player who passed to the winger in the first place if you watched MOTD last night you would see some fantastic crosses and headers I accept the players are of a different quality but they should be coached into crossing the ball earlier
what is your cut-off point relating to time on deciding whether conceding goals in the Europa League, or some other European competitions, is important or not? should West Ham have used the Europa Conference League last season to practice conceding silly goals?
True....If we counted the times we've got away with it by an hairsbreadth we'd need all fingers and toes to count them, but when Allsopp or Ingram play it long over the top, when the opposition push up, it seems to be a good out ball and gets an attack going....Odd that. Not sure why LR doesn't deploy this tactic more!!!! Not that I'd criticise LR that often.
Manchester City and Liverpool regularly play balls from goalkeeper to striker as well as playing the ball out from the back admittedly they have better players
Tune in again on Saturday, same batshit channel same batshit time, when old grievances can be brought up again. For variation we may even get the 'in a first even he agrees with me' guff. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
I wouldn't say 'early' but otherwise ok, fair point. 4 involved not just 1 that OLM picked on. OLM, ok you might have posted as 'just a poster' (if you say so) but you are a moderator still, so such bias and abuse isn't appropriate imo. Maybe have an alias for when posting as a poster) or vice versa
I don’t really give a **** what you think is appropriate, I’ll carry on doing exactly what I’ve been doing for the past twenty years, thanks.
