I wonder with Cannon if people were just so happy to be rid of Kakay they stopped to question if the guy was any good or not. Pretty **** today IMO and hasn’t been up to much after a promising start.
Not able to go or follow today so just read this thread. Good to hear we played well but we've had that before and still lost those games too which only has one outcome. Looks like League 1 is pretty much where we will end up. The question then becomes as to whether we will do an Ispwich or a Reading?
The team out there is our strongest is good enough to stay up & can beat anyone on our day, think it’s just a mental block with our players & just coping with it
Beggars belief! You criticise Colback and I get that he's the latest whipping boy, but not Armstrong, who should have had a hat trick at least. I thought Colback was very good first half, doing "unnoticed" stuff very well. Amazing how we all see things differently. I really rate JCS, but I thought he was absolutely terrible today, giving the ball away over and over again and clumsily fouling. Chris Martin? He's less mobile than Dykes! At least we all agree on Smyth and I can only think he's not a good trainer being the reason he's not starting every game.
Agree Strolls. If he’s off at the end of the season then let Smyth start and just use Willock as in impact sub. Though he made very little impact from the bit I saw today.
I could only catch snippets of the Sky coverage. Obviously I need to book myself into an asylum, but I think we'll stay up. Marti has us playing well and I think he'll get the confidence flowing soon.
Am I the only one that thought Begovic should have done better with the first goal? He seemed to be badly positioned and was very slow to get across his goal.
Yeah, defenders must hate playing against his pace and strength, but he's just not very good at football. He could have won the game for us. Based on what else we have available (bugger all) I'd persist with him up top, though. Dykes is better in the slightly withdrawn role, too. At least we have a bit of a goal threat with this set up.
You might well do Beth, if you continue playing as today which you deserved more from. Looking at the teams close to the bottom any one of them could escape with a two or three match winning run - hope you make it.
I thought the same at the time mate, but after watching it back I think the deflection off of Colback made it unsavable.
Sorry, there wasn't. It was the second goal mate. They were so similar I got them mixed up. Yes, Begovic should've done better with the first one. It seems to me that he's too busy promoting his goalkeeping school and selling his merchandise rather than concentrating on keeping goal for us.
Gutted about the result today, we deserved so much more. Armstrong was a real handful for them. Granted he missed a couple of opportunities but saying that, not one other player has the pace or power to make those scenarios happen to start with. Chair and cannon were both poor. Colback started alright but I always get the feeling that he would prefer to get sent off than play 90 mins. I'm still convinced Marti will keep us up and it's still a million times better than under Ainsworth
