1 win in 9 league games and believes the Autos are possible, mind the gap When you say it gets easier now, you drew at home and failed to score against QPR third from bottom, and Stoke 20th If you don’t like it when we pop over with the “told you so” then don’t come over to our forum attempting to dish it out. A shame as most of your fans seem pretty decent.
Managed to listen to the second half on BBC Suffolk. They said it was Edmunson at fault for the second goal. Overall we should have won it. As they said on the commentary we were playing a well established championship team and we were their equal. Roll on Wednesday,. Does this seem like deja vu from last season? Almost like he is confirming things for himself ready to get the right line up and playing style.
I can vouch for this. I lived in West Yorkshire for a while and there are zero redeeming features to the towns and cities or the people there.
The fact that the Leeds United lot are here giving it the big’un about a potential promotion from the Championship when they claim to be rivals of Manchester United says it all.
Edmundson has done his bit, it’s back to Burgess now please. Whatever happens at the end of the season, we can hold our heads high and say we absolutely went for it. None of this cheating, punching the ball into the net nonsense. That behaviour should result in a red card and a ban in my eyes.
I’ve never understood why it isn’t a red card. For me, it’s the same as a defender stopping a goalscoring opportunity - you’re trying to benefit your team by 1 goal and it should result in the same punishment
We’re here to take the piss out of Spanish who was loving the wind ups and talking bollocks when you had a 10 point gap, without him you’d not have seen us.
An old boy worked for me years ago, sadly dead now. He was a Normandy veteran and while training in Scotland married a local girl. Her dad was Presbytarian and wouldn't get a paper on a Sunday. Tony pointed out that Monday's papers were printed and distributed on Sunday. The poor old fella stopped buying the Monday paper.
Taking the piss, what is there to take the piss out of, we are 4th after coming up from league 1 and are only 3 pts behind the mighty Leeds and have a game in hand. I would have happily taken that at the start of the season, so nothing to take the piss out of, we are continuing to move forward. So water off a ducks back, I actually pity you
Is it me, for most recent games, whenever our subs come on, we pick up the pace and movement look more threatening and create many more opportuniies, and show much more fight. I think he has an abundance of exciting talent up front and agree that he is deciding which 4 to start with and which players to sub, once they have all seen and played the system a few times. And Broadie is complicating things by finding his form! And there are several on here that wish he would play 2 up front! But it is the defense that keeps on leaking silly goals that needs sorting out. However, it was a great game, exciting and we totally dominated the 2nd half.
Mixed bag yesterday, but an entertaining game and taking a real reflection we absolutely battered WBA at the end. If you'd have told me we'd have been the dominating team against a 5th placed WBA even last season I'd have have been so impressed with how we'd done. I think on the whole this season our CBs have been outstanding despite the number of goals we concede, today particularly Woolfenden made a real bad one. Though again sorry to keep picking on Clarke but his positioning for that was awful, Woolfenden constantly has to get him out of trouble unfortunately this time he dealt with it very poorly. I thought on the ball particularly first half Clarke was poor also. The second goal I'm not sure really why Edmunson was trying a pass like that but also Harness seems to always lose the ball anytime his back is to goal. I'm not sure what it is because I think Edmundson has been pretty good since coming in for Burgess but we look far more open as a team with him in it, not sure if it's because Edmundson is faster than Burgess so we play a higher line or also because he's right footed so plays more balls into the centre which if we lose it we are more exposed. Whatever it is teams are starting to realise the game we play and when they get the ball back break in numbers. I thought quite a few of our key players were slightly under par many have been for a while, not bad but just lacking the levels we saw earlier in the season Luongo wasn't his industrious self, Chaplin has missed quite a few chances which last season he would've buried, Burns wasn't direct enough (although he did have 3 men alot of the time on him). I thought again Broadhead looked short of confidence, although he improved after scoring, hopefully that will do him the world of good. However saying all this we were up against probably the best defensive side in the league and we caused them problems. I thought with Moore in the team we looked far better with the ball than we have since we lost Hirst. They are slightly different players, I think Moore holds the ball up better and potentially also better in and around the penalty box but Hirst is more dynamic, mobile and better on the turn. What they both do though is occupy defenders and offer us an outball which creates more space for others, gives us more options and prevents us from overpassing. The biggest positive from today is what I saw the last 15/20 minutes, we have some real firepower now. We were so dominant and relentless at the end I can't see many teams being able to deal with an onslaught like how WBA did, they were out on their feet. As long as players stay fit we've got some great options up top and it's good to see what that means Mckenna looks like he's happy to just go for it. We had 2 strikers on the pitch and only 1 defensive pivot in midfield. That is really encouraging. Southampton and Leeds have gained about 15 points on us over what has been a difficult couple of months. We've had those more challenging fixtures now and getting the team up to strength so really need to kick on now over the next month and a half if we want to make a fist out of the autos.
Quite right Hampy, and I see that Leicester got another penalty against lowly Watford, thats 11 pens, Leeds with 7 to our 1 this season. We cant buy a pen! Is it prem relegated clubs or something?
If you continue to move forward at the rate of your last 10 games you'll find yourselves moving forward in league 4.
Too much of the same play today. Opposition managers have figured out that if you play a good defensive line against us, we'll struggle to score. Earlier in the season, teams would come out and push forward and we'd play through them. Now, they sit back a bit and hit us on the break, with many of our goals against recently coming from counter attacks. Kieran used to make 3 subs on the 60 minute mark pretty consistently last season and in the early part of this one. It gave us more energy for a longer period of time and late goals were common. The subs were made too late today and although we scored from the subs, it was towards the end of the match and we didn't have enough time to get another. Overall it was a frustrating game to watch. Too many aimless balls ended up going out, gifting possession back to WBA and it felt like there wasn't enough urgency in our drive and desire to attack quickly until late on. We need to start faster, put more effort in earlier in the game and hopefully get a lead so that we can back off a touch. Woolfy should've took a yellow card but just doesn't tackle! I'm getting to the point where I'd like to see Walton brought back in, he commands the box far better than Hladky. So far it seems like Walton suited League One and Vas has done well in the Championship, being comfortable playing out from the back, but he just lacks the presence of Christian when it comes to dominating the area. Personally, I think the subs today should've been Broadhead for Al-Hamadi and Omari for Burns. Harness isn't good enough and Ali has said that he used to play the 10 role before being moved to striker. It's just not going right for us at the moment and it kind of feels like McK is overthinking things a bit. Let's get back to making subs on the hour, our mantra before was for the front four to run themselves into the ground for 60 minutes and then get swapped out. Lately we haven't been doing that and we just haven't had enough energy on the pitch for the last half hour to really tire teams out and force mistakes. Burgess has to come back in, he never misses a defensive header and Woolfy needs to tackle when he has to but also step up and bring the ball into midfield like he did in League One. I've noticed that he isn't carrying the ball and creating an extra body on attack the way he did last season. RB is still a problem area, Clarke is decent going forward but clueless on defense positioning and teams are having success against us down that side. All told though, it's been a fantastic season so far but it feels like it could be a bit better with a few different decisions (from the refs and the manager)
Yup, that is true, and to be honest we've been extremely reserved with him. It's fine to be a wind up merchant, but you have a) To be good at it b) Be able to take it c) Not leave yourself so exposed to attack
