Cos he's played a season in Brightons 21's. Played a season in Scotland, and he's not anywhere near playing a competitive championship game. But he cost **** all, and has potential. But that's all it is at this stage.
Pretty gutted by that result. This whole season has been such a tease; we look really good, don't get the result we should, and leave ourselves just out of reach as a result. Boro are a good side and played well, but around 65-70 minutes we seemed to have that game sewn up. They weren't getting a kick, we were just moving it around, taking no risks, tiring them out and we created a fair few chances doing that. As has happened so many times though, we threw it away from a position of comfort. Our finishing always seems to go off a cliff when we have a slender advantage at home. No amount of chances ever seems to be enough for us to go two up, but you can always guarantee that the opposition will find a cheap equaliser out of nowhere, and so it proved. Their second goal you were just waiting for the net to bulge, it seemed very similar to the Vardy goal a few weeks back, both times I was certain they'd score, yet when we get into similar positions I expect us to miss. Once that went in you pretty much knew it was over, just like when Stoke scored their first the other week. The belief drains out of the stadium because we've seen it too many times before. The players try to pick themselves up and go again but they probably know too. It takes us 10 chances to score and we know it. Ömür should've put us back in front, just as he should've put us 2-1 up at Leeds, but he's another neat and tidy, nice touch player who just doesn't get the ball in the net, like a lot of our team. We have too few players who can finish off moves, whether it's literally the finish or the final pass. Jaden can do it as he showed again today, even though his performance wasn't great on the whole. Ömür and a few others need to add that ruthlessness to their game like Jaden and Carvalho have got. Seri's goal was the kind of killer finish we're crying out for in our attack. Boro seemed delighted with their point for some reason, the absolute geeks. I was hoping it'd open up in the last few minutes with both sides going for it, but they seemed to want to kill the game off by that point, and then they celebrated their point at full time. Strange.
Jacob was even less experienced and he grabbed his opportunity with both hands. The discussion was about replacing him with someone rather than have him on the bench. Furlong is the obvious choice. I’ll leave you to ramble on for the next 5 pages about whatever though…
Boro celebrating when they have 10m more income and 20m more losses, we're losing 20m a year they're losing 30, year after year after year, not just the last 2. If you don't count sales. We were the better side on the night, taken the share of the points between home and away. But to be gutted not to double up those smoggy bastards with Gibson pumping the cash in, we're doing OK in the greater scheme Keep the faith. If it was a one season plan than it was ****ed to start with. Luckily the owners know that.
How the **** is he less experienced than furlong? Jacob won the 5th tier of mens English football As an academy player. Furlong was a defensive liability in Scotland.
Starting to add up when all of a sudden all these players who have done it at a high championship level before coming here are now all getting launched under the bus. Fact is the players signed where good enough and it doesn’t take a genius to understand where it falls down.
Who's getting launched under a bus exactly? Allsop obviously and a little unfairly overall recently but who else?
I think in the bigger picture you're right, but this season still feels like such a missed opportunity. We've been far better than 10th in this league in our performances across this season, yet that's where we find ourselves, whilst opposition fans routinely ask how we're not in the top 6. I think it's a big shame that we haven't got more to show from how good this team actually is. Even if it was a playoff defeat, that would've been an important step in the journey, like it was for Brentford, Brighton and Luton before they later went up. Being 10th feels like we're still a long way away, in league table terms, and we really shouldn't be based on our performances.
Not sure they're daggers yet. He's clearly done a job for us tonight not 100% But has he justified a 4m buy option yet? And that's the question mark.
Criticising Allsop is unfair? I'm going to assume I read that wrong. He's let loads of soft goals in.
I thought he was fairly poor in that half tonight. But he was carrying a knock, only really playing because of other injuries in his position, and he's been good on the whole. Not sure he's really been thrown under the bus though. Making an effort to go over and acknowledge their fans at the moment our season was basically written off was certainly a peculiar choice mind.
I haven't seen the game yet so can't comment too much but a bit surprised people are criticising Giles while playing injured while we've spent most of the season moaning that players like Connolly are too soft and not playing injured.
The bar is so much higher for him than anyone else. Almost every goal we concede seems to get blamed on him. It's not like he's spilling balls at strikers feet or letting it slip through his hands. He just gets beaten sometimes and people can't wait to blame him, just like people did with Marshall a few years back. He doesn't **** up half as much as our attacking players do in front of goal.
A lot of keepers do, but when someone gets a rep for it then every one is scrutinised more. Second against stoke hit a divot, the one against Cardiff was no more a mistake than their keeper on Fabio's first. Tonight he should have done better, but he gets microanalysed a lot in some fans, when we often score softer ones at the other end.
