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Match Day Thread Hull City v Bristol City

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Chazz Rheinhold, Aug 6, 2024.

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  1. Walter Sobchak

    Walter Sobchak Well-Known Member

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    Maybe Tim should be telling them then. Rather than making McLoughlin the fulcrum of the entire team acting like he’s prime Beckenbaur.
     
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  2. petersaxton

    petersaxton Well-Known Member

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    Giles is in the team for his attacking qualities
    not his defensive qualities
     
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  3. Walter Sobchak

    Walter Sobchak Well-Known Member

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    Giles is actually worse defensively and for all his skill cant actually put a decent cross in.
     
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  4. bradymk2

    bradymk2 Well-Known Member

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    Except giles is a **** winger
    And wont play ahead of millar

    So giles either replaces jacob
    Or we sell
     
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  5. NewcastleTiger

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    Jones didn’t do that did he? Maybe McLoughlin is trying too hard because he’s due to be replaced
     
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  6. Walter Sobchak

    Walter Sobchak Well-Known Member

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    Cant argue with that, didnt realise he was playing till he went off.
     
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  7. Jim the Tiger

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    Because trying to make a pass 30 yards away is probably a 60/40 chance of getting there. A longer punt for an aerial challenge is probably 50/50 at best depending on the heights of the players involved.

    As I've explained earlier possession based football starting at the back is now the preferred method of most coaches as it ensures a greater control over the ball. This is countered by a press and depending on the effectiveness of the press you may need to go backwards to open it up and play through it whilst maintaining possession and in turn maintaining control of the game.

    You won't even see teams in Ferribys league going long now. Its literally just red/black or odds/even style punting.
     
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  8. Kalman II

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    Me thinking he’s a National League player is closer to the truth than the ‘dickwad’ (early 2000s American high school bully called and wants his insult back btw) who suggested he was a ‘revelation’ last season.
     
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  9. petersaxton

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    we have to get away from having one player in each position
    we need two at least
     
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  10. GLP

    GLP Well-Known Member

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    0 out of 10. Try harder.
     
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  11. Saigont

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    Is Jacob someway off being a top quality Championship FB? – yes.

    Looking at what we paid for Millar, etc - £4M for Giles seems way over market value. I would be content if we accepted a £4m offer from Middlesbrough – providing we have a good replacement (which I suspect we will).

    Hence come September I would not expect either player to be getting much game time.
     
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  12. bradymk2

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    Giles is a very expensive backup
     
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  13. tigerrev

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    We did, but we still gave the ball away cheaply on a number of occasions and a better team will take full advantage and give us that 3/4-0 tonking if we continue to do that
     
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  14. NewcastleTiger

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    They’re only going to get better at it though, they won’t get worse. We lost the ball in the middle third predominantly and defended the transitions very well. Of course we’d concede sometimes but considering the quality level we are at, we did very very well.
     
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  15. petersaxton

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    so why do we kick the ball a few yards, get put under pressure and eventually kick the ball into touch or wildly upfield?
    we did plenty of 30 yard or more passes today which were controlled by one of our players
    if you are marked move so the ball can be put to where you are moving to
     
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  16. Tony Angelino

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    On what I saw today and I appreciate it’s early and Tim hasn’t got a decent squad yet but Walter ball isn’t much more exciting than Rosieball. Jacob is gash, Giles is gash on the LW, he hasn’t got the ability to go past anyone other than on the overlap. He needs to be either lb or in a Boro shirt.

    still early doors though
     
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  17. petersaxton

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    he can play at left back or left wing
    most teams going for promotion to the Premier League have to spend money
     
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  18. WSTiger

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    There were some mistakes from McLoughlin but at least he tried to make something happen, much of the time there was not outlet though.
     
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  19. Charon

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    notwithstanding some poor play on occasions by our back four, I thought they were hung out to dry a bit by our midfield - both Seri and Morton would drop deep to provide an outlet if the back line was being pressed - not sure I saw that from Slater, Simmons, Giles. Mehlem, maybe Mehlem and Slater are supposed to be attacking but certainly Simmons and Giles didn't really do what they were supposed to so invariably it kept being passed around at the back because there was no outlet or it was hoofed into nowhere in particular - something Walter needs to sort out
     
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  20. Newland Tiger

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    So they do it in training but can't do it in a game ?

    Walter looked like he was going ballistic at times on the sideline
     
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