Match Day Thread Stoke v Hull City

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Glad the idiot is gone off here . Think we are playing some good stuff but we are weak in the box at both ends , Stoke are massive at the back and know they can muscle us off it . They like Sheff Utd are just sucking us in and breaking , they have two fast midfielders and a set of dirty players who the ref is letting be , Coyle should have been screaming at the ref not just holding his hand out .

You know what, nobody even appealed it. Any other team would have had 11 players surrounding the ref. Maybe they are 11 individuals rather than a team.
 
First half stats
Goals: 1-0

Shots: 7-7

On target: 2-0

Off-target: 3-6

Blocked shots: 2-1

Touches in the box: 7-8

Fouls: 8-4

Corners: 2-3

Possession: 37%-63%
 
Glad the idiot is gone off here . Think we are playing some good stuff but we are weak in the box at both ends , Stoke are massive at the back and know they can muscle us off it . They like Sheff Utd are just sucking us in and breaking , they have two fast midfielders and a set of dirty players who the ref is letting be , Coyle should have been screaming at the ref not just holding his hand out .


The championship is full of teams who will bully and out muscle us or however you want to put it. No fight and no one is prepared to fight for it. It's relegation unless a change is made.
 
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The more I see that goal the worse it is, Bedia and Mclaughlin have to attack the fkn ball
Maybe Gibson's forearm smash to Zamoras face from the first corner, which was common assault, put them off? ****ing referee, another homer so far, never saw it? Disgraceful, someone should have nobbled Gibson at the next corner, which even in a Sunday morning game on Picky Park would be expected. But they got away with it and they are bullying us all over the pitch. We are as soft as ****e, Coyle excluded.
 
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Glad the idiot is gone off here . Think we are playing some good stuff but we are weak in the box at both ends , Stoke are massive at the back and know they can muscle us off it . They like Sheff Utd are just sucking us in and breaking , they have two fast midfielders and a set of dirty players who the ref is letting be , Coyle should have been screaming at the ref not just holding his hand out .
This, when will we get in a referees face and tell him... last week should have been a red card too as I recall and what do we do. Put the ball down and play it quickly...
 
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Their goal shouldn't have stood. Their player was all over Pandur's shirt and pulls him to his knees as the corner comes in. He should have stayed down though, showed naivety. They should have a red too for that elbow to be honest.

That being said we still gifted them a couple of very good chances they should have buried.

Looking at the stats we're drawing or winning every single metric other than total dribbles, successful crosses, shots on target and obviously goals scored... Yet you look at the clear cut chances and they've had a few which we've put on a plate for them and we've had zero again.

We're looking better again I'd say, but the important part of the puzzle looks no closer to falling into place as of yet. How many touches has Bedia had? Will Ömur ever make a successful cross?

We need to get our efforts off quicker. Most of the efforts we give away are due to surging runs down the field, often thanks to a block that's fallen nicely for the opposition.
 
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A lot of the same old problems. Plenty of decent positions but absolutely nowhere near scoring a goal. Have we had a shot on target? I don't remember one. Final ball consistently terrible and as is so often the case, everything from the edge of the area is blasted twice the height of the goal - we really don't talk about this enough, we're ****ing abysmal at shooting from mid-range and we were last season too.

And then we concede the simplest goal you could think of. And yet it's a type of goal we absolutely never score ourselves.

To be fair, we haven't lacked fight which was my biggest concern before the game.

It's just that what we're doing isn't working at all.
All the quality left with the last seasons loan signings and billy jean and Delap