Match Day Thread Hull City v Middlesbrough

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I can't work out if you're being serious or not but presuming you are why don't you compare the squad like for like. The answer is in there. Its easy to be captain when your centre half is Jacob Greaves and you have the best attacking line up in the league.

Captains are supposed to be leaders of men. If you know anything about him he certainly ain't the man you want in front of you going into battle. Maybe he's brother but not him. Nice lad to send on community projects but on field captain, not a chance.

Of course it's about different squads - but your comment was "you know you are in trouble when Coyle is your Captain" which is a blanket criticism of the player in question. My point - as you have covered above - is that who is he captain of? I would argue he should remain club captain - but for me Jones should be on field captain. That said, and although he is going through probably his worst spell for us at the moment, Coyle still has a role to play both on and off the pitch - and I can't work out if your comment about community projects is serious or not either.
 
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You're right. Even under the big bad wolf from Germany we hardly ever looked like we were unable to compete. Norwich is the one game I remember, he got that totally wrong and played into their hands. In the majority of the rest we were in the game and it was an error or dumb piece of play that cost us.

The fact its still happening now under Selles shows that we have a group of players who are soft. When Coyle is your captain you know you're in trouble.
The guy in Costcutter in South Cave says Coyle is almost mouse like when he goes in there too...
 
Yep still his fault

was puerta and Drameh both injured?
Drameh was poor but why take puerta off unless he was injured.

also if we’re going to hold on and just good the ball why the **** didn’t the manager bring Burns on the last fifteen!???
Vaughn did quite well but it achieved **** all we weren’t going to score a goal

we definitely needed another centre back to bolster the defence
Point dropped

Puerta took a big kick to the face on about 35 minutes which looked quite nasty, might have just been a precaution.
 
The guy in Costcutter in South Cave says Coyle is almost mouse like when he goes in there too...
Oddly he's the same on the pitch, seldom gets at the officials like a niggly gobby captain should, questioning every decision and sowing doubt in their heads. :emoticon-0138-think


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
 
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Somebody should have been after that Barlaser after that to get him a red... unfortunately the only one who seems to have any spice was the one taken off...

We really need to be playing him and Alzate every game between now and the end of the season. A new number 6 to provide depth and a number 10 to be a creative spark is definitely needed.

I don't envy Jared Dublin this window.
 
Oddly he's the same on the pitch, seldom gets at the officials like a niggly gobby captain should, questioning every decision and sowing doubt in their heads. :emoticon-0138-think


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.

He just doesn't get pissed off enough for me. I understand that you need a calming influence, but you also need to be sticking up for your team mates and when Gus got the boot, the only ones who went to the ref I think were Pedro and Alzate.

There's a lot to be annoyed about on the pitch this season and it would be good to see Lewie shouting more and urging his team on, because that feeds into the crowd. A captain should act as the manager's lieutenant on the field, it shouldn't be the case that he just "lets them get on with it."
 
Puerta took a big kick to the face on about 35 minutes which looked quite nasty, might have just been a precaution.
Oh ok
And drameh??
For all the stick Coyle is getting he played ok at left back imho and as plt has said before can put a ball in with his left.
And I thought drameh was poor again!
So Coyle is the best left and right back at the club!!
Full backs don’t get you relegated
The centre of midfield however…
Do all the blowing smoke up the arse of slater puerta and alzate you want did they get into boro? No
 
He just doesn't get pissed off enough for me. I understand that you need a calming influence, but you also need to be sticking up for your team mates and when Gus got the boot, the only ones who went to the ref I think were Pedro and Alzate.

There's a lot to be annoyed about on the pitch this season and it would be good to see Lewie shouting more and urging his team on, because that feeds into the crowd. A captain should act as the manager's lieutenant on the field, it shouldn't be the case that he just "lets them get on with it."
As I said last night.... he was was 'seemingly' quick enough to stick up for Slater when TW gave him a blocking which might have been the start of his demise...
 
Oh ok
And drameh??
For all the stick Coyle is getting he played ok at left back imho and as plt has said before can put a ball in with his left.
And I thought drameh was poor again!
So Coyle is the best left and right back at the club!!
Full backs don’t get you relegated
The centre of midfield however…
Do all the blowing smoke up the arse of slater puerta and alzate you want did they get into boro? No

He played better than he did in the last few games but if that's the standard we're setting then we're ****ed.

Puerta did get stuck in, hence why he ended up with his head nearly getting kicked off. Alzate put his fair share of tackles in too, but the whole team ended up sitting back and it made it difficult to challenge.
 
We can talk about coyle being quiet in some shop all we want

But the fact is
We are in the relegation zone cause we are ****
Might become less **** with some good signings over next 4 weeks
Maybe
Maybe not
 
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Oh ok
And drameh??
For all the stick Coyle is getting he played ok at left back imho and as plt has said before can put a ball in with his left.
And I thought drameh was poor again!
So Coyle is the best left and right back at the club!!
Full backs don’t get you relegated
The centre of midfield however…
Do all the blowing smoke up the arse of slater puerta and alzate you want did they get into boro? No
Coyle is getting stick because his performances have dropped off a cliff. We know about Giles and Kamara, but for a Hull lad above anyone at the club he should know what a hole we are in and raise his game accordingly and be that leader. Seems his confidence is shot too. as you rightly said, I thought he did ok at LB last night but resorted to type at RB.
 
There you go again. Read my post. I literally said his biggest issue was that he failed to adapt tactically when he realised the players he had been lumbered with were appalling. If he was a tactical genius he would be still in a job as he would have done what selles has done and resorted to long balls and using donkeys to run around a lot in the middle of the park.

The way we lose matches under Selles and the way we lost under Tim are similar. One moment of weakness, softness, a mistake. And that is down to the majority of the group being out of their depth.

It's a pointless conversation but many of the points we dropped under Tim were by single goals or sloppy draws. The exact same thing Selles is finding. We don't have the mental toughness in our team to see games through. It's a huge issue.

Makes you wonder given that a large amount of the players getting slated for mistakes are the same ones in last seasons playoff pushing squad yet that one should’ve done better
 
He played better than he did in the last few games but if that's the standard we're setting then we're ****ed.

Puerta did get stuck in, hence why he ended up with his head nearly getting kicked off. Alzate put his fair share of tackles in too, but the whole team ended up sitting back and it made it difficult to challenge.
And it’s the midfields job to push up and drag the team forward
 
Makes you wonder given that a large amount of the players getting slated for mistakes are the same ones in last seasons playoff pushing squad yet that one should’ve done better
largely the same...we lost the scorers of something mad like 66 of the 68 goals we scored.....there's a consistency to the squad but the teams are incomparable