Match Day Thread Hull City v Blackburn Rovers

[Drew]

Akintola has been very poor

His signing has puzzled me.

Far too early to write him off of course but considering we are working under a wage restriction and out wide we have other options now I’m not sure he was necessary - and his record doesn’t really suggest he’s going to be any better than Kamara.

Feels like a signing to get bigger earners off our books.

 

[Kalman II]

Not at all impressed with Jaks decision making today. For several reasons.
Egan with Hughes or Ayaji, no problem Egan with McCarthy no chance. And he didn't change it. Felt sure he'd change things at HT but didn't materially. Surely Williams should have been on early. Lundstram decent but midfield totally overrun.

Who else was he supposed to bring on in the second half at centre-back? Ashbee? Behave.

 

[John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.]

It will be interesting to see what the gaffer says, looked to me as if there were a number suffering from this bug. Nevertheless, credit to Blackburn who looked good, Cantwell ran the show.

 

[SydneyTiger14]

And BUMP.

Whoever thinks McCarthy is any good is kidding themselves.

Thin squad.

Some will carry on believing.

FFS he's 18, give him a break. No one is saying he's the finished article.

 

[Amin Arrears]

Probably not the result we wanted, but perhaps the result we needed.

New centre halves essential. And stop Kamara leaving.

 

[Off The Line]

His replacement has been worse but he was pretty bad. Not sure what you're getting at though, I thought he looked good the first two games.

In that case, why single him out? There were plenty more deserving.

 

[TinpotTiger]

Some silly buggers said we’d won the window... A lot of naive decisions made in making a squad able to fight in a gruelling championship season again. Getting £3m for jones was ok. Not sure that 500k for Macca is looking very smart.

 

[SydneyTiger14]

In that case, why single him out? There were plenty more deserving.

Because he'd just been subbed off..?

I'd also already mentioned Pandur who was poor.

Typically if a player goes off having not done well people comment on it. I noticed people had similar comments of Palmer although I wasn't online at the time to also join in. Hope that's ok!

 

[Deano's Volley]

Hopefully slater doesn’t start another game for us, he’s absolutely dog ****. No one had a good game but he still stood out as the weak link. We’re so much weaker when he’s in the team.

 

[pierredelafranchesca]

Thought Drameh, Ndala and McBurnie were alright. I thought Joseph looked okay when he came on. The rest were poor.

Ndala started well but kept trying to do too much and lost ball a lotx similar with McBurnie for me, too many flick one and lay offs just not to feet. Poor day all round

 

[John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.]

And BUMP.

Whoever thinks McCarthy is any good is kidding themselves.

Thin squad.

Some will carry on believing.

McCarthy is yet to physically develop, he just looked not strong enough to cope with men's football. I might have been inclined to play Williams there, much more experienced and physically developed.

 

[SydneyTiger14]

Ndala started well but kept trying to do too much and lost ball a lotx similar with McBurnie for me, too many flick one and lay offs just not to feet. Poor day all round

Yeah everyone seemed to start reasonably well but just fell off a cliff.

 

[pierredelafranchesca]

Probably not the result we wanted, but perhaps the result we needed.

New centre halves essential. And stop Kamara leaving.

We can't sign players unless others leave

 

[Off The Line]

Because he'd just been subbed off..?

I'd also already mentioned Pandur who was poor.

Typically if a player goes off having not done well people comment on it. I noticed people had similar comments of Palmer although I wasn't online at the time to also join in. Hope that's ok!

Fair. I still thought he was one of our better players though. AND you did suggest earlier in the thread that you were yet to be impressed with him and were surprised that people would put him ahead of Akintola, but, hey ho.

 

[pierredelafranchesca]

Yeah everyone seemed to start reasonably well but just fell off a cliff.

2nd goal killed us, ref makes a call like that and you concede from it and mentally it does for you

 

[jhe10]

Bad as it has been, we've still created something pretty much every time we've got into the last 3rd, so I'm hopeful for the second half. Belloumi on before too long, Gelhardt to 10, Palmer dropping back, sorted.

Sorry, I misspelt pessimistic.

 

[SydneyTiger14]

Fair. I still thought he was one of our better players though. AND you did suggest earlier in the thread that you were yet to be impressed with him and were surprised that people would put him ahead of Akintola, but, hey ho.

Care to quote me saying I've yet to be impressed? Believe I said that I was yet to be convinced he was better than Kamara, and that thinking he had as much potential as Philogene was a bit much, but perhaps I've misremembered what I said.

 

[Blaknamberblood]

It'll be interesting to hear what Serj thought of that, cant blame him for picking McCarthy, he's looked OK in his cameos so far but today the gane was too big for him, only criticism would be not changing that cb pairing sooner, get Lundstram in there but then you lose the only outlet we had, hobsons choice really.

 

[djsowtz]

You know what guys.Really **** day at the office, but……

we still have more points than Blackburn

 

[oozkan]

Well it is good that we won last week in last minute, otherwise it would be a disastrous start again.