Match Day Thread Hull City v Ipswich Town

But when he went off is when we conceded.

 

Who’s scored on his first 2 starts, and isn’t really an impact sub, but makes an impact when he starts. Workhorse? He lost the ball so many times and should have made better of a few situations. He’s not Championship level, even as a workhorse. Start with Destan and he’s more likely to nick a goal and give us a platform to build on. KJ is never doing that because he’s just not good enough. I don’t want the guy to fail, I would much rather he was flying, but he’s not, he’s pants.

 

Clearly Destan is better when he starts though.

 

KJ can press all day, but where did that get us? Nowhere, zero, zip, nada, he’s a striker, not a defender.

 

Exactly this.

 

Yes, because Philogene came on.

 

In this game? It was getting us into a strong position over 70 minutes. How did Destan go up top?

 

I think the problem last night was the ref didn’t allow the physical side of our game to come through at all. He was ready to blow for everything, starting with the nonsense between O’Shea and Joseph in the first couple of minutes. O’Shea backed into him, it went out for a GK so nothing would have been gained anyway but the ref still blew for a ‘foul’.

It really hampered us last night and you could see our players getting more and more frustrated. We defended the two goals poorly so ultimately it didn’t cost us the game, but it probably had an impact and didn’t allow us to perform or press as well as we did against Southampton and Leicester.

 

He can’t even control a ball properly, so don’t worry, he’s not going score.

 

We lost the game, and he wasted the ball so many times so how is that getting us into a strong position? Zero end product doesn’t equal getting into strong positions.

sales manager: you only got 2/20 this month, but don’t worry buddy, I know you really ****ed up a few potential sales, but I saw you harassing people and you nearly got those other 18 sales, keep up the good work.


Sorry Ennis, I know you got 20/20 sales for this month, but you know what, I don’t know how you did it because I never saw you once harass any customers, sorry, you’re not good enough, you’re off the sales team

 

I'm getting fed up of the Joseph conversation being about how he got us into good positions. If he wastes them it's pointless surely?

Were all desperate for him to do well I'm sure we are, but he just doesn't have the ability to pass, have a good touch, finish, or most importantly, have any striker's instinct whatsoever.

I just don't think you can coach those attributes either.

 

From my vantage point in West Stand Upper, it was a bloody awful game. Both teams turned over the ball so many times, no flowing moves, we looked tired, ref was awful, Kyle was awful, he panics, Slater was awful. It was just a really poor game with two low quality sides. The amount of times we won the ball in a good position and two seconds later we gave it back to them. The midfield was congested, we didn't have any control on the wings. Ref counting down Pandur really pissed me off, then at a throwing or a corner it's ok to take an age to get it back into play. Last night I did not enjoy. We've got some tough games ahead. Need something from Stoke or this could really turn into a freefall.

 

Almost agree but after the subs they looked good and we got worse.

 

We aren’t going to have to deal with the Joseph conversation much longer because he’s almost certainly off to the prem in just over a months time, so let’s just enjoy seeing him in a city shirt while we can and put the debate to bed for now shall we?

 

somebody said it last night, but when they are bringing on Philogene and Akpom and we are looking over at the first aid room hoping for good news , it sums it up. no shame in losing to them, we are starting to feel the pinch now, Geldhardt cant do it on his own, and not getitng overly involved in the Joseph debate but hes only going to get us so far.
im still annoyed about Hughes, we didnt concede from our usual open style or from a lucky deflection, i cant even explain it, wasnt even a fizzed in dangerous cross it was just lofted in, and as often happens the first goal in that types of games is the killer.

 

Slater awful? He was just about the only bright spot in midfield.

 

But some would tell you he's learning his craft.... HE'S HAD 180 GAMES!!!!!!

 

And another thing , again we are the worst throw in takers in the division !! We don’t mark the opposition , Ipswich had a routine for short throws that always freed up a spare man . We have weak throwers dropping it over the head of our player straight to the opposition . I just do not understand why we continue to do this and have for years - coaching !!!

 

And to think we apparently have a set piece coach....