Couldn’t hear them at all from where I stand in N3.
Acoustics init I suppose.
Match Day Thread Hull City v Millwall
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Acoustics init I suppose.
Some tubby lard sh!t from last century?Thankfully I have no idea what Old Faithful sounds like. Never heard it in my life
I think buying Gelhardt to play number 10 is absolute insanity. He’s not going to get any better there and that 4 just doesn’t work. We need a couple of midfielders too link it all together.
He’s the 6th top scorer in the league, it’d be insanity not to buy him if the price is right.
I’d rather have him in our squad not someone else’s regardless where he is played
No issues with buying him, but buying him to play in the 10 is stupid. I'd face the fact that Gelhardt and Belloumi are alternate options, not players to have on the pitch at the same time.
My grandson was having a run through Anlaby, he could hear noise from the match there - reckoned the first roar from the crowd that he heard stopped him in his tracks with a 'wtf was that' moment.
Maybe but you cross that bridge when you come to it. In a 46 game season you need as many good forward options as possibly and Joffy being flexible is a huge plus
Rover will sing it to you if you ask him nicelyThankfully I have no idea what Old Faithful sounds like. Never heard it in my life
Thankfully I have no idea what Old Faithful sounds like. Never heard it in my life
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Midfield crap once again Gelhardt and Slater not cutting it When we do get going we look dangerous.
Yes thats what we should do play Belloumi for 45 min and Gelhardt for 45. Let them both give there all for 45 mins. Put someone else in the 10 spot (what ever that is supposed to be).
My Boro mate messaged me that we had ****ed up last night!
Oh dear!
In fact - Ohhhh ****ing Dear.
Oh dear!
In fact - Ohhhh ****ing Dear.
Hull and Millwall draw tense first leg to leave playoff semi-final in the balance
Aaron Bower
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It was the city of Hull where Millwall’s dreams of the top flight last came true all the way back in 1988. Kevin O’Callaghan’s penalty at the old Boothferry Park a mile across town was enough to ensure a 1-0 victory and promotion to the First Division. So with Hull the opponents again and the stakes at their highest, this felt like something of an omen.
But in the end, the events in East Yorkshire this time around nearly 40 years on from one of their greatest triumphs will ultimately be consigned to a footnote in this tie. All the drama and the headlines will instead unfold in south London on Monday evening after a first leg that was littered with tension, but shy of genuine moments that could decide the promotion fortunes of these teams.
Not that Millwall will mind that at all. They head back down the M1 with a valuable draw and their Premier League dreams still very much alive after navigating a tricky and boisterous evening in Hull. Chances were few and far between on the opening night of the EFL playoffs, but a goalless draw probably felt just about right as tension and low-risk football took control.
It felt like an evening where almost all the playoff cliches you can muster felt appropriate. Take it to the second leg with the tie still alive, and so on and so forth. Even Hull will be content, given they have won at Millwall once this season and would themselves have wanted to not be behind at half-time in the tie.
It’s commonplace to ask at the midway point who will be more satisfied with the scoreline. Ordinarily you would assume the away team, if they have not been beaten, but Alex Neil cut a frustrated figure post-match. “I thought we were the better side,” he said. “I’m probably not satisfied if I’m being honest, we wanted to take a lead back on the basis of us being better in general.
“But if you’d said to me we’d have one game at home to get to a playoff final and it was all square, I’d have taken it.”
Neil was just as annoyed about the game’s one big moment, when Ryan Leonard bundled the ball into the Hull goal with three minutes remaining, a moment that looked as though it had made Millwall odds-on for Wembley later this month. However, Tristan Crama was adjudged to have pulled Charlie Hughes down as the cross came in.
“I thought it was really soft; both lads were at it,” Neil said. That was one of two noteworthy moments in the game, with the other coming almost two hours earlier at the other end courtesy of Hull.
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Hull’s Oli McBurnie and Millwall defender Ryan Leonard compete for the ball. Photograph: Greig Cowie/Shutterstock
They were not at their swashbuckling best, a level they may have to find if things get tough at the Den on Monday evening. But they almost took an early lead when Mohamed Belloumi’s shot hit one of Anthony Patterson’s posts at the end of a wonderful run. It looked as if it would set the tone for a thrilling game after two minutes, but things quickly became tense.
Unsurprisingly, Hull’s manager was content with the tie being level. “I expected a game like this,” Sergej Jakirovic said. “It was big battle all over the pitch. I think we had the best chance through Mo, I thought it was going to be a goal. In the end, a draw. I think it’s a fair result but it’s half-time
Only in the final 20 minutes, when both managers made changes, did things really liven up, and it will have given both food for thought. Yu Hirakawa had a positive impact for Hull, almost providing the perfect pass for Oli McBurnie to turn home.
McBurnie, incidentally, had a quiet evening: they don’t happen too often these days, so expect him to be in menacing mood in the second leg.
At the other end, the introduction of Barry Bannan gave Millwall a noticeable lift and he may well come into Neil’s thoughts for a start on Monday as the stakes ramp up even higher.
Thirty-eight years ago they were led to the top flight by their veteran midfield captain, Les Briley. Bannan, at 36, may yet have a similarly talismanic role left to play in this story.
But after on a cagey evening in East Yorkshire, don’t be too surprised if it needs more than another 90 minutes to separate them. This one could go all the way.
This, apart from I don’t think I’d trust Lunny in there. He’s more of a liability than anything else with his lack of mobility and engine. Such a shame Amir is crocked. McNair would be my option for the defensive solidity if nothing else. Crooks plays his best football at number 10 and will help Mcbeasty with the physical battle against their horrible centre backs
Great stuff
Loudest we’ve been at home for a long long time I thought
Which will be why I couldn’t hear the south cockneys
2020VisionofLeeds
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Tha picture Leanord challenging Mcburnie shows you everything you need to know how Millwall play. How’s that not a foul? There’s been a lot of noise about their goal as well, which was a blatent foul. We need a stronger ref second leg.