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This is not a team capable of winning the play-offs

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Beverley_Tiger_998, Jan 31, 2012.

  1. Beverley_Tiger_998

    Beverley_Tiger_998 Active Member

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    I am very disappointed of late, not particularly by the performance but the lack of ambition. I don't really buy too heavily into the no money thing either, we have players on the books we could have looked to load off in exchange. We haven't.

    You have to score goals in this division to go up and we only have two players in the team who stand a chance of surpassing the 10 goals a season mark.

    Take Fryatt and Korren out the picture and we have only scored ten goals in the rest of the team, two of the players have since left the team. (Barmby, Waghorn).

    The option is certainly not to take Fryatt out the team, he is the only one actually capable of scoring. Whatever is going on with him I hope we can sort it out. but with Mclean racking up a measly four goals and the rest of the midfield beside Korren getting four goals we really are not scoring enough. Not to mention the back four chipping in with a steady 0.

    Out defense is solid, it's what has got us where we are. But this style of football was the legacy of Nigel Pearson and with his impact wearing off on the field I fear that we can't go on like this.

    All that said, we should have looked to bring goals in in January. It was foolish not to. I think we will make play-offs but we are going to do a Watford and get turned over when it really matters because quite simply we don't have the impact to go out there and do the business when it really matters.


    Start Josh King next match up top with Fryatt, Tell the team to go out there and score goals, give Rosy a licence to roam and attack the game.



    Edit : can someone tell me if we have scored a single goal all season from a corner? we may as well just hoof the ball back to our goalkeeper and start again because we are ****ing pussy cats with set peices.
     
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  2. Horsham_Tiger

    Horsham_Tiger Well-Known Member

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  3. Beverley_Tiger_998

    Beverley_Tiger_998 Active Member

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    Doesn't believe in himself, don't need another confidence free striker with the first touch of a giraffe.
     
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  4. hullborn

    hullborn Well-Known Member

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    If we could just score from set pieces... all the corners we had today and we never even came close... very poor.
     
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  5. BigotAlertAnalRimMan

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    we can't keep adding strikers until we find one that will score a hat trick on his debut and shut you all up. we have a good team bond, if adebola goes or simpson then yeh but we can't have king, mclean, adebola, fryatt, simpson and ask for more...
     
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  6. shaunindeutschland

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    <doh>Another ****ing poodle panicking .
     
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  7. Beverley_Tiger_998

    Beverley_Tiger_998 Active Member

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    the number of goals we have scored is concerning, the fact we have scored no goals from set peices is concerning. the fact that only four of the regular eleven even chip in is concerning. I am panicking, it's last year all over again, close but no cigar.
     
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  8. Horsham_Tiger

    Horsham_Tiger Well-Known Member

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    I'd like to see:

    Mannone

    Rosenior Chester Hobbs Dawson

    Olofinjana McKenna

    Brady Koren Stewart

    Simpson
     
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  9. BigotAlertAnalRimMan

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    the fact that we are in the playoffs and got there despite
    is not something to get concerned about
     
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  10. BigotAlertAnalRimMan

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    swap brady for mclean
     
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  11. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

    John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. Well-Known Member

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    The one guy who knows where the goal is, is sat on the bench, the manager.
     
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  12. RicardoHCAFC

    RicardoHCAFC Well-Known Member
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    The fact our starting striker is now in a position where when he next steps onto the pitch it'll be over 2 months since he last scored a league goal doesn't concern you then? And his understudy only needs to make it through Saturday and he'll be in the same position.
     
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  13. merchantman5

    merchantman5 Well-Known Member

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    Are you ****ing blind or just stupid. Apart from Reading & Crawley we have dominated teams since before Christmas yet again 15 - 20 attempts on goal to no avail. We should of put the match well to bed in the first half but no couldn't hit the net. When are our Board, Manager and deluded idiots like you going to come to there sense and actually realise we need a striker
     
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  14. Beverley_Tiger_998

    Beverley_Tiger_998 Active Member

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    sometimes you need to realise when things are going wrong and address the issue before it gets worse. Not bury your head in the sand.
     
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  15. Horsham_Tiger

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    Goals needed ASAP
     
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    The problem is on any other given day Koren would of scored and we would not be mentioning this. Fryatt had one glorious oppurtunity and failed to hit the target, Mclean created very little for himself or others.

    When we play with no width like we did in the second half what do we expect, its far to narrow. However anyone denying we need more goals in this team needs to look again, everyone before January said we needed a goalscorer we still do. However who do you all suggest? As every suggestion so far there is a point against them. They are very hard to find, thats more than likely why we haven't got one.
     
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  17. Beverley_Tiger_998

    Beverley_Tiger_998 Active Member

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    Should have offered 4 million for Billy Sharp, wouldn't have looked like a bad bid if he had fired us into the automatic places would it. It's easy to call it a waste of money and yes it is a risk but we needed to do something if we were to go up in my oppinion...
     
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  18. Brough Tiger

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    We may well be in the play offs but if we could actually score we would be about 6 points clear at the top of the league. We should have ambitions of winning the league not just settling for the play offs when the league is there for the taking!

    Its just so frustrating going to a game knowing full well it will be 1-0 either way or 0-0 cos we are incapable of scoring goals. The number of times we got the ball and ran at their defence but had no one to pass it to cos there was no movement at all from any other of our attacking players. The flaws in our side are there for all to see but barmby needs to stop settling for the play offs and should be striving to win every game, at the moment i think he is more bothered about trying to get this formation and these players to work when it blatantly isnt going to happen. At times you need to realise your mistakes or that something needs to change and act on it, dont just stick to your principles because you are convinced that it is right. The best managers adapt to situations that barmby doesnt seem to want to do. His inexperience is a manager is costing us at the moment and i fear it will cost us promotion come the end of the season.

    And before people start having a go saying that no one has been complaining when we win, its because too many times this season koren has got us out of jail with a 25 yarder, we cant rely on him every game. You could tell in todays game that our only idea when we got the ball outside the area was to give it to koren and hope he can score which just isnt a good enough strategy to consistently win games
     
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  19. guitartrax

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    I agree we need a striker some one who can mix it in the six yard box, I agree we have a team who are creating chances and if we had a front man who can stick em away we would have won a good few of our matches. Apart from a panic buy for BS, which other 12 goal a season man is available at value for money ? I believe the lack of such a man may cost us being in the top six at the end of the season. Thats life, NB prob knows this is a headache. Realisticly at this moment without gambling he dosent exist.
     
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  20. Beverley_Tiger_998

    Beverley_Tiger_998 Active Member

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    You make a fair point but that doesn't invalidate anything anyone is saying. I just think we are going to end up slipping out of the play-offs or scrapping it based purely on the fact that we cant score "g_ _ _ _ _ "
     
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