can you show me a comment I have made about how we played that doesn't relate to the 2.5 minutes before I turned it off. The rest is an opinion on what is wrong at the club. Or am I not allowed to comment because it points out a few inconvenient truths...
Great odds.... It meant you bet £14, you lost £14. Think Ell had worse odds... He bet more money and lost more money.
Read into that what you want but I think the majority of your supporters know exactly what that means.."Bellusci over Cooper" yes Mr President Yet some still think Kenneth Cellino is best thing since sliced bread
Well that was an annoying game. Boro were not even that good today and we gifted them the game. Bellusci was awful and Bamba what the ****? Waste of bloody time and money. Shake you called it right and Glory they were cracking odds ha ha ha. On another day we might have won that. Didn't think our goal was offside from where I was stood but not seen any replays. If that had stood might have been a different result. As soon as the Dukes of hazzard came on we had no hope of fighting back. Why is he still getting air time when we have Sloth and Erwin who might offer something different. Botaka likes his one touch football think he may be a good signing. Don't think we'll be fighting relegation but we won't be challenging either. Not sure how much time Rosler has got with results like this though.
My thoughts on the game for what its worth. Read most of what has been written before but not all. First of all I think we were the better side. They clearly had the more quality in their team and that is what showed at the end of the day but we had more possession, better territory, better chances, better everything really. Their first goal was poor defensively, Taylor got dragged inand left his man open out wide, and then couldn't recover. Bellusci should've gotten a head to it anyway, was it handball by Nugent?? From a defensive point of view it doesn't matter, poor defending all round. Don't think Silvestri could've done much about it. From there on in we dominated really. We missed Wood upfront imo. Antenucci isn't a lone striker and we have no alternative up there if we're not willing to use Erwin. They went up to field once and scored again really. Second goal was absolutely diabolical from Bellusci, I could hear Silvestri's shout from my armchair. It was VERY VERY loud and Bellucsi ignored it and gave away a very poor own goal. Absolutely shocking, needs to listen. But again from there we dominated, Antenucci should've had a couple goals. That cross from Botaka and Antenucci's free header, a striker just must score that. He puts it right in the centre of the goal at chest level from just outside the 6 yard box. Disappointing finish. And about the disallowed goal, I'm not sure what to make of that, viewing it live it looked like there just had to be something wrong with it. It wasn't given, the ref changes his mind a long time after it. I dunno, on the replay it looked like it come off the middlesborough player to me anyway which would've meant Antenucci was onside. And then Bamba slipped about 3 times in a row. Just so happens the last time he was in front of his goal and gave away the ball. Unlucky imo. I actually think he had a good game other than that and the random chest back to the keeper that almost went in. He was strong, won everything in the air that he challenged for as usual, won pretty much everything on the deck as well. So commanding, such a good player imo. except for unlucky errors in his game that seem to cost us. I was a fan of Bellusci before this game but not anymore, was very poor. Even on the ball he was giving it away a lot, he was a liability all game to be honest. I'd bring back Cooper. This reinforces my opinion we need to sign a centre back. I'd also drop Mowatt, didn't do much at all again. His deliveries are getting worse each time I see him (with exception to that free kick which forced a good save from their keeper). Mildly impressed by Botaka, works back a lot more than I expected him to, won the ball countless times actually, doesn't seem like he has that confidence to run at the full back yet but he did show nice pieces of skill at times and that cross for Antenucci was exceptional, I woulda brought him off but not for the Duke, woulda brought Byram on I think. Which brings me to Rosler, very strange substitutions, almost made us more defensive imo.
I didn't think Mowatt did anything. He's an attacking midfielder, he needs to show some creativity in the final third, some cutting edge. His shots around the box were weak and misguided. He needs to show something to stay in the team and at the moment I can't see what he is adding. Don't get me wrong, on form he is worth having there but at the moment he is well off form. And although Cook didn't have his greatest game, he seems far more threatening on the ball than Mowatt, always willing to run at his man if he doesn't have the options. Won some good freekicks in good areas. He actually got back a fair bit to help defensively as well.
2.5 minutes you could have said,take no notice of my ramblings its just a guess and bears no reality to the game.
A worry that Wood was injured and Erwin still could not make even the bench. Our bench looked very under strength, no real game changers on it, Wootton, Byram and Cooper. Why both Wootton and Byram, Sam can cover both RB and RM. Saying that I guess the question is take Erwin out who clearly doesn't feature under Rosler and what choice do we have anytime Wood is unavailable?
Well I thought if they had had Bellusci instead of us we would have won the match .He was dreadful and all the goals were gifts Mowatt gets pushed off the ball far to easily for meI think it was the wrong game for Botaka but he knows what to expect now from this division Really couldn't see much wrong with our goal it was signicant after 70 minutes it showed Boro shots on target 1 goals 2 that's about suns the game up really we were equal to them except in our silly mistakes
As i said when the game was on - was so boring after they went 2-0 up. They just coasted along in 1st knowing full well you couldn't trouble them. All huff and puff and very little else. BTW - Morison scored
