I know people will be dying to blame Huddlestone for tonight but I don't see how you can, there was absolutely no movement from the two forwards and two wingers. I thought Elmo was ****, literally didn't go past the 18 line once. Odubajo isn't a left back, and Clucas is wasted there, we need a decent backup. All in all still created enough decent chances to be satisfied. Derby had a perfect away game plan and executed it very well tbf. Blip rather than a derailing.
Oh yeah you're completely right, it's just pure ****ing coincidence that we won five games on the spin and never conceded whilst he was dropped, and then he gets back in and we look like we're unbalanced, are struggling to score, and concede three in two games. Pure coincidence, **** all to do with Muddlestone, honest guv!
just got back very frustrating but changes affected the rhythm of the team very disappointing how ever its gone nothing we can do about it now thought derby played well but do feel if we had got one back it would have lifted the stadium and we could have come back, players playing out of position didn't help also I thought the forwards needed more aggression but over all it simply wasn't good enough. We are still in a good position its still early the important thing now is to bounce back with a win next Saturday.
Did you actually watch the game or are you just saying Huddlestone is **** to get confirmation from everyone on here? We literally don't have another player who can do what Meyler does. Hayden is not the answer, he does not break the play up anywhere near as well and is not as good on the ball (as evidenced by the fact that he did nothing in his fifteen minutes except give the ball away leading to the best Derby chance of the second half). The fact of the matter is if nobody is moving and you're playing a team with ten behind the ball, you are going to play slowly. Do you think Huddlestone tells everyone to stand still? Try forming your own opinion.
I hate blaming Hudds, but for me he just looks sloppy at times. However going forward he didn't look too bad, I'd rather have him playing further up. At the start of the 2nd half he made 4 mistakes in the first 5 minutes. Not what you expect from someone who is supposed to be one of the best passers. I don't know if he'd been swapped with Diame if he'd have been better, but he's too much of a hindrance unfortunately to be in the team in the centre! Maybe as a sub, but I don't see him being here next year whatever the division!
When Hayden hasn't played for weeks it's a bit tough to judge him on a few minutes. And anyway he knows that Huddlestone is Bruce's favourite.
Derby just did the basics right! Nothing spectacular! They were always gonna get chances and theirs went in & ours never! I wouldn't swap any of our players for theirs! We just had a bad day! Let's move on to l##ds next week
Does anybody know who was captain tonight ? We are a worse team with Huddlestone , I'm not blaming him entirely , in the fact the man of the match was only player who came out with any credit today
Huddlestone had a mixed game tonight. I agree we aren't the same with him in the side, but aside from a few misplaced passes, he was one of the few who looked up for it. Everybody else bar maguire was a disgrace, including Bruce. Poor timing for the subs, if we are 2-0 down at the half, what's the point in waiting until 15 minutes to go to try and change the game?! Baffling.
Bruce still hasn't learnt that he hinders the team in his current position which is very worrying, he needs to be further up the park. When he plays in tonights position the oppos midfield get a foothold in the game, it happens every time and is no coincidence
