Embarrassing Watford. He looked off his face and was knocked to the ground with one punch. TBH my Gran could have knocked him down. I bet when he wakes up tomorrow, he will feel a prat. The bloke who hit him will be arrested /charged/banned and end up in clink.
Yep. Spotted 'white coat lad' too and his little sketch - an action replay of the knock out blow. This 'hero' thought he'd won the lottery when he caught the ball!
Good performance. But as usual we started slowly in 2nd & the times we do that is so annoying, thought Phillips was poor again, perch, Henry had decent games, still improving.
I thought Chery was outstanding. A proper all-round team performance though. A few points: Smithies should have caught a couple of balls that he punched, but he is a good solid keeper, comfortable on either foot. Perch seems to be a much better left-back than right-back. Angella was reminiscent of Glenn Roeder today. Onuoha a marauding right-back! Luongo is growing with every performance. Chery MOM Polter was excellent. Things are looking up.
Well. isn't this great ................ our team had a good win and we are happy little chappies & chapettes. Nothing more to say except, great news!
I don't think so Apparently the club is also investigating a coin throwing incident that happened when our players were celebrating Junior's penalty strike Nice bunch those Brum fans
Great result today. Their fans were in great song for the first 20 mins until we scored and the second shut them up pretty much for good. All the players were much improved and JFH is clearly still finding what his best team formation is. Henry was most improved today for me and, therefore gets MOTM. He was the mid-field general that he was brought in to be. I know it is only one game but it was a significant blow to his detractors. Most importantly, this win was a great confidence boost for the team and the hope is they will go from strength to strength.
No he ran and hid with the other Brum fans. i believe he put on another cap or changed it to disguise himself but old bill would have got him on CCTV and will knick him at some point. TBH a lot of fans laughed at it but the Brum will get done for that. He will think he was a hero at the time but will soon sh2t himself when he is picking up some soap in the showers of HM Prison. Stupid muppets should realise that the camera will pick them up. it's like the ones on the trains. They assault someone and banged up later thanks to CCTV.
I would say it was mainly a 4-4-2 Col. At times it became 4-4-1-1 but basically Chery was playing further forward than we have seen him before. I bumped into 999's afterwards & we were both very happy.He signalled out Perch & I did Angella (I really ought to leard his actual name). However, the main thing to me, is that we will not be moving far up or down the table this season, but our attitude was spot on. We looked as if we played with enjoyment & for each other. I wasn't happy when I saw the team was missing Washington & Nasser, but I like the idea of JFH giving every player a chance to impress him & play for a future at the club. Can someone please talk me out of this mad idea that I may go to MK next week!
Today was a good day to be at Loftus Road, it was one of those rare occasions when I came home with nails on the end of my fingers. At no stage did I feel that we were likely to concede. The back four were excellent. But was it a back four? When we were in possession, Onuoha got far more forward than usual when playing as a right back, and did well for a nice change when doing so. No semblance of a rabbit in the headlights from captain Nedum today. This effectively had us playing in a 3-5-2 formation with Perch, Angella and Hall holding the fort with Henry sitting tight just in front of them. As we were playing with four centre backs it was a good tactic. This was also the case when Perch went forward when Onuoha would drop to the right side of the three. The Brum had trouble breaking through our fortress and lacked the guile to exploit the wide areas to try and create anything of note. When they did try the defence held firm and tackled or intercepted with fine aplomb. Especially Perch who had his best game for us and was my man-of-the-match, although to be honest it could of been seven other outfield players. Chery, Hoilett, Polter, Angella, Henry, Hall, Onuoha or Llungo. Which would tell you that this was a good team performance and not about individuals. The game didn't have the chances that we created against Ipswich when we last won, but that was probably down to our crosses hitting the first defender all too often. If anything we played in a style more reminiscent of how Fulham approached us two weeks ago. The passing was crisper with nice little triangles of play and there was more of an assertiveness to our all-round game. There was also a lot of fluidity when going forward. It was sometimes difficult to see who was playing where as players constantly swapped roles and the gaps that were left were filled by someone else. For instance there was one occasion when Lluongo had to go wide with the ball to the left of their penalty box and Henry stepped up with Phillips dropping in alongside him so that we kept our shape. I noticed our players showing this awareness quite often throughout the game. Polter being the lynchpin was probably the only constant as he held the ball up well and brought the others into play. He never stopped trying and ran the hard yards for every single one of the 97 minutes. In summary it was a very good team performance. It wasn't spectacular as I may have inadvertently indicated, but it was an enjoyable game that bodes well for the future if we can continue to play in the manner we did. I think that's all we've been crying out for.
Meant to also say amazing clearance from Henry with his head (see highlights above) and how on earth is Junior suddenly kicking with his right foot. He never had any right foot to speak of!!
Thanks for that assessment Nines, seems progress is being made albeit slowly. I always thought the rest of this season would be a learning curve for JFH, seems as if he's trying a few ideas out as we go which is no bad thing. I'll settle for mid-table with a better team ethic and hope we kick on into next season on an upward curve...
Yes me too. I was thinking along the same lines and hoping that JFH can use the rest of the season as a kind of pro-longed pre-season kinda thing.
Seems there are differing opinions of the formation, but it seemed to me to be 4-4-1-1 with Chery in behind Polter.
