for me a change to the set up,I would like to see the following. -----------O'donnell ----------Magnussen Flint Elksrtand O'Dowda K Smith O'Neil Patterson ----- ------------- Tomlin -------- Abraham Envall
Are Joe Bryan and Bobby Reid injured ? Anyway I don't think your team has enough defenders in the line up. I'd also like to think Junior would find a place for Pack at Sheff Wed.
O'Dowda and Patterson are not full-backs - I think this would be a recipe for disaster as it'd leave us extremely exposed from wide positions. But as long as it's not tried and we don't win every week using 4-4-2 or 4-5-1, you can claim to know better can't you. Sheffield Wednesday haven't exactly been tearing it up lately, but they still deserve respect, particularly at home. They're predicting a comfortable win, though I think we'll cause them problems. I think defensively we've been a little too flimsy so can't see a clean sheet, but we've shown we can score - I think Patterson will get a start, so it'll be interesting to see where he might play and how he does.
What that is not what i saw at Rotherham,Reid looses the ball easily, and cannot tackle. He has improved but in my opinion K Smith will take his place,alongside O'Neil.
LAST SEASON Sheff Wed procured the majority of their points when playing teams in the bottom 12. this season there does seem to be the likihood that the championship will be fairly average for about 16 teams and a runaway 4 and desperate survival for the other 4 .. after game 10 of course is nearly always where the die is cast ... a draw would seem to be the most likely as things stand
Your line up is suicide.. Sheaf weds aren't the dog and duck.. Thank **** you're not the manager. With regard Smith for Reid.. Reid does have some physical shortcomings but brings goals which Korey does not. its a decision
Well unfortunatly i wasn't there, but watching the highlights, Reid could have had a hat-trick, he's always in the box, and is a bigger threat than Smith, goal scoring wise, a dilemma for LJ.
mmmm not so sure about that,i would love to see that team play,we need to up the tempo,it was like a training session first half up at Rotherham. No urgency,no tempo. If i m wrong i hold my hands up. But one thing for sure it could not do any worse than the team the started up at Rotherham.
There isn't a bigger fan of Korey Smith than me. If it's, as some suggest, a choice between Korey and Reid then it has to be Reid. Players are dropped usually for bad form, there is no football reason I can think of to do otherwise than select Bobby Reid. He just doesn't deserve to be dropped - Korey has to wait for his chance.
B*****ks. We conceded due to an unfortunate mix-up between Flint and O'Donnell, not because the formation was wrong. Ultimately, football matches are decided by goals, but more often than not, the team that creates the most chances will be the ones that win more regularly. If every match we played this season were as one-sided as that, we'd be at the top, but because of a couple of lapses you want to rip everything up and start again. Presumably when the line-up was announced, you instantly knew LJ had gotten it wrong (strangely, I can't find your post on this). If we concede silly goals like that on a regular basis then fine, changes need to be made regardless of how many chances we creates, but we haven't done so and we're in a good position after six matches. There's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
TBF to RR he was there and he isn't the only fan who also went, told me we were abysmal 1st half. We've been the same in the games I've seen this season ie Wigan, Newcastle and Villa. So far it hasn't mattered and long may it continue. However I do agree with you : 'We conceded due to an unfortunate mix-up between Flint and O'Donnell' and 'There's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater'.
Neither was I there, but I did watch some of the live feed one of the lads put on Facebook, I also had Sky sports news on and the reporter from there was saying its one way traffic. We had something in the area of 70% possession first half and 14 shots 3 or 4 on target. When we went two down the Sky reporter said " I cannot believe they are losing this game".. All I can say is if we were 'terrible' What the hell were Rotherham?
Nick it has been the same every game I have watched,I might as well not bother turning up until the second half. The first half in all games I have watched have been poor. LJ needs to get the team on the front foot for a good eighty minutes of the game,not 45 minutes second half. The one benefit so far we are in a good position, even though we are only turning up for second half of games.
Just shows how good a manager Warnock is. I accept he isn't everyone's cup of tea but he turned them around last season without changing their squad. Now he's gone and look....... A very VERY good manager at this level.
