At his press conference the Gaffer broke the bad news that Tomas Kalas is out injured (don't know what with or how serious). He joins Floyd Ayite and Ryan Fredericks on our casualty list but Sone Aluko is okay to play. So bang goes my great debate on the team line-up centered on a choice of a 3-5-2 or a 4-1-4-1 or a 4-2-3-1 formation. Straight to the chase then: ...................Button................ ..Odoi.....Sigurdsson..Madl..Sessegnon.. ................McDonald..Parker.. .....Cairney.......Aluko......Kebano.. ....................Martin.... Guess there's still the question of which wing is best for Cairney and Kebano but I'll let that one ride. And whether Jozabed should be in there ... somewhere?
I really hope we don't play Martin as a lone striker. I'd drop Cairney and put Parker in his role ...................Button................ ..Odoi.....Sigurdsson..Madl..Sessegnon.. ......................McDonald....................... .....Aluko.......Parker.........Kebano..... .................Smith...Martin....
Really like the way your logic works when you re-shuffle things SuperBri. Definitely in favour of McDonald in that sweeper role - think his play has suffered a bit recently when he's had to worry about what his 'defensive' partner has been up to rather than just concentrate on the opposition. We saw that especially in the brief time with Johansen and more so with Parker (not the first time we've questioned whether Scotty and A N Other works!). In your set up, not sure Parker would stay in a forward position so might change that. Cairney in a central midfield role in the natural choice but he deserves to be dropped after his last two performances. Maybe Jozabed therefore? Also, you're line-up gives me the perfect opportunity to re-visit whether 'Copa' should be left or right? For the the reasons given before, I'd swap Kebano and Aluko over. Otherwise you've got my vote.
I'm heading over from NI to the game tomorrow, first in a long while. Doing the McBride lounge for lunch and all that too, a real special treat. I'm not overly bothered who plays as long as we get the win, very excited.
The man in the middle today is Peter Bankes Mr Bankes is another who joined the 'Select Group 2' mob of referees this summer and is now a full time guy. And boy has he celebrated. In 8 games this season he's racked up 30 yellows and a whopping 4 reds. He only managed 5 reds in all of last season's 38 games, adding 153 yellows to his tally. We've only seen him once before, the 0-0 draw away to Middlesbrough in October 2015. He booked six players in total; three of ours - two for fouls and Luke Garbutt for time wasting.
August including friendlys a great start with optimism sky high Sept 2 draws 2 defeats against possibly ,not the best in this league, far from a acceptable . Why, do we only have plan A which when discovered opens the doors to defeat, today's game may give us a better incite as to our progress or maybe lack of it Nothing less than a win will do if we wish to remain on a promotion ttack.
Funnily enough I had a draw on my coupon as well R&W. In the end though, as you very courteously mentioned in the other thread, we were the ones left dunkin' doughnuts.
Woof !! The gaffer needs SuperBri's number 'cos a change is style is now a priority. Despite him probably being our best player in the first half, I agreed with the substitution of Parker at half time. Because, a) he was teetering on a red card and b) he would have come off at some point anyway. However I most definitely did not agree with the change Jokanovic made. Bringing on Johansen was simply like-for-like - it changed nothing. No Plan B as rosc said. Smith should have come on for Parker at half time and we should have gone 4-1-3-2. When he did bring Smith on, with a double substitution ... I have no idea what our formation was. At the end - yes I did stay to the death - Madl seemed to hobble down the tunnel so I'll give the boss the benefit of the doubt and that's why he came off along with Kebano. But bringing Jozabed on with Smith and stuffing McDonald to CB was just wrong. Thought we played well in the first half (68% possession and 13 attempts on goal) and didn't deserve to be one down. And very unlucky, at least three times not to equalise within the first ten minutes or so after the restart. But the wheels came off from then on in. The Gaffer really does need to look closely at some of his favoured players and wake up to a new mantra - Tactics, Tactics, Tactics.
A i have said before the one plan is soon discovered,. Heaven help us continuing as such, as there could be some heavy defeats on the was
Our 2nd and 3rd goals in particular look like they came from some bad defensive mixup chaps. http://www.skysports.com/watch/vide...bristol-city/10591519/fulham-0-4-bristol-city Not gloating - just my thoughts watching these highlights.
No, no, no! This is so riculously edited. If I hadn't been at the match it would leave me more depressed than I am. We were nowhere that bad ... well, for the first hour. PS I'd also disgree with you R&B - all four goals were bad defensive errors! For instance, the clip doesn't show the miss-pass from the back (Sigurdsson I think) that led to the first.
Things have got really depressing all of a sudden. From the great start we had and now we can't buy a win, seems like we're back to the Fulham of old. We've lost the momentum we had before the international break, 5 matches since the break against teams we really ought to be beating if we are serious about promotion have yielded 2 points from a possible 12 and we're out of a cup competition. Worse yet is the home form, 4 of our last 5 matches have been at the Cottage and the form reads - W0 D1 L3. That is terrible home form, and no disrespect to those teams but they're not exactly the top teams in the league. Something needs to change.
To be fair on sky sports news they did comment on the score line not reflecting the balance of the game.
