Grosicki absolutely infuriating , lost count of the number of good opportunities he had to set up a team mate and completely balls up the final ball , not even difficult passes most the time . Yet at times he looks our only genuine threat
Hit the nail on the head. Pick match fit players and play them in their best positions. Tonight was dreadful and u was shocked with his starting 11.
Don't know if he's on Bruce's old naughty step or what, been a few games he's been subbed at half time or 60 mins and less impressive cms have stayed on, does seem out of favour and not sure if he's injured
Piss poor tonight, McKenzie went back to looking out of his depth, I used to think Lichaj was a mediocre player, but i don’t even think he qualifies as mediocre any more and how the **** did Magennis stay on for ninety minutes?
We've been a charity for years. Giving to those in need. The list of beneficiaries reads like a who's who of the football league. It will never change.
Yep, someone at work today commented that we should beat Huddersfield as they’re in poor form. I just gave them a look...
You had one job Grant. Sign a number 10. Put all the wages all the transfers fees of those 3 we have signed and buy or loan a decent number 10. But no we have signed 3 more League 1 players. Wilks is horrendous and lazy. Samuelson injured. And Kane doesn’t offer anything we haven’t already got. Should have gone all out for Gallagher, Emily Smith Rowe or Gilmour.
I just got back. I'll chuck my 2p worth in. The first ten minutes were great. We've often started slowly this season and to see an improvement in that regard was pleasing, though it created a somewhat spectacular anti-climax with what was to follow. Huddersfield had no clue what they were doing for the initial portion of the match, but the second they worked us out, they looked like the home team. That shouldn't be happening, not at home and certainly not against a team that's spent most of the season in the ****ing relegation zone. We suddenly slowed down, sat off and allowed Huddersfield to play. Inevitably, they scored. And what a ****ing **** goal to concede. Robbie McKenzie was left totally exposed to deal with two men, he had to go for the man so it was a shame that Wilks was miles away. Their player drifted in and it was a simple finish. After that, we looked headless. Our players seem to want an eternity to do anything, Kane seems to take a bazillion touches before deciding what he's going to do, Grosicki seems to want to have the most obvious of passes/shots available before executing his move and as a result, we went back to being predictable and easy to contain. At half time, a lot around me were saying how tiring it's getting going in at the break 1-0 at home to a **** team. And this is perhaps the most infuriating thing; these teams AREN'T very good. We aren't world beaters, but a squad that went to Fulham and won 3-0 should easily be beating the last three teams to visit the KCOM, no danger. And yet, we've played three home games and lost all three of them. The second half started like the first ended, but the changes seemed to bring about a bit of impetus. We suddenly equalised and found ourselves on top, their keeper randomly arguing and seemingly forgetting all about goal line technology was a particular highlight. But then, as seems to be a recurring theme these last few home games, their players started feigning injury. There was nothing fake about Grabara's injury, I wish him all the best for a speedy recovery because he was not in a good way at all. That murdered our momentum and we started shrinking again. Huddersfield found an extra 10% and due to some woeful defending, they popped it in and that was our lot. Let's be brutally honest, 7 shots on target across three home games is, and I can't stress this enough, ****ing ****. We didn't need two more wingers, we didn't need Malik Wilks, we needed somebody to replace Toral, because we just lack a creative midfielder. We simply do not create enough chances from open play and it says it all that our solitary goal in those three dreadful games was from a corner by a defender. We lump it forward to a lone target man who nods it on...to nobody. The idea of a target man is to bring another striker into play, but if we only play with one, who exactly is he holding it up for? Bowen? Grosicki? Okay, but they're out on the wing, so if Magennis is central, where the ****ing **** is this magical runner supposed to appear from? Getting beat with your boots on is palatable. It is the minimum expectation of any professional footballer to put in 100% effort. But for the last three home games, we haven't seen that from all the players. Lopes, yep. Long, yep (though he doesn't have to do much). Lichaj, despite his mistake, yep. Even Eaves can't be criticised for being lazy, but the rest of them need a word, sharpish. We're having the piss taken out of us at home on a regular basis and it isn't good enough. As I walked back to the car, I pondered the missing fans, the boycotters. And I found myself thinking, for the very first time, that I don't think I can sympathise with them any more. Because I get it. What the Allams did was unforgettable, unforgivable even. They tried to do something abhorrent and it upset a lot of people, those people spend their money how they like and it's not my place to tell them to get their arses to the KCOM. That being said, I think the low attendances are now a factor in our performances at home. Against Chelsea, a side playing in the Champions League and chock full of high calibre players, our crowd was able to pull our lads up by the bootstraps and get them back in the game. Tonight, we were outsung by less than a thousand Huddersfield fans in a half empty stadium and it showed. I think you've made your point with the boycott and it's now at the stage where it's beginning to have an actual impact on the lads. Those 11 lads who pull the shirt on deserve the support of every fan of this club and if you were to ask what was more important, the team or the owners, well. Maybe the answer would surprise yourself. I know they're intrinsically linked, I get that, but the mewing sound of 'come on you 'Ull' from a handful of the East stand is heartbreaking and given the choice between supporting these lads properly or staying at home because the owners are mean, surely the black and amber comes first? Doesn't it? I'm not asking people to stop boycotting, I'd never do that, but I'd urge people to think about the effect it's having on the team. Not the club, the team. Because as it stands, the owners can't be arsed, the team can't be arsed and now the fans can't be arsed. And that's not a good position to be in for a young team trying to lift us up the table. At least in the ground, the Allams can actually hear you, they're so bold they've actually started ****ing going again. You managed to drive them out and your apathy has let them back in. Surely it's worth letting them know? They'll look at the empty seats and think "oh well". But the lads on the pitch look at the empty seats and think "what else can we do?" It just doesn't feel fair on them. Anyway, it's a bit of a TL;DR, but I know feel marginally better. Writing really does make me feel better.
Just heard the post match interview and whereas normally quite like GM interviews thought he was deluded tonight. Talked about lots of missed opportunities and how we didnt deserve to lose at Derby. Hoping that's just for the radio and not what he really thinks! As someone else said we havent really played well since December.
League 1 players League 1 performances. When Bowen and Grosicki goes guess where we end up when he replace them with some League 1 few bees.
All of the above. Absolute garbage. Other than the equaliser, and the two minutes we had them on the ropes, a load of dross. Can’t pass, won’t pass to a City team mate, when we had the ball just continually tried running through them, unsuccessfully, or hit and hope balls. Not just McCann’s fault, the players, all of them, just don’t look very good. Wilks, looks like a chancer trying to earn a living as a footballer. Kane looks no better than we already have. No creative midfielder on the pitch, for us anyway. I think Batty looks better than any we’ve seen tonight, if fit I’d rather play one of our own who we have a chance of keeping and developing. How Magennis stayed on full game, no idea, rubbish. And why on a free kick have our best two players over it, surely one on it, t’other better use in the box trying to get on the end of it. Rant over, a naffed off and cold Tigress.
All Wilks and Kane have done is upset the balance of the team. Both may have stood out in League one with Doncaster, but they aren’t good enough to be starting games ahead of players that were on the bench tonight.
I don't know how much time Kane wants on the ball. Presumably Liverpool U23s play on a pitch twice the size of a normal pitch, because he needs a good 10 seconds to release the ball. My brother and I watched the warm up and they play all these one touch passing drills, do the coaches not ask why these drills never materialise in our play?
Not sure why we agreed to play this game on a Tuesday after the tiring CFC game. Huddersfield had 10 days to get prepared for this and it showed. We lacked spark and energy, and a mediocre team like them took courage from that. Very under par display from our team for various reasons, but all avoidable if we hadn't agreed to this game. Disgusting cynical cheating from the opposition in what has now become the norm. When a team is losing and chasing the game, they never go down injured. When they get in front or level, they collapse all over the pitch often with the ball nowhere near them. Once it was just DQPR or CAFC, now it's every ****. Football has to find a way to stamp out this ****, it's killing the game.. In the ten minutes after our goal they had 4 players go down injured to disrupt our momentum, then their keeper's 10 minute injury. This took the wind out of our sails and we then self-destructed against the poorest team seen so far this season.
It was terrible tonight. Bowen moved to an unfamiliar position to accommodate Wilks, who on two showings so far looks a bit Sunday League. McCann said Wilks wasn’t fit in his post match Chelsea interview. I found it incredibly bizarre to then see a non match fit Wilks starting again tonight. That’s aside from the fact he just looks ****. We would have been better signing one player like Marcus Maddison. Even KLP would put in more effort than some of those ****houses on the pitch today.
I have my doubts the keeper was even genuinely injured. He’ll miss some games as they’ll claim concussion, seemed to be a part of their second half plan.
If we had signed Wilks after he had been playing week in, week out for Barnsley I think we'd see a different player. He obviously has talent, but not kicking a ball in anger for three months will take it's toll and for a so called "play off chasing team", we don't want players that are only going to come good at Easter. I'd like to see Samuelsen back in the team when fit, at least he looks dynamic and is our player. We need to abandon this transfer style; "he's got an injury record, he's cheap, get him in". It's no good having a squad of players that are only fit 30% of the time, nine of them are out (though one had a serious illness, he wasn't much good to start with) and yes it's a squad game, but you might as well play the U23s because the quality looks frighteningly similar.
Agree with everything you have said there. Great post. I still maintain even if Allams weren’t here the crowds wouldn’t be much more. Although 34 quid for a home game against Huddersfield on a Tuesday night, is inexcusable.