Think it has all been said before but I need to say it too. We gave them both goals. Dickies mistake obviously, but Kakay was well out of place, and he looks and knows there is a Bournemouth player beyond him. Odd decision not to cover him. Yes Willock was lucky not to get a red, but it was built on a frustration of being fouled everytime he got the ball. Barbet similar..he got a yellow for being fouled and then confronting the player, he was in his face...but he had been badly fouled. Also nothing for throwing ball over the wall into the crowd and the ball disappearing. ( When that happened at HQ, we conceded). Poor ref...I think they gained more than us from Stroud...but he affected the result. I am not sure Austin would have started but condolences to him and his family. See we don't know everything that is going on but he would be on the bench We have a tremendous spirit, but must not rely on it every match. We need an easy match where we take control, score and then glide to an easy win....let's hope it is Bristol on Saturday
Fair enough. He did miss on tug of theirs in what would have been a dangerous area for us which was annoying.
Woke this morning (no, not THAT sort of 'woke') with that hollow feeling when something bad has happened and you wake up hoping it was just a bad dream. Its actually a very minor grief reaction. This QPR thing gets under your skin!! Onwards and upwards.
Oddly I woke up the opposite. Can't remember feeling so upbeat after a loss. A cheap first goal will happen every once in a while - it's part of the price of playing attractive football from the back with players who are learning, not £50m finished articles. We lost 2-1 away to one of the favourite 3 teams in the division, showed huge fighting spirit and did enough to earn a draw, bar heroics from their 'keeper. Our season won't hinge on Bournemouth away, but the performance we put in should be more than a match for most others.
Reflection is a good thing. We performed well overall and were definitely worthy of a point and pushed them hard. Dickie’s mistake cost us … but the lad has won games for us, so no beating will come from me. Everyone makes a bad mistake, he’s a good honest player and will feel terrible enough about it. For all the niggly nasty behaviour from Bournemouth I do feel we can hold our head high; though I want to see how we perform against West Brom (and the Ruperts in October) to really gauge how good a team we are this season (remembering these are all away games too). Not the result we wanted. Definitely some areas that need to improve (but spirit and hard graft isn’t one of them) but we are improving each season. Time for a little reset, look at the positives and use them to take the next game by the scruff of the neck and show what we are about. Onward and upward boys!
Agree fully with everything in your above post. As Trammers pointed out (see below), the stats speak for themselves and indicate how bad Stroud's refereeing was. This is one of those matches where the referee's stamp is firmly on the result and the way things were played out. Case in point: just look at their foul stats; 21 to our 7! And the ref missed a lot more! Then think about the fact that 3/3 of our yellow cards were not from fouls but were from our players getting frustrated. Genuine question, can a club make complaints and ask for whole individual matches to be looked at for referee performances? Because I genuinely think they should with this one. Because at the end of the day, certain teams and managers will go into games trying to play like that because they know they can. And that's not really what the sport of football is about.
Can't see much point in us playing a striker if we don't give him service. Dykes had virtually nothing the first half. Waste.
Let’s remember their nasty play and the manner of their win when, in front of a full house of angry home support, we cheer our team on as they tear Bournemouth a new ar5ehole.
We only started to get crosses in after he'd been withdrawn, which was indeed a waste. Kakay isn't good enough as a wing-back, I'm afraid.
Objectively you are correct but I just hate losing so much, especially when we nearly equalised about four times!
Not sure the level of performance from too many of our players yesterday would be more than a match for most others. It wasnt just Dickie who was well below his best, Barbet's normally great diags/long balls were a constant stream of passes back to B'mouth. Kakay was at fault for their 2nd goal, lost possession for their shot that hit the post, and although he battled well, there weren't many crosses coming in from either him or McCallum. Johansen was quiet for him and was forced to go deep. Ball poor. Chair below his best Dykes got little to work with, and didnt make too much himself. Willock was our main threat until Albert and Gray came on, judging by the attention he got from Bournemouth defenders, and he didnt produce much. Hope Warburton and his Coaches can get a better tune out of them again Saturday.
I completely get that the 'stat' that matters is the big one that says '2-1' at the top - but I think your interpretation above is a little more negative than I saw it, and more negative that the rest of the stats indicate too! We still controlled the ball well, created chances, and found our players with passes more often than they did. Clearly we weren't at our very best, but given we were playing a top championship side, it's still fair to say that our level yesterday would be hard for many in this division to match. Replace their 'keeper yesterday with one from most other championship clubs and I think we'd have come away with a point.
Yes I seen the stats, but think this was a game where they don't reflect what happened. Apart from the big one at the top they indicate we should have won! The quality, not quantity of their possession, shots, keeping etc was better. I dont think we played as well as we have before this season either collectively or for too many individually. Perhaps that was partly diwn to the quality of the opposition, but basically I reckon they all need a kick up the R's before Saturday., even if the kicking for some is confidence boosting.
Well, those different perspectives are the beauty of football I guess. We'll be stronger on Saturday with Odubajo back and Austin maybe on the bench too. Come on you Rs!
Some more Austin context, its not as if he has been that bad but nice one to the twats alienating a player we will rely and who has clearly been through a difficult time.
Hope Charlie scores a hatrick on Saturday and sends the negative twats away with tails between their legs. We don't have any on this board fortunately.
At the end of the day, they had at least 7 or 8 Premier league quality players on the pitch. How many players in our team are prem quality? Maybe none, with a few who have the potential. Well, Gray is prem quality. But that's about it. Considering the above, we made them sweat. Could have had better possession and less rushing. I still blame the ref, though!
Clive's take on things....... https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footb...eback-falls-just-short-at-bournemouth--report
