Serious question. Do you sit up all night, seven days a week, picking arguments with people on the other side of the world for a living ?
As someone that for a variety of reasons rarely attends live games now, I think a part of the problem is that viewing a game on TV doesn't give the same perspective as watching live. TV may give replays of incidents etc, but you miss a lot of the off the ball running and tactics, and can also be swayed by commentators and pundits. Even sitting in a different part of the ground and/or near different people can affect how you perceive a game.
People seriously believed we had it in us to get play offs, fickle as ****. Anything outside the bottom 3 is an overachievement this season given that if budgets were anything to go off that's where we'd be. Shota got it wrong last night but changes were needed after Preston questions should be asked of who he brought in and why but for the first time in 2 and a half years we had a manager go to a post match press conference and admit he got it wrong. KLP gets the ball and has 2 players on him every time, why? Because he's our danger man, Ebosele had a 1 on 1 with Fleming every time he got the ball, ****ing amateurish and it's not Flemings fault, he'd do that to most full backs in the league 1 on 1. What do our analysis team do in the week to help us prepare? They saw our weaknesses and exploited it. We played a 37 year old Curtis Davies and didn't test his legs in behind once. Did the exact same in the home game. 10/12 more points keeps us up, Shota will have to get a run together or I think Acun will let him go but he also needs to be given players who are competent at this level to do so. Grant started to earn fans trust back at the end of his spell with us, Shota still needs to do that.
I'll pop this in the other football news thread too, but Rooney..Mind you, it is on Joan Terry. FA contacts Wayne Rooney over comments in interview. Rooney said he changed his studs to "long metal ones" when playing for Manchester United at Chelsea in 2006 as he "wanted to try and hurt someone". United were beaten 3-0 and Chelsea won the Premier League that season. "We knew if Chelsea won then they had won the league that day," said 36-year-old Rooney. "Until my last game for Derby, I always wore the old plastic studs with the metal tip. "For that game I changed them to big, long metal ones - the maximum length you could have because I wanted to try and hurt someone, try and injure someone. "I knew they were going to win that game. You could feel they were a better team at the time so I changed my studs. "The studs were legal but thinking if there's a challenge there I knew I'd want to go in for it properly, basically. I did actually. "John Terry left the stadium on crutches. I left a hole in his foot and then I signed my shirt to him after the game... and a few weeks later I sent it to him and asked for my stud back. "If you look back when they were celebrating, JT's got his crutches from that tackle." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60312167
Trying to reach the playoffs doesn’t make sense this season, we’d be better off losing a few games and settle for mid table instead.
It's not that it doesn't make sense, it's just utterly delusional to think this side is anywhere near good enough. Honeyman, KLP, McLoughlin, Baxter and Greaves only players who've performed consistently enough to be classed as good championship players currently
Yup, if the owners had been better, he wouldn't have needed to. But then again, he'd have a threadbare squad rather than the very expensive one he's got, that is keeping them close to being liquidated. With the funds Derby have had, it'd be more difficult to fail. It makes me chuckle when the pundits talk of the fantastic job, yet ignore that brutal fact.
Blackpool have virtually the same team as last season apart from they had a bag of **** who wasn’t good enough for us and are doing rather better than us the team is more than adequate to be mid table as plt says we win or we lose we don’t seem to scrap for a draw At one point all the new players should be starting Now they shouldn’t have started We shouldn’t make too many changes yet Doc should still have been dropped Forss has an insane record at This level but shouldn’t play cos he’s clearly **** It goes on Yet strangely I asked posters to name their team but very few did!
As others have pointed out we lost against Preston so changes were to be expected. I for one was hoping for Allahyar to start (of course no idea how good he is like the rest of us, but, want him to succeed). How did he do when he came on???? See undertones in previous posts of some. pining for Grant McCan and refences to our last two wins under his managment, however, lets not forget in one of those wins especially in the first half Bournemouth could have had a hatful of goals. Did not see the game but against Derby but seems the same thing happened as against Bournemouth in that we had our backs to the wall, in this case as Shota pointed out we did not get any luck when it came to the bounce of the ball etc. Against Derby the ball went in the back of the net and did not hit the post or whatever.
Re Burnsey interview. I don't think Shota's English is that good. Perhaps he didn't understand some of the questions. Give the bloke time . I'm sure he'll do okay. Hopefully, hes a quick learner and knows just how tough the second tier of the EFL is. Good luck with that.
True. But he has got them playing in an attractive style and introduced young players, such as their best one last night, which another manager may not have done.
Exactly Rooney could’ve easily just brought in a load of **** free agents but he’s given a group of very talented young lads a platform to the point where a lot of the will go onto big things. Ebosele the third goal scorer was meant to be released at the end of last season and now he’s being linked with everyone in Europe.
What was a tad concerning last night was that in that last 10 minutes or so, when we were pushing for a 2nd to then make the final minutes interesting, we had a couple of corners. There was no plan, no tactics, whatsoever for those corners, it was a 'do the **** what you like'. Look at Eaves, it was ridiculous. As an aside, I thought at the time that he got hauled over for a stone-wall penalty that went the other way (but need to watch it again as maybe I missed something)! Other better drilled teams would have attacked those corners as a team, with a plan (e.g. 2 or 3 players trying to block defenders so Eaves or ano could find space), not the shambles that we did. As Shota said earlier, there's a lot of promise but there's stuff to improve on (or something like that). I guess it's likely to be a rocky road for a few games until he gets his tactics over to the players, and also for the new players to settle into the team, etc. Only twt whether it's another Slutsky-type move or a success. Far too early to have an opinion / to judge either way. Without those 3 great wins I would be very worried about relegation; but now I just don't see us getting dragged back into it.
He made it clear he doesn’t want to play 352/343 to humberside last night feel he’s said he’s studied the side so evidently he doesn’t feel they’re good enough to play 433. Which as we all know is correct. Too many of them had it easy under Mcann and they’re being found out in games like last night. Docherty, Coyle the main 2 for me. We don’t have the ability to hold onto the ball under pressure because we have no midfielders with that composure bar probably Hudds and most of the time Smallwood. We’ve rode our luck in a lot of wins this season I can’t name many that we’ve entirely dominated them for a full 90. Barnsley and Swansea the only ones that spring straight to mind. In need of a bit of a clear out in summer along with bodies coming in (obviously).
