Totally agree with this, I love the young talent that we have but we do need proven Championship talent - not players past their prime but like you said players 26/27 yrs old. I said before the game yesterday that 7 points from the 5 games that we had leading up to the world cup so hoping 7 from the next 4 and that would represent a good start to the season. Going into January we need a Striker, CDM and possibly a RB (depends how Huggins develops)
Just watched the goals again - I admit we were battered but the first goal was poor defending, the second a bit of a fluke and the third Hume needed to be stronger It does feel that despite being outplayed we do self inflict problems at time
Don’t know whether it’s been mentioned and he didn’t do it on purpose but that needless delay after the second took the sting out of our game and gave them a breather. It was ridiculous
For me only one of their goals was a great shot... The rest was v poor defending, due in part in not being big/tall and strong enough.
Missed the game yesterday as I'm stateside (and left my frigging ph0ne in the car at the frigging airport) and just watched the goals back. 2 excellent goals by us, the overload for the 1st showed the intent we started the game with. Dan Neil's finish was superb. Their 1st goal summed up our problems - 2 short lads being out jumped. Their 2nd was very poor by Patto and the 3rd, whilst a good strike could have been prevented had Hume got closer to his man
Big Big difference as Kompany had a pre season and put his squad together for the season starting , Mowbray parachuted in and has had a whole catalogue of injuries to contend with so I think the comparison is very unfair .
What was the referee trying to achieve by stopping the game? Whatever was happening in the stands it wasn't affecting the game so why stop it? Were missiles hitting the pitch, was an announcement made, anything?
The break in play after our second had a hige influence on the game in my opinion. We were flying at that point and all over them, it totally took the momentum out of us and allowed them to regroup up until that point they couldnt get near us after we were a different team Two leagues between us last season and second half really showed that. Very impressed with them mind best side i’ve seen this season.
Still says a lot about the mindset of our players though being 2-0 up and can’t concentrate after a short break.
Think it was more giving them an opportunity to change what they were doing. They seemed to play a different shape then made the change at half time
I'm glad everything is sorted. It's a open forum with the cracking people on it. The day we can't debate is the day we may as well pack up. Personally for me, going into a season with 2 strikers was lunacy. Having said that, I believe the club will have tried to get more but we'll never know. Lads just need to keep chipping in with goals and hopefully it's enough that we don't end up in trouble like when Grabbin and Vaughan and Maja left.
I've liked this because imo, and I said yesterday, Burnley were shell shocked by half time and we thought we'd won it by half time. Our heads dropped at 2-2, pretty sure I seen one of our players on his haunches. I don't want to see that, chest out and let them have it. Onto the next one.
When you look at that and then listen Mowbrays interviews, it’s like chalk and cheese. I struggle to see how TM motivates the team.
