I must have been watching the wrong match then. I just recall him kicking it long either into to touch or to their players. I guess I'll pay more attention when I rewatch it
Allsop is better with his feet, but Ingram has improved and picked out players quite a lot tonight. He's just an overall better keeper. But I feel his days are numbered here and Allsop will be straight back in once fit.
He doesn't know what he's on about but he's lucky we do and that's the reason he comes on here and takes our advice. He can play any system he likes as long as he keeps moving the ball forward faster to the players that can cause damage to the opposition. It's taken a bit of sinking in but his re-education is starting to pay off. I can see him turning into a good manager by the time we have finished with him.
They moved the ball the best I’ve seen they were a post and a huge Coyle tackle away from being 2-2 much earlier.
Far from our best game, certainly in the chaotic first half, but once again it's our level of clinicalness that dictated the result. We went 2-0 up whilst not playing all that well on the whole, and even though we threw away the lead, that head start meant we never went behind like we so often do and we were able to get in front again from a set piece, just like the last time we won when not at our best - at Boro. And then our game management at 3-2 was brilliant. Not pretty, but killed them off. Another reminder that for all the arguing about tactics and positions and tempo, nothing affects the result more than taking your chances when they come, and being defensively tight. We didn't create more tonight than we did against Sunderland, but we scored three more goals.
Probably explains it, I slept through most of the first half. Going to watch a full replay once it's up though.
I enjoyed the 433 diamond shape with Traore freely popping up all over with Seri and Morton switching around, and Delap and Tufan dropping off, a less rigid shape from Rosenior?
Get the first goal and we tend to win. Which makes it all the more frustrating when we concede sloppily first up
Interested to see what you think then. He looked out of sorts I thought first half, and certainly wasn’t commanding. Weirdly after their second (which apparently had a deflection, but didn’t notice that live from the other end) I thought he was pretty good
Hull manager Liam Rosenior told BBC Radio Humberside: "I think it's our biggest win of the season, in terms of where we are and in terms of a response from a difficult week of losing games we shouldn't have lost. "I felt like we had to win the game in a different way. We changed our shape, working with a diamond rather than out-and-out wingers. "Blackburn are a really good team and I'm so happy we don't have to play them again this season. Some of their football was magnificent, even with 10 men, but the spaces in transition against them were actually behind their back line so we went with Liam (Delap) and Aaron (Connolly) as two split strikers. "The first half sums up our season - we find a way, when we're in control of a game, to shoot ourselves in the foot, but then the second half also sums up our season with the resilience of the group and we controlled them so much better." Blackburn manager Jon Dahl Tomasson: "We knew it would be difficult against a very good side and we should not forget that this is a very young team. "But we are very disappointed with the goals we conceded. The first two were nothing to do with shape - we had extra players and it's not like they were in one-on-one situations - but we should have done much better. "I must give the players credit to make it 2-2 as we showed great togetherness and resilience. We looked very good at that time and of course we should go for the game. "It was a very equal game in the second half and then we conceded a goal from a corner. "We are very disappointed with those moments."
Ingram picked out a forward nicely a couple of times, and he also had a couple of awkward kicks where he got himself into a bad position on his right foot and then could only put it in the crowd. Some good, some bad, about what we should expect from him. He's a very good shot-stopper and he has picked up some of the passing game, but he's not quite as comfortable at it as Allsop is and that's why he'll go back to the bench when Allsop is back. Harsh but it's the way it is, similar to McLoughlin.
Traore was 40% o.k. 60% awful. I left feeling a bit disappointed that we didn't go after 'em after they had a man sent off. Back in my day, if they had a man sent off, you brought an extra striker on, :-(
I Enjoyed the game, it always felt tense, first half they had some decent chances but we took ours to get a 2.0 lead, they still came at us and it felt disappointing to go in at ht 2.2. However we won, it puts us back in the top six and more importantly if we can keep around where we are in the league now, strengthen and hopefully get Philogene back then it all helps.
