Tuesday 13th February 7:45pm Must win and we will Might even give them a goal start just to make it interesting…. city 3-1 pick your team
If we give them a goal start we're not winning. We hardly ever do. Need to be on it from minute 1, and for the whole 90 minutes plus whatever. No ****ing around
Pandur Christie (if Coyle out) Jones Greaves Giles Morton Tufan Philogene Omur Zaroury A forward, anyone
Assuming Coyle's out and Christie isn't up to starting, I'd get Jacob back in, he impressed me more than Giles has anyway. We clearly need to start with a striker, presumably it will be Connolly. I'd also have Traore(or Tufan) alongside Morton, Slater was terrible yesterday. I'm not sure he'll rest Philogene or Zaroury this early after they've come in, but if we don't start Omur, he needs to come on earlier.
Connolly barely got a touch when he came on. Sharp looked OK but he probably isn't up to starting age and fitness/speed wise. It was interesting that Ohio didn't get a look in yesterday. His few minutes against Millwall was a very mixed bag. A week's training must have given Rosie a better understanding of his strengths and weaknesses. Whoever was leading the line yesterday was feeding off scraps and maybe that's the bigger problem. Doesn't really matter who plays upfront if the service to them is non-existant or really poor.
I knew this was coming so I've already done the maths. Three times we've won out of 16 times we've conceded first
OK, we've regularly come from behind to earn points/results. There was a stat that we've got one of the highest points returns from losing positions in the league.
Which is irrelevant for Chazz's prediction that we'll win after giving them a goal start. We might not lose, but if we concede first, a win would be unlikely given how the season has panned out so far
On the contrary, our record after scoring first is fantastic. Hardly any points dropped, think it's 5, 2 if you discount Norwich away and all the **** that went on there
Streaky Hull City must find solution to solve lack of attacking threat amid glut of talent Rosenior will be desperate to see his side respond when the Tigers make the short journey to Rotherham United on Tuesday night, before facing Huddersfield Town on Saturday in back-to-back Yorkshire derbies. Streaky City Given how City haven't gone more than three games unbeaten since the start of the season, it was perhaps too much to expect them to make it three straight wins Rosenior's side is as infuriating to watch as they are delightful at times. They're so streaky. Two wins, two defeats, a win, a loss, and so on. Nobody in the Championship seems to want to cement sixth spot, but it's there for City. If they can put a run together of four or five games unbeaten then all of a sudden, they'd have some breathing space, but their lack of consistency is becoming their downfall. The lack of striker - and lack of threat Rosenior again went without a striker in a bid to combat Swansea's pressing game, but it didn't work. There was no focal point, there was nobody to occupy the central defenders who controlled the visitors' play, and of course, there was no threat inside the penalty area. Having started with no centre-forward, Rosenior ended up with two on the pitch chasing the game in Billy Sharp and Aaron Connolly, as he went for broke and pushed for a way back into it. Sharp made a difference and must start on Tuesday if Connolly isn't considered fit to start. On Tuesday, with Sharp and Connolly back available along with Noah Ohio, he simply has to find a way to get a striker back into his system. There's so much attacking talent in that squad now, they have to show it. And in the last two games, they simply have not. Nine attempts on goal in each game and five on target combined, is quite frankly, pitiful, the sort of numbers you'd expect from a team at the bottom, not one chasing promotion, and against two sides in the bottom reaches of the league. In the last three games, City have mustered just 20 attempts on goal and seven on target - admittedly the 1-0 win at Sunderland was achieved without a host of attacking players, but even so, creating has become a problem. Two and out There's something of a barrier facing this squad. In Rosenior's 15 months in charge, City have not won three games on the spin and coming into this one on the back of two good 1-0 wins, a home game against a team in poor form should have been a real opportunity. From the start of the game, this never looked like a third straight victory. Even after the goal, the reaction was lukewarm and Swansea were full value. Rosenior wouldn't have any talk of the lack of three straight wins in his group in the build-up to the game, but it is becoming an issue and shows that there's a consistency issue in terms of putting a significant amount of results together, back-to-back which needs to be addressed. Missing Mika City were bossed from start to finish in the midfield. Matt Grimes, a player Rosenior has highlighted on previous occasions, controlled the game and never allowed Slater or Morton to impose themselves. Once Morton picked up a first half booking, he lost his way a little and couldn't play his normal aggressive game. That bite was lacking, the ticking over of a game that Seri provides, the ability to take the ball off the back four and shift it just wasn't there, and his return cannot come soon enough. Strength in numbers It's been a rare occurrence at Hull City this season, or last season for that matter, where Liam Rosenior has been able to field a near full-strenth squad on a matchday. Against the Swans, just Liam Delap and Jean Michael Seri were missing and by the time the Tigers go to Huddersfield next weekend, that number will have been halved with the return of the Ivory Coast star. Having Aaron Connolly, Adama Traore and Cyrus Christie back adds to Rosenior's options, and while having Traore and Christie fit again is a positive, it's the return of Connolly which really stands out. City have missed him in the last couple of games, and because he's not been available, Rosenior's has been operating without a central frontman. Those options will at least enable him to freshen things up on Tuesday night, but he simply cannot afford to start the game without a striker, but we've covered that already. The good thing for City after a performance as bad as that was, is that they don't have long to wait for another one. Rotherham United are bottom of the table, have just been thumped at Leeds and this is a game Rosenior's men have to go and win. Yes, we can play the usual games about them fighting for their lives, being tough to beat home, Yorkshire derby and so on, but let's call a spade a spade. This game is a must-win for City on the back of this performance, and nothing else will do. Rosenior needs a response after such a limp display, so playing away from home against a team heading for relegation in front of a sold-out away support, he must get it.
Most of the 19 points Rotherham has gained this year have come at home. They've drawn with some good sides and beaten sides we couldn't, so City to actually play well and win?????
Not expecting much from this. Little old Hull don’t have a divine right to turn up to teams like Rotherham and win.
I we think we're just going to roll into town on what looks like being a wet Tuesday night and get an easy one, think again. Theyre battling for their lives and they will battle. They'll know exactly how to frustrate us. They haven't won in 6 (we know what usually happens) since beating Middlesbrough at home. Of those 6 drawn 3 and lost 3.. two of the defeats to Southampton and Leeds. 1-1
