There are no players that are quality, experienced, and inexpensive all at the same time. City won’t be able to sign a player without sacrificing one of those three criteria. It’s very unlikely they would be able to sacrifice affordability. Quality + Afforable = Inconsistent Experienced + Afforadble = Less Talented Quality + Experience = Expensive Obviously we all want proven quality, experienced players, but it’s unrealistic. It’s easier for players to gain experience than it is quality, but that takes time and patience.
The morning after reflection! I thought it was a good, exciting game, but for a short time when we were chasing shadows, end to end stuff. Just left feeling frustrated & disappointed, 2 points dropped for me, we had enough chances. Good response though to going behind early, again, guess we’re getting used to it! We had 3 or 4 great chances to score, but same old; hit post, can’t take chances, cheap goals conceded. First goal, poor. Did I hear right, on RH post game interview, Rosie saying he hadn’t seen the first goal & couldn’t comment! Every bugger at the ground could see Allsop beaten at his near post again in successive games, straight between his legs. Even young keepers are drilled to go down with knees together, keep legs closed. Second goal, someone should have taken a card for the team, we’re just not nasty enough! Well, not at the right time, late on I feared a red card coming out when we did get in their face! I can’t imagine any other team letting us break from one end to other without a foul. In any event Morton should have got a shot away, could have gone anywhere but the breakaway probably doesn’t happen. All ifs & buts. Omur and Tufan the stand outs for me. Despite his size, Omur is def game to get stuck in, got a good jump on him. Well observed 54th min tribute to one of our own, Andy. Onwards & upwards to Sat, UTT.
It was Jaden and yeah, I said at the time I can't imagine we'd have finished that so efficiently if he'd been onside.
I'm not sure how Allsop and Tufan are linked. I think Allsop gets way too much scrutiny whatever he does, and I think Tufan often gets too much slack and hype for what he actually contributes. I'm not sure how it's hypocritical to think that one player gets an unfairly rough ride and another often gets disproportionate praise. Since you ask and for what it's worth, I thought it was perhaps one of Tufan's better games. He made a couple of moronic fouls like he often does and he wasn't exactly central to our attacking play, but he didn't give the ball away much, including a couple of times when I expected he probably would do, which is my other main complaint with him normally. As always he pressed well and chased things. On the whole not enough to make my top 3 but not a bad performance.
I thought Tufan had a good game. During the early stages I mentioned to a friend that Tufan always gets substituted. I dont usually think it's because of his performance. It's just an easy option.
The link is because people think Allsop is **** and you call out these people for saying he is when it’s not warranted, yet you call out Tufan for being **** when that definitely isn’t warranted and actually has a decent game.
Individually I dont think many players had a bad game. The difference was that Middlesbrough broke fast. We waited until Middlesbrough got set up to defend before we tried to progress up the field. This is why our wingers nearly always pass the ball back to the full back. Obviously we did attack better sometimes but we waste so much time passing the ball left to right and back to left along the back.
Yes, this is true. Even Leeds took their penalty straight at him because they knew he wouldn’t save it.
I haven't called him out at all for last night, and when I have criticised him it's because that's how I've seen it. I'm not saying never criticise any player, I just think Allsop gets way more than he should.
Boro’s defence was slow especially Clarke the quarter back - we should have scored more . They had a decent midfield and pace that’s all
This is true, too slow to move up field. When we was braver playing through the middle I thought like we looked dangerous. More of that please.
Because we are NICE... we've always been NICE... I bet if you went onto other forums you wouldn't read about Hull City being ****house dirty bastards and at times if thats what it takes... Greaves has had however many cards this season that got him suspended and I bet not one of them was for laying someone out..
The players looked absolutely exhausted, so I don’t think we could sustain that for 90 minutes if we wanted to.
The keeper situation will be interesting at the end of the season. Cartwright has done well at GY Timothee has done very well at Doncaster and has good feed back from their fans. Ingram will be gone Allsop will probably stay. Pandur likely be number 1 Robson will go. I would guess over the 6, three might go, Ingram/Robson/ANother
