Our players don't have Championship experience...not really true Paal, Cook, Clark-Salter, Dunne, Morgan, Field, Smyth, Chair, Dembele do. Andersen and Madsen are both gifted players who want too much time on the ball. Frey and Saito are adapting Varane and Celar though don't know what has hit him...it will take him a long time, if ever to adapt
Off the top of my head Frey, Andersen, Santos, Madsen, Dembele, Saito, Celar, Ashby, Varane, Nardi, Morrison and Bennie have all been signed on Cifuentes’ watch, and presumably he was involved in picking them. For some reason all this activity excluded a left back who we desperately need. Nardi seems ok, Frey is coming good, Andersen has the odd good moment or half a match. Yet in fact we are relying on pre Cifuentes players to be the real backbone - JCS, Cook, Dunne, Field (who is woefully out of form), Colback (FFS) and Chair. With the exception of Celar - who looks totally out of his depth which is very sad - I don’t see why the other new players can’t come good but at the moment I’m pretty unimpressed. Saito and Dembele look exciting but offer the same end product as Smyth so far (there is a reason Dembele didn’t make it at Celtic or Brest). I see less in Madsen than others on here, but he certainly isn’t a replacement for Isaac Hayden. It’s all a bit Basil Fotherington-Thomas. Really disappointed in the results and performances so far this season. My expectations weren’t high but I wasn’t expecting slipping back into the old ways. Honeymoon period over, buck stops with Cifuentes. Loads of time left, thankfully.
I'm confident that we will turn a corner but think we need to be more flexible in our approach to games, especially at home. Having more than one striker on the pitch at the same time has to be something considered.
Can't argue with that, I was thinking the same about the isolated striker and maybe we should try a pairing upfront in the classic style of big man + small nippy man and then thought about Frey playing this role with Dembele. I am not sure this would work in our "modern" style of play, what do you think? Why not? I missed the first 10 minutes and from what I saw of the rest of the game, apart from Saito, we barely troubled them. I'm coming over in a couple of weeks for the Portsmouth game but after watching last night it doesn't exactly fill me with enthusiasm. This is where stats can be misleading and count half-efforts and soft shots as attempts on target but we all know a fantastic strike that whistles past the post with the keeper beaten is a better attempt.
Forgot to mention the " hilarious" moment very early on when Field made an excellent cross field pass to the winger on the opposite side of the field. Unfortunately that player was Jude the Cat slowly walking off ( he got quickly moved into the tunnel by a steward).
Thought Hull looked like a team that knew their roles, played as a team and looked like they wanted it more plus were aggressive. Our lot really didn’t know how to work as a team and Hull found our weaknesses very quickly. We made so many mistakes and just looked too lightweight. Marti has a hell of a lot of work to get us playing as a team.
We were unlucky yet again for a couple of the goals but Cook and Dunne are not a centre back pairing I want to see again. Couple that with the usual problem of Paal standing way too far off the wide players and Santos being too slow and you have a defensive clusterf*#& that was lucky not to concede several more goals. And with so few goals in the side we simply cannot be so brittle at the back. A long term injury to Clark Salter could see us in relegation jeopardy again.
Early season optimism has quickly dissolved, I think 'lightweight' sums us up in a nutshell. Too many seem to be off the pace and we're leaking goals too frequently. Hard to see us as anything other than bottom six at present...
Very badly. We miss Dunne on the right, we are weaker with Santos playing there, and Dunne is not an adequate replacement for JCS.
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We’re not scoring because, for at least a couple of years, our shooting is much worse than virtually everyone we play. I really like Saito but he’s created excellent chances in every game, put all of them wide. And the other players are the same. We also have too many players who play really well and really badly often in the same game. They make too many basic mistakes and give away possession so easily. Really frustrating
I order online on a Thursday so it's not sent and then collect at the ground, I'm also not a member, no excuses Turkish! Just seen over 2,000 going
