Match Day Thread Watford v Hull City

I know this won't go down well on here but the truth is he's not as good as many make him out to be. If you like your goalie standing with his foot on the ball looking around for an outlet then good for you. His limitations are there for all to see. Yes, I realise he's probably the best they have right now but he's bang average, sorry.

 

I've made this point previously but he had a purple patch start of last season and lived off that reputation despite our set up meaning he had almost nothing to do second half of the season.

 

One thing you need to take into account is that the defence in front of him is worse than last season. We had one of the best defences last term, but as yet we are nowhere near as good as last season.

However, I do agree he is not playing as well as last season, I can see Harvey Cartwright being our number one next season.

 

Well, unfortunately for me, it was a total disaster of events. I flew back from Vietnam to NZ midweek, and on my calendar which updates kick-off time to where you are it on Friday when I checked 3am. I set my alarm for 2.30.am, turned on the laptop after making a cup of coffee, only to see them walking off at HT. I hadn't realised NZ clocks changes at 2am.

Being buoyed by seeing we were winning, only to then witness a poor 2nd half to add to my disappointment of missing the first half.

Unable therefore to give a real reflection on the whole game, I will watch the first half when it comes available on Tiger+.

It's looking likely Ajayi is certainly needed. Hughes is not having the best of times just now, so I wonder whether he might be rested for a game or two.

Let's hope they are recovered and can get back to winning ways Tuesday.

 

Coyle, Hughes and Egan played last season, Giles is better at lb than McLoughlin. How exactly is the defence worse?

 

Poor man's jason lokilo!

 

@Kalman II not sure if it was you that said this recently, but Dennis Cirkin is out of contract in Summer and if “upgrading the defence” was a priority then he’d be a good start on a free transfer.

 

I think against Watford we needed to keep the ball so needed our best ‘ball controllers ‘ on.
Disappointing to see Hughes jump to head away today but lead with shoulder and not head and get out jumped . So many players seemed late to everything , long passes were too long , we had effort but little quality . , against a very mobile skilful side we struggled .

 

Didn’t see any of game, how did we play in summary ? Deserved defeat ?