There were chants for him to be sacked yesterday I agree but seems people just aren’t having him for various reasons . And and is this us ? https://x.com/secondtierpod/status/1972241871805038989
Having watched the extended highlights we were much better in the first half than we felt we were, three times our deference went totally ,missing and we were only punished once while we created three or four chances but could not finish them plus the blatant handball missed by all the so called referee and assistants Second half we let Hull off the hook and should have scored more than just the two, Hull had two good chances on the counter attack but our defence and goalie dealt with them If we can get a settled defence and cut out the silly errors and be more clinical in the opposition third we might just surprise everyone and get involved in the race for automatic promotion rather than scraping into the play offs
Yes we were definitely more attacking generally I thought tbh but Hull did break on us well first half .
From what I saw on Saturday we have the tools - no doubt. We played better than Hull for most of the game. They got 5 yellow cards - we got one. You don't get points for not gettting cards, but Hull were rattled. At the minute we are droppimg points in 2 ways. First , the defence falls asleep occasionally. - often by one of our ball playing CB's coming out of defence with the ball and then losing it. At that point we are very vulnerable. Second, we just don't have an instinctive goal scorer. Semedo hesitated twice on /Sat with a clear shot available (and it ruined my 3-1 prediction !) Anyway, consider this. It's a long season - it is isn't won or lost in September. We have the best squad we've had for ages. In every position we have at least 2 players of first team standard - except possibly the instinctive goalscorer. And we have the squad to play in different formations - to coiunter different types of oppostion. If one (or more) of our 3 (4?) nominated CF's can grow in confidence , we have the complete toolbox for a long season. However, we do now have some effective set piece deliverers So I am reasonably hopeful of a top 6 finish at least. What we need is a run of wins - we never won more than twice consecutively all last season. A run of just 3 wins would engender that streak of confidence that just makes the game easier to play. The unusual/clever/effective move/pass comes more instinctive and more threatening.
The Hull game was strange. We didn't play well in the first half and could have been 3-0 down. However we could easily have been 3-1 up. Hopefully Semedo will have gained confidence. That could also help improve Kjerrumgaard. I don't know what we do about the silly errors in defence other than to score more goals than the opposition, but that does put pressure on the forwards.
I checked the stats and the only two stats that were higher for Hull were fouls conceded and yellow cards
We had a few scrambled efforts near the goal line and Inrankunda flashed a shot wide. Hull did hit the post and Baxter made some good but not miraculous saves but I don’t think they over ran us particularly first half . I find our main problem is we don’t always keep the pressure up and sometimes let teams have the ball but there have been a lot of changes in personal so maybe hard to get consistency. Obviously second was good and well only one thing really matters and another 6 points this week would be handy .
