That was me. Still think it’s true. He didn’t gave a great game but we went downhill when the subs came on.
No particular standouts from last night, so a very difficult one; 1. Ajayi - pretty steady, nowt outstanding 2. Gyabi - some decent effort put in 3. Slater - had a few moments Well down on previous performance levels, but given how short we are on quality with the lads out at present we can't expect them to perform miracles.
Hard choice, Ajayi?, Giles, Slater and Geldhardt had their little moments, game went down hill after the excellent minutes applause for Paddy and Don then the Ndala effort. Important to see at least one injury return, Belloumi. A nod to the Tractor Boys, impressive support on a cold Tuesday night up here.
Everyone was poor second half - so based on the first half alone: Ajayi - easily our best player Slater - tried to get us going through the middle Gyabi - Some decent pressing alongside Ndala We seemed a bit leggy 2nd half and once they scored it was game over. Their keeper doesn't need a clean pair of gloves for the weekend
To be fair, Greaves is excellent in the air, on the other hand, Destan won his first two headers against him. I'm not sure I can remember ever seeing Joseph win a header from a punt upfield.
And when Joff beat him in the air, he went down as if poleaxed and feigning injury . He made an amazing recovery once Joff had been booked, though,
Exactly, and shows how weak Joseph was against him. All the Ipswich team were well versed in throwing themselves to the floor with a couple of roll overs after every challenge.. Point though, Joseph wasn't strong enough against Greavesy. We all know how many penalties and free kicks Greavesy gave away when he played for us and how certain centre forwards bullied him. Ours last night gave him an easy ride. Destan should have started up front with Geldhart feeding off him.
We seem to punt it long to Joseph a lot and he never wins the header. It works with Destan as he tends to win them, like he did consistently v Portsmouth.
Really don't think that's the case at all. People obsessed over him visibly pulling shirts but he very rarely got pulled up for it. Last night was just another reminder of how good he is at taking charge physically whilst making it look clean.
My point was we knew how exactly he plays and we should have exploited that. We know he holds onto people and pulls shirts etc so he is a penalty waiting to happen but how many times did we put him in that situation? Greavesy is good facing the ball and play, not so good when the ball is played over him or when players run at him at speed as we saw in his brief spell in the Premier League when he was exposed to such an extent he lost his place in the team.
