It was bad luck we deserved a draw. Ali was very unlucky with the OG and thought the tactics were spot on by Hughes. The team played well as a whole and the midfield is class with Granero and Faurlin, he played a world class ball for our goal. Hoilett was a constant threat, it was a great team performance by every player and we will be on a run soon. Hughes is a good manager. Full stop
Yappy obviously derives from You're A Piss Poor Yob!! with the R for RichardHead. Don't see the point in posting if you are being stupid. MH isn't going anywhere so live with it.
I totally agree with this post. Just came back from the game. Yes we dominated the game. This seemed to be the skill of the players - esp our midfield who were gorgeous. One thing I loved about Warnock was that we were a 2nd half team - we changed things when down, brought players on, switched players etc. Good managers do this. Bale was a different player in the 2nd half. Great tactics from AVB - all he did was take off an attacker for a defender and switched their formation and suddenly we were 2nd to every ball. If I take the 'rose tinted' approach that we need to give Hughes time and that he is some kind of tactician - how do you explain the lack of fitness across the team that meant that Spurs seemed to have more pace and energy on every 50 50 ball that we were winning in the 1st half? Either they had a great team talk and we did not - or they were fitter and we were not or they changed formation - and we did not. All of which point to the manager in my opinion. I feel sorry for the team - really great exhibition - no one slacked - great skill. We dropped two points because of the manager today not the team. I am not one of the negatives - I had us to win 2 0 . Took my 7 year old to his first away game today. All bodes well - but we need a playbook or the ability to give a team talk or take some risks..
That's my view of the game chelsea boy - like I care what you think. Don;t like an opinion - try debating vs getting name calling and getting personal. Or just stay being the small minded twerp that you are. Challenge me on the points that I made and I might respect you not that I guess you care about anyone's respect anyway.
It's a big must to have more players than just Bobby Zamora scoring for us. Cisse on his previous is the most likely to do this, but he needs to play into top form by starting games either instead of BZ, with or just behind BZ, or in an attacking midfield position in a 3 or 5. He came on today when we lost control of our midfield and didn't get much to feed on. Same most of his season. He must start against Reading in the LC this week, and hope he gets some goals to give him the confidence to do same next Monday and forward.
Okay LaLa, you don't like Hughes and think COLIN was a better tactician. Personally I think you'll be proved wrong in time. We'll finish lower mid-table this season, I don't know why on earth you had us down for a 2-0 win today? That sounds like the heart ruling the head to me mate.
Hughes did exactly what you said Warnock did. It would have been foolish to change the team or tactics when we were still ahead with 30 mins to go. Also remember that we had to make a defensive change in the first few minutes which would have upset our gameplan and could have knocked the team, but it didn't. The team was well trained and the early disruption didn't show. We dropped points because of a combinations of bad luck and individual errors, neither of which were down to poor management.
You are right that having been best we did not respond when they went in front. I wanted MH to sub BZ with Cisse, because he had started losing the ball, one bad mistake started their move which ended up with their first goal. But maybe it would have been better to have had BZ and Cisse having a go together up front. Perhaps we are not quite fit enough either- understandable after Ale and Granero had done so well for the first 70 minutes that they got tired - Ale is only just back and Granero hadn't played much before joining us.
Do not think that Warnock was a better tactician overall at all - a better half time coach from a morale perspective perhaps and more like to take risks than Hughes than I've seen. Just saying that today - I think Hughes played a bigger part in our loss than the players and am certainly not calling for him to leave.
What could we have done at RB to counter Bale? Dyer, despite my general derision, was better than I could have hoped. Hughes changed the game v Liverpool remember. Also, why change when we were winning - we were still dominating until the first goal and did so again after the second (until we had to stretch the game). The substitutions were timely and correct IMO.
Now that's what I call a fair post. You may be right LaLa, Hughes mightn't be so Sparky after all! Was just messin' wiv ya above mate. No offence intended.
Stereo - I do disagree. We had players making a few mistakes in the first half as well but these were picked up. The energy was different, we lost shape, we allowed their pace advantage to count because Bale was free to run - what did we do to respond? Why do we have a coach?
