Albert is Difficult..

He has started just 2 games.............. Ok then sean why have we lost all the other ones then?

He comes out with the most strangest things ever.

Adomah is one of our best players, We're down now so he has to play every game. We looks the same with or without him but I feel more confident with him in the team.

 

Albert is a very good right winger even if he isnt consistant but since SOD has come in he either uses him as a forward or plays him on the left. against Sheff Wednesday he was put on the left and time after time albert would run the ball out of play as he would run in a straight line down the line but not being able to kick with his left foot he did nothing with it, got one cross in when he did cut inside where we scored.

As the manager SOD should have done something about it and put him on the right earlier on and we would have likely had more chances at goal.

SOD talks about the rest of the team have to play different to fit round albert but what the rest of the team are doing is losing and albert with his pace offers something different so if it isnt working you bring him on and changes things about.

The big issue I have with SOD management is there is no plan b, whether we are winning, drawing or losing he plays the same system and even if we were 6-0 down you would be lucky to see a sub come on before the 80th minute. A must win game against Sheff Wednesday and Anderson was brought on for the last 5 minutes which said it all.

 

Albert has a left foot as in a large percentage of his runs down the right wing, he cuts inside and crosses or shoots with his left. He cannot wrap his left foot around the ball at pace to cross it from the left. I wish he would go outside full backs on the right more and get to the by-line.
He has suffered because we have do not have reliable defenders at centre back and so the whole of the team has to be packed with "organised workers" to cover for them.

Two strikers and one flair player in Albert should be fine in any team but not us. Yey SO'D has another loose cannon in Marvin who he admits is not disciplined at all and so SO'D allows him to go where he wants.

Seems like one rule for Marv and another for Albert! If I was Albert, I would want to move on this summer and try to make his pile of dosh at top of Championship or lower-mid Prem.

Also agree about no plan B with SO'D; we are very easy for opposing teams to work us out.

 

I'm starting to think O'D is a prk

 

Our shape is better when Albert does not play.
For over a year Albie has been a shadow of the player he was.
If he's not doing it from an attacking perspective, then his poor defensive attributes become a liabilty.

 

One thing I noticed on the Burnley video is when he scored, he did not leap up and down or even look remotely happy. And team mates were not too quick to get to him and celebrate. It's like it was a nothing event to all of them.

We need some passion in our squad!

 

Yes, we need:
Passion - Leadership - Mental Strength - Pace
SoD's got his work cut out!!

 

I think all the remaining games will be like non-events for our current team. We all know we are down and the players also know, as do SOD and the backroom guys.
Its like waiting for the dentist's needle now...........you know its gonna happen and its gonna hurt a little, so lets just it done with .

 

[QUOTEOur shape is better when Albert does not play.
For over a year Albie has been a shadow of the player he was.
If he's not doing it from an attacking perspective, then his poor defensive attributes become a liabilty. ][/QUOTE]

Spot on. He will be sold for a decent profit and SOD will find us another gem.

 

I find SOD very strange in a lot of ways.

Unlike our bretheren on the wrong side of town, I don't think we'll walk a lower division in L1 next year, although I would expect us to be around the top 6. However for this to happen, Mr O'Driscoll needs to sort out the way we play away from home, because we've thrown away so many points on our travels since he took over it's criminal. We should have gone for it at Blackpool and should have won the game, likewise at Wolves when leading and should have got something at Burnley. IMO that's at least 6 very attainable points we've thrown away because of his refusal to give it a real go. I'm not sure those would even save us but I want to see some pride.

THINGS NEED TO CHANGE NEXT SEASON

 

From where I'm standing that whole episode looked strange. You'd scored first in a crucial game and so
there was a chance, small chance but still a chance, that you could turn things around. Yet Adomah
scarcley celebrated and no teammate was to be seen. Very strange.

 

Like a few others on here, I do wonder if SoD is all that we perceived him to be 1 point on our travels is ****ing horrendous and something like 4 goals three of them being OG's 2 in the last minutes.
Sheff Wednesday was there for the taking and we got a last minute goal to get a point. Watford came to us with a makeshift side who did pay the price. Florest were between managers another week could of been completely different. Barnsley woke up late and scared us into thinking **** this could be 5-5. Brighton a draw but not convincing, I know have missed other games.
Yes we look more organised but perhaps we have become a bit too regimental and players afraid to step out of what's expected and take the game by the bollocks.
I will support SoD and hope he does have a plan for next season but I can't believe loaning out players that are hungry and need to be used next season.
I know people will say we shouldn't bread them when we are like this but come on they would have more passion than some of these players playing regurly now.

Not convinced with what he's saying about Albert when even I have been critical about his distribution, he is an outlet we have been craving.

 

He won me over by the home performance's and lost me on the away. Im yet to decide if I trust him. Next season August - December will be when the jury is out!

 

I sound like a whining twat, I do support him just need to see some alterations and plan b's in his approach.

Adomah on the right Anderson on the left with Kelly and another in the middle would be simple and play 2 up front.

**** it our season is over, entertain me now please

 

But ROD, he either cannot change tactics because this is the only way he knows how to play, or he will not because of the tremendous weakness that we have in the centre of out defence. They cannot stop anything that is put before them, so SO'D has to play eight other players who will do nothing but try to protect the centre backs.

I'm now just waiting to see who stays and who goes in the summer, but if Carey, Fontaine, Bates are still with us and are picked for any of the central defence places, then all I can say is "Please come back Millen or McInnes or even Tinnion or any other manager who knows how to attack at home and away" because we all know where the weakness is at Bristol City and it's about time it was sorted.

We are a football team where defenders originate from molluscs; spineless creatures!!!!!!!!!!1

 

The weaknesses we have can be easily fixed in L1....and we have money to buy quality at this level so what the **** is the problem ??????

The problem is playing the likes of Walsall or Crawley away on a Saturday afternoon in January when we'll just roll over and die and lose 2-0.................. I know because Ive seen it for years and years

 

Adomah is a problem player. At times he makes no attempt track back and goals are then conceded via the space he creates for the other team.

Players like Gavin, McIndoe, Murray, Smith, Sproule, Walsh all different players but all would track back and get into shape.

Johnsons team has a shape to it to get to the play offs. Fullbacks and midfield were attached, Orr would be roaring at players to get back to defend. Adomah would not fit into that. Orr might have strangled him.

Adomah is some respects is a very limited player. Have a watch of Bellamy at Malay fc to watch how hard top level players work.

If Carey was younger I serioulsy doubt if this team would be bottom. City still gain more points when City start v when he doesn't. The tremendous weakness City had stemmed from midfield as week on week Citys back four was left with 4 v 5/6/7's. Loads of games Barnsley, Bolton, Derby, Leicester, Millwall Wolves opposing players cam e through midfield without a challenge or players dropping back into a line. Sean O'driscoll is also sheilding the full backs. Good and bad teams do this.

 

Agree with everything you say 3 Lions.

We've had a midfield that could not follow runners and thus leave the centre backs with just too many opposing players to cope with.

But centre backs have also been weak when longer passes have bypassed midfield and can't deal with one attacker either on their own or with the help of other centre back. even recently we've conceded an easy goal like this at Derby.

As for Louis Carey, you are right that two or three seasons ago, he would have given a real stiffness to our back line. But time waits for no one and if he's still here because of sentimentality or a previous manager's inability to spot the signs of ageing, then we have not done ourselves any good.

 

if only we had one good striker that could keep up with Albert...........makes you think, young team needed so why not play him with Burns ( taylor) and let them develop together...then bring Ryan into the mix