If a Prem team had bought Willock in January we would not even make the play-offs. Without him in the two games against the worst two teams in the league, we never really looked like scoring. Really depressing!
I do agree about Willock’s importance in the team (he has, along with Dunne, impressed me most this season - great things to come yet from both). This was an overall poor team performance; as MW said in his interview, let’s not brush this performance aside and ‘only’ focus on Millwall now. We need to fix what we did badly as a team. It wasn’t that long ago it was all about Ilias Chair and how we are nothing without him - now it’s Chris Willock? We are better with both. We are even better with all the team firing on as many cylinders as are required to execute the game plan and be aggressive enough to take the points home to the dressing room. Our team spirit has been incredible this season. We need to use it now to pull everything back together and believe in ourselves as a team. We’ve done it through this season. Let’s pull it back positively again. Time for leaders to stand up now.
Start of the season the target was to sneak into the play offs. We've had a purple patch of results where we have ground out results we probably didn't deserve and all of a sudden automatic promotion is ours to grab. Now according to some instead of competing for automatic we're about to slide into an end of season battle against relegation (I exaggerate of course but they might as well have said it they were that negative) and we should be spending money on a gamble to make that happen. In the summer we will sell all our half decent players and then be doomed to another 5 years of relegation battles. Really? Mmm. That didn't happen when they sold Eze. There are still 16 games to go. Reading this thread you'd think our season is over. I wonder if Luton, Forest and Blackburn fans feel the same way. Not to mention Bournemouth's a few days ago. 'Ooh' I hear them say. 'No chance of making up the few more points we need between now and the start of May' Why? Because a good run of form came to an end. It happens and it will happen again to every club in the Championship.
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That about sums it up. Pointless possesion at the back. Not a forward pass in the team, a waste having 2 strikers on the pitch, which in my opinion doesnt work that well for us.
Whenever I've seen us play well, we've had a possession based game, but moved the ball quickly and forward into the tens. We seem to have stopped doing this, although I realise Willock was missing.
It's not the possession that is the problem. It is the speed and decision making of when to go forward. We must do it quicker. However. If we have only one no10 on field..the other one gets marked out of the game. Dykes is the target man, who lays off, to the 10s or other forwards. On Saturday...Chair was stinted, and Gray does not really get this playing format. We need two no10s ...if not Chair and Willock...then Amos or Thomas
It's no good crying we haven't got sufficient backup for Willock and Chair now, it should've been addressed in the window. It was blatant to anyone who'd watched us play all season. We don't play well with 2 strikers but Warbs won't stop because he's a stubborn bastard and knows that when Willock and Chair aren't available the back up isn't good enough to replace them !
Im not sure its being stubborn, he obviously believes in what hes doing. We are all masters of hindsight at times. Look at comments prior to the last two games when the team was announced. Strong line up, our best 11 etc etc. We go on to lose to two poor teams. Either its not our best 11 or strongest line up or we set up wrong. Poor decisions on the day, mistakes etc. Many things contribute towards a result. Its when the result goes against us due to negativity that really gets me.
Agreed, but I firmly believe that many coaches, because of their belief in what they're doing, can be far too slow to see that they're wrong about a certain line up, player, system etc. Opinions innit?
Who'd be a football manager, eh? One day you're the messiah, saving a club that was on a downward spiral prior to your arrival, next thing you're a stubborn bastard who hasn't got a clue what he's doing despite everything you've acheived in the previous 18 months. Opinions, eh
Come off it mate. When did I say he hasn't got a clue what he's doing? We're on a message board about all things QPR and people get all pissy because tactics, selections etc are discussed/sometimes disagreed with.
