Look at your league position. Excellent start to the season. Anyone can beat anyone in the Championship.
We have to give a bit of credit to Donny. They got very lucky with the goal, but once they had it, their concentration in shutting us out for 75 was superb. We needed a break which never came, theirs did and they took it. Patient passing, over the top balls, crosses, corners, even clever through balls were all cut out and dealt with. We tried everything and nothing fell for us. On most days, we'd have got something, but they went for 90 minutes without making a serious error defensively. As I say, fair play because that's what we used to do against top sides in the Prem. I don't think they'll win too many and possibly will go down, but they are showing the characteristics of their boss - which we all know only too well! Good luck to them I say.
... can't really argue with that ... he is prone to losing his composure ... but on balance he gains us more points than he loses ... and whilst his clanger yesterday did put us a goal behind, we had plenty of time to turn it around ... and he wasn't responsible for the lack of imagination in our tactical approach to breaking down a resolute and very physical Doncaster side ...
I like Kasper, he's a great shot stopper and he's got a hell of a kick on him. He's just prone to letting his mind wander occasionally like you say. I think by the time he's 30, he'll be a very, very good goalkeeper with a good high level career ahead of him for his last 5 or 10 years.
Pearson doesn't have a great record against his former players. 4 defeats in 4- 3 to Chris Powell's Charlton. I think today showed our lack of striking options- I hadn't realised Schlupp was on the pitch until the end of the game- he was on for 20 minutes! I think we need to start nurturing him as a striker so we at least have a plan B- we had an academy striker, Schlupp, who's started one game in attack all season, 2 defensive midfielders and 2 centre halves on the bench. Many of us, including Pearson, were worried that we didn't score enough against Barnsley and Yeovil; I think we could be seeing that if we're not careful. I want to avoid being too critical, but the attacking aspect of our game does worry me a little. On the plus side, I liked the look of Wasilewski when he came on, although I can't think of a way of accommodating him that doesn't involve dropping Moore or moving him into RB, both of which would be harsh.
We need Chris Wood fit to add competition with the strikers. Martyn Waghorn could yet prove useful in the 2nd half of the season depending on how his loan at Millwall goes.
Meh, one game, we played poorly... We were never going to carry on winning forever. Two defeats in our opening 11 league games is pretty good going for me. Shame to go in to the international break on a defeat, but after how last season ended and the pessimism expecting us to carry on as we finished, we've done pretty well It's how we bounce back from a defeat, shame it's two weekends away, but bring on Huddersfield at home!
We have started brilliantly. If we was offered this start we would have taken it so why are people nitpicking? Kasper made a mistake, but Kasper is his own biggest critic so he dont need people to get on his back. International break has come at the right time. But the bad news is Chris Wood and Sean St. Ledger have been called up despite being injured for quite a while. I know we are pretty powerless to stop them going for a competitive fixture but i doubt Nigel is happy either way But lets get them back, get GTF closer to match fitness and recharge the batteries and go again
