Match Day Thread Hull City v Swansea

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I often wonder if Terry studied at the 'Kevin Keegan school of management.' Sadly we don't have the players KK had at his disposal.
 
Howden Tigress said:
Thought the game strangely entertaining, in a masochistic kind of way.

At least there was some fight in them, heads didn’t go down, but 4 goals for 1 point, hard work. Many questioned where the goals were coming from, good to see 4 different scorers. Calamitous defending though. How many times do we get done by set pieces, how you can leave a player totally unmarked in your own box from a corner is beyond me, surely not everyone turns off? Makes you wonder what they do in training. I thought Ayew showed his class, murdering our defence.

Substitutions baffling, taking Maddison off? He was probably our most dangerous player, fair enough if injured as some question, but Honeyman doesn’t do anything for me. He’s not creative, doesn’t tackle, just runs around a lot, usually arriving when the ball has gone!

All in all, a point is not to be sniffed at, another point for safety, just hugely frustrating to be in front 3 times, apart from the last 5 mins, when desperately seeking the equaliser. Thank goodness we don’t have VAR, as last goal looked offside to us?!
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Saw it on tv, looked like he was played onside by defenders boot!
 
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Godrevy Buoy said:
I have no doubt the defence will get seriously better when Jordy and Reece return fit. We look a different team with them in the side. The real problem for me is the possession. Our stats have been ridiculous and we never have the lions share of possession in any game. In some games we have been absolutely over run. The midfield needs seriously sorting out and we need to find our players with passes. Our points return over the last seven or eight games is abysmal and we are bottom of the form tables. We can’t defend set pieces which is surely a training ground issue. The changes in games at critical points have been baffling and Terry must be watching a different game at times. If we can survive the drop, that should not be taken lightly, then we need to find this club a proper captain in the summer, a midfield general if you like. You need your leaders on the pitch who can battle hard and grind out a bit of possession. No yellows again last night and Swansea got three. No wonder we don’t get the possession. We need to be harder and more professional. It’s much harder to score without the ball than with it.
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Do you think we need a new manager to go with a new captain and someone in midfield who can tackle/take possession from the opposition?
 
look_back_in_amber said:
Nah, at least Henriksen has some quality, I currently see nothing in Irvine. What does Irvine bring to the team? Ironically the fact that McCann has made him captain seems to highlight to a greater degree his deficiencies.
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It's funny. I used to get frustrated with Henriksen for passing backwards/sideways but if we could do this now we might have more possession. I also thought about our last away match at Wolves (the year they went up). We had what we all thought was a disjointed team on the pitch but Meyler just ran the midfield for long spells, simply keeping the ball away from Wolves who were flying. We got a point from a memorable team performance.
 
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Sir Cheshire Ben said:
Wasn’t Eaves behind the ball when it was crossed? Can you be offside for that nowadays? I thought if you were behind the ball you couldn’t be offside?

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Exactly. It's as clear as daylight that he wasn't offside thanks to the rugby lines. They mentioned that on the sky commentary. Our only dubious goal was Maddison's where Magennis had their defender in an excellent headlock and was blocking the goalie's view too (and was in an offside position).
 
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the officials last night were even worse than our defending - the lino with the fair hair didn't understand offside, didn't understand throw ins - we took one with the whole boot on the pitch but apparently that's ok, didn't seem to understand much at all and as for the ref - had to laugh when Swansea were away with the ball and he brought it all the way back to give them a free kick - anyway - if we learnt anything last night it was that we need our best defenders back quickly, our new attack can score goals as long as the opposition defenders are **** and our midfield desperately needs someone who can pass - makes you wonder what was going through Planks head when he gave Henriksen away
 
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StCloudTiger said:
Your capatain would be who?
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It’s really Hobson’s choice currently but one the very last choices for me would be Irvine, he seems to spend every game either clasping his hands in prayer and looking to the sky after missing yet another opportunity, or misplacing yet another pass.

It wasn’t until a recent post from someone that made clear the similarity between him and Honeyman, they both run around a lot but, for the most part, with very little end result.

For me the natural leader in our squad is Jordy, but until he’s back in the team I’d probably go for Maddison.
 
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Evington said:
Do you think we need a new manager to go with a new captain and someone in midfield who can tackle/take possession from the opposition?
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Certainly I am not convinced by McCann at all yet but maybe he can learn from his obvious mistakes. As I say, the stats don’t lie. We need a better midfield general who can tackle and retain the ball. It’s shocking how we don’t put a leg in at certain times and how easy it is to walk through the City midfield. No bookings last night against three tells a tale in my opinion. I know everyone says this but we desperately need another Ashbee to take the armband again. Easier said than done I know but it would be my number one priority area in the summer.
 
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Leon T Trout AFC said:
**** the ‘going rate wages’ on offer or the chance to play for a so called ‘championship club with a decent recent pedigree’, any player worth his salts coming here would look beyond vulgarities such as wages and contracts.

Thank **** little Josh Tymon, oppressed within an inch of his toes here, managed to find football asylum with lucrative 5 year contract with a then PL club.
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And a chance to prove himself. He’s really shown how good he is.
 
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Leon T Trout AFC said:
**** the ‘going rate wages’ on offer or the chance to play for a so called ‘championship club with a decent recent pedigree’, any player worth his salts coming here would look beyond vulgarities such as wages and contracts.

Thank **** little Josh Tymon, oppressed within an inch of his toes here, managed to find football asylum with lucrative 5 year contract with a then PL club.
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I art bein funny but at the risk of a crass and obvious pun......he no longer has tymon his side.

His career trajectory has flopped dismally even if his investments and SIPP portfolio has flourished.
 
City Man said:
I art bein funny but at the risk of a crass and obvious pun......he no longer has tymon his side.

His career trajectory has flopped dismally even if his investments and SIPP portfolio has flourished.
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It was a pretty good pun actually.


Anyways, on to the financial advice...



Bitcoin apparently.


So long as you're quick, slick and full of, ummm, sick?


And understand biorhymics and elastico-futures and pension plan offset triage escarpment fund-puffins.



Which, laughably, we all do. Obvs.


Oh, and cash initialised non-returnable past futures.


And the Asian squatting market.


Don't forget to factor in quim returns and the gusset averages.


You'd be a fool not to!




If your pension plans don't provide for you and yours, then you've only yourself to blame.
 
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