Naturally his comments were as you would expect. "We were unlucky." "Bad defending cost us." "Two bad defensive lapses cost us." However, he also highlighted what he thought was a big difference between the two sides in the presence of our £3 million strike-force. Do you think our £3 million strike-force could be the difference between us and any team bearing in mind our 'massive' goal haul so far this season?
Something that someone posted earlier, on another thread: It looked like (today) the strikers were given their leash and the mids were allowed to move, rather than just protect the back four. Will Nicky B go along like this? to make us a more attacking side?
I don't know where he gets that from, we were quite clearly the better team all over the shop today. All the boys put in a shift. Derby were playing the longball game for the majority of the match. We started the first half a bit shakily but got through it, and Gulasci didn't have much to do. The first goal had a solid build up- pass, pass, pass and a great run from Rosey was only bettered by the ball through to Fryatt and his neat finish. Their players kept him onside, but that doubt helped Fryatt, as their keeper seemed to expect the lino to put up his flag and award them a freekick. The second goal was another good bit of skill. You know what Stewart will do when he's in behind the defenders and his jinking run ended in a howler from their keeper. That's the only unlucky aspect of their performance. They came out the traps better in the second half, as they needed to, but we contained them easily enough. What i really enjoyed was our ability to pass them to death. The pass and move session, almost training ground warm upesque, was terrific to watch. It may have brought a third when Brady got the ball wide on the right and came inside, beat their left back to test their keeper. They wasted every opportunity they got from Gulasci flapping at crosses and the odd bit of indecision from our back 4 and the mix ups on the line. The only thing they beat us on was possession stats according to the BBC website. Man of the Match for me- Dudgeon. He was terrific and he's coming on leaps and bounds. Ref & Linos were awful. The booking for Mclean when he was tackled, but had already in the process of striking the ball and accidently kicked their defender, was a joke.
Noone could be worse than that twat, Mike Newell, who used to manage Luton when we were neck and neck with them. Used to appear on the local news round here every week and if they won, it was because they were awesome and deserved it, and if they lost, it was because the other team were a dirty cynical bunch of lucky bastards and had a biased ref on their side. Every game. Made that 4-0 at the KC all the more sweet.
A couple of threads on different boards about this so I thought I'd have a listen. Nigel Clough's a far more tolerant man than i am. That reporter should have been left trying to fill in 4:58 of a five minute interview after having been told to **** right off. Obnoxious ****e.
cant disagree on any of that, although i d give Fryatt MoM. For some reason he looked a different player!
I think the Derby fans agree with you. http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=181&fid=16&sty=2&act=1&mid=2115899811
Well Craig these post speak volumes, seems the Derby fans see it how all the city fans who where there saw it.
What surprises me is how 30000 or so sould turn up to watch Derby and have to put up with a performance like that. I know what stick the Hull public would give to Nigel Clough were he to be the manager at the KC after that. Their 'massed ranks' hardly made any noise throughout the whole of the match (they only ever sing Derby, Derby anyway) and by the time 85 mins was up on the clock nearly the whole of the end behind the goal opposite us was virtually empty. I have also heard the interview and whilst the radio guy was a bit cutting at the beginning, Cloughie's comments that they were unlucky was hysterical. Surely the Derby public can't have been ripped off at £28 for a ticket and £31 on the day FFS.
I feel a bit sorry for the Derby supporters really. They are the least pretentious of the three main East Midlands teams, but Clough does seem to be out of his depth.
