Poyet out now

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Could Gus not see that we did not win a 50/50 ball all the first half and were always second to the loose ball. Surely he must understand that to pass the ball you have to have the ball and to win the ball you must be quicker than your opponent, tackle harder or have better positional play. Most of our squad are not blessed with lightening pace, tackle like fairies and have the positional sense of a snowman in the Sahara desert. All the crowd wanted last night was to see the culprits at least show a modicum of effort and attempt to show the opponents that they were on the pitch.

Ha ha... Love it.
Welcome marra

 

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Could Gus not see that we did not win a 50/50 ball all the first half and were always second to the loose ball. Surely he must understand that to pass the ball you have to have the ball and to win the ball you must be quicker than your opponent, tackle harder or have better positional play. Most of our squad are not blessed with lightening pace, tackle like fairies and have the positional sense of a snowman in the Sahara desert. All the crowd wanted last night was to see the culprits at least show a modicum of effort and attempt to show the opponents that they were on the pitch.

Good first post mate

 

[C19RK73]

Last night was an embarrassment! Two of the best players against Swansea were Graham and Alvarez. Danny Graham couldn't even get on last night even though we were 2-down and desperately needing something up front! Gomez, once again, was selected before Alvarez. I have seen many poor performances in my many years supporting SAFC but Gomez against QPR must surely be the worst! He couldn't make a pass, was slow from the start, was frequently out of position and left PVA totally exposed down the wing. How he stayed on for 45 minutes was beyond me! Finally, in Bridcutt we have a player who, sadly, just isn't good enough. He covers a lot of ground (half of it going backwards and forwards to Poyet to get his next set of instructions!) but lacks ability. He must be coached that it is possible to pass the ball forward - it doesn't have to go sideways or back and he can make defence splitting passes (we live in hope!!).
Bradford on Sunday will be a different challenge and no doubt Poyet will be ready to blame the awful playing surface at Valley Parade which will negate his wonderful passing game tactics! I bet Jon Stead and Billy Knott can't wait. Then it will be West Brom who Tony Pulis will have very well organised and hard to break down. What excuses will Poyet have for this one...............

Could Gus not see that we did not win a 50/50 ball all the first half and were always second to the loose ball. Surely he must understand that to pass the ball you have to have the ball and to win the ball you must be quicker than your opponent, tackle harder or have better positional play. Most of our squad are not blessed with lightening pace, tackle like fairies and have the positional sense of a snowman in the Sahara desert. All the crowd wanted last night was to see the culprits at least show a modicum of effort and attempt to show the opponents that they were on the pitch.

Bang In for me like

 

[Brian Storm]

Last night was an embarrassment! Two of the best players against Swansea were Graham and Alvarez. Danny Graham couldn't even get on last night even though we were 2-down and desperately needing something up front! Gomez, once again, was selected before Alvarez. I have seen many poor performances in my many years supporting SAFC but Gomez against QPR must surely be the worst! He couldn't make a pass, was slow from the start, was frequently out of position and left PVA totally exposed down the wing. How he stayed on for 45 minutes was beyond me! Finally, in Bridcutt we have a player who, sadly, just isn't good enough. He covers a lot of ground (half of it going backwards and forwards to Poyet to get his next set of instructions!) but lacks ability. He must be coached that it is possible to pass the ball forward - it doesn't have to go sideways or back and he can make defence splitting passes (we live in hope!!).
Bradford on Sunday will be a different challenge and no doubt Poyet will be ready to blame the awful playing surface at Valley Parade which will negate his wonderful passing game tactics! I bet Jon Stead and Billy Knott can't wait. Then it will be West Brom who Tony Pulis will have very well organised and hard to break down. What excuses will Poyet have for this one...............

Could Gus not see that we did not win a 50/50 ball all the first half and were always second to the loose ball. Surely he must understand that to pass the ball you have to have the ball and to win the ball you must be quicker than your opponent, tackle harder or have better positional play. Most of our squad are not blessed with lightening pace, tackle like fairies and have the positional sense of a snowman in the Sahara desert. All the crowd wanted last night was to see the culprits at least show a modicum of effort and attempt to show the opponents that they were on the pitch.

100% agree lads. And welcome to the board Del.

 

[concrete tony]

QPR simply wanted it more. Our players could not match or did not want to match the work rate. To blame the crowd was pathetic. The crowd actually got behind the team in the second half despite a cowardly performance by the players in the first half. Gus must accept that the players he has cannot play like Barcelona. Last night they couldn't even match Barnsley's standards. I'm not buying that highly paid professional footballers can be knocked off their stride by a passionate home crowd.

Maybe next game nobody should go to the game so we don't put the players off