Very surprised that you thought Luongo was poor, Col - I had him as our MOM. How did others on here view his performance?
Thought he was in & out of the game at times & doesn't dominate like faulin in the middle, should play further up rather than holding midfielder, competed well but not one of his best games.
Thanks for the link, enjoyed watching those highlights, seemed quite a lively match. Whilst Smithies certainly kept us in the game at times, we could/should have scored a few more goals ourselves.
Got to give Connor, Nasser, Gladwin, Cole etc a chance now haven't we? Nothing to play for do let's blood some of these guys properly, it'd be criminal not to let Connor get a goal before the end of the season.
Thrilled to bits to see Robinson play, good performance too. He certainly takes no prisoners with his tackling. And what a strike from El Khayati to win the game in the dying seconds!
Speaking to Roller about this earlier and he said better find out if they can cut it now rather than wait until September, and I totally agree
Absolutely YES, but still JFH has to develop a team and with a collective spirit and ethos. He has to reward players for good performances and carrying out their jobs and when bringing in players he must not disturb the team balance and momentum. This, to me, is why he is not starting Cole, Gladwin, Petrusso, ElK and Conor all at once. I sort of understand this. So whilst I approve of the juggling, I really do not understand why Phillips is starting...he is the player who does not fit in with the team ethos. He will not be here next year, he doesn't want to be here. He is not the sort of player JFH seems to want in the team. He does not seem to be in the camaraderie group that the new players have formed. He is the only criticism I have of what JFH is doing. Having said that I am not yet sure Gladwin is the answer.....Gladwin needs to play this season, because without a rapid improvement I cannot see him here next season...This is why he came on instead of Conor yesterday and he did nothing
Amazing how you lot can see better at away games than at home, and are actually having negative feelings after a game we won! Either you're all drinking something too lovely at the Loft or the Addicks fed you some poison in the air and you saw the truth of our poor, poor team. I was amazed we can continue to play that poorly against a team who's about to go down.
I was equally surprised that you had him as your MOM. Speaking with Roller at half time, we both agreed that he should played further forward and not as a holding midfielder. I've always thought this and I thought he was ineffective yesterday playing alongside Henry.
I thought Luongo was on the periphery of the game. Hard to pick a MOM from that performance, but if pressed it would either be Smithies or Polter who put himself about all afternoon. As I've already said, Robinson had a decent game and lasted the 90 minutes which is promising after such a long absence. Nice little cameo from Gladwin & great strike from El Khayati, the rest looked they were wondering where they had left their passports ahead of the summer holidays.