A massive mixture of feelings in last night's game, ending in pure joy. I personally thought the subs of kakay and Bonner were bang on. Both struggled. Our corners are crap, really crap. I loved seeing Kelman sprinting to close down in the 96th minute despite being 4-2 up. The icing on the cake was a return of £810 from Colback, Gooch and Stevens to be booked, over 7.5 corners and both teams to score. Win win
Good line from Marti about sometimes achieving, rather than deserving, the winning result. We did just that last night, despite a number of failings we got the result we needed. Marti made the right decisions and it paid off. I see the corner ahead and we just might be beginning to turn it, slowly but assuredly. A tough game ahead at Preston on a Friday evening in November - a lot of players wouldn’t be up for that one. Huge rewards if we can pull off a surprise (especially if Huddersfield lose tonight and Saturday). Sounds like Willock will start, expect Cannon to start too. Time to use the squad but you would also want to reward the players from tonight to achieve another result.
There's no doubt that we were second best last night until the sending off. I still think we played like one of the worst QPR sides I've seen, but maybe, just maybe Marti can get enough out of them. This result could be a massive turning point. Conceding on half time when Dykes should have put us 2 up, conceding to go 1-2 behind against 10 men and then struggling to keep the ball with an extra player. All of this could of spelled the end, but we had the spirit and Marti found the subs, to turn it around. I like Dixon Bonner, but he needs to stop coughing up possession so much. We must improve the corner taking. We do look a much, much better side with Cannon and Clarke Salter. There is hope............ Maybe.
I’m pretty sure Cannon won’t start Westie. He doesn’t look like the sort of bloke to make a fuss but there was a lot of grimacing going on when the ball was out of play. If he was properly fit he would have started, he could be our best player. It will be interesting to see what happens with Willock. He did take a knock and made a drama of it, limping around and looking at the bench for a few minutes, but then ran it off. Hopefully his goal will remind him that some injuries are worse than others. If he gets his mojo back and starts taking players on again, we have him Chair, Smyth and Dixon Bonner with the ability to beat the player in front of them (lesser spotted Richards too, but I wouldn’t bank on him getting a kick if he didn’t last night), which if they can conjure up some end product, would be great to watch. oh, and ****ING HELL WE WON!!!!
From listening to Marti last night... can see we might be playing a central defensive partnership of Field and Paal in front of Cook and Clark Salter. Sounds fairly solid to me
Anyone seen a clip of Dykes's horrendous miss at 1-0? It's not on any highlights package. I'm only surprised he notched the penalty. When he's got time to think about what he's gonna do, he usually stiffs it. But when he acts more instinctively, he can finish like his second goal. Hugely frustrating player. But I guess, all we can do is back him on the field to try and get him firing consistently.
Good game to flick through the match thread for on the commute home. The spirit and desire is there and that might be enough. The ability isn’t. We got lucky and I think we were due some luck but eight times in ten we lose that game.
I agree with most of what you say Col but I thought we were by far the better team in the first half. We had two or three clear cut chances to score before they did. Smyth and Dykes spring to mind. Did Chair have a decent chance too? Their goal before half time was their first shot that I remember.
Beth, I told you last night that we would win lol. I thought we would need a clean sheet but never imagined we would concede two and score four. Great feeling walking out of the ground singing "hi ho silver lining". It has been so long since we sang that song on the way out.
I'm with you SB, I have had enough of Colback. Liability, walking yellow card. Not sure what the love in was all about last night. He played well for 10-15 mins, max.
Well he’s here for a long time unless someone is dumb enough to take him so he’s going to be playing. I don’t rate him either but last night was better as the obligatory booking came late.
