I'm still leaning towards survival, but all it will take to change my mind is back to back defeats and/or dropping into the bottom 3. Groundbreaking stuff I know
What? Central midfield is where we’re stacked. I’d sell Slater and Palmer in the summer. Would rather have Mehlem back.
With the players we've got coming back I still firmly believe if we bring two good full backs into this side we're a different team altogether. That's how damaging our current options are. First instinct is to turn back almost every time. Pedro pushed wide tonight in one instance, Coyle had time and so much space to set him off and he chose otherwise. Pedro looked exasperated and Coyle raised his hand in apology. There's too much of that still going on constantly. The difference now is we don't have the prem quality players to turn that type of play into results off their own backs a la Delap, Philogene and Carvalho. We need to attack as a team and it starts at the back... Except for us, it doesn't.
This is the first time I feel we are going down this year. What I saw didn't convince me that team has the will or the quality to fight for survival. Hope I'm wrong but I doubt it. So disappointed in what I watched.
Yes, noticed that with Coyle. And he isn’t the only one guilty of that. A lack of vision amongst too many of our players.
Not directed at you, but this is the only thing consistent about this season. The fans constant u turn reaction after every contrasting result. Wednesday the performance was crap but the defence did their job and we nicked it and then it’s all sunshine and rainbows with regards to staying up. Now we’ve lost again and all of a sudden everyone’s convinced we go down
It's exhausting. This morning was a good set of results for us (bar our own). Luton and stoke now have one less game to overtake us and both have dropped 2 points essentially. One of their winnable games ticked off. We may lose to Cov and then people will be screeching about finally losing two in a row but then we close out the season with 4 good games. Cardiff and stoke play each other next so one of them definitely drops points, maybe both.
It’s just adding another layer to this already mind numbing season. We are ****, yet people are still convinced we have last seasons squad judging by their reactions to when we lose. Funnily enough, teams at the bottom tend to be inconsistent and put in **** performances. Usually explains why they’re at the bottom
As Cardiff play Stoke next we’re guaranteed to be out of the relegation zone with 4 games remaining. We’d have all taken that when Walter left.
If Gelhardt had made the correct decision and passed to Crooks instead of Pedro we would have gone 1-0 up. If Gelhardt had bothered to track his man it would have remained 0-0. He’s an excellent player and was causing them problems but he also made some really poor decisions tonight.
'We will keep pushing for play-offs' - Cleverley Watford manager Tom Cleverley told BBC 3CR: "I am super, super proud this evening of a group of really inexperienced players, really maturely seeing out a game, determined to win the game, and lead by their captain [Sissoko], who was outstanding all night. "Until [the play-offs] is mathematically out of the question, we will keep pushing for it. "For us, the next game is the only one we focus on. I want to show progress, I want this group to get back on an upward trajectory. We've equalled last year's points tally. "If sixth is that upward curve, that's almost a miracle, but if that's eighth, or ninth, we want to finish the season strongly." Hull manager Ruben Selles told BBC Radio Humberside: "We were competitive enough, the game was won in one action, they had a little bit more quality into the final third. "We gave up pressure too easily for their goal, and we defended out of structure. We can do much better tracking the runner. "We have got a lot of good situations in the last few months. We didn't get the results today, but we have not been inconsistent. The league is very competitive. "The players are dealing with [the relegation battle] as well as they can do it. I do not see a team, or a player, that cannot deal with this situation."
Whoever it was, they let them run past them and this led to an easy unchallenged cross. It was Slater. Watford commentators said Gelhardt - probably as it was on our right hand side. Should have been busting a gut in there to stop the cross instead of jogging.
Syd, if that was Kamara’s attempt at tracking back he’d be hung drawn and quartered (not necessarily by yourself) but the attempt at stopping the cross was factually pathetic.
Understood but Coyle was also culpable for being turned inside out, and the CBs did absolutely nothing with the ball in the box. And all that being said it was still a very good finish. Picking out Slater for criticism just rings a bit hollow when you go after him every week.
