As others have said, we just lost to a better team tonight, it happens in football. I'm fairly sure Hull will be playing in the Premier League next season now, and on tonights showing they deserve it. I remember when we were in their position, so I wish them luck. We have to forget about tonight, write it off as a bad day at the office and make damn sure we beat Leicester on Saturday. Before last week I expected a maximum of 3 points out of 9, so we're up on that. We played some decent stuff in the first half, but in the second they adapted better to the conditions, showed their quality in the final third, and generally wanted the win more. I'm sure there are plenty of excuses to be trawled out - the players were tired etc. but none of it matters. We've got three easier games than that one coming up (assuming Cardiff are done with their play off push by the last day), I'm sure we'll be fine so long as we don't get beaten Saturday. Then it would be squeaky bum time, but we'll do it. Keep the faith - it isn't that bad. PS. 3400 Hull fans? 10000 Barnsley fans? I don't think so!
Hull played well But that second half was a disgrace. The decision to change to 442 was the equivalent of waving a white flag.
In hindsight it was a bad idea - Campbell-Ryce barely got a kick 2nd half, Leon was less effective and we created nothing till injury time. Having said that I often think 5-3-2 is too negative at home, and changing to 4-4-2 should in theory have given us more attacking options. Plenty around me were suggesting it after 10 mins, so it shows we're not all experts. It seemed strange to me that Nyatanga was sacrificed though, Souza seemed to be struggling first half, if a CB was to go I'd have expected it to be him
RE: In hindsight the 5-3-2 isn't something we should play at home, but without Howard and De Silva I think it's the best option at the moment.
The sky team thought that Nyatanga had picked up a knock So it may have been an enforced substitution. In any case most of the season we have been at our best playing 442 so cant really knock Davey for trying it, just didnt work thats all.
don't know if that was meant to be a reply to me, but I wouldn't have a fkin clue what the sky team said. However, plenty of reds fans were sat there whinging about 5-3-2 and said we should be playing 4-4-2. I didn't think it was a bad plan either. Shows what I know. They were just a better team and we had a bad day, get over it