we'd have picked up points. Hence, I dont think its time to panic. Hill should've had a replacement in by now, money or no money, but lets not make out he's suddenly turned into a bad manager, 3 weeks ago we were worried he'd get poached. Hold your nerve.
Spot on. I was going to post something similar yesterday about this forum being worried about one of the Lancashire trio poaching him only 3-4 games ago.
I was not worried about that but agree we woudl have picked points up had Davies been playing. The worry comes when he does come back and we still don't pick points up or that he gets flogged for nowt in Jan...
Thing is i think we could have had messi up front for the last month and we'd be no better off because of the way we are playing the game.
I disagree I think we are seeing plenty of the ball and passing it around well, but we are lacking 'penetration' and thats what Davies was providing. He's a focal point striker, prepared to shoot and difficult to defend against when he's got the ball. Thats probably why Hill has found him so difficult to replace, in fairness, but without him we are struggling. The one-nil defeats against Hull and Huddersfield and the 2-0 against Derby wouldve been different with Davies on the pitch. 5 points from those and we wouldnt be having this debate.
I dare say I could stand to lose a few pounds, but TFP is condemned to live with that face for the rest of his life the ugly lovely person.
Are you suggesting that the SAME group of people who were worried that Hill would get poached are the same people that now think he is hopeless? If you ARE, then you are wasting your time trying to debate with them. There are a number of us that fall somewhere in between those two posts.
The number of times we had opportunites to shoot at Hull and against Palace...had they fallen to Davies we could be 4 or even 6 points better off now.
"we are seeing plenty of the ball and passing it around well" tip tapping from one wing to the other aint good football. I noticed on saturday we started long balling it at harewood after the tip tapping. What we are lacking is a jacob butterfield who can take the ball from the defenders, keep hold of it, drive us forward and then either pick out a great pass or run and take a shot. At the moment we have the likes of Mellis - good as he is but with a heart like a pea. He has lost his bottle to take the ball on and have a go - instead now he would rather lay it off to someone else. Trouble is half the rest of the squad have lost their bottle as well. We are lacking leaders out there to take hold of the game with the scruff of the neck and go win it. Too much dawdling, not enough bottle and not enough killer instinct. RNL showed more of this in 20 mins that what we saw for the other 70 mins.
7 in 11 this season and has been in good form and looks as though he's prepared to shoot at every opportunity now.
