Reality Check.

Trust me I was more annoyed by the boll ocks on the pitch than by your post.

 

That’s because my post was less boll ocks than yours.

 

Pathetic excuse.

Never is not right either.

Stick the coach in front of the cameras and get him to say "We're **** in midweek", as an excuse.

We were taught to play crap tonight. Told to hoof it "vertical". When we can play much better.

 

So you're admitting your post was boll ocks.

 

I’m pretty sure everything posted on here is!

 

I'll admit my post was a knee jerk reaction but I'm still concerned by the abject shower of ***** i've watched tonight.

 

I agree it was poor tonight but hopefully Saturday will be better!

 

Now now come we lost, 6 points from last 9. Would you rather we were Wednesday or we drew all 3 games. If we take 6 points from every 9 (doubtful I know).we'll be up near the top. Realistically if we can pick up 12-15 points from every 10 games we'll be safe. There are 3 worst teams than us, and how many are struggling financially?

 

I've just posted on another thread that in spite of results we looked better under Murray. I don't think we were organised at all tonight.

 

Okay. Not everything is!

 

Bad selection, if we've not got the players due to injury then put out a team that will play to the percentages and grind it out. All Cardiff did tonight after bad results was play to their strengths have a solid foundation. Especially away from home you need to make it hard for the home team not gift a goal within 4 minutes.

 

I wouldn’t have hated Murray as boss. I think he’s done okay both times as interim. Hopefully, it’s just one of those games after a busy (and mostly successful) week!

 

You seem to be the one writing your own headlines!!! Are you gonna be the usual suspect on Adeboyajos back ? Why mention him when he was no worse tonight than any of the other forwards.

 

Totally agree BR, plus I would imagine that the expectation of the majority of our fan base
of getting anything against Cardiff City away in any season is very low. Given the horrendous start that we
made in the sixth minute and the uneccesary challenge for their penalty, in the end I wasn't in the least
bit surprised to dip by three goals to nil.

After their first goal, without being able to test their goalkeeper, I thought we passed it around quite well,
but as we witnessed ,with Simoes and Schmidt up front we were very poor. Definitely need a couple of
strikers who are presently without a club, yet can hold their own in the EFL.

Sadly, even though they've not been playing too well themselves this season, without coming across as a defeatist,
for similar reasons to those that prevailed this evening, I am fully expecting us to come away from Pride Park
on Saturday, with absolutely zilch.

As the OP rightly points out, in Williams, Brittain and Woodrow, we are missing three of our better players.
The sooner we are able to restore them to the match day squad, the sooner our fortunes might take a
change for the better.

 

I still don't think we give the poor strikers we have opportunities to score if that makes sense. Yes they are bad but lumping it to them doesn't help we looked good when Chaplin and Schmidt peeled off wide for diagonals. When we went down the middle it gifted possession back. Play it long down the channels too.

 

I’m not sure I understand the point you’re making.

I was pointing out that the overreaction to the result was a bit daft based on the differences in quality/cost of respective squads.

I used adeboyajo as an example of someone who we were relying upon compared to the quality they have. Certainly not a criticism of him but more an indication that our manager might not have the same quality to draw upon as his counterpart and therefore to give him and the team a hard time after a successful week (as some were doing was unfair.

as lfor Adeboyajo, I agree he was no worse than anyone else up front tonight however I don’t think that makes him
a championship striker (hardly a controversial opinion based on his record with us or on loan) and I don’t think that makes me someone who is writing headlines by which I meant being ridiculously reactionary following our first loss in a while!

 

Not making excuses bit historically we're not good midweek. I agree we can play better but werent able to outmuscke Cardiff tonight. I missed a large chunk of the first half but it seems we were caught napping for the goal?

 

For me the biggest issue was at right back where Frieser clearly didn’t fit that role. So Val changed it early, but too late given a goal came from our weakness. But personally as an armchair coach I would have played one striker and loaded the midfield, especially as we would have been better with one striker who couldn’t pass, shoot, hold it, tackle than 3 that couldn’t. I said that before the game and it hurt to see how weak we are in the striker dept. Playing away against a physical team with arguably some of our key players missing I would have had a different game plan than norm. However I can’t help thinking how much our lack of investment at full back and striker positions has and will cost us points.

 

Nailed it