first of all it is correct to say that Hassel was indeed our best player and therefore man of the match but was only as good as O.K. Foster and JCR were acceptable, young Butterfield showed promise and did well when he came on.As for the rest , well Piss Poor talks them up. To be fair to Davey though, yes we did have at least 3 gilt edged chances that even a league 2 striker would have eaten alive, and yes it was a penalty on Odejayi.But our woeful strike force would have trouble targetting the proverbial cow's Arse with the proverbial Banjo. but our tactics and substitutions where once again a mystery. Southampton were about of the same standard but did take the chance when it came, and if we are honest did have a as many chances to score as we did.Today saw two poor sides who will be in the bottom 8 somewhere come the end of the season. THIS IS NOT PROGRESS.
Agree, so why give Davey the money to spend, he's going to waste it....... on no better than we've already got, I'm genuinely scared shitless at the thought of him bringing players in.
You must have gone to the game today? With an analysis like that surely? Not that I disagree with you mind, it's just I couldn't single out one player from the next by listening to the wireless.
RE: You must have gone to the game today? you had no need to differentiate , on the whole they were dross, one or too achieved average and no more, and yes...sat with JLWBL
Fair enough First for everything. 5 first teamers out injured though, and 5 first teamers that would get into any side in the top 10 of the Championship. Panic stations from some people who only a week ago were saying what a successful Christmas period we had.
hang on a minute I think anyone with eyes can see that we're an improving side - there has been year on year progress since Davey took over. He has one the tightest budgets in the division and he has to speculate and cut his cloth accordingly - even with that we have seen players come into the side who are much better that what they replaced. Davey has also had the courage to stand up to the disruptives and show them the door for not conducting themselves properly - many people (me included) raised an eye brow when we accepted what we did for Howard and let him go to United - but it looks like good business now. The likes of Muller, Foster, Anderson, JCR, Hume have been class signings. We look much much better than we did when we came up (God only knows how we kept us up that year). What we're seeing is not uncommon - clubs with small budgets find it much harder to attract quality strikers than to attract quality centre halves or even midfielders. When it comes to the crunch the market for quality goal scorers is always going to be hideously competitive - and guess what, we're struggling to afford one (when we actually need two). Getting rid of Davey is not an answer to that problem. It's called throwing out the baby with the bath water - it'd only make life harder. Give him £4 million for a twenty goal striker, and then criticise him if he gets it wrong. With what he's got to work with, he's making steady progress. Rome wasn't built in a day. We have to be patient. We haven't got the resources to demand massive over night improvements. (how many metaphors have I mixed up in there? )
Some badly needed realism there Top post. To add to that, if we'd have sneaked 3 points today with the same performance, how different would the tone on this board actually be? We lose one game and Davey hasn't got a clue, we win 3 in a row . . . . . . . . . and he still hasn't got a clue.
thing is, I am very very confident we will NOT go down, however... I think that Simon has reached his level and that a bottom 8 finish is as good as it gets with him as manager.Bottom 10 at best.
if we get a decent reliable goal scorer we're a good mid-table side And that's with Davey in charge. If we want to be a play-off side, we'd then need to step up a gear at the back. Bottom line there is not Davey - it's cash or having the patience to wait for the right player at the right price.
RE: Some badly needed realism there I was feeling a bit left out for not wanting to apportion blame to all and sundry. Knees jerking like Morgans elbow tonight. I know we didnt play well but created enough to win comfortably. Only gripe I have is that apart from JCR, Foster and Muller, all of the players ran up the tunnel without acknowledging the fans (those of us that didnt boo).
