| Manager 16:57 - Nov 8 with 12487 views | sixnil |
Smith and Saito not used in a match that was made for them. I have struggled to understand team selection in the last few matches. Help |  | | |  |
| Manager on 16:36 - Nov 10 with 807 views | JamesB1979 |
| Manager on 13:00 - Nov 10 by Hunterhoop |
Yeah, fair. That’s kind of the point. This was meant to be the year of progression. Hoos and Nourry felt Cifuentes was holding them back. They have had the Eze money come in. We invested and improved the squad. The league seems to have few runaway, strong teams. And I know the internal target is top half, so inside the club they recognise this is the year to progress. And yet we find ourselves 16th, still with good runs and bad runs. Groundhog Day.
On those matches, Ipswich and Southampton, agree. Fair.
But Derby? We’ve spent money too…we beat them 4-0 in the second half of last season. I went and we never turned up. They played with 3 times the intensity.
Millwall? Similar budget to us. We were at home. They are functional but not to be feared. Our standards should be to win that game.
Sheff Utd? Clive says it all in the preview. They are a mess, had been beaten by lots of teams at home, are bottom 3, and weren’t very good.
We’ve never going to progress up from 16th -18th if our standards are one of a team who is 16th-18th. We then give ourselves excuses to remain where we are. With the squad we had for Ainsworth’s season (and Ainsworth, himself!), fair enough, we couldn’t expect better than that. Cifuentes achieved better somehow. Last season, with all the new European lads bedding in, again, okay, 16-18th is fair. But this season with further investment, some actual strikers, surely we should be pushing on?
Hopefully we can and do after the international break. |
I find myself feeling more negative about things that you Hunter, which surprises me compared to our normal discussions.
That said, we played reasonably well against Millwall but conceding first was a killer in that game. I wasn’t overly concerned about that one. As for Sheffield United, well they have a good manager at this level and some good players. They are not in great form but we are beginning to see some improvement. I was happy with the point but the performance could have been better. Swansea we were rubbish but we won. Derby we were poor.
I’m more negative at the moment, partly because I’m always on HMS Piss the league when we win and think we’re getting relegated when we lose. But also because when I look back on our performances, I thought we’ve been good vs Stoke, Wrexham, 1st half of Charlton, 1st half Preston…and ok vs Millwall and Southampton. I don’t think we were good at all vs Swansea or Bristol but we won, so who cares I guess. Poor vs Oxford, Wednesday, Sheffield United, Derby, Coventry, Watford, Ipswich…….so we’ve been poor in over half our games (and that’s being generous). And whilst we did show improvement we have regressed. We don’t seem to know our best team or the right style of play or the formation that works best. And the manager seems to think we are doing well. So take that all together, I’m not that confident for the rest of the season. | | | |
| Manager on 17:08 - Nov 10 with 699 views | Hunterhoop |
| Manager on 16:11 - Nov 10 by TK1 |
I have no idea what this "open play Martin O'Neil Justice League" table of the last six games really means, because I am thick.
But I am taking it nonetheless as proof of my sense that we're not playing as badly as results suggest. (And that nobody should feel quite so gloomy about being 16th!)
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Means we are scoring fewer goals than we are expected to, since the last international break, doesn’t it? It’s not a good reflection on our forwards. But encouraging we’re creating then. I’d like to see the trend though. We had a high xG against Millwall and Swansea, for example. It was decent against Southampton but pretty poor against Derby and Sheff Utd, I think. |  | | |
| Manager on 09:07 - Nov 11 with 423 views | TheChef |
| Manager on 17:08 - Nov 10 by Hunterhoop |
Means we are scoring fewer goals than we are expected to, since the last international break, doesn’t it? It’s not a good reflection on our forwards. But encouraging we’re creating then. I’d like to see the trend though. We had a high xG against Millwall and Swansea, for example. It was decent against Southampton but pretty poor against Derby and Sheff Utd, I think. |
For sure at Derby I barely recall any attempts on goal, other than the Kone free header miles over the bar  |  |
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