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Reply | Injuries
at 19:52 26 Dec 2024
Were they really all contact injuries earlier in the season? That was not my general impression before the club made that statement. It certainly hasn't been true since... |
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Reply | Injuries
at 19:41 26 Dec 2024
Marti mentioned it in a previous interview, as a problem he wants the club to deal with, but it seems to have gone backward.
I know it was extraordinarily good last season - which would be hard to maintain, but it has crashed dramatically. I know the main guy is overseeing from the Middle-East, but I hope he has some clue as to what has gone quite so wrong...and how to fix it! |
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Reply | Just Back...
at 19:36 26 Dec 2024
The first half was truly appalling, and like watching a practice match.
However, we started the game with two rusty centre backs, one recovering from injury, so it wasn't a huge suprise to see us get cut apart like that.
The learning we MUST take away, is to ensure we do not set up the team, nor mentally position ourselves as we did in that first half, and the ones against Bristol City and Oxford. I don't know why it happens, because we have played well in other games, but that meek surrending of the ball, position, and control without a meaningful press will get us walloped. More importantly, it shaves weeks off my life every time we play like that! |
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Thread | Swansea: Train station to the ground
at 21:43 23 Dec 2024
Hi there. Bit of advice needed please.
I've only ever driven to Swansea before, but am aiming to go by train on Thursday. Has anyone made the journey from the station to the ground by bus, cab or walk? Just wondering how easy it is before I decide to take the motor as usual.
Cheers. |
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Reply | Rs boo-boys
at 10:43 8 Dec 2024
Kevin Brock was great for Oxford, got off to a bad start with us and used to receive a lot of grief.
Much later, Josh Scowen, who always gave 100%, got some absolute dog's abuse. I think some charmer even abused his dad online.
Mark Nygaard used to get some, even Dexter Blackstock at times.
Have been an R since the mid-70s and have never booed one of our own. Felt like it on more than a few ocassions, but it's a line I drew for myself a long time ago. |
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Reply | Just Woke Up
at 21:09 7 Dec 2024
I am in SE Monmouthshire. So qualified for the storm with both the Wales and Bristol Channel warnings : ) All the government phone warnings went off when I was in Tesco yesterday evening. I had a flashback to cold war alerts, ducked under the deli counter, and covered myself in silver foil!
Originally a Londoner, but made the move to this beautiful part of the world 23 years ago. Hope you and your family are all OK and that all normal services have resumed. |
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Thread | Just Woke Up
at 17:49 7 Dec 2024
The land I now reside in was hit hard by the storm last night.
I figure I must have been knocked out cold by a falling tree or bolt of lightning.
Just woke up, after having the most amazing dream about us destroying Norwich City. It was lovely.
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Reply | Ray Jones' last minute winner downs Cardiff - History
at 22:03 26 Nov 2024
I remember well. I was at Ninian Park with a small band of fellow Rs.
Cardiff were by far the better team, and we went absolutely nuts when the goal went in.
After the goal, it turned very ugly. I seem to remember Cardiff fans singing a song along the lines of "There's gonna be a massacre outside".
It was at that point that I realised there wasn't very many of us there at all!!! Gulp. |
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Reply | Where have the goals gone in the Championship?
at 10:01 22 Nov 2024
Absolutely spot on, Brian.
It often appears to be 'possession without real purpose, maybe just a vague hope that something might happen if we kick the ball to one another for long enough' (a stupifying football lullaby). |
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Reply | Where have the goals gone in the Championship?
at 09:30 22 Nov 2024
I have been watching games since 1976. This recent shift to playing out from the back and passing from side to side is the most tedious phase of my supporting life. The fact that virtually every team is trying to do it makes it even more soul-sapping.
This phase of football methodology is like a really, really bad tribute act to the Barcelona team that so wonderfully captured and kept the ball in ways that mattered, and was brilliant to observe. |
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Reply | Is this season written off already?
at 19:03 9 Nov 2024
Last season my thread of hope was attached to the fact that Gareth's approach was not working and the team had some capacity to play better.
This season I am struggling to see how this turns around. There are so few goals in this team; the new players, other than Nardi and, maybe, Saito, are yet to prove themselves as effective in this league; we have some significant long-term injuries; and I really cannot see what our style or gameplan are. If the current unintelligible one is the model for our teams at all age groups I am bewildered...and I bet the other coaches are too!
I don't want to add to negative vibes, but this is a huge mess. Not being smashed today is good, but I cannot see where the wins will come from. Sorry... |
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Reply | Kieran Morgan
at 10:09 3 Nov 2024
I like him a lot. Given his age and relative inexperience, he could blossom into a really good player. I like his attempts to move the ball forward and hope we don't coach the risk out of him. He's going to mess up an occasional pass when he is trying to do the hard thing, and I am happy to live with that.
We have enough players pushing it from side to side, so let;s hope people don't get on his back if a searching pass doesn't quite make it. |
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Reply | Home form
at 10:05 3 Nov 2024
I am a psychologist and can tell you I wouldn't take that job! Definitely one for the exorcist : ) |
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Reply | Sunderland fans.
at 10:03 3 Nov 2024
There was a bloke sitting behind me in The School End who was clearly from Sunderland but trying to keep a lid on it. I started chatting to him and he was a decent bloke, Said if we keep playing like we did we would be safe! |
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Reply | Sunderland Reflection
at 19:38 2 Nov 2024
I went to the game expecting the worst. The first ten minutes were great and the fade away I expected didn't happen. Overall, pretty pleased with a very competent performance.
The Celar chance in the first half was right in front of me and was more difficult than it may have looked from elsewhere. It was hit at him pretty hard and not at an ideal angle. That said, we look so lacking in goal threat. It was the primary 'issue' today.
Varane looked like the player we believed we had signed. Masden's effort levels were higher. The young lad in midfield was positive in progressing the ball forward more swiflty. Field was excellent. Chair is understandably still shaking off the rust.
I've walked away feeling positive...but continue to worry how much the inability to score will impact us in the long run. Even if we continue to play as well, can we grab the points we need with such a blunt attack? |
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Reply | Annual set piece therapy – Analysis
at 17:38 11 Oct 2024
Could someone email a link to this article to the club please. I am pretty limited in my tactical analysis, but even I can understand the key thoughts that Dan shares. His take chimes with my frustrated sense of 'there had to have been a better way to defend that' as I watched most of those goals go in!
I was right in front of that first Palace goal and there was an embarassment to how easily they scored it.
Great to have Dan and his brainpower on the site. Cheers. |
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Reply | QPR Poppy
at 20:11 10 Oct 2024
Very nice. Just bought one : ) Thanks for brining it to my attention. |
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Reply | Remember the Alfie Lloyd interview? That was nice wasn’t it? - Column
at 19:11 10 Oct 2024
Great article Alex. Much appreciated.
That Alfie Lloyd interview as great wasn't it! Hope the lad goes far - with us.
Eze has always seemed like a great lad too. I'm glad we did the presentation at the Palace match.
For a long time we didn't get it right with ex-players who had demonstrated loyalty and talent e.g Alan McDonald. Nice to see us do something like that. |
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Reply | What are we trying to do?
at 21:02 6 Oct 2024
Just picking up on a few points raised, I agree that Marti is not stupid.
The concern I have is that we have positioned ourselves as a club with an identity and approach from the youngest age groups through to the first team. It makes me wonder is Marti even allowed to go back to the pragmatism of last season?
I am also getting to the point where I am not convinced that playing it out from the back even constitutes a style or identity. Just about everyone in the top two divisions now does that. The bit I really don't get is 'then what..?'
I am sure the aim is not to move the ball slowly around in our half, allow the opposition to all file back into position, and then we keep moving the ball from side to side until we lose it or create a half-chance.
But that seems to be what we do. Still a bit baffled to be honest. |
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