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Comment | Colback bears gift to former club - Report
at 17:48:15
Lovely report one thing to add on the red card.
Very much a modern red. It is, by the laws of the game and the interpretation of them now, but you've often seen them not given.
The one thing you've missed with it Clive is that it wasn't a Bellingham surge. Kakay plays a slightly loose ball to Colback, which became looser as he let it run across his body to open up the game. Had he taken a touch he'd have been close down and had a quick call to make.
As soon as he lets it run, he's in trouble as Bellingham had this angle covered. Colback lunged as he was about to lose possession. Players often do. There's something instinctive about fighting to maintain possession of the ball when you're about to lose it, that leads to players lunging in when they never would if already out of possession. It's primal and it's instinct and otherwise brilliantly cynical players like Colback are just as likely to fall victim to it as others even with bags of experience.
An old yellow - it wasn't vindictive, more careless. A modern red. Still ruined the game. The deflected OG was the nail in the coffin.
4-3-2 was probably the right plan with ten men but it wasn't going to work against an excellent Sunderland team. The key to playing against ten is to counter-press quickly as you have a man advantage so have any break covered. They're drilled to do this anyway, but carried on doing it brilliantly in the heat. The benefit of youth perhaps? Anyway it worked brilliantly. I like Sinclair being p1ssed off when he came off. He had no service and the thick end of decisions. Now channel it against Swansea. He's going to get sent off and have to learn at some point.
And good point re Smyth too. Clarke only went to the byline twice. He cut in ten times as many times. Smyth's shape was wrong and his positioning. He's smart though and our coaches will point it out. Hopefully won't make the same mistake again. Clarke is a one trick pony and we kept letting him do his trick. Beyond frustrating. |
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Comment | Swans stalemate brings up another unwanted set of six for QPR - Report
at 12:19:46
Excellent report as ever. Such a frustrating day all round.
Two points of order (without seeing highlights yet I might add).
1. They got free headers at corners from a blatant blocking pattern and wrestling match that was a deliberate tactic. Both Dunne and Dickie isolated by either being run into, held or grappled with so they couldn't even run to approach the ball. All done behind the melee in front of the ref, albeit in clear view of the lino. Who did SFA. Apologies to anyone in LL enduring me lose my sh1t about this at most corners and screaming at hte ref. You can't blame Dunne or Dickie for this - hard to say be stronger when the guy next to you wants to wrestle you to the ground. Blatant and refs need to do better, especially with help from linos. This wasn't bog standard grappling, it was NFL standard blocking schemes.
2. Did Lowe not hit the bar rather than the keeper? He did really well with that chance imho. So hard to keep a ball on the half volley, on your wrong foot, down and on target. The third was a left footed gentle stroke of the ball first time away from being a goal. That's why strikers especially should be confident on their weaker foot. A genuine two footed player scores that easily. |
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Comment | Lee Hoos — Patreon
at 12:20:57
@oxexile - I suspect he means the gap between what we have and what we should have.
The lights are hugely improved on what we used to have in the 90s and 00s. Every time the standard of TV resolution has gone up (HD, 3D, UHD etc) the floodlights had to get brighter. Do you remember the slight yellow hue we used to have on midweek game highlights? That was down to the old floodlights. In the 90s they'd have been about 800 lux.
One of the benefits of the Fulham groundshare was they paid to bring the floodlights up to PL standards. Which I think then was about 1500 lux. Then we further improved it on promotion in 2012.
I expect with UHD the standards have gone up again. UEFA 5* stadia used to need 3,000 lux which is probably up to 4,000 now (I'd need to check).
So Lee Hoos probably means that the gap between the light level we need and what we have has increased. It's much harder to get a decent average across a pitch from four pylons in the corner than it is from lights distributed along the roof of a stand. One of the reasons modern stadia no longer have floodlight pylons.
I'll get my stadium spotters badge and my coat.
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Comment | In front twice, QPR contrive to lose Reading cup tie — full match report
at 00:13:15
Oh and the free kick on Zamora was ludicrous. It was Karacan who climbed all over him (and also the player who Zamora had accidentally/plausibly enough to claim accidentally if it was deliberate trod on with his studs). Karacan was then pumped up and climbed all over Zamora's back to win a header. The ref gave nothing so Bobby very sensibly and forcibly claimed his ground for the next throw, ahead of Karacan so he couldn't climb all over him again and just as he prepared to jump the ref gave a ludicrous foul for Zamora supposedly blocking the smaller Karacan from the space. Utterly utterly ludicrous decision.
JimF |
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Comment | In front twice, QPR contrive to lose Reading cup tie — full match report
at 00:10:43
Their 2nd goal was a travesty. A massive dive from Tabb who had miscontrolled the ball, was never going to get it, so launched into a two footed pirouette around Granero or Faurlin's shin as if he had been up ended. A massive con and even more reason to despise the nasty little git, to go with his massive b1tching at the ref whenever anything goes against him and his utter inability to take any type of tackle like a man similar to that which he routinely hands out himself.
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