Can I borrow your rose tinted glasses when youâve finished with them?Donât know what else Rowett could have done today.
We played some lovely, free flowing football, which was a joy to watch, and we had a few half chances that on another day, we would have got at least 1 goal from!
Rowett made the changes on the hour, which gave the subs 35+ minutes to see if they could change the game. If Maloneâs shot in the dying moments that hit the underside of the bar had not come out, weâd have all been saying tonight how well we had done to get a well deserved draw against a team that set themselves up not to lose to us!
6 points out of 9 in the last 3 games is still a good tally to have, and if I was given a choice of losing to Huddersfield but beating WBA away, I would take that in a heartbeat!
Agree with all the above but we need a creative midfielder not just workhorses, we must attack teams at home not play 5 at the back against a lone attacker, Fleming needs to take step back from freekicks ,I think the peop!e in the upper stands are in danger of being hitDisagree. Slow with little attacking intent against a shit poor team in the first half. Attack them and put them under they might well have crumbled. Too full of containing football-in my opinion
OK, it was a cross and not a shot, but regardless of that, my point still stands had it gone over the line!Can I borrow your rose tinted glasses when youâve finished with them?
What you meant to say was âwe tried to play some free flowing football, but weâre not that good at itâ
And as for Maloneâs âshotâ it was a cross!
Sorry didnât see any âfree flowingâ football. Saw a team clueless about how to beat 5 at the back!Donât know what else Rowett could have done today.
We played some lovely, free flowing football, which was a joy to watch, and we had a few half chances that on another day, we would have got at least 1 goal from!
Rowett made the changes on the hour, which gave the subs 35+ minutes to see if they could change the game. If Maloneâs shot in the dying moments that hit the underside of the bar had not come out, weâd have all been saying tonight how well we had done to get a well deserved draw against a team that set themselves up not to lose to us!
6 points out of 9 in the last 3 games is still a good tally to have, and if I was given a choice of losing to Huddersfield but beating WBA away, I would take that in a heartbeat!
You donât see the correlation between how Huddersfield played today and us, when weâve gone ahead this season and then many times sat back and soaked up pressure to win 1-0? If you do, then youâll know how hard itâs been for those other teams to break us down, just as today we failed to break down Huddersfield!Sorry didnât see any âfree flowingâ football. Saw a team clueless about how to beat 5 at the back!
Absolutely mate! Also I canât understand our persistence with the long ball up to Bradders, which just gives away possession as we rarely collect the second ball. Why not hoof it into space to let him and others run onto it?We are not blaming anyone, we are just not that good, itâs as simple as that. If you think that Cresswellâs marauding runs towards the Huddersfield penalty area is free flowing football, think again. Time after time, our possession broke down, just get the ball in the box instead and things might happen. Some of the long range shooting was way off target & a waste of time. Iâm not trying to criticise the team, just saying that free flowing aka Man City, it wasnât. We only had all that possession because Huddersfield let us
For âfree flowing footballâ read that as being able to make 1-2âs whilst still moving forwards (as opposed to Cresswell running through their midfield unchallenged), which we have done in patches in some games this season!We are not blaming anyone, we are just not that good, itâs as simple as that. If you think that Cresswellâs marauding runs towards the Huddersfield penalty area is free flowing football, think again. Time after time, our possession broke down, just get the ball in the box instead and things might happen. Some of the long range shooting was way off target & a waste of time. Iâm not trying to criticise the team, just saying that free flowing aka Man City, it wasnât. We only had all that possession because Huddersfield let us
Itâs all about opinions so I respect yours but regarding the 1-2âs we were only able to play them because Huddersfield sat back & let us. Yes, we were moving the ball reasonably well but for some unexplained reason also tried some 40 yard passes to the opposition (Whatmore Iâm talking about you!) And as for the goal, Iâm blaming Burke all day long. Danny knocked the ball up the wing and Burke made absolutely no effort to shut their man down in fact apart from the one dazzling run and shot he had heâs got to be the fastest but laziest player Iâve ever known.For âfree flowing footballâ read that as being able to make 1-2âs whilst still moving forwards (as opposed to Cresswell running through their midfield unchallenged), which we have done in patches in some games this season!
Did you not see anything yesterday that wasnât some improvement in the head tennis and hoofing the ball forwards that weâve seen in recent games?
Isnât you saying âjust get the ball in the box instead and things might happenâ any different to Long kicking the ball into the oppositionâs box, hoping Bradshaw, Flemming, Voglsammer etc. get on the end of it?
As for long range shooting being a waste of time? Well, the team have been slaughtered in the past for not shooting from distance enough, and now when they did it yesterday, theyâre still getting it in the neck! Long range shooting can be effective - a deflection can come from it and wrong foot a goal keeper to send it over the line, or if a quick thinking player sees that a goal keeper has come off his line and has left himself stranded, or just simply unleashing a powerful 30 yard shot that sails past a goal keeperâs outstretched hand, into the top corner of the goal!
The difference between the two teams yesterday was one defensive mistake. If Danny had kicked that ball into row Z, Ward wouldnât have got a foot to it to smash it into the roof of the net! Similarly, if any of our half chances had fallen nicely for us, we might have won that game 3 or 4 nil. In football, itâs fine margins like these which sometimes dictate the outcome of a game.