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Post by davidm on Jan 16, 2016 16:32:35 GMT
Have we ever gone a season without winning away from home? Yes - when we finished bottom of the first division in 79 or 80, we didn't win any away games
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Post by davidm on Jan 16, 2016 16:34:57 GMT
Have we had a shot yet???
Don't think so
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Post by davidm on Jan 16, 2016 16:41:41 GMT
Utterly pathetic. Wide open defence 3-0 down What are our tactics? ??
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Post by davidm on Jan 16, 2016 16:42:50 GMT
84 minutes and our first shot of the game!!!!!!
Says everything about this team
Now 7 points from safety
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Post by OohMac on Jan 16, 2016 16:48:35 GMT
Wheater went off injured. Is this side worse than the Blackpool side last season?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2016 16:56:41 GMT
Yes I forgot about that season it was my last season before joining the army and now Bristol city have scored that's why you sack your manager
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Post by riochforthereebok on Jan 16, 2016 17:01:22 GMT
S.O.S
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Post by davidm on Jan 16, 2016 17:15:55 GMT
I've probably been one of Neil Lennon's main supporters this season but after today NO
The tactics are so bad. So naive.
We pick a dreadful centre back pairing time and time again.
We play 2 wingers, who add little to the team, and allow the midfield to be overrun.
Man sent off so make the central midfield even weaker instead of sacrificing a winger.
And then, of course, how many players that he brought in are now out of favour??
Regardless of the behind the scene problems, changes in the playing squad/management have got to be made
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Post by OohMac on Jan 16, 2016 17:55:26 GMT
Oddly enough I still think a man like Neil Warnock could come into this club simplify things, get a system in place and get us scoring goals and defending better.
I think the some of the players want nothing to do with him and the ones who do are some of the worst footballers we've ever had at the club. Wingers that can't cross, midfielders who can't pass and Dervite(the turd that can't be flushed)
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Post by andyl on Jan 16, 2016 17:59:10 GMT
The selection threatened what was to come. And let's get it out of the way. Counter attack,Wheater beaten in a high position,centre forward overruns ball, danger over surely ,easy clearance for Amos, doesn't come, fouls forward,0-1, ten men ,game over.? Counter attack ,ball played wide,Holding nowhere, Wheater lumbers across, beaten, good cross,easy header game definitely over bar miracle?6-0 beckons.
I was furious when Vela subbed? Why not a winger? Why not play three at the back. Anything!
But amazingly Neil wasn't wrong.. For fully 60 minutes we played really well. Trotter no doubt annoying some and making the odd error was a breath of fresh air ,holding the ball,passing the ball dribbling,heading and we commanded the midfield - amazing! Feeney was really good always threatening and Silva darted into the game linking with Moxey
It was a lost cause but the ten looked good with the proviso that we had no cutting edge. We avoided a couple of shots,had one charged down and Madine fluffed a golden chance late on
Of course we were up against a Dougie team and they were ponderous. But they did have speed upfront and as ever our set up exposed us to counter attacks. Late on we had a couple of near squeaks before a wicked deflection made it 0-3. Lucky for them but they had hit a bar in the first half. In and amongst all this Rachubka made two splendid saves the second low to his left and unsighted. He also kicked the ball ie passed it a time or two. He doesn't inspire but way better than Amos currently who is dreadfully low on confidence
Another self inflicted nail in the coffin of relegation. Poor selection, cataclysmic errors but for all that some good play albeit not under much pressure. Woolery appearing for 5 mins made an excellent run. Pratley was at times petulant and all the time clumsy. He lost the ball in attack for their third.
One of these days I wish Neil would set us up 4-5-1.We can afford one winger in this. The problem of twin Carthorses in defence was resolved by Wheater ' s hamstring. I doubt we'll see him again and he won't be transferred. Madine isn't good enough..and struggled throughout albeit on his own
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Post by andyl on Jan 16, 2016 17:59:45 GMT
Amos 0 Rachubka 7 Holding 4 Wheater 3 Dervite 5 Vela n/a Pratley 4 Trotter 7 Feeney 8 Madine 3 Silva 5 Danns 3 Woolery 4 Moxey 6 ( stuck at it well)
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Post by andyl on Jan 16, 2016 18:16:58 GMT
For anyone surprised by this for the second time I'm making Feeney our MoM - between him and Trotter for me.
There is actually a bit of hope but I think that this manager will not capitalise on it. I say again :we were never going to win with that selection!!!
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Post by OohMac on Jan 16, 2016 18:36:02 GMT
I can't really argue as you were at the game and I was at home kicking the family dog but Simon Charlton said, via Marc Iles, that the set peices have been Sunday League standard. That surely goes against your MoM? Unless Feeney wasn't taking them, but with no Casado I can't see who else would.
And as for Trotter i'm unsure how much of that is rose tinted, i do agree with you that at least Trotter offers something better than the other midfielders and has better attributes but i've not seen too many occasions where he has made himself "undropable". Maybe today he has done just that.
Without Wheater we're surely doomed, is there a word for when you're already doomed but suddenly it gets a lot worse. We're more Doomeder now than ever before. Oh well, Monday morning to look forward too and refreshing the BBC/BN for updates to see if there's still a Bolton.
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Post by andyl on Jan 16, 2016 19:35:42 GMT
Feeney took a handful of corners. Moxey took the free kick and blazed it sky high. Set pieces weren't the issue today. The issues were selection,Wheater and above all Amos. We have limited goal threat. A good striker might well have got us back in it against the odds.
Re Trotter some would see his shambling gait and not much else but he did a few things today that stood out. Compare and contrast him with Pratley who was poor.
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Post by andyl on Jan 16, 2016 19:37:41 GMT
Holding looked ok at centre half for ten minutes. Today Wheater was the problem not Dervite.
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