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Post by wots on Apr 7, 2018 8:40:27 GMT
Less than five hours before the match. I can't believe no-one was interested in posting a match thread for this game. That Brum game must have hurt.
Here goes. Well, it's a bogey ground and they are chasing the play-offs. If we play as per the brum game then we will obviously get shafted. I feel we'll hold them until the half and then we won't have the strength/skill/aptitude to hold them off. Who's to score the goals? Sounds as if they're all in the development squad.
2-0 Derby.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 7, 2018 8:56:00 GMT
4-0 to the Rams
Didn’t they score 2 late goals when they did us at The ReeMac??
Crikey, what was Madine doing taking a late penalty!!
Never seen 2 pens given in injury time. Why can’t we have Mike Dean today??
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Post by joanna on Apr 7, 2018 10:07:41 GMT
Well, we seem to have gone from what was generally regarded as the best performance of the season v Villa, to the worst v Brum, in the space of a fortnight!!:-
From universal acclaim for how Parky had adapted, galvanised and got the best from a fully supportive squad, producing a new optimism in the fans.... to howls of derision, cries of "Out!"......and a dismal pessimism about our chances of avoiding the drop..... all within 15 days.
So, quite what we can expect today is anyone's guess, but based on individuals' performances in the intervening game against Leeds, there were some very strange selections for the vital game v Brum, Need to get selection and attitude right today and not pick half-fit players.
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Post by OohMac on Apr 7, 2018 10:30:18 GMT
Think we all saw ''buds" of what could be Joanna. After Madine we played some good football against Bristol City Villa two of the better sides. So what on earth happened at international break?
I predict a grittier, gutsier but albeit fruitless performance today. I saw Preston and Derby and that was two mediocre teams looking very tired.
I get the impression we will hear the phrase "we were well in that much until..." And then insert from (the lapse of concentration) (the sending off/penalty) or (7th minute when the game was all but over)
For me ones thing is clear. We need 2 goals to even think about a point. How will we go about getting that?
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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 7, 2018 10:56:50 GMT
Could do with Wheater reinstated, is there any truth in the rumour of a fall out between him and Parky?
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Post by Alptrotter on Apr 7, 2018 11:30:05 GMT
I put this on the Brum thread, but think it’s relevant here.
Playing with a back four puts far too much pressure on our wide midfield players , Buckley and Noone are just weak and poor. and Ameobi and Vela are wasted there. Neither Taylor nor Flanagan look comfortable in the opposition half, so they never offer real support and therefore we just never build up any momentum going forward. I wonder whether it isn’t time to revive the 3 at the back, with Burke a (hopefully) ball playing sweeper between Beevers and Wheater. Robinson and Little aren’t great, but they do have pace and push on. Morais would be an alternative to Little, perhaps even preferable. In midfield, a central 3 would ideally have Derik in a holding role, Kirchhoff as playmaker and Vela as box to box man. With Ameobi in behind ALF and linking up both ways with the wing backs, we could hopefully try to play the ball out from the back on the ground. I do think we have the players to play this way and at least this tactic would get rid of Buckley, Noone, Henry and Pratley.
I don’t profess to be great tactician. but if something IS broke, at least try to FIX it. More of the same is simply unacceptable.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 7, 2018 13:35:08 GMT
And that’s the way you win a game Parkinson.... the Barnsley way
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 13:58:09 GMT
Barnsley are now 2 points behind with a game in hand PP thinks long and hard and plays Blind Willy Brown up front for the love of Mick why won't he play Clough up front with Alf, with Clough now being a Forest player that should give him a start. Wilbraham should be as far away from our starting line up as the moon is from the sun. Saying that he might just score the winner ha ha ha ha ha . Sorry 3-1 Derby
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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 7, 2018 14:08:31 GMT
We’re down
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 14:13:40 GMT
What a start 1-0 down inside 7 minutes so that's game over again never mind in PP we trust !
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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 7, 2018 14:36:46 GMT
Everything is all Phillip Parkinson’s fault
Get the fck out of our club NOW you pr1k
League One awaits
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 14:38:53 GMT
Oh this season just keeps going from bad to worse 2-0 down and still nearly an hour to go oh dear oh dear |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 15:15:20 GMT
Sunderland and Burton both winning talk about teams wanting to stay up and us just happy to go down. Sorry 3-0 down. Wilbraham has gone of and he should never put the shirt on again in my opinion. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 15:54:58 GMT
I was nearly right 3-0 it finished at least we could win some games away from home next season  |
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Post by Alptrotter on Apr 7, 2018 16:07:21 GMT
I’m going to resist the temptation to say that Bolton played better in the second half. True, it would have been impossible to play worse, but by that time Derby had won comfortably and had eased off the gas. No, to understand this game, we have to focus clearly on the first, dire half.
Although my earlier comment makes clear, this was not the team I would have selected, I must admit that I could see what Parky’s strategy was. An away game against a team, not firing on all cylinders and worried about their play off place. Time for some experience, some game management skills. So, in came Wilbraham, Karacan, Wheater and Henry to keep it tight and get the crowd on their back. Except we once again gifted a goal from a set piece on six minutes, by which time, had it not been for Alnwick’s familiar heroics, we’d have already been one down. We had nobody in midfield who could either pass accurately, or hold up play or run with the ball. Henry and Karacan were dreadful and Vela again a sad shadow of himself. Up front, lets hope this puts the argument for Wilbraham to bed once and for all. Another dreadful signing who is simply not up to it. Wheater, while maybe the best of this quartet, was by no means good and, in my view lucky that Burke was hooked at half time. It could easily have been him.
Sadly, I feel the season is turning out to be six games too long for us. We look down and out and Parky looks clueless. When Karacan was injured near half time, Parky simply stood with his hands in his pockets, rather than attempt to rally his troops. Above all now, we need some fight and some passion. Ameobi, our best player looks barely interested, Le Fondre is so frustrated he’s about to blow, Robinson runs his heart out, to little effect, Alnwick, despite his undoubted heroics, is accident prone and the rest look as if they have no belief.
However much it might be alien to his somewhat wooden nature, Parky needs to get himself fired up. Otherwise, its back whence we ( rather fortuitously) came.
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