| Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday 08:24 - Feb 15 with 5886 views | 1BobbyHazell |
1) Koki's 1st touch for his goal. Oooh, World class! 49 times out of 50, even at the top level of football, the player would just smash it and more than likely hit one of the 3 defenders or keeper stood in front of him. Not our Koki. That simple, perfectly executed, cool as absolute f**k, precisely controlled half a yard touch sidewards took out all 4 of the oppo and left him an empty net to thunder it into. Beautiful.
Honourable mentions also for his gravity defying leap and stay in mid air to win the header and Yang's 1st touch in the lead up to Chair's 2nd.
2) The press in the 4141 formation, particularly 2nd half. Terrorised Derby as they tried to play out from the back. Field moved up to flank Frey with Chair and they pressed brilliantly as a unit whilst Varane owned the space behind them. Glorious front foot defending. Our number 1 strength right now.
3) Varane's little flashes with the ball. He actually has the ball control and physicality to be able beat the 1st man or 2 and move away up the pitch just with his big stride, without needing any particular tricks or moves. Showed that more than once yesterday. Pinged a couple of nice longer passes too.
I'm hoping that we are seeing the gradual chipping away of his fear based hiding, backwards, sidewards stuff as he clearly as some ability on the ball. Feels like a confidence/mentality thing but there is a lot more potential growth there. Already nailing the defensive side of the game for me.
4) Chair 'arriving' in the box. That lung bursting, get in there ahead of your marker and expect the ball type. Seems to rarely do it much when playing out wide. Delightful to see him do it yesterday for his 2nd. More please.
5) Morrison getting back on the pitch. He's ours, he's 21, he never loses, he has huge potential and he's 1 of only 2 defenders definitely here next year.
He needs to be playing.
6) QPR playing with a proper number 10. |  | | |  |
| Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 22:53 - Feb 15 with 1233 views | Northernr |
| Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 22:43 - Feb 15 by saxbend |
Frey doesn't need things to go his way. He makes nuisance himself until things go our way whether he gets a shot off or not. |
Totally. We miss him when he’s not up there, however he’s playing. He’s effective. |  | | |
| Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 23:42 - Feb 15 with 1109 views | davman |
It is so, so nice to feel a little more sanguine about everything right now. It is what football should be - something that matters for the 90 mins and then can be forgotten after. Its ACE.
On those losing runs, you just cannot see a way out - everyone moaning about everything (me included). The worst bit about this season's crisis was the aired frustrations about how crap the club is from top to bottom and that how we can't get rid of the "most useless owners and CEO in the world" if you believed what you read on here.
All the "so and so out" with absolutely no idea on how that could be achieved. All that postering and planning with absolutely no idea or no intention of actually doing anything that might mobilise the fanbase making everyone feel more and more depressed.
No sign of Nourry out or Ruben / Amit go now - as I said at the time, all we need is a few wins for it all to get back on track.
Everything is so nice now, I have genuinely convinced myself that we are not going up and we're certainly not going own. Losses like Coventry that would have been absolutely gut wrenching in November are just a roll of the eyes, a shrug of the shoulder and a slight feeling of disappointment.
We have a tough March and I am just looking forward to being competitive in those games to set us up for another improved season next year.
And last night was LOVELY. On the way to the ground, my lad and I had the usual conversation about what the score would be - I said 2-0-, he said 2-1, but then I added "it would be lovely if we smashed someone 4-0" - prophetic... |  |
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| Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 00:15 - Feb 16 with 1035 views | queensparker |
Koki needs a song now
Like the Trevor Sinclair one
He’s the fkin man
(My haiku inspired by NorthernR) [Post edited 16 Feb 0:21]
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| Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 01:12 - Feb 16 with 942 views | numptydumpty |
| Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 15:35 - Feb 15 by Andybrat |
My observation ( and agree with all about last night). Our perceived weakness of not having a 20 goal a season striker is even more offset by another 2 newbies scoring last night for the 1st time this season. This is the definition of team. So I think we have Dunne, Edwards, Fox, Paal, Field, Morgan, Varane, Madsen, Saito, Smyth, Chair, Celar, Frey, Kolli, May, Dembele and Colback?
I have no idea of where that sits in the league but 17 on the scoresheet seems something to me.
Cook is bound to get one before the season ends |
You missed out Lyndon too.
Late away equaliser - one of his best strikes for us and we got rid, days later !! |  |
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| Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 06:18 - Feb 16 with 814 views | BlackCrowe |
| Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 01:12 - Feb 16 by numptydumpty |
You missed out Lyndon too.
Late away equaliser - one of his best strikes for us and we got rid, days later !! |
I've moved on. Who's Lyndon? And while we're at it, who even calls there son Lyndon. It's a duff name. |  |
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| Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 10:58 - Feb 16 with 561 views | Ad99 |
Great point about Morrison. It would also be a great time for the club and the player to sort that Jimmy Dunne contract. |  | | |
| Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday on 11:07 - Feb 16 with 525 views | scot1963 |
I only caught the highlights and they were all a thing of great beauty. I told my friend who went to watch Swansea with me (that first half hour before I was ill) and was pretty scathing about what he'd seen to watch it just to show that we aren't just the sum of that 30 minutes. |  | | |
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