| Yesterday's game 09:48 - Nov 10 with 725 views | A1079 |
It would be easy to say that the reason we lost at Wolves was down to bad decisions or incorrect decisions by the officials/VAR. The fact is, Manning's goal should have stood and prior to Wolves second goal there were 2 clear fouls which should have meant their second goal being ruled out and had those decisions been awarded correctly we may have come away with 1 point and at least a draw (though by no means guaranteed).
All the above said, it would hide fundamental inherent problems with our play. Despite huge amounts of possession we created so little and barely threatened in front of goal. Opposing teams have all been saying now that they know we will play possession football but we will not hurt teams with it and it is just a case of them waiting for us to make a mistake or lose possession and then they hurt us. For the life of me, I cannot understand why everyone is saying it, even opposition managers etc but we keep doing the same thing and our manager seems incapable of responding to it.
I have tickets for games coming up but to be blunt I don't even want to go. I cannot stand just going to a game and knowing in my heart of hearts that we will do the same thing, we won't offer much going forward and we'll probably lose. I knew we would lose yesterday. It was irrelevant to me that Wolves were bottom, had a generous defence and their confidence may be low, I knew we would not capitalise on it, seize the game and take control. My expectations for the season was reasonable, I knew we would lose far more than we would win and that relegation was probable, but what I did not expect is so many games where we are lacklustre and insipid in attack and showing so little fight. Once we are behind you know we won't come back. Once we went 2-0 down yesterday we may as well just gone home then as there was no way we were going to turn that over because we don't have the manager and players that seem to have a mindset to fight back.
I am resigned to us retaining Martin and to going down now. I wanted Martin to do well but he had to be willing to adapt to the league he was now in and we had to bring in players who could compete at this level. He has not adapted and some of our recruitment has been wholly unsatisfactory for this level. The question is, once I have used up my tickets for the games I have purchased, is it worth the effort to spend hard earned cash on 90 minutes plus of football that is anything but enjoyable (all bar a few brief occasions)? |  | | |  |
| Yesterday's game on 10:12 - Nov 10 with 638 views | SouthSeaSaint |
Good post.
I am a long standing season ticket holder but for the first time I find myself going to games with little or no expectation of a result.
I fear a thrashing this Saturday v Liverpool and have decided not to waste £32.50 on buying a ticket for the Carabao Cup game.
It hasnt taken long for the positivity of last season to become diluted.
I think we are odds on to end up with less points than Luton did last year, a team that had far less financial clout than we have. | | | |
| Yesterday's game on 10:16 - Nov 10 with 608 views | TripleNiemi |
First and foremost, I attend football matches to be ‘entertained’ and I can safely say watching a Russell Martin side does not achieve that. Cracking open a tin of Dulux, slapping it on the wall then watching it dry is more enjoyable to watch. I know there are lots that would disagree, but it was plainly obvious we would struggle in this league playing the brand of football RM wants. Better opposition players, less time on the ball and more astute managers were always going to suss this possession based game out. What makes it worst is that I swear if he just made one tweak of ‘playing the ball forwards’ is s must then I think it might help. This possession game going backwards is absolute madness. Christ, even playing a direct game of lumping the ball in the box regardless (at every opportunity) would at least pressure the oppo into mistakes and give us some chance of mustering more points than we have. Do I want to see route one football, absolutely not but I don’t believe these players should be going down with s PL record low points which is under serious threat. Personally, I couldn’t stand the manager last year and whilst we had that amazing run which deserves plaudits, it’s blôody boring football to watch. How the fcuk anyone can tell me this so called modern way to play the game is enjoyable is beyond me.
Pained me to say it st the start of season, but I really did think RM deserved s fair crack st this league (one full season), but now I really want the arrogant one gone. |  |
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