11 Feb 2014 21:07:39
had a feeling we would come up short tonight. to depleted at the back. llera is to dodgy for me would play maguire up front with afobe.
I must admit I was depressed from the word go today. Praise heaped on the team and head coach. It just had to come to an end with a Danny
Wilson BUMP. Onyewu and Loovens
out leaves us in trouble I think!
12 Feb 2014 00:17:16
Gray Out lol
That Wigan game has been doomed from the start, cancelled because of Europa league then abandoned! I'm just glad it's all over to be honest. The next game will be the key game, see if we can bounce back. Unlike we did with DJ.
I think its difficult team performing two igh tempo displays in short order. Only Lee and Maguire had buzz about them, Maghoma, Afobe, Semedo, Palmer were not as sharp as nomal.
Nuhiu put himself about but lacks composure in front of goal.
I have noticed drop off before when worked hard in previous game.
We missed 3 sitters (Nuhiu 2, Afobe 1) and Maguire shot when should have passed to Afobe for easy chance. We also got their keeper to pull out two incredible saves.
Second goal of theirs was poor defending by us, so you coul argue sloppy at both ends cost us.
Biggest blow Semedo injury.
Until players such as nuhui, maghoma, maguire and afobe look for players in better positions we are not going to progress. in the last two games all these players have been guilty of this. we don, t create enough opportunities to waste them when they come along. BI
Thats just football BI!
Nobody plays perfect football at any level, but definitely not at ours.
This is why we need wickham, he's always moving and looking for openings and creating options. We simply don't have a good enough attack without him. Going back to the home game against reading when we had wickham and fryatt we looked unstoppable. That's the difference between bottom of championship and playoff contenders.
Unbeatable! Based on ONE game!
What convenient memories we have.
We also lost to Blackpool, Derby and Forest with Wickham & Fryatt in side.
We weren't unbeatable then were we?
So perhaps it is a TEAM game after all and Wickham or Fryatt can't win the league on his own.
Perhaps they need 9or10 of our own players to help them?
Might be wrong but I think Reading game was only game we did win with both in side?
Why do some of our fans think that ONE 20yo kid can solve all our problems?
And I'm not saying he wouldn't and doesn't improve us.
But we might never see either of them again in our shirt so please move on and look for the strengths in our own players and not their weaknesses.
We don't have as many problems now as we had a few weeks ago and that's down to one man - Stuart Gray, NOT Wickham or Fryatt.
Gray is our best signing for years, and WITH BACKING I am confident we will progress.
One defeat in twelve is not a bad record with our squad.
Lol, OMG! All he's saying is we lack quality upfront! Nuihu not good enough. Fryatt and wickham are proven that's what he is saying, why do u feel you have to justify and praise the team all the time? because I bet your one of the negsperts slating the team under DJ! And suddenly now we are the greatest?!
Lol, OMG?- so now if you positive against somebody being negative you are a negspert.
Somebody has lost the plot!
Its obvious now what you mean is if anybody thinks different to YOU they get slagged off! And why not use a word that doesn't even exist because then you can't spell it wrong!
Some of our fans don't seem to be able to stick to the actual game, and tactics, and performances etc.
It has to be Marshall fetish, or Wickham envy, or Fryatt fancy, just don't get it?
Why not look at the bigger picture, yes Wickham was finding the back of the net, but that was mainly because the team are playing better, and that shows because even without CW we've been scoring and the goals are spread around the team as well.
So take the Conner pictures down off the bedroom wall and move on. Support the lads actually wearing the blue & white instead of the daily lusting after one sat on a bench in Geordieland wearing red & white.
If and when he pulls our shirt on again we can treat him same as our lads!
So we don't need quality up front then? Nuihu on his own and Maguire out on the wing? Come on surely u must know we need a striker? I know we are playing much better and looks better to watch but we need to take more chances, we miss so many!
Never said we didn't need more quality up front, blind man in a fog can see it!
But every team in the world is looking for a "goalscorer".
A goalscorer is somebody who is scoring goals, what is he when he is not scoring?
Is Fernando Torres still a goalscorer, he's only averaged a goal every 4-5 games since he went to Chelsea, a third of what he scored at Liverpool or Madrid. Decent midfielders score more than that and we've seen him miss sitters in last couple of years that Nuhiu would have scored!
CW had a great spell of scoring when he was here, but there's no guarantees he will pick up where he left off if he comes back! In fact history, odds, and sods law says he won't.
What winds me up, is most of our posters think there's only one player in the world able to solve that problem.
And that player is not one of ours and never likely to be - so how can he be the answer?
We have to find another way?
Even if we do get him back again on loan, and great if we do, we still have to find the permanent solution.
Best should be decent for a few games until he can't be bothered anymore.
If he scores a couple of goals during the next month, I would be happy.