King Crimson wrote:Bill wrote:LankeySaddler wrote:Bottom of the League and i think in all fairness we deserve to be there!!! Our performances have just not been good enough and todays effort was dreadful!!! Mr Money has got some explaining to do especially following the substitutions he made i mean Deeney in the middle of the park??!! WHY?? Dobson was on the bench!!! Substitution Sonko when he was one of the only players performing - MADNESS and for Hall of all people EVEN MORE INSANITY!!
I used to rate our management but today looked like desperation!!
Lets face it - we suck!!!
Beat me to it :wink:
And me. Our manager cost us the game. Plain and simple. With his initial selection (Gerrard is a centre half, we're playing the side who are bottom of the league, at home, and we have Sonner as a partner in the centre - Roper, looked half asleep long before their first goal went in, he was very, very poor first half), BUT the subs were just bizarre.
Sonko seemed to be growing as the game went on, and I thought the move would have been to put him into the middle, alongside Wrack, if Hall was going to be brought on. Hall did absolutely nothing. Deeney as a young striker shouldn't thank the manager for throwing him into a difficult game out of position. I wonder under what circumstances Dobson would have been brought on, given we start the game with a centre half in the middle and end it with a striker there. Why was he on the bench at all?
Ish raised the tempo for 10 minutes, then went missing. His corners are about the worst I've ever seen. No end product, bar one good cross that someone could have got on the end of. Players who did o.k. Dann, Weston, Fox and Sonko. Gerrard played as well as a very average centre half playing in midfield could. Ditto Deeney.
The selection and decisions are more worrying than the result. I wonder what in the name of Christ Money sees that we don't. The decision to replace Sonko was loudly derided, and rightly so. Watch the vid, 'Dickie Dosh'. You got it so, so wrong today.
I feel so low tonight that I can hardly be bothered to post. Just a shocking performance, and the embarrassment of going down 3-0 to such a very poor side is almost too much to bear. I'm just shocked. Having said that, 3-0 is incredibly flattering of Oldham, who seem to me to have been given goals 2 and 3 on a plate. At least they created the first for themselves, which is something we could not do, even when a rare Ishy moment presented a ball into the 6-yard box with the goal gaping and none of our players alert enough to get on the end of it. Had we scored then, at 1-0 down, we may have gone on to win, but in truth we rarely looked like scoring all game, other than that 5 minutes after half-time and a great free-kick from Fox that would have burst the net if it had been just slightly further left.
I agree with almost everything posted in the above quotes, and if THAT kind of side goes out at Hartlepool next weekend, then Geordie is surely right, WE WILL get slaughtered.
I am very deeply concerned that we seem to have no credible direction, I thought we had, but today's substitutions have blown away all my previous thoughts on that and my confidence has really drained away today, seeing the ineptitude displayed today in DD's increasingly desperate changes that were always doomed to failure.
I need a few pints tonight, this is desperate stuff! :evil: