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Post by stevvy on Nov 24, 2020 22:19:05 GMT 1
Jesus, Im so happy I got the kick off time wrong. Was it really like that for the whole 90 mins? Yup. Absolutely shite game.
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Post by stevvy on Nov 24, 2020 22:19:55 GMT 1
That is genuinely one of the worst football games I’ve ever seen. Fuck me we need some players to freshen us up in January. Can’t hack watching Campbell on skates for 90 minutes anymore. If we get a sensible offer for Bacuna as well we should snap their hand off. I haven't seen one as bad as that since the early 90's in the third division. I remember a freezing cold 0-0 at home to Grimsby on a Tuesday night. Maybe 3 shots all game.
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Post by terriersyndrome on Nov 24, 2020 22:20:38 GMT 1
We had 1 point after 8 games last season but we're only 5 points ahead of where we were after 13 games.
Hodgkinson, give your new coach a chance to push on & bring in some championship standard attacking players in January. Campbell is shit!
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Post by Christ in Shades (art) on Nov 24, 2020 22:21:04 GMT 1
Tonight showed how we're desperately short on quality. Reep what you sow Phil.
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Post by dm on Nov 24, 2020 22:21:29 GMT 1
There was no urgency. It was like Town thought a goal would just inevitably happen. Only problem is, we are a 1 man team and he wasn't playing.
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Post by richhtfc on Nov 24, 2020 22:22:01 GMT 1
Awful game, thought we started reasonably brightly but they dragged us down to their level and started to dominate us. Their whole game is about physicality and we know we’re not good against physical sides. They seemed to sap any strength or will to attack out of us with constant head tennis, and in the moments we had to show our class we blew it. Way too many mistimed passes, bad decisions and cheap giving away of possession. O’Brien still not up to pace, Eiting poor game, Diakhaby being Diakhaby. We looked happy to get through it in the end, which to be fair I was too. Still better than a loss.
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Nov 24, 2020 22:22:59 GMT 1
Tonight showed how we're desperately short on quality. Reep what you sow Phil. Here you go Art "Whatever you're going through, call us free any time, from any phone, on 116 123."
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Nov 24, 2020 22:23:51 GMT 1
Corberan has done ok so far but there are definitely a handful of players who have gone backwards from last season
Or perhaps they're just not good enough to play this style and were more suited to the direct style the Cowleys preferred
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Post by tepidterrier on Nov 24, 2020 22:24:49 GMT 1
glad I watched bake off instead at half time. first half was crap attritional stuff against a crap attritional team, and it doesn't sound like much changed. with such lofty ideals we should be scaring the crap out of teams that play like that and making them rethink the way they play, not the other way round. Hardly the game to chuck an injury prone young striker on for his debut I'm afraid. it's frustrating we always seem to be missing a different piece.
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Post by impact on Nov 24, 2020 22:27:44 GMT 1
For all the football looks better, we're currently at pretty much the same goals per game ratio as we had last season.
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Nov 24, 2020 22:28:14 GMT 1
We had 1 point after 8 games last season but we're only 5 points ahead of where we were after 13 games. Hodgkinson, give your new coach a chance to push on & bring in some championship standard attacking players in January. Campbell is shit! But the coach also needs to recognise for himself the players who simply aren't up to the job - AND STOP PICKING THEM!!
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Post by Kenny irons on Nov 24, 2020 22:28:17 GMT 1
Out with the old and in with the new now Stearman Hogg Campbell Bacuna Schindler need to find pastures new now. Blood the youngsters until january
I like cc and the football he is trying to bring but he needs to start make changes more often. The games tends to run away from us and he changes nothing
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Post by ACW on Nov 24, 2020 22:32:57 GMT 1
For all the football looks better, we're currently at pretty much the same goals per game ratio as we had last season. Probably not that bad considering we've lost both our top goal scorers from last season and not really replaced them.
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Post by terriersyndrome on Nov 24, 2020 22:34:59 GMT 1
For all the football looks better, we're currently at pretty much the same goals per game ratio as we had last season. Probably not that bad considering we've lost both our top goal scorers from last season and not really replaced them. Which is criminal
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Post by sabailand on Nov 24, 2020 22:38:38 GMT 1
Disappointing no doubt about it but at least we didnt lose, if sarr`s touch hadn`t hit he post and gone in some of us (me included) would have been praising how we held firm and put in a battling performance, but it didnt go in and so comments are generally downbeat, it was a poor affair though, we can talk about it till we`re blue in the face but its over, gone, all about saturday now.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2020 22:41:31 GMT 1
Scary to think we’re, currently, only 6 points ahead of that Wycombe team.
If a handful of the teams below us pull their finger out and we don’t then we’re in massive trouble.
Boro will play exactly the same tactics at the weekend but with far better quality than Wycombe.
It’s a game of football so anything can happen, but the early signs are not good.
We just can’t deal with any form of physicality.
At least Schofield got a clean sheet. Will do him the world of good.
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Post by Torquayterrier on Nov 24, 2020 22:43:35 GMT 1
It's a point but fuck me, that was shit! Can we have a half decent striker in January please? Decent striker would not have made much difference tonight, it was the ball in that never got there which was the problem. Mbenza got some decent balls in,Campbell couldn't get there in time.
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Post by bluesandtwos on Nov 24, 2020 22:44:40 GMT 1
OK, I'll be honest and say I only watched the first half, mainly because I thought Saving Lives at Sea would be more exciting, and it was. From what I did see, other then Wycombe being hoofing cloggers, we still just get easy passes wrong. We had some good chances but the killer ball was just off. Thought Schofield did OK. Mbenze, well I just wish he got the ball more, looks a real threat. We did not seem to get as many men in the box when we pushed forward tonight. Not sure if this was due to them pumping the ball straight down to our 18 yard line every time they got a sniff of the ball and we played deeper the thwart that. Diakhaby still does not bring much to the team. We had one ball which went past him toward the byline which I thought he could have reached, but he just doesn't seem to chase those. His shot in the first half was a tight angle but still looked half-hearted to me, though he did get to the ball so maybe that is a bit unfair. Bacuna is not a bad full back but scares me a bit sometimes, he battled well tonight though. Akinfenwa is just like a small mountain. Elbowed Bacuna and tipple tailed Schindler, is that the only thing he was there for?
We looked, as others have said, lacking in quality, especially in the final third. Not sure why it took 70 minutes before Ward came on for Diakhaby. I would happily have played Ward on the left for the whole second half.
I think we will, as others have said, limp through to January. It is always a difficult window but we have cleared the main ones we wanted out, and should be able to see where we need to improve, so hopefully some decent, not necessarily huge, investment will move us up a rung. If we stay well clear of the relegation zone this season I will be happy.
On a final note, if Sarr's shot had been 6 inches to the left we would have won that game. Fine margins I guess.
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Post by softboy on Nov 24, 2020 22:46:17 GMT 1
This season is all about stopping the rot of the last 2 seasons, solid mid table, we have just played a team away from home - (Brentford drew 0 0 last Saturday)who are finding their feet at this level, are physical, so not over the moon but we have maintained the gap at the bottom. I genuinely belief a solid 10th/12th would be a acceptable season and we are not that far away.
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Post by softboy on Nov 24, 2020 22:49:24 GMT 1
Scary to think we’re, currently, only 6 points ahead of that Wycombe team. If a handful of the teams below us pull their finger out and we don’t then we’re in massive trouble. Boro will play exactly the same tactics at the weekend but with far better quality than Wycombe. It’s a game of football so anything can happen, but the early signs are not good. We just can’t deal with any form of physicality. At least Schofield got a clean sheet. Will do him the world of good. Yes we are only 6 points above Wycombe after 13 games - thats about 20 over a season - I will accept that.
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Post by 28901 on Nov 24, 2020 22:55:25 GMT 1
Disappointing no doubt about it but at least we didnt lose, if sarr`s touch hadn`t hit he post and gone in some of us (me included) would have been praising how we held firm and put in a battling performance, but it didnt go in and so comments are generally downbeat, it was a poor affair though, we can talk about it till we`re blue in the face but its over, gone, all about saturday now. Stop, just stop talking sense.
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Post by impact on Nov 24, 2020 22:56:44 GMT 1
For all the football looks better, we're currently at pretty much the same goals per game ratio as we had last season. Probably not that bad considering we've lost both our top goal scorers from last season and not really replaced them. Which is the issue. Pointless playing attacking football if we don't have people who can actually score from it.
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Post by Terrier Ramone on Nov 24, 2020 22:56:59 GMT 1
That was totally embarrassing &, for the first time IMO, Carlos has to take some blame:
1) he continues to pick Diakhaby, & I just cannot understand why, I've never known someone cost so much but who continually looks like he's never played a game of football before... he never contributes anything positive at all
2) he has to make more changes, after a couple of encouraging moments at the start of the 2nd half, it very quickly became obvious we needed changes. If you're allowed 5 subs, use them if you need to - it's not like we were battering them & unlucky not to be ahead. I'm really not sure what Campbell was doing tonight but he was awful, not on his own to be fair. How anyone can ever compare Eiting to Mooy is beyond me - Eiting can play a decent ball but I doubt he can ever control a game like Mooy can.
I've had enough of Bacuna now, he's an obvious talent but he can't stroll around like that, at least look like you give a shit.
Our entire game plan is reliant on Pipa & Toffolo playing well, though, to be fair, Mbenza now looks like there is a player there too. Carlos, while not blameless, need supporting with better attacking players.
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Post by 28901 on Nov 24, 2020 22:57:39 GMT 1
Scary to think we’re, currently, only 6 points ahead of that Wycombe team. If a handful of the teams below us pull their finger out and we don’t then we’re in massive trouble. Boro will play exactly the same tactics at the weekend but with far better quality than Wycombe. It’s a game of football so anything can happen, but the early signs are not good. We just can’t deal with any form of physicality. At least Schofield got a clean sheet. Will do him the world of good. 6 points from games played is a decent ratio
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Post by Yuta be a terrier on Nov 24, 2020 22:57:56 GMT 1
This season is all about stopping the rot of the last 2 seasons, solid mid table, we have just played a team away from home - (Brentford drew 0 0 last Saturday)who are finding their feet at this level, are physical, so not over the moon but we have maintained the gap at the bottom. I genuinely belief a solid 10th/12th would be a acceptable season and we are not that far away. We defended well i thought. Looked like we really switched on and as a result Schofield only had one save to make. Problem tonight was the slow release of the forward passes. Hogg, Eiting and Sarr all guilty of taking too many touches when looking to play the runners in. Thought we showed a lot of guts tonight. Just not enough quality.
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Post by galpharm2400 on Nov 24, 2020 23:11:11 GMT 1
It was the amount of times we took a bloody age to play a pass and then under no pressure we played it straight to an opponent, often there wasnt a town shirt anywhere near the end of the cool, calm, collected pass??
It looked on occasions so bad they could have been taking the piss?
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Post by bogart on Nov 24, 2020 23:21:44 GMT 1
The basics are so often missing. Hogg spends most of the game facing the wrong goal, think he he has forgotten you are supposed to pass it forward. Simple schoolboy passes going astray. O'Brien was bloody awful.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2020 23:25:45 GMT 1
Scary to think we’re, currently, only 6 points ahead of that Wycombe team. If a handful of the teams below us pull their finger out and we don’t then we’re in massive trouble. Boro will play exactly the same tactics at the weekend but with far better quality than Wycombe. It’s a game of football so anything can happen, but the early signs are not good. We just can’t deal with any form of physicality. At least Schofield got a clean sheet. Will do him the world of good. 6 points from games played is a decent ratio Meh. Depending on your aspirations/targets then maybe. Personally don't think it's good enough but everyone's different!
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Post by specialun on Nov 24, 2020 23:48:15 GMT 1
Take a point and move on.
Performances haven’t been great for the last 5 weeks - small squad struggling with 3 games a week imo. I thought the international break would solve that & give us a much needed break but seemingly not
But it was inevitable we wouldn’t score enough goals
No surprise where we find ourselves
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Post by Up the Duff. on Nov 24, 2020 23:55:14 GMT 1
Possibly too much focus on not making stupid mistakes and keeping a clean sheet led to a bit of hesitancy in our play tonight.
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