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Post by arry11 on Jan 28, 2024 23:04:02 GMT 1
Matos has looked good, Healey average, Bojan very good in spells and looks like he has very good hold up play and Balker a bit temperamental in what little we've seen Allowed us to go 4 at the back and we played okay till we got to the final third then we run out of ideas we need to play around teams or through them whipping balls in every time it gets predictable.
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Post by utttrooper on Jan 28, 2024 23:13:33 GMT 1
Matos has looked good, Healey average, Bojan very good in spells and looks like he has very good hold up play and Balker a bit temperamental in what little we've seen Allowed us to go 4 at the back and we played okay till we got to the final third then we run out of ideas we need to play around teams or through them whipping balls in every time it gets predictable. Radulovic will be really good when the game opens up and he can have the ball played to his feet before a little give and go like Kasumu's chance against Blackburn
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Post by Ibiza Town on Jan 28, 2024 23:17:42 GMT 1
Not been impressed to date with the signings we have made to be honest Its hard to know as its early days, and our manager makes some, well, some odd decisions. Ive seen 2 Rodulovic games now, and I think he could come great for us. Likes to drop deep and bring in the wide players. We need to play to his strengths, although I cant see that happening under Moore Jury out on Healy, but god knows what we was doing being played as a wide right player today. Bringing back Spencer (and loaning him out) was a great move. Matos mmm lets see. I think with the right manager, our January activity will be seen to have been pretty good.
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Post by durhamterrier on Jan 29, 2024 7:35:50 GMT 1
Not been impressed to date with the signings we have made to be honest 50/50 on this . Matos has been best so far to me . Not sure if it’s just Moore’s tactics but they’ve all looked average at best
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Post by griffa on Jan 29, 2024 7:45:49 GMT 1
Not been impressed to date with the signings we have made to be honest 50/50 on this . Matos has been best so far to me . Not sure if it’s just Moore’s tactics but they’ve all looked average at best His team selection, tactics & game management, are questionable, as seen yesterday & in numerous games, by conceding late equalising goals - UTT.
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Post by ldotm on Jan 29, 2024 16:34:39 GMT 1
Have to disagree here. Yes, you can never guarantee a manager is here long term but very few are on the chopping block to the extend Moore is right now. It’s basically public knowledge he could be gone next game, and football is a game of networks, players will chat, execs will chat etc. As a player/agent/loan club knowing you could join a team that could have a complete change of management, isn’t a wise choice. You could be out of favour by a new manager within a few weeks of joining. “It’s basically public knowledge he could be gone next game”. Good grief. 🫡
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Post by isitjustme on Jan 29, 2024 16:54:48 GMT 1
“It’s basically public knowledge he could be gone next game”. Good grief. 🫡 I haven't a clue what each emoji means......could you educate this silly old sod what this one is.....
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Post by Dan on Jan 29, 2024 17:59:36 GMT 1
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Post by saintlyterrier on Jan 29, 2024 18:26:14 GMT 1
Disappointing, if true, though understandable. We surely need a playmaker, or at least someone who could control matters in a central or advanced midfield position, so freeing Rudoni to be the attacking midfielder he surely is. If we did have the money, it would be great to get an old hand able to read the game and who sees Town as the sterpping-stone to a managerial post: say James Milner or Adam Lallana. Come on, Brighton, show some blue and white stripes solidarity!
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Post by Tiro on Jan 29, 2024 19:00:30 GMT 1
“It’s basically public knowledge he could be gone next game”. Good grief. 🫡 Can't see the point you're making (irony)...but if I were to hazard a guess, I guess it's just as muddled as your initial point. Not that it's been playing on your mind, or anything. You left enough more than enough doubt in your fact just in case though, eh? Which was the point I was initially making btw... but you missed that. We can all make such predictions: 'it's basically common knowledge Town are in the hunt for a new manager and may or may not appoint he or she sometime soon in the future which will probably be after the next game but may be before'. There you go.
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Post by richhtfc on Jan 29, 2024 19:25:32 GMT 1
I haven't a clue what each emoji means......could you educate this silly old sod what this one is..... It’s a salute I believe
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Post by ldotm on Jan 29, 2024 20:35:42 GMT 1
Can't see the point you're making (irony)...but if I were to hazard a guess, I guess it's just as muddled as your initial point. Not that it's been playing on your mind, or anything. You left enough more than enough doubt in your fact just in case though, eh? Which was the point I was initially making btw... but you missed that. We can all make such predictions: 'it's basically common knowledge Town are in the hunt for a new manager and may or may not appoint he or she sometime soon in the future which will probably be after the next game but may be before'. There you go. Hahaha what are you waffling on about now?
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Post by royrace on Jan 30, 2024 11:13:15 GMT 1
Disappointing, if true, though understandable. We surely need a playmaker, or at least someone who could control matters in a central or advanced midfield position, so freeing Rudoni to be the attacking midfielder he surely is. If we did have the money, it would be great to get an old hand able to read the game and who sees Town as the sterpping-stone to a managerial post: say James Milner or Adam Lallana. Come on, Brighton, show some blue and white stripes solidarity! That would be perfect! I wonder if that tweet is Kev's poker face, he's basically saying they have budget, need player(s), but the prices are too high so wont be buying unless they negotiate.
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Post by Convictatthemac on Jan 30, 2024 11:50:15 GMT 1
Disappointing, if true, though understandable. We surely need a playmaker, or at least someone who could control matters in a central or advanced midfield position, so freeing Rudoni to be the attacking midfielder he surely is. If we did have the money, it would be great to get an old hand able to read the game and who sees Town as the sterpping-stone to a managerial post: say James Milner or Adam Lallana. Come on, Brighton, show some blue and white stripes solidarity! That would be perfect! I wonder if that tweet is Kev's poker face, he's basically saying they have budget, need player(s), but the prices are too high so wont be buying unless they negotiate. Hmmm, I wonder how Aaron’s back is feeling now he’s had a break from football? 🤔
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Post by runner76 on Jan 30, 2024 12:01:21 GMT 1
Agree the one area we now feel very lightweight in is the playmaker midfield......if we cannot fill that spot I think that will be it for signings, and overall not at all a bad January window - there is enough talent in teh squad to stay up....with the right manager...
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Post by Tinpot on Jan 30, 2024 12:45:08 GMT 1
Ali Al Hamadi signed for Ipswich for £1.75M.
Ipswich fans reportedly unhappy. I was hoping he'd come here. I think he'd have been an excellent fit for this club.
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Post by berlinterrier on Jan 30, 2024 12:57:41 GMT 1
Ali Al Hamadi signed for Ipswich for £1.75M. Ipswich fans reportedly unhappy. I was hoping he'd come here. I think he'd have been an excellent fit for this club. Unhappy? Why so?
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Post by terriersyndrome on Jan 30, 2024 13:14:07 GMT 1
With the window closing on Thursday and having no manager I think we'd struggle to attract anyone anyway, doubt any premier league clubs would send their players into the unknown either.
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Post by detox on Jan 30, 2024 13:24:36 GMT 1
I thought Wiles was going to fill the void in the middle, but that's been another poor decision...he's not even coming on as a sub now..
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Post by Gag_N_Bone_Man on Jan 30, 2024 13:46:34 GMT 1
I thought Wiles was going to fill the void in the middle, but that's been another poor decision...he's not even coming on as a sub now.. Let's see what he does with a proper manager in charge
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Post by paulmat on Jan 30, 2024 14:03:42 GMT 1
I thought Wiles was going to fill the void in the middle, but that's been another poor decision...he's not even coming on as a sub now.. Our midfield looked the best it has in ages, against Blackburn and Middlesborough with Hogg, Wiles and Rudoni, and we haven't seen it since. Steven Chicken posted before the Boro game that our record with those 3 starting was W4, D2, L1. Obviously then lost at Boro but Hogg went off before half time. Matos looks decent, but I don't think Hogg + Matos + Rudoni works.
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Post by golcarexile on Jan 30, 2024 14:13:46 GMT 1
That would be perfect! I wonder if that tweet is Kev's poker face, he's basically saying they have budget, need player(s), but the prices are too high so wont be buying unless they negotiate. Hmmm, I wonder how Aaron’s back is feeling now he’s had a break from football? 🤔 Bringing in Dean Whitehead was the catalyst for what came later with Mooy. He was seen as a bit of a journeyman at tail end of his career, but regularly bossed the midfield. A class above the rest. That's what we need right now. Unfortunately, with old pros, for every Deano there's a Jason Puncheon after one last pay day!
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Post by detox on Jan 30, 2024 14:20:38 GMT 1
I thought Wiles was going to fill the void in the middle, but that's been another poor decision...he's not even coming on as a sub now.. Our midfield looked the best it has in ages, against Blackburn and Middlesborough with Hogg, Wiles and Rudoni, and we haven't seen it since. Steven Chicken posted before the Boro game that our record with those 3 starting was W4, D2, L1. Obviously then lost at Boro but Hogg went off before half time. Matos looks decent, but I don't think Hogg + Matos + Rudoni works. Just checked that and it's correct..I'm amazed...but shows that combinations are important even if individually they might not look (to people like me) that they're performing. I'll have to change my assessment process...
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Post by detox on Jan 30, 2024 14:22:58 GMT 1
Hmmm, I wonder how Aaron’s back is feeling now he’s had a break from football? 🤔 Bringing in Dean Whitehead was the catalyst for what came later with Mooy. He was seen as a bit of a journeyman at tail end of his career, but regularly bossed the midfield. A class above the rest. That's what we need right now. Unfortunately, with old pros, for every Deano there's a Jason Puncheon after one last pay day! Bit like our Sunday League side, back in the day, where this short, fat, old geezer in our midfield ran the show...
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Post by Tinpot on Jan 30, 2024 14:24:34 GMT 1
Ali Al Hamadi signed for Ipswich for £1.75M. Ipswich fans reportedly unhappy. I was hoping he'd come here. I think he'd have been an excellent fit for this club. Unhappy? Why so? source: NTT20"When you come at transfer coverage from a neutral, objective point of view, it’s easy to forget that such an approach is entirely at odds with the psychology of a fan. Specifically, it’s easy to forget how strongly fan views on players or managers can be based on the performance of other, different human beings with a few situational similarities.
We were reminded of this upon reading the response of some Ipswich fans to their club’s link to Ali Al-Hamadi, which amounted to:
“Just another Gassan Ahadme.”
Oooof. That’s certainly one way of looking at it. Ipswich signed Ahadme — a 21 year-old striker, like Al-Hamadi — on Deadline Day in September 2022. At that point, the Burton Albion forward had played 1,000 minutes and scored six league goals, and had performed well against Ipswich two weeks before signing. But Ahadme never looked ready to play for Ipswich, and he was moved on months later.
And so it is that any 21-year-old striker, signed for Ipswich from a ‘smaller’ team, must be doomed to be ‘another Gassan Ahadme’."From what I've seen he looks a cracking footballer.
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Post by berlinterrier on Jan 30, 2024 14:27:14 GMT 1
source: NTT20"When you come at transfer coverage from a neutral, objective point of view, it’s easy to forget that such an approach is entirely at odds with the psychology of a fan. Specifically, it’s easy to forget how strongly fan views on players or managers can be based on the performance of other, different human beings with a few situational similarities.
We were reminded of this upon reading the response of some Ipswich fans to their club’s link to Ali Al-Hamadi, which amounted to:
“Just another Gassan Ahadme.”
Oooof. That’s certainly one way of looking at it. Ipswich signed Ahadme — a 21 year-old striker, like Al-Hamadi — on Deadline Day in September 2022. At that point, the Burton Albion forward had played 1,000 minutes and scored six league goals, and had performed well against Ipswich two weeks before signing. But Ahadme never looked ready to play for Ipswich, and he was moved on months later.
And so it is that any 21-year-old striker, signed for Ipswich from a ‘smaller’ team, must be doomed to be ‘another Gassan Ahadme’."From what I've seen he looks a cracking footballer. Interesting - thanks for sharing. I think/hope that he’ll go on to be successful with them. Was hoping that we might have signed him, but I think there will have been a long list of teams after his signature.
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Post by Tinpot on Jan 30, 2024 14:37:24 GMT 1
I thought Wiles was going to fill the void in the middle, but that's been another poor decision...he's not even coming on as a sub now.. Our midfield looked the best it has in ages, against Blackburn and Middlesborough with Hogg, Wiles and Rudoni, and we haven't seen it since. Steven Chicken posted before the Boro game that our record with those 3 starting was W4, D2, L1. Obviously then lost at Boro but Hogg went off before half time. Matos looks decent, but I don't think Hogg + Matos + Rudoni works. 2 phrases come to mind: "There are lies, there are damned lies and then there are statistics." & "Correlation does not equal causation" Personally I'd suggest that was little more than a statistical quirk (from a small sample size). I'd be interested to see who else was on the pitch for those games vs others, and who we were up against. Wiles in particular does not pass "the eye test", and whilst I'd accept that there are things he does well that tend to go unnoticed, he has offered very little so far. Hogg, Matos & Rudoni could (and should!) work well, as could switching Kasumu into there for one of them, depending upon how we set up. A pre-injury Ben Wiles would probably be in our best XI, but we don't have one of those. Whether we have anything like again is something that time will tell, but I'm not confident that we'll see that this season.
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Post by paulmat on Jan 30, 2024 14:56:27 GMT 1
Our midfield looked the best it has in ages, against Blackburn and Middlesborough with Hogg, Wiles and Rudoni, and we haven't seen it since. Steven Chicken posted before the Boro game that our record with those 3 starting was W4, D2, L1. Obviously then lost at Boro but Hogg went off before half time. Matos looks decent, but I don't think Hogg + Matos + Rudoni works. 2 phrases come to mind: "There are lies, there are damned lies and then there are statistics." & "Correlation does not equal causation" Personally I'd suggest that was little more than a statistical quirk (from a small sample size). I'd be interested to see who else was on the pitch for those games vs others, and who we were up against. Wiles in particular does not pass "the eye test", and whilst I'd accept that there are things he does well that tend to go unnoticed, he has offered very little so far. Hogg, Matos & Rudoni could (and should!) work well, as could switching Kasumu into there for one of them, depending upon how we set up. A pre-injury Ben Wiles would probably be in our best XI, but we don't have one of those. Whether we have anything like again is something that time will tell, but I'm not confident that we'll see that this season. There may be an element of that, but I do think, that those 3 (if all playing well) create the best balance, as they all offer something a bit different. I think you'd also get similar with Matos, Wiles, Rudoni, or Kasumu, Wiles, Rudoni. The problem with Matos, Hogg and Rudoni for me, is that Hogg and Matos are both sitting too deep. While Matos hasn't done a lot wrong, I think Rudoni and Hogg both look better when playing with Wiles, even if Wiles is clearly a bit below par for whatever reason.
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Post by bluesandtwos on Jan 30, 2024 15:00:41 GMT 1
I thought Wiles was going to fill the void in the middle, but that's been another poor decision...he's not even coming on as a sub now.. Let's see what he does with a proper manager in charge I know he was still getting his fitness back but he didn’t look any better under Warnock. It would be a big boost if he started looking like the player we thought we bought. Better team management may bring out the best in him. Here’s hoping.
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Post by typical on Jan 30, 2024 15:28:38 GMT 1
Tom Ince available on loan from Watford. Can do a lot worse.
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