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Watching game tonight made me realise Bamba is not a midfielder, has no pace ,prone to loosing the ball , first touch doubtful ,which is risky for a midfielder.
Manga I thought played well has a good touch , and better recovery pace.
Who gets dropped.
Do we stick with Bamba in midfield .
Does he drop Manga for Bamba in defence bit cruel if he does .
Back three fill midfield .
Big decesion time NW.
Bamba definitely needs dropping from midfield.
I feel he's got more pace than Manga at the back though.
Tough one.
Anyway, the question should be is when is Paterson fit enough to replace the awful Peltier?
Yes.
I feel that if we have a game where the team and formation works, then Warnock keeps trying the same thing regardless of whatever challenges different opposition pose. It's fine and dandy to say that teams should be worried about us - they are, hence they up their game and don't allow us much space in behind. But we also need to tweak and alter things against different opposition. Hard graft will only get us so far.
Bamba must never ever play in midfield again.
His first pass went 60 yards straight out of play. Warnock laughed. He should have berated him - it all went downhill from there.
After that he just gave the ball away.
Never again
It might work, it's certainly something we have discussed on the bus, but for me we've got better midfielders than either in Damour and Tomlin.
I'd look at playing Ward, maybe instead of Mendes Lang as he's looked out of sorts and what a weapon to have on the bench
We are looking a bit short of ideas, so for Boro how about
Etheridge, Bennett, Morrison, Bamba, Patterson, Hoillet, Rallls, Bryson, Tomlin, Ward, Zohore ??
I would love to see Tomlin selected against Boro. Curse of the ex!
He's always struggled to cement a first team position wherever he's been, despite his undoubted talent. I was hoping our Neil knew exactly what he was getting involved with, hence his big bid, and suprisingly from a lower grade 'rival'.
It could be a niggly injury that persists, or something more tabloidesque.
I'm hoping it's the former.
Both are good centre backs. I think a bit harsh on Bamba as seen hin thrive in midfield before, the whole team were pretty awful especially the midfield. At times it looked like we were 2 men down
On the right occasion Bamba can do a job. Last night it wasnt working at all. It should have been changed at half time.
We were creating nothing and we have a creative player on the bench who doesnt come on at all.
Warnock has rightly taken the praise on what he has done so far but last night he has to take some blame.
I said on the match thread last night that we had been out warnocked and beaten at our own game.
Coterill said when interviewed last night, when he modesty took all the credit, that he put players in that knew were going to give him everything. He more or less said the players he used weren’t the most talented in the squad but he needed to match Cardiff to get a result.
We were being outmuscled in midfield, Tomlin would have done nothing to solve that.
Getting things in perspective, it was our second loss all season - let's bear in mind most people predicted we'd get few points over the recent run of games. Still top of the table.
Created nothing? Zohore set up a great chance, there were 3 or 4 fantastic blocks in the area by their defenders too.
Bad day at the office, onto the next game.
i would play Bamba and Manga together at the back and drop the hopeless Morrison. We have a central defender who cant pass and his positional play is woeful. He should have tried to tackle Adams not retreated like Bambi on ice, basic stuff you go out and meet the attacker and try to force him wide. Bamba was covering him if Adams got passed.
As for his clearance headers he just gives the ball back to the opposition midfielder everytime instead of looking for his full back or winger. People are blaming Peltier but I would hate to play alongside Morrison every week!!!!!
If "OUR NEIL", can't make up his mind about these two and persists in playing both, then he has to play with 3 centre backs, wing backs (Patterson & Bennett) , a midfield of Gunners, Ralls, & Bryson, Tomlin @ a number 10 role and Zohore up top (although I would prefer Ward there at the mo.
Morrisons passing is far better than Bambas and his positional sense is better than both of the others.
It would also help if Manga, Bamba and Zohore come to that would actually jump for the ball a bit more often.
Embarrassing how they were regularly being beaten in the air by smaller players who clearly wanted it more.
Talking nonsense. If Morrison went out to meet Adams he would have got skinned.
He tried to show him down the left and Bamba should have been there to cover if he come in on his right. Unfortunately Bamba just carried on running into no mans land and the space opened up for him to shoot.
Manga should also have been closer for the cut inside.
Mark Hudson said Morrison should have tackled Adams on the sky commentary and they also highlighted the mistake at the Brum free kick where Morrison followed the decoy runner and left his man free who headed the ball down for the 2 brum players to thankfully mess up the shot. These 2 players were played onside by the retreating Morrison. Lucky Manga was on the line to clear the ball.