How are we all feeling?

[The Lone Gunman]

Re: How are we all feeling?

‘ Random poster on messageboard hounds professional footballer into obscurity’ .........What power we have, eh!

dml1954 takes this message board way too seriously. He’d be better off taking up knitting or something similar.

[splott parker]

Re: How are we all feeling?

dml1954 takes this message board way too seriously. He’d be better off taking up knitting or something similar.

Yep, he’s a right purler, don’t needle him, there’s a definite pattern to his posts!!

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: How are we all feeling?

We need to get points on the board

We can worry about hairstyles , patterns of play and the analysis of wether or not our football is pretty enough once we have a bit of stability

We havnt had that for several years and have been a soft touch

It's no good us going a few games again with nothing to show except zero points

Very pleased we got 3 points yesterday

The season starts now

[llan bluebird]

Re: How are we all feeling?

Positives
Only a few hit and hope long balls, whereas that was Wednesday's main tactic
We played through the thirds
We can score
We have a deeper championship grade squad, although yesterday bench was a bit midfield heavy

Not convinced
the forward line isn't right, O'Dowda and Ugbo are not inside forwards (for differing reasons)
Left back looks extremely dodgy at this moment in time in a back four
McGuiness and Goutas are not Morrison and Bamba or Hudson and Turner even

Happy with the progress, i definitely think we are a bt under cooked fitness wise, but games will get us there by the dark nights

[MOZZER2]

Re: How are we all feeling?

very pleased with the result and can see green shoots of recovery with the general performance overall . Can only see the team gelling over the coming months

based on yesterdays performance my only reservation is our left back looked out of position many times . Thought Ralls had a good game too

[2b2bdoo]

Re: How are we all feeling?

I’m feeling positive although a win yesterday was so important for confidence and the longer we went without a win the more pressure that is added.

Two tough away games coming up and then the jacks at home which which has hardly gone in our favour in recent times.

I think it’s going to take time to gel, we need more confidence but I like the look of the squad, at least 2 more players needed, maybe 3.

[Tuerto]

Re: How are we all feeling?

This resume of Mcguiness is just plain wrong and indicates to me that you wouldn't know a good player if you tripped over him. At least you admit that you didn't see yesterdays game but it sounds to me that you haven't seen many others either. He is only 22 years old and this is only the start of his first full season playing in the Championship and will be only his second full season ever in league football. If he carries on his development then he will become a top quality player but if people like you got your way he would be hounded out into obscurity. Get off his case.

What's this age thing got to do with anything? I hear it so often. It doesn't mean a thing. McGuiness has played 105 professional games, and around 80 games at championship level.

[NYCBlue]

Re: How are we all feeling?

We lost at home to QPR and we struggled at home to beat Wednesday, so obviously things are far from ideal. But there's definitely been some improvement. We have a midfield for a start. The DM role that Siopis plays has taken a lot of the dirty work off Ralls' plate and has given him the chance to get forward more and be more creative. I thought neither Tanner nor Colwill looked out of place yesterday. I'm looking forward to a more settled, less worrisome season. On evidence thus far, I can't see us breaking the top 10 though. Fine by me. For now.

[Alfresco]

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I don't think we have had a bad start to the campaign, if we can get our best 11 fit and playing regular it should be an entertaining season

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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It's difficult to analyse how we're doing. We've been more than decent in two away games against teams from last season's Premier League, losing 3 points in injury time and, on other days, we could have won both. We've also been crap at home against one of the worst Championship sides over the last year and had to rely on a monumental cock-up to beat a side that had lost all 3 games this season, and even made them look world beaters for a while.

We look better when we absorb pressure and hit teams on the counter than we do when trying to break down sides. Our first half at Leeds and second half at Leicester were really encouraging.

Looking at the side that ended last season and the one that currently starts, I would say

Alnwick v Allsop - Alnwick all day long. Glad Allsop is sulking and wants out.
Kipre v Goutas - Kipre.
Kaba v Ugbo - draw. Both didn't offer a great deal in open play but get into the right positions to score goals.
Sawyers v Ramsey. Tight one this......
Meite v Etete. Meite, but early days.
Philogene v Grant. Philogene.
Siopis v Wintle. Can't judge on one performance.

Robinson has disappeared despite having a decent season though Tanner looks ready to make the step up. We're worse in defence than we were last season, based on McGuinness now being our best centre back. That's not knocking McGuinness, but Kipre was first choice last season. Simpson is our next choice and that's scary enough for Bulut to need to bring someone else in.

So, in terms of personnel, we haven't made huge strides away from last season and we were never likely to do so with the embargo and Vinnie's wallet being padlocked. Somehow I feel that we're starting to build something but January will tell us more. Playoffs are miles away. Even with Ramsey, I don't feel we'll be much higher than mid table but bottom half. Given how shit we were, that's still progress.

If we lose the derby in 4 weeks time I think we'll be in trouble as Swansea are possibly worse than us at the moment.

[blue matt]

Re: How are we all feeling?

I was feeling positive anyway, yesterday made no difference, we can all see the improvement, we are scoring a few goals

The Negative people on here will still find fault even if we go on a 10 game winning streak and top the table, they will find something wrong, its just the way they are, leave them to it and crack on enjoying what we have

[MacAdder]

Re: How are we all feeling?

Buoyant

[TheBirchgrovePub]

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Anyone not skipping away from the ground yesterday is following the wrong sport. What it’s all about a 98th minute winner

I thought we played ok yesterday. It’s only QPR that has been a dreadful performance so far and in fairness I’m not sure they’ll be the whipping boys everyone seems to suggest as a narrow defeat to Ipswich and Southampton in successive weeks since

We could’ve won at Leicester, a minute from winning at Leeds. Yesterday was a patched up front 3. Our start has been fine just really need that striker in as the final piece of the jigsaw.

Huge moment that though and hopefully it will instill some belief now

[the other bob wilson]

Re: How are we all feeling?

Bulut seems determinedly a four at the back man, but we don’t really have the option of playing three at the back at the moment if things were going really wrong with four. There’s no evidence that he thinks Ng can play as part of a three, so it’s Simpson (Bulut preferred going with no centrebacks on the bench on Saturday despite one of them being taken off in the previous game because he’s finding the transition to the British game tough) or nothing.we need another centreback that the manager trusts more than a striker, good though someone like Keiffer Moore would be.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: How are we all feeling?

Bulut seems determinedly a four at the back man, but we don’t really have the option of playing three at the back at the moment if things were going really wrong with four. There’s no evidence that he thinks Ng can play as part of a three, so it’s Simpson (Bulut preferred going with no centrebacks on the bench on Saturday despite one of them being taken off in the previous game because he’s finding the transition to the British game tough) or nothing.we need another centreback that the manager trusts more than a striker, good though someone like Keiffer Moore would be.

We are scoring goals

Getting more solid at the back is more important