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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
And a few others on here.
Very odd 🤔
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This^^^Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
And a few others on here.
Very odd 🤔
We could go on a ten game winning run and some would be complaining about the lack of goals from midfield or some other such cobblersQuote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
Bulut and his side have hit a slump but its not the end of the world
I love it when we do well. I get concerned when we struggle as we are and look for reasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
It's no more complicated than having not a great deal of money to spend and the cruel mistress called football ⚽Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
She is a 👿
Of course it is more complex than that. Teams with little money to spend can do well, while teams spending huge amounts can flop badly.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
You have been openly critical of recent performances and that's right. How does a side hovering around the top 6 have such a drop off in form and performance level? We were where we were on merit. The starting line ups against Bristol and Huddersfield are virtually the same as they are now, but the performances were hugely different. What's gone wrong? Is it that we've been found out? If it's the money thing, why were we much more successful, even without Ramsey until recently?
A few results not going our way, fair enough. But the difference is chalk and cheese. If we keep up these performances until the end of the season we'll be dragged right into the relegation mix. It's as crap as last season and the one before, where the start of the season we looked as good at times as when we've been challenging for promotion.
You admit yourself we are struggling, is it wrong for fans to be concerned? Bulut is the manager he has a squad of professional footballers who are playing like a Sunday league side. Warnock would have sorted it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
ChristQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
Another oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Alfresco
You make an interesting point, there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfresco
Back in our promotion season we lost 4 on the spin around Christmas time, dropping us out of the automatic promotion places, then drew 0-0 at home with Mansfield. We then won 32 points out of 36, not losing a league game for over 3 months, and that gave us enough to have a wobble at the end, to stay above a rampant Fulham side.
Genuine question - do you believe that this real slump in form is just one of those things and there's no reason for it happening?Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
In what way are we struggling?Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
YesQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
In which case, please, for feck's sake, stop whinging when others try and look for reasons why things are going wrong. It's only showing concern. Please stop labelling us as being negative, when we're genuinely being anything but.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Some folk do indeed come across as having a sense of schadenfreude when we are struggling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
We all know the parameters that Bulut has had to work with not only during the summer transfer window, but also the players that he inherited.
As another poster mentioned, we have hit a wall right now. That could be down to the efforts that have been put in over the few first months, the lack of rotational options but more likely a combination of both (including injuries).
I’m confident that a few players will be brought in and we will progress.
This last month we have looked nothing short of awful, it’s impossible to deny…but we need to remember that we were amongst the favourites to go down.
There is no way on earth that we are going down. I’d say it’s more likely that we finish top 6 than go down.
And what type of player do you think Graham Kavanagh was? Because when you name a 3rd Division player it makes me think of a 3rd Division player.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
To be fair to Kav, he did the business in the Championship as well and he played a lot in the Premier League for Wigan.Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
As for the current slump, there’s always a chance of something like this happening at a club that favours perspiration over inspiration to the degree that we have over the past decade or so. Our lack of what I’d call proper footballers in midfield is costing us dear currently.Siopis, although an improvement on what we had, still only really offers more of the same.
Wtf are you talking about ?Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
Kav was a midfield general , buzzing around box to box
Breaking up play , making things happen , free kicks , the lot
That's the sort of midfielder I am talking about , at this level
Not rambo , he's very much just behind the front two
You always whinge about the team and the managerQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
It's your job
So far in this thread we’ve had calls from Sludge for players like Peter Thorne, Graham Kavanagh and Chris Barker.
As good a player as they were for the time they played for us 20 years ago ffs. Mainly in the 3rd tier.
The man hasn’t got a fecking scooby about football. It’s embarrassing.
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Originally Posted by J R Hartley
The equivalent , those sort of players ....you sheep shagg8ng idiot from trefachenQuote:
Originally Posted by J R Hartley
Kavanagh was hardly a midfield general. I remember some thinking he was a bit powderpuff at times. He needed a strong tackler alongside him.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Kav was the complete box to box playerQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
He was the epitome of a midfield general
If he went on a run Boland or Bonner were there to sit deep
This is the sort of player we need
Ramsey is a luxury and not the same sort of player
Speed , power , swashbuckling style of play .......breaking up play , astute passing , goals from free kicks .....Mr Graham Kavanagh
100%Quote:
Originally Posted by J R Hartley
sludge is either a troll or thick as two planks..im gonna go with the latter
CluelessQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
If we had a player like kav in the middle to get box to box ......covered by defensive midfielders like siopis or Wintle then never mind worrying about Ramsey getting back to fitness we would be sortedQuote:
Originally Posted by J R Hartley
We need a jack of all trades in that middle ......a championship equivalent of kav , gazza , Gerrard
That sort of player
Now go down strikers and play darts
Surprising to see you pop up in a thread criticising bulutQuote:
Originally Posted by Blooburd
Gosh
The modern game has passed you by. Crawl back under your rock.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I've heard it all, now.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Gazza and Gerrard weren't even the same type of player, while any comparison between Gazza and Kavva is akin to comparing George Best and Cohen Griffith.
He's been hearing that for the last 30 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by J R Hartley
You have been watching too much sky super soccer Sunday nonsenseQuote:
Originally Posted by J R Hartley
Swashbuckling midfieldersQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
Kav was our Gerrard
Box to Box
Check out "The Best of Saint and Greavsie" on ITV4 last weekend. They had a good bit about Gazza from the late 80s on there.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
In order for bulut to sort it out ......he needs to go and sign a play maker who can chip in with goalsQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
That's what kav did , it's what gazza did , it's what Gerrard did
Different levels but the same sort of player
It's so easy to see and the team is crying out for it
That's the answer to your question 🙋
Now get on with it
Gazza's genius in the 1991 cup final.
https://youtu.be/aww54AjXiMA?si=iWJ5uO--dtKjBZ_f
Check out his goal v pompey in the fa Cup in 1990
Red card for the first one or shown a red card while on the stretcher for the second. Forest were hard done by, Spurs should have been down to ten men.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
oh dear this thread just isnt working out for you is it. This reply literally confirms J R to be right you dimwit lolQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
https://youtu.be/TrPDjhxG67M?si=QD7ZrvRZ_3_dCjXI
Wins the ball in the middle then a great run to bang the header in
Ricky Scimicea type stuff
The winner is just class finishing
I saw Kav create and score goals like this .....an absolute wallop on the volley up at wolves
That's the sort of player we have been missing for years and whilst colwill may or may not come good this is where the promised land lies
As far as I am concerned you are a complete cockQuote:
Originally Posted by Blooburd