Reply With QuoteJust remember when we played Stoke in the playoffs at NP with a lead and fecked it up. It ain't over yet, big mountain yes but still doable.
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They are a better team, reckon their wage bill will say that tooOriginally Posted by Kind of Blue
Just remember when we played Stoke in the playoffs at NP with a lead and fecked it up. It ain't over yet, big mountain yes but still doable.
Had our chance in the first half.
Chasing shadows in the second.
Best team won.
Aye, arguably underachieved not going up top two this season.
Just me that thought the referee was a one-eyed **** then
Well, that looked like a team who ran out steam after 20 minutes.
Fulham look average, we were invisible.
It has EVERYTHING to do with tactics.
How many long balls did you see Fulham play? How much possession football did you see us play by passing and moving?
I don’t think that their players are necessarily better than ours, but they have been coached on the basics of football: pass, move, pass,
move, keep the ball, make the other team work to gain possession, not play endless long balls where the chances of maintaining possession are dramatically less.
Who plays like that these days apart from us?
It is EVERYTHING to do with tactics.
If Fulham, Swansea and Brentford can do it, then why can’t our players? Because we have a manager that want to play another way.
Pretty much
Oh he definitely was but no big decisions so it didn't stand out.
Pato should have started.
Don’t care if he’s not got the quality, he would have done more than some of those out there today
Fulham have been spending good money on quality footballers for a decade. Brentford have been bringing in quick, skillful players slowly over 3/4 yrs. Swansea have had excellent scouting links and a good reputation for football which enables them to get good Prem. prospects on loan. Compare that to us. The players have given their all, but we are a very long way away from those 3..
Anything can happen, saw one of the league 2 clubs this year in the semi turn around a similar result away. We are going to have to come up with something very different to our other matches against them this season though as they clearly have our number along with obviously being the better team.
Basically a repeat of the last league game against them. Totally outclassed. Shame about the 2 chances in the first half though. At least no embarrassing defeat against the Jacks in the final now!
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So frustrating how much respect we seemed to give them.
That back line is made up of ex Bolton, Sheffield Weds, Middlesbrough and Bristol City. We stood off them and half assed closed them down like they were Real Madrid.
Don't want to dig out one player either as they were all bad but if Pack plays another game for City it is one game too many.
Probably as well to get the crushing disappointment over early.
Awful second half. Lost to the much better team tonight.
as per my comments in another post :
Fulham have been spending good money on quality footballers for a decade. Brentford have been bringing in quick, skillful players slowly over 3/4 yrs. Swansea have had excellent scouting links and a good reputation for football which enables them to get good Prem. prospects on loan. Compare that to us. The players have given their all, but we are a very long way away from those 3..
Can’t say that I noticed.
(I was more overwhelmed at how poor we were in the second half - nothing to do with the ref)
Their players are clearly better than ours. They won all the individual battles this evening.
Why? He doesn't hold the ball up, he doesn't win the aerial battles.
Swansea have got a cobbled together side built around one quality player and scraped into the playoffs by a miracle.
Wonder when that smug Bristol City fan will turn up? Haven't had a peep from him for a while!
Tomlin should have gone at half time, he was a passenger in the 2nd have & we played 10 v 11. It should have been all over in the first 15 minutes, we had 3 good chances. From the first break onwards we looked like it was a game too far.
I'd change half the team for the 2nd leg. Give some different faces and fresh legs a go at it. We're 2 down and on our way out so give them something different to think about.
Flint up front :)
If that’s the best we can give in a play off game then maybe we are better off not going up. We could be humiliated in the Premier League.
Harris has done really well to get us up to fifth. If we can find / loan a talented young a striker then we might be better next season
Well said.
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