Big game Saturday

[EastbourneBlue]

Feels like we’ve put a bit of pressure on ourselves here after what was a cracking start against the Canaries.

A third consecutive defeat and the panic will start to set in with West Brom away to come. Morison not the most experienced either.

A win and we can write off last night and focus on two wins from two at home.

A good start this season was always crucial.

[Colin'sReversibleHat]

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Here's hoping Birmingham's coaches haven't done their homework on us- guys, if you're reading this, definitely don't man-mark Ryan Wintle or play a low block/counter attack on Saturday.

[Trigger]

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Yep can see the frustration growing when we are 1 down.

The last few days has undone a lot of positivity.

[Carl Dale's Mole]

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Feels massive doesn't it.

I know there are some on here who are just dying for all of this to go tits up so they can revel in it. Really weird behaviour.

I'm still optimistic for the season. But forget SM's "we want x number of points after 8 games". Reading and Birmingham were in the bottom three of nearly everyone's predictions. If we can't beat at least one of them, then it's going to be really hard to remain patient going forward.

This has to be a win. And a win with more than one chance created. And bring back that ****ing effort from Norwich.

[MacAdder]

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I see the usual suspects are out in force with their glass half empty attitude already (not in this thread).

Just watched 3 minutes of highlights and the first 3 plays were us passing it about going forward and creating good opportunities to score.

As soon as the first goal is conceded, through yet another defensive error, the panic button gets pressed and players stop doing their jobs.

It is a little early to be stressing but the basic principles need to be got right.
Sticking the ball in the onion bag and keeping the ball out of the onion bag. Simples no?

Currently we seem unable to do both but given that SM is trying to implement what many have been crying out for, for a decade, that is playing a bit of football with a clear identity, then he should be given a lot more time than three games before writing him off.

Changing the team for cup games in order to have a look at other players happens at every level so losing to Portsmouth should not be viewed as a catastrophe.
Morison I hope will have learned a lot from his players last nights performance.

The players when selected need to stand up and be counted.

[Dave Blue]

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I see the usual suspects are out in force with their glass half empty attitude already (not in this thread).

Just watched 3 minutes of highlights and the first 3 plays were us passing it about going forward and creating good opportunities to score.

As soon as the first goal is conceded, through yet another defensive error, the panic button gets pressed and players stop doing their jobs.

It is a little early to be stressing but the basic principles need to be got right.
Sticking the ball in the onion bag and keeping the ball out of the onion bag. Simples no?

Currently we seem unable to do both but given that SM is trying to implement what many have been crying out for, for a decade, that is playing a bit of football with a clear identity, then he should be given a lot more time than three games before writing him off.

Changing the team for cup games in order to have a look at other players happens at every level so losing to Portsmouth should not be viewed as a catastrophe.
Morison I hope will have learned a lot from his players last nights performance.

The players when selected need to stand up and be counted.

He will have learned a lot. He’ll have learnt he has brought in a load of duds.

[Rjk]

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Massive game really, Birmingham have started well, they should have beaten Huddersfield by more than they did probably.

[Nobody's Rep]

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He will have learned a lot. He’ll have learnt he has brought in a load of duds.

In my opinion bit early to come to that conclusion after three games of which 7 of the starting line up last night were players that's were already here

Me I am happy to wait and see how this works out

[The Lone Gunman]

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Just watched 3 minutes of highlights and the first 3 plays were us passing it about going forward and creating good opportunities to score.

Where was this video? Which website?

[Ninja]

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He will have learned a lot. He’ll have learnt he has brought in a load of duds.

I find it incredible that it's always the players fault. Guess what Steve, this is wholly YOUR squad. 15 recruits aided by a bunch of academy prospects that he championed himself.
No excuses, he done fvcked up royally.
Too many recruits and not enough quality. Yet somehow not his fault.

This isn't glass half empty by the way, for those of you that always want to criticise even the tiniest hint of negativity.
It's bare facts. How many times has any club made such sweeping player changes and had any level of success?

He's showing himself to be very arrogant and too clever for his own good. I suspect he'll be gone by Christmas and we'll have an Allardyce and hoofball to look forward to in order to save our season.

If I'm wrong, I'll happily take the tearing apart that you lot give me come Xmas

[Cyclops]

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When does 'my players just didn't perform' become 'he can't motivate his team'?

[Nobody's Rep]

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I find it incredible that it's always the players fault. Guess what Steve, this is wholly YOUR squad. 15 recruits aided by a bunch of academy prospects that he championed himself.
No excuses, he done fvcked up royally.
Too many recruits and not enough quality. Yet somehow not his fault.

This isn't glass half empty by the way, for those of you that always want to criticise even the tiniest hint of negativity.
It's bare facts. How many times has any club made such sweeping player changes and had any level of success?

He's showing himself to be very arrogant and too clever for his own good. I suspect he'll be gone by Christmas and we'll have an Allardyce and hoofball to look forward to in order to save our season.

If I'm wrong, I'll happily take the tearing apart that you lot give me come Xmas

He has publicly said it is his team and he also said that he needs to look at everything including the role of managers and coaches as well as the performance of the team

Not sure where he is abdicating responsibility for all this and as said by someone else in another thread it is early early days

[The Lone Gunman]

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When does 'my players just didn't perform' become 'he can't motivate his team'?

They looked motivated last night. There was no lack of effort. Just a lack of quality.

[Ninja]

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They looked motivated last night. There was no lack of effort. Just a lack of quality.

This.
Don't matter how many "bodies through the door" you can fit if they don't have the quality.
We look likely to keep leaking goals and unlikely to score anywhere near enough.

After Norwich I was hoping he might have struck lucky and we might somehow improve quickly.
Reading and Pompey have shown the polar opposite. They highlighted how fortunate we were to get 3 points against Norwich.

[19bluebirds27]

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Norwich was a free hit. Not many expected us to get anything and we did which altered the expectations.
Reading was disappointing following on from the start we made.
Portsmouth was always a tricky one considering the fact SM had to give a game to everyone else.
It’s a shame we couldn’t have gone a couple of rounds at least to have certain squad players playing.
It looks a mess.

These next 3 games in a week could be pivotal if we don’t don’t begin to gel and get a bit of fluency about our game and threaten the oppositions goal more and have viable options off the bench.