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Looking at the table I feel that we can inform a considered opinion. We aren’t as bad as some had us believe after the first handful of games, yet we are way off the pace of the top teams. Poor recruitment and a manager who prefers the challenge of being plucky underdogs will see us flirt with making the playoffs at best. We may may make them, we may not. That is my assessment at least. Given the events surrounding the Sala judgement I am not expecting huge sums of money to be available in January either. Neil will look to loans and players he believes can raise their game from the lower half of the championship and division 1.
I don't think Mr Warnock would recognise a footballer if he bit him on the backside. In interviews he seems genuinely surprised that "we played some good stuff at times". For crying out loud man, it is a minimum requirement to put out a team that is comfortable on the ball and has a recognisable pattern of play. The doggedness that characterises a Neil Warnock team should be used to enhance a side that gets the basics right first not be a means to an end. Such a team would be hugely effective in this league. With the right coaching we could still make an impact but I fear we will be treading water for a while yet.
I think the performances in our last two matches has highlighted how much we rely on Ralls.
Danny Ward has to start up front. Simple as. Ball to feet and he's scoring. Glatzel is ineffective in the air with high balls and missed a sitter. We certainly look more dangerous with NML on the pitch, too. Smithies made a good save and his distribution tends to be better than Ethelridge. That said, a few goals have gone in during Smithies' tenure that I think Ethelridge would have saved.
Bennett has struggled for three consecutive matches, but he has to play because we don't have a genuine alternative.
Thank you Billy - that average attendance was a few thousand more than I expected and was a sign of the sort of club we could become, but does what we did in the summer in the transfer market, the level of performance in our first eleven matches and the whole feel of the club under this manager suggest a willingness to accept the challenge this presents?
Buggar...lost internet for last 10-15 minutes......Ward HAS to start,..he looks up for it...Glatzel missed an absolute sitter with his head at 0-2......could have been a turning point. No-one covered themselves with glory apart from Ward and Smithies.. ...we were simply...outclassed. My one thought with no away wins is that we are saving ourselves for our friends down the road later this month.....now that would go a long way to making amends....
I'm not upset by the loss, but the manner of it is what annoys me. 3 down then we start to attack? It's like Fulham away last season, if we didn't make it easy for the first 70 minutes then who knows what we could have done.
We play too much like a plucky underdog when we're the opposite of that. Our away form has been dreadful this season and if we are to make a run at the play-offs, it needs to change quickly.
Also Bennett is shite
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Bob, we apparently made £100 million last , season , must have made a profit on the summer transfer window and have a parachute payment so we should not be going to Wigan,Hull,Reading Blackburn and now WBA and being happy with a return of 3 points from a possible 15 !
Fair enough WBA but the other 4 we really should be looking at 9 point plus from those fixtures if we were serious about play offs or promotion!