Match Thread Cardiff (9 Viewers)

[SlowerThanPlatt]

No

Thought it was? When Sky showed our next fixtures the Cardiff game was down as being live

 

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[johnwillomagic]

Quite a few have Dabo in for Weds....he's not right needs to be benched as McCallum can't play vs Norwich so he is needed then!

I think we need sheaf/Hamer/Kelly and two up top ....Godden and Walker are the front two ideally however if Godden not fit I really really think Baka up front with Walker should be tried.....Baka last chance saloon but he needs to be given a chance in a front two!

 

[pipkin73]

Thought it was? When Sky showed our next fixtures the Cardiff game was down as being live

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We are against Derby on Dec 1st

 

[stevefloyd]

How can anybody not see ANY game as a must win? You must love inviting your own pressure.

So if you was Robins and was talking to the players before the game you would say...listen up this is a must win and heap lots of pressure on them...good tactic

 

[Mcbean]

Robins has wanted to play a stable team but things have conspired against him - it will come !

 

[Old Warwickshire lad]

This is a must win game now surely isn’t it?

How can it be a must win game ? last time I looked it was still November.

 

[lord_garrincha]

The club have just put an article up. It is not on Sky.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

3-0 Loss.

 

[matesx]

£10 on ifollow it is then

 

[DannyThomas_1981]

How can it be a must win game ? last time I looked it was still November.

I'm 100% certain at this point that every game between now and the end of the season will be referenced as 'must win' by the usual drama queens with the inevitable break-downs, slashing of wrists and calling for taxis if we're not 5 nil up by half time.

 

[Liquid Gold]

3-5-2
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3-5-2

 

[BornSlippySkyBlue]

3-5-2
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3-5-2

Any thoughts on how we should set up?

 

[shmmeee]

McCallum as a centre back? Don’t think now is the best time to be trying out players in new positions

Why not? Last match we played two CMs on the flanks and two wing backs at full back

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

I think we’ll go back to 3-5-2 rightly or wrongly. I think the change to a back 4 was forced with the personnel available.

Except we had Osti on the bench and brought him on, so a back five/three was an option.

 

[AOM]

3-5-2
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Robins:

 

[Deleted member 11652]

Except we had Osti on the bench and brought him on, so a back five/three was an option.

Could be wrong but didn’t he have a fixture scheduled for last Wednesday and therefore, Robins had made plans as if he was unavailable. I think he only returned to training on Wednesday anyway and I can’t imagine Robins intended to rip up his plans on 2 days notice.

I think the fact he brought Ostigard on reinforces that the 3-5-2 is his preferred system going forward.

 

[Tommo1993]

So if you was Robins and was talking to the players before the game you would say...listen up this is a must win and heap lots of pressure on them...good tactic

Would you tell them to go out and not worry about winning? Good tactic.

 

[stevefloyd]

Would you tell them to go out and not worry about winning? Good tactic.

Totally different

 

[Old Warwickshire lad]

I'm 100% certain at this point that every game between now and the end of the season will be referenced as 'must win' by the usual drama queens with the inevitable break-downs, slashing of wrists and calling for taxis if we're not 5 nil up by half time.

If we’re bottom at Christmas worry, if we are still bottom at Easter then we can panic .

 

[Tommo1993]

Totally different

They are different, but I can’t imagine him telling the team that any game isn’t a must win. What’s the point?

 

[wingy]

I think 1-1 , difficult game I fear.

 

[stevefloyd]

They are different, but I can’t imagine him telling the team that any game isn’t a must win. What’s the point?

I can imagine him saying go out and win but I don't think the word must is a good idea, you need the players heads up and if they are too thick and stupid to realise about winning then they don't deserve such a lucrative career

 

[Tommo1993]

I can imagine him saying go out and win but I don't think the word must is a good idea, you need the players heads up and if they are too thick and stupid to realise about winning then they don't deserve such a lucrative career

Fair point well put, I guess.

 

[PUSB-We_are_going_up]

How can it be a must win game ? last time I looked it was still November.

Because we are close to the relegation zone

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

They are different, but I can’t imagine him telling the team that any game isn’t a must win. What’s the point?

I think telling them they CAN win is motivational. Telling them they MUST win IMO would be detrimental because it puts extra mental pressure on them and mistakes creep in with the nerves.

There is also the option of saying they WILL win, but I think that's the preserve of just a few clubs whose quality is far above those of pretty much everyone else, but even then it'd need qualifying with stuff like 'as long as you give 100%' etc or chances are they'd be complacent.

 

[Johhny Blue]

A win here will bring us closer to the pack ahead of us.
But if we do drop into the relegation zone we wanna be as close on points as possible to the rest of the relegation contenders

Oh so that’s how it works!

 

[no_loyalty]

The million dollar question is, do we build on the point we gained against Blues and play the same system, losing the attacking intent? or do we go back to our favoured formation, and hope we cut out the silly mistakes?

 

[cc84cov]

The million dollar question is, do we build on the point we gained against Blues and play the same system, losing the attacking intent? or do we go back to our favoured formation, and hope we cut out the silly mistakes?

We play that against them we will be in trouble

 

[no_loyalty]

We play that against them we will be in trouble

Do they play two up top?

 

[JeffB]

I am afraid this is another bogey fixture! I don't think we took a single point off this lot during our miserable tenure in the Championship last time around. Whilst past performance is no guide to future performance I am told, it does not augur well that three other bogey teams from the past Watford, Bristol City and Nottingham Forest have carried on from where they left off a decade ago. I'm afraid I think it will be 2 nil to them. I really do hope that I am wrong.

 

[Northeast sky blue]

Do they play two up top?

They tend to start with either 4231 or 442

 

[mrtrench]

We need to score more goals. We should try 2-4-4.

 

[87 n all that]

Quite a few have Dabo in for Weds....he's not right needs to be benched as McCallum can't play vs Norwich so he is needed then!

I think we need sheaf/Hamer/Kelly and two up top ....Godden and Walker are the front two ideally however if Godden not fit I really really think Baka up front with Walker should be tried.....Baka last chance saloon but he needs to be given a chance in a front two!

Agree with all of the above. Save Dabo for Norwich. Might as well try Baka alongside Walker if Godden isn’t fit. He might surprise us and be confident upfront in a 2

 

[pipkin73]

I am afraid this is another bogey fixture! I don't think we took a single point off this lot during our miserable tenure in the Championship last time around. Whilst past performance is no guide to future performance I am told, it does not augur well that three other bogey teams from the past Watford, Bristol City and Nottingham Forest have carried on from where they left off a decade ago. I'm afraid I think it will be 2 nil to them. I really do hope that I am wrong.

We just don't seem to do well against Welsh teams, but MR has already broken many of our hoodoos.

 

[Hobo]

I keep putting all these formations as my lottery numbers -
They don't fucking win though!