JohnWH
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Bummer. Feel there's a real wrestler in the lad if only given some ring time by the gaffer.
Bummer. Feel there's a real wrestler in the lad if only given some ring time by the gaffer.Contest abandoned. Ripped leotard in the buttock area
Spoke sense and I agree with his review. Big week of training upcoming
Perhaps it's a blessing in disguise for this performance to be the first one so he sees in the flesh the problems with so many of these players.Spoke sense and I agree with his review. Big week of training upcoming
Reinvent the wheel?......which one?,we haven't had the team set up in the same shape from one game to the next all season under MR.Our whole setup was baffling. For a new manager to come in & within 48 hours try & reinvent the wheel is naïve to say the least. It was difficult to even see what the plan was.
I was scratching my head as to why Rodin was so often higher up the pitch than EMC.It didn't look like the players knew. We were so lopsided with an inverted left back, traditional right back. Eccles clearly unsure what he was supposed to be doing. Rudoni wide leaving us out numbered in central midfield. It was horrid.
Pretty clear in the second half the players had no idea what they were doing.Our whole setup was baffling. For a new manager to come in & within 48 hours try & reinvent the wheel is naïve to say the least. It was difficult to even see what the plan was.
The problem is ladies and gents is that we somehow have landed ourselves with a bang average bunch of players who……
Can’t really defend
Are toothless in midfield
And without Haji are pathetic up front
The signings we made in the summer again look very overrated
If you'd watched the CCFC derby today, you'd see how unlikely this is.Millwall fan here (hence the user name). Just joined your forum to give your supporters some hope in your match against us next Saturday.
For a while now you seem to have been our bogey side, and our record against you hasn’t been good. After today’s performance against an extremely poor Oxford United side, I genuinely believe you’ll get your first win against us under Lampard.
Neil Harris is Mr. Millwall. He loves, lives and breathes our club, and as a motivator of players he’s second to none, but at the moment he does have a blind spot when it comes to picking one particular player over better in form ones. That player is our 5’9 striker (and I use the term “striker” very loosely) Tom Bradshaw. Now Tom gives us 100% commitment but unfortunately that isn’t enough in today’s fast paced Championship. We have better strikers in Langstaff and Ivanovic who have been sitting warming the bench in recent games, and as they have only been coming on in the 89th minute in a last ditch attempt to turn a loss into a draw, or a draw into a win, I’ll be expecting to see them come on when Coventry are in the ascendancy.
You haven’t won in 5 and we’ve gone 9 games unbeaten so something has to give and we’re a side that‘s great to play against when an opposition team haven’t won for a few games. We will have our influential centre half Japhet Tanganga suspended for your game, and we’re also missing our other centre half, Jake Cooper, who’s out for around 10 weeks with an injury, so your strikers will have an easy game running through our patched up CH pairing on Saturday.
You will also have a spy in your camp in Lampard’s No. 2, Joe Edwards, who was our manager for a 19 game spell last season, so I’m sure he’ll be giving Frankie boy the low down on our strengths and weaknesses, and let’s face it: what former manager doesn’t like getting one over on a former club with a good performance and a win against them? Then there’s also the vermin (West Ham) connection with Lampard who previously played for them, so getting his first win and over “the old enemy” will, I’m sure, have him beaming from ear to ear come 5pm on Saturday.
I’m telling you boys, it’s a nailed on certainty for you picking up 3 points. No need to thank me now, you can all thank and gloat at me when I come back on this forum Saturday evening, trying desperately to defend our sh#t show against you.
Guys, I think we need to keep our shit together now and stop the talk of relegation battles.
Result is massively disappointing, yet again we performed worse than our xg of 2.27 and Cardiff did so much better than their 0.72. Defensively we are currently rubbish when not in possession and the goals we keep conceding are not from great chances but poor goalkeeping and defensive positioning and individual mistakes. FL will see this and we’ve got a week before next game to work on this. Personally I would bin Collins and start using Dovin. He is a far better reactive shot stopper than Collins. Bidders would give a bit more steel in LB.
This is largely fixable with good coaching, and Jan window can hopefully fix what is not.
The 35 year old in a 60 year old's body aka Barry Bannan was the best player on the pitch by some distance. We were outplayed by them, pure and simple.
Because I watched the game. Possession is the most meaningless statistic in football for a start.if you define outplaying someone as having less possession, shots, shots on target, corners, shots saved than the team you “outplayed”, then not sure what to say to you. Deliriously negative.
Because I watched the game. Possession is the most meaningless statistic in football for a start.
We deserved to lose the game handsomely.
Because I watched the game. Possession is the most meaningless statistic in football for a start.
We deserved to lose the game handsomely.
Sorry MMB, that answer was in relation to the Sheff W game.We had the better chances even without the penalty. The second half was just v frustrating to watch but thought he could’ve went 2-1 up before the half. The xG stats at least indicated we created more and better chances than Cardiff did - ofc they didn’t need to if they go up 5m in the first half and 2 in the 2nd half!
We struggle to breakdown teams that put 10 men behind the ball. We just don’t move teams around and we’re the opposite defensively - how easily we’re pulled apart for their 2nd.
Agree with a lot of this. We are still playing ourselves into dead ends with our ponderous build up play. Eventually the ball ends up wide with a lone player against 3 defenders. No support, no runs off the ball.Guys, I think we need to keep our shit together now and stop the talk of relegation battles.
Result is massively disappointing, yet again we performed worse than our xg of 2.27 and Cardiff did so much better than their 0.72. Defensively we are currently rubbish when not in possession and the goals we keep conceding are not from great chances but poor goalkeeping and defensive positioning and individual mistakes. FL will see this and we’ve got a week before next game to work on this. Personally I would bin Collins and start using Dovin. He is a far better reactive shot stopper than Collins. Bidders would give a bit more steel in LB.
This is largely fixable with good coaching, and Jan window can hopefully fix what is not.
My bad, ignore me then and hopefully you agree with me on my take of today’s game!Sorry MMB, that answer was in relation to the Sheff W game.
I certainly do. Despite apparently being 'deliriously negative', it's not just me who shares my view of that and other games.My bad, ignore me then and hopefully you agree with me on my take of today’s game!
As for Sheff W, we got beat on the xG front and couldn’t lay a glove on them so whilst we had possession and what not, it played into their hands.
Welcome to Sky Blues Talk.Lots of overreactions in here today
One thing we have to look at is giving Milan a run on the bench. Not sure if he’s tired, confidence gone or not arsed but something has to give.
Looking at the squad and the manager wants, might be worth throwing Josh Eccles back to right back, just till Milan gets his head together
He has played there before under us and is probably our only backup.Josh Eccles is not a RB. Let's not revert to putting square pegs in round holes.
Josh Eccles is not a RB. Let's not revert to putting square pegs in round holes.
That's opinion and we each have one. I was responding to Frostie asking what new things were seen to give a reason for optimism.It was terrible in first game terms. In comparison with our performance at home seven days ago it was horrendous.
I do feel Bassette is being thrust into a start berth too early. His goal v Sheff U was good and he obviously impacted the game with his aggressiveness and his work rate is phenomenal which endears fans. If he is Vik mk2 he also needs to beef up and improve just as Vik had to.After the 4 hour drive home, I have got over my initial disappointment. It wasn't a good performance defensively again.
And as much as I like binks he has been too weak down that left hand side this season and the less said about JDS the better. Kitching and Bidwell have to come in for me.
Aside from that. It was clear FL wants us to play wide, utilise the skills of EMC &saka who I thought was good today. However, it's evident it's not going to be overnight. The midfield looked a bit confused but it improved when Torp came on and actually managed to utilise the spaces being created by the wide players.
Bassette should have done better with both headers which appears a weakness in his game, but that can be trained and I thought he made come great runs, although not his game today.
Very lucky with the handball I think from a referee perspective. Definitely hit the hand but doesn't meet the criteria any more I don't think but I'll take it.
I am hopeful that with a full weeks training we will be in a better place next week.
100% agree about Binks and Dasilva, both are piss poor, Binks flatters to deceive because he gets to bring the ball out of defence and spray it about, which looks good when he's not challenged. But his first job is to defend. And he's simply not good enough.After the 4 hour drive home, I have got over my initial disappointment. It wasn't a good performance defensively again.
And as much as I like binks he has been too weak down that left hand side this season and the less said about JDS the better. Kitching and Bidwell have to come in for me.
Aside from that. It was clear FL wants us to play wide, utilise the skills of EMC &saka who I thought was good today. However, it's evident it's not going to be overnight. The midfield looked a bit confused but it improved when Torp came on and actually managed to utilise the spaces being created by the wide players.
Bassette should have done better with both headers which appears a weakness in his game, but that can be trained and I thought he made come great runs, although not his game today.
Very lucky with the handball I think from a referee perspective. Definitely hit the hand but doesn't meet the criteria any more I don't think but I'll take it.
I am hopeful that with a full weeks training we will be in a better place next week.
I hope you’re right, for my sake as a fan of my club, but call me Mr. Pessimistic, I just can’t see anything other than a loss for us.If you'd watched the CCFC derby today, you'd see how unlikely this is.
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