Brighton Sky Blue
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We do have 4 years to turn him around. Even if he were an oil tanker we'd manage it in that time.
Transfer Rumour Haji Wright (9 Viewers)
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Finham
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Time to learn how to get the best out of him?
Brighton Sky Blue
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The few moments he caused some danger came from balls over the top/through balls to chase. We are just playing at so slow a tempo and then compounding it by gifting possession away as the opposition has got set in position.
Even taking that into account however he is weak in the air and struggles to outmuscle defenders.
Finham
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Fucking HATE our tempo at the moment, get into a good position wide then pass it back inside, then back again, then back to deep in our half...
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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He genuinely played like he was stoned tonight. That is my only explanation for it.
Finham
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So did Palmer. Brought some good stuff back...
ccfc1234
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I hope your right!
GaryMabbuttsLeftKnee
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He was dreadful tonight. He was similar v Hull. I had thought v Watford he looked fairly promising and it had given me hope for the first time. Now worried that was the anomaly. He doesn’t look like a footballer, but an athlete playing football. Hopefully we see more Watford Wright
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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It is frustrating when the ball goes forward and you see Godden challenge but nearly always lose. You can accept that in some ways though, as he isn't built the same way, and yet still contributes by scoring the goals in the moment. Wright on appearance looks a decent unit, and in the first few games looked fast too. Today he genuinely looked stoned, @shmmeee made a comment I think about LAG, but he was actually right. Several seconds behind constantly. That is a bit concerning.
Londonccfcfan
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Bakayoko MK 2.
Actually I think Baka MK 1 had more fight aggression.
Actually I think Baka MK 1 had more fight aggression.
Londonccfcfan
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There was a shot he took first half that i coukdnt believe any international would strike leaning back 45 degrees. Yes you guessed it the corner flag was in danger.
Embarrassing.
Major red flag here.
Embarrassing.
Major red flag here.
Londonccfcfan
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I did say about 4/5 weeks ago I'm getting Bakayako vibes.
stay_up_skyblues
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Is it time to loan him to Bradford and then reap the rewards?
Mucca Mad Boys
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We don’t have tempo because our central midfielders cannot love the ball quickly.
The strikers look ineffectual because they don’t really have anything to work with.
hill83
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You could also argue the strikers are all wanting an immaculate ball into them, pointing at where they want it whilst ignoring the fact the are being tightly marked and the ball will be coming straight back at us as they fail to control it. So the midfield are taking the safer option of keeping possession. It's just shite all round at the moment.
shmmeee
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Yesterday the pair of them were just running off and hoping the ball would phase through the defender and get to them somehow.
hill83
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It was infuriating. Scared of the ball, hiding basically. They knew the ball couldn't come into them where they were.
I've definitely said this before, but I know exactly what they are doing because I used to do it on Sunday if I drank too much the day before.
It's why I won't have a go at the midfield just yet except Palmer, as he was pushing up doing the same thing a few times as well.
Brighton Sky Blue
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It looked like fatso 5 a side, just standing still saying ‘pass it here’ while you’re marked and not in a good position anyway. Same with throw ins, nobody moving and the taker looking resigned to losing possession.
A leader in that dressing room needs to call them all together if the manager won’t.
junglej13
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Probably a decent way of putting it. His running style is very upright not unlike Michael Johnson the old 400m runner. Always seems to be in his heels and reactive (albeit very slowly) to what's going on.
My only hope with him is that I was also convinced Gyokeres was a carthorse during his loan spell. Based on what I've seen I'd be aggrieved if we'd spent £1m on him let alone nearly £8m.
fatso
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I had major concerns about Simms after the Exeter game, remember that shit show where we didn't start performing until Hamer came on.
I've seen fuck all from Simms or Wright to suggest they are going to be successful here.
Gyokeres and Mcnulty had very slow starts here, but you could see they were making good runs and working hard, I've seen precious little of that from either of our new strikers.
For me, we change things and go 1 up top to accommodate an extra AM.
play_in_skyblue_stripes
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OK putting this out there. Put these 7 in order of best forward players in recent championship era
Ellis
Haji
Matt
Martyn
Max
Tyler
Viktor
It will be interesting to see where Max comes in this
Ellis
Haji
Matt
Martyn
Max
Tyler
Viktor
It will be interesting to see where Max comes in this
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It's where we looked better when Allen on. He's happy to make runs even if nobody passes to him!
WestEndAgro
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He really doesn't look interested atm and I'm struggling to see a player in there.
We are definitely still waiting for take off.
I agree with poster's regards no fluidity coming from midfield so it's difficult for him to make his runs.
It's all a bit forced atm, hopefully as we settle as a team it will click into place.
We are definitely still waiting for take off.
I agree with poster's regards no fluidity coming from midfield so it's difficult for him to make his runs.
It's all a bit forced atm, hopefully as we settle as a team it will click into place.
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skyblueeyesrevisited
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We need to get the ball to the strikers a lot quicker. This slow tempo doesn’t suit our style.
Terry_dactyl
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You have!
Sick Boy
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His career since leaving us tells its own story and why fan ownership wouldn’t work for us.
This is the problem, Kelly is done and Eccles isn't able to distribute the ball as effectively as we need.
Ayari looks to have the skills to do it, but needs to bed in.
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BlueSkiesForever
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Bang on there, that’s exactly what it looks like, some geezer that can run and twist and do athleticy-type shit but can’t actually play football, and it makes sense as his half-brother plays for some random team and his 3 cousins all play American football professionally, so he’s clearly got physical ability but just doesn’t know how to play football.
slyblue57
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The Cardiff commentators said that Cov were the slowest transitioning team they d seen in the championship.
Its worrying to think that for the next month or our midfield condists of Eccles, Kelly, Allen, and Palmer . First 3 provide very very little creativity prefering or frightened to try forward runs or anything but sideways or back passes. Palmer is a creative player but seems disinterested at the moment and just can nt pick a pass for love nor money
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BlueSkiesForever
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Definitely agree. Someone made a great comment on CWR last night, they said “it was like watching pensioners play walking football”, and I think that’s absolutely bang on. It’s all way too slow and predictable, the opposition know what we’re doing before we’ve done it, nearly every attack is either given away or intercepted. We desperately lack the ability of Hamer to make that incisive through ball, no one in the team seems to have more than a 20% pass accuracy atm, it’s shocking.