covcity4life
Well-Known Member
its a valid point,we get over run away usually,lets hope we can build on this 2nd half performance now
It's not that we go out to play "poor" first half, but with more containment. Both of our last 2 matches, and the Blackpool game, have involved having to contain the opposition in the first half. Then, second half, when they've knackered themselves out, POW, right in the kisser!
Teams rarely play well for 90 minutes. A huge part of the managers job is to have the team well enough set out and motivated to not concede when under the cosh-or at least not more than once. In games such as Leeds away, this is even more important. And it doesn't make it defensive management to prepare for that.
Another part of the managers job is to ensure that we are effective when we do have our "good spells"-which quite frankly seemed to be the vast majority of the second half last night, at one point promting Geoff to say "they just can't live with us this half". I think it's worth remembering that we also had a good 15 minute spell in the first half, and for the second created just as much as Leeds did in the first. It may have taken until the 93rd minute to get the ball over the line, but for 45 minutes it was us pressing for a goal and when it came, it was entirely deserved. That, to me, is a fantastic managerial and playing performance. Nothing negative whatsoever.
Yeah but didn't you say we could have lost 5-0 last night?! Soz but I don't agree, I think you're far too negative. "Could of this and that..." is all well and good-but it didn't happen, did it? You don't win games by not scoring when on top. That's football.
The goal was gifted by a mistake by there keeper.
I do worry about the rose-tinted spectacles on here at times. We are getting the results so everything is fine and dandy, hands over the ears, la, la, la la la la
Cast your minds back to last year. Flying high in and around the top6 and we were getting the results, but we weren't playing well for long periods in games and it was clearly apparent we had no plan b. Remember how that one panned out.
These problems need addressing and with great haste. We can't keep doing this and only turning up for one half. It's all going to end in tears. Averaging less than 1 goal a game and then only turning up for 45 mins each week is a recipe for disaster.
In the same respect, their goal was from a mistake by our defence.
The reason I'm so positive is because
1) I want my team to do well, so being enthusiastic is how I support them. If I'm going to be all "woe is me, we're dooomed", I would derive sod all pleasure from it. And it sounds too much like how I am at work..
2) I think the manager is superb and don't want him to fail due the the owners/board.
3) I thought we were going down, and based on the wafer thin squad, we still might. We're not bottom, we're 19th; that's bloody well like 3rd to me!!! When you've been resigned to relegation, to see the manager moulding a side out of such meagre resources gives me an incredible sense of well-being.
And anyway, I'm not always quite so "positive". In many aspects of life I am a cold, cynical bastard. Ask Paxman, I give him hell every time he mentions the "P word". But rather than seeing everything as black and white, either all good or all bad, I try to be rational and logical as much as possible. Not negative, not positive, but realistic.
I don't really like being portrayed as some kind of drooling fan-boy who thinks everything in the garden is rosy regardless of whatever transpires. I think at most there's only one or two posters on here that are that way inclined, but even they do so with at least examples of why they feel that way-and it's just their opinion. There are certainly far more doom-and-gloom merchants than happy-pill taking lobotomy victims, if those are the two broad groups we've now decided that people must belong to!
And Otis-to try and make out that we're acting like we're 6th in the table is ridiculous. Get a sense of perspective, man; that was a fantastic result against the form side in the division away from home which ebodied a never-say-die spirit and saw us play some of our best football of the season. So we were under the cosh for a while..we battled and defended well, and didn't concede a 2nd. Last time I checked, it was goals that win matches. We all thought we were losing until the 93rd minute, and we are all very happy that we got a point. Can't you understand that?
The reason I'm so positive is because
1) I want my team to do well, so being enthusiastic is how I support them. If I'm going to be all "woe is me, we're dooomed", I would derive sod all pleasure from it. And it sounds too much like how I am at work..
2) I think the manager is superb and don't want him to fail due to the owners/board.
3) I thought we were going down, and based on the wafer thin squad, we still might. We're not bottom, we're 19th; that's bloody well like 3rd to me!!! When you've been resigned to relegation, to see the manager moulding a side out of such meagre resources gives me an incredible sense of well-being.
And anyway, I'm not always quite so "positive". In many aspects of life I am a cold, cynical bastard. Ask Paxman, I give him hell every time he mentions the "P word". But rather than seeing everything as black and white, either all good or all bad, I try to be rational and logical as much as possible. Not negative, not positive, but realistic.
I don't really like being portrayed as some kind of drooling fan-boy who thinks everything in the garden is rosy regardless of whatever transpires. I think at most there's only one or two posters on here that are that way inclined, but even they do so with at least examples of why they feel that way-and it's just their opinion. There are certainly far more doom-and-gloom merchants than happy-pill taking lobotomy victims, if those are the two broad groups we've now decided that people must belong to!
And Otis-to try and make out that we're acting like we're 6th in the table is ridiculous. Get a sense of perspective, man; that was a fantastic result against the form side in the division away from home which ebodied a never-say-die spirit and saw us play some of our best football of the season. So we were under the cosh for a while..we battled and defended well, and didn't concede a 2nd. Last time I checked, it was goals that win matches. We all thought we were losing until the 93rd minute, and we are all very happy that we got a point. Can't you understand that?
Play offs?
now your talking!
that it? Far too negative.
And if we get taken over I expect automatic promotion and not another single defeat all season.
I do wish the takeover would happen in the next day or so though as word has it that Tevez could be off to Boca Juniors and we could therefore miss out.
Just imagine a front two of ROD and Tevez here at the Ricoh!!!
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