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Errr he is not injured his omissions have been self inflicted, it might help if you read the thread properly, the post I was answering to was specifically about injuries, my reply was specifically about injuries.

Baker is the only nailed on starter that I can see who is injured. Smith hasn't started a league game. Adelekalum is a punt. We have looking to replace Fielding all summer. Wright is probably not a starter. And neither is Hegeler. And what makes our plight worse is Wright and Hegeler were known to be injured before the season started and we never even brought a loan in as cover. It's a lame excuse for me and shows how lacking in quality our squad is when 3 and 4 games in we are having to patch a team together.

I think that's the point, the very last word in his post was the clue, 'ambition' and the question mark made it an even bigger clue and LJ's tearful post match interview is a further clue.

Let's hope the midfield are on the coach, imagine them trying to find Loftus Road on the tube.

He reminds me Jean Claude Darcheville, a right handful. In his pomp he scored 94 goals in 230 games and made a whole lot more.

You are correct and of course LJ must be shitting himself because this is one of the last games he would have chosen after our long poor run and poor start to the season.

The first goal was a comedy of errors and a long lumped ball, the 2nd goal at least involved passing and not one tackle, piss poor closing down allowing a simple cross and Hunt had lost Assambalonga he didn't even know he was there until the wrestling match started and one man wanted it more and proved it by scoring, it was probably a foul but Hunt needed to do better and to be much stronger.

It's a useful because it shows what I have been banging on about for ages, we run out of ideas in and around the opponents box and that makes us easy to set up against as we have seen in every game this season including Plymouth, let us have possession and put 5 men across the 18 yard line and we struggle to score and the longer a game goes on and if ala Boro we haven't already gifted the opposition goals, we will over commit in midfield and then a simple ball over the top will catch us out every time. As for the highlighted portion, I don't think it was especially given LJ's post match interview and I also think that the discussion was mainly fair and balanced, there will always be the more extreme on either side of any discussion.

I suggest that as I said to another poster take a look at the Forest equaliser, Bolton's 2nd goal, Plymouth's goal and Boro's 2nd there was not a tackle in sight, that must be important?

I would have thought that it's simple and obvious really and seek and ye shall find from the EPL index site 'A situation where a player should reasonably be expected to score usually in a one-on-one scenario or from very close range' Man City are probably the easiest team to explain it with. In the Charity shield they created 6 clear cut chances but only converted 2 of those. In their first league game against Arsenal they never created a clear cut chance but scored 2 goals by what would be considered 2 speculative efforts and as we know in the case of BCFC speculative can end up in Ashton Park. In Man City's case the first goal was from outside of the area and the 2nd was 15 yards out with 3 defenders and the keeper to beat. on Sunday had 5 clear cut chances and scored 6 goals. You may not agree but there you have it, weirdly last season Manu had the most clear cut chances in the prem 2.35 per game, the bottom line is it is a stat and most managers get off on stats and we know our manager does just that, so I am sure that he is aware.

I can recommend a reliable driver and he lives in Backwell so fairly close.

Calm down it was a question, the question mark was the clue. As I am merely speculating that the correlation between possession and chances should be higher, maybe that highlights the problem, creativity, the lack of. Should be a great game tonight QPR have also created only one clear cut chance. Having said all of that I would say that the Forest equaliser, Bolton's 2nd goal, Plymouth's goal and Boro's 2nd there was not a tackle in sight, that must be important?

Wouldn't you expect more than 1 clear cut chance from 3 games with all of that possession?

Found this from Bristolpost's Gregor McBoatface. So far this season. Number 2 is a worry. The Robins average more possession than any other team in the Championship Make fewest tackles per game Make fewest fouls Most fouled team per game Most dribbles

Ah hope something we might need to be resigned to for the rest of the season.

LJ more or less summed up what I have been saying, that we never used the width enough and never made enough forward passing moves, in short we run out ideas in and around the box. Hunt, Brownhill and Paterson all got into very good positions with time to look up and pick out a cross and none of them found one of our players, Paterson, Watkins and ODowda and Taylor all tried skipping across the 18 yard line turning and trying to go in the opposite direction when confronted by a defender, Middlesborough could have dealt with that all day long, what was missing was threading a forward pass into the box, but we do not possess that player and haven't for 3 years, maybe the penny has finally dropped for him, not holding my breath, the only thing missing from his post match interview was the 'no leaders' speech, I don't see any what you would call leaders signed in the summer, the more I think about it the more disappointed I am with our summer recruitment and we are certainly a weaker squad.

This discussion is ongoing, there seems to be a lot of discrepancy between what is and what isn't a good chance, the stats say we never created a clear cut chance and I agree, I cannot recall a 'how the **** did he miss that' moment, the keeper made one good save and we hit the woodwork twice all from speculative efforts and we totally missed the target from all of the other speculative efforts, a bit of bad luck maybe but speculative efforts sometimes go in and sometimes they don't.

Well if he did say that it says it all. Again if true that is a real kick in the nads to the fans and needs an explanation.

Exactly might, hope or let's wing it, bearing in mind Da Silva apparently arrived injured, any further injury to either him, Webster or Kelly and we are truly fooked. And who would replace Wiemann? Taylor?

It wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't made the same error twice last season by not signing a right back. To me it's unprofessional and trying to wing it.

It's not the defence that is the problem IMHO, it's the midfield with all of the possession that we have had in the past 2 games, we need to convert that possession into goals when we are on top, but that is impossible when we aren't even creating chances 1 in 3 games says it all. I cannot see that we will score a reasonable amount of goals and we will concede because of our need to convert nil/nil into wins or chasing the game because we have conceded.

Take it up with the people who compile the stats, the stats that LJ especially puts so much faith into.

How could that be a chance he pretty much stepped on the ball and had a defender in front of him who wanted the ball more. Both goals conceded were weak defending by Hunt, again the Middlesborough players wanted it more both times.

That is classed as a miss, as Brendan Rogers found out at Liverpool. I think you are clutching at straws, as I said I cannot recall one decent chance, we did get in behind but the delivery was appalling, even you cannot argue with the stats, we did not create one clear cut chance, that is a fact, the best chance might have been the one that Paterson got stuck under his foot but he wasn't strong enough. I have already said that we were unlucky but that is all we were, the bottom line we do not create enough clear cut goal scoring chances and once more that is born out by the stats, in our 3 league matches so far we have actually created one clear cut chance and presumably that was our first at Bolton. Also I do not agree with your finger pointing at the defence, both goals came from initially from situations where he had control of the ball in the opponents half and both goals were down to piss weak defending by Hunt, defenders have to be far stronger.

Sorry I cannot remember a decent chance, not what you call a nailed on goal scoring opportunity, all of our chances were half chances and that is backed up by the stats that show:- Attack Clear-Cut Chances 03