Meh Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 13 minutes ago, Esmond Million's Bung said: Are you serious, did he actually get the MOM award? Who decided that LJ? Dunno who decides it but it is what I (just about) heard on the tannoy walking out. I reckon it is somebody in hospitality pissed up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 Positives Weimann - Great attitude , covered every blade of grass and did everything he could to get us firing Kelly - Unfair ask for the lad but came through great and looked our best of the back four and certainly better than Webster who was awful Spirit - Didn’t throw the towel in and kept going albeit like a blunt stick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laner Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 One less game for the suspended Diedhiou. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Full nelson Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 The Boro team bus beat the traffic as there was no need to shower and apparently the whole coach cheered when the driver got out of first gear, with a cry from flinty saying “oh, that’s what 2nd gear feels like” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmond Million's Bung Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 45 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said: Our opponents on Tuesday have had an even worse day than we have? 18 minutes ago, joe jordans teeth said: Positives are that Rotherham Bolton Reading and QPR are in our league,apart from that then I am struggling Come on I have already lodged Tuesday nights excuse in the excuse book, we never win at loftus road (1977 was the last time in the league). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 40 minutes ago, Fordy62 said: Lloyd Kelly had a good game. As did Marlon Pack. We dominated, but at the times that mattered they were sharp. All in all, pretty shit. Dominated Fordy ? They sat back with their slippers on at 2-0 And As a Pack convertee and fan I thought he was poor today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickolas Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 50 minutes ago, BigAlToby&Liam said: I’ve missed the first two home games and am starting to think our season tickets are a waste of money. You havent missed anything!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonBristolian Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 7 minutes ago, Esmond Million's Bung said: Come on I have already lodged Tuesday nights excuse in the excuse book, we never win at loftus road (1977 was the last time in the league). As you say, an excuse. These stats are always a nonsense - hardly as if it is was the same team each time. As far as I am concerned, we have three games to the international break and need a minimum of 6 points. Otherwise we will already be in a relegation fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmond Million's Bung Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 1 minute ago, LondonBristolian said: As you say, an excuse. These stats are always a nonsense - hardly as if it is was the same team each time. As far as I am concerned, we have three games to the international break and need a minimum of 6 points. Otherwise we will already be in a relegation fight. Hold on I thought Swansea away had been declared a "did you expect anything from that game" in the excuse book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samo II Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 Loan window is still open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CityCiderEd Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 When will LJ realise that possession doesn't win games fu##ing goals do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 Flint didn't score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 I missed the last five minutes due to a smoke alarm going off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppyDAZE Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 Kelly. After that, I'm struggling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 Positives: - Weimann, Kelly, Taylor were all excellent. - IF we can play like we did for 45 minutes for 90 we might actually look a good side. Easy to say Boro sat back at 2-0, and obviously hey didn’t need to be as urgent, but we were still very good in the second half. Woodwork at least twice and a couple of other decent chances that just didn’t quite drop for us. Negatives: - Defending - Defending - Did I mention defending? - The fact that people wil still fixated on bringing a striker in when the problems are - as hey have been for 3 years - at the other end. Yes we didn’t score but on another day we get 2/3 in the second half alone. Really just one of those days on that front in the second half. - Crap subs. Taylor aside. Game was crying out for Eliasson. They were on the ropes and it desperately needed someone who would be direct and bloody well run at someone instead of the tippy tappy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 13 minutes ago, Northern Red said: Flint didn't score. Bit of a piss take playing the game in flip flops mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 59 minutes ago, Fordy62 said: In fairness we did. Although I accept that we didn’t create much. You did ask for positives - it was pretty much the best I could do. Absolutely correct. The positives were we were much improved in the Second Half and were denied twice by the wordwork and twice by decent saves. Having managed to defeat ourselves in the First Half through Keystone Cops defending and loads of unhurried play-it-around-the-back-line-but-fail-to-find-a-forward-pass cack, we improved by in the second period by utilising our only advantage: We weren't tougher; we weren't more skillful; we certainly weren't taller!! - but we were faster. Once we started moving the ball - and ourselves - faster we looked actually a bit unlucky to score. Still would've lost 1-2 probably, but watching a scratch side against a team almost nailed on for a Top 6 finish, I'm not going to slit my wrists over that. City's problem this season is that teams from the top half have guys like Assombalonga who you know will score if he's given the ball in your 5 yard box. We don't. It's wrong to say we don't create. It's accurate to say we don't convert. Second positive of the day: we aren't QPR.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin_unreliant Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 1 minute ago, BRISTOL86 said: We didn’t score but on another day we get 2/3 in the second half alone. Really just one of those days on that front in the second half. Not that old one again. Got a feeling we will hear that one trotted out on a regular basis for the next few games. Put another way - we had loads of possession and a few chances that better sides would've scored from. It is the lack of quality that leads to us missing them, not bad luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leveller Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 7 minutes ago, BRISTOL86 said: Positives: - Weimann, Kelly, Taylor were all excellent. - IF we can play like we did for 45 minutes for 90 we might actually look a good side. Easy to say Boro sat back at 2-0, and obviously hey didn’t need to be as urgent, but we were still very good in the second half. Woodwork at least twice and a couple of other decent chances that just didn’t quite drop for us. Negatives: - Defending - Defending - Did I mention defending? - The fact that people wil still fixated on bringing a striker in when the problems are - as hey have been for 3 years - at the other end. Yes we didn’t score but on another day we get 2/3 in the second half alone. Really just one of those days on that front in the second half. - Crap subs. Taylor aside. Game was crying out for Eliasson. They were on the ropes and it desperately needed someone who would be direct and bloody well run at someone instead of the tippy tappy. Subs. From my seat, Dasilva did more than Taylor. Why did you think Taylor was excellent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 4 minutes ago, Leveller said: Subs. From my seat, Dasilva did more than Taylor. Why did you think Taylor was excellent? Did you watch him? He was pulling their centre backs here there and everywhere. Almost every time we got in behind their back line came after his introduction Unfortunately we didn’t have the quality from anyone to take advantage of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 11 minutes ago, robin_unreliant said: Not that old one again. Got a feeling we will hear that one trotted out on a regular basis for the next few games. Put another way - we had loads of possession and a few chances that better sides would've scored from. It is the lack of quality that leads to us missing them, not bad luck. Come on, even the most negative must admit we didn’t get much luck today. Was it two or three of the woodwork? I don’t deny we lack quality but unfortunately we don’t have the resources that some teams do (£25m was it the combined cost of the two goal scorers today?) and probably the wages each of 2 or 3 of our best players I’m definitely not averse to a loan striker coming in if we can find anyone who genuinely improves the squad but we’re falling into the usual trap of trying to make up for defensive deficiencies by looking to add more goals (or ‘buy a striker’ syndrome as I call it, that we seem to suffer from as fans) Simply put you shouldn’t have to score 3 every week to win games. And the reason we do is because we’re soft as shit defensively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squire Dastardly Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 Lloyd Kelly & Marlon Pack both had good games We are incapable of finishing well created chances but Famara has only two more games suspension to serve. One of those is against QPR who shipped 7 today so we should manage to get through their defence. We still have DaSilva to slot in and bolster our own defence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1960maaan Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 Positives...... OK I'll give it a go. Da Silva looks exciting. Hunt looks ok going forward. Kelly will be a very good player (although I'd give him a year or 2 at FB before even thinking of moving him inside) Keeper caught a cross and never kicked it straight out. Webster can play a bit. Weimann looks good, at last we have some movement up front. But the one thing I did like from today? For short periods, when Brownhill moved inside we looked like we were playing with a 3 ( I know it was accidental ) and I think it looked really promising . Brownhill is quality (next to go??) and the movement and passing between the 3 was excellent at times. Yes I know it was probably too easy for Boro and it was when they didn't have to chase the game, but I've been banging on about this for some time. Sadly with LJ's obsession with wingers in a 4-4-2 (although not always playing them) he'll never try this. and I'm out..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Do The Dziekanowski Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 My positive is that we create chances, without putting pressure on the chap, if Diedhou was playing we’d have scored today. Just seems like our first season back up though, we do all the nice attacking play and fail to score. Opposition gets gifted 2 chances and they score both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob k Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 1 hour ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said: Lloyd Kelly will be sold for a lot of money next summer and we'll be able to replace him at a fraction of the cost? Might not be far off the truth there to be fair!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciderrider Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 The chicken curry pies are banging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 + + + Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin_unreliant Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 2 hours ago, You Do The Dziekanowski said: Just seems like our first season back up though, we do all the nice attacking play and fail to score. Opposition gets gifted 2 chances and they score both Said exactly this on the matchday thread. Ominously similar to what was happening under SC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 3 hours ago, BRISTOL86 said: Come on, even the most negative must admit we didn’t get much luck today. Was it two or three of the woodwork? I agree with much of your post....but a shot against ‘the woodwork’ is a shot off target, I don’t get why people often quote the number of shots that hit a post or the bar.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 18, 2018 Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 4 hours ago, Neo said: Dunno who decides it but it is what I (just about) heard on the tannoy walking out. I reckon it is somebody in hospitality pissed up? It was sponsored by Thatchers today....that might explain it. [thats genuine too] 3 hours ago, Leveller said: Subs. From my seat, Dasilva did more than Taylor. Why did you think Taylor was excellent? 3 hours ago, BRISTOL86 said: Did you watch him? He was pulling their centre backs here there and everywhere. Almost every time we got in behind their back line came after his introduction Unfortunately we didn’t have the quality from anyone to take advantage of it. I thought he was poor, looked sluggish and appeared to lack trust in his touch. Thought he was gonna get a red card too. Seemed to lose the plot after tussle with the Boro player. It wasn’t his fault in fairness, but he lost his cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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