Jeez Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 Should never have sold him in Jan without signing a like for like replacement or bringing a CM back from loan. No presence in the centre today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney999 Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 Yeah were currently playing three wingers but struggling for width!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eighteen ninetyfour Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 Better get used to that feeling. We usually always sell our best players and no matter what, the cycle continues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out of his pie crust Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 We desperately need a decent center midfielder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoons Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 35 minutes ago, Red Alert said: Should never have sold him in Jan without signing a like for like replacement or bringing a CM back from loan. No presence in the centre today He wanted to go? You don't keep players who want to leave. Got good money and he got premier League football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 Weirdly nobody particularly cared when he left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcofisher Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, And Its Smith said: Weirdly nobody particularly cared when he left Yep, I did find it peculiar that nobody thought we would miss our only centre mid who could find the net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 5 minutes ago, And Its Smith said: Weirdly nobody particularly cared when he left Weirdly no one cared when Pack left. Oh boy are we crying out for him now - pleeeeeeaaaasse, someone just receive a short pass from our defenders and be able to keep it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Geoff Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, Harry said: Weirdly no one cared when Pack left. Oh boy are we crying out for him now - pleeeeeeaaaasse, someone just receive a short pass from our defenders and be able to keep it. Why do that when we can lob the ball 60 yards upfield into no mans land. Giving possession back to the opposition so they can build another meaningful attack against us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said: Why do that when we can lob the ball 60 yards upfield into no mans land. Giving possession back to the opposition so they can build another meaningful attack against us. Exactly. We do that because there’s no midfielder who can receive the ball and retain it under pressure. No one has any confidence playing a pass into a tight midfield area, so they lump it. We are a long ball team because we have no midfield, but we don’t actually have the attributes to be a long ball team either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 52 minutes ago, Harry said: Exactly. We do that because there’s no midfielder who can receive the ball and retain it under pressure. No one has any confidence playing a pass into a tight midfield area, so they lump it. We are a long ball team because we have no midfield, but we don’t actually have the attributes to be a long ball team either! Playing Smith on his own 2nd half was a nonsense- well I say on his own but with 2 wingers/wide players- whatever you want to call them, in and around him- mess waiting to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Oil Services Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Spoons said: He wanted to go? You don't keep players who want to leave. We kept CO'D? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Harry said: Weirdly no one cared when Pack left. Oh boy are we crying out for him now - pleeeeeeaaaasse, someone just receive a short pass from our defenders and be able to keep it. Don’t go reading any threads that suggest Vyner is the answer then....won’t be good for your health mate. We seem to have been caught between two stools today....set up to play it short, but then play it long....leaving Smith and Massengo to try to make up 40-50 yards as the ball dropped into space, where it was inevitably recycled by Blackburn’s midfield. Our two international ambition wingers stood marking their fullbacks. They’ve got to come off their touch lines and make us compact so that if we don’t pick up the dropping ball, we don’t give solid possession straight back. Massengo and Smith have got to leave it to Baker and Kalas to launch it, if that’s how we are gonna play. I’m sure I could’ve just copy and pasted a similar post from 3 or 6 months ago. What was today’s game plan with the team selected? It certainly wasn’t executed. Players need to hold hands up more than LJ today in terms of how we played pre-any subs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeez Posted June 20, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Spoons said: He wanted to go? You don't keep players who want to leave. Got good money and he got premier League football. How can you be so sure? Was it not more a case of the club earning an extra 1m plus leverage to sign Wells? I get he’d want to increase his salary & play in the prem but, given his role as captain I can’t believe he was so desperate to escape & if he was we need to surely ask why - when he must have known he’d be bench player at most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoons Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 54 minutes ago, Moments of Pleasure said: We kept CO'D? He wasn't premier League bound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTFABM Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 38 minutes ago, Red Alert said: How can you be so sure? Was it not more a case of the club earning an extra 1m plus leverage to sign Wells? I get he’d want to increase his salary & play in the prem but, given his role as captain I can’t believe he was so desperate to escape & if he was we need to surely ask why - when he must have known he’d be bench player at most. Is this a joke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Oil Services Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 1 minute ago, Spoons said: He wasn't premier League bound. Don't think anyone wanted him, now I think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rizzle Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 Should never have sold Pack. LJ and Ashton must have known there was a chance we’d lose Brownhill in Jan yet they sold Pack and replaced him with an unknown in championship football. Nagy has turned out to be homesick, inconsistent and half injured for most of the season. Our weakness in the middle of the park is the key to our failure to kick on this season. The fact that ODowda ended up there today says it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoons Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 13 minutes ago, Moments of Pleasure said: Don't think anyone wanted him, now I think about it. Maybe Leeds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 2 hours ago, And Its Smith said: Weirdly nobody particularly cared when he left Actually at the time I said we'd really miss him. Considering we had him and Pack flogged to death the previous season we have had so many different combinations this season. I don't blame LJ for selling him or engineering good money for Marlon, that's down to Ashton and the board. Equally, Ashton and the board would've known the possibility of JB leaving so should've had a ready made replacement lined up and not the stop gap Henriksen has looked like. Where LJ is at fault is not getting the coaching combinations right and utilising the assets at his disposal. It looks like our pants have been taken down. Paradoxically for LJ the key to the midfield conundrum may lie in the loaned midfield players now at his disposal. Wouldn't it be ironic if the likes of the talented Joe Morrell saves our season and with it LJ his job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Oil Services Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 12 minutes ago, Spoons said: Maybe Leeds? They might've wanted him, I dunno, but they don’t need him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 Brownhill staying could have solved issues. He could have been the central link in the 4-2-3-1- able to move forward and join the attack but also drop in with the 3. Something we lack now- plus in general, seemed to have something we do lack from CM- goals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 2 hours ago, Harry said: Exactly. We do that because there’s no midfielder who can receive the ball and retain it under pressure. No one has any confidence playing a pass into a tight midfield area, so they lump it. We are a long ball team because we have no midfield, but we don’t actually have the attributes to be a long ball team either! I thought Blackburn worked out that if you allow Baker to have the ball and cut off his options he will lump it long and aimlessly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 3 minutes ago, The Bard said: I thought Blackburn worked out that if you allow Baker to have the ball and cut off his options he will lump it long and aimlessly... Certainly will. Good tactics by them and a reason I'm unsure about Baker in the side- don't think he's a great fit for a higher line either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRock Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 32 minutes ago, Swede said: Actually at the time I said we'd really miss him. Considering we had him and Pack flogged to death the previous season we have had so many different combinations this season. I don't blame LJ for selling him or engineering good money for Marlon, that's down to Ashton and the board. Equally, Ashton and the board would've known the possibility of JB leaving so should've had a ready made replacement lined up and not the stop gap Henriksen has looked like. Where LJ is at fault is not getting the coaching combinations right and utilising the assets at his disposal. It looks like our pants have been taken down. Paradoxically for LJ the key to the midfield conundrum may lie in the loaned midfield players now at his disposal. Wouldn't it be ironic if the likes of the talented Joe Morrell saves our season and with it LJ his job. While Walsh and Morrell may well be better than the current bunch, they don’t provide height or physicality to a team that rapidly is becoming full of ‘mini-me’ midgets. We have serious problems in a powder-puff midfield. Maximum two ‘lightweights’ in any team in this League - that’ll be Dasilva and Elliason for me - any more and you’ll get rolled over by more teams with more presence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 2 hours ago, The Bard said: I thought Blackburn worked out that if you allow Baker to have the ball and cut off his options he will lump it long and aimlessly... He does it against the other 22 teams as well though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor10 Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 6 hours ago, Red Alert said: Should never have sold him in Jan without signing a like for like replacement or bringing a CM back from loan. No presence in the centre today I think realistically the chance to play in the Prem and move back closer to home was way too good for JB to not pursue. I think it was also difficult for the club to stand in his way. JB was clearly a great pro and would have given his all but once a player wants to leave it's not a good idea to keep them. The main issue was we didn't replace him. Well we did. Just with a player we have now released. Yet we are often told we always have a wealth of targets in mind for any eventuality and look to identify good people as well as good players.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portland Bill Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 5 hours ago, Harry said: Exactly. We do that because there’s no midfielder who can receive the ball and retain it under pressure. No one has any confidence playing a pass into a tight midfield area, so they lump it. We are a long ball team because we have no midfield, but we don’t actually have the attributes to be a long ball team either! The irony is that our manager was a central midfielder, but he can’t see it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Balls Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 8 minutes ago, Portland Bill said: The irony is that our manager was a central midfielder, but he can’t see it! That’s the perfect set up for a heightist joke about our coach and being caught short. You find me dropping to those depths.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbyhutchscurlymullet Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 3 hours ago, Swede said: Actually at the time I said we'd really miss him. Considering we had him and Pack flogged to death the previous season we have had so many different combinations this season. I don't blame LJ for selling him or engineering good money for Marlon, that's down to Ashton and the board. Equally, Ashton and the board would've known the possibility of JB leaving so should've had a ready made replacement lined up and not the stop gap Henriksen has looked like. Where LJ is at fault is not getting the coaching combinations right and utilising the assets at his disposal. It looks like our pants have been taken down. Paradoxically for LJ the key to the midfield conundrum may lie in the loaned midfield players now at his disposal. Wouldn't it be ironic if the likes of the talented Joe Morrell saves our season and with it LJ his job. We'll have to wait for it to be next season thats saved in this case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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