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Tonight's Performance we can all agree was very poor against a good Aston Villa side. We went into the game already making excuses and even before the game went in with the attitude we have no defence and yes it did show, Boyle has no pace or understanding of how to play at this level, Fisher has no confidence going forward or even making a forward pass. Woods was fine before he went off and Earl was probably only one of the players who could say he played and did something. Pearson and Browne in my view once again were very poor, browne was very poor in the attacking role and probably did more at the back. Although Gallagher did make our play a bit quicker and more directly forward he just consistently kept hoofing it up to hugill and Maguire and Barkhuizen were both awful and read none of the knock downs or balls in behind. The midfield and attack were just as poor at the back.
We've now lost Woods and Earl, for how long we don't know yet. We cant go into Saturday with the attitude we have no defence, who ever goes in there has to play and has to fight for the shirt and do there job. Its a lot easier saying that I know, we only have Boyle as a natural fit centre back and he's just not good enough, O connor wasnt good enough when he came on and to be honest I don't think Fisher has done anything in the last month either, I like Vermijil who will actually get down the wing and overlap his winger and get forward, but just like Callum Robinson it seems he's a player Alex Neil has seen off.
Alex Neil has no doubt come and done a good job, Grayson the last two seasons started off the first 9-12 games poorly and if we had of picked up more points in those games we could of found ourselves around the play offs. Alex Neil had us playing good attacking direct football and had us tight at the back, we were strong and we beat Wednesday (Home), Cardiff(Home), Reading(Home), Birmingham(Away), Hull(Away) with good solid performances and we've had other good performances also. This has been a good start for us and right now were just on a blip, all teams have them we all know that.
I want to see more of Mavididi and Harrop who I think can bring a more pacey direct attacking style to our play, I want to see Mavididi off the bench when were in difficult positions but until he gets some good game time he cant play. Harrop came in and has scored some good free kicks and clearly loves to have the ball at his feet, he wants the ball and wants to take it forward and I think tonight we lacked that and lacked it on Saturday also.
We now have Ipswich Away followed by Bolton at Home, 2 Games I think if we approach right we can go and win. After these 2 games we go into a diffucult run of games including Bristol City, Norwich, and QPR and Sheff Utd. I think if we can pick 4 points up from the next 2 games it will give us a big boost of confidence going into this hard run of games against teams in form and teams with quality.
I hope all can agree this is a fair assessment and this is just a bad patch we can get out of but we are going to have to perform a lot better than we did on Saturday and Tonight but its football and sometimes it doesn't go right we just have to believe Alex Neil makes the right decisions and the players give something back.
Lets get behind the boys, Lets follow them and make sure they know were there at this point for them, Alex Neil is clearly not happy and sometimes his actions aren't correct or going to help the team but I honestly believe he's just feeling the same frustration as us tonight. This is a blip and I honestly think we can get out of it starting on Saturday away at Ipswich!!! Lets get behind the boys and make sure they know were with them all the way!!! ANSWA!!!
We've now lost Woods and Earl, for how long we don't know yet. We cant go into Saturday with the attitude we have no defence, who ever goes in there has to play and has to fight for the shirt and do there job. Its a lot easier saying that I know, we only have Boyle as a natural fit centre back and he's just not good enough, O connor wasnt good enough when he came on and to be honest I don't think Fisher has done anything in the last month either, I like Vermijil who will actually get down the wing and overlap his winger and get forward, but just like Callum Robinson it seems he's a player Alex Neil has seen off.
Alex Neil has no doubt come and done a good job, Grayson the last two seasons started off the first 9-12 games poorly and if we had of picked up more points in those games we could of found ourselves around the play offs. Alex Neil had us playing good attacking direct football and had us tight at the back, we were strong and we beat Wednesday (Home), Cardiff(Home), Reading(Home), Birmingham(Away), Hull(Away) with good solid performances and we've had other good performances also. This has been a good start for us and right now were just on a blip, all teams have them we all know that.
I want to see more of Mavididi and Harrop who I think can bring a more pacey direct attacking style to our play, I want to see Mavididi off the bench when were in difficult positions but until he gets some good game time he cant play. Harrop came in and has scored some good free kicks and clearly loves to have the ball at his feet, he wants the ball and wants to take it forward and I think tonight we lacked that and lacked it on Saturday also.
We now have Ipswich Away followed by Bolton at Home, 2 Games I think if we approach right we can go and win. After these 2 games we go into a diffucult run of games including Bristol City, Norwich, and QPR and Sheff Utd. I think if we can pick 4 points up from the next 2 games it will give us a big boost of confidence going into this hard run of games against teams in form and teams with quality.
I hope all can agree this is a fair assessment and this is just a bad patch we can get out of but we are going to have to perform a lot better than we did on Saturday and Tonight but its football and sometimes it doesn't go right we just have to believe Alex Neil makes the right decisions and the players give something back.
Lets get behind the boys, Lets follow them and make sure they know were there at this point for them, Alex Neil is clearly not happy and sometimes his actions aren't correct or going to help the team but I honestly believe he's just feeling the same frustration as us tonight. This is a blip and I honestly think we can get out of it starting on Saturday away at Ipswich!!! Lets get behind the boys and make sure they know were with them all the way!!! ANSWA!!!
