I'm sorry while fans have been going on about wing backs and strikers our creativity is awful. We need to make chances. We don't have a forward who can get at the opposition defence. I just can't see how we can improve this with this squad. Very alarming
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That's sound then. Can't score like but we created loads. That makes us top of the chances league. Sweet
Not signing a RWB and another striker has proved criminal today.
Moving Brady over to the right made him useless, their left back knew he had to bring it onto his left foot everytime.
Evans did nothing except commit fouls.
Also wtf do we do with set pieces in training? Everyone we take is just a hopefully lob in, no creativity with them at all.
Sounded like we had chances today but only chance decent chance was in first 10mins.
Taking Whiteman off was baffling.
But we’ve not to worry we’re going in the right direction 😅
Moving Brady over to the right made him useless, their left back knew he had to bring it onto his left foot everytime.
Evans did nothing except commit fouls.
Also wtf do we do with set pieces in training? Everyone we take is just a hopefully lob in, no creativity with them at all.
Sounded like we had chances today but only chance decent chance was in first 10mins.
Taking Whiteman off was baffling.
But we’ve not to worry we’re going in the right direction 😅
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Didn't look like we did.
Looked like we created 2 in the first 5 minutes, 2 in a 5-minute spell in the middle, and nothing else.
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Fair enough, obviously I’ve not seen the game so just going off twitter and what my mates said.
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Didn’t say that did I you daft twat
The thread is on about creating chances, not taking them. Pipe down.
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One of DJ or Woodburn needs to be starting every game with Whiteman, with Browne and McCann competing for the other spot.
It's so restricting when neither of your 8s are comfortable on the ball
It's so restricting when neither of your 8s are comfortable on the ball
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Mostly it was just easily defended crosses into the box (generally with our players nowhere near) and set pieces from Brady and Whiteman, which were all utter crap.
Parrott shooting over from 20 yards, is that a "chance"? Didn't feel like there was any chance of him scoring from it tbh.
We don't score not because we miss chances IMO (although we do that too), but because we hardly create anything likely to lead to a goal.
No wonder Lowe wanted a striker who can "score from nothing" - most of the game, that's what our strikers are being asked to do.
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Riis one on one with plenty of time was a big chance…
Whiteman rolling the ball across the 6 yard box was a big chance...
We do lack creativity but our strikers need to finish their chances.
Parrott has missed a good few chances this season already
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He wasn't any better on the left in all honesty, well not for me anyway. He can't get past a man, just curls balls in with his left foot which are usually cleared with ease as it's that predictable. At fault on the goal as well, he basically just stood there an let the guy head in completely unchallenged
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Yeah, there were 2 chances in the first 5 minutes as I said, one of which was Riis's shot, saved by the keeper, the other was Parrott's blocked shot - but then we had to wait until the second half for the next decent chance.
It's pathetic really.
Whiteman rolling a ball across the box and none of our players connecting because they're nowhere near the ball isn't a chance in my view, in the same way endless lame Brady crosses to no one aren't chances either.
And we don't have strikers who will finish off all their chances, we won't pay the fees or the wages for one of those, the club has been very clear about that in the last few days, so we can't be like other teams and just make 2 chances per half knowing we'll score one of them.
We have to make loads. But we simply can't.
So frustrating…
Your missing the point you dumb fuck. Can create all day but they ain't being taken. 2 goals I 8 games with how many chances made? It's pointless if you can't take them but let's be happy because we are creating them yeah. That was my point.
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Maybe you should read the actual OP then because he’s literally saying there’s no creativity. Fuck me.
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Finally got round to watching the highlights. Looked like we created more than enough chances to me, should have scored 3 or 4 but for terrible finishing and awful decision making with the final ball.
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Yep, I felt we had 2 early chances in the first half, and a flurry of activity in the second half, yielding another couple of decent chances - and after that we fizzled out.
But it isn't enough for our players. We need to be creating tons of chances to get one goal, and we're not doing that, despite Lowe suggesting in the early days (admittedly before he ended up with this squad) that that's what we'd be doing.
I don't think we're a team that is going to have 4 efforts on target and score a goal - I think we need 10 of em.
It's much the same situation as when Frankie was here, because we're no better as an attacking force than we were back then. Frankie used to moan all the time about "being a wee bit more clinical", when it was a hopeless ask, because what we really needed was better players, or to give our existing players lots more chances.
When we had Archer, we ticked the "better players" box - without him, we're back to where we were last autumn, waiting for Riis to go on a scoring streak.
