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SuffolknWhat

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We really are in a mess.
Leaking goals for fun when other than losing Cunningham and gaining Hughes who admittedly is not as good but he's useful,the defence is the same.
Bizarre formation yesterday playing wing backs when we don't have any,and substitutions which again leave you scratching your head.
Robinson injured,Barkhuizen on so sort of like for like,then Barker off for Moult, again sort of attacker for attacker.
The final one Fisher off for Harrop at 3:1 with 2 mins left,and Barkhuizen to wingback so in effect a striker to defence and an attacking midfielder on.
Yes we are without Bodin and Maguire,but in all honesty can these two (or one as Bodin is out long term) change things THAT much?
I think not.
AN has been dealt a poor hand but can't make reasonable use of it.
Time to give someone else a go imo, but who is the question.
 
Why do people think of Bodin as some kind of big loss? He scored a wonder goal in pre-season, prior to that he was hardly looking like a world beater.
 
We seem to be playing well for large portions of games, but then lose our concentration at vital points in matches. Seems to me like we have a good set of players who switch off.

Surely, this is the coaching.

Don't like the 3-5-2 personally, but watching yesterday, at least it showed that Barkhuizen could play the wing back role if we decide to persist with it.
 
PNEinGranby said:
Don't like the 3-5-2 personally, but watching yesterday, at least it showed that Barkhuizen could play the wing back role if we decide to persist with it.
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Barkhuizen and Earl would work better than Fisher and Hughes but we would be better reverting to the formation that we were successful with last season.
 
SuffolknWhat said:
substitutions which again leave you scratching your head
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Ledson didn't do too badly yesterday and showed promise though his wild missed tackle is what allowed them to advance to score their first goal. But why on earth at that point was Johnson not brought on to try to give us the impetus that he did the previous Saturday. Why also did AN wait for Robinson to be injured before he brought Barkhuizen on when Barker was so obviously ineffective as a striker - why in fact was Barkhuizen omitted from the starting line-up just when as AN himself admitted he looked to be recovering his attacking form? But as I said in my previous post the fundamental question is why AN persisted with the wing-back formation that has got us nowhere when he had the players to resume the 4.2.3.1 formation that is the only one which has brought us any success with him.
 
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Bodin looked good last season what did he get? 1 goal 4 assists and earned penalties? There was a relationship developing between him and Maguire and he was happy to both run into the box and put balls in. The perfect foil for Robinson on the other side....Not that it would have made a lot of difference given our striking options and their reluctance to actually be in the box.
 
For me AN has 2 more games to save himself from the chop.
AN needs to stick with the same defensive line up, keep chopping and changing is getting us no where.
 
First half huffed and puffed with lots of tippy tappy football and created nothing...

Second half got dismantled by a clinical side, who by the way didnt look like premiership material.

There were 4 blokes from Glasgow who were sat to the right of me in the Invincibles - They had come down for the day to especially support Preston

After about an hour, one of them said to the rest of the group, "im very surprised by the standard" - he meant it in a bad way, after a series of bad passes from both teams !!!
 
likeableclown said:
Why do people think of Bodin as some kind of big loss? He scored a wonder goal in pre-season, prior to that he was hardly looking like a world beater.
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He was clearly nailed on to start the season. Very good technical player who was growing into an important member of the team for us. 100% a big loss.
 
Nishtar36 said:
He was clearly nailed on to start the season. Very good technical player who was growing into an important member of the team for us. 100% a big loss.
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Agreed - it took him a while to get used to the Championship but he was just starting to look good in more than flashes.
 
Too many changes and formations for my liking but we have had injuries/suspensions we had a similar blip last year when out defence was decimated...personally i dont think things will change much till Maguire or a target man is brought in. But there is a lot to worry about because it is very similar to when Fergies lad managed the team couldnt buy a win despite playing ok...need some 1 nil wins but that is not Neils way. He wants to football us out of trouble but sometimes you have to win 'ugly' to get out of trouble
 
Ando60 said:
First half huffed and puffed with lots of tippy tappy football and created nothing...

Second half got dismantled by a clinical side, who by the way didnt look like premiership material.

There were 4 blokes from Glasgow who were sat to the right of me in the Invincibles - They had come down for the day to especially support Preston

After about an hour, one of them said to the rest of the group, "im very surprised by the standard" - he meant it in a bad way, after a series of bad passes from both teams !!!
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I've never met a Scotsman that eloquent.
 
Ando60 said:
First half huffed and puffed with lots of tippy tappy football and created nothing...

Second half got dismantled by a clinical side, who by the way didnt look like premiership material.

There were 4 blokes from Glasgow who were sat to the right of me in the Invincibles - They had come down for the day to especially support Preston

After about an hour, one of them said to the rest of the group, "im very surprised by the standard" - he meant it in a bad way, after a series of bad passes from both teams !!!
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I thought West Brom’s passing was worse than ours tbh. We certainly weren’t ‘dismantled’ at all, it was quite an even game.
 
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