Tyrone Shoelaces

Financially relegation might suit them. Sell off all the big earners and bring in more cheap spear carriers like DeNeve. We’re down to the die-hards now so the gates won’t drop off to the same extent.

How many times in modern football do you see a speculative shot hit one of the throng in the goalmouth and completely wrong foot the keeper and end up in the back of the net ? If you don’t try it will never happen.

What chances were they matey ? Ohashi had a good attempt at goal as he was falling, later on he should have had a pen. After that - a lot of huff and puff but we won’t blow anybody’s house down with what we have at the present.

The Crystals - I Wonder

Travis got filled in off the ball early on and after that he seemed to be operating at half pace.

There wasn’t anybody saying - “ give me the bloody ball, I’ll make something happen “ . That was right through the team. A lot of buck ( and ball ) passing to players who weren’t in a better position than they were. Not one player with that “ X “ factor. No real pattern of play or a method of consistently getting the ball from our last third into their last third apart from a long ball up to Ohashi and then Gueye.

I noticed both of Trav and Tron turn an opposing marker and then not even have enough pace to get in front of the marker on Saturday. It happened on more than one occasion. It was like they were running in quicksand. The marker got back in front and nicked the ball on each occasion. Much too pedestrian. Given what we’ve got up front, or more to the point what we haven’t got, we can’t afford two water carriers in central midfield. Something needs to change. We desperately need a player in there that can either carry the ball forward or make more penetrating passes.

I thought we followed on from the last performance in Holland. We were just going through the motions in the first half. They must have had the hard word at the interval because they upped the tempo somewhat in the second half.

10/10

Yeah, they’re the only ones daft enough to pay that sort of money.

They mustn’t have been watching yesterdays game then.

But it won’t be true at all levels of football. The further you go down the heap the less two footed players can be. How many times have you seen a right footed defender cock up a clearance because a) they miss kicked because they’re weaker on their left side b) they tried to make what should be a left footed clearance into a right footed one. Also it’s not just about passing the ball out efficiently, it’s also about tackling off your dominant side and being comfortable jockeying opponents down that side. Not every right footer is effective at perfoming these tasks on the left flank.

You’re quoting players of absolute top level international class. They’re probably extremely comfortable playing off either side. Unfortunately we aren’t shopping in that market anymore. In our current impoverished state having a left footer and right footer makes sense. You only had to watch McCloughlin passing it out yesterday to realise that.

They’re ambivalent about it. If the balance sheet dictates it they’ll be good with that.

Nobody sees the hard to make passes like he does.

Gestede could head a ball as good as anybody. He needs to take Gueye under his wing.

Given they absolutely stole Wharton you’d think they’d be embarrassed enough to do us a favour.

Try Solomon Burke.

He made the least mistakes so I’ll go along with that.

And full backs who can double as centre halves.

I agree regarding getting bodies in the box. We wouldn’t have scored the sort of goal they scored after 20 minutes of the game because we wouldn’t have have had enough players in and around the ball for it to fall to one of our players. Hedges and DeNeve won’t be there. Neither will Travis or Tronstad.

More or less sums up my views.

They put one on him very early on that marked his card. One they got away with.

Miller looks to be one that can look after himself. Axel is too obvious. Gueye never gets the benefit of the doubt off the refs so he’s treading a fine line before he starts. Abeliosu got wrestled too the ground too easily for me. I suppose we’ll see in the coming months who the fighters are.

If that “ tackle “ is at the home end of any ground 100% of the time it’s a given penalty. Who’d take it and whether we’d score from it is another story. My money would be on Ohashi.