I thought he looked streetwise yesterday, bought a few fouls and covered a ridiculous amount of ground to provide an option.
Apart from Davis - who had a shocker, I thought we played well and deserved a point at the very least Pathetic scenes at St Pancras getting back in to London when a bunch of our coked-up, pimply-faced ultras met some Sheffield Wednesday fans waiting for the train going the other way. I wonder how these little twerps would fare if they had to swap places with Ukranian young men of a similar age?
Didn't think Sheffield offered too much but done their homework with the corners. Whack it back post and watch the carnage.
If Bachmann is so crap with his kicking he needs a defender to take them, why not play Hamer for a few games? Give Bachmann a rest to get some confidence back perhaps. We know Okoye is rubbish and it's clear he was a waste of money, Hamer has been sat on the bench a few games now. Bachmann clearly doesn't feel confident in doing the most basic things asked of a goalkeeper.
This is what concerns me. Sport or at least supposed elite sport has long since held the mantra of "performance over outcome ". I tired of Jo Konta and her endless repetition of " trust the process". Like you mike I fail to see either a performance or a process. We are better at the back but DB continues to infuriate and Sarr and Davis probably for different reasons are a waste of a place. Where is the evidence that we will garner sufficient points for the play offs? We've yet to convince all season and unless Bilic suddenly has a tactical epiphany we will continue to splutter to 10th position,with or without him depending on Pozzo's whim. Just by being organised, working hard and knowing what they're doing too many sides have the edge on us. Not acceptable. These should be essential.
I think his point would they look for a fight with such people . Obviously the usual group of young lads all football clubs have trying to make a name for themselves and causing trouble or looking silly .
I seem to get a sky repeat of our "leicester" P/O game every 3 months and find myself unable to not watch the last 10 minutes ever time it's on. Anyway.... watching that team running and moving the ball you can see the huge difference between then and now, and apart from the odd Sarr moment once every 4 games there is zero comparison. (esp heart, energy and moving the ball). Miles apart....
Morris by playing every game as if it’s his last time he will be picked and giving 100%, is turning out to be the better option than fancy Dan Kamara who when he isn’t giving away penalties or getting sent off is found out of position!
Decent week for Morris - wasn’t so long ago people were saying he wasn’t good enough to be in the team .
Sarr is largely disinterested and ineffective, and Davis is crap. They were poor under Edwards and have been poor under Bilic - anyone thinking it’ll be different under a new head coach is kidding themselves. Morris was very good Louza makes a huge difference Kone actually looked much better than recent weeks when he came on Bachmann is excruciating to watch - what should have been a routine catch in the first half turned into a shanked punch that cost us a corner. And he’s not trusted with goal kicks anymore aside from launching it - true a Sunday league stuff. Decent away day and Sheffield is a great city.
He’s a solid and dependable left back. Kamara is an absolute liability who likes a few tweets. I know which one I’d rather.
It wasn’t really a comment specifically aimed for you - it’s just that there always seems to be some excuse for some that means we can ‘wait until next week’ before properly judging this season. Personally, injuries or not, I’ve been judging it since the WC break - and it’s been nowhere near good enough. Yes…injuries. But we have still had a squad better than many of the opponents we played during that period…and Bilic hadn’t made a ‘team’ out of any of them. And the idea that Louza coming back would suddenly make everything click and mean the rest suddenly started giving a crap is/was fanciful in the extreme. Bilic has been terrible - the fact that some are saying the time to judge him is after a run of upcoming easy games is strange. We need our manager capable of beating anyone…not just the weakest. Being flat track bullies isn’t exactly going to take this club where it needs to go.
A fella in the reddest of red coats was giving it some and a large section of our support “highlighted” it. He flapped his arms a bit more and then the singing focused on his poor female partner. All good spirted though, I imagine his parter will tell him to shut the **** up in the future though.
So who is that man and how long do you give him ? Would they then then have to go if we don’t get in the play offs ..? Presumably it’s promotion or nothing in your eyes with no long term thinking into next season.
It might've been mentioned elsewhere that I've not seen, but anyone else noticed how Ken Sema never seems to pass to him even when he's in a decent space to put a cross in, instead trying some crazy twists and turns to find his own space to cross. I noticed it a lot v west brom and again it was apparent yesterday. Morris made a load of overlapping and positive runs but Sema seemed to refuse to pass to him every time. Just a small observation.
Why would you presume that given what I said? Perfectly logical that we appoint someone who I think may not get us up but will actually, you know, make us play a certain way and visibly be seen to be building something...Bilic isn't doing that. At all.
Genuinely not sure I agree regarding the fans - I think many comments over the summer showed the fans were prepared to watch us build over time under Edwards. I don't think there is a yearning thirst from fans to just relentlessly win all the time. I think most would like to see us build something sustainable, fun to watch and get the wins that way. I agree regarding Pozzo. But I'm not sure just because we know his nature, that should mean we can't talk about how we would rather it was.
Yes fair point about Edwards and obviously Duxbury thought the same - going for a long term approach but got over ruled .
I think we have the foundation of a solid team as we move it around quite well between defence and midfield now but we won't progress until some big decisions are made. Drop Sarr. Drop Davies. Nothing happened in the final 3rd yesterday, at first I was happy to give Sarr a pass because he can't do it all himself but as soon as we went 1 down he went missing, at one point Choudry was closing down on the right wing and won the ball back then made a sprint down the touchline to get a cross in. The whole time Sarr was stood motionless 15 yards behind him. Davies is a disgrace, 0 effort, 0 skill, 0 desire. Usual stuff from Bachmann, we've been seeing it for years now. If he doesn't get shifted in the summer I give up. Other than that it was a great day out and I enjoyed the intensity of the game. First time in a while I've had a bit of adrenaline watching us play (mainly watching Sheff Utd go close mind) . We should have equalised at the end, the highlights are even worse than I remembered it at the time.
That was a laughably bad phase of play that was staggering to watch. Choudhury had done well to retain the ball and was waiting for Sarr to break but he just point blank refused to move. Utterly shameful from Sarr.
I am sure some sort of deal will be struck with the players. They are unlikely to be a part of the squad new season if we rebuild. They are limited in ability. Bilic will be shown the door. By mutual consent, if possible. If not, then he will be sacked. *A goalkeeper who cannot take the goal kicks (not injured) is laughable.
We'll need a whole load of new strikers for starters as none of the ones in the first team squad (except Tobi) are contracted for next season. Be a big overhaul.
Bayo? Admittedly very few players who we loan out actually end up having a future with us, especially one who wasn't deemed good enough by two managers in the second tier
