DDB220 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 6:05 pm
One thing that was annoying me was the Spurs wall constantly getting away with a player sprawled across the the white line drawn by the ref and the wall gaining a few feet as a result. Ref was happy to ignore that every time. The consistency of officiating is shambolic.
It's almost as if the greedy 6 get favouritism from the refs
andrewjohnsmith wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 5:41 pm
Can't argue with those saying we need another CB. But we need to replace Cooper's leadership. Koch and Strujik are very quiet. I think about players like Van Dijk or Thiago Silva. Both out of our league. But there has to be a quality, senior CB out there somewhere that would improve us both in defence and leadership.
Third game in a row where despite competing, I never expected to win. The fact that we won the first two is still a surprise, but if we hadn’t we’d be in the bottom three going into the long break.
Let’s just take it and hope Jesse tries to focus on the defensive frailties before the City game.
Three times we were ahead in that match and end up losing which really stings, it’s like the players lose all composure when we go a goal up, we are great going forward but never manage to find that balance between the two.
Still we are just over a point a game which you would imagine would be enough over the course of the season though so far it’s very odd season with no clear favourite to go down and all promoted teams doing pretty well.
Not managed to see the game. All I saw was 79 minutes Rodrigo 2-3
Gutted.
How did Struijk get on against Kulusevski? From what I’ve read not so well. But he’s a class act so no shame in that
I declare my love for Saint Daniel and I can shoehorn him in to any conversation.
andrewjohnsmith wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 5:41 pm
Can't argue with those saying we need another CB. But we need to replace Cooper's leadership. Koch and Strujik are very quiet. I think about players like Van Dijk or Thiago Silva. Both out of our league. But there has to be a quality, senior CB out there somewhere that would improve us both in defence and leadership.
I don't think Cooper is a great leader.
Far to error prone, can hardly say he leads by example.
A decent dressing room man I'm sure but an on pitch leader? Not for me.
andrewjohnsmith wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 5:44 pm
Happy with 14th place. But not happy with 15 points from 14 or just being 2 points clear of safety. I think a benchmark would have been 17 or 18 points.
It's right on the line points per game wise for a relegation fight.
Had hoped for a bit of breathing room this season.
In terms of performance tools I suspect we are somewhere around where we are expected to be (14,15th).
It's very close for me.
We saw last season what can happen if teams around us improve 2nd night off the season.
