Home truths

[ThatJa]

We have far too many players that are not high end championship standards.

Tanganga - its no surprise he was a player playing for Millwall who were between 9th-12th every year. He's left and they've had no issues replacing him and now sit 3rd.

Bindon - again, good for your inconsistent teams (like us atm, stoke, qpr etc)

Brooks - another one that would be quality for a mid table team but makes too many silly decisions to be a high end championship player

Soumare - has glimpses of quality but is consistently not a top end Championship performer

Cooper - looks a completely different player this season shrugs

Cannon, McGuiness and Chong also all fit into this category, you could even add Campbell this season, completely different player to last year.

Then you have T Davies (injury prone) and A Davies who will never be a reliable option should our current #1 GK be out or have a bad spell, (like now) most clubs would have dropped Cooper by now but at this point, we dont have a better option no matter how out of form Cooper is.

If we have any aspirations of being a top Championship club then these are some of the players we cant afford to carry..

 

[Brian Deane]

Damage was done before season started with very poor recruitment.
Let's hope COH get their act together and prove the doubters wrong.

 

[calcalcal]

Weve battered these and somehow lost. Missing that bit of quality- and luck - ref was 12 v 11 first half

 

[Plymouthblade]

We still stuck with wilder and Knilly
It fits to a level then people are wiser

 

[Plymouthblade]

Season over

 

[WestYorksBlade]

Weve battered these and somehow lost. Missing that bit of quality- and luck - ref was 12 v 11 first half

We seem to have a knack for ‘somehow’ losing when it matters don’t we

 

[Maltby_blade]

Your comments on Brooks are absolute rubbish, he’s definitely a top championship player, wouldn’t be surprised if Premier League clubs come calling in the summer.

 

[ThatJa]

We seem to have a knack for ‘somehow’ losing when it matters don’t we

Cant beat the top 6 sides..

Wrexham
Coventry
Middlesbrough
Etc

 

[AdamSufc1997]

Disagree on brooks problem is without him we’re one dimensional and so is wilder

 

[Æthelstan]

Your comments on Brooks are absolute rubbish, he’s definitely a top championship player, wouldn’t be surprised if Premier League clubs come calling in the summer.

He is top end player to me too, but I don't think he always has the best decision making.

Sometimes it looks like he's trying to take the whole opposition on alone instead of making a good pass.

It does work out at times to be fair, but sometimes passing is wiser.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Outplayed them all over the pitch but lost to two clinical goals and possibly a big fat bung to the ref by a rapidly balding Fat Frank.

 

[Lightsoot]

The biggest home truth is that THIS side ISN’T good enough for the play-offs if we hadn’t have had a nightmare start to the season.

 

[SharpAsAblade]

Brooksy is class Idgaf what anyone says. He’s an absolute class act, the best player in the team at times and just an idiotic statement from you

 

[Northernsoulblade]

How the fcuk did we lose that

 

[drblade]

because of poor performances by our two CBs

UTB

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

Cant beat the top 6 sides..

Wrexham
Coventry
Middlesbrough
Etc

Couldn't last season either

 

[Hblockblade]

Our defence plus ref won it for them, simple as that. They arw nothing at all special and are way off that boro side, we should have won that, very disappointing

 

[MayorOJC]

Cant beat the top 6 sides..

Wrexham
Coventry
Middlesbrough
Etc

Can't beat the top 13 sides unfortunately. We're flat-track bullies.

 

[gordoncharles]

We're weak at the back for a team with pretensions of being a lot higher, and that includes the defensive cover from midfield. The goalkeeper isn't the problem.

We're inventive going forward but our players aren't quite sharp enough to make decisions. Tonight - especially in the first half - too many delayed just a bit too long and their attempts got blocked when the sight of goal was clear a second before.

A lot of our invention, though, comes from the full backs so that's contributing to the defensive instability as you can't have it both ways.

 

[PrestwichBlade]

Weve battered these and somehow lost. Missing that bit of quality- and luck - ref was 12 v 11 first half

We haven't battered them

 

[LBA_Blade]

What we have to do now to the end of the season is utilise who we know will be here next season and almost have an early preseason, due to the traffic in front of us and the performances of the other teams now we are looking at 9-10 wins out of 12 which is highly unlikely, especially with some of the sides left to play. We have got to look at our CB pairings, is McGuinness good enough or does Mee have another season left in him as there is still the potential that Forest might drop and if they do, I can’t see us getting Bindon on loan again. We also need to look at CM pairings too, do we extend Jairo? (Unless injury hits again my personal answer would be yes) we need a big overall in the strikers too, Ings and Campbell to go. It would be good to get some first team minutes for some of the development squad too. When mathematically nothing to play for why not start Faxton, I can see us having 5-6 dead rubber matches at the end of the season maybe even more at this rate.

 

[ancientblade]

not enough quality im afraid especially in final 3rd apart from bamford the money were paying for phillips should have been spent on another striker and winger and boy did we make some bad decisions tonight as well as some stupid passes in dangerous areas good clearout this summer needed and at least 5 good quality championship players needed before august as for wilder i will give him one more.chance next season but im not convinced hes the right man for the job

 

[steve26272]

He is top end player to me too, but I don't think he always has the best decision making.

Sometimes it looks like he's trying to take the whole opposition on alone instead of making a good pass.

It does work out at times to be fair, but sometimes passing is wiser.

He’s a confidence player
When he’s not playing well he takes easy option

When he’s on it thinks he’s better than he is

Will balance with experience

 

[103SecondsOfMagic]

On the plus side, we almost certainly won't be in the Premier League next season

 

[wak1889]

We have played all 23 other teams at least once, some twice, and beaten 9 of them

 

[Maltby_blade]

Can't beat the top 13 sides unfortunately. We're flat-track bullies.

Apart from Ipswich and Birmingham…

 

[Seth Rollins]

Tanganga is absolute SHITE. Nowhere near good enough to be captain. I really hope the £10 million we reportedly paid for him was bullshit.

We need 3 decent centre backs signed in summer. Bindon won't be signed,McGuiness is awful & I'm guessing Mee has just downed tools for rest of season.

 

[Dave9777]

We have far too many players that are not high end championship standards.

Tanganga - its no surprise he was a player playing for Millwall who were between 9th-12th every year. He's left and they've had no issues replacing him and now sit 3rd.

Bindon - again, good for your inconsistent teams (like us atm, stoke, qpr etc)

Brooks - another one that would be quality for a mid table team but makes too many silly decisions to be a high end championship player

Soumare - has glimpses of quality but is consistently not a top end Championship performer

Cooper - looks a completely different player this season shrugs

Cannon, McGuiness and Chong also all fit into this category, you could even add Campbell this season, completely different player to last year.

Then you have T Davies (injury prone) and A Davies who will never be a reliable option should our current #1 GK be out or have a bad spell, (like now) most clubs would have dropped Cooper by now but at this point, we dont have a better option no matter how out of form Cooper is.

If we have any aspirations of being a top Championship club then these are some of the players we cant afford to carry..

Brooks shouldn’t be on the shit list imo, he’s been one of our best players all things considered, particularly in recent games.

 

[Brian Deane]

We've gone from a relative tight defence from last season to a defence with more holes tha Bonnie Blue and just like her we can't keep a clean sheet.

 

[Esteban Cambiasso]

We have far too many players that are not high end championship standards.

Tanganga - its no surprise he was a player playing for Millwall who were between 9th-12th every year. He's left and they've had no issues replacing him and now sit 3rd.

Bindon - again, good for your inconsistent teams (like us atm, stoke, qpr etc)

Brooks - another one that would be quality for a mid table team but makes too many silly decisions to be a high end championship player

Soumare - has glimpses of quality but is consistently not a top end Championship performer

Cooper - looks a completely different player this season shrugs

Cannon, McGuiness and Chong also all fit into this category, you could even add Campbell this season, completely different player to last year.

Then you have T Davies (injury prone) and A Davies who will never be a reliable option should our current #1 GK be out or have a bad spell, (like now) most clubs would have dropped Cooper by now but at this point, we dont have a better option no matter how out of form Cooper is.

If we have any aspirations of being a top Championship club then these are some of the players we cant afford to carry..

Totally disagree on brooks, the lad has been absolutely brilliant. Best player on the pitch again today... We will be lucky to hold onto him in the summer