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It seemed only Hutchinson was capable of unlocking Watford today and causing real trouble.
If we don't go up, then I think we need a fair refresh in the Summer, especially with Hutchinson likely to be back at Chelsea. We need a Jack Clark or a Philogene. We also need Taylor to come good as I think we would benefit from a creative and goal scoring centre midfielder.
Moore should be commended for playing through the injury he picked up, but I think his overall play leaves a bit to be desired. And he should have scored. Id like a top class centre forward in the side to challenge Hirst.
Think we will need the refresh to keep momentum into next season. We look like a marathon runner tiring as they enter the stadium. We aren't down and out, but we are flagging.
These boys have done an incredible job to get us here. I fear we may finish just short though with the tough away games we have.
But theres loads to play for still. Even if that is the playoffs.
And if we dont go up this year, we could still be in a great position next season with a couple more additions in the Summer.
Really annoying that we keep stumbling against the budgies. We will have to stew in that for next 24 hours but then just throw it out of the window and move on.
Should we start with Taylor? I think Mass is a great lad but maybe we need a bit more creativeness in there. And a goal threat.
Moore also has done well for us but some of his layoffs and link up play is not where it should be. I said a while back i didnt think Hirst was far behind him in quality and I still dont.
Today reminds me though why im not in a hurry to get tickets for carrot road. Not sure ive ever seen us win there in the flesh. Its their day, but we might yet win the overall season battle
1. Sometimes football goes beyond analysis and just comes down to heart. Ive been thinking these last couple of games that squad quality is becoming slightly less of a factor and heart and determination slightly more. As the games reduce they are becoming cup finals and about bottle as much as skill.
2. Southampton looked very good first half. I honestly thought our bolt was shot. I think they will be very strong in the playoffs, especially as they may be more mentally prepared for them.
3. Hopefully Moore was a back spasm rather than serious as Im not sure we can make AL Hamadi as our only striker option work.
4. This booing at half time. That was for the referee right? Not the team. Anyone booing please tell me.
5. Leif Davis just put another couple of mil on any transfer fee. Surely thats got to be 20 mil?
6. I don't know if we are going to do this or not. The parallels with lat season are still obvious. As are the away games at Hull and Cov mirroring Barnsley and Peterborough. If thats the case then we do it at Coventry effectively.
They cant take much confidence out of that for next Saturday.
They look ok going forward but shocking under pressure and then they dont find a way to play out. Reminiscent of the second half at PR. I know anything could happen on the day, but I think we are a fair bit better than them.
The Newcastle lad has planted his foot between Phillips and the ball. hasnt touched the ball. Then gets kicked cos Phillips was in the process of kicking the ball.
I did my achilles a couple of years back and now this.
Lifting furniture up steps. Felt a kick in the back of the leg feeling and went down like the preverbial sack of spuds. Quite a bit of pain. Cant put any weight on it. Crawling about the house.
Really depressed about it as i know from the achilles it can be a long way back.
And thats probably my football trips to PR done for the season too.
1. Look that's tough to take. But we didn't play very well over the 90 minutes. It felt like we lacked fluency. Passes not connecting. We have to take it on the chin.
2. We may not get automatics. Probably won't. But this is still a building season. I think the doubt may be could we repeat and even better it next year. Im not sure we can better it in points but maybe we can become more solid.
3. Our achilles heel all season has been we concede far too many. I don't know what the answer is here. If we defend more solidly at the back then maybe Davis isn't getting forward as much. Maybe we cant have our cake and eat it. But I think we have to tighten up. Our clearances were poor. I do wonder if Burgess and Wolf will be our pairing 12 months on. Something feels like it needs to change defensively. We don't stop enough crosses and we don't deal with them well enough.
4. I would like to see Taylor getting a run in the starting line up. Massimo for me has been a touch quiet and Morsy looks like he is shouldering most of that centre midfield area.
5. I think today is just football. We weren't quite at it. Cardiff have won 4 on the bounce and were at home. And Kieron is right, its fine margins that are winning games in a tough league. Today we were the wrong side of them.
6. Id still take this than the dross we had for many seasons. We aren't far off.
1. The ref. And his linesman. Come on....how many times did our man on the ball get a shove in the back? They found out they could get away with it and just carried on. Useless standard of refereeing yet again.
2. Burns was superb when he came on. There are games and fullbacks when he can just exploit his pace. He doesn't have the tricks of Hutchinson, but he doesn't always need them. Just pure pace caused the unlocking in the end.
3. Luongo starting was a surprise after being ill. He is not providing the outlet in the way Morsy does and Im pleased for Taylor coming on and doing well.
4. Bristol seemed more intense than us first half. They were sprinting to close down all the time and we looked a bit stuck in second gear. I don't know if we need to up that first half intensity or whether it does become a matter of conserving energy and waiting for them to tire.
5. I don't think Moore had his best game. He didn't secure the ball enough and seemed out of sync with the passes coming into him.
6. I don't like penalties when the player runs almost straight at the ball rather than from an angle. It feels like they have to hit it left as they cant open their bodies up enough to hit it right. I think that's what he did without seeing it back.
7. Editing this to finish on a positive. One of those nights that will live in the memory. Especially if we do go up.
My eyes have been itchy and a bit of sneezing. I thought surely it cant be from pollen yet, but I looked on a pollen index site and tree pollen is moderate today. In February. Dear Norris is this a record?
1. A question really. How does Hirst rate against Moore? Moore had a bit of an erratic game today. Should have scored early on. Some poor touches and passes. But he always seemed a threat and a handful. But I’m not sure he is clear water better than George. Who would get the nod if both fit? I might still say Hirst.
2. We played well without hitting top gear and comfortably outplayed Birmingham. We have to be in a good position going forward, regardless of if we go up or not. As long as the manager stays.
3. Some fans are never happy. I bumped into a town fan at the station who thought we were rubbish and played too much tippy tappy football. I have no words. Look at the score, the table etc. what do people want?
4. Isaacs do possibly the worst burger known to mankind. Nuked and stuffed in a bun with no onions, relish, salad…..anything.
5. Tunazebe did well. Terrific run for the second. Nerves of steel pass to paraphrase a recent post. Steel Axel.
1. Really exciting game. Just good to be there and enjoying the football. 2. Best squad in a generation. So many good players on the bench. 3. We have now played all the top 6 home and away, except for Southampton, who we have at home. 4. New strikers look good.
Its partly bad luck and it sounds like we were too casual at the back. We have conceded too many all season though for a top two side.
Im pretty optimistic for the rest of the season though. We just need to get a lead in the games again. Its more likely play offs but thats not a disaster.
I was listening to Jack Ward football podcast. Oxford fan who does reasonably interesting league 1 stuff. He was talking about Oxfords inverted wingers and then on a graphic dragging in the winger more to the middle.
And Im thinking that's just a player tucked in - in old terms.
Then he talks about the full back playing high and very wide in his place. That's nothing to do with jargon, but Im thinking that's Lief Davis role. And Greg Leigh plays there for Oxford. I bet we were a template for Oxford to try and play our style. They even bought our back up full back to do it knowing that he would know the role inside out.
There's been a few league one managers reference us. Even the new Lincoln manager in a long interview made it clear he reference Kieron in his club interview. And then he's all jargon about pushing the game which underneath it all meant pressing the opposition and a forward pass.
Non of this I mind really. But it does feel like there's been a new set of jargon introduced in recent years but Im not sure if it's all modern ideas or a rehash of old ones.
I cant help thinking of Bob Paisley on a FA football course hearing a talk about crosses to the area of maximum opportunity, for him to say "do you mean the back post".
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