Bit of a tame defeat. No energy about us at all. We just havent quite got the quality our rivals have got and if we don't bring lots of energy and hard work to the party we are going to struggle. It looked like our efforts at Coventry took something out of us whereas Cardiff had a free week. It's difficult to overstate how much of a difference that can make. Lots of fans having a meltdown about losing away to Cardiff. Are they oblivious to what we are up against? We are still punching above our weight but are in a horrible run of fixtures where any points gained will be a bonus. We need to limp through them, get to the break with whatever we can scrape together and regroup. And for heavens sake stay behind them instead of having a hissy fit if we get beaten or dont play well from time to time. We may well get battered once or twice in the next week or so but we are playing clubs with several times our resources. That is bound to take its toll in a relentless fixture list. Anybody who watches these players can surely see that we sometimes lack quality and that we run out of energy because of the relentless hard work we have to out in, but there is never a shortage of effort. We are thirteenth and have scored as many goals as we have conceded. What the hell more do the fans want? The players and club deserve and need support not knee jerk criticism from armchair experts.
-- Edited by smiler on Saturday 29th of October 2022 08:57:45 PM
-- Edited by smiler on Saturday 29th of October 2022 08:59:53 PM
I sense a little bit of an undercurrent to some of the criticism this weekend. Feeling its turning into a "well Paul Warne would have done that" type scenario which needs to be nipped in the bud early. Warne has gone and a few people need to accept it (not on here by the way - going off social media comments )
We looked slow from the off and it was if we had already played 90 minutes that day. Cardiff weren't great either which made everything more frustrating.
We are still in a good position we just need to get to the world cup break and even January in a still respectable position. the squad feels too unbalanced, we have far too many defensive options and not enough wide / attacking players with pace to give us more legs when the starting eleven start to flag. Taylor has noticed this and hopefully he is given some funding to address it.
comfortably the poorest player in the team at the moment , constantly miss controls the ball ,has shots that wouldn't hit five nets and the games are just constantly passing him by.
Barlaser and Rathbone are having to do twice the work in midfield.
Personally I think Ben Wiles is still doing a fair job but he is very much a confidence player. His body language when he makes an error doesnt help him. I think he is low on confidence at the moment. A goal would do him a power of good. I also think that as good as he can be, Wiles isnt that craft composed player who can play a killer pass in the final third (like Palmer did twice for Coventry). We are playing him further forward as the link between midfield and attack and maybe that isnt his strongest role. Just a thought.
