TeaCider24 12,639 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) Bugger, Blackburn winning. They're now (undeservedly) a point behind us with a game in hand. Scoring from a drop ball and then Luton having a goal randomly disallowed for offside. Link to post Share on other sites
Kelloe 18 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 hours ago, Whoppy said: A game of football isn’t complete with a Spence slip. Every single game I lost count of the number of times Spence slipped today, must have been double figures. Link to post Share on other sites
nunthorpered 1,922 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Top 6 looking unlikely imo unless we can find any attacking form but can’t see where it’s going to come from tbh Link to post Share on other sites
Humpty 3,261 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Thought Howson had an average first 30 minutes. Seemed to improve after that 2 Link to post Share on other sites
KeithLambsFaxMachine 727 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Enjoyed that match. Very impressed with Fisher, excellent mix of skill and tenacity. Hope be can play like that often. Bolase obviously wasn’t up to speed, which is to be expected, but he had a couple of lovely touches to release Spence to supply a cross. If only Spence could supply a decent cross. I thought by the time they went down to 10, it already looked as though we had an extra man on the pitch. Sometimes seems more difficult after a sending off. Link to post Share on other sites
edinboro 815 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Interesting point for next week - how many times does as team do what Brentford did today - score 7 - and then draw a blank in the next few games? We tightened up today which was the first step. Get Bolasie fit, get another winger in, get Fletcher fit and we have a chance of getting in that top 6. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
TeaCider24 12,639 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 33 minutes ago, edinboro said: Interesting point for next week - how many times does as team do what Brentford did today - score 7 - and then draw a blank in the next few games? The immediate one that springs to mind is West Brom beat QPR 7-1 the season before last, they lost their next match 1-0 to Middlesbrough. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
wilsoncgp 9,283 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 5 hours ago, Robin Johnson said: Weasel, love your optimism Re Bolasie. I’m afraid he would find it hard to score in a brothel! I tell you what, a £50 bet he can’t get to 5 goals this season. Money to Zoe’s Place. Prepared to put up? Just to advise you I did say in the very early days of the season neither Britt or Akpom would reach double figures. Just putting this out there but I think there's a bigger reason that our strikers struggle to score goals than their individual ability. At times it's very hard to judge the goalscoring quality of anyone in the side when we aren't actually creating chances for them. I also think it's surprising to think Bolasie will be judged on the number of goals he scores. Maybe that will be an accurate thing to judge if he continues to play where he did today but I think given what Warnock said before the game, there's a chance he was only playing there to get him in the team and get him some march fitness without abandoning the second full backs on either side. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
KeithLambsFaxMachine 727 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Cantwell’s IG yesterday. Did anyone check Darnell’s pockets on the coach back, he may still be there. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Whoppy 593 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 42 minutes ago, KeithLambsFaxMachine said: Cantwell’s IG yesterday. Did anyone check Darnell’s pockets on the coach back, he may still be there. That’s quality, fair play to Cantwell for that 👏 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Borodane 6,301 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 16 hours ago, Robin Johnson said: I tell you what, a £50 bet he can’t get to 5 goals this season. Money to Zoe’s Place. Prepared to put up? Tbh 5 goals in half a season is lot for any player in this Boro team. I don’t think anyone is going to score 5 goals before the season ends. Link to post Share on other sites
AnglianRed 6,320 Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 10 hours ago, wilsoncgp said: Just putting this out there but I think there's a bigger reason that our strikers struggle to score goals than their individual ability. At times it's very hard to judge the goalscoring quality of anyone in the side when we aren't actually creating chances for them. I also think it's surprising to think Bolasie will be judged on the number of goals he scores. Maybe that will be an accurate thing to judge if he continues to play where he did today but I think given what Warnock said before the game, there's a chance he was only playing there to get him in the team and get him some march fitness without abandoning the second full backs on either side. Exactly. We're suffering the double whammy of having strikers who aren't in great goalscoring form for whatever reason, playing in a team that struggles to create chances. Given Bolasie is primarily a winger, I would have thought Warnock mainly brought him into the team to try and add some creativity, getting the ball to our forwards in positions where they will have a chance to stick it in the back of the net. If he can chip in with a few of his own, so much the better. But from what I read, he could be played in different positions, depending on what NW thinks the team needs for a particular game. Link to post Share on other sites
nunthorpered 1,922 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Do we know anything about the extent to Fry's injury? Looked like a calf pull? Not sure if i missed anything on it Link to post Share on other sites
ChipBarrington 315 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 18 hours ago, sanddancer said: I can’t remember a player being talked more about by not playing. Adam Forshaw 1 Link to post Share on other sites
DanFromDownSouth 1,706 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 6 minutes ago, ChipBarrington said: Adam Forshaw I raise your Forshaw, with Carayol. He hit a decent run of form, got injured long term, then during that injury spell turned into a world beater. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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