Changing Times 12,347 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 1 minute ago, diggerlad07 said: Didn't see that coming from you 👍 It was a brilliant post mate 👍 Link to post Share on other sites
AnglianRed 6,320 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 6 minutes ago, TheJew said: If Karanka leaves Birmingham... He'll probably decide its time to return home to Spain. Link to post Share on other sites
BoroSmoggie 2,710 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 It’s ok, we can bring on Chuba now. Jokes, probably should bring on Kebano. Not sure if he was dropped because of his height against this side, but we aren’t going to match them there no matter who we play, so may aswell get him on. They’ve got Flint ffs. The lad can’t defend when facing any other way then facing forward. Link to post Share on other sites
Humpty 3,261 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Very good first 30-35 minutes. They sat in deep, compact and gave us the ball looking to play long into their big men. We had a couple of chances we should have done better with Watmore the free kick spring to mind. We should’ve dealt with the long throw better than we did. Their first real chance. It’s a decent half other than the goal. I wouldn’t be too critical, we’ve just struggled to break down their compact shape. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
BluebirdinExile 43 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 We didnt deserve to be 1-0 a very scrappy 1st half, at least you can string more than 2 passes together. Hopefully the 2nd half will be better or ill have to start talking to the misses. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
GrimsbyBoro 1,968 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Teams have figured out the man marking and are just bypassing our midfield now. Link to post Share on other sites
diggerlad07 3,695 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Why are we trying to go direct against a team like Cardiff? Only way to beat them is to get the ball down and actually play some football.... Cardiff are loving our current tactics. What's worse is that we have starting line up is that screams out to get the ball down and play. Honestly shocking/dire/mind boggling tactics. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Neverbefore 10,942 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Just now, diggerlad07 said: Why are we trying to go direct against a team like Cardiff? Only way to beat them is to get the ball down and actually play some football.... Cardiff are loving our current tactics. What's worse is that we have starting line up is that screams out to get the ball down and play. Honestly shocking/dire/mind boggling tactics. Warnock has no other way of playing. We've seen that over the last 12 months and whatever number of years he's been a manager 1 Link to post Share on other sites
thomas 501 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 I think everyone on here disappointed by that first half but if we can score we can win this still I beleive providing no additional defensive screwups, them Cardiff players looked knackered to me and perhaps that's the reason they are lumping it at every opportunity. We got to keep cool and play the ball into the box, crossing it constantly evidently is getting us nowhere when we got the ball down and played it in we looked threatening. When this games gets to 60 min, id put Johnson on and get him to run at them. Link to post Share on other sites
AnglianRed 6,320 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Dan1234 said: Why was bettinelli wrestling someone at the back post for a throw in? Better positioning he surely could have come for that with how long it was in the air. Come on - you know he can't catch. And if he'd punched it, the ball would likely have cannoned off someone's head and gone in. 😁 But yeah, it annoyed me the way he just watched it go by him...again... Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,347 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 1 minute ago, diggerlad07 said: Why are we trying to go direct against a team like Cardiff? Only way to beat them is to get the ball down and actually play some football.... Cardiff are loving our current tactics. What's worse is that we have starting line up is that screams out to get the ball down and play. Honestly shocking/dire/mind boggling tactics. Cos this is how Warnock wants his football played. It either works like this or it doesn’t but we will be playing like this either way. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
diggerlad07 3,695 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 1 minute ago, Neverbefore said: Warnock has no other way of playing. We've seen that over the last 12 months and whatever number of years he's been a manager Not good enough though is it? No excuses because at times we have played decent stuff over the season but to go hoof ball against Cardiff is just poor decision making. Link to post Share on other sites
diggerlad07 3,695 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Just now, Changing Times said: Cos this is how Warnock wants his football played. It either works like this or it doesn’t but we will be playing like this either way. Just really frustrating mate. You bring Tav back in and then keep same hoof ball tactics. He may as well of had Saville and Morsy playing if he wanted to go down that route Link to post Share on other sites
DanFromDownSouth 1,706 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 2 minutes ago, diggerlad07 said: Why are we trying to go direct against a team like Cardiff? Only way to beat them is to get the ball down and actually play some football.... Cardiff are loving our current tactics. What's worse is that we have starting line up is that screams out to get the ball down and play. Honestly shocking/dire/mind boggling tactics. We are actually playing less long balls than normal (looking at the stats). But when we do play them we play them in the wrong areas, like swinging aerial crosses into the box or longballs down the centre. We need to try and drag their centre halves out of position and pull them into wider areas, the Watmore chance was a good example of that. Link to post Share on other sites
JMC91 280 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Almost laughable that we’re still going long with Britt and Watmore up against Flint, Nelson and Morrison. What did they think was going to happen? Link to post Share on other sites
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