01 Weaver - has got Premiership and Championship experience he was here with MAN CITY and us
02 Moutaouakil - Has championship experience with us last year and is now in his second season....
29 Cranie - God knows is not good enough too but plays every week.
06 Hudson - Lots of Championship experience would be suprised if he never played in the Prem
26 Basey - Our product - Played in the championship last year
18 Sam - Our product - Played in the championship last year
04 Bailey - Championship last year was he not = player of the year at relegated Southend
15 Wright - Our product
11 Ambrose - Lots of championship and premiership experience who is never played in his favoured position
12 Varney - no Premiership or Championship experience, expensive signing from Crewe - Agreed AP what are your thoughts?
09 Gray - Played in the Premiership for Sunderland and maybe Watford? got lots of Championship experience, expensive signing from Burnley
Substitutes
Elliot - no Premiership or Championship experience, youth player
Todorov - Premiership experience, a bit past it (same can be said for Holland) - and top scorer in the championship for Portsmouth
Dickson - no League experience - What about gillingham no CC experience
Semedo - no Premiership or Championship experience What about last season
Bouazza - Premiership and Championship experience
For me Reading are by a country mile the best team in this division and we didn't just beat them we took them apart - so in a nutshell, yes our players are good enough. The problem is the manager and coaches (as stated on about every other thread on here), as they are unable to cope when something goes wrong and players need re-motivating. The current poor performances all stem from a lack of leadership and confidence, nobody wants to take charge and nobody looks like they want the ball. Managers and coaches have to identify that and eliminate it from their team. Pards has shown this is his achilles heal when it comes to management. West Ham were going well, then after a couple of bad results they plummeted to the bottom of the Prem and their chairman couldn't get rid of him quick enough.
Sorry to use the C word, but Curbs used to be able to grind a result out when the team had suffered a bad defeat the game before. Might not have been pretty be it stopped the rot.
[cite]Posted By: LargeAddick[/cite]I didn't really see any Barnsley players who were actually better than ours but what I did see were tactics, a game plan, a togetherness in the team and spirit.
[cite]Posted By: PeakieRocket[/cite]For me Reading are by a country mile the best team in this division and we didn't just beat them we took them apart - so in a nutshell, yes our players are good enough. The problem is the manager and coaches (as stated on about every other thread on here), as they are unable to cope when something goes wrong and players need re-motivating. The current poor performances all stem from a lack of leadership and confidence, nobody wants to take charge and nobody looks like they want the ball. Managers and coaches have to identify that and eliminate it from their team. Pards has shown this is his achilles heal when it comes to management. West Ham were going well, then after a couple of bad results they plummeted to the bottom of the Prem and their chairman couldn't get rid of him quick enough.
Sorry to use the C word, but Curbs used to be able to grind a result out when the team had suffered a bad defeat the game before. Might not have been pretty be it stopped the rot.
Difference with the Reading game is we got space and time on the ball, and Reading pushed up.
Most, if not all our good home performances in the last year or so have been like this. Look at the Swansea game, we didn't play that well, but they were a team that tried to play good football, more than a team that close down and 'get stuck in'.
Every team knows how to play against us now - don't give us time on the ball and we struggle going forward. Sam, Ambrose, Varney, Zheng, Yassin, Youga, Todorov etc etc all like a bit of time to pass the ball around and run into space.
Soon as we come up against a team that puts 11 men behind the ball and plays deep, we have no idea how to break them down. Once we go 1-0 down they do this even more if they aren't already doing it, and our heads drop.
Agree about Curbs, if we went on a bad run he always sorted it out in the end.
Comments
02 Moutaouakil - Has championship experience with us last year and is now in his second season....
29 Cranie - God knows is not good enough too but plays every week.
06 Hudson - Lots of Championship experience would be suprised if he never played in the Prem
26 Basey - Our product - Played in the championship last year
18 Sam - Our product - Played in the championship last year
04 Bailey - Championship last year was he not = player of the year at relegated Southend
15 Wright - Our product
11 Ambrose - Lots of championship and premiership experience who is never played in his favoured position
12 Varney - no Premiership or Championship experience, expensive signing from Crewe - Agreed AP what are your thoughts?
09 Gray - Played in the Premiership for Sunderland and maybe Watford? got lots of Championship experience, expensive signing from Burnley
Substitutes
Elliot - no Premiership or Championship experience, youth player
Todorov - Premiership experience, a bit past it (same can be said for Holland) - and top scorer in the championship for Portsmouth
Dickson - no League experience - What about gillingham no CC experience
Semedo - no Premiership or Championship experience What about last season
Bouazza - Premiership and Championship experience
Sorry to use the C word, but Curbs used to be able to grind a result out when the team had suffered a bad defeat the game before. Might not have been pretty be it stopped the rot.
France U21 captain!
29 Cranie - some Premiership experience, how much?
Loan
18 Sam - no Premiership or Championship experience, youth player -
played premiership actually
11 Ambrose - Premiership experience but was always crap anyway -
Not really or he wouldnt have been in prem or championship
Dickson - no League experience -
loans to gils and crew?
And a desire to work hard.
The key qualities needed in this division.
Thats what I was saying. We waste most of them, yet its the only way we score.
Difference with the Reading game is we got space and time on the ball, and Reading pushed up.
Most, if not all our good home performances in the last year or so have been like this. Look at the Swansea game, we didn't play that well, but they were a team that tried to play good football, more than a team that close down and 'get stuck in'.
Every team knows how to play against us now - don't give us time on the ball and we struggle going forward. Sam, Ambrose, Varney, Zheng, Yassin, Youga, Todorov etc etc all like a bit of time to pass the ball around and run into space.
Soon as we come up against a team that puts 11 men behind the ball and plays deep, we have no idea how to break them down. Once we go 1-0 down they do this even more if they aren't already doing it, and our heads drop.
Agree about Curbs, if we went on a bad run he always sorted it out in the end.