and Jonjo's goal alone made it worth the drive and admission money.
We had 4 or 5 genuine attempts on goal in the first half, there were whole matches under Pardew this season when we didn't have a shot. If only Nicky Bailey's little legs were a bit longer or Bouazza had the nous to pass to Jonjo rather than fire across the goal and yet another keeper had his best game of the season.
Hoolahan coming on improved them in the second half but even so we still dominated until they scored from almost their only real attack of the match until then. I was disappointed that what had been a good atmosphere almost instantly turned after their goal.
Parkinson taking Jonjo off was puzzling but that said he is only 16! It is so easy to forget that when he plays as well as he did and we don't want to burn him out.
The one disappointment for me was that had Bouazza finished properly toward the end I would have won £400 as I did Jonjo first scorer and 2-1 to us!!
Despite that an enjoyable day and worth making the effort.
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They dominated once they scored but until then we were doing all the attacking in my opinion. Just that nothing came of it as usual !
I said above Hoolahan improved them but how many saves did Elliott have to make even in the second half?
Marshall had more to do.
Bit of a disappointing result but quite an enjoyable game of football.
Basically I'm with you. However as somebody said on the live thread, the subs were reactive. We started to sag a few minutes before they scored, and perhaps a sub a little earlier should have happened. But then again, I thought Burton did well. We are however quite unable to recover from conceding a goal right now. And the subs were baffling, why on earth Dickson didn't come on at the same time as Youga was a mystery to everyone. Respect to Matt Holland, the best professional on our books.
They realised that and played better and didn't give us so much space.
Prague, Matt Holland is the only genuine Senior Pro on our books?
We dont have the players who can play a consistent 90 minutes, whether that be due to confidence or ability.
I genuinely think its lack of ability now.
I think he is but in a "Kishlike" way. He certainly covers the ground and gets the tackles in.
Rather like Kish though his merits are not universally appreciated.
Take the only forward off and replace him with a defender for just under 10 mins
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The idea was Youga left back Basey left midfield and Bouazza up front with Dickson to run at them.
It didn't work but not a bad idea in theory.
I didn't think it was totally ridiculous switch, although it did make me think how little confidence he has in our back-up strikers, Dickson, McLeod and Todorov. What about Fleetwood time to get him on the bench maybe if the others ain't up to it? Clutching at straws maybe?
It was the right move,he covered so much grass that he was knackered.
Bouzy has also, allegedly, played as a forward in his career, I thinkthe idea was to punt balls forwaerd and use his pace. Dissapointed that Parkie did not change to 4-4-2 towards the end of the game, with Bouzy and Dicko up front
Take the only forward off and replace him with a defender for just under 10 mins
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The idea was Youga left back Basey left midfield and Bouazza up front with Dickson to run at them.
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So that still left 10 mins before Dickson came on so Bouazza alone when we needed to push up
Dickson should have come on when Burton came off im sure we are allowed double subs
Just crazy
Oh behave! "Outclassed"??? What game were you watching?
There was no "feeeeeesh" bollox on the screen.
Joe was well enough to come to the game and BDL gave him a lovely welcome back.
The players wore black armbands as a mark of respect to Sailor Brown
The crowd was bigger than Watford's and QPRs
There was an article about Matt Tees in the programme and he has a booklet out Matt Tees on Football available,
Elliot ------------ 6
Moto--------------6
fourtune----------6
Holland ---------- 8
Bassey------------6
Jon Jo-------------7
Sam---------------6
Smedo------------6
Bailey-------------6
Buz----------------6
Burton-------------6
Good first half but how can we play with one up front ? We had nothing to lose so we should have gone for it. Jo Jon played very well first half, tired second half, very good goal.
Norwich goal was like watching a slow mo replay.
Parky is not the man , we needed a win.
Meal was good in Celebrations.