So , next Saturday, Inniss, Famewo, Pratley, Watson, Pearce, Maddison, Doughty, Shinnie all out. 6 of them at least would be in our first team, so until these injuries are fixed or alternatives signed, hard to see us not struggling further. Smyth playing rwb was a wrong call but the squad weakness is hard to overcome. Team this Sat: Amos Matthews, Gunter, Oshilaja, Maatsen Millar JFC, Morgan, Williams Aneke, Washington Subs MB, Purrington, Barker, Schwarz, Shinnie/Gilbey, Smyth, Bogle
If Aneke starts on Saturday I'll be amazed!!
Yup, surely he’ll be on the next Saturday.
Go with Bogle and Washington against Bristol Rovers, Ronnie and Chuks have set them the benchmark - Start the latter two against Peterborough next Tuesday night
I know Aneke is made of glass but it's got to be as close as that second half team as possible for me.
Though I'd happily see Washington play alongside Schwarz, as though sometimes his final ball is a weakness I actually really rate his movement and physicality.
”extremely happy with first goal” ”we deserved more than one point, well we wanted more. Difficult game. We can’t concede 4 at home” ”I was told to be close to Chuks, he’s a handful. It was a great strike”
Comes across well. Bit quick to mention that it's his GF, and not a wife, stuck in Denmark though 😂
Yeah, thought that was a terrific interview
Who gives a fuck weather if has a Girlfriend or wife, he scored a great Goal and hopefully one of many, we should have won and been 4th.tonight once our defence returns we should improve. terrible Red Card from a shite referee 👎
”Disappointed. We’re at home against lower half team.” ”I look at the positives, after Friday and losing by 2 at half time today. They showed fire. Didn’t crumble. Give the players a lot of credit” ”should have won it at the end. disappointed with the point, but everything they hit first half went in.”
“The boys kept fighting” ”Most important thing is he got 45 minutes and took his goal well” (regarding Schwartz) ”it’s a risk to give 90 minutes to Chuks but couldn’t take him off” ”Said to the ref, just because someone makes contact doesn’t make it a red card. It’s a 50/50. It’s not a yellow card. Just use common sense. No win situation for Pearce. Would have been annoyed if he hadn’t gone for it.” ”we keep adapting. We’ll be fine. Get them ready for Saturday. Make sure 18 players are ready at the highest level”
Massive question mark over Bowyers selections and tactics. God only knows what he’s thinking. At 2 - 4 there was no alternative for him but to be more adventurous. We got out of jail with that. We have the personnel to get into the playoffs I think but LB needs to stop picking players out of position and go into matches looking to win.
So , next Saturday, Inniss, Famewo, Pratley, Watson, Pearce, Maddison, Doughty, Shinnie all out. 6 of them at least would be in our first team, so until these injuries are fixed or alternatives signed, hard to see us not struggling further. Smyth playing rwb was a wrong call but the squad weakness is hard to overcome. Team this Sat: Amos Matthews, Gunter, Oshilaja, Maatsen Millar JFC, Morgan, Williams Aneke, Washington Subs MB, Purrington, Barker, Schwarz, Shinnie/Gilbey, Smyth, Bogle
If Aneke starts on Saturday I'll be amazed!!
Yup, surely he’ll be on the next Saturday.
Go with Bogle and Washington against Bristol Rovers, Ronnie and Chuks have set them the benchmark - Start the latter two against Peterborough next Tuesday night
I know Aneke is made of glass but it's got to be as close as that second half team as possible for me.
Though I'd happily see Washington play alongside Schwarz, as though sometimes his final ball is a weakness I actually really rate his movement and physicality.
Washington and Schwartz would be a good option... I sometimes hate seeing Aneke or Bogle up there as think its too tempting for the defence to just lump it up to them rather than keeping it down and playing clever Football
To be fair to both Aneke and Bogle, neither are lumps, both can play with the ball to feet, Bogle is just a tad slower with his brain
Saturdays defence is certainly going to look interesting...
Even when we brought it back to 4-4 we showed how much we need to have that enforcer type player in Midfield as whilst Forster-Caskey and Morgan did extremely well that second half there were still periods where a team (in relegation form) waltzed through them.
Still dont think Bowyer should go, we saw second half how he's not lost the dressing room. BUT mistakes like putting Smyth at RWB he has to take responsibility for - Yes I get it that we've got issues with the likes of our injury list but dont shoot yourself in the foot when you dont need to
Fair play FA, I know you like to support the manager through thick and thin but that was a well balanced post. Definitely agree on the enforcer, we need Pratley there.
Deji played decent again I thought. Normally a weird thing to say when you ship 4 but it was the right side of the defence that was the problem.
You judge a decision when it's made not with hindsight, so given how bizarre the starting formation was I'd like to think Bow will be grilled at length by GR and TS on what basis it was chosen. I hope for his sake his explanation is robust.
I really enjoyed that game. After the recent run of boring defensive displays it is good to see us actually having a go. Ok the 1st half was a learning curve 😂 but 2nd half was great. More like that please ! The best tenner I will spend this week
Think Oshilaja deserves some praise. That's two games now he's been decent and far better than Pearce. Given how his confidence could quite understandably have been very low I don't think we could've asked for much more.
Would have taken 4-4 at half time but felt disappointed with that in the end. The first half defending was as woeful as the second half attacking was exhilirating. Chuks was sublime. Can't wait to get Famewo and Inniss back.
To be fair that second half was the effort we all want to see from the players
My only complaint with Bowyer is he let Gilbey off the hook a little bit.
I dont have issue with him calling out players (maybe he's been told to cut it out, or the players have had an honest meeting with him) but I respected Bowyer more on Friday night for mentioning Maddison jumping out of a tackle because he did the same to Williams.
Just what was silly as again even I cant argue with it was the harsh comment about not caring about a player being injured - Hasnt Bowyer himself mentioned a story about getting injured early on for Leeds in his career which briefly damaged his eyesight (?) where I'm swear he said about his career being at risk so he should know how that must feel
Think Oshilaja deserves some praise. That's two games now he's been decent and far better than Pearce. Given how his confidence could quite understandably have been very low I don't think we could've asked for much more.
Think him, JFC, and Chuks make for a very good spine along with Amos (who I thought let in a couple of ones he'll be disappointed with tonight but is overall a very good goalkeeper).
I really enjoyed that game. After the recent run of boring defensive displays it is good to see us actually having a go. Ok the 1st half was a learning curve 😂 but 2nd half was great. More like that please ! The best tenner I will spend this week
Agree with that 100%. It was a tremendous game of football, with a little bit of everything. We will all dissect the game-plan, the mistakes etc etc but it was just nice to watch an entertaining game that flowed for 90 mins.
Aneke scored 2 and could've had 4. No more of Aneke on the Bench; he was excellent.
Opposite managers have done their homework and know we are brittle at the back. Some really good attacking play but we looked like conceding all night.
Some fantastic goals tonight but some poor defending by both teams.
Conceding 6 goals to Stanley and Rochdale combined and getting 1 point makes you realize that being in the Europa League on a Thursday night is still light years away.
Soon as Gilbey came off we looked 100x the team of the first half. Aneke brilliant, as was JFC and Schwartz showing what he's all about. Let's build on this next game. Play like we did second half and we will win a lot more than we lose.
Are we in Jimmy Trotter territory again? Defence leaking like a sieve...but plenty of creative play and goals.
Good to claw back from 1-3 down to 4-4. As to why this is happening: the way the team is set up and the balance of the squad generally are a bit odd IMO. We've got 11 defenders who've played first team games this season so far, against 14 midfielders with another 3 out on loan. I'd rather it was the other way round...To have 17 midfielders at the club seems a few too too many, given the wage cap. Bowyer (and Jackson) were both midfielders themselves, so maybe that's their preference, but it leads to a lopsided composition of the side in some games.
Didn't think anyone had a really poor game tonight, so, despite the result, scoring their performances will be a bit of a struggle.
Are we in Jimmy Trotter territory again? Defence leaking like a sieve...but plenty of creative play and goals.
Good to claw back from 1-3 down to 4-4. As to why this is happening: the way the team is set up and the balance of the squad generally are a bit odd IMO. We've got 11 defenders who've played first team games this season so far, against 14 midfielders with another 3 out on loan. I'd rather it was the other way round...To have 17 midfielders at the club seems too many, given the wage cap. Bowyer (and Jackson) were both midfielders themselves, so maybe that's their preference, but it leads to a lopsided composition of the side in some games.
Didn't think anyone had a really poor game tonight, so, despite the result, scoring their performances will be a bit of a struggle.
Still a bit odd for Bowyer to say "I didn't want Adam Matthews, he's a right back". Generally speaking you see more full backs playing wing back than wingers. Matthews also gets forward a fair amount anyway.
Entertaining and disappointing, should never have Smyth as RWB can't see the logic in it.
Thought Chucks was great, JFK ran all night, Morgan did well, great to see Schwartz get off the mark with a stunner, Deji solid performance, Millar did well if not a little greedy at times, Gilby who!!!
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Though I'd happily see Washington play alongside Schwarz, as though sometimes his final ball is a weakness I actually really rate his movement and physicality.
once our defence returns we should improve.
terrible Red Card from a shite referee 👎
”Most important thing is he got 45 minutes and took his goal well” (regarding Schwartz)
”it’s a risk to give 90 minutes to Chuks but couldn’t take him off”
”Said to the ref, just because someone makes contact doesn’t make it a red card. It’s a 50/50. It’s not a yellow card. Just use common sense. No win situation for Pearce. Would have been annoyed if he hadn’t gone for it.”
”we keep adapting. We’ll be fine. Get them ready for Saturday. Make sure 18 players are ready at the highest level”
To be fair to both Aneke and Bogle, neither are lumps, both can play with the ball to feet, Bogle is just a tad slower with his brain
And Bowyer didn't dig anybody out after the game.
Bowyer in
Bowyer out
Bowyer in
My only complaint with Bowyer is he let Gilbey off the hook a little bit.
I dont have issue with him calling out players (maybe he's been told to cut it out, or the players have had an honest meeting with him) but I respected Bowyer more on Friday night for mentioning Maddison jumping out of a tackle because he did the same to Williams.
Just what was silly as again even I cant argue with it was the harsh comment about not caring about a player being injured - Hasnt Bowyer himself mentioned a story about getting injured early on for Leeds in his career which briefly damaged his eyesight (?) where I'm swear he said about his career being at risk so he should know how that must feel
Totally bonkers 2nd half.
Aneke scored 2 and could've had 4.
No more of Aneke on the Bench; he was excellent.
Opposite managers have done their homework and know we are brittle at the back.
Some really good attacking play but we looked like conceding all night.
Some fantastic goals tonight but some poor defending by both teams.
Conceding 6 goals to Stanley and Rochdale combined and getting 1 point makes you realize that being in the Europa League on a Thursday night is still light years away.
Thought Chucks was great, JFK ran all night, Morgan did well, great to see Schwartz get off the mark with a
stunner, Deji solid performance, Millar did well if not a little greedy at times, Gilby who!!!