That's true but I would think perhaps 90% of us on here in August said, looking back, some pretty embarrassing things about GON. If we accept that then why resurrect some of those posts now? What is the point? We should be looking forward not backwards.
Generally it is happening because some are trying to suggest that it - the abuse - didn't happen.
If looking forward you mean let’s not be hasty in the future with condemning players or coaches?
Everyone is a yes man to the person who pays them, you are, I am, he is.
show’s collaboration between O’Neil, Hobbs and Shi, think I’d take that over a no man.
Lordy….how many times are you going to beat that January window drum today?…..I think you’ve mentioned it about 4 times since the second half started
Don't blame him entirely but we had another sub window right? If so, why not throw on B.Traore on to congest the middle / add energy at 90 mins, and more importantly eat up a minute or so?
Gary didn’t have a lot of wiggle room , did he, what with the injuries and all.
Things can be said about the way he utilised the players he had and seemingly set them up to play today. He's not blameless but I'm also not going to put all of said blame on him.
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Of course you would? Nobody on here is paid to manage the club so your post makes no sense.
It makes sense if you read to what I was replying to
People are allowed to criticise a manager's tactics and decisions without having his qualifications and experience.
I wasn’t being rude at all…..was just politely saying what I think…..but let’s leave it there
Yep. Good to have a relax for the rest of the day. Onto the next match now.
Attackers missing is a fair point but we conceded 3 goals after our GK pulling off 2 or 3 world class saves. That hardly excuses our general performance which was appalling. Back 5, Lemina left wing to start....disastrous
Exactly, 24 shots faced and 12 on target Vs Champ opposition.
Our final ball is often very poor. We got into decent positions again today and couldn’t find the pass. Even our equaliser came from a awful cross to nobody from Gomes
Even without additions in January, we would have been in a much better position strength wise had we not gambled and sent out two senior forwards before bringing one in.
Fully agreed, was a dreadful move.
I need no excuse to highlight the inadequacies of Jeff Shi, but I can only agree with this to an extent in the context of today's game. Robbins simply out-thought him, putting Palmer a little bit further forward to operate just in front our defence, and he had all sorts of pockets of space to operate in, always the wrong side of our midfield. Gary needed to sit Doyle or Gomes on top of him for 10-15 minutes just to nullify him, or bring on Boubabar to do a proper job but he didn't.
That’s the thing, he’s a young manager and is also learning on the job. I just wish he would have played this one a little safer in terms of square pegs and round holes. Against Fulham we set up to support Fraser and get players round him, we abandoned that idea today.
