Nero Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 1 hour ago, vulva said: He might want to get his facts straight. Tom Lees scored the goal for Huddersfield. And they won the playoffs without scoring a goal, so they can hardly take the moral high ground on positive football. Yeah. But he's right about Carlos bottling it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhollywood Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 49 minutes ago, wilyfox said: The tactic was fine. It was the pathetic soft equaliser that screwed us. Never seen a precious lead squandered so cheaply. Sounds familiar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 45 minutes ago, the monk said: Yes but we finished 6th and 4th ! Oh and the football that 1st season ! Look what he's doing with Braga ( who have been out of the top 5, 4 times in 21 years!) He bottled it but he is still a quality manager. Ive been following Braga this year and they are pulling up trees for him. 2nd now above Benfica and Porto in the league, did well in the cups to a point and will probably finish in a Champions league spot. Think he has a fatal weakness that he overthinks big games though imo. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nut Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 36 minutes ago, Dutch McLovin said: What was more annoying was how we got to 4th. We’d been negative all year then away at Barnsley when they equalised in injury time (fully deserved they battered us) we dropped out of the playoffs. He then changed went back to the previous years team went more attacking and won 6 on the bounce to finish 4th. We were the form team we have confidence we should have romped that playoff but reverting back to that tactic was appalling management We were the form team and I think Huddersfield had lost something like 7 of their previous 10 games. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gob_Bluth Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 We'd already beat them twice that season in the League as well. 1-0 at their place and 2-0 at Hillsborough We had the mental upper hand, everything was in place to win that game and we fluffed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gparrish Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 I'm not anti Carlos or anything but going defensive wasn't exactly against his nature. As much as I enjoy the football in his first season there were games against certain teams at home Derby and Hull spring to mind where we set up to get a point. We played exactly the same way in the play off final against Hull. I still think in that play off game against Huddersfield if we'd have gone at them for ten minutes after we scored we could have easily wrapped that up, with the crowd fully behind them. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthefish2002 Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Think he had a point about us going for 0-0 at Huddersfield. Was such a sterile game. IIRC Huddersfield had a very inexperienced Keeper as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGaffer Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Don't forget that in the first leg they were playing a complete rookie in net. He didn't have a shot to save! Criminal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanharper Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 55 minutes ago, NeonLeon said: As for that Semi final. Taking Fletcher off after an hour in the 2nd leg was madness. Especially considering he brought Rhodes on then tried to sit back. Amazingly it’s a nonsensical substitution we still make today. Why do people still go on about the Fletcher substitution being stupid? He was injured! Biggest miss for us was Hooper. He'd been out for a while, came back near the end of the season and we won 6 games on the bounce, then he got injured again and missed the playoffs. I don't think we'd have been as poor in the second leg if Hooper had played and Wallace didn't get crocked after 2 minutes. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Farrell Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Everyone saw it except Clown and Chancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG D Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Tom Lees scored their goal and the 0-0 draw at theirs was looked on as a very good result for the 1st leg as I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 1 hour ago, the monk said: Yes but we finished 6th and 4th ! Oh and the football that 1st season ! Look what he's doing with Braga ( who have been out of the top 5, 4 times in 21 years!) Last season he managed Rio Ave to their best ever season, the season before he joined they got 10 points less and since he he left for Braga and Rio Ave are now nowhere near getting the same number of points. This season he has Braga currently in 2nd place, they will likely finish no lower than 4th, they reached the league cup final and will also compete in the Portuguese Cup final. If you want to belittle these achievements fair enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@owlstalk Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 3 minutes ago, hirstyboywonder said: If you want to belittle these achievements fair enough. No need for this Keep it friendly Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunny1968 Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 In the final analysis with the resources at his disposal he failed and we are still paying for that failure now!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurujuan Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Carlos was a very good coach, perhaps the best I’ve seen at Hillsborough. It’s hard to compare him to managers of yesteryear of course, when football was a less complicated game He improves players and is always trying to come up with solutions, some might say, overthinking things. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mcguigan Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 2 hours ago, S63 Owl said: That’s the year we proper failed - previous season nobody could’ve predicted us doing so well. But the play offs the following season were there for the taking. Lots of factors to blame including our failure to add the 2/3 players needed to improve the squad and as the Hudds chairman says not going for it more in the first leg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest T Hardy Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, Mcguigan said: What? We did need a massive overhaul at that time if we were going to push on and remain competitive near the top. Look whats happened now we didn’t rebuild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TodwickOwl Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 If we had Hooper we go up Simple as 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wilyfox Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 1 hour ago, tomhollywood said: Sounds familiar Spunking playoff semi a bit different to a 2-0 lead at Luton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest T Hardy Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 (edited) 7 minutes ago, TodwickOwl said: If we had Hooper we go up Simple as Yep Nobody will convince me “Carlos bottling it” was a bigger factor than our injuries, before that 2nd leg and on the night Edited March 12, 2021 by T Hardy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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