Popular Post areNOTwhatTHEYseem Posted December 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 10, 2022 ...then it says something about the belief and spirit of our squad. Now, if we can just avoid another performance like that second half again for the rest of the season... 6 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morepork Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 (edited) Unfortunately, we also believe we can play out from the back..... Edited December 10, 2022 by Morepork 3 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parajack Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 3 minutes ago, areNOTwhatTHEYseem said: ...then it says something about the belief and spirit of our squad. Now, if we can just avoid another performance like that second half again for the rest of the season... Luck runs out.......BB injured now,& Patterson may leave in Jan......Smith,Windass,Gregory,largely blank firing..........whats going on??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBridgfordowl Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Maybe the more pertinent question is why did we play so badly 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marro Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 You can also look at today and last Saturday as a missed opportunity. We had the chance to hit the heights and turn the screw on Plymouth and Ipswich. Whilst we are still very much in the hunt for automatic promotion, we really don’t help ourselves! 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areNOTwhatTHEYseem Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share Posted December 10, 2022 3 minutes ago, Morepork said: Unfortunately, we also believe we can play out from the back..... I do think there's a tendency among parts of the fanbase to only see the downsides of playing out from the back, but there does come a time when it's clearly not working in a given game and you have to adopt a different approach, doesn't there? We nearly got caught out a few more times this afternoon, and we were hardly seeing any of the upsides to such an approach, either. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areNOTwhatTHEYseem Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share Posted December 10, 2022 3 minutes ago, WBridgfordowl said: Maybe the more pertinent question is why did we play so badly I didn't ask a question. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 It does show character, however shouldn't need so much character and still points dropped. While performances were tolerated when we were winning, now come into sharp focus. We can't afford to keep playing badly, last minute equalisers or not. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deano Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 I don't think we showed character as such, I thought we were shocking and the ball just happened to fall nicely for Paterson to finish it off nicely. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owls2k Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 We've been playing poorly for weeks. Moore mentioned the lack of fluidity last week himself. We've not put a spell of 3/4 good games together all season. He needs to sort it out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradowl Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 I think a draw was a fair result in end. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prowl Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 3 minutes ago, areNOTwhatTHEYseem said: I do think there's a tendency among parts of the fanbase to only see the downsides of playing out from the back, but there does come a time when it's clearly not working in a given game and you have to adopt a different approach, doesn't there? We nearly got caught out a few more times this afternoon, and we were hardly seeing any of the upsides to such an approach, either. When any tactic isn't working it would seem sensible to try something else. We got caught on the ball so often today or were forced into playing a hurried ball right at their player that it was almost comical. Against some teams playing out works, often it doesn't. We either need better ball players at the back or players who can spot the press coming and get a quick upfield pass away. At present too many panic. Making the same mistake over and over again is stupid. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeadonowl Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 We are playing a system which relies on the wing backs to get forward Today our wing backs hardly got out of our own half and that has been the case for most of the season Although one of our wing backs can claim an assist for their goal If the wing backs don’t get forward, no crosses come into the box and subsequently our expensive centre forwards have little or no service The other major issue is tempo. Again today it’s all done at walking pace. Vaulks doesn’t want to go forward. He spends his game passing backwards and side wards. Fizz only comes alive for 15 mins a game Moore has to get so much more out of the tools he has at his disposal because at the moment we are massively underperforming 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
another1bitesthedust Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 12 minutes ago, Owls2k said: We've been playing poorly for weeks. Moore mentioned the lack of fluidity last week himself. We've not put a spell of 3/4 good games together all season. He needs to sort it out. This is 100% correct. The changing of players and formations by DM has caused it 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debram Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Happening too often, draws are no good, failed to go for it at derby and again today. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 We need Byers back to give us the fluidity in midfield. And if he isn’t coming back then we need a replacement. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lincs Owl Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 29 minutes ago, bradowl said: I think a draw was a fair result in end. If you saw the game you'll know we were best team first half and Grecians were best team 2nd half. Draw was fair result on a ground we usually lose at. Nothing to see here. Move along. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victorturner Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 43 minutes ago, areNOTwhatTHEYseem said: ...then it says something about the belief and spirit of our squad. Now, if we can just avoid another performance like that second half again for the rest of the season... It does..as the players have confidence that they are playing teams with little real quality compared to the players brought in by DC ‘s wages and DM’s judgement of getting Championship standard players. The main snag is that there are too many players expecting to start and we are overloaded in some positions because of our desire to man up with enough players to see us through injury problems w/o anxiety. DM is a lucky manager from that point of view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderfulwednesday Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Hon my opinion unfortunately the performance today we didn’t deserve a point missing Byers influence in midfield last season I thought Gregory would do it for us but he doesn’t seem to behave clicked in this Kobe but ji still think we will get auto promotion c,mon you owls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morganowl Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 we have been awful all season i posted this earlier . the football is beyond shocking ive travelled up and down the country to watch this garbage all season. lucky me gave this 500 plus mile trip a miss . fancy going all that way to watch that . i doubt we would have beaten a national league north team today . we wont get top 2 playing like this we might only scape top 6 if this dreadful football continues derby portsmouth barnsley etc will catch us . like many ive said d moore wont take us up this season. we all know we will get someone like peterborough in a playoff semi and we will fail . i also think it just aint the manager , most of our players are overrated . only bannan and paterson seem to care 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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