by Schards#2 » 27 Aug 2006 10:00
by earley_royals » 27 Aug 2006 10:15
by Smoking Kills Dancing Doe » 27 Aug 2006 10:45
by floyd__streete » 27 Aug 2006 11:10
by Rev Algenon Stickleback H » 27 Aug 2006 11:35
floyd__streete on that evidence we won't be good enough.
by Tony Le Mesmer » 27 Aug 2006 12:10
Royalee Sodje:4 - Well out of his depth and not good enough I'm afraid.
by Irvinchangeyaname » 27 Aug 2006 12:16
by Victor Meldrew » 27 Aug 2006 12:17
by Finchley Royal » 27 Aug 2006 12:25
by Victor Meldrew » 27 Aug 2006 13:16
Finchley Royal Mido, Gravesen and Malbranque just aren't going to happen. Koumas, excellent though he can be on occasion, couldn't justify a starting berth ahead of Convey or Little and, on the evidence of 2 of the 3 games, Seol.
I'd be reluctant to sacrifice a winger to get another defensive midfielder. All our goals have come from wide balls into the box. Seems a bit pointless to nullify our main attacking strength.
by RG30 » 27 Aug 2006 14:27
by Royalee » 27 Aug 2006 14:31
RG30 If you look at our opening 3 games, the things I've seen suggest that our 1st Eleven is clearly good enough to compete at this level. However, like yesterday for instance when we don't have Kitson/Sonko then we look a poor outfit. Lita suffered yesterday because he didn't have a Kitson type striker to bounce off.
Yesterday we were poor and looked like before Camara went off injured we would struggle with pace at this level.
Seems to be a bit of criticism going for Harper but he's been a great player now for 5 years for us and will improve.
by Finchley Royal » 27 Aug 2006 14:32
Victor MeldrewFinchley Royal Mido, Gravesen and Malbranque just aren't going to happen. Koumas, excellent though he can be on occasion, couldn't justify a starting berth ahead of Convey or Little and, on the evidence of 2 of the 3 games, Seol.
I'd be reluctant to sacrifice a winger to get another defensive midfielder. All our goals have come from wide balls into the box. Seems a bit pointless to nullify our main attacking strength.
Finchley,
Those names were just taken at random to illustrate the level that we need to bring in to IMPROVE the side.
It's all very well playing with two wingers and winning but ,particularly away from home,I don't think we can be so cavalier.
Yesterday neither of the wingers contributed anything of note.
by FiNeRaIn » 27 Aug 2006 14:33
by Thomas L'Heureux » 27 Aug 2006 14:35
FiNeRaIn Having had time to calm down over the result, I have come to the following conclusion.
Whilst no excuse we had to play 60 mins with 10 men on wednesday while wigan had a week off, they had more energy than us all day yesterday, and looked sharper. Im not saying this is the sole reasons but it helped them.
Without kitson we had no target man to releave a bit of pressue and pump it long. Everytime we hit lita and he is not going to win anything in the fair against de zeuww. We were poor down the wings and from corners we wanted to run the ball into the box, Seol takes too many touches and should concentrate on early deliveries into the box instead of beating his man 5 times.
If camara had stayed on it would of been worse, he was outpacing the whole backline and making some good runs, this could well be an eye opener for coppell when we play similar strikers that we need someone with a bit of pace at the back, even shorey was done by him.
One thing I noticed was just how fortunate wigan got with where the ball dropped every misplaced pass and loose header's ALWAYS fell to their players and never once to us, one of the most frustrating things i've ever seen, they even pulled off a through ball by hitting one of our players and running through.
Wigan fully deserved the win, no leadership no gameplan from us and literally No idea in defence or attack. Little, kitson and sonko will be back for city and I might well think of starting 2 if not 3 of them.
3 points from 9 isn't great, but its better than some, lets get behind the team for city and if we win there wigan is forgotten. Its been a heavy start to the season 3 games in one week now we have some time to recharge the batteries.
by Royalee » 27 Aug 2006 14:37
FiNeRaIn Having had time to calm down over the result, I have come to the following conclusion.
Whilst no excuse we had to play 60 mins with 10 men on wednesday while wigan had a week off, they had more energy than us all day yesterday, and looked sharper. Im not saying this is the sole reasons but it helped them.
Without kitson we had no target man to releave a bit of pressue and pump it long. Everytime we hit lita and he is not going to win anything in the fair against de zeuww. We were poor down the wings and from corners we wanted to run the ball into the box, Seol takes too many touches and should concentrate on early deliveries into the box instead of beating his man 5 times.
If camara had stayed on it would of been worse, he was outpacing the whole backline and making some good runs, this could well be an eye opener for coppell when we play similar strikers that we need someone with a bit of pace at the back, even shorey was done by him.
One thing I noticed was just how fortunate wigan got with where the ball dropped every misplaced pass and loose header's ALWAYS fell to their players and never once to us, one of the most frustrating things i've ever seen, they even pulled off a through ball by hitting one of our players and running through.
Wigan fully deserved the win, no leadership no gameplan from us and literally No idea in defence or attack. Little, kitson and sonko will be back for city and I might well think of starting 2 if not 3 of them.
3 points from 9 isn't great, but its better than some, lets get behind the team for city and if we win there wigan is forgotten. Its been a heavy start to the season 3 games in one week now we have some time to recharge the batteries.
by Doyler » 27 Aug 2006 15:11
by brendywendy » 27 Aug 2006 15:14
by Reading Abbey » 27 Aug 2006 15:22
cmonurzPieEater I'm sure that stats will show we did OK on possession and shots, but only Lita's miss (or gitfaced Kirklands save) was the difference.
Yahoo! Sport:
Possession - Wigan 50.7% Reading 49.3%
Shots - Wigan 14 Reading 5
Shots on target - Wigan 5 Reading 3
Corners - Wigan 4 Reading 10
Worth noting the number of those corners we wasted mind you.
by Rev Algenon Stickleback H » 27 Aug 2006 15:24
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