Red in the trent
First Team Squad
Either they've been found out or lost confidence (I think both), but Nuno's XI (obviously minus Elanga) doesn't seem as solid, disciplined, or as spirited, as last year.
Callum James Hudson-Odoi
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Statto
Free Kick Specialist
I'm wondering if it's both.
Once one team counters a tactic then this usually means others find a way too. In that case, then the tactic needs replanning.
Plenty of times teams parked the bus against us. Some of them we were still good enough to get at once they decided to attack us, others, just sat there and let us do it, the latter usually got the results because we didn't manage to get through, It was only the teams who attacked us and who we could hold out who we got results against.
If you're defending for whole chunks of a game it can also be tiring especially if then you don't commit forwards in numbers.
Most of our attacking was done by four players last season with the full backs sometimes joining in.
When it's working the players have confidence in the plan. When it doesn't they see the plan not working and lose confidence.
Even with Elanga at the end of last season we weren't getting the results which we were earlier on. And under Nuno there was still largely the matches vs Arsenal/City and others (Bournemouth...) where teams repeatedly had the measure of us.
Let Ange get his way, hopefully like Cooper he will combine the talent of a defensive setup which works with a plan to attack teams and things will pick up.
Steve B
Jack Burkitt
I think he needs to release a couple of shots, I’ve seen him skip inside a couple of times open up the room and then decide not to shoot. Don’t know if it’s under instruction or something else. His touch and quality on the ball hasn’t changed - although Timber got the better of him on Sunday.
He had an excellent chance at 1-0 to equalise from a few meters out but opted not to use his left which is basic schoolboy stuff.
Instead he brought it on to his right and got the ball took off him, a big waste chance there by not taking a shot.
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
Yes, he certainly needs to shoot more. He has unbelievable whip when he shoots.
I like to think if we are committing more bodies forward it is going to create more space for him. He's always got 2-3 players to beat everytime he has the ball.
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
I'd like to see him play a more liberated role, moving across the front line, playing deeper, playing on the shoulder... mixing his game up a bit.
Berkshire Red
Jack Burkitt
Has he tried to beat a man in the last two games?
No idea how we played for as long as he did on either occasion, a shadow of the player we were seeing before.
No idea how we played for as long as he did on either occasion, a shadow of the player we were seeing before.
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
Yeah I agree
I think he is unfairly criticized due to his lack of G/A sometimes but he has played a very disciplined role for us.
And he has shown he can play either side when he has switched.
Steve B
Jack Burkitt
There it is!!
Red in the trent
First Team Squad
Check CHO out (it's not come to work in your pyjamas day, Callum).
Listen 'ere young man
Stuart Pearce
What would Cloughie have made of it if a player turned up to training like that.
"A Barbecue" would be my guess?
GOBIAS
Ian Bowyer
He’d have said, “what have you come as”, the ultimate put down by your Dad in the 80’s or 90’s.
Ian Storey Moore
First Team Squad
What is it with this bed time shit, onesies et al, sleepy time.
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
The stuff these kids like CHO wear now is fairly conservative when compared with some of the hideous fashions worn by a lot of people in the 1970s.
I remember some of the clobber Viv Anderson used to roll up in, in his Ford Capri.
Massive flares were the order of the day, and he looked incredibly dapper.
Dirk Furtull
Stuart Pearce
As someone who did occasionally wear very flappy jeans too late into the 70's whilst at school, I'm afraid to say nobody looked dapper in big flares. An abomination.
Far have we travelled
First Team Squad
Garry Birtles's bright suits and bow ties - you could hear them coming a mile off!
I tend to think the only man I’ve ever seen able to carry those massive flared jeans off was Richie Blackmore!
JonnoSnr
Grenville Morris
I wonder if it's now time to bin off the collar up look for CHO seeing as we're seemingly in a relegation battle and he's registered the grand total of 1 goal and 0 assists in 10 appearances this season.
It's akin to seeing someone turn up on a Sunday morning with white boots only to then shank it out of play with their first touch.
It's akin to seeing someone turn up on a Sunday morning with white boots only to then shank it out of play with their first touch.
Anyway, CHO might think himself a snappy dresser, but he pales into obscurity compared to Aston „Family Man“ Barrett, beloved bandleader and bass player for The Wailers and many other famous Jamaican reggae acts:
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
I looked the bee’s knees in my loon pants, scoop neck tee shirt with amusing slogans (my favourite, much to my Mum’s horror, was a silhouette of 2 swans mating in mid-air, with the caption “Fly United”, topped off with a clover-leaf collared , fitted corduroy jacket. Of and maroon suede Cuban heeled boots.
Hideous?
Never!
White boots?
Football boots should be black with white limited to 6 flashes on each boot, or a white background to a black leaping Puma.
And they should be made of proper leather, with proper screw-in studs.
White carpet slippers, my arse!
Master Yates
Stuart Pearce
„Did you get dressed in the dark this morning?“ was my dad‘s frequent one.
robboisagenius
Youth Team
Saw Vince Hilaire at Palace a couple of years ago and he told us a Cloughie story. Said he'd just got a new suit and was buzzing to show his Palace teammates when Cloughie came around the corner and said "Young man, don't you own a mirror in your house?". Said he was totally deflated!