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The Morning After; Thoughts from the next day
Topic Started: Oct 1 2006, 06:33 AM (427 Views)
Blacksmith
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Jeff Hall
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I purposely avoided posting yesterday because I was so annoyed with us letting the lead go, and knew that my thoughts wouldn't be objective at the time. I needed time to calm down.

For the majority of the match we looked comfortable and played some attractive football, BUT we did nothing to actually hurt the opposition. It was all too pretty, without being decisive. I know that for most of the match Leicester came for a point and defended in depth, but we need to be more ruthless and break teams down.

Once we went one goal up we had plenty of opportunities to score more, because Leicester became more attacking, but we just seemed to want to walk through the match. Eric Black was doing his nut on the touchline, trying to get the team to increase the tempo, but they were just coasting along, thinking that the opposition could not hurt them.

And then came Leicester's goal, a goal that came about through schoolboy defending by Sadler. Why on earth he left his winger to move inside still baffles me. He should have moved out and closed him down immediately, but he moved away from him! This gave the winger the perfect opportunity to cross the ball into the centre where the in-running player had the simplest of tasks to prod it into the net, although from where I was sitting, it looked like an own goal at first.

These players are supposed to be professionals, and, once they are on the pitch they should be able to know what to do in a game without the need for any input from Bruce or Black. Several of them need to take a good hard look at themselves in the mirror and ask themselves if they gave as much as they could in that match.

They upped the tempo after the goal, but by then it was all to late and too slap dash without purpose. They let us down. I'll probably put my scores for each player later after I've given other posters an opportunity to add their thoughts, now that there has been a night to reflect on the performance.

Sorry for such a long post.
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STEVEHEW
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Lack of tactical nous from Mr Inept cost us I am afraid.

A home game against a side that had scored only 5 goals before yesterday, and Brucie starts his Central Midfield with 2 defensive minded players in Nafti and Muwaba?

IF Dunn had ben fit he wouldn't off started with 2 defensive players, so why didn't he start with Danns or Kilkenny in the place of Dunny?

I heard Tom Dross waffling on after a game he didn't even watch (he was at the Viler) saying that he played Muwaba and Nafti in front of Jahdi and Tebs to give them 'some protection'.

So on that assumption even IF Dunn had been fit he wouldn't of played because the central midfield pair would have to be defensive to assist a weak central defence! I acknowledge Muwaba had a great first half - doing what he is good at - tackling/tracking back etc - but my arguement is he should not of been in the team from the start. Danns/Kilkenny may have offered more go forward, and therefore pushed Leicester back to their own goal - and therefore taking pressure of our central defensive partnership that Bruce had no obvious faith in.

Don't get me wrong I take EVERYTHING Tom Dross says with a pinch of salt, but the team selection yesterday was very negative in terms of trying to boss the game from central midfield.

So this just proves Bruce is more scared of the oppositions perserved strengths (5 goals in 9 games), they his squads ability to out score them.

As I have voted on the other thread.

GO BRUCE -NOW!
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Lucky
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ok so we can all slate brucie ,
but as the poster said schoolboy defending ,who do you blame for that,its happening week in week out,if pro players have to be held by the hand and shown where to stand when defending then its time they moved on to a lower league,
its costing us points now,lets forget the sentiment now and get some proper defenders in.
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valleyblue
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Just what sort of message does SBs decision send to those central defenders?

To me it says - I've got to change the whole shape of the team because you 2 are playing and I don't think you're good enough to cope with Leicesters' attack.

Forgive me but is a message like that any way to give players confidence??
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Lucky
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you have to ask the players ,if in your job or mine you make mistakes that cost your company what do you do,you admit the mistake and try to rectify it,if it continues you look to change things,as i said too much sentiments,some time you have to tread on toes ,thats life.its having the courage to do it.
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Joe
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Bottom line is that had we taken our chances and shown a bit more composure we would have won the game. Simple. Their keeper was outstanding, but lucky not to get sent-off and we defended well apart from one moment which they scored from.
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Oct 1 2006, 06:33 AM


And then came Leicester's goal, a goal that came about through schoolboy defending by Sadler. Why on earth he left his winger to move inside still baffles me.

I think we all forget that Sadler is a 'new boy' in this team. He only got in at the end of last season, not something to remember, and most of us thought that SB would have sought out a decent left back to give Matty Sadler some 'competition'.
He didn't.
Now we blame the teams woes on a young inexperienced back?
Sorry but the structure of the team is wrong and there's only one person to blame for that.

A thought.

Assuming the current blues squad somehow achieve promotion, and assuming the Bumnal players return to the Emirates, how many more players would be needed to prepare the squad for life in the Premier?

Think about it for a while?

Horrifying isn't it?

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Lucky
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when i talk about the defending i mean the whole back 4 ,not just sadler,
but he is the one that is increasingly looking out of his depth,
they are all making glaring basic mistakes that are costing us points.
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Blacksmith
Oct 1 2006, 06:33 AM
And then came Leicester's goal, a goal that came about through schoolboy defending by Sadler. Why on earth he left his winger to move inside still baffles me.

I expect that Matt will learn from it. He's only going to get experience by playing at this level.
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My scores for the players would be:

Taylor - 6 - Did not have much to do, but must communicate better with his defence.

Kelly - 6 - Looked steady. Probably his best game for us so far.

Jaidi - 6 - Good headers but needs to improve distribution

Tebily - 6 - A steady game

Sadler - 5 - Some excellent work, but also some poor play - Needs to improve his distribution, especially when crossing into the box - At fault for the goal

Larsson - 5 - Largely anonymous - Needed to get involved more

Nafti - 5 - Some good defensive work, but nothing to help the attack

Muamba - 6 - Same as Nafti, but also put some crunching tackles in.

McSheffrey - 7 - Our best player - Excellent goal and good contributions in attack and defence

Campbell - 6 - A superb through ball to set up our goal - Gave up on some balls I thjought he could get

Bendtner - 6 - Ran into too many blind alleys - The skill is there for all to see, but needs to release the ball sooner, although, to be fair, at times there was nobody in a position for him to make a pass

Subs
Jerome - 5 - No impact at all

Forsell - 5 - No impact at all

Danns - 5 - No impact at all

Manager
Bruce - 4 - Played with two defensive central midfelders - Needed a more creative player - Should have kept Campbell and Bendtner on

Crowd - 4 - Outsung by Leicester - Too many fans watching the opposition fans and gesturing towards them instead of watching the match - Is that their main reason for going?
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What went wrong yesterday is we allowed Leicester to dictate the game to us when they made their changes. If we had carried on playing the same way as before we scored we would not have lost 2 points.
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Oct 1 2006, 06:33 AM

For the majority of the match we looked comfortable and played some attractive football, BUT we did nothing to actually hurt the opposition. It was all too pretty, without being decisive.

That has been my worry for a few weeks Blackie, said as much after the last home game and upset one or two who believed that everything was looking good, I think someone specifically metioned McSheffrey and said he looks like scoring every time he goes forward. I think I am probably in a very small minority but McSheffrey did my head in yesterday choosing to take pot shots from long range when a pass would have been a better option. We seem to have Bentdner who wants to score the perfect goal and McSheffrey who should have relaxed after he broke his duck but still appears to think he must try and score everytime he has the ball.
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deadlyellis
Oct 1 2006, 05:40 PM
but still appears to think he must try and score everytime he has the ball.

That's a good thing.

He just needs to make it count more often.

Learn from Joe Cole, he used to all out attack and they thought they'd have to play him as a forward because of all the counters coming back on them. Mcsheffrey has room for maturity, and Bruce should teach him how to make it count, and by that I don't mean pass backwards (if you're out there big man).
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Nothing wrong with confidence and belief but when other players are in a better postion or you are so far out that you realistically aren't going to threaten the goal why take a shot?
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Oct 1 2006, 07:49 AM
Lack of tactical nous from Mr Inept cost us I am afraid.


How?
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Oct 1 2006, 09:15 AM
Blacksmith
Oct 1 2006, 06:33 AM


And then came Leicester's goal, a goal that came about through schoolboy defending by Sadler. Why on earth he left his winger to move inside still baffles me.

I think we all forget that Sadler is a 'new boy' in this team. He only got in at the end of last season, not something to remember, and most of us thought that SB would have sought out a decent left back to give Matty Sadler some 'competition'.
He didn't.
Now we blame the teams woes on a young inexperienced back?
Sorry but the structure of the team is wrong and there's only one person to blame for that.

A thought.

Assuming the current blues squad somehow achieve promotion, and assuming the Bumnal players return to the Emirates, how many more players would be needed to prepare the squad for life in the Premier?

Think about it for a while?

Horrifying isn't it?

Sadler was covering inside because Jaidi got cought out of position and lost the ball, McSheff should have been supporting his full back in that position, lets not pull the confidence of our own young kids , SB is already doing that by playing gooner kids instead, the only way our kids will learn is to play , make mistakes and get support.

CJ, Killkenny, Painter, Oji, Alonko, Sads should ALL be learning and contributing more because if he doesnot use them now , he won't in the prem, so we spend loads waste our talent, and they all forge a good career elsewhere :banghead:
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