Who Doherty?All true but they were in a tight line and he was the one player behind the line playing Bernard onside. [emoji2379]
Fantastically frustrating. The bright spot is that we played quite well, rest of the season could be fun if we keep attacking like this. Can only hope we got our individual defensive errors out of the way in one game for a while, but not at all confident about that.
Is this why we've been playing so deep? Are we really just so extremely porous defensively that our defenders need all that protection to look even alright?
Could not agree more! It's a very long time since I enjoyed a game of football as much as I did yesterday! It was a fantastic game of football, with some very good attacking football from both teams, and ditto bad defending from both teams.The point is to enjoy a match of football once or twice a week. I'd love us to win a trophy, but not at all costs. I've been saying this all along. I'd much rather enjoy one or two matches of football a week rather than hate watching football for a year and celebrate winning a trophy one night in May. I don't see the point of that. The journey is also the point in following football for me. It's not all about trophies. Anyone who'll have me believe that, I'm just going to disagree with. If you win a trophy for having played blistering football, fine! Love it. But win a trophy by sitting back and being a negative boring team to watch - fudge that. Gives me very very little, personally. I think people put too much emphasis on trophies.
Or we could have lostIf we attacked like we did tonight against Saudi Sportswashing Machine, Wolves, Palace etc then those draws would have been wins.
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Or we could have lost
I mean what we have shown consistently is we defend like utter tossers
I don't think that's true, i think we've made our share of defensive mistskes that have ended cost us more points than they should have because we aren't attacking well enough.
It happens too often and yet he is meant to be the leader of the line (that’s part of the issue as we have no leaders still)
I mean it can be argued that he is last man so calls the line but he just doesn’t move anywhere quick enough
People are remembering good Toby.... that players not been here for 2 years
don’t forget in the panache game for example we had more than enough chances to win
Same as Fulham where their keeper made some good saves
The atfack does need to convert more
But the defending is the worst we have seen in a very long time
If argue that the mistakes are being made because the players can’t defendI don't think that's true, i think we've made our share of defensive mistakes that have ended up costing us more points than they should have because we aren't attacking well enough.
YepWe very rarely concede more than one goal, mistakes or not - that shouldn't be a problem if the other end of the pitch is doing it's job.
But that var is sooo lowI don’t think a single person is trying to argue that Toby is at the level he was years ago.
I am just arguing that he is still better than Dier and Sanchez. And that he was defensively less bad than Sanchez last night.
If argue that the mistakes are being made because the players can’t defend
The goals that everyone skimps back too like Palace example are very very defendable.
That ultimately comes down to poor play by those players.
But that var is sooo low
I mean like grass level low
So he is on par with two guys who no one wants in the team. I mean to me he has shown nothing better than them in the games ... unless we go back to the low block 6 man defence which is when Toby had some great games
The point is to enjoy a match of football once or twice a week. I'd love us to win a trophy, but not at all costs. I've been saying this all along. I'd much rather enjoy one or two matches of football a week rather than hate watching football for a year and celebrate winning a trophy one night in May. I don't see the point of that. The journey is also the point in following football for me. It's not all about trophies. Anyone who'll have me believe that, I'm just going to disagree with. If you win a trophy for having played blistering football, fine! Love it. But win a trophy by sitting back and being a negative boring team to watch - fudge that. Gives me very very little, personally. I think people put too much emphasis on trophies.