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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: In Game Chat
« on: March 07, 2023, 09:41:06 PM »
No Molomby No legs
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Most frustrating thing for me is Dike needs desperately to improve his first touch. So many times he fails to control the ball and he fails with a simple lay off.
He has his strengths for sure but he's not a great "footballer". In this league, given his strengths, he doesn't need to be great but he does need to hold the ball and lay it off.
nothing to really report right now, Boro have a lot of the ball but not doing a huge amount with it.
Lets go through our first 11 from last night shall we;
Gk - Josh Griffiths - Academy graduate just coming back from a L1 loan
Lb - Connor Townsend - Signed from a L1 club
Rb - Darnell Furlong - Couple of championship seasons at QPR before coming here
CB - Dara O'Shea - Academy graduate
CB - Erik Pieters - Lots of mid/lower premier league experience but is now 34
CM - Nathanial Chalobah - Small amount of premier league experience
CM - Jason Molumby - Couple of championship seasons (on loan) before coming here
AM - Marc Albrighton - Lots of premier league experience but now 33, loaned here for match fitness
AM - Jed Wallace - Plenty of solid championship experience
AM - John Swift - Plenty of solid championship experience
ST - Brandon Thomas Asante - Signed from a L2 club
The positives are for the first time in a while we have a number of promising young talents coming through our squad.
Ultimately though this is a squad that should be (and hence has been) consistently losing to the teams occupying the top 6 slots
Don't forget Corberan wasn't available at the start of the season so I'd rather have Corberan than some other clown this board could have chosen in the summer.
He’s a serous coach. No messing about, if isn’t done right then they do it again.
Be interesting to see what business we do in Jan now. I really hope he’s got some gems in his book that we can bring in for not a huge amount.
I absolutely detest him. The man is one the worst strikers I have ever seen. Where are all the fans who said "yeah but he scores goals" gone? I cannot believe the money we have shelled out on this useless waste of space. The only option we had was to bring on Phillips instead today, what a shameful position to be in. Years and years of bad recruitment and look what we're left with. It's like playing with 10 men when he's in the side. If Corberan comes in, ironically it will be the manager who sold him.
I don't believe Dike and Ajayi returning will make much difference. Dike can't last one game before getting injured.Errrmmmm we've been doing that and losing.
Albion have to stop giving easy goals to teams. As boring as it sounds we need a back five and two defensive midfielders until we stop the rot and start getting some points. I know it's Pulisball but sneaking one nils may be all we can hope for with what we have.
I'd try Jake, TGH (or Molumby) and Robinson. You won't get much defending from Callum but the other two should be able to cover for that. That will give us Callum\Grady\AC and (if the wing backs get forward) another 2.
We just can’t play against teams that don’t go out to attack us. We just don’t have the quality to break teams down that are solid. For me it’s a lack of pace from the wingbacks - whoever we play in those positions.
Realistically, if we don’t win today we are 8 points from the play offs (when teams play their games in hand and invariably at least a couple win) with 13 games to go. Add that to no form and no confidence and I think that’s the season done.
If you had said we would finish outside the top 10 at the start of the season I’d have said you were mad. It now looks highly likely
I get bored senseless of too much obsession with formations. We should now be thinking of building for the future by playing younger players in their naturalpositions....such as Diangana on the left, Tulloch attacking, and Castro in midfield.....and see where we go. We have to try something to build on positively.
I'm not sure what he his.
Wide forward?
No pace doesn't create anything never beats a man only ever passes the ball back to Townsend
The one thing I am sure of is he might be our most expensive flop
At least Grady had a few decent games but that does seem a long long time ago
Pound for pound (and allowing for transfer inflation) I’m struggling to think of worse signings than Diangana, Grant and Zohore.
All have arrived in the last two-and-a-half years as every position in the side has been downgraded (I prefer Foster to Johnstone, which is perhaps the only debatable one. And SJ will soon be gone). We’ve got poor players in other positions as well, but they didn’t cost as much.
Are those three players the worst signings we’ve ever made for the money?
I’m having to think back to David Mills and John Deehan for comparable flops who cost a few £££s. Both awful signings by the much-vaunted Ron Atkinson.
And as we saw tonight the confidence levels are hovering around zero, which makes things even worse.
I am nervous, but we do have a squad of capable players who should be performing better in this league. Blackburn are well organised and managed, but do not have the squad we do. Given the resources at our disposal we should be winning these matches. If we don't I think we can read a lot into it.
I agree with most of what you said.
However, Bruce just lazily picked the same midfield that had been failing for 3 months!
No fresh ideas, no thorough review of what's not being working, just blind faith in experienced players that haven't been doing it. It doesn't augur well for change.
Only Bruce can decide if he wants a shot at promotion next season, because there is no way we'll make the top 6 this campaign.
I'm not quite sure you've worded this post as well as you could've but I understand the point you are making and I think there is plenty of truth in it.[/b]
There is so much frustration and anger at the constant mismanagement of the club from the owner downwards. The club is going backwards because of this mismanagement and supporters are angry at it, they feel and are largely helpless, there's nothing they can do but watch on with no imminent sign that things are really going to get any better
I agree with baggiejohn that the atmosphere at the games has to change, it helps no-one when the crowd is toxic or even apathetic but you can understand why the crowd are as they are.
You have local rivals Villa and Wolves taken over by mega rich owners, splashing the cash and showing ambition and as usual Albion are blundering along and we're getting left behind.
Where's the hope? Where is the light at the end of the tunnel?