[Archived] Fulham On Saturday 27Th August

[G Somerset Rover]

Magical Mercer strikes again btw. Great form, Merce.

[Amo]

It certainly shows that we aren't being fickle, Tom, but I'm waiting for someone to blame our defeat on that negativity.

Like our old pal, Hughesy, you mean?

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Hughesy ⚽ ♠‏@Hughesy84

Undeserved loss that 1 today.... 4 mins to go Venkys out chants start louder.... 1 min later ball in our net - just stay away pls #Rovers

[A cup of beans]

Like our old pal, Hughesy, you mean?

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Undeserved loss that 1 today.... 4 mins to go Venkys out chants start louder.... 1 min later ball in our net - just stay away pls #Rovers

Hughesy is a grand lad, but that makes no logical sense.

[Paul]

According to BBC nothing less than Fulham deserved.

Just goes to prove how little they know. Apart from a 3-4 minute spell around the 55th minute Fulham hardly applied any sustained pressure.

I've only seen this and the Burton game and this performance was a significant improvement over last Saturday. We looked solid throughout the team especially so in defence. The ball was rarely given away cheaply and we worked hard to recover when we lost the ball. We defended in their half and in our own half held the line much further forward.

To me it looked as if we had a cast iron penalty ignored towards the end of the first half. The grounded Fulhsm defender scooped the ball away got up and ran with it. Right under the linesman's nose.

If Rovers had won this 1-0 Fulham could not have complained. A good performance, good game and very unlucky to lose.

Enjoyed this afternoon apart from listening to the 20 DE fans calling Coyle Burnley scum after Fulham scored. Words fail me.

[McClarky]

He was injured yes but the point is that every sub is "like for like". Byrne would have added more creativity than Lenihan.

I was about to post the same thing. Looking back over the games this season we have made 3 subs in each 1 which have just about all been like for like changes. No plan B, no attempt to change the game. With a squad this poor some idea of how to change a game would be good but obviously Coyle isn't the man for that kind of thing.

[Jock]

' the more I practice, the luckier I get.'

[Stuart]

Like our old pal, Hughesy, you mean?

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Undeserved loss that 1 today.... 4 mins to go Venkys out chants start louder.... 1 min later ball in our net - just stay away pls #Rovers

He's still a pal of mine. We are built very differently and have very different views of the world generally though.

Oh and the Venkys Out chants weren't 'louder' then. That's spin.

[LDRover]

Okay I didn't go today but the live score app is saying it was 63-37% possession in favour of Fulham??

Does that seem right?

[A cup of beans]

Just goes to prove how little they know. Apart from a 3-4 minute spell around the 55th minute Fulham hardly applied any sustained pressure.

I've only seen this and the Burton game and this performance was a significant improvement over last Saturday. We looked solid throughout the team especially so in defence. The ball was rarely given away cheaply and we worked hard to recover when we lost the ball. We defended in their half and in our own half held the line much further forward.

To me it looked as if we had a cast iron penalty ignored towards the end of the first half. The grounded Fulhsm defender scooped the ball away got up

Enjoyed this afternoon apart from listening to the 20 DE fans calling Coyle Burnley scum after Fulham scored. Words fail me.

Why? Have you not heard any anti Burnley chants before?

[Doug]

Improved performance again, and a game we didn't deserve to lose.

Steele pulled off a decent save in first half and probably had his best game.

Lowe is not a RB, he does not stay close enough to his man.

Centre half pairing was strong and Williams looked our best LB for years!

Marshall was poor and needs to be RB.

Akpan and Guthrie were decent and Conway was good but cannot cross with his left foot.

Gallagher was ineffective and Graham looked like he's getting back to his form last season.

Subs didn't change anything, although I thought Lenihan was good when he came on.

Feeney is looking the player I didn't rate during his last spell here.

Stokes was better than Gally had been.

We done to the attending fans again, Venky's out was a lot louder today from both ends.

Looks like it's going to be a difficult task to avoid relegation at the moment.

[Mike E]

Why? Have you not heard any anti Burnley chants before?

More the fact it will damage the fans' credibility if the media think.we're targeting Venkys because of Coyle's links to Burnley.

We need to actually ignore (or even support) him and focus our ire at Venkys.

[A cup of beans]

More the fact it will damage the fans' credibility if the media think.we're targeting Venkys because of Coyle's links to Burnley.

We need to actually ignore (or even support) him and focus our ire at Venkys.

I'm not sure the media care enough.

[chaddyrovers]

Today was a good performance. Players worked very hard.

The team had a good structure to it and organised. Hoban played really well and deserve his MOTM award. Williams played well at left back. And I will say Steele and the back 4 were very organised. Much better than when Duffy has played.

Guthrie and Akpan had good games. When Guthrie had to go off we lost a player who can pass the ball in there.

Graham performance abit better than recent games and looks like last season player. but I would have took him off not Gallagher as I believe he looked shattered and injured.

I would have took Marshall off much earlier than we did but not bought on Feeney.

Coyle need money from the owners to improve the team now

Fulham had a lot of possession of the ball and never really went anywhere with it. all in front of the Rovers team. Huff and puff

[DanielMB]

Scary thing, take a look at Newcastles bench for today. Everyone of the 6 outfield players would strengthen our starting eleven.

[Paul]

Okay I didn't go today but the live score app is saying it was 63-37% possession in favour of Fulham??

Does that seem right?

No. If I had to guess I'd say 55/45 in our favour. I've no time for stats though.

[Mike E]

No. If I had to guess I'd say 55/45 in our favour. I've no time for stats though.

I'd have sain in Fulham's favour but no way to 63-37 levels.

[A cup of beans]

Yes. Let's abandon statistics and just rely on guesses.

[DE.]

Yes. Let's abandon statistics and just rely on guesses.

Owen Coyle's mantra.

[West Yorks Rover]

Today was a good performance. Players worked very hard.

The team had a good structure to it and organised. Hoban played really well and deserve his MOTM award. Williams played well at left back. And I will say Steele and the back 4 were very organised. Much better than when Duffy has played.

Guthrie and Akpan had good games. When Guthrie had to go off we lost a player who can pass the ball in there.

Graham performance abit better than recent games and looks like last season player. but I would have took him off not Gallagher as I believe he looked shattered and injured.

I would have took Marshall off much earlier than we did but not bought on Feeney.

Coyle need money from the owners to improve the team now

Fulham had a lot of possession of the ball and never really went anywhere with it. all in front of the Rovers team. Huff and puff

The thing is Chaddy, we battered Fulham 3-0 at home in February, Venky's and Coyle are taking us down.

[broadsword]

it was 109 plays 61 to us

or 263 - 55 in pre decimilisation kelvins

[Parsonblue]

An improved performance despite never looking likely to win the game. The new lads seem to have strengthened the back line. Hoban and Greer looked good together in the centre and Williams seems a very steady left-back. The main issue for me is still the midfield. Marshall doesn't want to know, Akpan and Guthrie are very limited and Conway remains the only threat. I thought Parker and Cairney completely dominated in midfield and Fulham looked far quicker in their movement and played with more purpose going forward. Defensively, we looked better and there is a platform on which to build but unless we can inject some quality into the middle of the park we are always going to struggle to score goals. The next few days will be vital in terms of deciding our season. At the moment we are simply not good enough to stay up.

[Steve Kean's Hypnotoad]

Yes. Let's abandon statistics and just rely on guesses.

It's the way these seasons go. Denial appears inevitable. We'll hear lots of disagreement with neutral media sources and lots of comments like "unlucky", "we didn't deserve to lose", "the ref was shocking". It's not just the likes of Coyle and Kean that can't resist deluding themselves when reality becomes too unpalatable.

[Hasta]

I was there and thought Akpan did ok, in fact him and Guthrie looked the best pairing we've tried so far.

I said all throughout the game our biggest problem as we never had possession centrally in their half. It was always wide or tried to be lashed in to the strikers on the end of their box. Defensively we looked more organised with these two but neither ever got on the ball within 10 metres of the strikers.

Today was a good performance. Players worked very hard.

The team had a good structure to it and organised. Hoban played really well and deserve his MOTM award. Williams played well at left back. And I will say Steele and the back 4 were very organised. Much better than when Duffy has played.

Guthrie and Akpan had good games. When Guthrie had to go off we lost a player who can pass the ball in there.

Graham performance abit better than recent games and looks like last season player. but I would have took him off not Gallagher as I believe he looked shattered and injured.

I would have took Marshall off much earlier than we did but not bought on Feeney.

Coyle need money from the owners to improve the team now

Fulham had a lot of possession of the ball and never really went anywhere with it. all in front of the Rovers team. Huff and puff

Today was bang average and we created one proper chance again st a team that won't even challenge in this league.

A draw would have been a fair result but, if one team did deserve to win it, then it wasn't us.

[RevidgeBlue]

Had to miss today's game, the stats would suggest we were a lot more solid defensively than of late ( without Duffy) but struggled to create enough at the other end.

Very disappointed Samuelson didn't start, he was the one signing I was genuinely excited by. Hope he doesn't turn out to be another pointless signing we bring in on loan then never give any minutes on the pitch like Barrow and Grimes.

The League table is looking fairly grim already, If the owners have any interest as to where we finish this season as opposed to simply selling off everything that moves as some sort of exit strategy then Coyle's position needs to be under close scrutiny already. Problem is though, who's going to want to try and rescue us with a bunch of loan players with no real affiliation to the Club and players who are Coyle's choice as opposed to other players they might have preferred.

[K-Hod]

Scary thing, take a look at Newcastles bench for today. Everyone of the 6 outfield players would strengthen our starting eleven.

One of them recently did....