v Swansea City (a) - 5/2/22

[RoverDom]

We can't have any more games like that if we want to go up. Squad wise we've had a rough ride of it in January now we need to get back in the groove QUICK

[booth]

5 minutes ago, Mr. E said:

Everything imaginable went wrong today. 

Mowbray first of all by not starting with a striker. That killed our game more than anything else today.

The defence fell asleep for 1 attack, but that was enough. Swansea didn't even dream about going forward again for the rest of the game.

Two absurd misses on our part, and other than the last 15 minutes very sloppy play with lack of urgency.

Any other day we are winning today 5-0.

We need to find our grit again.

 

 

For some reason we only have one striker.

For some reason he was playing for someone else days ago.

For some reason we had a right back at left back and a highly rated left back playing as a forward.


Beaten by ten man Swansea who are down the bottom. What a shitshow.


Oh and FUCK OFF SKY!

Edited February 5, 2022 by booth

[yankfan]

3 minutes ago, roversinmyblood said:

If we are having so many corners why didn’t he put Ayala on?!!

 

Brought jrc on instead. 

[Torgeir]

Shortest player in the Championship scores a header against us. Chances fell to the wrong players. We don't have the key to unlocking defenses so trailing early it was always going to be an uphill struggle - even more so against ten men as Swansea were so deep. Poor, too many (forced) changes from what has been our recipe for success. What was the JRC sub about? No composure whatsoever. 

[JohnD]

Just now, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

That's another one on Tinkerman.

Just like his Hull experiment.

 

 

It was always going to be

[skous18]

1 minute ago, pick32 said:

48 crosses into the box and zero goals you have to laugh or you will cry 

Only 2 shots on target also or something along the line..

[Torgeir]

5 minutes ago, roversinmyblood said:

If we are having so many corners why didn’t he put Ayala on?!!

 

Crazy.

[roversinmyblood]

Just now, yankfan said:

Brought jrc on instead. 

What an idiot TM is. 

[yellowsubmarine]

We just dont know how to get to the end of good crosses. Bucko was woeful, false 9 my arse. We just didnt have any chances to break away. Tony takes the blame here for being unimaginative. We will not score even if we play another 90 mins.

Chance lost tonight to show the league we meant business.

[G Somerset Rover]

So so deflated tonight. 

I just have this feeling we’re going to nosedive a little. 

[Devon Rover]

1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I mean we've literally missed 4 sitters tonight. 

But should we be surprised? Buckley is a dreadful finisher and if all your other sitters fall to defenders who aren't used to great crosses coming in, then you're never likely to have a decent conversion rate. We look clueless.

[Tormund]

Centre halves on the end of our best chances, ridiculous. 

[Silas]

Can someone teach Wharton how to nod a ball back across goal.

Such a tall lad and wastes opportunities going for goal when the percentages are minimal. 

[davulsukur]

Just now, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

So so deflated tonight. 

I just have this feeling we’re going to nosedive a little. 

Most teams do have a run of poor form but you just know that ours will kill us completely and we won't recover.

[ItsRoverZ]

1 minute ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

So so deflated tonight. 

I just have this feeling we’re going to nosedive a little. 

For some reason I've been waiting for it. I don't know what it is.. probably no faith in Mowbray but I've just been waiting anxiously for the nose dive 

[yellowsubmarine]

Is Francis Jeffers still playing? We may just need a fox in the box to put those chances away.

[davulsukur]

Also, Dack will have that false 9 spot off Buckley as soon as he's back. 

[Cherry Blue]

Shows have desperate we are for a striker. Started with fast-asleep centre forward Buckley and despite a poor half Mowbray continued. 

False position in league. We'll not get in playoffs either. Preparing myself for a bad February. 

[danger19_80]

We'll either go up or he'll be gone at the end of the season. Some kind of relief.

[yankfan]

What’s clear is we lack much if any creativity in the final 3rd. All season we’ve created in the counter with space and numbers. Today up a man against a side parking the bus we didn’t even try to break them down. Never took a wife player on, never played to a forwards feet, nothing through. Everything went wide with long deep crosses. Made it easy in them. Khadra, Diaz and Buckley are not the 3 to be playing long crosses into. 
 

To a man the performances were poor. Buckley had an awful game. Sitter aside he got caught with the ball under his feet too many times. Then when received the ball in space never drove at the defense. 

[Mercer]

Hugely disappointing, especially after some 40 minutes against 10 men.

Got what we deserved - nothing.

Mowbray HAD to start Brereton and Khadra - easier to bring them off when we are winning and controlling a game rather than bringing them on to save a game.

Missed chances.

Atrocious defending for goal.

Tried to cheat our way to a win - Lenihan feigning head injury and getting Swansea reduced to 10 men and JRC almost bundling Fisher into the net at a corner (well spotted ref).

Giles looked good.  What a left foot.  Will create many opportunities for us.

Hedges as I expected - totally underwhelmed by him.

Danger of wheels coming off before we've even started to roll properly. 

[Hasta]

Just now, yellowsubmarine said:

Is Francis Jeffers still playing? We may just need a fox in the box to put those chances away.

I’ll tell you who will thrive arriving onto those whipped crosses. Dack.

[bluebruce]

6 minutes ago, Devon Rover said:

Or have Giles take them all rather than Khadra (or the ineffectual Rothwell) wasting everything. 

Khadra was unlucky not to score direct from one.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Looks like we have hit the rough patch we all knew was coming.....we need to refocus and fast.

We need a kick up the backside.

[Maphsa]

Team is absolutely crying out for Dack. No one in the squad has the same spacial awareness as him and with Giles' crosses he'd have scored 10 tonight...