ruggles1995

Quite an even game I thought. Lacked a lot of quality in the match. Thought qpr set themselves up pretty well. They stood off us and let our back 3 have the ball and gave no room in midfield to have it easy passing into midfield. Our back 3 just passed sideways and qpr tried to force us into mistakes. Both teams had massive chances, I have to say the difference imo was the triple change we made. Forshaw and Gueye coming on were not needed imo. Gudjohnsen didn’t look tired and with someone like him who’s able to score you would just keep him on unless he tires which he hadn’t. Yuki had run himself Into the ground with 7/8 mins left but he’d made his changes. The goal came from a tired poor pass from miller. Then de neve didn’t get himself back to cover around. Felt like a game of fine margins, and it was I think the subs killed it and I also think the squad in depth for qpr maybe shown it was better than ours… baffling subs. I think that stops talk of playoff pushes. Let’s just try to take a game at a time and get enough points to stay in this league as we cant seem to cope at home.

my predicted 11: Pears miller mcloughln pratt alebiousu hinckman montgomery hedges morishita yuki Gudjohnsen My predicted score: 1-1

Im happy he threw Pratt in. Made sense tbf, its a sink or swim opportunity and if he wouldn't get used now when will he ever!?. He did alright. I have to say it shut me up a bit the performance. I thought we would get beat 3/4-1. Some players starting to show signs they've got it at this level. Id say we still need another aerial winning CB through the door as we've only realistically got Pratt, Mcloughlin, miller and wharton. Sadly I've given up hope on carter. Id also look at RWB cover for alebiousu, its a shame Duru doesnt seem to be doing too much on loan (I dont think, unless im wrong?!), could of been a backup option when needed for alebiousu if he'd turned to something promising... I feel we have enough CMs to get by. We need another striker, because if Gudjohnsen gets injured im not sure who actually would score. I imagine pickering and gueye will be offloaded if we can find a cb and a striker.

I know hes classed as "injured" but this seems really dodgy to me. What started as a knock seems to of gone on for at least a month. There never seems to be any real info on it. Any inside knowledge here? It feels like dejavu a bit from history gone by.

bad feeling about this one. I think a draw at best, and id take it. Hopefully we continue the away form.

got bullied Saturday didn't we. Men v boys. Experience v inexperience. We struggle against direct physical teams. We struggle in both boxes for set pieces to when a teams got a couple powerful players. It was pretty obvious i felt how it was going to pan out. I see elliot jackson saying he felt we played the same formation with hedges as a left sided cb, i disagree, it didn't really look like that to me. To me it looked like a disjoineted 4 at the back to start with. Alebiousu galloping from right back all the way up to the opposite full back to close the ball down was never going to work. Gudjohnsen looked like he played as a floating winger\striker. Was neither in any of those positions was practically anonymous all game. Didnt look like our normal formation that had won 3 games ina row until the 2nd half, first half looked to me as a 4 at the back. Yuki really needs top work on his touch and hold up play, practically gave the ball away at every chance he got. The team all seemed rather unbalanced. Not one player on our pitch competed with anything in the air at both ends. I think it took till around 70th minute for us to win a header of any note. I for the life of me will never understand our consistent use of long throws in every game when we haven't a player capable of winning a header. Then we bring gueye on and he doesnt even stand in a position to try and win the first phase of the long throw, Morris just kept heading it all away. Just seemed like a team not having to do too much to get the job done and knew what was needed to win against a side lacking with any know how. Really need an ugly cb and Striker dont we to just help us in these types of games. Cant see us beating preston or wrexham in our next batch, we get bullied in both of those imo. Cant see more than 4 points from next 4 games, and id say that puts us right back in the relegation picture. Monday rant done.

Timing, timing, timing. We've played Leicester and Southampton all at the right time, we now play bristol away on the back of a 5-1 mauling. I think we can take at least a point here, id be surprised if we won, and id be surprised if they win off the back off a 5-1 defeat. Draw all over it?... if we come out of this without a loss its a good result.

weird one this, on paper looks difficult, but timing wise, its a great time to play them, they aren't in form, and we've just come through winning from a goal behind. Lets hope confidence helps us. Can see us getting something from this game. But would not be surprised to see us get beat either.

Got season ticket. Got to give it some use. Support the team not the regime. I come up on a Friday and go home Sunday so the footballs usually the worst bit of the weekend 😂.

Lose today and it will start to look like we’re getting cut adrift already. I mean I’m accepting relegation already. buzzing traveling 5 hours to never see us win…

Right then. What’s the plan ?

I do find it strange that he came out and said miroshita was there main target all summer and they waited on purpose to get him… you would think a statement like that means he would be playing every week. I actually think he might work better than henrikson behind the strikers. Least when he does have the ball he actually looks like he has some quality to do something with it

Think id stick with same formation from sat. If I could pick an 11 thats available id go: Toth Wharton mcloughlin Pickering Alebiousu hinckman tronstasd hedges morishita Gueye Yuki assuming millers still injured.

thinking about the shortness of cm, could pickering fill in if needed? square peg in round hole and all that? 🤷‍♂️

with Bradji now likely to not feature till probably December, and forshaw being injured, we really are short at cm. The international breaks have probably helped us a little in terms of keeping our cm duo of hinckman and tronstad fresh ish. Tavares needs to pull his finger out and adapt, or the start of saturday\tuesday matches are going to take its toll on a thin\lack of quality squad. We are already struggling with practically a full squad to select from let alone add more injuries to a couple that can actually do a job at this level. Take cantwell and either tronstad or hinckman out, then we really are bottom of the barrel team.