11 Dec 2018 18:04:57
First of all I would like to say special praise on Watford's performance last night, something that has been over looked and rather than look how well our opponents played, some would rather slaughter our own team.
Fair to say we did not play to our usual standards, but the doom mongers, sorry I should say the realists are back andin full voice again, telling every man and his dog and the dreamers among us how right they were.
Well Iam sorry but no one is putting me on a downer slating the club at every opportunity.
We all know we need a centre forward or two and that is killing us big time at the moment, however at this moment in time we are starting to build a team, Digni, Gomes, Richarlison all contributing and players we added last Summer.
Time and again I see Bernard pillored, last night he had a decent game in both attack and chasing back yet he got the usual flack, he did a damn sight more than the three subs that came on last night but still the fall guy.
We cannot win every game, we have no divine right to out play our opponents, that has to be earned, you cannot take into account how well the opposing team plays.
Just over 12 months ago we had Williams in defence, Keane struggling along side of him, Schnids in front of the defence, Bolasie partly on the left followed by Calvert Lewin playingon the wing and Niasse as the cameo striker.
In just 6 months, the team we have now is head and shoulders above last seasons team
We need to bring in two proven goal scorers and for me, I would let Tosun, Lookman and possibly Calvert Lewin, along with Niasse who it seems will be leaving next month.
This team is not the finished article yet by a long way, yet some seem happy to wade in and say we are no better than last season.
I am being more patient and allowing Silva to bring in his own team which will take a few transfer windows at least, the ones he has brought in so far are doing a great job so far.
So I give you the dreamer in me, I will not hide, I will not even say told you so when we get the results and performances, but I will never give up on my football club and fully be. ieve in Silva, a Brands, Moshi and the team, stick withthe team and have faith.
Coyb.
11 Dec 2018 19:17:04
I agree, Watford played well and we were extremely lucky to get the draw. However, if we had been more ruthless in front of goal and less sloppy in defence it would have been a different story. While mistakes by individual players will happen as they get used to playing alongside each other, they've only been together a few months, the overall quality in the side has improved. If we can get a decent striker in in Jan the knock on effect will be massive and we'll have a closer knit more confident team.
11 Dec 2018 20:24:48
That's what we need BigH a striker mate.
11 Dec 2018 20:27:51
Too right big h, get a proven scorer in will make a huge difference, we switched off for the free kick that led to the first goal and paid for it.
We certainly need to sort a penalty taker out.
12 Dec 2018 13:43:54
I keep repeating this. our problems are not offensively thet are defensively. Look at the table and see how many we concede and how many we score. It is simple. Again we conceded 2 goals. That means we needed 3 to win. Likewise we conceded agains Newcastle so needed 2 to wil. Look at every fixture throughout so far and it is the same story. Top teams sometimes win 3 nil or 4 nil. but they also beat lots of teams 1 nil. Or even 2 nil or 3 nil. But the nil is the important bit. Guess how many clean sheets we have had this season including against lower league teams like Rotheram? Well I don't know so will look it up: Played 18 with 4 clean sheets! Terrible. That means in 14 games we had to score at least 2 to win. Simple.