07 Sep 2026 07:39:43
Think the changes made all the difference. Hackney is definitely Premiership ready, lad made a huge difference when he came on. Good result but could and should have been better.
07 Sep 2026 08:53:16
Some better ball play from Barry, I thought, mate, but he has to put that header away. We are going to be okay.
07 Sep 2026 09:29:13
Hackney looks like a great signing, came on and ran the game, partnered well with Jack and KDH. George was mustard, can beat a man both sides, really exciting. Barry, well Barry was Barry, needs to get that header on target, but you can see his movement is getting better and he's getting into scoring positions.
07 Sep 2026 09:30:58
Two poor goals given away, but that is going to happen, given our limitations in defence. Two cracking goals, and the team should gain a lot of confidence from this result.
My only concern, as I said, is with our defence. We have to tighten that up if we want to continue to improve. Hopefully we see a much better showing against Spurs than last season's effort.
07 Sep 2026 09:44:24
I think whilst there are definitely issues at FB defensively, and that was the main cause of the goals conceded yesterday - we also don't have quite the protection from midfield in front of them. Garner is definitely not 100% for sure.
However, I think the reverse of that is that overall we look miles better in midfield with the current set up, and I think I'd take that and put up with conceding a few more just to watch some better football.
07 Sep 2026 11:14:47
I would much rather just win 1-0 every week no matter how it comes. I certainly do not hold with the concede a few more just to watch better football mantra.
07 Sep 2026 16:57:34
I'm the opposite, dms. I like to see us playing attractive football and will accept if we are beaten by a better team. It still spoils my weekend, and of course I'd take a fluke 1-0 win when we have been battered and just got lucky, but I'd prefer a great team performance and good football any day of the week.
07 Sep 2026 19:10:38
Each to their own, but I cannot accept that. Oh, we got beat but we played attractive football. I played to win and didn't like it when we lost, but accepted because I knew we tried our best.
08 Sep 2026 08:19:20
At the match on Sunday we were all having a chat about Barry. He is getting better and his hold up play is getting there. However, the service to him in the box is very poor.
There was a tactical change by Moyes, though, with him on Sunday as the games in preseason and the league and cup, he was allowed to come across to the wings with Ili moving inside and swapping with him.
With Ili gone, Barry hasn't got the same player on the wing to do that with, although I think Dibbling would be a good player to help with that.
He looks really comfortable moving to the center and swapping with him. Although I feel Barry is happier coming across to the left rather than the right. He did do it a bit with Johnson on Sunday, but the one time he did, he played one of the weirdest crosses ever that went straight up in the air.
Barry, though, can only score with the right service. On Sunday he had that one header.