This, 100%.
Amongst the most ridiculous bollocksy cliches in football. It literally means....nothing.
We have no consistency.
This, 100%.
Amongst the most ridiculous bollocksy cliches in football. It literally means....nothing.
Yes I meant that he has been at the helm, knows our strengths /weaknesses and should have an idea if a player does leave a similar type is on the recruitment list . Our scouts should have 3/4 for every postion .this team hasn't really been built over w years though as most quality players leave each season
the one thing that is now sure is that this is now KRs team so his excuses wear a bit thin now
I thought he said about the linesman being arrogant at half time when he tried to speak to him, then said linesman gave two offsides which were not according to KR. He seems surprised that if you have a go at some one they may take some kind of revenge. As I've long suspected the ranting at officials has a negative effect in the game being played and future games. Officials don't live in their own isolated world they talk to each other surely.No he said the 4th official, it’s a new tactic from Robinson we’ve worked out his blame the ref rant
I don't know, didn't look too bad.Can’t bring myself to watch it tbh.
We didn’t lose, but...!?
Tiger doesn't have any 'real ambition'... renting a training ground from the council and warbling on about a new ground do not equal ambition. We'll end up lower mid table or so. And as long as he's here, Tiger will keep up the relentless stream of chat with limited/zero delivery....Toothless - tippy tappy - so many corners and zero penetration - we must score about 1 in 100 goals from corners and our free kicks aren't much better - but hasn't that been the trouble for the last three years? - We are too reliant on the midfield and I honestly don't know how the "coaches" have kept their jobs because we never try anything a bit different - just hoofing it aimlessly on to the back of heads. We are too predictable and that is worrying and so easy to play against. Dickie looked class at times, Fosu started well but went out like a candle in the wind, Easty had a good game and earned us a point but there was never a moment when we looked dangerous up front and when Agyai came on he played way too deep. The rest were anonymous and were dancing on ice. Studs lads? We could have got hammered and the closest we came was deflected shot from Henry - when Brannagan doesn't fire neither do we. Sack the coaching staff. Freshen it up with some new ideas to at least make us less predictable, and tell KR to hold his hands up to his own failures and not spew bollox with a pre-prepared script blaming officials, throw in decisions and then applauding poor teams. New contract or not, Tiger needs to set 5 game targets like we had under MaPP and act swiftly when we under achieve - if his real ambition matches his words - I'm not sure any knowledgeable fans on here would have less points if they were managing this team. Bolton are poor but they wanted it more. On paper we should be right up there but it takes leaders and we don't seem to have any. The fans are getting short changed week after week. Painful.
There is no way our budget is mid table. Just look at the players we’ve got, the wages a lot of them will be on, the fact that we’ve paid fees for multiple permanent deals. Will Fosu be on average wages? Taylor? Will we be paying sod all for Woodburn? Are Moore and Agyei on average wages having left PL sides on three year deals? Is Cadden on peanuts? George ‘The Benchwarmer’ Thorne? Forde? Are existing players like Henry on average wages? Mackie? Eastwood’s new three year deal he signed last summer, is that likely to be average? What about Hanson’s mega deal that we’re stuck with for the next 3 years?Mid Table all day long in my opinion.
Not acceptable for most people but I think that’s where our budget puts us.
There is no way our budget is mid table. Just look at the players we’ve got, the wages a lot of them will be on, the fact that we’ve paid fees for multiple permanent deals. Will Fosu be on average wages? Taylor? Will we be paying sod all for Woodburn? Are Moore and Agyei on average wages having left PL sides on three year deals? Is Cadden on peanuts? George ‘The Benchwarmer’ Thorne? Forde? Are existing players like Henry on average wages? Mackie? Eastwood’s new three year deal he signed last summer, is that likely to be average? What about Hanson’s mega deal that we’re stuck with for the next 3 years?
Looking at all of this logically and simply using our eyes, it’s looking pretty likely that our budget is not mid table. Perhaps this talk of a decreased budget at the end of last season was simply to lower expectation, or perhaps the Whyte money was all ploughed into an increased budget late doors to have a proper go at promotion, but there’s no way this is an average budget. Just look at those players. If last season’s budget was openly described as top eight, I refuse to accept based on the above - plus the fact that we also have a bigger squad of pros than last season to boot - that our budget has now slipped a good four or five places. No chance.
KR talking absolute bollox as usual.....just shut the f**k up PLEASE!!
Yes, a clear admission for a poor performance.So KR admitted we "ran out of ideas", yet he didn't change anything during the game. Didn't change the formation, the pressing (more like depressing!), all changes were like for like, and our final sub was in the 89th minute! "We ran out of ideas" translates to "I have no idea!"
So KR admitted we "ran out of ideas", yet he didn't change anything during the game. Didn't change the formation, the pressing (more like depressing!), all changes were like for like, and our final sub was in the 89th minute! "We ran out of ideas" translates to "I have no idea!"
Fosu spent half his time on the grass and Taylor looks disinterested!
All these top players Bolton have are rejects f**k off robbo your talking s**t
A clean sheet yes, but the gods were smiling on us. Mouse is defending himself as much as defending the team. We were poor in possession. Our sideways passing often led to our own downfall.
Tonight’s performance does highlight how unbalanced the squad is. What can Robinson do to shake things up for Saturday? Taylor looks way off the pace at the moment, hopefully he can play himself into form - a goal will hopefully do wonders, because Mackie is by all accounts struggling with his back and Agyei looks nowhere near ready. Hall also looks a million miles from being able to influence a game. Sykes hasn’t had a look in, Thorne? Who knows the state of his fitness.. Baptiste - struggling with his knee.
At the back Dickie is one yellow away from a one game ban and Moore is also struggling with his back. So Nico or Sam Long are the only options to partner Mous.
I know things always look a bit bleak after a poor performance and we’re just as likely thump Lincoln knowing us, but things do seem a bit ‘wing and a prayer’ at the moment.
This is why I don't personally buy the "we produce some wonderful build up play". No we don't. We pass the ball along the back line, pop it into midfield, back to the defence, centre half has a jog out with the ball, plays it up field to a forward / winger, lays it back to a centre mid, moves it out wide, and then a full back crosses it into the box aimlessly where it's cleared away. There's no cutting edge what so ever. We don't go past people to break the line in the final third, don't move the ball quickly around the box in central areas, and don't look to play balls in behind or down the channels. Our build up play is ineffective - people can say it's as lovely to look at as they like, but it doesn't do anything threatening and it's completely predictable to boot.Concerning when the only plan is to set up 4231, cross relentlessly and us the same players each week.
We all know the formation and team for Lincoln aside from maybe the striker. We must be so easy to scout and set up against