Sunday, 8 January 2012

ELEVEN minutes of injury time and we still can't score!

OK, a number of key players were rested from the game, but the situation is now getting desperate. In the last seven games our goal return has been: 1,0,1,1,1,1,0. That isn't a problem, that is a crisis.

We were playing against a Third Division team managed by Gary Megson today for pity's sake! And our opponents in the previous games weren't exactly class outfits were they? Coventry, Derby, Birmingham, Barnsley, Reading and Burnley! Grant's team managed seven goals in two games against two of those opponents.

Allardyce will trot out the excuses again: key players rested, penalty save, missed opportunities, other priorities, blah, blah, blah. But every team has excuses, it's a manager's job to sort out the problems and find a way of winning games. The trouble is, Allardyce only knows one way, and if that way isn't working, he is clueless.

The need for new recruits is obvious for all to see, but are we any closer to bringing somebody in? It doesn't look like it. We went out of the League Cup to Aldershot in the first round and now we have crashed out of the FA Cup to Sheffield Wednesday. That is shameful.

So what difference has Allardyce actually made? None from what I can see, other than make us boring to watch. Grant's side had a 100% record against teams in the Championship and made it through to the semifinal of the League Cup and the quarter final of the FA Cup. Doctor Evil can't hold a torch to that record!

The emperor has no clothes and his cock has shrivelled up in the winter's cold!
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11 comments:

  1. Gaz8 January 2012 at 17:41

    I reckon BFS's instructions were 'do everything you can to lose the game and if you get a good chance, sky it!' That can be the only explanation for such a poor performance. We need a winger with the ability to beat full backs, get to the by-line and create real chances because the only decent winger we're got is Taylor and he's still got a few weeks until he'll be back. Worrying times...

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  2. Stani8 January 2012 at 17:45

    Bad error from Boffin today...but as you suggest, irrelevant

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  3. Brendan8 January 2012 at 17:58

    This is why we need Jordan Rhodes. Splash the cash and sign him!

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  4. Howyoodoin8 January 2012 at 18:26

    More importantly, QPR have hastily arranged a press conference for 7.30pm tonight. Rumours are that Warnock has been sacked . . . . .

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  5. tommy8 January 2012 at 19:19

    Who do you think we'll get in (if anybody) this window HF?

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  6. Anonymous8 January 2012 at 19:32

    ..sack him now and get .....colin wanker....hahahaha

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  7. Masty8 January 2012 at 19:40

    Warnock has been sacked!

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  8. Chunky8 January 2012 at 19:50

    Just more proof that BFS football it void of any kind of excitement. Honestly, we really should have made more of any effort for a cup run this season. Very disappointed tonight. Still, at least that shot Warnock has been shitcanned!

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  9. el martillo8 January 2012 at 19:57

    Fat Sam had a tough decision today. If he played the kids, gave them a chance and genuinely said, "promotion is our priority; for this one it's over to the development squad"; he ran the risk of us winning and making those of us who believe a spell in the championship offered the chance to build a genuine team look like we might have a point.

    So what does he do? Play the also rans from his "elite" squad with the excuse that a few of them needed a run out. As you say, "what's changed". Very little except that we are not even playing attractive football now.

    So we're out of the cups at the earliest opportunity to maximise our chances of an immediate return to the premiership; no excuses then.

    I felt at the beginning of the season that we would achieve a top top two berth even if it was not in the manner that I wished. I am no longer convinced that is the case even though the championship is looking a poorer division by the week. Fat Sam for England manager? Don't make me laugh!

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  10. Anonymous8 January 2012 at 22:50

    kevin in manchester writes..

    If BFS had any confidence in the kids, he'll have played them but obviously he doesn't. True, Montano and Hall made promising starts with lower league clubs on loan but appear to have tanked since then. Stanilas and Hines have done dilly squat at Burnley; so they weren't the answer either.Sears seems to have used up all his career goals allowance playing for our reserves three years ago. Cole is a 12 goals a season man, whatever division he is in.

    Without Sam's pragmatic and rather dour approach we'd be down with Leicester at best.Let's face facts our fowards would have trouble hitting a barn door and it is no use saying 'go get a winger who can get to the bye-line'; who? how much?

    Rhodes, Maynard and Sharp etc all represent a risk because who knows if they can perfrom at a higher level. Baldock has been OK but is not the answer yet. I agree HF, we have been lucky so far this season and are currently hanging on. Our first eleven should be good enough to see us through and our second eleven is probably better than our rivals'but not much better.

    Sam's record suggests he knows how to get the best out of a team ; I guess our best is not great just now.I said before the season started we always expect far too much of the team in a post relegation season;even so, thus far we have garnered more points at this stage than at anytime in our history.. it'll be nip and tuck all the way.

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  11. Hammersfan8 January 2012 at 23:02

    You keep making excuses Kev, he built the squad! He picked the team!

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