ismail-villa Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Can we please, just for once, win a game convincingly. 3-0 up with 10 minutes to go, something like that. Can't be having a tense match every single time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nnock1984 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Johnstone Bree Chester Terry Taylor Onomah Whelan Hourihane Adomah Green Hogan Goalkeeper, defence and striker pick themselves at the moment (Hopefully Hutton is done here!) We need to find something that clicks in midfield, and for me Hourihane and Adomah need to start every game as they have the best potential to create (judging by the stats from last season), we also need Hourihanes set pieces. I'd then be playing Whelan as that bit of bite until Jedi is back and then Onomah and Green as the young, quick, exciting, unknown talent to keep the opposition on their toes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 2 hours ago, markavfc40 said: I have a feeling Bruce will go defensive in this one and play not to lose. He has already said that we may not be ready to play 2 strikers. I’d imagine Gabby or Hogan will drop out and we will go 4-5-1. Whelan, Lansbury, Hourihane as the middle three with Adomah and Bjarnason as the wide midfielders. We may scrape a draw. a draw will just be like a defeat and edge him closer to the exit door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Johnstone Bree Terry Chester deLaet Whelan Onomah Bjarnason Hourihane McCormack Hogan Subs:Steer,Lansbury,O Hare,Taylor,Samba,Agobonlahor,Adomah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 44 minutes ago, KHV said: Johnstone Bree Terry Chester deLaet Whelan Onomah Bjarnason Hourihane McCormack Hogan Subs:Steer,Lansbury,O Hare,Taylor,Samba,Agobonlahor,Adomah quite like the idea but not sure about Bjarnson . maybe swap him with Hourihane and then put O'Hare in for a little cameo behind the front 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Absolutely must-win game for Bruce. (how can it be must-win after 3 games played this season!) Yet this is where we are.... I think we'll get a dour 0-0 draw, Bruce will stay in a job for 1 more week and will get sacked next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 5 hours ago, markavfc40 said: I have a feeling Bruce will go defensive in this one and play not to lose. He has already said that we may not be ready to play 2 strikers. I’d imagine Gabby or Hogan will drop out and we will go 4-5-1. Whelan, Lansbury, Hourihane as the middle three with Adomah and Bjarnason as the wide midfielders. We may scrape a draw. If he plays gabby up top by himself we might as well wave the white flag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dn1982 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Gabby and Hutton should be no where near this team! Apart from that it's a lottery 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCU Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Where's Lansbury? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Save your line-ups. It really doesn't matter what team we put out, or what formation we utilise them in. No way will we be picking up 3 points in this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villianusa Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 I hear people say "The best form of defense is attack," or "We need a solid spine and defense," but in the end, none of that matters if we can't put the ball in the back of the net. Our conversion rate this season is 4.76%, while the top 6 teams rage from 12.3% to a little over 20%. We are creating chances, but we have struggled for years to put the ball in the goal. We went out and bought three of the best forwards in the league and for one reason or another only Codger has had some success. Hogan got injured, Ross got fat, and then Codger gets injured last game of the season. No matter if Gabby is playing well or not, he isn't the most prolific goal scorer, so we need to find a solution to this. Hogan is coming back from injury and I think will come good in time, but not the time that the club or especially Bruce has. Our key short passes in and around the box are well lower than the top six and even Reading who we play tomorrow. The only slight bright spark is Reading's conversion rate is lower than ours. They have Bacuna now, so that should improve tomorrow. We need to start scoring goals, and creating more chances in front of goals, not out wide in the box, but in front of goals. History has shown (in the last book I read) that 85% of goals come from the no further out than the penalty spot. The defense won't have many games as bad as Cardiff throughout the season so we need to get our conversion rate in front of goals up between 10-15%. That is a Championship winning team, and not one with 4.76%. We need to create more chances but Wolves have only created one more than us and they are in 2nd place. Cardiff has created 32. My view is we need to go 442. Two banks of 4 with two wingers who can put balls into the area I spoke of earlier. I believe Albert should be right and Green or Onomah are the best on the left. I would have kept Amavi and played him as left wing as I felt he could have a good future in that area. Johnstone Bree Chester Terry Taylor Whelan Hourihane Albert Green/Onomah Hogan Gabby/Davies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJT123 Posted August 14, 2017 Author Share Posted August 14, 2017 The bookies make us favourites to win this one. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted August 14, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14, 2017 We better see a performance and a reaction from the whole team, players, management, coaches, I even want the physio to look more up for it. Is elmohamedy injured for this? Mouth injury or something? I'd ring the changes as the last game was so w**k and go for: Steer Bree Chester Terry Taylor Adomah Onomah Hourihane McCormack Hogan Gabby Who knows if that team will do any good... I really don't feel I know anything anymore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 14, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14, 2017 Why are we playing at 8.00 and everyone else at 7. 45. I can't see this is on telly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstonMartyn88 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 55 minutes ago, KJT123 said: The bookies make us favourites to win this one. Fiver on Reading it is then. Also stick everything you have on Bacuna to score 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roonst83 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 7 hours ago, ismail-villa said: Can we please, just for once, win a game convincingly. 3-0 up with 10 minutes to go, something like that. Can't be having a tense match every single time. I said the same before Colchester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roonst83 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 32 minutes ago, alreadyexists said: We better see a performance and a reaction from the whole team, players, management, coaches, I even want the physio to look more up for it. The physio has had more minutes on the pitch than most due to the amount of injuries we've acrued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted August 14, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14, 2017 15 minutes ago, roonst83 said: The physio has had more minutes on the pitch than most due to the amount of injuries we've acrued. Ha ha, true. I'd probably give him MOTM. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 I cant be the only one after Cardiff game to see him got for back 5 and play for 0-0 Johnstone Hutton Samba Terry Chester Taylor Elmo(Adomah if he not fit) Whelan Lansbury Bjarnason Agbonlahor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJT123 Posted August 14, 2017 Author Share Posted August 14, 2017 A draw does **** all for us. We need to win. FFS we even won this match last year! With our squad we should be winning these matches routinely. 1-0 loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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