bobbymooresbracelet wrote:Hopefully this was the kick up the arse we deserved, wouldn't bet on it though.
The arse was being kicked several times at the end of last season and nobody popped the phone book down their shorts.......worrying
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bobbymooresbracelet wrote:Hopefully this was the kick up the arse we deserved, wouldn't bet on it though.
:shock:the pink palermo wrote:Is it possible Bilic has told Antonio he will be playing full back, maybe for a season , while Byram gets up to standard , hence why Tore has come in on loan ?
Forgot about that, yeah felt bad for Oggy at the time.DDHammer wrote:Slavs got history of that though, I felt horrible for Ogbonna against Bournemouth that game.
Except Reid was the wrong side of Bats giving him a free header and leaving Collins stranded. For me Reid was very poor. Nearly cost us albeit a soft penalty, made rash lunges in or around our box and hit too many long balls to the middle of nowhere.Girthmeister wrote:
"Collins was excellent in everything he did". Apart from backing off, not putting in a challenge or closing down Costa in the last minute and letting him have a free shot on goal
I guess as a manager you easily dig yourself into a hole. You have an idea, a plan, a system, a project, and you need to believe in it and make your players believe in it, and you need to shut out everyone and then some splashing their ideas and their opinions about. You can not be seen as fickle. Everyone screams at you that Nolan should be dropped, but you have seen this dip in form before and you know he can play his way out of it. Or everyone goes on and on about Antonio is a winger. But you know he's a good winger, but you also know that if he gets some discipline and positional sense, he'd be an exceptional full back. So you ride it out.iLoveLasagne wrote:I think it is clear to see that Bilic is showing some of the stubbornness so inherent in Big Sam when it comes to personnel and/or positions.
brooking1966 wrote:Overall Damp squid, deflated tire, although we nearly nicked a point.
I must have watched a different game altogether. Free header? Pretty sure it was contested. Wrong side? When is having a defender is between the opposition and goal side considered incorrect positioning? Left Collins stranded? You make it sound like Reid left Collins in an impossible situation - except it was a full 5 seconds from the time the ball bounced off Batshuayi's head to when Costa fire the shot off. Yes, 5 seconds.bristolhammerfc wrote:
Except Reid was the wrong side of Bats giving him a free header and leaving Collins stranded. For me Reid was very poor. Nearly cost us albeit a soft penalty, made rash lunges in or around our box and hit too many long balls to the middle of nowhere.