| Hit and hope 18:26 - Mar 18 with 1787 views | dutch |
After Watford I think both Brian and myself warned that the style of football played that day was not something to celebrate. Since then we have been completely incoherent, perhaps the worst mess I've watched in my 50 plus years following this club. Hoofball requires a particular set of qualities which we do not possess. It also renders the game formless and random and we saw the today: no shape, no plan, no hope but get a bounce off somebodies arse. We've got a few games to go and surely we have to go back to absolute basics, park every bus, keep some shape, pass to your own team. Not loosing, not letting in goals in the first five minutes, not pumping up every ball to nobody. Pick up a point here and there and pray. |  | | |  |
| Hit and hope on 18:33 - Mar 18 with 1673 views | distortR |
hoof ball starting with a 34 yr old, a bloke recently out of hospital with a respiratory illness, and a 'couldn't-give-a-shit' as the arrow head.
My word. | | | |
| Hit and hope on 18:35 - Mar 18 with 1627 views | Damo1962 |
These players are only capable of one style of football...losing football. They seem too thick to understand instructions, no matter who is in charge. | | | |
| Hit and hope on 18:43 - Mar 18 with 1562 views | andrew1302 |
Message to Ainsworth in this league you are going to win anything by just missing out the mid field and hoof and hope. That ranks amongst the worst games I have seen in over 50 years at Loftus Road. Waving your arms around on the touch line is not enough. This is a league with dome good players and you just have to keep the ball on the ground. We were clueless; useless and skilless. Was Lowe on the pitch? Really this club is in a mess. Completely terrible Board DOF and a manager who on today seems to think if you can get regular snow on a ball it is great strategy. Awful does not say enough about how bad we were | | | |
| Hit and hope on 18:44 - Mar 18 with 1545 views | BklynRanger |
Hoofball isn't the problem imho. Chris Martin and Dykes played together shouldn't be that unsuited to it anyway. It's the completely disjointed play all through the team that means no tactic of any kind works.
We could go back to doing that poor man's Barcelona shyte next week and that would make an equal amount of impact. Or any reasonable and pragmatic version between the two.
At one point in the first half Martin was yelling at the defence that they were all "15 yards too deep". They had a bit of a look around at each other, muttered a bit, and decided that, yeah, they probably should shuffle forwards a bit. It was like something out of The Life of Brian, and its happening on every single part of the pitch. |  | | |
| Hit and hope on 18:45 - Mar 18 with 1544 views | joe90 |
You’re complete wrong. We’ve not played the same since Watford. Plus, people were just happy that we won. Nobody was suggesting we’d turned a corner after that win. |  | | |
| Hit and hope on 18:59 - Mar 18 with 1437 views | BrianMcCarthy |
I've had to miss the two games since Watford so can't comment. |  |
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| Hit and hope on 19:06 - Mar 18 with 1392 views | dutch |
| Hit and hope on 18:59 - Mar 18 by BrianMcCarthy |
I've had to miss the two games since Watford so can't comment. |
You lucky man | | | |
| Hit and hope on 19:45 - Mar 18 with 1154 views | 1JD |
A few points from my perspective;
#1 Playing a kick and rush style with our group of players? Regardless of the rights or wrongs of it - we simply don’t have the players to do so. That is a big concern of the manager who is seemingly unable to work that out. Or perhaps a man who only has experience of playing one way?
#2 Pumping long-ball balls, and sending crosses in the air against a giant and resolute Birmingham defence - who ate up everything with ease - was quite obviously playing into Birmingham’s strengths. A poor set-up from the off. Not changing the approach, in spite of it not working, for me was a major disappointment in Ainsworth’s in-game management.
#3 Bringing subs on far too late to change a game is becoming a bit of a trend. It seems Ainsworth watches, and waits. Watches and waits. Hoping for a change in play…That never actually comes. Subs need to be made far earlier and far more positive than that 75th minute onwards. Be proactive.
#4 Agree with the original poster - unfortunately that was the most horrific game of “football” in many a year - the players are very clearly under instruction to hit it long first time. The thing is, you direct your team to play like that, and you need to win to justify it. Keep losing, as we are - worse than anything under Critchley- and you will not only lose the fans, but perhaps more importantly, you will lose the respect of the players and their belief in you and your style. | | | |
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