As usual Richard I agree with most of your observations. I do think Hull are the worst team I have seen at ER this year. I didn rate any of their players and frankly they got away with robbery last night. from start to finish we were the better team and, again, SG's tactics come under scrutiny in my view. The point has already been made about why we played with 1 striker against Hull. Ok he brought on Somma but their defence was sitting pretty deep and that doesnt suit Somma who likes a bit of grass in front of him. I thought he should have tried Paynter with Becchio and when they went down to 10 men, even at 2-1, he should have took off a defender and put on an extra striker. He let them off the hook last night. He really should fuck Bradley Johnson off and let him rot in the reserves for the remainder of his contract. The gormless c*nt had time to take that corner down and walk it out of the area and yet he needlessly scores an O.G. He shouldnt play before Sam or Watt in my view because he simply isn good enough. Notwithstanding the tactics I was very pleased with the peformance. For me the jury is still out on the defence because I could have done a shift last night against that lot. They were really shit. Regards Phill MOT > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 23:04:17 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: [LU] Hull > > I thought this was a pretty entertaining game and a definite improvement on > recent home performances. I’ll start with the positives as this was a game of > many however for every good thing there was at least one mistake to match. I > thought the defence was better, more solid, certainly not perfect but I think > Grayson should stick with that back four now and stop changing things at the > back. You couldn’t really blame the back 4 for either of the goals. Their > first > was a stupid tackle from Johnson giving them a 30 yard free kick. I thought > Schmeichel was a bit lapse with his wall organisation , he seemed to be > peeping > round the other side when Bostock stuck it in the top corner, a great > free-kick. > The second in the last few minutes was from a corner. Again the brain dead > Bradley Johnson threw his trusty left boot at it, he completely missed it and > sliced it into the top of the net. Complete school boy error. > > > I thought we started the game really well with the midfield moving and > passing > very effectively however there wasn’t much end product. Hull were also lively > in > the first half and caused us a few problems on the break. I thought they were > a > decent team and have one or two very good players. We didn’t create that many > chances but the ones we did were squandered including Becchio obligatory free > header in the 6 yard box that he unbelievably put up into the air when it was > easier to score. Our equaliser when it came was deserved. Becchio pounced on > to > a ball , tried to control it but it hit is knee and bounced off into the path > of > Johnson who cracked it along the floor into the bottom corner. Good strike > and > good to see a Johnson strike that doesn’t end up in row z. The main problem > with our first half performance was the formation / tactics. Why play with a > lone striker at home against a struggling Hull team ? Ok, we’ve won away with > the same system but come on Simon use your head ? Becchio is totally > ineffective > as a lone striker, he won nothing in the air tonight and they were completely > dominant against him (not hard to do !). To Grayson’s credit he realised this > and tried to change things second half by pushing the lively Gradel alongside > Becchio up front. I like Gradel, yes he can be inconsistent , yes he can be > frustrating but he works hard and really puts himself about a bit. He’s also > pretty decent in the air for a small lad – better than his strike partner. > > > I thought it was a strange decision to drag Gradel off after 70 minutes to be > replaced by Somma. Surely Becchio would have been the better bet. Grayson > eventually hauled Becchio off with 5 minutes to go to be replaced by Paynter > – > pointless. > > > Our second goal came from header from O’Brien after good work from Snodgrass. > We should have gone further ahead when Johnson was unmarked in the 6 yard box > but put his header wide, bad miss. > > > They then had a man sent off for 2 yellows and all of a sudden we decided to > play possession football in our own half. Just knew what would happen and it > did. > > > Scores: > > Schmeicel – 5. Had little to do other than pick the ball out of the net twice > and some long range kicking. I think he needs to sort out his defensive walls > better. I watched a later freekicj by Bostock where the players had no idea > what > he was asking of them. > > > Connolly – 7. I thought he did well tonight. Looked solid. > > Bruce – 7. A few dodgy moments but also some good defending. > > O’Brien – 8. Calm under pressure, good solid defending. > > McCartney – 7. Decent game. > > Johnson – 5. Average footballer at best, brain dead, lacking in consistency > and > quality. Won’t sign his contract – thank God. > > > Snodgrass – 7. Better. Lively throughout especially at times in the first > half. > Still needs better fitness. > > > Howson – 6. A few good contributions but one bad miss first half and > generally > didn’t do enough. > > > Gradel – 7. Worked hard, effective first half. Tried hard when up front but > nothing really came off. > > > Becchio – 4. Totally ineffective as a target man. Won none of the 50:50 balls > in > the air. One or two ineffective knock downs and a speculative sfloating side > footer that hit the bar were his contributions. Just don’t understand why he > is > our number 1 striker. His goal tally is looking a bit poor recently as well. > He’ll soon be hitting the 1 in 3/4 that we have come to expect from him. > > > Kilkenny – 7. Our best midfielder on the night. Links up play with > intelligent > football. When he was taken off Bradley Johnson took over this role and > showed > just how difficult Kilkenny’s brand of football is for someone without a > brain. > Not everything came off for Kilkenny but he did well. Needs to be in the team > week in week out. > > > Subs: > > Somma – didn’t do a right lot apart from look lively and make some runs. > > Paynter – not on for long. > > Grayson – I’d like to think he’s sorting the defence out but I fully expect > to > Collins to make a return on Saturday. My main concern is that our top scorer > is > sat on the bloody bench ? and that Becchio as a lone striker seems to be his > preferred option home or away. Not only is Becchio not good enough at this > level > I think it’s criminal for the Leeds fans not to see the best strikers > starting. > > > Decent crowd for a Tuesday night. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: > http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > MARCHING ON TOGETHER _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected]
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