When we heard the team we did all agree that this was our best line-up in many
ways. It had served us well at Bolton and both gives Cook the licence to get
forward and cause problems and protects the back four (which we know is prone
to slip ups to say the least)Put a fit Wood in there in place of Doukara or
Antenucci and buy Cook some shooting boots and we could have a reasonable team
especially when Berardi is back or Coyle makes the break through.
I do feel a bit sorry for Wootton - he does a decent job defensively for the
most part but is such a scapegoat with the fans that this is never appreciated,
and he is so poor going forward that the other teams often leave him with room
so the pass to him is the best option but will come to nothing. I hate seeing
any player booed off by his own 'fans' and I think in some ways Wootton is the
poster boy for all our ills, ills for which he is NOT the main cause by any
stretch of the imagination
Having read your report I agree - we were watching different games ! Only
joking, sort of. We were the better team for the most part but some of that was
down to the way Forest play: conceding possession and funneling all eleven back
behind the ball which meant we had to find a spark of brilliance to get round
or through them and we failed to do this. My thoughts over the game are indeed
coloured by the fact that this is yet another poor home game where we failed to
score and failed to create real clear cut chances. The highlights (all
30seconds of them) on Ch 5 showed them hitting the bar and scoring (offside?)
as you referred to but also showed them messing up a real chance albeit caused
by a deflection, whereas all they thought worthy of showing by us was a decent
cross by Dallas that Doukara failed to get a good header on.
I can appreciate the finer points of the game, the possession and slick passing
etc but, like most fans, I want to see us creating chances and scoring goals
and we are clearly failing to do either at home this season (away we look a
different team from the bits I have seen / been to)
The song "we're shit and we've all had enough" would be an appropriate anthem
for us at the moment, as evidenced by the non attendance of listers Rich and
Betty for a game that they could have gone to, on a Saturday afternoon against
decent opponents , but chose not to and even worse, are happy with that choice.
You can argue whether 24 thousand is a good crowd or not for LUFC but the way
things are going and the way fans are feeling this will be viewed as an
exceptional turnout for any game next season !
Sorry this post is a bit all over the place and a bit disgruntled but it is
hard to know what to say or think at the moment -
Dave
From: Nick Allen <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LU] team today
The irony being that the team had a much better balance today, passed the ball
around and looked like the team more likely...but then Forest had one come back
off the bar and of course scored after we stopped playing waiting for a whistle
that never came. The talk at half time was a decent game being played at a good
tempo, with the ball being kept on the ground and into feet...just a shame
about the points!
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