Don't know if Harrison being lightweight is fair. Their left back was very
good. Sometimes you have just to give credit where credit is due.
On Sunday, October 7, 2018, 6:46:16 AM EDT, Nick <[email protected]>
wrote:
The problem with the ref was not so much the penalty decision (which he got
conned on) but the twenty or thirty other challenges - some of them really good
clean tackles - that he blew for…he just gave the impression that he didn’t
know what he was doing - Brentford taking the free kick when Ayling hadn’t left
the pitch…as Dave mentioned I’ve never heard a crowd a sing "you don’t know
what you’re doing” when the ref gives a free kick to their team…
Ayling was a bag of shite all game
Pontus had one of his best games
Harrison was lightweight and invisible for much of it
They didn’t run the midfield in the first half…it was a 50-50 thing…Klich was
causing them as many nightmares as they were causing us, but he faded badly.
> On 7 Oct 2018, at 11:25, {broken-address}
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I don’t think we’re being hyper critical by pointing out the fact that
> passing a ball seems beyond Ayling (for one). Like Rich, I thought we didn’t
> deserve even a point, but was ecstatic when Pontus scored. First half we kind
> of matched Brentford - second half was a very different story. What Bielsa
> has done with the resources at hand has been miraculous, but when Dallas is
> first reserve at left back the deficiencies in the squad are pretty clear.
>
> The ref was bad, for both teams, but Ayling was stupid beyond belief - 20
> seconds from the end kicking one of their players on the thigh with studs
> showing! What an utter bell-end! OK, the ref was rubbish, and was conned for
> the penalty (although there was contact) but that’s just an excuse really -
> no doubt Janssons post match interview will land him in bother, but if he
> thinks the ref robbed us he is seriously deluded!
>
> There is plenty to hope for with this team, and maybe reality is that we’re
> not strong enough yet, but if we can get a couple of decent ball players and
> integrate a couple of the juniors then it looks good. Passing the ball to our
> own players is a must though!
>
> John
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>> Subject: [LU] Brentford
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>> Wow - there are some ultra critical fans on here. OK we were not at out best
>> today and we were very lapse at timesHaving said that apart from the last
>> 15 minutes when we battered them it was a very even, up and down game with
>> both teams being on top for periods here and there
>> The referee was as bad as I have seen - in 40 + years of watching LUFC week
>> after week I cannot recall fans ever singing' you don't know what you're
>> doing' and 'you're not fit to referee' after a ref has given a free kick OUR
>> way ! Yes, we have had plenty of sarcastic cheering when we get a decision
>> and lots of ironic 'handball ' shouts but nothing like today. The ref was
>> totally clueless and out of his depth, and like many a ref, seemed to be out
>> to show he would not be intimidated by the home crowd. At one point Alioski
>> lost his footing with their lad at least 2 yards away and the ref gave us a
>> free-kick which led to laughter and the aforementioned chants
>> The penalty was at the opposite end to where I am so hard to determine live
>> but I have seen it on peoples phones since and that was never a pen in a
>> million years - the lad got his shot off (would ref have given a pen if it
>> had gone it) and Ayling made a great goal line clearanceI hate it when
>> managers blame the ref for one decision so I am not going to say it was his
>> fault here , BUT in addition to the wrong penalty decision the ref was
>> pulling us for foul after foul any time players came into contact and was
>> card happy when it came to Leeds players (no idea why Ayling got sent off
>> but not seen it since so not going to comment)
>> Anyway back to the game itself. Like I say we had a poor day at the office
>> and our passing was just that bit wayward - under or over hit too often, or
>> taking the wrong option.
>>
>> They were a decent team and got the rub of the green most of the time, much
>> of it deserved - for example the scramble where Phillips nearly scored but
>> the keeper did really well and got the luck he needed
>> Harrison was off the pace and out of form and has as much chance of playing
>> for Man City as Pennington has of playing for Everton - none !
>> We huffed and puffed but at times were out Leeds' by a very decent team
>> The missing players caught up with us today but you cannot fault us for
>> effort and we never gave it up - in fact we created more in the last 15
>> minutes than the previous 75 with Roberts and Baker (twice) coming close to
>> getting us a winner
>> MB made all 3 subs with 20mins or more to go - none of this sitting back and
>> letting the game pass us by. The best of the subs was giving Clarke a run
>> out. He looks brilliant and the stand out player for the u23s and for the
>> brief time he was on the pitch he showed enough to suggest he is the real
>> deal and should get more game time in the future
>> So another 2 pts dropped at home and, on paper, we have not got many points
>> per game over the last 6 or 7 BUT it is so different from last season - we
>> have not been found out, we can not be bullied and we are not falling apart
>> again- we should have won many of the drawn games and today even though we
>> were far from our best we could easily have had all 3 pts
>> Hopefully when we play next Roofe, Douglas and Hernandez will start and
>> Berardi will replace the suspended Ayling
>> This is time to get behind the team and buy into the Bielsaball not panic
>> and get on the teams back
>> One final comment - for a 12.30 kick off the fans were a bit mental. Lots of
>> plastic bottles thrown from SS after the little shit jumped into them to
>> celebrate his penalty, another Lucazade bottle thrown (and hit) the keeper
>> from the Kop and then a mini pitch invasion when we equalised including one
>> lad fighting with 4 or 5 stewards over a few minutes- long enough that the
>> police decided to step in. Why would someone run on the pitch and get a
>> criminal conviciton and a 3 year ban for an 88th minute equaliser against a
>> mid table team in Ocotber ???? Not that it would be OK to do it with a last
>> minute winner in the last game in May but you know what I mean
>> Dave
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