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Last word from me tonight; too annoyed. We conceded 5 goals in the second half to non league tactics. WB did us the same way. If other teams take note and we don't react we will see much more of the same.

 

We should have been able to pick off Fulham with ease when they started to play long; we ended up almost clueless.

 

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Guest bimpy474

Bolton 1-0 up, if they beat the racists then this result will hurt even more.

 

how on the very earth can this ever be the case? we NEED to win games when our main rivals do, not when they lose ffs  :lol:

 

You know what i meant you massive spacker :D

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Bolton 1-0 up, if they beat the racists then this result will hurt even more.

 

how on the very earth can this ever be the case? we NEED to win games when our main rivals do, not when they lose ffs  :lol:

 

You know what i meant you massive spacker :D

 

the opposite of what you said?  :lol:

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Bolton 1-0 up, if they beat the racists then this result will hurt even more.

 

how on the very earth can this ever be the case? we NEED to win games when our main rivals do, not when they lose ffs  :lol:

 

You know what i meant you massive spacker :D

 

the opposite of what you said?  :lol:

 

:huff:  :D

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Been out at work all day heard the score was 1 -1 then someone rang me and said 5 -2 thought they were taking the piss, but on the bright side we got spanked and are still sixth so................  :yao:

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The main problem imo was that Jol changed it to two strikers with Johnson running at our central pair which seemed to spark fear and indescision. The key element however is that without Tiote there was no defensive screen. That's it in a nutshell.

 

Yep, it was very strange for us not to adapt when Johnson came on. He's exactly the kind of player thy always causes us problems.

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Ah well, you win some, you lose some, Manyoo got battered 6-0 earlier in the season, we took a pasting and we need to come back out fighting, we're still 6th thanks to the racist giro collectors and when the Arse fuck it up tomorrow we'll be no better or worse off. We just need to be professional and not let this have a knock on effect, learn from our mistakes.

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"You can explain everything," Jol said.

 

"The first half we knew that we had to be a threat in behind [Mike] Williamson and [Fabricio] Coloccini, but we never did that.

 

"We couldn't exploit our extra man in midfield and in the second half it was different because we decided to play a more direct style. That caused them more problems.

 

"It was 1-0 and we knew we had come back from that before. The score was not the problem, the style of play was more of a problem. We just didn't put enough energy into it.

 

"Of course with the runners from midfield and bringing on Andrew Johnson we got that [in the second period] and that is exactly what you saw.

 

"Having said that, we wanted to do that with Damien Duff, Clint and Bobby Zamora but we couldn't keep the ball.

 

"If we played it up to Bobby we couldn't get the runners in behind and with Andrew Johnson he solved that problem.

 

"I wanted to change things at half-time but of course we had (Steve) Sidwell going off [injured just before the break].

 

"That probably meant we didn't look balanced enough in midfield [so I brought on Chris Baird at half-time].

 

"The first half was sort of Brixton, the second half was a holiday in Jamaica. It was an unbelievable difference."

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unbelievable game,  can't believe we can go for being so good in the 1st half too so horrendously bad in the 2nd...we were fantastic in the first half, totally dominating them and deservedly going in 1 nil up at half time, should really have been two as Colo should have scored.  While we had other decent efforts the HBA shot and Shola's two efforts(header and shot from edge of the box) were comfortable saves. 

 

2nd half was just a shambles, only thing missing was a red card and we were lucky not too get one as Santon and Krul could easily have gone when giving away the penalties.    The first pen was the turning point, don't think it was a pen, dubious foul and if it was a foul then it was outside the box.  Worst thing was though is that the ref didn't give it, when the players hit the deck Mason waved play on and from the side on replay i delibrately looked at the lineswoman to see if she flagged and she didn't, well not straightaway, she might of when the camera switched.  It was probably 15 seconds later following Duff's appeal when he pointed to the spot.  Very poor from the ref.

 

In saying that,  one poor decision shouldn't set us back like it did and from the moment Murphy scored we fell apart and were all over the place.  Although it was partly due to Sidwell's injury fair play to Jol's two subs as bringing on Johnson and then Baird helped them massively and not for the first time we couldn't handle Andy Johnson.... hopefully his rumoured tranfer to Blackburn doesn't go through or we could get flashbacks in the next game....

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Here are my ratings, fwiw:

 

Krul  4

Simpson  4

Williamson  3

Coloccini  5

Santon  4

Ben Arfa  7

Cabaye  5

Guthrie  6.5

Jonas  5

Best  5

Shola  2

 

Perch  6

Gosling  5

 

 

Agreed with all bar Perch , 6 for what??? He played like 15mins.

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