blackpool v everton friendly

hairy cataract wrote:It's going to be a VERY long, VERY painful season.  Again.

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:Watched the highlights last night, seems like we were a bit fortunate to get the penalty since it came off a massive hoofing down the field and DCL did well enough to seek out contact in the box.

Davies MOTM?

hairy cataract wrote:

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:Watched the highlights last night, seems like we were a bit fortunate to get the penalty since it came off a massive hoofing down the field and DCL did well enough to seek out contact in the box.

Davies MOTM?

I thought Davies did okay second half, but if he did shine it was possibly because everyone else was so pedestrian.  I know it was only a friendly, and I know it's early days, but there are no signs of progress whatsoever.  This was awful, awful stuff.  

I honestly don't know what has gone wrong at Finch Farm, and how we can move forward, because on paper this should be a decent team but it has no identity and no character - as the pundits have been saying for a couple of seasons now.  We don't press energetically, we don't hoof it, we don't pass it quickly, we don't play possession football, we don't bomb down the wings and lash in crosses, we don't have predatory strikers, we don't have brilliant dribblers, we don't have long-range shooters... what we seem to have is a spoonful of each of those things, but nothing you can remember at the end of the game.

We are horrible to watch at the moment, and I don't know the answer.  You can't even bring in a Big Sam type motivator, because these players don't have the commitment or bottle for that, and you can't bring in a footballing manager because these players don't seem to have the skills.

We are mid table at best.  At very best.  At worst we are definitely potentially in the relegation mix.

hairy cataract wrote:

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:Watched the highlights last night, seems like we were a bit fortunate to get the penalty since it came off a massive hoofing down the field and DCL did well enough to seek out contact in the box.

Davies MOTM?

I thought Davies did okay second half, but if he did shine it was possibly because everyone else was so pedestrian.  I know it was only a friendly, and I know it's early days, but there are no signs of progress whatsoever.  This was awful, awful stuff.  

I honestly don't know what has gone wrong at Finch Farm, and how we can move forward, because on paper this should be a decent team but it has no identity and no character - as the pundits have been saying for a couple of seasons now.  We don't press energetically, we don't hoof it, we don't pass it quickly, we don't play possession football, we don't bomb down the wings and lash in crosses, we don't have predatory strikers, we don't have brilliant dribblers, we don't have long-range shooters... what we seem to have is a spoonful of each of those things, but nothing you can remember at the end of the game.

We are horrible to watch at the moment, and I don't know the answer.  You can't even bring in a Big Sam type motivator, because these players don't have the commitment or bottle for that, and you can't bring in a footballing manager because these players don't seem to have the skills.

We are mid table at best.  At very best.  At worst we are definitely potentially in the relegation mix.