Yes, I think he was frustrated by Kelly. Right from the start Kelly was holding him and stopping his runs. Sarr got nothing from the ref but some would argue it was "clever" defending.
Same old, same old. F*** ‘em. I pray they don’t win promotion, the sooner they f*** off back to League Two where they belong the better.
The FA changed the rules when they saw fit to give Deeney a red two days after we played Stoke in the prem
Remember macmanaman post match comments after a city game, when he was at real they used to instruct fouls all the time. He said all you’d hear is foul foul ( in Spanish) wood gate maybe implementing tactics he picked up over there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Poskett got 31 goals in 80 games including 2 in the 7-1 victory against Southanpton!!!! Always loved that guy.
I thought the FA can only give retrospective reds if the Ref hasn't already punished the player with a yellow on the pitch? I.e. the ref has seen the offence and determined it's not a red and the FA don't like to undermine the Ref's decision.
Possibly, I didn't see anything that Kelly did that looked untoward in that regard. I just think Sarr didn't get anything out of him. Kiko lost all confidence as soon as Danjuma made him look stupid for the first time and they lost all confidence. It's times like that in which the coach has to step up and change things. Not ours. Absolutely clueless. The first time things weren't going well since the formation change and he stood around staring into thin air.
Which is true, in the Stoke match, the ref gave Deeney a yellow for the incident at the time. The FA overruled it with a red the following week.
As someone mentioned in the shoutbox, too much blind loyalty and bias towards certain players, as per. Gosling and Zinckernagel both should have started as an absolute minimum. I also probably would have given Femenia a rest - who had comfortably his worst game of the season today - in favour of Ngakia. Wilmot has to finally be giving a start midweek, too.
I don’t think Sarr helps himself, he only seems to want to take his man on when he’s running on to a pass, for some reason he never takes his man on from a standing start.
Not the end of the World if results stay the way they are then it isn't too bad at all. Was a little annoyed with the defeat earlier but it happens we never played well today and were beaten, we are still in a good position and may even end the day joint second with two winnable home games coming up next.
Yes, very disappointed with the timing and choice of subs. I would have liked to have seen what Zinckernagel can do in the Sarr role. Kelly obviously had been given the brief on what to do with Sarr, I doubt if he would have any knowledge of PZ. The energy and belief was very poor today and that cost us. Hopefully we can find our mojo against Wycombe.
Watford were by far the better team in the first half, although Bournemouth had the best chance. We failed to score and make life hard for them and paid the price. Second half was Classic Bournemouth. As cynical as it gets. Lerma spent more time trying to get Chalobah booked than playing football. The incident that indirectly led to the goal was a joke. Lerma playing piggybacks on Chalobah. Chalobah fell for it and waved his arm and Lerma collapsed in a heap. After that I'd be impressed if there was more than about 8 minutes of actual football in the remaining 35. Bournemouth doing their Bournemouth-y best. Falling over at the slightest touch, taking three minutes to take every thrown in and free kick. The embodiment of everything that is wrong with 'professional' football and years of the authorities failing to get to grips with it and a media packed with ex-players condoning it as 'clever' play means it goes unpunished. Dreadful. Got sucked in and paid the price with the red card for Joao Pedro and the general loss of discipline at the end. Should just have taken the 0-1 and got out of there without further damage.
Yup. Stand by what I said before the game - ie I don’t think of Bournemouth as our rivals and don’t dislike them as a club or their fans particularly in the way I do Luton or Palace fans; but I do really dislike the way their players dive and play act on the pitch. Hoped those days were behind them but evidently not.
With their games in hand, Swansea could very easily and plausibly be 8 points ahead of us when their games are evened up - the idea that it isn't that bad a result, even outside the evidence on display of how we played and how Xisco coached in conjunction with the red card for our only competent striker, is laughable. We can't claim to be competing for automatics, especially when what we just witnessed was achieved with what was theoretically our first-choice XI. Incredibly annoying as it is, it's the playoff lottery for us, which is worse for us than anyone else because we're incredible bottlers who play the occasion not our own game and have a Head Coach who is incapable of in-game management or adaptation - see two hours ago for proof.
Haha should have kept my mouth shut but its still not the end of the World though, will still be there or there about after the end of the day. Brentford and Swansea will drop points along the way.
Yes the subs were worryingly odd. They would’ve made sense if we were drawing and happy to take a point, Masina wasn’t having a great game after all. But we were losing, and not creating anything. What is the logic in two like for like subs at that stage? If you’re losing a game you need to change your formation and the amount of attackers on the pitch, what on earth are like for like subs ever going to achieve??
Personally I thought Xisco's tactic of having Hughes loft aimless long balls into the box was a stroke of genius. Especially as Perica is 9ft tall and seemingly can't head a football.
Yeah I was annoyed with some of their play earlier but apart from that I don't care too much about them I don't think I have ever even met a Bournemouth fan even when I was staying in Dorset so its difficult to have any sort of rivalry with them. They are just like an annoying little brother if anything.
It is in tennis,where most matches until high up the pyramid do not have umpires. Certainly a problem in golf and football...?!
Even without looking at the fixtures, it would be a comedically herculean task with just 13 games left - they'd have to absolutely collapse in a way basically no one has whilst we became Pep's Barca. It's not based in reality to just keep saying 'they'll drop points somewhere along the way'.
Looking at how the PO picture could shape up, I agree with @GoingDown that our chances are slender. We do not have the squad we had in terms of passion when we beat Leicester then folded in the PO Final. If we are to go up, the Automatics' look our best shot. We are one injury from Pedro or Sarr to caving in though. JP's red today will give him a rest, and he could be on fire when we play Forest. Realistically, we have to win almost all our remaining games now. Not going to happen, our squad is paper thin as has been stated so many times before. If we do end up finishing in the top two, it will be due to one of the three above us sh!tting the bed.
And three of our last four games are against the three teams we’re supposedly vying for those spots with. Considering we’ve just completely bottled it against a faded rival and have one win against top 6 teams all season, it’s just not even remotely realistic.
How things can change after one game, eh? 24 hours ago on the back of 4 straight wins most people were delighted with our passion and our work rate and desire to secure wins in tough conditions against Blackburn etc
Did that not happen in 05/06? We were shat all season against fellow promotion hopefuls (bar Sheff Utd who we pasted 4-1). Leeds had got 4pts off us, Palarse had beaten us at least once. Presto we go to Palarse and stuff them 3-0, then play Leeds off the park at Wembley. It's not beyond us to work a miracle again. But this is not the same Watford.
