Rotherham 1-1 Bolton

Not the worst result in the world, hopefully a goal for Doidge will give him some confidence. Good to see Parky had 3 strikers on the pitch towards the end, the ending to the Blackburn game was about as limp as it gets.

Cheers Bonce.

I'd have saved that while eating a Twirl.

Yes, but your not allowed to block the whole goal by lying down in front of it 

Another match where we failed to have a shot in the 1st half. Might just turn up for the 2nd half next week. Maybe that is an idea to pitch to Ken, 2nd half season tickets.

Again we showed a lot of defensive frailty despite the 3 DMs and could have conceded a few before we finally did,  but when it happened we showed a bit more attacking intent and pulled off a draw. Obvious question is why Parky doesn't do that from the off? Still there were positives with Donaldson proving surprisingly effective and Doidge getting the chance he needed to show what he can do best but it seems Parky still hasn't found the combo that will give us more wins.
Happy with the draw but it's still not quite right.

wanderlust wrote: Obvious question is why Parky doesn't do that from the off?

You'd be the first to moan if he started with 3 strikers.

Yet another utterly guff performance, i wouldn't mind if the shite that is being served up was effective, but it isnt, and Ken wants people to cough up to improve attendances, get real who apart from the hard core are gonna pay to watch parkys dross, on a positive great finish from CD. !!!

Natasha Whittam wrote:

wanderlust wrote: Obvious question is why Parky doesn't do that from the off?

You'd be the first to moan if he started with 3 strikers.

You're deliberately misunderstanding the point I'm making now.

Natasha Whittam wrote:
You'd be the first to moan if he started with 3 strikers.

I don't think anybody would moan if he started with 3 strikers, but we all know he won't so it's a moot point.

Most teams in this league would dick us if we started 3 strikers against them, we’d be overrun and it would be madness. 

Parky did well yesterday, got us out of a hole with decisive and aggressive changes. Not sure we’d have got that point last season - there’s more belief in the squad now.

bryan458 wrote:Yet another utterly guff performance, i wouldn't mind if the shite that is being served up was effective, but it isnt

But it is - we’ve been promoted and stayed up playing this way. Parky isn’t going to change and at this point, why should he?

Does Magennis not understand the offside rule? He was offside far too much.

T.R.O.Y wrote:

bryan458 wrote:Yet another utterly guff performance, i wouldn't mind if the shite that is being served up was effective, but it isnt

But it is - we’ve been promoted and stayed up playing this way. Parky isn’t going to change and at this point, why should he?

I think your very easily pleased !!!

I just think it’s about being realistic, we’ve spent almost no money in 3 years so I just don’t expect much. Megson spent cash so I expected more of a return.

If we ever get investment and they put money into the club my expectations will shift.

T.R.O.Y wrote:Most teams in this league would dick us if we started 3 strikers against them, we’d be overrun and it would be madness. 

Parky did well yesterday, got us out of a hole with decisive and aggressive changes. Not sure we’d have got that point last season - there’s more belief in the squad now.

When you say "most teams in this league would dick us", which ones would not dick us if not Rotherham? 

I agree that survival is the objective and that we can't expect fantastic quality given the budget, but I also think it's a valid point that whilst we continue to have so few chances up front and exert so little pressure on defences over 90 minutes it's worrying where the next win will come from. 

If we are ever going to go for it, isn't it better to do so against the teams at the bottom rather than those at the top?

Yes teams like Rotherham are who we should be more gung ho against, that’s why we were? No reason to start like that we should be keeping it tight.

T.R.O.Y wrote:Yes teams like Rotherham are who we should be more gung ho against, that’s why we were? No reason to start like that we should be keeping it tight.

I think there's a very good reason for starting off on the front foot against teams that are struggling and that is an early goal for us would undermine their confidence and make them less willing to attack in numbers. I don't get conceding the initiative until we go behind. 
It's been said that starting with two strikers is an attacking move but if they are starved of service all it's doing is increasing the chances of holding the ball up a bit longer when we hoof it clear and that doesn't do much unless the midfield are willing to push up and support which Williams, Lowe and O'Neil weren't. At least Vela pushed on a bit when he came on, but we needed more bodies to support the strikers and the wingers were relatively anonymous.

It’s not a case of handing the initiative to Rotherham, quite the opposite in fact. I’d say Parky is struggling in central midfield in that Williams, O’neill and Vela are supposedly box to box players but don’t have enough about them (currently) to perform that role successfully - isolating the striker(s). I’d like to seeOz in the team every week, but not sure he’s effective unless played as a number 10 - which won’t haooen with 2 up front.