Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Bolton

MartinBWFC wrote:Evatt calling out the ref is becoming a bit of a joke after every defeat, how about leaving Doyle on the bench, because it's like playing with 10 men at the moment, what we'd give for an ALF at the minute, Evatt's biggest mistake to date is not signing a proven striker, and I like Evatt but he seems very arrogant and stubborn.

Whitesince63 wrote:can anybody actually name someone who may possibly fit the bill

boltonbonce wrote:Just some poor decision making on Saturday, the most glaring when we were three on one, and the ball went left, when Lee was in on goal had it gone right.
I'm not throwing him under the bus just yet.

Norpig wrote:Its strange as we either score 4 or 5 or none at all so when we do score 4 or 5 whats different? Its the same players so they must be getting it right in games against Ipswich for example.

We do seem to have a tendency to want to walk it in the net instead of shooting more which is frustrating.

Sluffy wrote:

Maybe I'm just imagining this but haven't most of our goals come from shots from outside the penalty area?

I remember Allardyce once telling players NOT to shoot from outside the box as percentage wise it was a bad return on being successful.

I think our problem is simply that we don't have the speed in our game to get the ball in to dangerous areas before their defence can get back and defend.

Seems we are ok in open games but when teams park the bus we simply don't have the speed or guile to unlock their defence and thus why we seem to score (or it seems like that to me?) by shots from outside the box.

I'm also baffled that considering we have so many tall men in our side that we don't seem to score many headers?

I would have thought that was something we would work on at corners and free kicks?  Just think of how many goals Wheater and Beevers scored in this division a few years back for instance?

I'm not having a dig at Evatt but I recall him saying something about there being no point putting in crosses as all the other teams have big blokes and know how to deal with them - then goes out and signs Bakayoko to be such a target man to give us something different?

If he brings Bakayoko on to win headers as a sub to win headers late on in the game, then why not push Santos and/or MJ up for corners and free kicks sometimes, simply to mix things up from time to time, during the game?

Maybe he does, maybe I'm not seeing it but the fact remains that players like Santos and MJ - players with great height - don't seem to get on the scoresheet much if at all?

Yes I know if you push Santos and/or MJ forward then somebody needs to cover for them but you plan for that in training.

I still don't know why he didn't bring in another forward when the window was open and we knew we had players injured and decided to go with a vacant place in the squad?

Yes I know money and player availability comes into it but we are supposed to have already identified all these targets and if he really wanted another striker then I think Sharon would have backed him moneywise.

We can't complain really, it is what it is, we are doing ok and seem for the moment to be a top half of the table team - and play attractive football - not at all bad considering what we've had to endure for the last half dozen years or so!