Reason for yesterdays loss...

[londinium]

We have done well so far in Kitsons absence, however its now being to show. Pure effort and passion is beginning to flag both on and off the pitch and the early season excitement is no longer there. Souls early signing effort has gone, Doyle got to top of the scoring charts and was content with that. Arguements are breaking out all over the field, Doyle/Sidwell & Murty/Little. The players & crowd may believe they have already done enough to stay up and are content with that. New passion and urgency need to be injected otherwise it could be a long hard winter. Don't get me wrong I have loved our start but problems could be just around the corner if we don't pick up soon

and Europe may just be around the corner if we win a few!

Next time try and point out something truly obvious

[Barry the bird boggler]

we lost cos we weren't good enough in the 2nd half and don't have the experience/ability to keep possession when we get hit by a team going for the jugular.

[brendywendy]

OK I cant hold this in any longer the guilt is just too much.The reason we lost was because I never wore my lucky blue underpants.I hang my head in shame.

no
i forgot to wear my home shirt, after drunken xmas party on friday

[papereyes]

.....is in the 2nd half we didnt get a single cross in!!!

1st half was as it should be, spreading play and hunt/little getting to the corners and whipping balls in for attackers/midfielders to get onto.

where was this in the 2nd half? we just hoofed it, no composure and ball control was distinctly lacking. little recieved no decent ball so was unable to get crosses in and the midfield just folded.

you cant win a game in the premiership by just hoofing it upfield for doyle and seol to 'attempt' to do something with, you need to get it to the flanks at every oppurtunity.

I agree, but I think the issue comes from not getting the ball enough to do anything with it and then when we did get the ball, losing it cheaply.

Sidwell and Shorey looked very poor for me. Just something missing there, caught in possession too often. Little didn't get past his man once, Hunt looked slightly withdrawn. All in all, tired. But, you'll get more tired chasing the ball. And, in Savage, Blackburn had someone who I think is a genuinely class midfielder. Someone who wins the ball and doesn't lose it.

Giving them 25 minutes of the second half to play as they wanted meant that we ceded all iniative. We didn't seem to want to stop them.

Yes, their goals were offside, but I'm afraid we didn't learn our lesson - their equaliser seemed a carbon copy of one of the offsides.

Simply writing it off as a bad day is naive, imo, and is not something Coppell will do. IMO.

[knobby_1871]

OK I cant hold this in any longer the guilt is just too much.The reason we lost was because I never wore my lucky blue underpants.I hang my head in shame.

no
i forgot to wear my home shirt, after drunken xmas party on friday

blame pridders he turned up without his home shirt as well