Calm down everyone, it was only Vulture. He has his little moments every now and again.
Couple of observations:
-I'd be interested to know which of those slating the "negative football" supposedly played last night were actually at the game and which have made this judgment based on radio commentary. I thought it was far from our worst away performance of the season. We displayed plenty of attacking intent in the first half in particular, and got lots of joy down the wings. I rather wish LuaLua was in a better run of form as they looked so vulnerable to pace at the back, and we were beating the full backs every time. The crosses into the box, several times, weren't quite hitting the mark. We also hit the bar with a header and our corners occasionally looked slightly more threatening than they have done in previous games. Yes, we faded a bit in the second half, but that was always going to happen as Wednesday probably got a bollocking at half time for looking so mediocre.
-actually digging a thread out would probably make me lose the will to live, but I distinctly remember plenty of threads at times last season about Gus Poyet's "negative football". Anyone who went to that away game at Ashton Gate last season will know exactly what I mean, and that was when we actually had a few fit striking options. People used to moan loads about Poyet's perceived lack of killer instinct (quite possibly the same ones who are unfavourably comparing Oscar now).
-Oscar can demand all the dynamic, attacking football that he wants, but if Will Buckley breaks, unaccompanied into the penalty box and slots one comfortably into the goalkeeper's midriff, or Lingard continues to shoot with all the venom of a sleeping My Little Pony, I don't know quite what anyone expects the manager to do about it (WITHIN the confines of the current squad).
I felt a lot worse after the Ipswich result, for some reason. Not sure why that is, as typically an injury time goal is all the more painful. Maybe it's down to the other results. Feels like a let off.
Spot on.