[Albion] Mr Potter has got to sort out his blind spot or else...

[Stat Brother]

... he'll never move beyond bottom 6.

He can be as creative as he wants but all the time his team is required to be an attractive ball playing side but is also completely ineffective against a well organized low blocking team, he's going nowhere.


Cry all you want about 'just needing a striker' but far too many times, in his tenure here, any one of us could have played in goal for the opposition and still not conceded.

Tonight it took less than 10 minutes for all but 3 of us to know EXACTLY how the game was going to pan out.
That just isn't good enough.

 

[Da Man Clay]

Even with a side camped out we should have scored at least two if not three goals today. Unfortunately the best of those two chances fell to Neal Maupay.

 

[big nuts]

You get a Premier League quality upfront and we take the 1-1 chance that the keeper saved from Maupay. Completely different game.

Even taking that chance away. A genuine top quality striker makes it 1-1 and doesn’t miss from 2 yards.

Having a strike force pre season of Maupay, Connolly & Zeqiri is like going into a porn shoot, packing 3 inches.

All foreplay not enough penetration.

 

[Shooting Star]

... he'll never move beyond bottom 6.

He can be as creative as he wants but all the time his team is required to be an attractive ball playing side but is also completely ineffective against a well organized low blocking team, he's going nowhere.


Cry all you want about 'just needing a striker' but far too many times, in his tenure here, any one of us could have played in goal for the opposition and still not conceded.

Tonight it less than 10 minutes for all but 3 of us to know EXACTLY how the game was going to pan out.
That just isn't good enough.

100% agree.

 

[Withdean11]

A clinical striker scored twice tonight and we win the game. We have been able to say that far too many times this season. We absolutely must sign a quality striker in the summer.

 

[sdmartin1]

I think Potter's real problem is lack of flexibility, why are we playing 3 CB's and two central midfielders as wingbacks against the lowest scorers in the English leagues this season?

Change up the formation and given them something to think about, absolutely zero width or pace in the first half made it so, so easy for them, and once we were behind you knew we were going to struggle to break them down.

 

[Stat Brother]

You get a Premier League quality upfront and we take the 1-1 chance that the keeper saved from Maupay. Completely different game.

Even taking that chance away. A genuine top quality striker makes it 1-1 and doesn’t miss from 2 yards.

Having a strike force pre season of Maupay, Connolly & Zeqiri is like going into a porn shoot, packing 3 inches.

All foreplay not enough penetration.

Nah sorry I'm no longer having that.

Irrespective of who is playing striker the default setting for our oh so pretty system (which I do enjoy) will always be:-

'if only we had a better striker'.

The system creates a 1001 half chances but only 2 decent chances.


I get suckered in by the press, the movement, (no matter how slow) and the talent on show, but the bottom line is it doesn't produce much and it produces nothing against a team of defenders.

The Emperor needs to but on some more clothes.

 

[figgis]

I have said it all season Potter out and got abuse. Welcome to the reality get rid.

 

[TottonSeagull]

... he'll never move beyond bottom 6.

He can be as creative as he wants but all the time his team is required to be an attractive ball playing side but is also completely ineffective against a well organized low blocking team, he's going nowhere.


Cry all you want about 'just needing a striker' but far too many times, in his tenure here, any one of us could have played in goal for the opposition and still not conceded.

Tonight it less than 10 minutes for all but 3 of us to know EXACTLY how the game was going to pan out.
That just isn't good enough.

Completely agree with this. We must be one of the most frustrating sides to support. We do have some fundamental problems that need to be addressed and that isn’t going to be solved by a striker! As soon as that goal went in, a draw was my best hope!

 

[big nuts]

Nah sorry I'm no longer having that.

Irrespective of who is playing striker the default setting for our oh so pretty system (which I do enjoy) will always be:-

'if only we had a better striker'.

The system creates a 1001 half chances but only 2 decent chances.


I get suckered in by the press, the movement, (no matter how slow) and the talent on show, but the bottom line is it doesn't produce much and it produces nothing against a team of defenders.

The Emperor needs to but on some more clothes.

When your top goal scorer only has eight goals and two of which are penalties, you’ll do very well to finish outside the bottom three.

Our lowly position is purely down to a lack of decent striker. Earlier in the season it was defending from set pieces too. We seemed to have solved that problem but the lack of clinical striker is killing us.

 

[Zebedee]

If Spurs really want him, they can have him and good riddance. Utter gash.

 

[wellquickwoody]

I wonder if Mr Bloom will be needing to sort out his blind spot this time next season?

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Potter is one dimensional, so while our performances against the better teams improve, we are actually getting worse against the weaker sides. Sheffield pressed us high tonight from the start but there was no effort to mix and match to try and get the ball further upfield. This cost us, as the extravagant Webster, trying to push up, lost the ball, as he is prone to do and it cost us dear. Tonight was painful watching. We aren't learning from our mistakes in previous like for like games. There is a certain naivety and also an arrogance in our attitude and our gameplan. Too many players have been allowed sub standard games this season, knowing they will still be on the teamsheet. The worst offenders by far are Trossard and Maupay. Two of our key forward players. When play keeps breaking down in the final third, these two are regular culprits. There is a general lack of quality in our offensive play. No real quality in crosses, shots or set pieces. It all adds up to a side that will struggle to progress.

 

[Mellotron]

I do think a target man who can win fouls/hold the ball up further up the pitch, means Sheff Utd can’t press us like they did, knowing we have no option to go long/high.

A younger Murray would’ve gotten countless free kicks on the edge for us (and probably 1-2 pens) in this game, as Sheff Utd were determined to “leave one in” on every challenge - and Muzza was exceptional at drawing fouls from sides who do that. Of course, a younger Murray would’ve meant Sheff Utd would’ve had to approach the game completely differently.

A decent hold up striker wouldn’t make ALL the difference necessarily, but it would definitely make A difference, imo.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

And this thread started so well. How sad.

"Potter out. Sack the board. Burn the Amex. Just get rid, Rid, RID!!!!!!"

And.....exhale

 

[Stat Brother]

I have said it all season Potter out and got abuse. Welcome to the reality get rid.

I'm not in your reality.
I do still believe in Mr Potter and his project.

But BUT his team can't keep being as predictable as they are in games like tonight, that shows a lack of emotional intelligence that really ought not be so visible.


The team seem to spend the training time trying to reinvent the corner instead of addressing the feckin great big heffalump in the room.

As the title states Mr Potter really needs to get to grips with that, so that he isn't a victim of a Potter Out campaign.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

It is his weakness but bizarrely it’s also what got him the job, because he knows how to make us play against the better sides, which his predecessor struggled with.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

When your top goal scorer only has eight goals and two of which are penalties, you’ll do very well to finish outside the bottom three.

Our lowly position is purely down to a lack of decent striker. Earlier in the season it was defending from set pieces too. We seemed to have solved that problem but the lack of clinical striker is killing us.

Its more than that.
We have little or no quality around the edge of the box or from set pieces. We seem to think that its a numbers game and the more balls we play into the box, surely we are going to get on the end of something. Wrong. Its quality needed not quantity. Poor ball after poor ball tonight. Easily defended. No real variety, nothing really clever or inventive. An unbalanced side. Decent at the back and through midfield but poor at this level in the final third. All the attractive approach play is wasted.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

We can't afford a proper striker. Otherwise we would have bought one already.

 

[A1X]

Potter has managed to win fewer times against the bottom 3 this season than a set of railings has managed to beat him in a week.