Tomorrow Night.

[Deleted member 2719]

To fair i expect us to keep a clean sheet and to score at least 6 goals to make up for the drubbing at the hammers, that's if our boys still have any spunk in them.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Fair thread i say,i will be pissed off if i see them 3 in the starting line up together.

 

[Lifelong Supporter]

But would you not agree that when the team performs badly, it is always the same old faces that suffer the axe...i.e Lualua and Buckley...Where as others such as Bridcutt, Navarro and Barnes are seemingly undroppable...Yes I know he dropped Barnes and played Vokes and Cms up front against Burnley, but in the same game gave them no width what so ever to feed off, so surprise surprise next game one of them is out and good old Barnes is back in, almost as if Poyet is trying to prove a point....But he is proving nothing because to play two strikers up front, one being a target/hold up man but give them no width is just making yourself look clueless. Then to go to West Ham and play the tactics he did just confirmed this. Two big pressure games and bad decisions in both of them.

Keeping away from personalities I feel he simply makes too many changes. He has so many players at his disposal (many of questionable consistent quality) that he is seemingly encouraged to change for changes sake. I am not sure it is good for the players and their confidence. Going into the West Ham game one would have thought we should have something of a settled team with an established successful style of play and with confidence. We had none of that and I feel lost as a result. I do agree that Dicker for instance seems to be a particular favourite who would be best eased in of the bench rather than put straight into a promotion/play off scrap. One would have thought that Sparrow (when available), JFC and Harley might well have had stronger and more sensible claims for inclusion.

 

[Mutts Nuts]

If i see the team tomorrow and Bridcutt Dicker and Navarro all start i will feel like walking out. Please Gus take the game to the opposition and play two wingers with Vicente behind a striker. Reading only played two central midfielders V Southampton and one was Jay Tabb who is only 5ft 7.

It`s too late gus has done well this season but his tinkering has cost us big time in our run in to the play offs, just hope he has learnt from it.You cannot tinker with a side to suit 1 player (smith) and be successful

 

[ferring seagull]

Saturday's line up made me wonder if there was a decision taken that we didn't want to go up this year.

Someone posted on another thread that perhaps it was an opportunity given to Div 1 players to say farewell but surely, if that had been realistic, a home match would have been chosen.

Either way it was a strange line up on Saturday so here's hoping tomorrow will be rather more positive.

By the way, I think it has been a terrific season for us but one where there have been many posts about promotion/play off's and, to be fair, much has actually come from the club with both GP and the players bigging it up.