LET'S BASH THEM LIKE TARKOWSKI (A Match thread)

Pointless possession though is not a good thing.

52 fucking crosses and 8 successful.

He won't though - it will be someone else's fault.
He wants all the credit when it goes well, but none of the blame when it doesn't.

The one thing Kalimuendo has looked half decent at is peeling off from a central position to run the inside channel.
He did it somewhere (Swansea?), scored but was incorrectly ruled offside.
He did it somewhere (Betis?) where he miscontrolled Zinc's inch perfect through ball when is should've been 3-1.
He did it to reasonable effect against Pontus Jansson v Malmo.
He managed to blunder through the inside left to score v Uttrecht.

I'm not saying he's the answer, but in a game where we are chasing, occupying the opposition's half (245 passes in the final 3rd tonight I think) and having every single cross look abysmal a bit of inside channel movement to try and turn their mammoth centre halves might be less of a wrong answer than Taiwo.
We certainly didn't need Taiwo to hold the ball up tonight. At 0-1 Everton let us come forward. We needed better movement around the box.

And I wonder if Kalimuendo looks poor in training because he is being asked to mimic Jesus in battling centre halves in the air with back to goal.

Yes. Lest I wasn't clear, I wasn't making an argument for it. I was trying to figure out what the manager might have thought we did well.

I get you. I just can't believe he thinks that was a positive.

Actually just think most of what he said was inconsistent shite. Doing a lot well contradicts earlier comments when he was quite critical on not being braver and playing with tempo and noone taking risks and responsibility.

Sound bites schmound bites.

Just got back. 4 thoughts.
Fuck that was painful.
Having very strong doubts about Dyches tactical acumen.
How utterly fucking shit is Taiwo?
And

Bakwa looks quite good

Long way to go, four point cushion blah blah blah… but I’ve seen five (?) relegations and this is beginning to have the same horrible smell. Players with no clue what to do, few clear cut chances, missed half chances, dollops of bad luck, lack of concentration, absence of passion and drive, pundits and fans blindly believing that we’ll be just fine. I’m not sure the players and staff are fully aware of how bad things could get with a few poor results in the next couple of weeks. Hope Yatesy is back soon. We needed him last night.

Clearly, as we were not allowed to unsettle the scoursers using our tried and tested strategy of humourus ditties based around the theme of social deprivation we got tumped. Another example of big 6(8?) bias.

A simple "fuck off down the food bank" or a "you've seen a cob now fuck of home" would have won the game for the good guys.

Before last nights game I was thinking 4-6 points from Everton and West Ham sees us safe. Now I’d take 1 and hope for the best.

I’m clinging to the hope Aina and Sangare see us through from Feb, but that’s probably too much to ask as it doesn’t really matter whose playing if we continue with the tactics of last night.

Same with Wood and Yates also added to that. Though likelihood is someone else suffers and injury before then and it's a one in, one out type situation.

Isn't Wood out for the season?

I don't believe we know either way. Was some suggestion end of Feb.

But we didn't even use the same tactics on Saturday.

We have two modes - sit deep and play long into the gaps (Man City, Liverpool, Spurs); and dominate possession with no penetration and look vulnerable on the break (Fulham, Everton home and away).

If we could score first, we can move from mode two to mode one. Which is basically how we won so many games last season.

Luckily the next three (league) games are likely to see us able to start in mode one, which we are far more comfortable with.

We can't even accuse the scousers of stealing the points.

Why don't we just play mode one?

How could it be worse than our hopeless efforts at mode two?