Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 11, 2023 Administrator Share Posted December 11, 2023 all kick-offs 19.45 (GMT) unless stated Tuesday 12th December, 2023 Blackburn vs Bristol City Huddersfield vs Preston Rotherham vs West Brom Stoke vs Swansea Watford vs Ipswich Sunderland vs Leeds, 20.00 Wednesday 13th December, 2023 Cardiff vs Birmingham Coventry vs Southampton Leicester vs Millwall Norwich vs Sheff Weds QPR vs Plymouth Middlesbrough vs Hull, 20.00 Tuesday 12th December, 2023 Reading vs Oxford, 20.00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 If we give Birmingham anything under Rooney, we might as well fold the club with immediate effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 Also, for anyone interested (though not surprising), Erol Bulut is apparently the 10th longest serving Championship manager. He's been in the role just over six months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber JoshBRFC+ 1,388 Posted December 12, 2023 Subscriber Share Posted December 12, 2023 Poor last 2 games. Need a win here to ensure we don’t drift away from the playoffs. Sammie and 4-0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 12, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 12, 2023 Get in Watford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goku de la Boca 121 Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Finally able to watch. Good goal from Hirst after Hutchinson found tight space to shoot in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goku de la Boca 121 Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Big fucking win lads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 12, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 12, 2023 Ipswich are like the itch that just won't go away. But guess the gap to 3rd is the main priority. Leeds losing currently... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goku de la Boca 121 Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Just now, Stan said: Ipswich are like the itch that just won't go away. But guess the gap to 3rd is the main priority. Leeds losing currently... I'm convinced now we'll go up. We can still fall because I'm not 100% on the squad quality to maintain such a long season but collectively we are insane. McKenna was a great gamble when we were struggling 2 years ago. Patience is a virtue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas 3,827 Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 (edited) Poor from us tonight. No tempo or urgency, but that's a big part down to the opposition defending as deep as they did. Really did a job on us. Surprisingly, Sunderland defended as a low block, not like I've seen from them before. I really thought they'd go toe to toe with us given their attacking talent but as it turned out, they made it extremely hard for us to use any width to get round them. They executed their gameplan well and we struggled to find any real answer to it. You could literally see at times how clueless some of our players looked when trying to find an answer on the ball which only resulted in a forced pass. They had the better attempts overall too from the set pieces they had which were always a threat, although in general play, we always looked comfortable. I think our failing sometimes is we don't mix up our play enough and go direct when sometimes it's just as effective. Tonight, just seemed to be Sunderland camped and us tippy tappying in the final third without cutting them open. It wasn't working. We just seemed reluctant to get a cross in. And yet, look how Sunderland won tonight. Got an early cross in, bit of luck where the ball fell and a goal coming from it. But sometimes you just got to take a chance and I don't think it's in our DNA to really do that. Very hard to criticise too much because you have performances like this over a 46 game season and we've won a lot of games recently with some great attacking play. It just feels a little harsh at the moment that one defeat feels like a bigger blow given it's a weird season where the two teams above us have overperformed above their expected points totals. But we got to crack on and continue the fight. Very much a side still in development and we haven't quite got that knack of finding a way to nick games when we play poor like others have yet. Edited December 12, 2023 by Lucas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ 1,918 Posted December 13, 2023 Subscriber Share Posted December 13, 2023 How Ipswich are doing this. I say it every week but it's just incredible. Every single week they seem to go 1-0 down quite early and then come back. Totally unprecedented form for any team let alone a newly promoted side. We've come down into the league from as strong a position as a team has come down from in probably the last decade, arguably longer, we aren't underperforming, and they're still above us. When you look at the next fortnight... Ipswich have Norwich at home, naturally a banana skin with it being a derby, Leeds away, and then Leicester at home. We on the flip side play Millwall at home later on, Birmingham away on Monday and Rotherham at home before the boxing day game at Ipswich. In other words we have as kind a run as we could probably ask for and really should be taking 9/9 points, while they have two tricky fixtures before playing us. If they come out of boxing day top of the league I think we have to concede they are probably better than us and they would be favourites to win the league for me. I thought they would drop points in one of these games at Middlesbrough and Watford. Two tricky away games and no mistakes made. They're completely relentless and when you look through their side, you see no obvious stars, no obvious players carrying them, it's a collective effort that tells me it's totally sustainable even if they were to lose a couple. McKenna's ceiling is extremely high. Also thankyou Sunderland. Leeds yet again have their 4 gamely clanger. We have a fantastic opportunity to widen that gap tonight. I think we've caught Millwall at a quite good time. I think the traditionally robust Millwall have always given us problems, but this very much seems like a different version where they are trying to play a more open and attacking way whilst being built on the foundations of a more direct, defensive side. This for me should make them a great opposition for us. They've always been a traditional banana skin, they love a surprise 0-1 victory and they've done it here a few times. But I think we'll be too much. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 13, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 13, 2023 Millwall ahead. Good header by Bradshaw. Worst outcome for us for a side away at ours to go ahead. Means they can just sit back and camp in their own half. Gonna be difficult to break them down by the looks of it. They've got a flat back 5 pretty much. Lucky not to already have a red card though with 3 late challenges so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 13, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 13, 2023 Should have had a penalty. And the guy who made the tackle is already on a yellow. Gets nothing on the ball but ref gives a corner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 Ah fuck off Cardiff, you absolute useless cunts. For everyone else, watch the Birmingham goal and laugh like absolute fuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 13, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 13, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 13, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 13, 2023 Two goals in 3 minutes! Get in! Their keeper has had a mare for both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 13, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 13, 2023 3-1. Should be game over. Deserved based on 2nd half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 13, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 13, 2023 Millwall get one back. Few nervous minutes remaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 13, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 13, 2023 Sorry @Bluebird Hewitt. My fault. Had Cardiff in an acca. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Stan said: Sorry @Bluebird Hewitt. My fault. Had Cardiff in an acca. Whenever there are teams coming to us in very poor form, never ever back us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ 1,918 Posted December 14, 2023 Subscriber Share Posted December 14, 2023 Scoreline flattered Millwall. No idea how it's they of all sides who've managed to break the 2 goal barrier against us as they offered very little, seemed to basically get 2 chances and score both. 7 goals in 2 games is more like it even if the opposition was pretty tame. 13 points from 15 again, think we've gotten through the blip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 14, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 14, 2023 10 minutes ago, Dan said: Scoreline flattered Millwall. No idea how it's they of all sides who've managed to break the 2 goal barrier against us as they offered very little, seemed to basically get 2 chances and score both. 7 goals in 2 games is more like it even if the opposition was pretty tame. 13 points from 15 again, think we've gotten through the blip. Should have had at least 1 red card as well I thought. And that penalty shout not to be given is such a bad decision. Hoping we make light work of Birmingham and not make it too difficult for ourselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ 1,918 Posted December 14, 2023 Subscriber Share Posted December 14, 2023 5 minutes ago, Stan said: Should have had at least 1 red card as well I thought. And that penalty shout not to be given is such a bad decision. Hoping we make light work of Birmingham and not make it too difficult for ourselves. I did think as soon as we had three of their back four on bookings within 20 minutes that they would eventually end up caving in. They couldn't deal with Fatawu at all. Referee was appalling. I do wonder what the score would've been if we'd gotten that penalty - that would've been likely 1-1 against 10 men in the first half. I'm mates with a Birmingham fan who has been very down on them under Rooney, unsurprisingly, but said last night he went back to a more pragmatic system and it paid off. The irony there of course being that Rooney was brought in to move away from that supposedly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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