At least we now know a point is no good , so try and win the game.
How much do you want to bet we go for a draw next week?
How much do you want to bet we go for a draw next week?
This is exactly what will happen and we’ll concede with 5 minutes to go.
The judgeAt least we now know a point is no good , so try and win the game.
If you really think that then you're in for a big shock come the weekend.
A point means we can't be relegated next week so I expect us to be making that our aim.
Saying that the last time we kicked off in the bottom 3 we had our performance of the season against cov so perhaps we will be surprised again.
At least we now know a point is no good , so try and win the game.
Its absolutely what we'll play for
Must not lose
Same message as Sat
A draw will keep us above Huddersfield and in all liklihood either Stoke or QPR will lose or one of Blackburn, Plymouth or Sheff Wednesday wont win. We will know the QPR result before Saturday for example.
Therefore taking us into the final day probably meaning that a win should be enough.
So don't think that he won't play for a point.
We could in theory stop up with just a point at Huddersfield and a loss against Norwich. Which would be quite something.
Plenty of twists and turns ahead, anything can happen. The only thing we can expect is Old Gaz being cautious as eff. Because that's who he is.
People get upset when the word is used but that approach away at the whipping boys of the league was cowardly.
Obviously Rowett is Rowett and I'm not a massive fan of his safety first approach, but we didn't 'play for a point' and we wont on Saturday either. We're just generally pretty rubbish at breaking down teams who get men behind the ball, hopefully this Saturday will be more of an open game
Be nice to set up to get the best out of our squad rather than to stop theirs though. But we know that's how Rowett works so we're stuck with it.
Agreed, it was a game for Bacuna and Dembele imo, probs James too
But we didn't play for a point, it's just the way Rowett tries to win games, it's not very effective against teams that are happy for you to have the ball
Le ModObviously Rowett is Rowett and I'm not a massive fan of his safety first approach, but we didn't 'play for a point' and we wont on Saturday either. We're just generally pretty rubbish at breaking down teams who get men behind the ball, hopefully this Saturday will be more of an open game
I agree with you, but some of that is a moot point potentially?
You pretty much know you’ve got to win at least two of your three remaining matches and this one is against the worst team in the league by a distance who, as you say, will be stubborn and play in a way that we find difficult to play against. To then decide to leave all of Miyoshi, Bacuna and Dembele on the bench is a pretty weak call.
We certainly, to my eyes, were not everything in our power to win it for significant chunks of the game.
It was very disappointing, however you dress it up.
i think Dembele and Bacuna would have struggled too tbh, as they did at Sheff Weds away
Burke was the baffling inclusion as it left us a man down up top and no reliable outball