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“ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 10:42 am

Than 6pts from Our Next 2 Home Games for me if we are to come away from the Relegation area.

If Fans are Happy are less that shows how we have become, Happy to just Survive.

And then Home games will end up with 12,000 Crowds.

Already as low as 16,000 including Away Fans, But actually the last Home Crowd that actually attended was just Over 13,000.



Omer Riza believes he is worthy of being Our Manager, Well 2pts from 15pts is Relegation.

We now need 6pts from 2 Home games against mediocre opposition.







07/12/2024 Cardiff City v Watford

11/12/2024 - 19:45 Cardiff City v Preston North End






14/12/2024 - 15:00 - Stoke City v Cardiff City


21/12/2024 - 15:00 - Sheffield United (h)

26/12/2024 - 15:00 - Oxford United (a)

29/12/2024 - 15:00 - Watford (a)
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Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 10:53 am

The Top , those looking at Promotion & The Bottom, Those Struggling badly and looking at League 1:
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Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 10:57 am

My concern is our squad depth. We have a solid handful of players injured, with a chunk of those not having played a single minute of Championship football. These Saturday/Wednesday/Saturday games needs to rotate for form, knocks and fatigue. I don't look at our bench with confidence very often.

I agree though, we need to go for 6 points at home and get on the front foot.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 11:13 am

Watford are such a strange team.

Got some very, very good players. But have had some stinking results.

If they score early they might tonk us but if not very beatable.

Preston are big and physical. Exactly the kind of team we can’t break down.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 11:25 am

Maccydear wrote:Watford are such a strange team.

Got some very, very good players. But have had some stinking results.

If they score early they might tonk us but if not very beatable.

Preston are big and physical. Exactly the kind of team we can’t break down.



Neil,

I do agree Watford are unpredictable, but so are Clubs like Leeds.

We’ve not Won for 5 Games, If We don’t start Winning games now we will Sink in to the Bottom 3 and as time goes on it gets harder to get out of it.

As seen Virtually every team can beat everyone, it just seems to be us who Struggle against any Fairly Good Sides and lately against Teams in terrible runs.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 11:31 am

SB 1927 wrote:My concern is our squad depth. We have a solid handful of players injured, with a chunk of those not having played a single minute of Championship football. These Saturday/Wednesday/Saturday games needs to rotate for form, knocks and fatigue. I don't look at our bench with confidence very often.

I agree though, we need to go for 6 points at home and get on the front foot.


That’s pretty much the same for every team in the league bar maybe 6 teams who have really good squad depth.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 11:31 am

SB 1927 wrote:My concern is our squad depth. We have a solid handful of players injured, with a chunk of those not having played a single minute of Championship football. These Saturday/Wednesday/Saturday games needs to rotate for form, knocks and fatigue. I don't look at our bench with confidence very often.

I agree though, we need to go for 6 points at home and get on the front foot.



I agree not the strongest Squad, But We all have to play the same amount of games and as shown when Michael Reindorf (sub for Alex Robertson, came on, Fresh legs and really played well and wanted it.

Joel Colwill should be here now.

Plus we have about 35 players to chose from and only about 5 injured.

Davies has never been reliable before so not missed.

More of our younger players need to be on the bench.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 11:34 am

Forever Blue wrote:
Maccydear wrote:Watford are such a strange team.

Got some very, very good players. But have had some stinking results.

If they score early they might tonk us but if not very beatable.

Preston are big and physical. Exactly the kind of team we can’t break down.



Neil,

We’ve not Won for 5 Games, If We don’t start Winning games now we will Sink in to the Bottom 3 and as time goes on it gets harder to get out of it.

As seen Virtually every team can beat everyone, it just seems to be us who Struggle against any Fairly Good Sides and lately against Teams in terrible runs.


We very much do Annis.

I’m not sure what has changed. First few games under Riza (after Hull) there was a proper change to attacking football. It’s now like he feels he needs to grind out results like Bulut did.

Not sure if it’s the limitations of the players, the opposition being poor, limitations of management or just teams have clocked on how to stop us?

I’m hopeful that Meite might now come good and be the target man we need. I doubt it but I hope.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 11:43 am

Forever Blue wrote:
SB 1927 wrote:My concern is our squad depth. We have a solid handful of players injured, with a chunk of those not having played a single minute of Championship football. These Saturday/Wednesday/Saturday games needs to rotate for form, knocks and fatigue. I don't look at our bench with confidence very often.

I agree though, we need to go for 6 points at home and get on the front foot.



I agree not the strongest Squad, But We all have to play the same amount of games and as shown when Michael Reindorf (sub for Alex Robertson, came on, Fresh legs and really played well and wanted it.

Joel Colwill should be here now.

Plus we have about 35 players to chose from and only about 5 injured.

Davies has never been reliable before so not missed.

More of our younger players need to be on the bench.


Taking our favoured formation we do actually have two players for pretty much every position.

Alnwick Horvarth
Ng
Goutas Fish
Chambers Daaland
Collins Bagan

Robertson Ralls
Turnbull Siopsis
Ramsey Colwill

Tanner Meite
O dowda Willock

Robinson Reindorff

That’s without

Rinhomoto
Etete
Davies
Ashford
Kanga
Al Anwar

Whether they are championship level or if they are performing at championship level that’s another thing.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 11:51 am

Maccydear wrote:
Forever Blue wrote:
SB 1927 wrote:My concern is our squad depth. We have a solid handful of players injured, with a chunk of those not having played a single minute of Championship football. These Saturday/Wednesday/Saturday games needs to rotate for form, knocks and fatigue. I don't look at our bench with confidence very often.

I agree though, we need to go for 6 points at home and get on the front foot.



I agree not the strongest Squad, But We all have to play the same amount of games and as shown when Michael Reindorf (sub for Alex Robertson, came on, Fresh legs and really played well and wanted it.

Joel Colwill should be here now.

Plus we have about 35 players to chose from and only about 5 injured.

Davies has never been reliable before so not missed.

More of our younger players need to be on the bench.


Taking our favoured formation we do actually have two players for pretty much every position.

Alnwick Horvarth
Ng
Goutas Fish
Chambers Daaland
Collins Bagan

Robertson Ralls
Turnbull Siopsis
Ramsey Colwill

Tanner Meite
O dowda Willock

Robinson Reindorff

That’s without

Rinhomoto
Etete
Davies
Ashford
Kanga
Al Anwar

Whether they are championship level or if they are performing at championship level that’s another thing.




We do Neil and if we had an experienced manager we would be at least mid table.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 2:06 pm

Am I the only one more worried about Preston than Watford?

Watford are near the play offs, sure.

But they are very up and down, their results of late haven’t been conducive to staying near the play offs.

Preston on the other hand are our bogey team.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 3:05 pm

Watford are very very good at home. They've won seven and drawn two of their home games.

They're 2nd best in the league when it comes to home form. For the record, we're 19th on the home table.



But away from home, it's a totally different story for them.

They've lost six and drawn one of their nine away games. They only won once away since the first game of the season.

They are 17th on the away table.



This is without doubt a game we should be looking to win if we want to move away from the bottom three.

Play like we did in the second half at Coventry then we should win.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 3:30 pm

Championship is a crazy league, and I wouldn't like to predict either result. I thought we would get beat at Coventry but they looked a poor side on the day. If we lose Saturday then it could turn toxic against Preston.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 4:38 pm

You are right Annis, we need the wins/points, get Cooper in now before he's snapped up, also it will piss off the Jack's.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 5:01 pm

worcester_ccfc wrote:Watford are very very good at home. They've won seven and drawn two of their home games.

They're 2nd best in the league when it comes to home form. For the record, we're 19th on the home table.



But away from home, it's a totally different story for them.

They've lost six and drawn one of their nine away games. They only won once away since the first game of the season.

They are 17th on the away table.



This is without doubt a game we should be looking to win if we want to move away from the bottom three.

Play like we did in the second half at Coventry then we should win.


That win was 6-2 v Sheff Wed.

They can blow teams away for sure. Gotta get into from the start and get a goal.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Mon Dec 02, 2024 6:32 pm

Maccydear wrote:
worcester_ccfc wrote:Watford are very very good at home. They've won seven and drawn two of their home games.

They're 2nd best in the league when it comes to home form. For the record, we're 19th on the home table.



But away from home, it's a totally different story for them.

They've lost six and drawn one of their nine away games. They only won once away since the first game of the season.

They are 17th on the away table.



This is without doubt a game we should be looking to win if we want to move away from the bottom three.

Play like we did in the second half at Coventry then we should win.


That win was 6-2 v Sheff Wed.

They can blow teams away for sure. Gotta get into from the start and get a goal.


It's still only one game out of the last nine.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Tue Dec 03, 2024 5:22 pm

worcester_ccfc wrote:
Maccydear wrote:
worcester_ccfc wrote:Watford are very very good at home. They've won seven and drawn two of their home games.

They're 2nd best in the league when it comes to home form. For the record, we're 19th on the home table.



But away from home, it's a totally different story for them.

They've lost six and drawn one of their nine away games. They only won once away since the first game of the season.

They are 17th on the away table.





This is without doubt a game we should be looking to win if we want to move away from the bottom three.

Play like we did in the second half at Coventry then we should win.


That win was 6-2 v Sheff Wed.

They can blow teams away for sure. Gotta get into from the start and get a goal.


It's still only one game out of the last nine.


Didn’t say different

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Tue Dec 03, 2024 6:58 pm

As someone said, it would be good if Meite could start to function as a goal scorer. It has been frustrating to watch him fail to match his effort and physicality with footballing skills. But against Coventry he provided the missing ingredient: he played some intelligent and skillful football - though some of what he tried didn't come off. But I hope he does well. We need what he may be able to provide.

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Tue Dec 03, 2024 11:58 pm

No Easy Games In The Championship ...

Re: “ It has to be nothing less “

Wed Dec 04, 2024 1:25 pm

TopCat CCFC wrote:No Easy Games In The Championship ...


.... except Cardiff away for most teams!