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We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 4:51 pm

.... But ultimately it's all about points at this stage of the season - and we didn't win.

We need to be winning these last home games.

Yes we played well, but really it means nothing.

This result wasn't enough and it's a big problem. Huge pressure at QPR now.



Cian Ashford my MOTM.

I was impressed with the front four that started the game. Good to see Tanner back off the bench as well.

Their goal came from Perry Ng needlessly giving away a corner by trying to be clever instead of clearing it.

A good performance, but it's not a good day at all for us.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 4:53 pm

My view, dominated the first half, just a small bit of pressure from Sheff Wed in the second half and we concede from a corner. Teams don’t have to do that much to score against us.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 4:55 pm

Our defence will be the defining factor.

This is going to the wire.

Harsh result, great performance.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:07 pm

Deserved to win why? Terrible 2nd half, draw was about right but for us nowhere near enough. Going down.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:09 pm

Carpe Diem wrote:Deserved to win why? Terrible 2nd half, draw was about right but for us nowhere near enough. Going down.


Respectfully disagree. There were 10-15 minutes of pressure from Wednesday and they scored from a corner, but otherwise I'm struggling to think of a time they genuinely threatened our goal.

On the other hand, we caused them problems in both halves.

So I say we deserved to win - not that it matters because we didn't.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:09 pm

Deserved means nothing. I really think we are finished and relegation is coming under Riza. That Blackburn result meant he kept his job when we really needed a new manager bounce. He isn't good enough

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:09 pm

We don't put teams away when on top, Stoke done it today, we never do it.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:10 pm

:clap: :lol:
Carpe Diem wrote:Deserved to win why? Terrible 2nd half, draw was about right but for us nowhere near enough. Going down.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:10 pm

cityone wrote:We don't put teams away when on top, Stoke done it today, we never do it.


Agree with that.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:11 pm

Win v Oxford and Stoke and we’ll stay up imo.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:19 pm

bluebirdoct1962 wrote:Win v Oxford and Stoke and we’ll stay up imo.


100% Guaranteed that won't happen. Watch Oxford do the double over us. Riza doesn't know how to grind results out and certainly won't win key games like this. We're down.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:20 pm

We didn't deserve to win
Played better yes, but when the stakes are so high, we fail to win at home again
What was Perry NG doing FFS

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:21 pm

EastleighBlue wrote:
bluebirdoct1962 wrote:Win v Oxford and Stoke and we’ll stay up imo.


100% Guaranteed that won't happen. Watch Oxford do the double over us. Riza doesn't know how to grind results out and certainly won't win key games like this. We're down.

‘100% guaranteed’ lol :lol:

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:21 pm

The only way we deserved to win is if we played like the 1st half in the 2nd half.
Ultimately he had started with bad tactics i mean Bagan as a central defender???? I might get stick for this but why on earth do we always play o'dowda right back when we got bagan playing centre back i will never know.

Just need to play like the 1st half in the entire game then we will be alright. Whatever Riza said to the players at half time basically killed off the momentum we had from the 1st half.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:25 pm

Sam ReaN wrote:The only way we deserved to win is if we played like the 1st half in the 2nd half.
Ultimately he had started with bad tactics i mean Bagan as a central defender???? I might get stick for this but why on earth do we always play o'dowda right back when we got bagan playing centre back i will never know.

Just need to play like the 1st half in the entire game then we will be alright. Whatever Riza said to the players at half time basically killed off the momentum we had from the 1st half.



1. Bagan has been doing great at CB and has made that position his own. Didn't do anything wrong today. It was Fish who lost his man from the corner.

2. O'Dowda plays LB not RB.

3. The second half was different because Wednesday made changes. Riza should have seen that substitutions had to be made earlier though.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:29 pm

TBH Sheffield Wed was one of the worst sides Ive seen this season at the CCS, game should of been put to bed before h/t, another error in defence let to their goal, when will we ever learn, sorry just cant see us turning this around but preying that I am wrong.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:29 pm

worcester_ccfc wrote:
Sam ReaN wrote:The only way we deserved to win is if we played like the 1st half in the 2nd half.
Ultimately he had started with bad tactics i mean Bagan as a central defender???? I might get stick for this but why on earth do we always play o'dowda right back when we got bagan playing centre back i will never know.

Just need to play like the 1st half in the entire game then we will be alright. Whatever Riza said to the players at half time basically killed off the momentum we had from the 1st half.



1. Bagan has been doing great at CB and has made that position his own. Didn't do anything wrong today. It was Fish who lost his man from the corner.

2. O'Dowda plays LB not RB.

3. The second half was different because Wednesday made changes. Riza should have seen that substitutions had to be made earlier though.

Couple point 1 with the fact that Goutas has recently been at fault for a few goals so atm Bagan is best option and doing ok.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:35 pm

Totally agree with this. Credit for the starting team which was positive and full of pace.

Not the managers fault that we didn't score more from the chances created

Then unfortunately the experience of the managers did show second half.

3 big changes made and we didn't make a change even when SW had momentum into 50mins.

Win today and we could have closed the gap on Oxford, Swansea etc. So it's definitely 2 points dropped.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:35 pm

worcester_ccfc wrote:
cityone wrote:We don't put teams away when on top, Stoke done it today, we never do it.


Agree with that.

I take no satisfaction in watching this piss happening, in fact, it's breaking my heart. This squad is far,far better than where we are in the league.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:36 pm

I haven't seen the game but it is encouraging that we played well: it would have been worrying if we'd played poorly. But we are not getting that second goal when we take the lead. Anyway, I'm looking forward to watching it tomorrow.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:41 pm

First half we looked comfortable, was good viewing.second half don’t know why we were so bad and felt like they were going to get the win. We are in big trouble now I’m not going to slag Riza off anymore it does no good. The board should have seen the signs and made a change , too late now. We are going down.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:46 pm

CantonBluebird1927 wrote:First half we looked comfortable, was good viewing.second half don’t know why we were so bad and felt like they were going to get the win. We are in big trouble now I’m not going to slag Riza off anymore it does no good. The board should have seen the signs and made a change , too late now. We are going down.

We’re in a fight no doubt, but if you’re certain we’re down, what’s the point in watching them for the last few games?

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:48 pm

bluebirdoct1962 wrote:
CantonBluebird1927 wrote:First half we looked comfortable, was good viewing.second half don’t know why we were so bad and felt like they were going to get the win. We are in big trouble now I’m not going to slag Riza off anymore it does no good. The board should have seen the signs and made a change , too late now. We are going down.

We’re in a fight no doubt, but if you’re certain we’re down, what’s the point in watching them for the last few games?


I have a season ticket that’s the point in me watching games . I don’t mind not going tho good idea :thumbright:
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Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:49 pm

Football is not fair, the teams who defend well and take their chances win. We do neither

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:49 pm

worcester_ccfc wrote:
Carpe Diem wrote:Deserved to win why? Terrible 2nd half, draw was about right but for us nowhere near enough. Going down.


Respectfully disagree. There were 10-15 minutes of pressure from Wednesday and they scored from a corner, but otherwise I'm struggling to think of a time they genuinely threatened our goal.

On the other hand, we caused them problems in both halves.

So I say we deserved to win - not that it matters because we didn't.


What problems did we cause them 2nd half? It was chalk and cheese to the 1st half. Bannan given too much time and space and we never had a 2nd goal in us.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:51 pm

worcester_ccfc wrote:.... But ultimately it's all about points at this stage of the season - and we didn't win.

We need to be winning these last home games.

Yes we played well, but really it means nothing.

This result wasn't enough and it's a big problem. Huge pressure at QPR now.



Cian Ashford my MOTM.

I was impressed with the front four that started the game. Good to see Tanner back off the bench as well.

Their goal came from Perry Ng needlessly giving away a corner by trying to be clever instead of clearing it.

A good performance, but it's not a good day at all for us.

Not on the 3nd half performance. We are deep in trouble

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:52 pm

CantonBluebird1927 wrote:
bluebirdoct1962 wrote:
CantonBluebird1927 wrote:First half we looked comfortable, was good viewing.second half don’t know why we were so bad and felt like they were going to get the win. We are in big trouble now I’m not going to slag Riza off anymore it does no good. The board should have seen the signs and made a change , too late now. We are going down.

We’re in a fight no doubt, but if you’re certain we’re down, what’s the point in watching them for the last few games?


I have a season ticket that’s the point in me watching games . I don’t mind not going tho good idea :thumbright:

I was only joking mate :thumbup:
Imo we’ll be ok. Could go to last game but it’ll be tight.

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:56 pm

bluebirdoct1962 wrote:
CantonBluebird1927 wrote:
bluebirdoct1962 wrote:
CantonBluebird1927 wrote:First half we looked comfortable, was good viewing.second half don’t know why we were so bad and felt like they were going to get the win. We are in big trouble now I’m not going to slag Riza off anymore it does no good. The board should have seen the signs and made a change , too late now. We are going down.

We’re in a fight no doubt, but if you’re certain we’re down, what’s the point in watching them for the last few games?


I have a season ticket that’s the point in me watching games . I don’t mind not going tho good idea :thumbright:

I was only joking mate :thumbup:
Imo we’ll be ok. Could go to last game but it’ll be tight.


Nice one mate I can see why you said it your a better Bluebird than me and being positive is the best way ,I find it difficult these days its affecting me way too much seeing the club so close to going down. I hope I’m proved wrong at the end of season :thumbright: :ayatollah:

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 6:01 pm

A decent manager would have reacted to there change of personnel and shape it was obvious they were trying to get bannan more involved and we just allowed it to happen instead of putting on an extra midfielder and shutting him out of the game,

still a better performance and agree we deserved to win that but still think we should have rolled the dice during the International break and changed managers

Re: We deserved to win that game

Sat Mar 29, 2025 6:43 pm

EastleighBlue wrote:
bluebirdoct1962 wrote:Win v Oxford and Stoke and we’ll stay up imo.


100% Guaranteed that won't happen. Watch Oxford do the double over us. Riza doesn't know how to grind results out and certainly won't win key games like this. We're down.


Well it isn’t ‘100% Guaranteed’ is it?

Unless you have a crystal ball that we don’t know of?