Chivalry Augustus
Vital Reserves Team
I honestly think that between ourselves and Luton, we’re going to try and out-rubbish each other till the end of the season, and the team that survives will do so on a surprisingly low points tally. I’d be amazed if we won more than 1 of our remaining matches - I don’t look at any of them and think we’ll definitely win. If we win 2, there’s no way we don’t survive, in my opinion.
The problem I do have and it differs somewhat from some of the other views on here, is that I actually do think we’re awful. When it comes to every basic aspect of the game, we struggle - we’re not clinical even with our good chances, the opposition require a comically small amount of pressure for us to concede, and our ball retention is pretty shocking.
We have some very good players but there’s no synergy whatsoever in the side, the players are so far apart from each other sometimes, so disparate in their styles and thought processes, that half the time nothing and nobody seems to be on the same wavelength. I hope that I’m wrong and that Nuno is gelling them in some manner I cannot perceive, because to me it looks chaotic and panicked week after week.
I’m not saying that today we played badly, but it feels like we have to have two-thirds of a game in order to achieve a point out of it, and we’re nowhere near scrapping for the hard and ugly wins that we really could do with to escape the mess we find ourselves in. Fulham maybe was the epitome of this, for we had to play nearly a perfect half of football to get far enough ahead to win.
Meanwhile, the Palace and Wolves games have slipped by, ugly games where we had more of the game, yet never really threatened to win it whether by inspiration, determination, or divine intervention. I think the other teams down there might find enough ugly to escape.
The problem I do have and it differs somewhat from some of the other views on here, is that I actually do think we’re awful. When it comes to every basic aspect of the game, we struggle - we’re not clinical even with our good chances, the opposition require a comically small amount of pressure for us to concede, and our ball retention is pretty shocking.
We have some very good players but there’s no synergy whatsoever in the side, the players are so far apart from each other sometimes, so disparate in their styles and thought processes, that half the time nothing and nobody seems to be on the same wavelength. I hope that I’m wrong and that Nuno is gelling them in some manner I cannot perceive, because to me it looks chaotic and panicked week after week.
I’m not saying that today we played badly, but it feels like we have to have two-thirds of a game in order to achieve a point out of it, and we’re nowhere near scrapping for the hard and ugly wins that we really could do with to escape the mess we find ourselves in. Fulham maybe was the epitome of this, for we had to play nearly a perfect half of football to get far enough ahead to win.
Meanwhile, the Palace and Wolves games have slipped by, ugly games where we had more of the game, yet never really threatened to win it whether by inspiration, determination, or divine intervention. I think the other teams down there might find enough ugly to escape.
