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One thing we need next season
Posted by Herts Hatter on 14/4/2025, 5:43:13
Is resilience. Can't always play well but need to grind out results. Even a draw Saturday would have made a massive difference with Derby coming up. To concede that way was really poor again. Similar to Coventry Oxford Bournemouth etc just weak mentality. We still don't have leader on the pitch either.
You can use lack of confidence to excuse poor performances but not sure you can use it to excuse the apathy and lack of intensity (per M Bloomfield) and desire from minute 1. They couldn't complain about the backing from the stands either, the crowd were up for it and stayed with the team pretty much to the end despite the woeful display.
Besides, if they were lacking in confidence on Saturday, on the back of the first decent run of results we've had all season, then there really is no hope.
Fair enough, though you don't become confident after just a couple of good results when you are next to bottom of the league at this stage.
As I wasn't there was it really so bad? From the stats and the radio commentary it sounded more like we were dominant but mostly lacked any real clue in the final third. They pretty much scored out of nothing.
You'd never have guessed watching the match that one of the teams was absolutely desperate for three points. Nor would you have noticed that one of the teams had 10 players for nearly 40 minutes - although with Chong then Mengi on the pitch, we pretty much had 10 for the duration. In fairness, the players didn't pick the team or make the even more bizarre substitutions.
Nothing summed it up better for me than in the 100th minute , we got a free kick fairly deep in their half. Kaminski comes up to the halfway line then stops, presumably because the manager told him to, rather than just taking it on himself to go up.
Or the free kick on the edge of the box, from the sending off, which Clark proceeded to blaze over the bar. We had 2 men unmarked at the back post, as clearly Blackburn hadn’t yet organised themselves sufficiently, after the red card.
That for me, embodied the day and season as a whole.
Ball gets played back to McGuiness who stops the ball so Kaminski can launch it in the general direction of Morris (obviously pre-planned). The ball then drops to one of their centre halves who plays it out to their left back.
Chong ambled across to close down the centre-half whilst Jones is not brave enough to pressurise the full back. Blackburn have plenty of time and space to play out. Why would we launch the ball from kick off if we are not prepared to press in the final third?
Rest of the first half played out in a similar fashion.
Personally I thought Naismith had to come on at half-time as we had minimal quality coming out from the back line.
Given that the defence has played reasonably well the past few weeks I didn't have a massive issue with Naismith not starting but it was so clearly the sort of game where we needed him. Instead we got Burke (enforced to an extent by the sounds of it), but also a player who hasn't played for months and has given every indication that he'd rather be anywhere else than KR this season, whilst Bell was kept on to continue to have one of the best games of his Blackburn career.
We need a leader at the back who can organise them.Losing Lockyear has been a massive blow in that sense and McGuiness is definitely not the answer. Makes it more baffling that Naysmith seems to have been frozen out as he fills the role perfectly on a temporary basis and quite honestly has looked a completely different level to our other defenders when he's played
The defence had looked really solid since Burnley (when he got sent off), up until Saturday.
In hindsight starting with Kal at CB and Bell LWB would've been a much better option, but I can see why he started with the team he did. That 11 did pretty well against Stoke.
Naismith has been out of the team cos the back 3 of Bell, McGuinness, Makosso has worked well for the last 5 to 7 games, the main issue with Saturday wasn't the back 3 but a lack of control and creativity from our midfield and fwds.
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on 14/4/2025, 5:43:13