This was a game for mccrorie and halliday. Not ejaria and arfield.
Was Coulibaly ever on the park today.Some people are getting carried away with this guy.Im struggling to think of him contributing much at all since he came.Apart from Kent I don't rate any of the loanees ,particularly when the going gets tough.That comes from the management imo , arfield tried and was ok, I thought the big mistake was leaving Ejaria on and taking coulibaly off at half time , to much time wanted on the ball from Ejaria and went round and round in circles instead of popping it off, that is what frustrates me as the lad is talented but wasteful as he looses it too often imo.
Absolutely, it was a judgement error from Gerrard. We needed more dig.This was a game for mccrorie and halliday. Not ejaria and arfield.
Hard to disagree.He had two, three players on him all match.
Livi countered us today. They completely parked the bus, they are the most negative team I have watched in a long time.
8 players in DM, Defence all match long. They punted the ball up the park and sent three MF chasing the second ball. An utterly shit set of tactics that seem to work.
They are all over our players and as soon as we react they throw their hands up and plead innocent. Ref played right into their hands.
The pitch was absolutely dead, the ball lost momentum instantly, so players like Ejaria, Middleton and Kent to a lesser extent found themselves with the ball under their body instead of on their toe.
These pitches should be banned from Div 3 and up, they ruin football and as long as we play on them, the game will not see skillful players grow.
Shit pitch, shit opponent and shit day all round.
Wouldn't say disappointment. He's had some great games, he's had some average games and he's had some shite games. Today was one of the shite ones but there's no need to act like he's just there doing nothing every match
I honestly thought Arfield was atrocious today from start to finish, granted he wasn’t alone.
I’ve no idea where Candeias was supposed to be playing and no idea what he was supposed to be doing.
I dont get the love in for Arfield. He's been a massive disappointment in my opinion.
I thought Arfield was the best player on the park in the first half. He never hid, always took the ball and tried to get it moving quickly but the options in front of him were lacking.
This is my thinking. And why I think our best combo has yet to find the field.I don't know exactly what the 3 midfielders are meant to be.
None of them are defensive mids, none are attacking mids, none are hard in the tackle and none are particulary creative.
He was very poor for the goal mate.
He just switched off and allowed their lad to get away from him and square the ball across way too easily.
We could do with a fit Ryan Jack for starters.
However, there is real competiton for places in the middle of the park.
Our inability to match the fight and desire of a team of journeymen was completely unacceptable.
Coulibaly has been poor since he came back from injury .Arfield was invisible for about 80 mins of that game.
Ejarie recieves the ball half the time and spins round and round until he falls on his arse.
Coulibaly did nothing either.
We're seriously lacking something.
Its a sad reflection as we have so many midfielders.We don’t have enough quality in midfield, that’s our problem
What midfield talk about no stringing 2 passes together we try to many passes thats whats wrong trying to walk the ball into the net aka as warburton style and you know where that got us.Never strung 2 passes together, we were terrible.
Candeias and Arfield both trying to pass the buck for hitting a shot towards the end pissed me off big time. Ejaria back to his casual stuff, wanting too much time.
Scunnered with that. Livi were far hungrier today.
We could do with a fit Ryan Jack for starters.
However, there is real competiton for places in the middle of the park.
Our inability to match the fight and desire of a team of journeymen was completely unacceptable.
Games like yesterday are why I will never fully invest into Canideas as a player.
He oft lives on a stereotype of performance and reputation which is a hard working, covering the park, tenacious grafter – yet he far too often turns in displays like yesterday.
There was literally no point in him being on the park, just rubbish.
We also need someone who can carry the ball and try and break the game line...no one gets forward with ball.