26 Sep 2017 23:51:23
Poor performance tonight. A few thoughts. O'Kane not playing made a huge difference. Cooper reverted to type - reminded of his game against Sutton. Anybody still thinks Roofe is good enough to play through the middle - don't think so. Hoillet was the type of winger we have been looking - fast with good control and with an eye for goal not like our light weight Alioski whose taken to falling down with no good reason. He has potential but like Sacko he is too easily pushed off the ball. He looks good when teams give him a bit of space but he doesn't look good under pressure. Hoillet is much stronger and resilient. I lost count of the times he rode tackles and created space for other. Roofe and Alioski looked pedestrian by comparison. Fortunately for Leeds he has temperament problems and he probably will lose form before long and Cardiff won't be as good without him. Grot is still raw. Finally the goal keeper is in a different league - Sunday league I think. We will come back stronger and I hope Christianson learns from the experience. We have a lot of players with potential that are not there yet. With O'Kane and Lasogga out, Cooper reverting to type (pity he has been playing well) and a German keeper that is poor to say the least we will make the mistakes that will cost us. I work on the premise that if we, on average win our home games and draw away we will get enough points for automatic promotion. In that context we only dropped a point tonight and we are still averaging two points a game. A win on Sunday puts us back ahead of the game.

1.) 27 Sep 2017
27 Sep 2017 00:32:58
Not really sure what Weidwald did wrong tonight Hess. First goal Cooper caught ball watching and a tap in, couldn't move off the front post or the winger slots it in, Second a decent strike, he was pretty central and didn't get to it, wasnt horridly out of position and it moves about a bit so I don't blame him for that, Third he makes a decent stop and puts the ball as wide as possible, needed a little help from the D on that one, not like he pushed it into the middle of the area. Not saying he is the greatest ever but a good number of players in the queue for who F'd up tonight ahead of him.

2.) 27 Sep 2017
27 Sep 2017 07:08:15
Gummie, good point about the keeper, but for me he doesn't give the feeling of confidence which should come from this position, he needs to read the game better but there's something about this position at the moment that's not right don't really no what that something is if you understand my meaning,

3.) 27 Sep 2017
27 Sep 2017 08:06:10
Weidwald doesn't fill me with confidence. Positioning a bit suspect and puts us under pressure when he makes the wrong decisions when playing ball short. Not sure whether he should have done better with Hoillets goal and might have got a stronger hand on the cross that led to the third. But last night was not about the keeper its the reasoning for the changes. If the players that were left out were unfit that's fine but, if not, to tinker with a successful eleven and leave out your better players against a strong team is a huge mistake. O'Kane complements Phillips, Lasogga leads the line well and scores, Saiz is very busy and pulls a lot of strings. Dallas has done well coming on late on but usually is not effective over 90 minutes. Klich is a laid back type of mid fielder with a lot going for him but needs a more solid partner like Vierra to make the midfield balanced. You ca legislate for Cooper - probably thinking he was better than he is now he is back in the Scotland squad and was distracted. Hernandez often goes missing during physical away games. Saving players for the next game doesn't work if you lose the first one.

4.) 27 Sep 2017
27 Sep 2017 09:22:55
Apparently O'kane was ill