Struggling to think of a single decent chance that Gray, Lita or Iwelumo had to day - either self-created or provided for them. I thought Thomas had an OK game but the service from him, Ambrose or the innefective ZZ/Cook was non-existent.
I can see for myself now the huge hole that the loss of Reid has opened up.
They battled hard today against a decent Baggies side but any thoughts of play-offs with the current side must be tempered with the fact that we have neither the guile to create chances at the moment or in-form strikers to convert them.
Thought Paddy was absolutely outstanding second half, Sodje, Halford & Thatcher also played well.
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What i wouldn't give for a Zoltan Gera!
I agree with CT that towards the end there only looked like there was going to be one winner, but credit to the defence -and in particular the centre backs - for standing firm.
We're lacking a match winner, and at the moment it is hard to see us turning it around to get into the play-offs.
what was Ilewumo doing in the last minute..........just needed to welly it, but no, we can't have a striker actually have a shot on goal so it was "after you claude" again and the chance was gone.
We were very lucky to hang onto a point at the end. What happened to that exciting team we had earlier in the season? Blimey, I am just counting down the days now until the whole thing is over for another year. How very, very disappointing.
Yes but problem is the way we play we pump the ball up and attackers are receiving it with their backs to goal thus not really getting a chance to shoot. Lita cannot play like that and needs to be able to run onto the ball. When we did get the ball out wide Thomas would take too long to get it over and by then defenders were all over our forwards. Lita was trying to make runs but Thomas would hold on too long. Dare I say what we need is a Reid type player (even a Murphy !!!!) who could thread the ball thru for forwards to run on to it. That's or biggest problem lack of creativity in central mid. Thought ZZ was poor when he came on by the way.
I hope they are happy now.
BTW - Zz has been class for most of the season. Perhaps it is catching up on him as he & Holland have been ever present in our midfield since xmas. i'll allow him 1 bad game in 40.
you said it i knew it and agree zz looks knackered.shame i dont think he will behere next season one of the only salable assests.
How?
Matt Holland plays the holding roll so it is zhi's job to chip in with a few goals and, most importantly ,supply our strikers with some ammo.
As this thread suggests,our strikers have scored about 5 goals between them so Zheng zhi must take part of the responsibility for this .
Untwist your knickers Steve!
It's not so much the goals that bother me but the complete lack of service to the strikers.
One word -
Confidence!
that's all that would change that.