I hate it so much, it bites you on the arse so often and tonight really shows it up. I'm almost glad we have lost to a goal because of it, because I'm hoping it means we won't do it anymore, and just continue playing football until the last second.
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Why are we taking balls to the corner and waste time for a draw against a team who’s been well off form!
We can’t keep playing for draws if we’re implying these tactics away from home it’s pathetic and negative football.
Pearce blatantly asked the bench to go up for free kick on 94 minutes - declined - hindsight and all of that.
Perspective I suppose....
Everyone praising us for time wasting 2 weeks ago at Forest.
Swings and roundabouts ...
Gutted
Once again. Literally every team ever time wastes when they think the current result is going to benefit them. This happens before and during injury time. Look at Preston at our place, they basically started this from the moment the second half started.
The majority of the time this never really bites anyone in the ass, however its happened to us multiple times this season as our defence has not been good enough to deal with teams pumping long balls into the box at the end of a game.
For me the bigger issue here is Bowyer's fear of letting us be a little more open and playing more attacking football. Yes 5-3-2 keeps us competative in games when teams are trying to pass it through us, but it offers us nothing going forward and falls about when teams starting going more and more direct at us.
Whether teams score in that 4th minute or the the 94th minute we are going to continue to lose games if we play so negatively. We were kept in this game until the 94th minute by a combination of Phillips (as usual) and Foresteri being awful and making poor decision after poor decision.
For me time wasting/slowing the game down/'game managment' are the least of our issues. Our constant being overrun in midfield, and inability to pass the ball through the lines because of our negative formation need to be addressed first.
How many times this game did a defensive clearence end up going to a Wednesday player? I lost count.
He said very early in the season that we wouldnt take stupid chances and that every point would be greatly appreciated
It was only when we were safe did he feel that we'd potentially take more risks with winning games
What ever else happens you should never conced a goal from a free kick by the opposite corner flag. That was shocking, the only difference from the Hull goal was the free kick was 40 yards further away. Unlike the Hull and Huddersfield games we got what we deserved from that, nothing.
If you defend like that be it the 1st minute or last minute tactics matter not one jot.
You could see the fear of loosing last night, that's not something I have often seen in a Bowyer team.
I know last night was a kick in the nuts, but we’re not consistantly good at the moment, we are consistent at being inconsistent.
The games gone now, and it puts more pressure to go and get a win @ Huddersfield on Saturday.
It was a very strange game, parts where we were ok, and parts we were darn right terrible in midfield.