Blackpool - back from the game

[genome]

Plainly I think that the performance last night was so good that we are now just finding any random crap to start an argument over.

[RoyalBlue]

It has taken nearly a year but Adkins now realises that a settled side often plays better together and changes don't have to be made every week even if we lose one game.
He also knows that there will be no other options for the rest of the season and we have to go with what we have got.
Last night was like watching a Coppell team pressing all over the pitch and great to see the unselfishness of Mc Cleary (again) in setting up Alf and likewise Alf when setting up Pog-a shame that Jobi got greedy.

I'm not with the Jobi love-in partly because of the greediness in not squaring the ball to Alf and partly for being greedy in midfield, losing possession for them to score.
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OMG! The Jobi haters really are getting desperate now!

For f*cks sake, he lost the ball inside the Blackpool half. Two of our defenders were goalside of their player who was on his own, and another of our players was closing on him. The guy then produced an absolute superb strike to score. Yet despite all of that, the goal is the fault of Jobi! I'm afraid that logic borders on the moronic.

How long until Jobi is blamed for a goal conceded when an opposing keeper makes a great save to deny him a goal and our opponents break forward at pace to score a goal on the counter?

Not sure why you are getting so arsey.
Jobi tried what he often does ,i.e. trying to beat one man too many in a midfield area-he lost the ball and they scored.
Once again being greedy he didn't square the ball for Alf to score.

You seem to have childishly over reacted to those comments and come out with tosh about "Jobi-haters".
I'm not a Jobi-hater and happen to think that he has done a good job since coming back into the side and is a much better option than Kanu or Blackman out wide.
Whereas it generally doesn't cost us when he loses the ball out wide it does cost us when he comes inside and this is far from the first time this season when he and others have been caught out in that area just inside our half.

If you were a Job I hater it would at least explain the stupity in trying to blame him for their goal! If you have to blame anyone, there are others that are far more culpable but frankly I don't think there is any real justification to blame anyone. Have you actually watched a replay of the goal? The ball wasn't lost inside our own half nor was it lost by cutting inside to any extent!

God help us if none of our players are allowed to be 'greedy' in possession inside our opponents' half!

[RoyalBlue]

Didn't it deflect off the defender anyway?

Irrelevant.
Offside ruling is made from when McCleary kicked it.

Correct and even if that wasn't the case a deflection does not count as an opponent playing the ball.

[Cypry]

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Is it really that greedy to shoot in this position when your team is comfortably 2-0 up?

It is when the best finisher at the club is pointing to where he would like the ball,
If he passes to LeFondre its a goal, If Mcanuff shoots he must know himself deep down that with his record of scoring that it's probably not going in.

And surely he wanted that monkey off his back. Most players would have shot in that situation. At least he was decisive, that's been his real problem over the last few seasons.

Taking the shot is the percentage option, even if he squares it there's no guarantee ALF will score. Hit it low and hard to the keepers left (as he did) and it could go in, or just as easily be spilt straight into the path of the oncoming ALF for a tap in (as it very nearly was).....

No problem whatsoever him shooting in that position...

[Royal Ginger]

Also, Le Fondre' flying in with a man on his tail and is right on the line of being offside. Even though he's on, and a step ahead of the defender, this is all happening in a split second. If the pass had been intercepted or offside everyone would be having a go at him for not shooting.

Goals are all that are missing from his game at the moment.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Forget all that, what a touch it was from Jobi to create the chance in the first place.

[Focher]

he bosses the game in the way Guthrie used to.

[BR2]

one of the highlights for me was a moment in the first half where Alf was preparing for a crossfield pass from left to right (from Obita?) and he got ahead of his marker to then do a cushioned back-header to McCleary.
I'm sure there are one or two Premier League clubs that could do with him and I am so pleased that Adkins finally came to his senses and chose to play him in a 2 with Pog-goalscorers are a rarity and managers need to learn how to accomodate them when they have one in their ranks even if they don't chase back.

[BR2]

In reply to Royal Blue who always sounds more angry than Mr Angry or even Woodcote.

The more you keep on posting the nearer Jobi gets to their goal.
It was around the halfway line where decent midfielders know that they must not lose possession (if you have ever played there you might understand)-that's why Jobi is a winger and not a central midfielder.

[Ian Royal]

Also, Le Fondre' flying in with a man on his tail and is right on the line of being offside. Even though he's on, and a step ahead of the defender, this is all happening in a split second. If the pass had been intercepted or offside everyone would be having a go at him for not shooting.

Goals are all that are missing from his game at the moment.

Not only that, but McAnuff has to have made his decision before that picture is taking. I didn't see the incident, but ALF will have been deeper and therefore less open for the killer pass at that time. The shot may have appeared the best option at the point Jobi made his decision and it is only at the point of pulling the trigger that there is possibly a marginly better option.

[floyd__streete]

Plainly I think that the performance last night was so good that we are now just finding any random crap to start an argument over.

No we aren't.

[floyd__streete]

LOL @ people h8ing Jobi. One of our best ever players.

[parky]

Plainly I think that the performance last night was so good that we are now just finding any random crap to start an argument over.

No we aren't.

Yes we are.

[Maguire]

Agree that McAnuff has been excellent for Reading

[MouldyRoyal]

A hearty +1

[If you still hate Futcher]

Please can you come and explain that to the 2 idiots that sit next to me in B15

They spend the whole of every minute that Jobi is on the pitch berating him and complaining about him

[Norfolk Royal]

Hasn't Jobi's rejuvenation coincided with our recent better form?

[Ian Royal]

Totally agree Jobi has been great. Consistently one of our best ayers. Despite what some people might try to say about him being our worst winger in a decade.

[melonhead]

Don't think he ever stopped being great tbf

[Pepe the Horseman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m6zy5ebtF8 <3