Kierzz

This has been the problem all season.

Anyone got a link to listen to the radio commentary? If so, can you DM me. Thanks

Have you seen the high tackle decision again? That decision was literally a "match winning / losing" decision and was a very controversial call. It was quite telling that the Television Coverage from the French didn't provide any replays of the incident in the stadium or to the British broadcasters

It looked like our tactics from the start of the game were to prevent Bristol City coming through the centre. Rowett probably selected Reid for this match as he thought he is more disciplined and better defensively in the No.10 position to help prevent them playing through the middle of us compared to our other options we have there (e.g. Mukasa). We kept our first clean sheet in about 30 matches so it appeared to work...

We made Norwich look like Man City. You can't defend that deep and passive at home. We are so easy to play against. We have to play higher up and press teams like Norwich. Winks was poor today, but if he was in a Norwich shirt, he would have run riot considering the amount of time we gave their players on the ball.

I know he Winks isn't liked much on here for understandable reasons. However, he is such a crucial player that we need to have playing at his best in order for us to stay up. From Rowetts's previous comments, I would be shocked if he isn't starting (when fit) for the remainder of the season.

They are both small dried fruits...?

Main attacking threat....really? When Luke Thomas is our main attacking threat we really do have big problems...although even we aren't that bad

It looks like Rowett has given the players a bit of a shaking (to put it politely) and finally got them putting in effort and playing for the shirt.

Agreed he did better. But a lot of crosses still came into the box from his side...

He is going to be key if we manage to stay up. Skipp also. They are both very good central midfielders on their day at this level. But Rowett has also got them finally looking equally as good, on and off the ball, when playing as a pairing.

The players finally seem to be playing within a clearly defined system when defending. Hopefully Rowett can sort out our attacking system next and we could actually turn into a decent team....

I just can't believe he made the Italy Squad last season...mental

Is this on the radio anywhere?

Well our season has been going well so far with him starting every match... There's clearly a mentality and effort issue when we are defending. One or two players not putting in effort breaks the whole defensive system. You can't defend like that when you are in a relegation scrap, deserves to be dropped unless he can put in the levels of effort he did under Maresca (maybe him getting dropped will encourage that...).