Yet MOTD made it look like a festival! I think because of our situation we are ruining the enjoyment, football is made up entirely of not very interesting moments dotted with very exciting ones, we sadly fail in converting enough of our exciting moments ..if Batshuayi had taken his wonderful chance in the first half then this game would have been just a good result against weak oppo. when we beat teams away the home fans feel exactly like we do.

We struggled again because some of our players cannot pass ten feet to another, not Roy's fault that funnily enough but three players in particular have been doing it for well too long and getting away with it because the bench is awful ..again not Roy's fault.

Just wondering why it always takes a piss poor first half to pass before this team actually start to get its act together. Tactics? Motivation? Complacency?

Edited by southnorwoodhill (31 Mar 2019 10.22am)

That reminds me of the joke.

Manager to club's new foreign football signing. "ball, you kick ball in goal geddit:

Player "Sure boss I understand actually I speak very good English.

Manager "I know that I wasn't talking to you it was to the rest of them".

One more point

Think it was down to Huddersfield's tactics. Having Prichard stick to Luca like glue and a high pressing line meant we couldn't get the ball out. We seem to lack players with the intelligence/freedom to change things on the pitch. Guiata in particular got a lot of stick, but he just didn't have an outlet.

Credit to Roy, he did change things at half time. Mayer's first touch and ability to look for space is the best we've had since Cabaye left but admittedtly his tackling is poor. I still can't work out how Schlupp gets on the pitch. He is a passenger in games. Is it extra protection for PVA? Could we play Reidewald or Mayer there?

The like for like Striker substitution seemed strange again.

In the end we were lucky that Huddersfield gave away a clumsy penalty. Ultimately, that stopped the result going the way the Cardiff and Newcastle games went.

Good to see a well worked goal from open play. Hopefully, it will help the team build a bit of confidence. PVA certainly looked relieved.

Edited by jeeagles (31 Mar 2019 1.16pm)

He was getting stick from the people around me for taking too long. To me it appeared he realised there was an issue and was trying to get the players to push further forward and play longer.

To Huddersfield's credit, their game plan was to pressure Dann, Tompkins, and Luca, which worked well.