Tonight

Referee was an absolute joke tonight. How he didn’t give anything for that fowl on powell right at the end beggars belief.
Definitely 10 out of 10 for young nicholls.
Sooner january comes the better for me & we can sign a decent striker. Nothing against fortue but holt?????

The ref was unbelievable. He made Jon Moss look like a decent referee :ohmy:

Agreed we need more attacking options, but in fairness that was the first home game we’ve not scored this season.

Granted ref didn’t cover himself in glory but come on that performance was poor.Qpr didn’t look great so I thought they were very beatable but not with our forward play.We have improved at the back and Nicholls handling was excellent,Powell worked hard all night but no goals in last 3 league games is a worry. Apart from rattling the post we created nothing as we didn’t at Charlton or for 65 mins at Blackpool.

I thought so at the time he was signed and I am even more convinced now – Holt has only come here because he wanted to move back north and can’t believe the deal he has got with us. He’s just batting out time until the pension kicks in.

And people have the nerve to boo Jordi Gomez when that useless waste of space is out there stealing a living.

At least Gomez had a shot last night. The only time Holt kicked it that hard and as far was when he tried to control it. Couldn’t trap a bag of cement.

I thought so at the time he was signed and I am even more convinced now – Holt has only come here because he wanted to move back north and can’t believe the deal he has got with us. He’s just batting out time until the pension kicks in.

And people have the nerve to boo Jordi Gomez when that useless waste of space is out there stealing a living.

At least Gomez had a shot last night. The only time Holt kicked it that hard and as far was when he tried to control it. Couldn’t trap a bag of cement.[/quote]

This sums it up really. Thing is with Holt, it’s akin to working with someone that tries to look busy all the time. He actually made a run last night ending up with him flicking a pass to Gomez that Usain Bolt wouldn’t have kept in and looked at Gomez in disgust as if to say ‘here’s me working my nuts off and you can’t keep up’. He’s here for a payday, that’s all.

As for the Gomez bashers, it’s about time they left him alone. The lad’s got loads of talent but his confidence must be rock bottom. All he has to do is mis-control the ball and the groans start. He’s just starting to look forward when he picks up the ball (rather than the Martinez doctrine of control, then pass back, Ben Watson being an acute sufferer), gets into some great positions and isn’t scared to have a dig. We’ll miss him more than you think.

I’ll disagree on Holt
Yeah no doubt he was looking for a last payday/signing on fee – there’s not many journeymen players at the same stage of their career who wouldn’t but at the end of the day he’s also taken a pay cut. He could have stayed at Norwich & earnt more flat rate sat in the stiffs

Anyway, leaving that to one side I don’t think his poor performances are related to not giving a $h!t coz he’s got his dosh either but more to do with being asked to play a role that doesn’t suit him in any way, shape or form. From what i saw of him at Norwich he was that big lump of a target man, flicking the ball on for others &/or getting on the end of stuff in the penalty area – & he did it very well.
Under Coyle at Latics he’s being asked to play that lone forward role where he needs to drop deep, hold the ball up, bring others into play & then get on the end of stuff in the penalty area. He hasn’t got the skill set to play that role & he’s looking like a fish out of water

My own feelings on Gomez is that he is a really gifted & skilful footballer but he is way too slow in mind & body at times. When he’s given time & space on the ball he can pick out a slide rule pass no-one else can manage like to McManaman against Millwall at Wembley but most of the time he doesn’t have that luxury. As with Holt, he’s also now being asked by Coyle to play in a wide position where he doesn’t have the pace to be effective. Like Holt, he’s looking like a fish out of water & he’s starting to get grief. Played as Bobby wound up using him at the back end of last season & he looks good. He doesn’t help his case when he is seen to bottle out of tackles as he did at least once against Rubin last week (although sometimes he gets stick for appearing to do that when he actually chose the better option in standing up). That said he doesn’t deserve anywhere near the stick get gets from some coz he can blaze over a shot & get booed, someone else does it & they get clapped

It reminds me of the Teale/McCulloch scenario from a few years back

Someone is going to get a tonking off us soon, thats my prediction