Certainly deserved a point

I thought we deserved a point. One mistake cost us. The stats support we contested the game and were marginally better in some areas but, without the cohesion that Watford had. They had pace and were more direct. We are held back due to the squad make up of previous campaigns and poor recruitment. How many year will go by before pace and creativity in midfield and up front is addressed? It is the elephant in the room.

As for Fletcher. I think he is the most natural finisher we have at the club, that said, he offers little else. He lacks physicality and aggression and will never be a player that reaches the top. he will score 12-14 goals a season and a few assists, but more is needed if we are to challenge the top 6 than he alone offers. We are where we are, we have what we have and I do wonder if we have the vision, will and money to do much about it. Morsy will tighten up the middle, but the full backs can’t defend and we have no outlets to quickly counter.
 
I agree almost completely, but would prefer Assombolonga to Fletcher.
He will get 12-15 a season because he has. But he also works harder.
It is however 2 bald men fighting over a comb; you are right, we do need better and we do need the pace and creativity we have been pointing to for years.
 
We may well have deserved a point but the frustrating thing is that we know this squad lacks the quality to achieve anything more than half way. Britt always looks like he should do better than he does. Saville is a total disappointment. McNair and Howson have some quality but its not enough. We lack pace and bite. Dijksteel is our best defender and a positive. Hall apart from their goal solid enough. But thats it.

i think theres a concern that with no money it cant get better. Maybe Morsy will galvanise but with our home form at the moment it will need a big change.
 
atypical_boro said:
We all want promotion, but if you’re expecting that this season you’re in for a very tough time.
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Expecting promotion? Definitely not right now. Hoping for a big step forward towards that? I really do hope so as the dross we’ve been served up over recent years by an owner who makes the same mistakes on repeat is unbelievable.
 
It was a tight scrappy game, against a Watford team that contained players with proven Premier League quality and experience, on balance a point would have been decent result and what we should have got, Hall’s momentary lapse and Hall’s and Assombalonga’s inability to hit the target from 6 yards being the difference.

We showed plenty of energy but little quality and most surprisingly, for a Warnock team, we lacked bite, I think Morsy will make a difference in the midfield, but our wing backs were poor in the attacking third last night which meant we couldn’t stretch Watford and relied on longer balls into channels, we don’t have the personnel up front to go direct, something that I’m sure is a priority to change.

Defensively we were pretty solid and Assombalonga has increased his work rate massively under Warnock, Watford, despite their ‘injury’ problems still had a team with the best keeper in the Championship and in players like Cathcart, Chalobah, Kabasele, and Cleverly a lot of experience and no little ability they’ll win plenty of games this season and seem with both personnel and style of play the best suited of the relegated teams to push for promotion. Not a match that will live long in the memory 5.5/10.
 
Primus84 said:
Expecting promotion? Definitely not right now. Hoping for a big step forward towards that? I really do hope so as the dross we’ve been served up over recent years by an owner who makes the same mistakes on repeat is unbelievable.
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Well fine but last night was one of the toughest fixtures we’ll have this season. A 1-0 defeat in a drab but fairly even contest not the end of the world.
 
Let’s be honest I was half expecting a thumping last night esp conceding so early but it never came and we gave as good as we got. Plus with Morsy signed an experienced first team “captain” to come straight into the side we already know the side WILL be stronger next time out.

so we’ve played one of the toughest fixtures in this division got it out of the way early and not too bad.
 
I thought we were relatively solid but very pedestrian, no pace to counter, sideways passes instead of threatening ones.
I couldn't see us scoring at all, we are work in progress but you can understand why Warnock wants a big CF, Robert's back to knit things together would be a huge plus.
Midfield revamp much needed, let's hope Morsy can add that bite but badly need that spark to unlock defences.
Felt meh after the game, seen it all before I'm afraid so these next few remaining weeks of the transfer window are ever more important.
Let's hope Gibson and crew feel the same.
Mid table at best unless we seriously strengthen in key areas.
Is that the general consensus?
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We're looking at a mid table finish (IMO). As others have said the squad is too small and lacking in several areas. Take Fletcher yesterday, decent enough in the first half but ineffective in the second, but we had no one on the bench to change things. I would have liked to have seen Browne for Saville rather than Wing (nothing wrong with Lewis but too similar to Sav). On a positive note, aside from one error from Hall we didn't really look like conceding further.

You cannot reasonably expect the squad to be balanced and corrected in one transfer window especially when we are not exactly flush with money and the club cannot be assured of its gate revenue for the next year or so.
 
Saville Howson Mcnair and probably Morsy. All players with little pace who can do a good job defensively as shown last night. But they offer very little going forward apart from one cross from Howson. Watford were quick through the midfield And the Joao Pedro was tricky. But they were powder puff upfront and rarely threatened our goal.
We had 2 clear cut chances from corners but didn't convert.
We were getting beat and NW only used one sub when game was crying out for a change. Coulson for Johnson and/our Browne for .....? May have made a difference
Need a creative midfielder but there again so do most teams
 
zorro_mfc said:
Let’s be honest I was half expecting a thumping last night esp conceding so early but it never came and we gave as good as we got. Plus with Morsy signed an experienced first team “captain” to come straight into the side we already know the side WILL be stronger next time out.

so we’ve played one of the toughest fixtures in this division got it out of the way early and not too bad.
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Agree with all of that.
Id give it 6 games in to assess whether or not its the hardest game of the season as suggested by Warnock . See how other teams do against Watford before being too confident in how well we have or have not done.
 
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