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Now you may think she is just a female who doesn''t understand the technicalities of the game but even I know that Worthy got the team selection completely wrong yet again!Why play Holt out of position at the back when we have Briggs to play there?Why play Easton at all,yes he did ok in the first half for 20 mins but his second half performance shows that he is just not good enough for Div 1 football.Why play Iwan up front ok hes a great motivator to have on the bench to bring on for the last 30 mins if things aren''t going well but hes just not a 90 min man anymore.Why didnt Jarvis get a start he would have gained valuable experience from Hucks and after all he is the future of this club.
Sorry Worthy you got it wrong today so please dont stick up for him anyone.We all make mistakes and he has to own up that his mistake was disastrous today and contributed to us losing 3 points.
P.S. I know there some people on here are getting fed up with the buy Hucks threads but if we dont keep him and Crouch this could well be the standard of football we watch every week.I rest my case!

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I think worthington has done ok for most of the season, but i totally agree with you today, the team selection was totally wrong. when we signed briggs he was recognised as one of the best young right backs outside of the premiership. His confidence must be hitting rock bottom. First he finds one of the best midfielders in the division playing in his position and then with mullryne injured, the manager prefers to bring in the awful clint easton to play midfield rather than letting holt get back to what he does best, therfore enabling briggs to show us what we know he can do. I feel the inclusion of easton was the main downfall of the team today. His obvious lack of quality spread through the team today causing normally consistant players to mis-place passes and mis-time tackles. I have normally given clint the benefit of the doubt and told people to get off his back but i must admit i was one of those cheering the decision to bring him off yesterday. I have just witnessed worthingtons interview on sky sports where he blames the whole team and the fans for complacency and expecting to much. Im sorry mr worthington but there is only one person to blame for today and that is you. On a different note i heard yesterday that rivers and worthy had a huge bust up in the tunnel after the game. Anyone able to shed any light on this?

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Being female doesn''t come into it, you''re dead right Diane. the team already weakened by the loss of Mullers and Crouch were weakened further by Worthington''s. team selection and naive tactics, end of story!!

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You''ve saved me the job of writing the same message. I agree 100% with your comments. When I saw the team sheet I just thought - oh no. What the hell did Worthy think he was doing. Let''s face it Holt has done OK as a fill at full back but he is not great in that position and I thought we had seen the last of Easton this season after a string of very poor performances (he hasn''t even made the bench for the last 5 or 6 games).

And as much as I love Robbo he is just blunt instrument now that is good for the last 10 minutes, but he just can''t compete for the full 90.

Come on Worthy don''t make the same mistake again.

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More than agree with you Diane-every point you made was exactly what i was thinking after watching that awful performance on saturday.

Really felt like raising these points to Neil Adams on radio Norfolk after the game but was far to angry and may have said something unsuitable for the radio!!

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Excellent posts all. I was begining to wonder myself what Briggs must have done to upset Worthy. Holt didn''t have a bad game at right back, but the team looked far better balanced once he moved into midfield and with a specialist right back.

I was also left wondering why we didn''t start with Jarvis up front. I know he''s young and still got lots to learn, but I think he would benefit considerably from playing three or four games along side Huckerby. I''m not suggesting that this should be at the expense of Crouch, but, if Jarvis doesn''t start, I''d at least like to see him get twenty to thirty minutes plus on two or three occassions between now and the end of the loan periods.

One minor point, and I know I''m going to get some stick for this, but, here goes anyway, team selection and tactics is down to the manager, yes, but the implementation of those tactics is down to the players at the end of the day. To lay the blame totally at the manager''s door is wrong, no matter who he is. There were some poor decisions made on Saturday, some by the manager, some by the players, some by the referee. The game doesn''t start and end with the manager''s team selection and his half time team talk.

At the end of the day, too many of our players performed below their standards in recent weeks. That''s why we got beaten

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Is this all a bit of a over-reaction?

On another day we would have won this by 2/3 goals with the same team. There were 2 blatant penalties not given by a truly awful ref and their keeper made a similar number of stops - starting in the 2 minutes from Flems header. It was just a match we were destined not to win as our home luck ran out. It was an entertaining game to watch, if frustrating to lose to poor opposition. To be fair to clint (those in the barclay with me will no I am no Easton fan) I thought he had a reasonable 1st half and was by no means the worst midfielder on the pitch (Henderson and Francis were far worse on the day). His performance did drop in the 2nd half presumably through not being match fit and returning to his normal playing ability!

However I do agree with 3 key points

1. Iwan demonstrated why he must be confined to a subs place only - he is not fit enough to last 90 minutes and is ineffective anyway - he was virtually anonymous all game and conceeded far too many silly free kicks - as usual. The man is a legend - please let me remember him that way rather than suffer more performances like this. Having said that i would have started with Iwan too.

2. I say horses for courses. Briggs is a recognised right back - play him from the start or sell him if he is not good enough. He deserves a chance to prove his worth and the limited amount I have seen of him he has the potential to deserve to be at the club. Holty is OK but he is better for the team in midfield. Briggs confidence must be shot by now. For this game he should have started but the error of bringing him on for Easton added nothing to our attacking options when we need to score 2 goals to win. Leaving Jarvis on the bench for so long when Iwan was clearly ineefective was the other tactical error I feel Worthy made but that is just my opinion.

3. Having an effective target man is more important than just having Huckerbys on his own. Without support Hucks faced a wall of 3 defenders. With a real strike partner (crouch) the defenders have to focus on both forwards rather than smother one. On this performance I would rather have Crouch supported by McVeigh than Roberts with Huckerby. Like everyone else I would like to have both but that simply is not going to happen.

We can debate Worthys team choice but the team he put out should have won on saturday and he has got it right most of the time. The only contentious decision was to leave Holty at right back where he had played the previous two games.

What we need to do is prove that this was a one-off and get back to winning ways at Preston. Crouch will return and hopefully Briggs will start if Edworthy remains injured. As important as Crouch is a return to fitness for McVeigh too - any news on his injury?

Once again a big match for city coming up...

Steady on, nows your chance








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Correct on two counts there Zip. Once the team crosses the white line they look after themselves, and they let NW down on Sat - that team should have won but didn''t play well enough. Again we seem to be in the position of "if the team win it''s the players'' fault (mainly Hucks on his own) and if we lose it''s NW''s".

Iwan is upsetting me. He shouldn''t be THAT bad, and I can''t put it down to anything other than lack of effort. I know he''s slow and unfit, but he''s twice the speed of Sheringham and unfortunately now, half as good. How many times over the years have we watched Iwan attack the ball in the pen area, get there before the defender and nail one in the back of the net? But now he just doesn''t have the heart to get there first. I don''t want to remember him like this, but he''s in danger of doing "a Seaman".

And yes, we''d be better with Crouch than Hucks IF we can''t get them both. McVeigh would make an adequate replacement for him, and although he''s a slightly different player he has every bit as much class. Hucks is a fans type of player, Crouch is a manager''s dream and an opponents nightmare, he just hangs on to the ball and lets the team play round him. Having said that, Crouch AND Hucks with McVeigh not far behind is the dream team and let''s hope we can pull it off....

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I feel NW is very quick to blame the players when performances are poor, either individually or as a team, sometimes I can except his point [although don''t necessarily agree with his public assignation of a player] but I can only accept this criticism when he is even-handed and accepts the blame himself when he has made one of his regular naive tactical errors

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Hang on - wasn''t it only last season when people were getting fed up with Worthington when he publically defended the team for below-par performances? So now he''s being too harsh?? The poor guy can''t win...

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I don''t think Mcveigh is strong enough to play up front. Defenders have worked out that they can just muscle him off the ball. He''s much better playing behind the front to and running at people. It panics them.
Worthy really screwed up on Saturday. The worrying thing is, he''s done it twice this season already in games we could have had points from (WBA being the other one). He keeps saying ''I haven''t got a big squad'', but on those two occasions didn''t use the decent players he has got.
Jarvis should have started on Saturday - Watford aren''t great defenders and the way him, Mcveigh and Huck can play the ball would have destroyed them.

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