Quote Originally Posted by ballcock View Post
Haven't watched the game.

Having Ekdal in a Premier league line up is suicidal, he is miles off it has proved 2 seasons ago.
The wing back Sonne also not good enough and neither is Laurent at this level. Strange he played 5 at the back after going 4 all last season.

Like I said last week, the season has come 3 weeks early for us has our new signings aren't yet fit to play.

Looking back compared to the rest of the Premier league we have had a poor pre-season. We really need to be playing better opposition, not the likes of Udders, Shrews and Stoke.
Agreed ballcock - my worry is hence the post we were set up so open like it was inferior opposition and it was going to be a breeze, hopefully Parker sorts it out as tbh we looked a bit VK conceding space and allowing ball to be delivered into our box.

Tbf to Parker he did realise and tried to get us playing closer together which steadied the ship a bit but then 2nd half we just switched off again and were away with the fairies having a lovely time ( but not football ).

The players you named are obviously issues but the knock on effect is it makes Hannibal - Anthony redundant ( harder to influence the game when you?re covering weak areas ).

This caught me a bit off guard tbh I expected to us to be dogged strong and the exact opposite of rolling over and weak.

Pragmatic like a Dyche side with a few efforts on goal but absolutely together - we started with the wrong line up - people who couldn?t or would t do the job- worrying on day 1.