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No urgency in trying to score at all.
Our defence seem to think we win if we keep the ball. They pass it amongst themselves all night.
Midfield love passing back to the defence. No one (in midfield) drives forward.
Forwards isolated.

Dobbin showed some great touches and can’t wait to see him in a two up top.
Sibbo was ok but at least he wanted to score - shame he was left wing in 4-4-2. Needs to play up top/attacking midfield.
Would love to see Knight replace Hourihane to make a midfield three with Sibbo and Bird.
 
overall disappointed as we have some good players. Not too bad though. We just need to show more intent to actually score! 
 

No urgency in trying to score at all.
Our defence seem to think we win if we keep the ball. They pass it amongst themselves all night.
Midfield love passing back to the defence. No one (in midfield) drives forward.
Forwards isolated.

Dobbin showed some great touches and can’t wait to see him in a two up top.
Sibbo was ok but at least he wanted to score - shame he was left wing in 4-4-2. Needs to play up top/attacking midfield.
Would love to see Knight replace Hourihane to make a midfield three with Sibbo and Bird.
 
overall disappointed as we have some good players. Not too bad though. We just need to show more intent to actually score! 
 

We can’t continue to play a midfield three of Hourihane, Smith and Bird when we are searching for a goal. It’s fine if we want to protect a lead, but it’s just not going to work in an attacking sense.
I thought Smith looked neat and tidy when he dropped deep. But all he was doing was taking Bird’s role as Bird then became anonymous further up the pitch until they switched back.
Hourihane seems undroppable due to his ability at set-pieces and range of passing. I get that, but he is another who has zero penetration through the middle. It’s all too predictable in there. The balance is off.
Maybe Hourihane needs to play in a wide role. Maybe Barkhuizen can play as the number 10 if Sibley can’t be trusted. Something needs changing in there for sure. 
I felt for NML and Barkhuizen today. It took an age for us to give them the ball and when we did, it’s like we just expected them to beat their man every time and deliver pinpoint crosses. That seemed like the only tactic we had.
Collins also had an impossible job. Challenging crosses on his own against a back three. Pointless. 
 

Disappointing result, and probably does point to the fact that we do need something different in the attacking third. Not a criticism of Collins, because he worked his nuts off, but how many times did he actually touch the ball?  Poor penetrating passes from those behind him. We should also be taking a few more risks out wide, whether it wingers or full backs. We must have only broke through on the wings a few times, but there seemed no great desire to take a man on. Knight, given his quality, perhaps the worst culprit. He kept passing the ball backwards, rather than looking for the give and goes that Byrne was doing last season.
Anyway, can’t knock the effort, and in truth we could just as easily be on 8 or 10 points this season with a little more luck. 7 will do, but hopefully we can be more enterprising on Saturday. Up the Rams!

I don't think it is about attacking options, or a lack of. Sure another forward player would be nice, but if we play with a lone striker and don't play to his strengths, if we don't utilize the midfield correctly, then the result would probably be the same, no matter how many extra attacking players we may sign.

People are allowed to moan, it is a forum, on the internet. Different opinions allowed last time I checked. I for one are not going to happy clap and be satisfied that we got a point at Shrewsbury. If anyone has any ambition at all, we should be beating them, and offering a lot more in the final third than we are currently.

Can't understand the footballing logic of some posters on here....in one breath they're saying we are boring and pedestrian and safe and the other we need to sign shed loads more strikers....we can have 3 strikers playing for us but if they never get the ball it's totally pointless. 
How many chances did we actually create tonight?

Hopefully LR will figure things out and get things firing. And I agree, we have no divine right to beat anyone, Shrewsbury included, but if the squad have any ounce of ambition (and the majority have stated that the aim is promotion), then we really should be beating teams like Shrewsbury. Anyway it's another point on the board (even if it's a disappointing one) and hopefully LR can find a way to get things clicking in the final third. Onwards and upwards.

Why are we wasting over half the game passing it round the back against teams that aren’t pressing? 
 
So frustrated and angry at that performance. 
 
 

Precisely the point I making.
Unless we're expecting said striker to score a goal with every chance they're presented with which is just cloud cuckoo land.
We weren't adventurous enough and didn't want to win the game that badly so the draw is what we deserved and we got. 
Funny how reading comments already saying we should be beating teams like Shrewsbury ? we've only been in this league for 5 minutes and already we've built up a divine right sense of entitlement.

The tactics are the problem here again. To slow in possession in our own half. Acres of space in front but don't utilise it and continue to pass around between the backs. 
People giving out about Collins have a point but he is getting no service and regularly shows for the ball. Can't be said by Bird. My hide and seek champion yet again. Needs to get on the ball and and move forward. Waste of a position at the minute. 
A point but, these are useless. 

Hard to judge Collins when he has nothing to feed on. The play is so predictable, and there is no support from midfield. All we do move the ball sideways, then forward on the wings, and then back again. Rinse and repeat. Would like to see us break some lines in a vertical way, and use collins to his strength with his hold up play to bring the midfield in on the action. All this tippy tappy at the back and on the flanks are leading to him being ineffective. 

No urgency in trying to score at all.
Our defence seem to think we win if we keep the ball. They pass it amongst themselves all night.
Midfield love passing back to the defence. No one (in midfield) drives forward.
Forwards isolated.

Dobbin showed some great touches and can’t wait to see him in a two up top.
Sibbo was ok but at least he wanted to score - shame he was left wing in 4-4-2. Needs to play up top/attacking midfield.
Would love to see Knight replace Hourihane to make a midfield three with Sibbo and Bird.
 
overall disappointed as we have some good players. Not too bad though. We just need to show more intent to actually score! 
 

Seen a variety of teams now at the top middle and bottom.  They're all very poor and can't shoot for s***.  For the love of god get on the front foot and get a goal early doors.  For the love of god get Knight in midfield and stop playing Bird and Smith together.  For the love of god realise Collins is a target man and stop getting him chasing down on his own from the front.  For the love of good stop f****** about at the back all game when you have a bank of 10 that are just standing there.  And please switch play quicker from one side to the other, you can afford to lose possession sometimes in an attempt to move it quicker. 

No urgency in trying to score at all.
Our defence seem to think we win if we keep the ball. They pass it amongst themselves all night.
Midfield love passing back to the defence. No one (in midfield) drives forward.
Forwards isolated.

Dobbin showed some great touches and can’t wait to see him in a two up top.
Sibbo was ok but at least he wanted to score - shame he was left wing in 4-4-2. Needs to play up top/attacking midfield.
Would love to see Knight replace Hourihane to make a midfield three with Sibbo and Bird.
 
overall disappointed as we have some good players. Not too bad though. We just need to show more intent to actually score! 
 

Game ova. 0-0. 
Will we score much this year? When will LR get a FB in and move Knight to his proper position? Ugly game really. We dominate but we don't win much. Unfinished project. Collins being starved because we have no clue once we are at their box.  

Dobbin looked very promising..getting better with every outing...think he will be a key player for us..

For once I’m a little ITK about this one! Typical that’s it’s this and not exciting football news! 
As it stands, the govt is planning on 2 week circuit breaker lockdown from 28th Dec. 
 
They are coming under pressure to bring this date forward and any significant leap in the data will alter it being the 28th. 
But as of this weekend, and confirmed yesterday, the govt is planning based on 28th. 
 
God, I hope so. My brother and I are planning to take his lad to his first Derby game against W Brom. They aren’t local so I really do hope he can have his Black and White Army experience this time and they’re able to come up. UTR.
 

For once I’m a little ITK about this one! Typical that’s it’s this and not exciting football news! 
As it stands, the govt is planning on 2 week circuit breaker lockdown from 28th Dec. 
 
They are coming under pressure to bring this date forward and any significant leap in the data will alter it being the 28th. 
But as of this weekend, and confirmed yesterday, the govt is planning based on 28th. 
 
God, I hope so. My brother and I are planning to take his lad to his first Derby game against W Brom. They aren’t local so I really do hope he can have his Black and White Army experience this time and they’re able to come up. UTR.
 

For once I’m a little ITK about this one! Typical that’s it’s this and not exciting football news! 
As it stands, the govt is planning on 2 week circuit breaker lockdown from 28th Dec. 
 
They are coming under pressure to bring this date forward and any significant leap in the data will alter it being the 28th. 
But as of this weekend, and confirmed yesterday, the govt is planning based on 28th. 
 
God, I hope so. My brother and I are planning to take his lad to his first Derby game against W Brom. They aren’t local so I really do hope he can have his Black and White Army experience this time and they’re able to come up. UTR.
 

For once I’m a little ITK about this one! Typical that’s it’s this and not exciting football news! 
As it stands, the govt is planning on 2 week circuit breaker lockdown from 28th Dec. 
 
They are coming under pressure to bring this date forward and any significant leap in the data will alter it being the 28th. 
But as of this weekend, and confirmed yesterday, the govt is planning based on 28th. 
 
God, I hope so. My brother and I are planning to take his lad to his first Derby game against W Brom. They aren’t local so I really do hope he can have his Black and White Army experience this time and they’re able to come up. UTR.
 

For once I’m a little ITK about this one! Typical that’s it’s this and not exciting football news! 
As it stands, the govt is planning on 2 week circuit breaker lockdown from 28th Dec. 
 
They are coming under pressure to bring this date forward and any significant leap in the data will alter it being the 28th. 
But as of this weekend, and confirmed yesterday, the govt is planning based on 28th. 
 
God, I hope so. My brother and I are planning to take his lad to his first Derby game against W Brom. They aren’t local so I really do hope he can have his Black and White Army experience this time and they’re able to come up. UTR.
 

Roos
 Byrne        Davies    Stearman      Buchanan/Foz 
                      Morrison Shinnie  
Sibley                   Lawrence               Jozwiak
                                  CKR

Roos
 Byrne        Davies    Stearman      Buchanan/Foz 
                      Morrison Shinnie  
Sibley                   Lawrence               Jozwiak
                                  CKR