My thoughts on the game :
Sure we sucked but we didn't deserve to lose because we were unlucky with Baines free kick, Rodders should of had a penalty and Cahill should of scored.
However we didn't and football is all about taking your chances when they come. We gifted them a chance and they took it, we tried and tried and had a few half chances but nothing great and we couldn't take them.
But we've all seen it before and nothing has changed.
The club is stale. The board is stale. The manager is stale. The players are stale.
Only players to take credit from that game :
Beckford. Sure, his touch is pretty bad when he has the ball but its always has been, thats not his strongpoint. What is his strongpoint is making runs behind the defence. Numerous times he made runs in to good positions but are players just wouldn't play him in, seemed incredibly frustrated and rightfully so.
Barkley. Only thing who isn't stale and it shows. Great vision and always trying to make things happen, played some great crossfield balls to change the play. And worked hard, somewhere near the end the ball was lost in midfield, him and Arteta both started running back at the same time but he busted his ass to get back and Arteta jogged.
Heitinga, Baines, Howard, Distain and Cahill were ok. Not great but didn't stink.
Jags defending for the goal was absolutley atrocious defedning from an experienced Prem and England international player. Failed to control a simple ball and play a simple pass to Neville to let us clear trhe ball, and then walked out of position to where we already had 2 players covering leaving the man who scored enough room to do so.
Osman was worryingly anonymous throughout most of the game. At one point we had a throw in level with their area, Barkely showed and was picked up however no one else moved an inch to givbe Baines an option until our defensive mid Heitinga had to recieve it while Osman just stood in the centre circle, crazy!
Best part of the day was the guy 2 rows behind me in the upper gladwys , best quotes being "What have you been doing all summer Moyes, sticking your head up Kenwrights arse" and "**** off Kenwright, give him a break ill give him a break alright". Which is quite sad really but we were that bad.