Paul Brush Talking Rubbish

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

It did make me Laugh when Brushy said that beating Man U was the worst thing that could have happened this Season .He goes on to say that we only won One game in the next Eleven and didn't score in Eight of those Eleven .
Sorry Paul but not Scoring and not Winning was a recurring theme throughout the whole Season .Mega problems in Attack and Full Backs easily beaten or caught out of position and a Small and also easily beaten Goalkeeper was more to blame .Lack of cover for the only proper Goalscorers ,Eastwood and Gower and this terrible ,boring tactic of playing the Ball to Bradbury or Harrold miles from the opposition Goal for them to face the wrong way and just pass it backwards ,WOW , Great ,at least the Goat would get the Ball and head straight for Goal .Sometimes Away from Home we hardly had a Shot at Goal with the terribly Slow Strikers playing so deep .
Don't blame our poor Season on the Man U game Paul ,take a good hard look at the Squad and the Tactics as it was the Best thing that happened this Season and a Brilliant Night that we will never forget .

 

[shrimpled]

I agree with some points there, but i think in the aftermath of that game things happened on the training ground and players thought they were bigger than the club all of a sudden. i think that may be what Brushy was referring to.

 

[Smiley]

I agree with Shrimpled.

The bad thing wasn't beating Manchester United, but more the reaction to it.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

It did make me Laugh when Brushy said that beating Man U was the worst thing that could have happened this Season .He goes on to say that we only won One game in the next Eleven and didn't score in Eight of those Eleven .
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I wonder if that is a dig at Freddy?

Incidentally, we didn't win a single one of the 11 league games preceeding Man U (drawing 4). After Man U we won one and drew five of the next 11.

 

[mattytheshrimper]

can't really see how one game can affect the rest of the season. thats just making a rubbish excuse!

 

[shrimpled]

I don't think he used it as an excuse. he actually just said that beating Man U was the worst thing that could have happened.

 

[dloman]

I wonder if that is a dig at Freddy?

Incidentally, we didn't win a single one of the 11 league games preceeding Man U (drawing 4). After Man U we won one and drew five of the next 11.

Our record for those 11 games after Man Utd was actually better than the 11 league games preceding it , seems like we improved after the victory then.

 

[Jam_Man]

Brush was talking nonsense if what he said in the echo was true.

The 8 games before Man Utd we lost 7 and drew 1. Hardly killed our form did it.

We were absolute toilet before Man Utd and if anything beating them gave us a bit of a lift and confidence and whilst we didnt turn a corner at that point did so shortly after.

 

[Ailsa Road Shrimper]

After the Man U game I remember us drawing with Preston and Plymouth which were improved performances and games we could've easily won. The game that really set us back at that stage of the season was the Colchester one, with the disastrous nature of the defeat and the subsequent suspensions which contributed to our losses against Barnsley and Wolves.

As Yorkshire Blue suggested, Brush's theory may be 99% applicable to Freddy. Perhaps if he'd never scored THAT goal his form wouldn't have dipped - a Freddy at the top of his game from November onwards may have prevented relegation.

 

[Shrimper2thecore]

Brushy was not talking rubbish at all. What he means is once Freddy had scored against Man U, he stopped playing, how many more goals would he have needed to keep us up, I think Brushy believes we would never have gone down if we had not drawn Man U.

Personally, I agree that it was nto what we needed, but the worst thing that happened to us this season, was the last international break!!!

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

This still wont wash with me as before the Man U game we hadn't actually won a Championship Game in 12 Matches ,the last win being the Sunderland Home Game .So Jam Man is right ,we was already Crap before Our Famous Cup Victory of which the proceeds was very badly spent .The Table doesn't lie ,we finished in the bottom Three on merit with a Goal Difference of -33 and 7 points behind the Fourth from bottom Team Hull .Freddy missed quite a few Games and we then had the Worst Strikeforce by a Mile in the Championship ,one which would struggle to Score Goals in the Conference League .The Player that had the most appearances as a main Striker scored a pathetic 4 Goals .
Brushy is just trying to deflect from his and Tilly's failings ,I for one would rather he hold his Hands Up and say we made some very poor signings ,we attacked from the back too much at Home leaving us exposed and easily picked off ,and we played far too deep Away with no Quick Strikers for the Breakaway Goals this system requires .
Come on Brushy ,just say you bad mistakes this Season ,not many of us are calling for your Head or will do as we all appreciate the Fantastic Success and memorable moments that you have helped to give us the last few Seasons .

 

[Jam_Man]

Brushy was not talking rubbish at all. What he means is once Freddy had scored against Man U, he stopped playing, how many more goals would he have needed to keep us up, I think Brushy believes we would never have gone down if we had not drawn Man U.

Personally, I agree that it was nto what we needed, but the worst thing that happened to us this season, was the last international break!!!

If we were in good form but then played worse after the Man Utd game then that would have some credibility, but we had got one point from 8 games. When the team were in such awful form the Man Utd game would have given them confidence and afterwards we ground out a couple of decent draws (one against Preston) and then went into play off from.

What I do agree with is the international break. We were in good form and were beating Leeds until the equalised at the end, straight after we had a two week break after which we never recovered.

 

[Mick]

Brushy was not talking rubbish at all.

Of course he was - absolute garbage, in my opinion; the glorious Manchester United victory was sandwiched between 22 League games of which we won just one! The performances after the Manchester United match were, if anything, rather better than those which preceded it. Furthermore it gave us a tie at Tottenham, our first ever major quarter final, and another night to remember where we acquitted ourselves splendidly.

(If the management team had trouble motivating one particular individual after a spell in the national limelight, that's their fault not the fact we beat Man Utd)

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

The worst thing to happen this season was, as fbm pointed out at the time, to beat QPR 5-0.

Look at our respective seasons thereafter.

Southend: LLLDWWDLLWLLLL - 3 wins, 2 draws, 9 defeats (11 points)
QPR: DDLDDWLWWWLWLD - 5 wins, 5 draws, 4 defeats (20 points)

That 5-0 win ought to have given us the psychological boost, but instead we went up to Sunderland, were a little bit slap-dash, rightly got thrashed, and then were in deep sh*t thereafter other than for a couple of wins (Ipswich & Burnley) which owed themselves more to our opposition's psychology (again, Ipswich had had a big win at Hull midweek, and so metaphorically had their foot off the pedal; and Burnley were deep in their winless streak). Preston was merely the last twitch of the corpse.

QPR, on the other hand, went home totally chastened... and promptly dug in, put in the graft, and went on a 10-match streak of W4 D4 L2 - not the form of a side going down.

In retrospect, that 5-0 win did John Gregory a huge favour in that it gave his side the wake up call they needed; whilst it lulled ours into a false sense of their own ability and how close they were to safety. After all, who else thought after that game, "there's no way we can go down now, we're clearly good enough for this league"...?

Hey ho.

:(

Matt

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Well said Matt the Shrimp. We all got carried away after the Q.P.R. game and i can recall a lot of postings the following week about fans predicting we would win at Sunderland, and the indignation when Sunderland fans were saying they would beat us by 3 or 4 goals.

 

[Mick]

QPR, on the other hand, went home totally chastened... and promptly dug in, put in the graft, and went on a 10-match streak of W4 D4 L2 -

... they also went out and got a new 'keeper.

 

[Hooly]

The worst thing to happen this season was, as fbm pointed out at the time, to beat QPR 5-0.

Look at our respective seasons thereafter.

Southend: LLLDWWDLLWLLLL - 3 wins, 2 draws, 9 defeats (11 points)
QPR: DDLDDWLWWWLWLD - 5 wins, 5 draws, 4 defeats (20 points)

That 5-0 win ought to have given us the psychological boost, but instead we went up to Sunderland, were a little bit slap-dash, rightly got thrashed, and then were in deep sh*t thereafter.........

Don't also forget that in that affair against Sunderland the management put out 2 players who, by all the accounts from mates who where there, weren't anywhere near fit, in Hammell & Macca. They then crucially missed a number of more important games against teams we could & perhaps should have beaten.

At the time this seemed to me to be a lobbock dropped.