Bull 6 Very poor for his standards, kicking was woeful and did nothing to try to sort out his defence. Foster 4 Horrific excuse of a footballer, took so many bad touches, passing was dreadful and was beaten way too easily in the air at corners. Johnson 5 Was torn to shreds and was saved the embarrasment of 90 minutes Tunnicliffe 5 Never have I seen a 6'4 defender beaten in the air so many times. To his credit he did try all 90 minutes though. Basey 6 Did OK most of the match but was beaten far too easily for one of Rhodes' goals Lewis 5 Outmaneuvered and out-muscled in midfield Bloomfield 6 Tried hard but gulf in class was evident Mcnamee 4 Way too quiet, did absolutely nothing Grant 8 Was only player of ours to look threatening, much improved from his last few performances Beavon 6 Has gone off the boil and never really threatened Trotta 5 Was very poor for his standards Subs: Mccoy 7 Instantly the defence looked more solid Ainsworth 6 Very quiet, although almost scored fluke goal Halls 3 Hideous substitution and a terrible performance
Disagree with Bull he made some superb saves and it would have been double figures if he hadn't played. The only player who shouldn't be well pissed off with his performance. Grant not an 8 (no player should get 8 out of 10 for losing 6-0 at home) but apart from that agree.
I will agree that bull made a few good saves, however he was supposed to be the captain and not once did I see him trying to sort anything out. Further still he kept on kicking long to no-one and getting annoyed no-one was there.
I watched it on the telly and saw him really shouting at hte players, making 'chat chat chat' movements with his hands and looking really pissed off with his defence on numerous occasions. BUlly shouted his heart out and played. The rest of them should all be put on the transfer list.
We were so bad I don't know where to start. Right from kick off you could see we were scared of them. Apart from Grant, no one was comfortable in possession and just sent aimless balls forward for their giant centre halves to mop up. We just invited pressure onto a defence that we've been saying for months is not good enough. Lewis and Bloomfield were nowhere to be seen giving no outlet for the defence and allowing their midfield to run riot. This result has been coming, a good team like Huddersfield were always going to fill their boots against us. Credit to Rhodes, this lad will go far and good luck to him. But it was all too easy for him. I've always been behind Waddock, but the tide is definitely turning. He had no idea what to do tonight. The players take the blame too of course, but he assembled this team. I'm not saying he should go, I don't see the point now. But he needs to find a way of getting some fire into these players as we'll only get out of this with hard work and passion as there is clearly not enough quality.
On Tuesday night WWFC travel to Chalfont St Peter in the Berks & Bucks Cup. I would make the majority of the team from tonight play in that match. They need to realise just how lucky they are to be professional footballers.
Before reading all your comments I had put the scoreline down to the fact you were playing a good side for this division with possibly one of the countries hottest properties in Jordon Rhodes doing exactly what he does best in scoring goals for fun. If this result was down to shambolic defending rather than Huddersfield simply being too hot to handle then Mr Waddock has a lot of answers to find and bloody quickly! I suggested a few weeks ago that all your games are now must win games and I stand by that, a remark that was dismissed by most of you (that's fine, we all have opinions). Wycombe and the other teams fighting relegation are now cut off from 17th place, so no matter what happens from now until May 17th is likely to be the best you can hope for. Yes, 17th - 20th will do nicely given how poor the season has been so far but do you guys believe you have enough to take one of those places because I do not think you have, sorry to say.
Thai Canary, Huddersfield did play well but a large chunk of why was our dreadful performance. Huddersfield are a good team but how often do they stuff teams 6-0? (that is aside from us!!). For me the two most worrying things were: 1) The game was on live tv is that not motivation enough for players to put in their all? Even without any manager comments surely the players want to show to the viewing public that they are decent footballers? If they can't even motivate themselves for a game like that it says a lot about the team and the manager. 2) Coming back out at half time with exactly the same 11 and formation as the first half after being 3-0 down, which could have easily been 7 or 8-0 and we couldnt have moaned we were unlucky! How could Waddock not have seen that we needed to make changes? At 3-0 down the game was done and dusted and the game 2 years ago should have been in his mind. We should have gone 4-5-1 to limit the damage and cope with Novak dropping short.
You say that Huddesfield played well, I think they were exceptional. I have not seen another side as good in L1 this season. I also think the Wycombe players DID care last night and wanted the result as badly as us but they simply aren't good enough to deal with a Huddesfield team of that exceptional quality.
Alas that is not the first time they have done that this season, getting a pasting by Fleetwood in the FA Cup. Earlier this season I said it would probably be wrong to get rid of the manager, I am beginning to wonder if he is the problem as motivation (as you say) clearly seems to be a problem.
Huddersfield were exceptional. But there is absolutely no way any club should lose 6-0 at home to any other club in the same division. It's virtually unheard of. They walked - literally - through our defence some times. It was like watching schoolboys. On paper our team shouldn't be letting results like that happen, we've got a wealth of players who have played at this level before. Yes, Huddersfield will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season and yes in Jordan Rhodes they have a prodigious talent - however we DID roll over and let them get this result. The players DIDN'T care, they had their heads down from the beginning of the second half, John Halls looked like he was ****ting himself about coming on, Nikki Bull was constantly screaming at the players to make more noise and communicate, when LJ was being treated the players stood in the centre circle looking like they were hung over and playing in the Sunday League whilst the Huddersfield players constantly kept warm, passing the ball about and generally looking like hte consumate pros compared to us. In my 20 years of watching the blues I think I have only ever seen one performance that comes close to being this bad, and that was when we lost at home 3-1 to the Met Police in the FA Cup. That signalled the end of Jim Kelman - and the start of Martin O'Neill's tenure.
motivation shouldnt come into it,they all know their jobs and shouldnt need motivating but when the manager showed last night that he hasnt got a clue what to do its hardly going to inspire the players.a truly dreadful embarrasing night to be a blues fan,its not the first time this season that has happened and wont be the last.what excuse is waddock gonna make now,he should do the decent thing and resign
i just watched waddocks after match interview on player he sounds like he has given up altogether.were doomed to nosedive back into division 2
So it wasn't a bad dream then. Usually I wouldn't want to go too over the top about one dreadful result, but this is the culmination of a lot of things that aren't right at the club. The fact that it was live on tv and the players didn't rise to that makes it worse too. There is something wrong when there is a visible lack of effort. We just didn't do the basics and that is the absolute minimum we expect from the team. I still don't think Waddock should go, but i'm only a couple more bad performances away from changing my mind. He has to turn this around now and get a reaction from the players. His job depends on it.
Well, it wasn't just me who was disgusted and embarrassed then. Although he doesn't put himself out a lot, Grant was the only player with any class and confidence who ever looked likely to trouble Huddersfield, apart from one effort from Trotta. Having said that I only watched the first half, thank goodness. As said earlier we just looked frightened to death of them. I think I've been watching Wycombe for as long as, if not longer than, anyone here and that was the worst performance I have ever seen. Pathetic. I think Bully only stays because it gives him lots of practice.
Worst Wycombe display I've seen in 40 years of watching them what were we doing playing 4-2-4 againts a team as good as Huddersfield