Vyner

[BCFC Rich]

I know Annis will probably get a lot of people's MOTM with the goal etc. But for me, it was Zak - he was awesome today. Some great blocks(particularly the one on Connolly 1st half) read the game well, brought it out when needed, and made some great forward balls to. When they put us under pressure he was covering. Becoming a bit of a rock and stepping up.

[And Its Smith]

Superb performance.  A few doubts in some fans minds I think recently which is really harsh.  Every player has a couple of bad games here and there 

[LondonRobin]

Got to be knight for me, guys everywhere so positive and got the winner …

[GrahamC]

Every time we lose someone posts on here that he’s back to his old form but he’s essential to us, his pace bails out his colleagues time after time.

Good player.

[tin]

4 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Every time we lose someone posts on here that he’s back to his old form but he’s essential to us, his pace bails out his colleagues time after time.

Good player.

I’ve been one of his critics over the years, but he’s another late developer and the fact is we’re stronger at the back and a better side when he’s in it. Fair play to him.

[GrahamC]

1 minute ago, tin said:

I’ve been one of his critics over the years, but he’s another late developer and the fact is we’re stronger at the back and a better side when he’s in it. Fair play to him.

I rate Dickie (though not at his best tonight) but him & Naismith lack pace & can’t be a pair.

Remember the goal at Swansea when the guy got the wrong side of Kal, he was never catching him, in the same position Zak would have.

[BCFC31]

Vyner was absolutely class this evening definitely my man of the match ! 

[BCFCGav]

Vyner Dickie pairing doing fab. Really good stuff.

[Charlie BCFC]

Vyner, Knight and Mehmeti were excellent I thought

[Davefevs]

God, I’ll get my tin hat ready. I thought he was a bit loose defensively. He did some great stuff, but he got caught by quite a few long balls tonight. He’s generally the “cover” do Dickie can go tight. I thought that part of his game was a bit off tonight.

So a good performance for me, not brilliant and not a MOTM contender imho. 

[MelksRed]

For me it's between Vyner and Sykes for player of the season. 

[mozo]

16 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

God, I’ll get my tin hat ready. I thought he was a bit loose defensively. He did some great stuff, but he got caught by quite a few long balls tonight. He’s generally the “cover” do Dickie can go tight. I thought that part of his game was a bit off tonight.

So a good performance for me, not brilliant and not a MOTM contender imho. 

I thought Vyner was alright but Dickie poor.

Dickie didn't get tight enough for the Connelly goal, just looked a bit lazy at the wrong moment. He also played a few poor passes that kept the pressure on us. 

I do like them as a pairing though.

[Norn Iron]

19 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

God, I’ll get my tin hat ready. I thought he was a bit loose defensively. He did some great stuff, but he got caught by quite a few long balls tonight. He’s generally the “cover” do Dickie can go tight. I thought that part of his game was a bit off tonight.

Prove it!

:laugh:!

Thanks Dave for all your excellent, insightful postings in 2023.

[The Fat Controller]

22 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

God, I’ll get my tin hat ready. I thought he was a bit loose defensively. He did some great stuff, but he got caught by quite a few long balls tonight. He’s generally the “cover” do Dickie can go tight. I thought that part of his game was a bit off tonight.

So a good performance for me, not brilliant and not a MOTM contender imho. 

Not just the Hull 'keepers who have been at the sherry then 

[joe jordans teeth]

1 hour ago, LondonRobin said:

Got to be knight for me, guys everywhere so positive and got the winner …

The ground he covers is unbelievable watching it live,clear stand out performance for me but he’s one of those who will fly under the radar 

[Davefevs]

1 hour ago, MelksRed said:

For me it's between Vyner and Sykes for player of the season. 

Dickie was way ahead imho a couple of weeks back, but there are a couple coming up on the rails.  You all know I love Jason Knight and he appears to be vital to how Manning is trying to play.  His couple of goals of late have been coming.

Sykes is a next level up Scott Wagstaff.

[joe jordans teeth]

15 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Dickie was way ahead imho a couple of weeks back, but there are a couple coming up on the rails.  You all know I love Jason Knight and he appears to be vital to how Manning is trying to play.  His couple of goals of late have been coming.

Sykes is a next level up Scott Wagstaff.

Christ Dave that is harsh on Sykes,he’s a lot better than that 

[Davefevs]

19 minutes ago, joe jordans teeth said:

Christ Dave that is harsh on Sykes,he’s a lot better than that 

Waggy was 6 or 7/10 every week in Lg1.  Sykes is that in the Champ, that’s what I mean by next level up.

[Cityboy1954]

3 hours ago, LondonRobin said:

Got to be knight for me, guys everywhere so positive and got the winner …

Class how did we pinch him .

[David Brent]

Quelle surprise. It’s what he does.

[Red-Robbo]

4 hours ago, BCFC Rich said:

I know Annis will probably get a lot of people's MOTM with the goal etc. But for me, it was Zak - he was awesome today. Some great blocks(particularly the one on Connolly 1st half) read the game well, brought it out when needed, and made some great forward balls to. When they put us under pressure he was covering. Becoming a bit of a rock and stepping up.

Totally agree. He was pretty damn flawless and made some really critical tackles. 

[MarcusX]

4 hours ago, BCFC Rich said:

I know Annis will probably get a lot of people's MOTM with the goal etc. But for me, it was Zak - he was awesome today. Some great blocks(particularly the one on Connolly 1st half) read the game well, brought it out when needed, and made some great forward balls to. When they put us under pressure he was covering. Becoming a bit of a rock and stepping up.

His passing really stood out today, particularly his forward passes which were inch perfect at times - not safe passes by any means

[joe jordans teeth]

6 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Waggy was 6 or 7/10 every week in Lg1.  Sykes is that in the Champ, that’s what I mean by next level up.

Ah I’m with you 

[mozo]

7 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Dickie was way ahead imho a couple of weeks back, but there are a couple coming up on the rails.  You all know I love Jason Knight and he appears to be vital to how Manning is trying to play.  His couple of goals of late have been coming.

Sykes is a next level up Scott Wagstaff.

You were spot on about Knight, he's am absolutely essential player. That bursting run he did from defence before getting tripped just past the half way line was a great moment.

I'd say POTS currently looks like it'll be in Irish hands. 

[Port Said Red]

7 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Dickie was way ahead imho a couple of weeks back, but there are a couple coming up on the rails.  You all know I love Jason Knight and he appears to be vital to how Manning is trying to play.  His couple of goals of late have been coming.

Sykes is a next level up Scott Wagstaff.

I thought that Knight was excellent too, he has ability to create angles for the passer and be an outlet, but also Manning seems to have got him to receive the ball with his body positioned better, so he can turn away from his marker. 

We needed him to be on his game because it seemed that Hull's main game plan was to stop TGH getting on the ball effectively.

[Lack of Action Man]

Zak did okay. Dickie wasn’t so good.

Their #4 was decent at the back. 

[Pezo]

I was starting to worry that Nige got the best out of Vyner that we were going to see and that he was starting to let that standard slide again but last night he was back to that top quality seen under Nige.

[MrRedRobin]

11 hours ago, Davefevs said:

God, I’ll get my tin hat ready. I thought he was a bit loose defensively. He did some great stuff, but he got caught by quite a few long balls tonight. He’s generally the “cover” do Dickie can go tight. I thought that part of his game was a bit off tonight.

So a good performance for me, not brilliant and not a MOTM contender imho. 

I agree Dave, I think that tackle he did in the first half stopping a 1v1 was exceptional but I go back to a time in the second half where Hull had a player attacking down the right and Zak came over but let the player get past him, he needs to improve on that type of thing because he got caught out against Norwich. But what I will say is I think Zak has really turned a corner now in his City career and it's nice to see and long may it continue.

[cidered abroad]

11 hours ago, Davefevs said:

God, I’ll get my tin hat ready. I thought he was a bit loose defensively. He did some great stuff, but he got caught by quite a few long balls tonight. He’s generally the “cover” do Dickie can go tight. I thought that part of his game was a bit off tonight.

So a good performance for me, not brilliant and not a MOTM contender imho. 

Get yourself a metal garden bucket and it could also protect your shoulders !

[cidered abroad]

2 hours ago, Pezo said:

I was starting to worry that Nige got the best out of Vyner that we were going to see and that he was starting to let that standard slide again but last night he was back to that top quality seen under Nige.

I keep repeating on here that one of our best homegrown centre backs in my long lifetime made his debut and then waited nearly six years until he played his next match. He became a solid rock for the next six or seven years and is still alive as far as I know.

Gordon Parr!

[steveybadger]

12 hours ago, Davefevs said:

God, I’ll get my tin hat ready. I thought he was a bit loose defensively. He did some great stuff, but he got caught by quite a few long balls tonight. He’s generally the “cover” do Dickie can go tight. I thought that part of his game was a bit off tonight.

So a good performance for me, not brilliant and not a MOTM contender imho. 

Similar to that Norwich goal. I think his biggest issue remains concentration (just occasionally) which used to be his big issue (regularly). That said most of the time now he looks like a Rolls Royce.

[redysteadygo]

1 hour ago, cidered abroad said:

I keep repeating on here that one of our best homegrown centre backs in my long lifetime made his debut and then waited nearly six years until he played his next match. He became a solid rock for the next six or seven years and is still alive as far as I know.

Gordon Parr!

Always classed Gordon as a "wing half" in the infamous Parr, Connor Lowe set up but agree with your point on sticking with players who the manager/coaches see in training daily and form judgements on this.

[Davefevs]

5 hours ago, mozo said:

You were spot on about Knight, he's am absolutely essential player. That bursting run he did from defence before getting tripped just past the half way line was a great moment.

I'd say POTS currently looks like it'll be in Irish hands. 

Rob O’Dickie

5 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

I thought that Knight was excellent too, he has ability to create angles for the passer and be an outlet, but also Manning seems to have got him to receive the ball with his body positioned better, so he can turn away from his marker. 

We needed him to be on his game because it seemed that Hull's main game plan was to stop TGH getting on the ball effectively.

What I like about Knight, ok, there’s lots of things, but…is that he pops up on both sides.  He basically plays 5 yards from one touchline, 5 yards from the other, and everywhere in between.

Pre-season I wrote a bit about how him and Scott were looking to play on the half turn, with King or James sitting.  It looked impressive at times, albeit lower class opponents.

Unfortunately with Alex gone, it’s much easier for an opponent to stop one player than two, especially a pair like those two.

Definitely some tweaks made by Manning, credit due, but that was what we were attempting pre-season in terms of receiving positions.  But definitely playing much higher under LM, a secondary striker, a roving partner for Conway.

5 hours ago, OddBallJim said:

Zak did okay. Dickie wasn’t so good.

Their #4 was decent at the back. 

I thought Greaves was error-prone last night.  Nice, easy on the eye with the ball, but defensively poor.  I was quite into him a season or so back (was on “my list”), but every time I’ve seen him since I’ve really doubted his defensive ability.  He got lucky against Wells two or three times,

2 hours ago, steveybadger said:

Similar to that Norwich goal. I think his biggest issue remains concentration (just occasionally) which used to be his big issue (regularly). That said most of the time now he looks like a Rolls Royce.

Yep, needs to be alert when we have the ball.

[chinapig]

16 hours ago, LondonRobin said:

Got to be knight for me, guys everywhere so positive and got the winner …

I've said it before but I was very surprised we got him. I felt sure that bigger Championship clubs would be after him and we would lose out.

A top signing at what will prove to be a bargain price imo.

[Port Said Red]

4 hours ago, chinapig said:

I've said it before but I was very surprised we got him. I felt sure that bigger Championship clubs would be after him and we would lose out.

A top signing at what will prove to be a bargain price imo.

Careful, that almost sounds like praise for the recruitment process...... 

[Midred]

7 hours ago, steveybadger said:

Similar to that Norwich goal. I think his biggest issue remains concentration (just occasionally) which used to be his big issue (regularly). That said most of the time now he looks like a Rolls Royce.

If every defender was perfect there would be alot more nil/nil draws?