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bluehobbit

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  1. He did have some key interventions last night that's undeniable but throughout the season I wonder how many per game he has. The fact he's the only target man we have is another nod at some of the questionable recruitment we have seen. That said he's got the shirt at the moment injuries have meant he's come in and he's grabbed a couple. Hopefully, it contines and we get adouble figure out of him for the season.
  2. It's funny people calling for better football. Reminds me slightly of the Ronnie Moore era. Getting results but not by any means playing "attractive football" For now, I just want wins and I don't care how they come. Last night is a game we normally lose. MM makes sensible changes Hobson shuts down the space they were getting between Sachdev and the centre-backs and Green gives us an outlet. Defensively we are OK, 3 decent centre-backs for this level and a good LWB when we can get him up the pitch. Playing devil's advocate though the football isn't brilliant which seems odd with the money spent. I still feel recruitment is a bit odd. Crying out for RWB we signed someone else's youth team player, sounded promising but he's given us the same as Sutton going forward i.e. virtually nothing and he's easily bullied. Boreham played in his area all first half when they came forward last night. Walker and Dalls have come in both quick something we lack and both seemingly crocks. Unfortunate? Hammond another strange loan. Doesn't seem to give us much we don't already have - although I think he will improve to a decent standard in time. Ward looks like a lot of other players who get injured for lengthy spells at a new club - hasn't played much, couldn't tell you want he's supposed to be and we could have taken him off after 10 mins and not missed him. Garner puts himself about and his experience will help - I doubt you can play him and Norwood up top but i'm glad to see him score hopefully he can add a few more. His layoffs didn't always work but you can tell there was a footballing brain there. Fondop I still don't rate him, couldn't hold the ball much last night but one big chance and he took which is what we need in games like that. Lundstram - nearly always gets the ball with his back to the opposition goal, and can drive forwards but is rarely doing. Plays far too deep and leaves a massive gap between himself and the rest of the midfield (which isn't his sole fault) Conlon did OK but can't help feel he needs help in the centre. He can be our playmaker if he gets support to often the other 2 would either drop backwards or hide. His set pieces were very good tho a nice weapon to have. 2 tough away games now - but they are winnable if we can give ourselves something to defend.
  3. 2 poor sides today. I'd hate to be a forward in this side. Feeding of scraps..suprised Rooney stayed on he's clearly not comfortable as a winger. Let's Sutton on his own countless times to dash in field lea in us with no outlet. Yarney did well again but I'm glad Maidstone don't have much in attack. A wins a win but we need to improve.
  4. Must win really. Have to take points off teams around us. 7 from 12 from a struggling side isn't horrendous form but we have to put teams away. Need to stop conceding silly goals as we did on Tuesday. Must admit i'b be tempted to drop Hogan not been convinced by him.
  5. Don't care if it's home or away but I do hope it's local. Last thing we need is another trip to the arse end of nowhere like Havent or Hornchuch or somewhere.
  6. Can't blame Shez much for today. I would have gone for broke and brought Bam and HV at somepoint but apart from that we didn't do too badly.. First 45 there wasn't a huge amount in it. They had some nice crosses into the box but that was about it. 2nd half we switch off at the back and they score. We battle but we don't have any kind of front line. Hope is terrible with a ball in the air and not involved much otherwise. Missle comes on and makes us look instantly better and eventually we grind out a pen.. We have to score. We can't bring onS hez or Liddell or anyone with a decent record from the spot. One of the 11 has to bury it.. We miss it.. This team has been given a fighting chance to stay in the league by the manager but have made a mess of big opportunities.. Can't see us staying up.. Fage was awful. Tope wasn't great. Hunt had one of his better games for us but the bar is very low. Midfield overall too lightweight. Make shift defence acctually competed well.. Overall Too many of our squad wouldn't catch everyweek in non league. Not sure why Stobbs keeps appearing but all managers have their oddities.. The owners and the dire recruitment have killed us. There's still a glimmer but we have to make big moments in matches count and we don't do it enough. Exeter were decent, moved it well but they wereabsolute s**** houses as well. Their assistants didn't stop moaning at the 4 official and as soon as we started trying to get at them they put some awful tackles in.
  7. Cog needs dropping to the bench. Even we he does win the ball hes so ponderous he looses it and he struggled to close down allowing them to play out with freedom. Though pen was soft..there player initiated contact and and the uses george as a pivot then goes over. He did it a few times 2nd half and got nothing. Subs all looked decent when they came on. Sp typicall of this division that at the back Swindon were no great shakes. A decebt battling point. Better recruitment in jan and who knows...
  8. 0--1 away win written all over this (usually) But Lang seems to be on a bit of a goal scoring run and the defence have been superb recently. Too much play off talk recently - but the team have made me eat my words. Win this we have a chance. Need everyone down there backing the team. The chairman won't be going anywhere soon, we aren't Blackpool with a wealthy bloke on the board who's owed money. Fingers crossed for some luck for a change
  9. I hated it, then again it also seemed to invite a callum lang goal so every cloud and all that
  10. Superb performance. From 1 to 11. Cant fault the effort of any of them. Thought edmunson and missle really nullified them at times. Two superb goals from lang. They missed mcnulty. Their defence didnt look composed anytime someone ran at them or the ball was played into the channel. A shame that January's under investment has probably cost us a play off spot. Im no fan of the chairman not sure boycotting will lead to anything. But for tonight that was an excellent performance just hope they can recover in time for weekend
  11. You mean AL? I hope the players aren't, but looking at it critically the play off chances died after the Morecambe game
  12. Any talk of plays off should, even in jest, be banned Fully expecting us to get rolled tonight, could easily be a 3 or 4 nill job if we give up the chances we did to a poor Grimsby side. Lets hope we can keep it tight and someone can nick something for us. A draw would be a good result.
  13. What we need is an experienced lower leagues manager, who is given time and backing Not a yes man or in my opinion a manager who has spent 20 years in France. More than likely going to struggle in league 2 with its lack of talent. It' a division where being big ugly and organised works wonders. Correa's win rate % looks decent but it doesn't mean it will translate to another country's style of play and culture
  14. Obvious move also a clever one, no one in thier right mind is going to have a go at wild tomorrow
  15. We are a joke of a club Im sticking to boxing from now on, im less invested in it... CBA with a season ticket we are a complete circus.. every time hope arrives - we shoot ourselves in the foot.
  16. WE are poor at the moment. Can't keep a clean sheet and powder puff in attack. While the games is fairly sedate we are usually OK but if a team ups the ante on us we don't react and eventually pressure builds and we concede. The game at Prenton Park started off a good run of form for us and with out a great save at 1-1 from your keeper we probably would have nicked it. A draw was about fair on the day. I'd shake hands on a draw now. I can't see us getting anything. Unless a bit of magic or we score from set pieces your two center half's should run the show. Scholes has persisted in played 1 up front but we don't really have the strikers for it. Callum Lang on loan from Wigan is best forward but he's one of those that's not bad as a winger or a striker - he needs a target man to play off and we only have O'Grady for that, he's done OK this season but he's slow and maybe time has caught up with him. The less said about Vera the better. The midfield can be tidy but it's lightweight and we aren't a big side physically. Our left winger is decent at making half a yard and getting a cross in but recently hasn't had much to aim form. The rest flatter to deceive but probably are not really good enough over the course of a season. A draw for us would be a decent result but i'm expecting us to get a hammering at some point with the way we are playing. Last weekends equalizer was awful allround just a punt up field and striker in acres of space but that's happened more than once this season. Scholes needs some wins and quickly - he has a few excuses at the minute but going into the summer of a poor run, what is it now? 1 win in 7 or 8 isn't good enough and could make players think twice about joining us in the summer. The fan base will be pushing for a promotion push next season - we may struggle to see it
  17. We need two up top. One of which has to be lang. Just to give us some mobility at prenton park their two center backs bossed it from open play until we got some pace on and them turned them around. when sturridge came on then they looked immobile and vulnerable to anything in the channel. Will we ever see lacovitti? One of thr worst loan signings we have ever made surely? Not fit, not names in squads and we have players who can do a job in his position. Sylla and missle dont really work as a pairing. Both want to cover same ar3a of the pitch. We are so poor going forward that i could see us on the end of a chasing unless someone can produce some magic.
  18. We say this every season. We need to get some wins on the board first. Get some momentum behind us and get the fans behind scholes. At the minute we are short on quality and from Finishing 13th or lower is a poor season. If we go into next season in poor form i could see us not improving and the pressure building on scholes and the chairman pulling the trigger
  19. "Bunn was fired for obvious reasons that the players were not playing for him?" What makes you think that? Our form at the minute is probably worse that at any time under Bunn - understandable after loosing your top goal scorer but I don't think the players not playing for Bunn was an issue. Negativity and suspect player recruitment maybe?
  20. Loosing Sturridge and poor recruitment in Jan has derailed us. I mean loosing Sturridge, young, mobile goal scored - replaced with Verra. Madness Strangely for me we seem to be playing 451 every week which might get a tune out of Jose, but at the expense of everyone else. Baxter did fine as an out and out CM at Cambridge so lets get 2 up top and bloody have a go at some one. Passing it back and sideways isn't getting us anywhere. Dearnly in his last few games looks like a player taking his first steps in the pro game. I'd play him as an out and out forward cause he's quick but not tricky but that's just me. Afolyan did OK when we got the ball into his feet but he's never a 1 up front on his own type forward again he's young maybe that will come in time. Our two most successful players this season have been Lang and Sturridge they both have quality sure, but also and this is crucial for me they had both had a season or so of football elsewhere they weren't total newbies. Bunn was doing OK with us I think we would have been higher up the league by a position or so than we are with him in charge. The Exeter performance that caused the alleged fight was annoying more than anything and its been down hill bar the odd performance ever since. Scholes hasn't shown me anything to say he's the man to get us out of the division as of yet but he's fortunate he has time on his side and he's had a good look at the players, (and maybe himself) to hopefully have an idea of what we need next season. Cambridge were not that good if we had gone for the win with 2 up top and tried to get a platform in there half we could have caused them trouble. We had a few OK moves in the first half where once we got the wide players and midfielders further forward we got some promising situations that barely happend 2nd half and I don't know why we persisted with 451. Even at 1-1 there was the whole second half to try and get 3 points but in the end ended up holding on a bit a times.
  21. Awful game. Why we keep persisting with rigid 451 is a mystery. Lang wasted behind as a deep lying forward. His game is work rate pace and aggression. So we put him some where he couldn't get involved. Should have been up top along side West ham kid. Baxter good 1st half shame he had to go off. Maouche was dire 2nd half. No fight or work rate. Too slow in posssion, nothing to aim for in attack. Terrible performance and it's become an all too familiar sight these last few weeks. Let's at least put two strikers up front for a time and see what happens we haven't got a dominant striker so let's stop asking one of them to do it and give him some help
  22. Always thought Gardner best attributes are his pace and work rate. He should be a winger for me. Got the the engine to get up and down for fun. In the middle he goes backwards to often and takes too many touches. Either that or stick him behind the main striker where he can maybe run onto flicks etc - hes goal record isn't great but he might be able to build on that if given the chance. That said I think MM is a better out and out central midfielder. He's a better more reliable passer and holds the shape of the team better - we could do with improving on them both if we want to challenge at the right end for once.
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