Gemma06

Ricketts on the opening day

Was Lidds in the team that day?

He was on the bench, wasn't on the pitch when it was scored

I doubt he'd be that fresh if Gemma got her way with him first Otherwise totally agree, I've a feeling he will have all guns blazing. Lids, Hughes and Gregan are three pretty decent signings to make.

I'd try to control myself the night before a match

I do think Lids and Hughes will link up very well though and with Gregan hopefully back soon they should provide the team with a huge boost

i dont know you personally, but i have come to the conclusion that you have an andy liddell alarm which sounds whenever his name is mentioned and flashes up the GPS co ordinates of said mention! it may or may not have a batman type light which illuminates the sky in case you are out at the time

it certainly does have the batman style light, it illuminates the sky above shaw regularly

He'll score the winning goal against crewe in the dying minutes to send us into the playoffs

It was Gary Macs shot...who imo was quite anonymous for most of the game......i suppose he is just one of them who gets his place because he can pop up out of nowhere and get you a goal but does little else.....

He was playing out of position though after the first ten minutes. The best part of his game is making runs forward through the middle, when he is asked to push out on the right he can't do that. I thought he still did ok although cerainly not one of his better performances but i think that could be said for a few of them. Would have been a fantastic goal at the end if it had gone in!

There was lots of booing where i was sat too, especially aimed at Davies but they all seemed to shut up after he scored. I thought we played well in patches today but played pretty crap at some stages too. Still its another 3 points and our first back to back wins at home all season. I do wish we would play with two proper wide players though

But you have managed to.

i did, but i kept changing my mind! I chose Eyres more out of sentiment than ability i suppose. They were both fantastic players but Eyres never got the chance to show it at a level higher than the championship

Rick Holden or David Eyres (that one is impossible to choose!!)

Joe Royle or Jimmy Frizzell

Luke Beckett or Chris Porter

Earl Barrett or Fitz Hall

Neil Kilkenny or Richie Wellens

Wayne Andrews or Jermaine Johnson

Ronnie Jepson or Phil Starbuck

Sean Garnett or Guy Branston

Roger Palmer or Frankie Bunn

Neil Redfern or John Sheridan

Jim Fryatt or David Shaw - didnt see Fryatt play and don't recall seeing Shaw play either

Dennis Irwin or Andy Barlow

Toddy Orlygsson or Gunnar Halle

Andy Goram or Paul Gerrard - can't really remember much abt Goram in his first spell

anyone could av scorded a pen! i believe he played on the wing again good position for a striker!!!!!!! cant undertand why he does that has shez asked him to play out wide?

Shez spends most games telling Davies stay in the middle, and telling Taylor to attack the back post when the ball is coming in from the right, constantly repeating himself for 90mins game after game. It's no wonder he's a grumpy most of the time!!

I didn't go to Swansea but i've been told Shez did pull him out wide later in the game as he was getting wound up by one of the centre halfs

His flowing locks and champagne moments just don’t make up for his rate of errors for me.

His flowing locks are very nice though

I agree Stam makes a few errors in games, as does Gregan, but all players do it's just that centre halfs mistakes are remembered though because they often lead to chances for the other team. It's good that we will have 3 (4 when Thompson is back) very good centre halfs all fighting for 2 positions in the team, same in midfield, we have some excellent midfield players all fighting for a chance in the starting 11

For me would go straight back in at Centre back.... all this cack about paying him off, people are starting to forget about what this man can do! How fickle some fans can be.... You can hardly blame him to the start of the season we had! The squad is missing big influential players... we need him back!!

I'd have him straight back in the line up too as soon as he is ready, a few reserve games first and a game or two on the bench then back into the back 4. An excellent centre half for us, alright he's had a few bad games for us as well, but his pro's certainly outweight his cons. Plus he actually speaks to the other players on the pitch! i have never seen a quieter team of players on the football pitch than we have!

Thought it was 6?

 

Allott

Alessandra

Lomax

Eardley

Taylor

Smalley

I meant in the match day squad, Black and Wolfenden on the bench too

What i thought was great about last night was there were 8 players who all came through our youth system played some very good football, its something the club should be proud of.

The corners are so poor that more often than not the ball would hit our big man in his chest!

 

It's a sorry state of affairs if we haven't got a player who can take corners properly. A moving ball is difficult to cross acurately, but a stationary one should be easy-peasy for professionals.

Lomax took the corners at a recent home game and he seemed to do ok, i'm surprised he didn't take them last night

Good signing if its the guy im thinking of, did he play at Wigan for a while?

Fact is now im absolutely fed up with John Sheridan. No, not becuase of all the transfer goings on but simply because he plays Chris Taylor on the left!!!!

Anyone with any sort of football brain... will know the reason for him being woeful this season is because he canot play on the left... there is just no service to our strikers anyway.. never mind even if we got a new striker in!!!!!

Taylor has played the majority of his first team games on the left wing and he did ok there last season. Putting him on the right wing is not the answer he will still struggle until he improves on some areas of his game, which i am sure he will do in time. All he needs a couple of good runs in a game and his confidence will come flooding back

I think he was that poor on Saturday that he needs to be shipped out for a while.

I thought he did ok on Saturday, he was poor at the beginning of the game and Page was all over him but he seemed to settle down ok, there were certainly worse than him playing on saturday

Wolfy and Hughes up front, Taylor and Smalley on the wings, Allot and Macca central midfield, Eardley and Lomax at full back, Trotman and Stam at centre half and super Crossley in goal. 2-0 win for us to spark and unbeaten home run until the end of the season

well said BT

 

for those who want sheridan out who would you have replace him? ive been wondering since about the time there were rumours wednesday might be after him who we could get in if he went and i cant think of 1 person i'd rather have

I dont want shez sacking but should he leave for any reason, stan ternant was considered for the job and was interested in it before we got ronnie moore, someone like him would be fantastic for us, he has loads of contacts within the game - i mean he managed to get ian wright and gazza playing for burnley - which is one thing i think shez is missing, i know he knows people he played alongside but that doesnt help him in getting players in. Anyway im sure i'll get slated for that suggestion but never mind!!

I voted for shez in

I heard that Chris Armstrong is available from Sheff Utd, he will probably get snapped up by another championship club but we can hope!

I think you will find Shez has probably forgot more about football than you will ever know!

 

Good on shez for trying to sign qauilty players...... Never heard a manager critised for trying to sign good players!!! Its maddness all this.....

 

Some of you act like signing players is just like going to bloody tesco and picking up a tin of beans!!!!

 

Surely any decent player in our league or below will still cost a bucket of money....and they have to want tot leave there current setup and come to a team in 13th place in league one ???

Did i say i know more than shez about football? no i didnt. All i said was that he still has thing to learn about being a manager and he would be the first to admit that. I have never once had a go at Shez, i never have at any of our managers and never will but this is a message board where people are allowed to voice their opinions whatever they maybe, people seem to be forgetting that though these last few weeks

I have not critised anyone for trying to sign good players, i said it would be fantastic if we could get them but perhaps he should concentrate on players we have more of a chance of signing

He has some money to spend, not millions but some and hopfully he will finally find the players he wants who we can afford.

Yes decent players in our league are already playing for the team so wont be sold. And to take a player from the league below we need to be offering enough money for a club to part with one of their first team players. I.e Rochdale getting 300k for Glenn Murray. Would you like to see us spendin that much on him?

Yes i would like us to spend that much on a player from league 2 if shez thought he was good enough for us, why not?

How far do you want him to drop his standards? Do you want him to drop them so low that we sign players that are worse than we have got, just for the sake of signing players?

There are decent players in our league and the league below us who are better than what we have. He is after championship players, which if we could get them would be fantastic but we can't. He's finally admitted that he has been fighting a losing battle with that, sadly money talks in football now. Fair play to him for wanting to bring in that quality of player but it isn't going to happen. Shez still has a lot to learn about being a manager, i'm not one of those to start saying we should sack him and get someone else in, far from it, hopefully he will manage to bring in some quality league one players in the next week or so.

Shez pritty much said this himself in the paper...he has dropped his standards....

Obviously not enough

Crossley

Eardley Trotman Stam Lomax

Smalley/Wolfy Allot Macca Taylor

Hughes Smalley/Wolfy

or

Crossley

Eardley Trotman Stam Lomax

Allot Kalala

Smalley Macca Wolfy

Hughes