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Maybe this shows a problem analysing football. Norwood is not fast enough or tricky enough to take a loose ball a distance from goal and make something out of nothing. (Those players are worth millions!) Norwood is a good finisher, so needs a team around him bringing the ball forward and giving it to him much closer to goal. So when our team is sitting back, not closing down to win it in forward positions, and passing badly, as has happened in our poor performances, how can Norwood possibly just win the game for us anyway? We really need to be realistic if being critical. Norwood is an arrogant personality, but at the moment we need him, even if he isn’t great for team spirit.

Really? How old is he?

And Until we bring in some pace up front and a midfielder who can pass forward and find them, we can’t be a counter-attacking team. OMG we are fecked!

If that’s true that it was the plan, it’s embarrassing. We are the home side

Not necessarily right. It is easy to pass past a player standing 3 m away. If that player is closing, he is a bigger barrier and makes me rush. It’s not rocket science.

Which kind of shows you what Norwood could be offering each week as he is our star player!

BP, you do realise a review like that is unlikely to report “he had a poor game so was dropped for the next game”? Positive comments only.

God help him if he misses a pass in the first game.

Maybe we should have a separate topic for prostate cancer issues. I’d be happy to answer questions as I’m and expert now . Seeing as one in 8 of us blokes will have a problem as some point!

Thanks for the thought. It’s on my wife’s Facebook, so can’t share the link. Actually had my surgery this morning. You can see I’m doing great!

Actually I feel we have an aging team who cannot play 2 or certainly 3 games in quick succession without running out of steam.

All the best Frank. Stay safe!

I’m just collecting for Prostate Cancer Uk, I’d be very pleased with that donation!

Let’s go on and win this. Great chance there for Gardner to make it 2.

Did the defender get a touch on the way to Fondop, because otherwise it was a bad miss.

I sometimes wish all Oldham fans thought the same. Passing forward is more difficult to get right. You are not passing to someone with lots of space. I have often seen players with a pass on, deciding not to make it. When a player does make a pass and miss it, fans jump all over it. Gardener had a game Sat where quite a few passes, corners etc went wrong. There have been a lot of comments about the mistakes. In fact, he was kept on the pitch too long purely because he as the only one looking for and making some decent forward passes.

The highlights view was the same as mine on the day. They both seem to get to the ball at the same time. The ball bounces away as if there was some contact from the defender. It is debatable and I’m not sure how you or the ref could be sure.

He was just coming on when we scored. He was sent to sit down again, so he would have been on 8 or 10 mins earlier.

I’m not sure your assumption that “coming on as an impact sub means you will necessarily score more and hence have a lower minutes per goal stat” actually holds up to scrutiny. That needs some real statistical analysis.

What about his character worries you to the extent it worries you? What do you know that we don’t?

He was fit last home game. Hopefully MM will play him for only 60 mins and continue to protect him. ST playing him far to much his first week back, considering his age and injury history.

I don’t think anyone cares where you are BP. It was you asking questions that the majority didn’t think worth asking, hence the suggestion you go ask them.

I don’t think that was what MM meant by “runners”.

There is plenty of time for this to happen. You really are jumping the gun BP if that’s your criticism of MM, (oh along with not using all his substitutes,)

Youth players can look good against other players of their own age, strength and experience, but when they step up to a competitive match against adults it’s too much. It isn’t really what we need now, to gamble with youth.