Read the riot act

[bigfatjoe1]

There's no balance. Why does he play lop-sided teams. We have actually got four wide players, but he keeps insisting on playing at least one midfield player wide (ish). It just doesn't look right, but it reflects his negative, defensive approach. So far, he's a very dull coach. that's fine up to a point. We've reached that point

[GlossopLatic]

There's no balance. Why does he play lop-sided teams. We have actually got four wide players, but he keeps insisting on playing at least one midfield player wide (ish). It just doesn't look right, but it reflects his negative, defensive approach. So far, he's a very dull coach. that's fine up to a point. We've reached that point

It's dull because we are not winning

[mcfluff1985]

Can't believe all this :censored:e about the strikers need to score. Someone should have told Chelsea that today if it's that easy. If they don't get the service they won't score. That's the only simple thing to say about that. Ollie Banks hasn't shown anything so far, Winchester is better. Dunne needs resting and get Reckord back. Dummigan in for Law they can both get down the wings and overlap if needed. Fane in for Klok. Let's play Jahraldo Martin on one wing and McGlaughlin on the other and whip some early crosses into McKay and Erwin, let's give them a chance to score.

[NewBlue]

You can't blame strikers when we have the :censored:test midfield ever seen in League 1, paceless , heartless, clueless, add that to that fact none of them barring Green and Fane at times have any desire and pride in their performance and we truly are :censored:ed, Swindon breezed past Klok and Banks like they where statues and at the end where actually taking the piss out of us on the near touchline. It's hard to see how with the current rules for bringing players in that we can even improve things, I suppose we are reaping what we sowed in the summer and letting Kelly and Dieng go is really hurting us now.

I'd much rather have Green and Fane than Kelly and Dieng.

 

Klok is quite obviously a weak-link, but we shouldn't ever be playing more than just the two mentioned above

[NewBlue]

I think what is most joyless about watching this team is that, aside from Clarkea and maybe Erwin, they all look like playing is such a massive chore.

 

I'd love to know whether they actually enjoy playing the game, because it's so dispiriting watching them. They may have been the best we've had, but you could tell Harkins, Baxter, Tarky loved playing. Even Wes, Bouzanis, Elokobi, Simpson, Byrne, M'changama were liked for being players who were expressive, despite being maybe less talented.

 

All expression seems to have been sapped from this bunch. Even the ones with proven talent.

[ChaddySmoker]

I can never get my head around the fact that professional footballers need to be read the riot act, need to have an arm around them or need a kick up the arse.

They want to be a footballer from a very early age, show talent that allows them to be elevated above their peers to a level where a club pays them to play football. That's what they've dedicated their life to - to be footballers.

Take that footballer and they prefer a position that suits their play, their strengths and again leads to a club signing them to be a goalkeeper, defender, midfielder or striker.

For us to sign this recent crop of strikers and only one of them to score just the one goal in over 720 minutes in League One football this season is disgusting.

A strikers job is to score goals - you don't need to read the riot act to point out the bleeding obvious. They should be on the training field six days a week, five hours a day on shooting practice. Balls into the box, balls from the wings, crosses, corners, balls over the details line to convert any chance going.

This 100%. Why do we over-complicate everything?

[byrnes boots]

Width required we are too narrow

[GlossopLatic]

But then it will be said they were tired if beaten by Charlton on Tuesday.

Tiredness is a mental state they shouldn't be tired if anything they should be itching to put yesterday right, besides Swindon did alot more running than we did yesterday they earned a day off we haven't. They can have a day off on Wednesday if they get a result against Charlton.

[yarddog73]

If we are too narrow explain to me how Thompson repeatedly picked up the ball on the edge of his own area and swanned the best part of 60 yards through the middle of the park unopposed, it just shows how :censored: we are really.

[BP1960]

If we are too narrow explain to me how Thompson repeatedly picked up the ball on the edge of his own area and swanned the best part of 60 yards through the middle of the park unopposed, it just shows how :censored: we are really.

 

The simple answer is all our central midfield players were painfully slow and couldn't get anywhere near him,

[BP1960]

I think what is most joyless about watching this team is that, aside from Clarkea and maybe Erwin, they all look like playing is such a massive chore.

 

I'd love to know whether they actually enjoy playing the game, because it's so dispiriting watching them. They may have been the best we've had, but you could tell Harkins, Baxter, Tarky loved playing. Even Wes, Bouzanis, Elokobi, Simpson, Byrne, M'changama were liked for being players who were expressive, despite being maybe less talented.

 

All expression seems to have been sapped from this bunch. Even the ones with proven talent.

 

You could see Ladapo didn't enjoy yesterday, he cut a frustrated figure and must be wondering why he came here.

[welshgaz]

 

You could see Ladapo didn't enjoy yesterday, he cut a frustrated figure and must be wondering why he came here.

On the 2 or 3 occasions he could be bothered he was actually a handful.

[yarddog73]

He probably thought it would be easier but you still couldn't judge him on that.

[BP1960]

Half time v Swindon?

 

[ChaddySmoker]

He looks very similar to a certain officer of the Trust

[oafc1000]

 

You're right that they need some service but they also need to show a bit of initiative and create a few goals for themselves.

The only way that is going to happen is if one of them comes deep to the half way line picks the ball up beats 6 men then puts it away. Strikers need the ball in the final third and need other players around them when they receive it.

[Senor_Coconut]

What actually is 'the riot act'?

[GlossopLatic]

What actually is 'the riot act'?

It's another way of saying a bollocking.

[peanuts]

What actually is 'the riot act'?

a long and boring document apparently last read outloud shortly before the peterloo masacre proberb;ey the least apt thing to read to a team as its purpose is to disperce a crowd before the use of force

[the_mighty_bosh]

So far, he's a very dull coach. that's fine up to a point. We've reached that point

 

Agreed.

[LaticsPete]

a long and boring document apparently last read outloud shortly before the peterloo masacre proberb;ey the least apt thing to read to a team as its purpose is to disperce a crowd before the use of force

Last used in 1919 in Birkenhead . Repealed in 1967

You're right about it not being appropriate though - our team never got together to disperse!

Edited September 25, 2016 by LaticsPete

[Gary1906]

With the exceptions of Connor Ripley - who prevented a 4 or 5-0 loss, Peter Clarke, and possibly Cameron Burgess. We are performing like a team made up of players who have been released by their previous clubs because they weren't good enough, or free agents who weren't signed by anyone, again because they weren't seen as good enough.

We have got a team that is virtually full of that calibre of player.

Defenders that can't defend, midfielders who struggle to tackle properly and don't have a creative bone in their bodies, and strikers who can't hit the proverbial barn door!! As individuals and as collective team, they are not good enough! Can't blame the players too much though, they are simply playing to the level that they are capable of playing at. It's not been good enough where they've played before and it's not going to be good enough here.

Liam Kelly, Mike Jones and Jonathan Forte would have made a massive difference to that team yesterday, yet they were all allowed to leave for nothing. Ridiculous!!I

[opinions4u]

With the exceptions of Connor Ripley - who prevented a 4 or 5-0 loss, Peter Clarke, and possibly Cameron Burgess. We are performing like a team made up of players who have been released by their previous clubs because they weren't good enough, or free agents who weren't signed by anyone, again because they weren't seen as good enough.

We have got a team that is virtually full of that calibre of player.

Defenders that can't defend, midfielders who struggle to tackle properly and don't have a creative bone in their bodies, and strikers who can't hit the proverbial barn door!! As individuals and as collective team, they are not good enough! Can't blame the players too much though, they are simply playing to the level that they are capable of playing at. It's not been good enough where they've played before and it's not going to be good enough here.

Liam Kelly, Mike Jones and Jonathan Forte would have made a massive difference to that team yesterday, yet they were all allowed to leave for nothing. Ridiculous!!I

We got a decent fee for Kelly. The other two were out of contract.

[Gary1906]

How much was the so called 'decent fee'? Because according to the press it was undisclosed. The fact remains that we don't have a midfield player who can tackle properly, we don't have any who are creative, and we don't have a striker who can score. A pretty sad sad state of affairs. Kelly was our captain and was the Chronicle star man of the season last season. And remember that Kelly and Forte both left to join clubs in a lower division. Another sad indictment. I still say that Kelly, Jones and Forte would have made a massive difference yesterday.

[yarddog73]

Add Dieng and Green to that three and you'd have a decent League 1 midfield.