Are the wheels coming off?

[Siderite]

Les is right. The big problem this season, as it was last season when teams figured us out, is the inability to control the midfield. What we should have done was pursue a midfielder who could do this in the summer. I don’t think keeping Butterfield would have made much difference in this regard. Sure, his passing ability to create more chances, but he wasn’t flawless. The struggles we have seen lately would not be solved with a magic Butterfield bullet.

[Apollo11]

Siderite wrote:

… the inability to control the midfield…

This is going to be crucial this season. We currently have next to no presence, there.

[Awaywego]

We all saw last season that Butterfield was declining and was not really a 90 min player anymore (funnily enough though he was putting a regular 90 in towards the end of season) but he’s better than what we’ve got now and certainly a more of auseful player to have now there’s 5 subs and certainly wouldn’t be robbing anyone of a start.
Anyway he’s gone now so it’s up to the management to find someone and someone quick and I don’t mean pace wise though that wouldn’t go amiss either.

[RoamingBull]

The wheels are still buckled yet to be straightened.

Stated a while back that Dixon was it? that ran the Warrington midfield for the majority of the game would give us something different.
We need a bully in there someone difficult to knock off the ball whilst the others lightweights feed of him.

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[Deereyme66]

And another striker. That one’s for you 414. But I’m not proposing Butterfield mk.2 in midfield I’m afraid.

[Northumbiron]

If we lose at home to Oxford City on Saturday the axle will be dragging along the road!

Most likely we’ll still be top though.

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[Sanfran49]

Said before it is not the defeats that are the problem, it is the attitude of the team when it happens.

[Rene Artois]

We’ve a slipping clutch, an oil leak from the sump, a coolant problem due to a dodgy head gasket and the bearings on a couple of wheels have gone!
Other than that…

[ironfromafar]

THEY ARE OFF ….

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[lesgeo]

I came on here to make a list – a very long list.
Sorry, guys. I haven’t got the time to make a full list. Far, far too long.
All I’ll say is that, driving into Sheffield tonight, I heard Butler’s explanation for recent disasters on the steam radio.
I was far from impressed. He seems to think he’s on the right track! He even thinks that we can make the same amount of points in the next ten games as in the first ten. If we follow this track, we’ll be out of the playoff places well before New Year.
Incidentally, got far more impressive assessments from Torps.

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