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About a week ago, I wrote that our passing had deteriorated by around 30% from our recent best.
Wrong again!
Make that 50%.
Defence requires a rebuild!
Anyone know if, even once, we ever strung 6 or more passes together in the first half?1 user thanked author for this post.
Deffo the worst game of football entertainment wise all season at the AA IMO, it lacked any real quality apart from a good debut by Jones who looks a decent signing on first showing. Smith continues to disappoint but had a golden one on one chance to give us a first half lead but blew it. Defensively we are all over the place and their stoppage time winner once again showed up our season long failure of being unable to defend the back stick properly, an unmarked free header in the 94th minute is totally unacceptable and our defence particularly at centre back and right back needs a big rethink in the summer plus we need a new centre back in now before the season ends. Bloody rubbish Iron if I may use one of our contributors handles to describe last night’s performance.
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Hardly a surprise about our struggles at the back. Boyce is passed it. Horton despite doing well on the whole is a left back covering at CB. Young kid from Sheff utd is ok at best and don’t get me started on Barrows.
Butler should have brought in a CB or two instead of flooding the squad with wide attackers. Absolutely ridiculous. Evans, Jb, Rose all injured and yet nothing has been done.
What does AB do ?…waste money on Hurst and Smith who have both been absolutely garbage. Shambolic recruitment.
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‘waste money on Hurst and Smith who have both been absolutely garbage. Shambolic recruitment.’
‘Waste money on Smith’? His appointment was lauded by many as the second coming at best and a very decent signing at worst. What was your reaction to his appointment wondergoals?
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Hurst is here on loan and should probably return to Donny.
Squad looking unbalanced once again. How often have we said that?
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I thought Smith was a decent signing based on what I’d seen of him before, and scunny probably bought him on the same take, I should’ve stuck to my normal stance no ex Scunny thank you very much and especially when it comes to the manager’s.
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He excelled in Scottish League 1 and NLN not NL level. Some don’t make the step up, some do. Hopefully he will.
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Why take such a chance on a player who’s been playing all season in Scotland as a CM player ?. We needed players to come in now and make an impact. Bare at the back, we literlally have a cobbled together defence.
We had a fantastic chance of rebuilding the squad once the fringe players went and it’s somehow worse now than it was before.
Not quite sure how butler and co allowed the defence to be stretched as it is after all the wide players we’ve signed.
We need a head of recruitment next season, or at the very least a head scout to take charge. Post january recruitment has been scatter gun at best.
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What’s Lee Turnbull doing these days?
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‘We need a head of recruitment next season, or at the very least a head scout to take charge.’
Positivity Dave to start a new gofundme. Joking aside, it’s not fair on Butler to be shoehorning in recruitment with trying to coach and manage. No wonder he gets annoyed at the critics.
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We’re supposed to be hard up for money and you want a head scout we’re Nl and nln last season, need to be getting rid of staff not adding more.
Part of Butler’s and Scofield’s job is to go out midweek to watch and recruit and no doubt they get extra expenses for it.
Poor old Butler having a team full of the players he wants and not having the luxury of hiding behind someone else’s recruitment, I feel sorry for him.1 user thanked author for this post.
That’s a great post Awaywego.
Butlers got the driving seat, which I wanted him to have, no doubt he wants the responsibility. Proof of the pudding will be at the season end.1 user thanked author for this post.
‘We need a head of recruitment next season, or at the very least a head scout to take charge.’
Positivity Dave to start a new gofundme. Joking aside, it’s not fair on Butler to be shoehorning in recruitment with trying to coach and manage. No wonder he gets annoyed at the critics.
Get real Derry. Butlers job came with the responsibility of recruitment. He will be judged on that, and the performance/positioning of the team, based on that.
We know you love him, but take your head out of his &#@+ for a few minutes to give yourself a breather.
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