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Mid-table mediocrity will do me this season. Think we have the firepower to cause teams problems but the goalkeeper situation and lack of midfield general/right back (hopefully gets sorted soon) does really worry me.
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Off topic but not worth starting a new thread.
I know it’s 7 subs in NL, can you use 5?Yep, 7 subs named, can use 5.
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Question is do you play a system that protects the keeper (knowing his handling isn’t great) or go for one where attack is seen as being the best form of defence.
The answer is probably somewhere along the lines of we should have prioritised some of the budget to sign a decent goalkeeper who doesn’t lead to these sorts of questions being asked, rather than signing a plethora of attackers, half of whom won’t even make it onto the bench come the opening day of the season.
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Other than the goalkeeper position this is my biggest worry for the season ahead. Clunan was a massive part of our spine and we certainly missed him when he was out of the team.
It’s pretty obvious we haven’t replaced him, Ewing has been much more forward thinking in these pre-season games and none of our other midfielders can play in that position (Rowley, Scales, Brogan, Beestin…they’re all pretty pants defensively).
The squad seems massively unbalanced. We’ve got 6 central strikers currently playing (Whitehall, Howe, Dawson, Simmonds, Carlton, Beck…could also throw Beestin and Chadwick into the mix to make it 8). Going to be hard keeping them happy with (hopefully) 1 spot to fill when we play our preferred 4-3-3. In contrast we don’t have a single defensively minded midfielder and no fit right back (Starbuck ain’t the answer).
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Great launch video (again) but I do not like the shirt (don’t really care though as I haven’t owned one since my teens).
One thing that stood out is the EHM part of the sponsor isn’t in the middle of the shirt which looks terrible!
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Bringing Watson back is all just a ploy by Butler et al. to distract us from Campbell being earmarked as our esteemed no.1. It’s the only logical reason (and is kinda working).
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Wrong again awaywego grandson confirmed that is the home shirt, don’t need to see it in the flesh no claret makes it absolutely crap.
Hope hardly anyone buys it.I’ve seen the picture you’re referring to, it’s not the one’s they’re wearing you silly goose (those are training tops)…it’s the one’s hanging up on the rack in the bottom right of the image.
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Has he also been genuinely unlucky to only start 11 games in 3 seasons since leaving us? No, it’s because he’s shite and isn’t good enough to be a number 1 at National League level.
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Yep. We played our best football last season when we ditched 3/5 at the back and went 4-3-3 with 1 central striker and 2 wingers. We now have 5 strikers (Whitehall, Beck, Howe, Dawson, Carlton, plus a 6th when we keep playing this Okera Simmonds in pre-season)!
Why do we have so many when we’re crying out for a capable keeper, a defensively minded midfielder and a right back (until Barrows is back). Doesn’t make much sense to me.
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I just can’t see us going with only 2 in central midfield with the players we have. Whichever formation we played with last season we played every game that I can remember with Clunan plus 2 others in central midfield (usually Rowley and Scales/Beestin). Still slightly concerned that we haven’t really replaced Clunan, Ewing seems much more forward thinking. With that in mind I’d go 4-3-3:
Polo Hands / Dracula
Starbuck (ideally a new RB)
Belehouan
Evans
DentonEwing
Rowley
BeestinRoberts
Whitehall
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It’s amazing how many supporters forget how shite those teams were and dumped much of the blame on Rory. Not forgetting the inept managers
I certainly remember how shite they were, with Rory being one of shite-ist! If we didn’t bring in Mark Howard during the 20/21 season we would have arrived at our non-league destination sooner than we did.
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When we signed Fitz he had just come off of a season where he was Chesterfield’s no.1 and played in the NL playoff final in the division above us. So to belittle his experience is nonsense. We’re now going into this season relying on a goalkeeper with ZERO professional starts in football, let alone the division we’re about to ply our trade in or even the division we’ve just come from. He will 100% be targeted by other teams and so far, on the evidence provided in his game time this season and in the cup games last, he is not ready. Those trying to suggest this isn’t anything other than worrying are living in cloud cuckoo land.
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Will it make us any money though? We moved a NYD game and played behind closed doors against the Cods in the Lincs cup because we supposedly couldn’t afford to open the stadium.
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The point you were trying to make is still nonsense, a big mistake by a keeper and a miss from a striker aren’t comparable. Maison Campbell is not a good goalkeeper and should be nowhere near our first team. That opinion is based on what my own two eyes have seen, not unfair bias.
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Nonsense, there’s a big difference in your argument. If a striker misses 4 or 5 chances but bags the winner every game he’d be playing for Real Madrid. If a keeper makes 3 or 4 saves and then drops a clanger every game he’ll be unemployed.
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