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Bad news about Loft being fit! Cox needs to change it and go with CBRP’s team with McAtee in place of Hippo and Eisa on the wing.

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“Random,It’s so called football fans like you who have ruined football for many by paying to watch football on TV”.

How the hell is Random ruining football, when he doesn’t have the option of watching the game at the ground???

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I’m sure that we will do better without the big lump up front, Green and McAtee.

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More like 5-4-0!

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Any 2 from those 3 excluding Loft!! The midfield moved forward in the last 10 minutes. They should start like that, obviously playing to some stupid and failing orders.

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Completely agree with Cass. We get glimpses of it (rare ones I admit). When the team passes the ball and moves forward we clearly have some good technical players. We don’t in the current match choice have good enough strikers. The team quickly reverts to the brainless kick it anywhere style that should be obvious to everyone, coaching team included, doesn’t work.

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Agree with the majority of your comparison, Money at the start of an very good career, Oates and Peacock were decent players. Angus Davidson, even when hampered by chronic injuries, was a class above our current motley crew of forwards.

I have been very critical of Loft. I understand it is a horrible job playing as the lone striker. But he hardly challenges for some of the big hoof ups to him and rarely gets the ball to allow the team to move forward. His best play has been when the team tries to pass the ball and keep possession on the ground rather than 10ft in the air.

But having watched Loft over the last few matches, he does not show the movement, positioning or anticipation to get on the end of passes and crosses into the box. We had enough of the match against Barrow to get back into the game and there was an improvement when Eisa came on.

Even in the dark days we had strikers like Roberts, Cassidy, Fletcher, Green and more who played like centre forwards and were always in the box trying their best to get in a position to score. Of course we also had a few duffers, but we played 2 up top and at least 1 of the strikers gave us some hope of scoring.

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I remember Dudley Roberts getting a hat trick. Looked it up. Beat Newport 4v1.

The crowd was 1,523, desperate times, but as others have said, can’t remember us playing defensively or trying to get a draw.

Pretty much the same team every match, they tried their best, but most of them were not very good. Second half was usually on the attack kicking towards the Donny Road end. Same with this match, all 4 goals in the second half.

When they won 4v1, it was a pleasant surprise!!

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The “tactics” he uses every match is one striker up front who doesn’t win any of the constant long balls up to him, and he fails to close down ANY of the opposition players. No shots at goal or chances.

We played better with 10 men and at least they tried to pass the ball to each other on the ground.

But why play for draws when there are 3 points for a win? Why play for draws against crap teams?

It’s definitely the manager, there are still a few decent players in the team, but the tactics are hopeless.

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“i wonder which coaching course Cox went on when the idea was suggested when you go a goal down you take your striker off?”

I would normally agree with you, but when that “striker” is Loft he shouldn’t be on the pitch at all.

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The half time stats on ifollow tell all. Iron 56% possession, all other stats zero!! They need to add a stat for aimlessly kicking the ball to nobody!

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I think NI is right about the agents. The other issue is the perceived or real lack of effort and commitment to the club shown by some of our own and loan players.

They make it pretty obvious that they either don’t want to be at the club, or have been farmed out because they have no future at their own club. Some will be on higher wages than our better players who are trying. Can’t be great for team spirit.

Yates, Crookes and Toney of the recent ones did put the effort in and looked like they were happy to get game time. Of course we were at the top of league 1 then and provided a better opportunity for players looking to progress.

Some of the more recent ones have played as if they don’t really care or they are here knowing that they will be released by their parent club when their contract is up. Still don’t understand why they are not busting a gut to get a contract with us or impress another club. Probably taking too much notice of their agents.

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Lundstram, Norwood, Johnstone – all premier league players.

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As for lacking a sense of humour, the only person on this forum who responds with LOL and Muahahahahahaha to your posts is YOU!!!!

Sad man who feels the need to laugh at himself.

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I tried to ask you to keep your moronic and insensitive views to yourself. Your claim of 13 deaths just prove that you are an idiot.

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“Scamdemic”, let’s hope you don’t catch it so you can test whether it’s a scam or not. I and possibly others on here have lost relatives/friends to it, so best to keep your fairy stories to yourself.

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Hopefully we have a bit of time to get a striker in. Not impressed that Loft is still at the head of the team selections above.

There can’t me many players who get ratings of 2 or 3 after matches, yet appears to be an automatic selection. Shows how limited the choices are and the lack of effort being put in by players like McAtee.

Would prefer to have Green or Hippolyte to Loft and tell the defenders to stop pointlessly booting the ball upfield.

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Centre back makes a mistake! Here’s another “hazardous player” who is not good enough for the Iron.

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Rowe and Clarke are our players. Loan players should only play and stay at the club if they are clearly better than what we have.

On the evidence of half a season, Cordner definitely isn’t!!

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Rowe should be playing ahead of Cordner.

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Fair enough, we will have to disagree, though to be clear the “other person on the books” was not my comment. Turan has a worse record than Loft.

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56 league games and 7 goals is not a glowing reference for his finishing. The bigger issue is he hardly ever seems to be in a threatening position to get on the end of some decent crosses into the box.

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“I said ok”

So you did and no he isn’t. The long balls would still be aimed at him. Having Van Veen alongside would make no difference to his basic lack of ability to control the ball and lay it off to another player (on his team).

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“Loft would be ok as a squad player or as a foil for say Van Veen”.

No he wouldn’t! He has been in professional football since 2015 and is 23, yet you can hear Cox shouting and telling him what to do throughout the match.

He is nowhere near being OK!

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Yes come on CBRP, how could you disagree with somebody who has not seen any of the matches?

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Loft and Cordner – definitely should not be professional footballers!

Nothing to do with age and experience, completely lacking in basic skills for the positions they were playing in.

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I am not able to watch many of the matches and rely on the radio commentary and the BBC updates which give the stats. I did watch the pathetic performances against Grimsby and Mansfield, where a lack of team spirit or leadership on the pitch was obvious.

The stats, though not 100% reliable, do show a pattern that we hardly ever start a home match on the front foot. Possession stats for home matches in the first half are usually 30-40%.

We seem to start the away matches more positive than the home matches, including last night. The stats back this up.

Clearly the team is far too cautious at home, not fired up before the match starts and have been carrying 2 or 3 who are not putting much effort in.

If Cox can sort this out, hopefully we can start winning at home. He needs to pick players that will give 100%, a midfield that tries to get forward from the start and stop relying on the big hoof from the defenders to one isolated man up front.

The Mansfield back 4 had no pace, turning circle of a tank, yet we hardly ever ran at them. The losses to Grimsby and Mansfield were unacceptable. We clearly aren’t a good team, but my opinion is we had better players on the pitch than either the Cods or Mansfield.

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I also thought Taylor did at least try to run forward with the ball when he came on against Mansfield, one run leading to the second goal. His last impression however in that game was an abysmal shot in the last 30 seconds of that match.

He did more in the few minutes he was on than most who started the game.

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“Bloody snowflakes!”

Put the man and ball in the net was my grandad’s tip for success as a centre forward.

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Cox also said “we chased the game after that, but made bad decisions from set-plays and our delivery wasn’t very good.”

So he can see a problem but doesn’t seem to do anything about it. O’Malley is the best at set- plays, but Cox allows Eisa to take the ball off him and then deliver pathetic corners and free kicks. Sort it out Cox.

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