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FITZSIMMONS
KOOGAN. EVANS. NICOLSON
BARROWS. DENTON
CLUNAN(ROBERTS) (ROBERTS). (ROBERTS)
WHITEHALL
This is what I can see every game, where it goes wrong for me is structure in Midfield when Roberts (easily this season’s best player) in a free role moves from the right hand side.
The rest of the midfield then becomes lost and ineffective.
That’s why I am an advocate of 4-4-2 with Roberts up-front alongside Whitehall. Or Roberts right hand side of midfield and Carlton up top.
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Butler does need to learn, but there are no signs that he is.
I haven’t spoken to a single fan who likes the team set up, and the fact that we play it very badly.
Now we are reliant on other teams losing to remain top, and some are worrying about the threat Buxton pose with their ‘game play’.
Sorry, but if we have an attacking style which is relentless and are on the front foot from the onset. Teams will be worrying about us, not the other way round.
Up the Iron
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I could not agree more Sharp_Shooter.
The poor on field activity is over-shadowing the good off-field activity at our club.
We have gone from a nine point lead to precariously perched on goal difference.
The clubs strengths you point out are being undermined by poor and negative management.
As another poster said “we don’t want to change the management but we want change from the management.”
But it won’t be long the rumblings are beginning.
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We were nine points clear. Threw two points away by being needlessly negative v Oxford, another two last week at Chester by not attacking once. Two away v Chorley from a late goal when winning to draw. Three v Scarborough who were very poor.
We are too negative by playing 5 across the back, which leaves us short I’m midfield or upfront.
Quite frankly this division is very poor and if we played to win each week we probably would.
Come on Andy play positive not negative when setting up the team.
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Publicly thanked by Tahina on Radio Humberside, she also wants to give her CIC shares to the Trust!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0j4yl3n?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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I have no idea what if anything has gone on behind the scenes, but the club is in good hands with the four shareholding directors whom I fully support.
For the record Simon built up a relationship with WHAM to try to limit the damage inflicted on our beloved club.
He worked behind the scenes with a lot of other people to resurrect our club and spent a lot of time and effort doing so.
I hope that Simon has not left the board on bad terms and is still a major player in the fortunes of Scunthorpe United FC in the future.
The club is in a totally better place than it was under Ernest or WHAM but there is still a long way to go before the club can return to League football and we need people like Simon around to make that happen.
I will point to the global companies who have sponsored us due to Simon’s connections primarily in the motor industry as one positive example.
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Well said f row, all the fan royalty of SUFC were there including the Iron Trust, Winterton Iron and the Official Supporters Club.
Great turn out from the club including Russ Wilcox, Brian Laws, Cliff Bryne, Lee Turnbull, Steve Davy and Rick Green.
Quite humbling really a good send off for a good man.
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RIP Staffy, a great bloke and friend.
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Why did the club agree to play the match when your main 14 goal striker is just coming back from suspension?
Then to not start with Whitehall was absolute madness.
Wilson was merely pushed around all second half and Beestin was heavy legged and completely lost.
Siembe Ferris would have been a better starting option as he kept getting behind the Tamworth defence, with more time in the game that may have paid off.
Taking Elliot off was another baffling decision. I also agree that our style needs twerking as the midfield lacks bite.
Moving to 3 up front away at Farsley with Whitehall, Elliot and Roberts up top was a massive positive.
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A great debate and some first class points of view, all relevant and well made.
There are no poor teams in this division, they all have very tall, strong defences and are quick on the counter attack.
We need to keep attacking and retain a capable strike force until the final whistle.
Hopefully the footballing brains at the club will be pointing this out to Mr Deans.
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Lincoln City have been quite cute, there are fines for refusing to enter or fielding a weakened team.
Play an ineligible player and get kicked out free of charge.
This post was not sponsored by Stapleton-Jackson number crunchers.
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You would like to think so!
But should Ernest not sell, and it’s nearly a year or so since he put the club up for sale and having turned down offers already does anybody believe he actually wants to sell.
So a nice tidy formality, fails to sell, liquidates and the next day the bulldozers move in, because the planning was just that a formality.
Sorry but the club and fans have been stung once too often for something just to be a formality as far as Ernest is concerned.
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At 73 he deserves his nap.
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Yes the bookies do know something we don’t, that’s why they always win and the “mug punters” lose.
Heard recently about a real mug losing millions and not even knowing he had even placed the bets.
I bet when he learned of this folly he took off faster than an Apollo space rocket.
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