As ever, I’ve supported the manager until it is wholly impossible to continue to do so.
That first half was disgraceful. Zero attempts on goal and the reason was because we had determined not to push forward at all. How can that be anything other than the manager’s fault?
On those occasions when we did push forward second half a couple of chances happened.
So, Mr Cox. I wrote to you on here on Day One and helpfully explained what had to be done. I told you what has got a string of managers sacked – and you knew better. You have chosen negativity and you may soon pay the price.
If the Chairman fails to provide a forward before the Cods game, I fear that your time will be nearly up.
As for me – I am ready to demand your head on a platter within the next couple of games.
You had a guy prepared to support you here – I am now alienated!
It has been correctly pointed out that Green is an option up front.
If I recall, he was described as a forward when he first arrived – who also plays wide.
Dunno why so many problems finding a striker – one only needs to be a jot above mediocre to radically transform the current ‘forward line’.
I’m waiting for the ‘bring back Watson campaign’ to begin. After all if he has better CBs in front of him … which he would have in the next week or two …
If Lillis is assistant – well fine. That guy has seen it all. So unless Cox is ignoring him – we have to admit to having significant experience in place at management level.
No. The problem is that we started the season with a raggle-taggle mix of players. (Not as poor in quality as some make out IMHO)
11 good enough? – Possibly. Nine perhaps but when a number get injured on top of that – we end up having to blood players too early.
The balance between experience and inexperience amongst the players was optimistic, to say the least.
Cox? – Too much experimentation we’ll all argue but when you are leaking at the back and have no impact whatsoever up front – maybe you have to try something different.
Going down or staying up – I’m gonna try not to judge for at least 10 months.
A goal-scorer, BS – and a pretty intelligent forward when not in crazy formations.
Even played as he was for us – he was around one in four.
Since being played properly at Bradford eight in eighteen.
The amount of goal-scorers this club has had in the last five years or so who have been asked to play ‘other roles’ makes me dizzy.
Whatever happened to: Lyle Taylor, Matt Godden, Paddy Madden, Kyle Wootton, I wonder? All those failed strikers. (I’ll bet that they are probably notching one in six in pub football somewhere.)
A string of past managers are to blame. One-up-front and defensive formations. SUFC must be gaining a great reputation for ruining strikers. Does anyone believe that we have truly got the best out of KVV?
January 8, 2021 at 10:13 pm
in reply to: Novak#200501
I’ll settle for just a one trick pony – somebody who can hold the ball up to lay off to those moving forward.
If that person could score a few too – that would be seriously nice.
I’m not sure even that will happen. Hope to be proved wrong!
Well put.
CBs are the outfield players that, usually, you can least afford to have dropping mega clangers.
If one man repairs defence and a second repairs CM, then we might stand some chance of being competitive – however much we need a striker.
I’d have a little wager with myself that Mr Bedeau would happily accept a 50% reduction in wages in exchange for a new deal!
The guy has loads of ability but just seems to turn off at vital times. If there’s two things CBs must possess, they are concentration and a sense of what is happening around them.
I spotted this when he first came into the side and was amazed that so many seemed willing to praise him back then.
Could he perhaps be trained to become something other than a CB? – It’s a real shame to see ability going to waste. The lad does try and usually isn’t afraid to get stuck in.
It is claimed he has demonstrated ‘leadership’ as he has worked together with the squad.
Him in with both Taylor and Vincent gone is good news.
Hmm. Any other loanees who might go do we reckon?
I do not reasonably expect that we can sign a goal-scorer in January.
Surely, we can sign somebody capable of holding up the ball when it goes forward.
Every team we face seems to possess a minimum of one such in their starting line-up. They can’t be all that expensive.
I was calling for 4 players in. I’ll now settle for one holder upper and a CB. (Nightingale?)
Just looked long and hard at vids of goals conceded, yesterday. Cordner was only partly responsible for their first – it was principally Bedeau who should have at least attempted to stop the free header.
We might also ask questions as to what the skipper was doing in the runup to that goal.
Hard to blame the GK too much. Few would have saved their 1st and 2nd but he had some chance with the 3rd.
I am pretty sure that it was Cordner who did not come out to allow an unchallenged header for their first.
It was definitely Cordner for their third.
Does he learn anything?
A decent enough display at Walsall but today – he was not not good enough. Again.
We have to wait a month to get some real CBs back?
Get a good CB on a two month loan before the next game. URGENT!
Without the above, we’d have had a draw – daft as it may seem.
With the latest deal with Turkey, I believe that is now 62 new trade deals already agreed in 2020 – in a fair number of which, a pretty fair dollop would have either required EU blessing, mega adjustments or could not have happened at all.
£668bn trade with EU.
An ordinary deal by Boris, yes, but if you bothered to examine the 12 points of May’s Chequers plan in painful detail, this is hugely superior. Whoever drafted that May deal had made all 12 points look like a positive but 11 were almost totally impossible if you knew EU regs as well as a certain member of my family does.
This version has few serious drawbacks.
Hope that this is now the end for all the bickering. I want a New Year with people all pulling together to make the UK be the best it can be.
In future, I shan’t be making any political points on the football board. (Or any other for that matter.)
A Happy New Year to every single contributor to this board. And yes – you too!
