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Not a single player could possibly have got less than a six.
Great shift from Kev.
McAtee playing for a contract?
Best all round GK game I’ve seen by Rory since that brilliant match of his (Home to Carlisle?) He looks to have learned a lot. Great distance kicking; a couple of vital saves; not glued to his line. Compared well to Joe, on the day.
Maybe having Cordner in front of him alongside the old-style Bedeau who back then looked callow and uncertain – was a large part of his problems.Great graft from Gilliead and Hippo.
A well-earned point.
(I also loved the tactic where we gave them loads of set pieces which they could lift into the box so our CBs and GK could have some real match practice.)
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I have mates who support a number of S.Yorks clubs and beyond and they look at me gone out whenever I explain our injury lists.
Hardly research but it certainly leaves an impression.4 users thanked author for this post.
I know some will disapprove of my argument but regarding the one up front formations, we must still look back to the Kyle Wootton era.
That lad is now scoring at roughly a goal every other game for NL side Notts Co and we let him leave. He is easily good enough for L2 and probably League One.
Big, strong, quick and with an eye for goal. He was ruined at this club. He was either pushed wide or played isolated from other attackers. I could always see that, with careful development, he really had that ‘something’. I never criticised him but often felt the need to complain about those who almost wrecked him and made little attempt to develop the lad properly.Well. We now have Loft. Yes, some of his skills have been utter crap on occasions but he has guts and a phenomenal work rate. He has shown us pace and skill too. He has a nose for goal on those few occasions he is allowed to go near the opposition’s box.
Nine goals and six assists in a team culture which does not believe in playing the ball forward really is not too bad.
He is playing the hardest role in football – and getting precious little supply and help.
Yes. This guy needs to improve. Yes. He needs to learn some of the skills that a forward has to possess and, happily, we have seen enough in his attitude to know that he is no shrinking violet. He wants to ‘be the best he can be’ but my problem is not with him but rather, with systems that are not helping him develop as he surely is able to do.
Our next forward signing should be someone experienced who can bring the best out of the lad. I see no reason why he cannot become a 15+ goals a season striker who also brings others into play.
When you are isolated and outlets are precious few he is so eager to make things work that he gets desperate and that’s when the worst errors creep in.
It’s in there. Let’s not have another Kyle Wootton or, even worse, a Lyle Taylor disaster. Spend the time teaching him a little bit of coolness and the requisite skills. It will pay dividends.2 users thanked author for this post.
2nd GK played. (Not too badly.)
4th best and 5th best CBs played tonight.
Best striker out.Lone striker? – How often has this worked for the Iron in the last two decades?
Square balls and pushed backwards 95% of the time – the other 5% is long hit and hope.
Watch how Carlisle moved the ball forward.Off the ball movement was desperately poor.
Sigh.
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And, I rate the Mike and Tom commentaries as the best heard combination all season.
As ‘resident expert’ – I reckon Tom is, by head and shoulders, the best we’ve ever had. He tells it like it is. I, for one, really appreciate that.
Knowing more than a little about commentating, I rate Mike the best that Humberside has had.3 users thanked author for this post.
Loft works his gonads off. Yes – he has some awful games but the good games are in there too.
When he has to go searching for the ball – he makes more mistakes than he does on those few occasions when he does get the ball cleanly.
The why of that baffles me to an extent. (A psychologist could probably explain it.)
With a season playing alongside a fit KVV, I am convinced that he would have now been a significantly better player.The KVV problem is a really big worry. He has played only a handful of games and most of those were ones with him coming back from injury and having to be nursed. The goals have been few.
I am disinclined to see him offered a contract. Presumably his wages are the highest in the club. (Sadly, I no longer have the sources who used to supply me with those kind of details.)
For what we pay Kev, might we not get a forward who plays a 6.5/10 most weeks?Next season – the big worry is surely going to be the total absence of ‘flair players’.
As the games have gone by, I have been increasingly less impressed with the Karacan contribution. It is very hard to say whether or not this is because of the roles he has been given by the manager.
A side surely needs 4 flair players who can cement a place in the team if we are to challenge. How do we attract such when paying low wages?
I have zero optimism for next season. The sides we put out are surely going to be poorer than the one which has been relegation-threatened for much of this season.
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Loft?
Well I have lost count of the people on this site who have shown zero patience with young forwards who are making their way.
Leading a line is incredibly difficult – especially if someone decides to play an out and out one up front system and clean ball is not reaching you for whole portions of a game.The problem is that it is not just the likes of Jarvis and Wootton, is it? How many have stuck the knife into loadsa cracking good forwards when we’ve had them, from Torpey to Novak and from Madden to Forrester?
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I watched the Poland game and realised just how few England players I knew anything about.
I occasionally watch a Premiership or Championship game and before the match, in most cases, I cannot even recognise half the players. Modern football holds little appeal.Mrs LesGeo said to me that she had seen how little interest I seemed to have in football now. Indeed, I only half watch games these days – usually while I am reading a book; shuffling my MP3s; cataloguing photos; phoning friends etc.
Following the Iron is a totally different matter. That’s not really football, is it?
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I’d just like to know that we’ve offered him the very best deal that it is humanly possible to put together in these straitened times for small clubs.
Whatever that figure might be should have made him the highest paid player.1 user thanked author for this post.
Come on, MKI – get serious!
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