I only want to hear positive news, we have have 2 1/2 years of doom and gloom from the club, I would like to see the positive Peter Swann who first came to the club instead of all the downward spiral we have had since we lost to Rotherham, we are losing to teams now that we would have brushed aside 3 years ago with a squad that is in a false position at the moment, apart from a few players we are a bottom 4 team with no Plan A never mind Plan B, we have got a big squad of players with most of them not league level, so technically with a lot smaller but better squad we could be challenging for promotion, but with such a large squad I still wouldn’t like to guess what the wage bill is, the club needed streamlining but we have gone from one extreme to another, and honestly I can’t see a improvement in the second half of the season.
I bet Premier League teams who play in Europe have training methods not to knacker the players on match days, I know they rotate a bit but some players seem to play in all games apart from minor Cups and seem totally fit, maybe the training here is too intense especially the day before a game.
Playing 1 up front at home with a striker who doesn’t score many goals and again we defend like a Sunday League Division 7 team, the trouble is it isn’t a one off, this minus our 3 injured players are the worst team for years, even the fight has gone from Gillihead, Eisa & McAtee
‘’ after not being deemed good enough non-league club Barnet, El mhanni and Vincent had the last laugh’’
Yes, at our expense.
At least this is starting to clear things up about why we are signing so much shit during the last couple of years. What’s your bets godders has some connection to the Swann’s or rodders.
Be interesting to get Lee Turnbull on the podcast for his thoughts.
just been chatting to Lee, got a new job as Head of Recruitment at Bradford City, he told me he wouldn’t have signed some of the players we signed and will hopefully do a podcast in a month or two.
December 20, 2020 at 12:57 pm
in reply to: Loft#199413
I can’t remember Steve playing as a lone striker very often unless we were down to 10, but he certainly would put himself about and Loft seems to play better with another striker with him and I don’t class McAtee as an out and out striker.
Two and a half years ago Martin Luther Swann said “I have a dream”, to have a team consisting of u23 players and young hungry players from non league and released league players with two or three seasoned players, who with a young manager will play exciting attacking football, unfortunately for one reason or another isn’t working out, we have had one or two decent results but the performances have been very non league at times, so after a last gap winner on Tuesday we thought the players would have had a lift but when we have played teams who have had bad results we perform badly and create nothing, we are certainly missing McGahey, Brown and Van Veen and again today we haven’t troubled the keeper, but got to admit the result and performance didn’t surprise me.
I didn’t watch it, I knew what to expect with our record of not turning up in local derbies, when McGahey and Van Veen are out we are leaderless and we are clueless, we got out of jail on Tuesday, when those two are playing it rubs off on the other players, going to be a long season.
I think Howard has had as many clean sheets in 10 games than Watson has had in his first team career, Rory will hopefully improve but remember Howard hadn’t played for a long while before coming here and though maybe stays on his line a lot that was a big problem with Rory also, Rory had a great game against Carlisle, and Howard had a great game against Orient, I personally think Howard has made the defence more confident but Rory needs to go out on loan because he could be a good goalkeeper but with a more experienced defence, I haven’t been disappointed with Howard personally and apart from maybe getting caught on his line a few times he has played well and only a goal in the swirling wind at Exeter can you really say was a keeper error.
already excuses because we can’t prepare for what they are going to do and we have that many players with slight injuries plus the major ones of cause, so god knows what sort of line up and formation we will put out tonight, just hope we remember we have a better chance of winning if we attack and have shots at goal rather than sit back and hope for a breakaway.
So you think a 5’7” full back is going to beat a 6’2” player to win a header when the big lad is running towards the ball, Mason wasn’t even a a position to get flattened.
about the ball crossing the line, nobody really appealed about it crossing the line, it is so hard to judge.
regarding the goal, it was crossed from Clarke’s side and not O’Malley’s, so seeing it was scored in the middle of the goal it was more the central defence and not the full back not covering when it wasn’t the winger coming in from wing to score, it was a well taken goal.
Agree leaving all three forwards out together instead of maybe rotating one each game probably cost us, yet it’s the best I have seen us play and any luck we had Saturday we didn’t today.
Howard 6, Clarke 6, McGahey 6, Onaraise 7, O’Malley 7, Spence 6, Beestin 7, Green 6, Jarvis 5, Taylor 5, Gillihead 8.
