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I wish I shared your optimism that there are 2 teams worse than us in League 2. Even the basket case that is Oldham got an away win on Saturday. Something that has eluded the Iron for some time.
Hope your correct but at the moment I am believing the bookies who have us firm favourites for the drop.
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Neil for me is overly cautious and tactically naive but to say he is solely to blame is surely unfair.
I think the absent landlord has a fair amount of responsibility here.
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Nail hit on the head NI.
We worked a few promising wide positions in the first half particularly on the right but attempted crosses from Millen and Hippolyte were really poor.
We are never going to get much in from the left playing a hard working Beeston totally out of position.
We didn’t seem to think about the areas where most League 2 open play goals come from i.e. from advanced wide positions. We knew we had lost Gillead and Eisa and we were never going to replace them with the same quality but to not replace them with anybody was a massive error in recruitment.
I assume Cox thought Green and Hippolyte were going to step up to the plate which was a massive error of judgement. They both had enough opportunities last season and delivered virtually nothing between them.
Neither has done anything this season other than demonstrate they are 2 levels above their capability. We have Bunn of course but he seems determined to beat Hallam for treatment table bookings.
The other schoolboy error was to have only Kenyon as a holding midfield player. Out of our other 5 or 6 central midfielders none is equipped to play one of the 2 roles we expect midfielders to play.
Nothing Wood and Hackney have done so far suggests they are better than Beeston, Pugh or Perry but their loan deals seem to suggest they must be in the squad if not the starting line up. WTF?
I know finances dictate recruitment was going to be tough but Cox and Cygnet seem to have made just as big a mess of it as our lord and master used to when he was the one man committee.
Best hope is to play Wilson right and Thompson left until Bunn is fit and get Pugh in the holding position until Kenyon is fit and proves he can move above walking pace.
Shows what shit we are in that putting 3 inexperienced kids into key positions would probably improve the team significantly.
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We got really lucky about 8 years ago.
At least all but one of us thought we did at the time and Alcy hardly counts because he pretty much disagrees with everything.
By my reckoning all but 2 of us have changed our minds since.
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I would go with:
Watson
Millen Onariase Taft O’Malley
Wood Pugh Thompson
Beeston
Scrimshaw JarvisEven if everyone was fit you would probably replace Wood with Bunn and Loft with Jarvis. Possibly Pugh with Kenyon and Davis with Onariase.
With the current squad that’s as good as it’s going to get with a fairly weak/inexperienced bench to back things up.
He has got a mask to protect his facial injury but apparently cannot see properly when wearing it.
The club probably forgot to order one with holes for the eyes.
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I don’t think we need statistics to prove we are prone to conceding late goals and have been for a while.
Part of this may be fitness and part may be over cautious tactics and dropping deeper later in the game whenever we have a point or more to hang on to.
I think the biggest factor though is probably the lack of confidence running through the team and the club.
Difficult to instill confidence when we have been so poor for so long but this is part of the challenge for the coaching staff.
Given that fitness and tactics are also pretty much down to the coaching staff as well it’s not difficult to work out what needs to change.
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An upmarket version of our Carlisle tactics worked a treat for Spurs yesterday in the first half but they couldn’t sustain it either.
Only way to get a breather in football is to keep the football for longer periods which has the added advantage of working and tiring the opposition.
If only we could do it.
Really dissapointing but for once I feel sorry for the players.
I will take that every week win, lose or draw but we had a go.
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Assume Bunn is unfit. Forced into 4-4-2.
I would have picked Rowe ahead of Millen and Pugh ahead of Wood otherwise best of what’s available.
Shows how much shit we are in that Hippo makes the best available team.
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I woold put Bunn wide right instead of Wood and stick Jarvis up with Scrimshaw because we will lump it. Otherwise agree.
If Wood plays it’s probably a condition of the loan deal. If Hackney plays then it’s definitely part of the loan deal.
Nothing agagainst the young boys, they will probably end up as fine footballers but based on the last 2 games theyare not equipped for a League 2 relegation fight just yet.
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Don’t jump to conclusions about supporting the team and the club just because people are unhappy with the current situation.
I was there last Saturday and will be there a week on Saturday. I will support the club and the team just as I have for 55 years despite living well away from the area for 35 of those years.
I would probably be trotting up to Carlisle on Saturday if we were not quite as painful to watch at the moment. Even then I will watch the inevitable defeat on iFollow.
Its because we care that we are so concerned about the state of the team and the club.
By the way who appointed you into the position of deciding what Iron supporters should think or do?
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Forgot to add if he had splashed his own cash and not seized the clubs assets to cover it he might be viewed a bit more sympathetically.
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Lets all stop moaning because 6 or 7 years ago we had a decent team.
Let’s treat the last 3 seasons and this season of total shite as a bit of a blip and be thankful to the great lord and master.
Open your eyes you fecking idiot. Did you watch the game last Saturday?
The past has gone, we are one point from the bottom of the pile and you think we should be having a party.
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That’s because our fishy friends are now owned by people who care more about the football club than they do about the land it sits on.
Don’t forget the Cods had a chairman with a similar popularity rating as ours for the last 16 years before the new guys took over.
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I keep forgetting about Jarvis. I do agree he probably has more potential to become a “proper” League 2 target man than Loft. I like Loft’s work rate and the bit of edge that he has but his hold up play has not improved in the slightest since he has been here. I really don’t know what these guys do in training but it is not working. Surely Lillis could coach the guy on proper centre forward play.
When Loft does get the ball sent up to him he immediately tries to take on his man or try some outrageous first time ball. He never gets the ball properly under control and lays a simple ball off to midfield or a partner (on the odd occasion he has a partner).
I would be applying the 3 strike rule. Do it once you get the stare. Do it twice you get a bollocking. Third time your substituted and Jarvis comes on.
I don’t think anyone is under the illusion that Loft and Scrimshaw will be a great partnership. Just that they are probably the best pair out of a very inexperienced bunch.
O’Neil looks to be very one paced (speed close to reverse) and Green despite multiple opportunities cannot either control or pass the ball. No idea what Hippolyte’s best position is supposed to be but it is not as a front man. I would rather see Jessop up front gaining some experience than either of those two.
Hence Loft and Scrimshaw are the best of a less than great bunch. Let’s face it if any of our forwards were great they wouldnt be here.
At least Loft and Scrimshaw give centre backs something to think about. They could be smoking cigars when any of the others are playing.
Our biggest problem is we dont have any wide midfield players. All of our current bunch including the loanees seem to want to play centrally. Green and Hippolyte are nominally wide midfielders but see above. I think this is the main reason we are playing 5 at the back. You need width and support for the front men from wide midfielders in a 4-4-2.
Unfortunately 5 at the back only works if you pass out from the back. We play that system and still lump it up to forwards with no great ability in the air or to hold the ball up.
Consequently we have a shit show.
