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Never felt inclined to boo my team or manager – that shambles of a performance at Marine probably as close as I ever came Awaywego.
However we were shockingly bad at Solihull last week and were lucky to escape with a point against a very poor team yesterday.
Not many shades of grey with football fans Andy. Adulation when you win and criticism when you don’t. If Carlton had scored a second goal yesterday we would have likely got 2 or 3 before your substitution bingo and you would be a genius.
If you can’t handle a bit of criticism with good grace when your team plays poorly it might not be the career for you.
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I absolutely agree with you.
No strength in depth.
But, could we extract more from the said utilising them differently?At the risk of upsetting our sensitive manager I would have certainly used 1 or 2 players a bit differently yesterday.
If my leading goalscorer was injured my first inclination would be to replace him with my second leading goalscorer rather than with someone without a goal or assist all season. Accept Carlton has appeared mainly from the bench in League games but he has never looked even vaguely like scoring. I counted one instance in nearly 70 minutes where he got a ball passed to him under his control. I was fairly surprised he made it until half time and shocked to see him appear for the second half.
When Howe finally did get on we helped him by removing any other attacking threat – Beestin, Roberts and Sellers-Fleming.
The replacements offered no such threat unless you feel Dawson can add to the 10 seconds of quality he has shown since his return to the club.
Well done to Braintree for making substitutions to change the game rather than just to keep the squad happy.
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Nothing to do with systems Rene or getting sussed out by the opposition.
It’s about quality of footballers. We have 6 players for whom the inclusion of their deputy is a significant downgrade on performance.
Those players are Evans, Ewing, Rowley. Beestin, Roberts and Whitehall. Should probably add Mahady to that list while Campbell remains injured.
Missing any one of them brings in a replacement that is not of National League standard – not top half of the league standard anyway. Havivg to bring in 3 or 4 and we are left with a pretty poor team as demonstrated in the last 3 games. This is not the fault of those players, Butler or the board. It is a factor of the clubs finances. Our budget does not buy 20 top end National League footballers.
If this squad stays top half of the league that will be a fantastic achievement.
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Well you should know BLT.
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He’s 19 Awaywego and a goalkeeper.He could play every day and probably would want to.
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Tempted to do a Deery and take the refund and just rebook the likely new date. It’s looking like a trip over in the rain for it to be called off at seven. Or even worse an abandonment.
The counter argument is DAZN 1 camera stream is no way to watch a first vs second clash when you could actually attend.
Why don’t football authorities ever allow common sense to influence a decision.
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Not as good (yet at least) but see a bit of Danny Wilson in Oli Ewing.
Both don’t just want to play in midfield. As IA puts it they want to run it. Great to see.
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I saw Haks (occasionally) play for the Iron. Did some exceptionally skillful things that rarely had an end product and played well for the team about 3 games a season. Stand by that statement.
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Apart from the fact Hakeeb has about 3 good games a season and Roberts has about 3 bad ones.
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Crowd would be halved if he had his way when it comes to opinions on a certain Mark Beck.
Using that criteria Awaywego the crowd would consist of Andy and Mrs Beck.
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If you want to criticise what people post on social media it might have more impact if you did it on social media. Just an idea.
Only person mentioning goalkeepers on here tonight is your buddy who has something of an agenda on the matter.
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It was a result of 3 or 4 mistakes the last of which was a bit of fairly poor goalkeeping.
Pretty sure Rory would agree. All goalkeepers make mistakes but those that make too many cease to be number one choice in professional football teams. Pretending they didn’t happen doesn’t make them go away.
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