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I thought we only had room for one before Scrimshaw came
My understanding was that we had/have room for one more after Scrimshaw but Cox ideally wants two in, hence why he’s been trying to shift Turan out but understandably nobody wants him.
I very well could be wrong but I’m sure Cox said after we signed Scrimshaw that we had room for one more after him.
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If Rowe is ousted from the RB slot for Pugh after that performance then Cox needs lynching. Criminal playing Pugh there when Rowe’s here, least that’s his natural position. Top performance that from him today, best while he’s been here by quite some distance.
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I thought he did really well considering, won plenty in the air, put himself about and looked tidy enough.
Jarvis did everything expected of a target man. These kind words are coming from somebody who’s ripped him to pieces so a part of me must be impressed.
Watson had another assured game. Goes to show putting the fear of god into somebody with trying to turf them out has on their performances when they they know they have one last chance.
I can’t fault him. I also said poppadom hands couldn’t catch a cold so in my eyes he’s performing like Oliver Kahn in his pomp.
Green still not convinced with upfront. I’d go Jarvis and O’Neil upfront and stick him outwide.
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As I said above the timing seems a little dodgy, comes just after fans dared to shout at Swann to give them their club back.
Then we get the club statement.
The statement including the cleanliness of seats has obviously come from either somebody telling him what’s been written on here or he’s read it himself.
Very petty.
The seats are in poor condition so it’s either they wiped them down with a dry cloth and not properly washed them or the cleaners are blind.
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I find the timing of such a club statement a bit suspicious…it’s come just after fans shouted for him to give the club back.
Why doesn’t he highlight all the crap he’s done?. Starting with signing the only assets the club had to cover his own stupid spending, countless managers he’s sacked and him and that daft transfer committee signing complete crap when no manager was even here.
Still paying for that now with Jarvis and Turan cluttering up the squad.
To be fair he should be apologising to us for what he’s done to the club. Absolute shambles.
GIVE THE GROUND AND LAND BACK, STICK THE CLUB UP FOR SALE AND GET GONE !
I think you’ll find nobody wants you here anymore.
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I agree problem is with Swann at the head of the club, still it doesn’t change the fact that Cox isn’t a good enough manager.
Never been convinced by him.
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Fans have been treat as an after thought now for what seems like an eternity. Sooner he’s gone the better.
What get’s me is that he can sign over the club assets to cover his own stupid spending and fails to find the money to help us through the difficult times last season to then get a loan out and directly puts us right in deep shit via a transfer embargo.
Signing the club assets over he could have at least found the money to keep us afloat without having to run to get a loan as a gesture of goodwill.
Let’s face it, we’re pretty much asset stripped as a club now after all due to his incompetence.
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Worst thing Wharton ever did was to hand this club over to Swann right under Dennis Hobson’s nose. Ran the club irresponsibly spending money we clearly couldn’t afford to spend and then takes the ground and surrounding land away from the community to cover HIS irresponsible spending.
Complete disaster. I’d rather he handed the club over to somebody else, maybe a consortium, gave us the ground and surrounding land back and pissed off.
Swann’s a stain on this club. I can’t stand him for what he’s done and not many other people like him either.
Best thing he could do is put the club out there to somebody else, gave the club it’s assets back and drive far into the sunset to concentrate on his Blackpool hotel and his beloved horses.
Telling you now it will be a matter of time before more and more fans stick it to him. People already shouting for him to give us our club back.
No doubt he came here with good intentions but the club’s in deep shit in terms of debt, low in the league, fell out with numerous managers, stupidly thought he was a footballing genius and signed complete crap along with the rest of the super transfer committee.
Cherry on the top he then takes the ground and the surround land to cover his own stupid fecking spending.
Get gone you incompetent turd.
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Is this completely off the agenda now
You’ve answered this yourself. If the club has dirty seats still not cleaned from last season, I highly doubt Swann’s going to get the ground fixed up.
Looks to me that he can’t be arsed anymore. Many other people are of the same opinion.
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Big problem is now is that 2 of our best players in Perry and Beestin can’t play together as a partnership in a 4/4/2. Beestin naturally likes to go forward and Perry is more of a ball player so we’d be left wide open.
We could play 4/4/2 with Pugh in there at the expense of Perry or Beestin and stick Rowe at RB until Millen is back but would you really do that ?. I’m pretty sure that even Pugh is more of a box to box player, only defensive midfielder we had was Kenyon and he was so immobile he just simply got ran past.
Cox said ideally he wants 2 more loans. You can imagine one being a defensive CM player and probably another striker.
Jessop isn’t ready going from today. I’d loan him out.
Davis, Onariase and Taft didn’t gel very well and Taft looked the weakest of the 3 with Manny being the stand out again.
Watson did really well again and Scrimshaw looked good. I can imagine him and Loft would do well at this level.
Green so far has been awful though…I’d even play an unfit and questionable Jarvis over Green up front, that’s how bad he’s been.
Millen
Bunn
Hallam
O’Neil
Loft
Bilson
KenyonAlways get so many bloody injuries.
Thinking about our striker shortage I’d even be tempted to stick Beestin upfront with Scrimshaw and stick Pugh where he’s supposed to be in CM and play Rowe where he’s supposed to be played at RB while Millen is getting his fitness up.
Green either needs to be out wide or on the bench. Fecking awful…he’s miles off it.
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The problem at this club isn’t Cox
The problems stem from more than 1 person, I think we all know that. Cox is a big part of it though as he defies logic and his tactical nous is absolutely awful.
Tonight’s team he fielded was strange/stupid and he said after the 1st match, yes the 1st game of the season that it reminded him of last season where the players just sort of did what they wanted.
Taking into consideration it’s a near new squad of players you have to seriously question Cox. Put it this way, if this carries on along the same theme as last season with a fresh squad of players then I know who I’ll be blaming.
It’s his job as a manager to get his tactics across if a fresh squad of players don’t take them on board then it the book stops with him as that’s his job.
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As said on another thread, we are dreadfully short of striking options with a young, somewhat untried albeit talented young striker on the bench.
Non league match tonight which you would have thought would have been the perfect time to stick him up there with Loft and see what he’s made of.
Instead of that he sticks Loft upfront on his own which clearly doesn’t work and packs the defence.
I’m truly mystified why he didn’t start both Jessop and Wilson, doesn’t he realise they need game time to help bed them in ?
All this crap about having to depend on the youngsters and he’s failed to even play them in a game which would be described as many as a shot to nothing.
Swann is a disease this club should have avoided like the plague and Cox is incompetent. Failing to play Jessop when we’re as limited as we are in that position and to not start him is one of the most oddest decisions he’s made.
There’s just no sense behind it whatsoever.
Fast forward another 90 minutes without a goal..still got hardly no options upfront and still non the wiser what Jessop’s capable of at pro level.
Even from this early on, I think it’s fair to say he’s learned nothing from last season.
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Where does this end??
National League.
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When you’ve only one striker it’s Hobson’s Choice!
Give Jessop a go which would have made perfect sense. Also could have started Wilson wide right and stuck Bunn up there playing off Loft.
I’m telling you now, Cox is a wrong un… along with the chairman and the other crap at the club.
Cox just isn’t good enough and never will be.
We’re down to bare bones in terms of striking options and he doesn’t think it would have been a good idea to give Jessop a go up top with Loft in a non league match to see how he get’s on ?
Sorry but that’s plain stupid.
Instead of that he packs defensive and sticks Loft upfront on his own, when we all know already that IT DOESN’T EFFING WORK.
Still opts for a CM at RB when Rowe is bench warming.
I don’t understand any of it. Absolutely fecking stupid.
I know he’s hamstrung by the budget but his decision making with what he has got defies logic.
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When did you two become such good friends ?
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I’ve mentioned this is another thread but he mentioned post match that it was a bit like last season where the players kind of did what they wanted.
Only problem is that it’s a somewhat fresh squad of players so if that’s a running theme, isn’t that Cox’s fault ?
Thing what I think Bizzare is that we had a proper natural RB on the bench and he still choose to play Pugh there. I get Cox long term see’s him as a CB but Pugh was really struggling.
One big problem for me is CM. Kenyon doesn’t look like to me he has any real mobility or athleticism.
If we’re to keep playing him in a 2 man midfield, Beestin will run himself into the floor to compensate and will completely stifle what he offers going forward.
People keep saying Perry should get the nod but the only problem is, is that he’s quite expansive and likes to pick the ball up and spray it around and Beestin is quite forward thinking as well. I fear those two will be a bit too attack minded.
I can’t for the life of me see those two working. Only ways to fix the central midfield problem is either bring a defensive one in sharpish on loan or play 3 central midfielders with Kenyon sitting deep, least then he’ll have the mobility of Perry and Beestin to bail him out.
I suppose you could try Beestin and Perry together but you’ll be asking Beestin to sit and it’s not really his game. Early days but I don’t I’ve ever witnessed a central Midfielder who looks like they were wading in quick sand.
I remember seeing Baraclough when we signed him at the rip old age of 33/34yr old and in comparison Kenyon may as well be a 60yr old.
O’Malley not starting didn’t make sense to me. What really puzzled me most was that if Green was ill and wasn’t performing as a result, why didn’t Cox bring O’Malley on at LW and take him off ?
Really worrying post match comment from Cox was that he hinted it was a bit like last season where the players forgot what they we’re told and started to just do what they wanted.
Only issue with that is, is that this is nearly a completely fresh group of players so if this is a running theme and carries over from last season then the buck has to stop with the manager because he’s clearly not getting his point/ideas across.
I really hope Kenyon picks it up though because if that’s just what he offers naturally then we’re in deep shit, he’ll just end up getting played around and sped past with anybody with any kind of mobility and running in their legs.
I’ve never seen anything like it. Players are usually slow off the mark and take a bit to hit top speed but he’s slow off the mark but never get’s up to speed. The effort is there but he never seems to get anywhere.
Tell you he did remind off, the somewhat shot version of Sparrow we signed. The 2nd version who had lost his drive, pace and mobility.
Not going to lie but he was the biggest let down. I was expecting an all action Stephen Dawson type of player but on that showing it was like having a Stephen Dawson who had come back 3 weeks early from a broken leg.
Woefully short in this squad as we all knew was the case. I admire Cox for finally opting for 4/4/2 but we haven’t got the right personnel to play it. Poor out wide, Kenyon hasn’t got the legs to cover the ground and Loft hasn’t got the strike partner we all hoped would come in.
Only natural left winger we have in the squad is Hippolyte and I wouldn’t even count him as a viable option after last seasons showings.
Not got a good feeling about this season. Cox was asked about loans coming in and he was non committal and unsure. Sounded like to me that he put all his eggs in one basket and was turned down at last minute.
Put it this way, he wants to seriously get a move on and get those 3 or 4 loans in. No pissing around waiting for the supposed holy grail of loan player, I’m not sure we can afford to wait too long.
Honourable mention for Watson, he made a few saves but let’s be honest he was crap as well. I almost didn’t even mention him as it’s almost a gimme now that he’s going to perform like that.
Even worse still is that if we can’t get a loan striker in anytime soon, we have Big Bad Turan and Jarvis to come in.
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