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I don’t think you can really class what Cox has been doing as “mistakes”. Cox has put thought into it and chooses to take that approach.
I will put that down to a negative mindset rather than making mistakes. I fear this is what Cox is like. It appears to me that he’s just a negative manager who’s completely gone into his shell.
I honestly don’t understand why he’s not going back to 4/4/2. Loft is struggling so playing him upfront on his own is no good to anybody.
Nothing to lose yesterday, what did he do ?. Took a striker of for a striker instead of putting one beside Loft. Again, that’s not a mistake…that’s a negative mindset.
I don’t think fresh players next season will solve it either. I suspect the problem mostly is with Cox.
You can have the worlds best musicians making up the most impressive orchestra the world has ever seen but if the conductor is utter crap, what would you ever really get out of them ?
To be fair Alcazar has been pretty much spot on. This is absolutely shocking what’s going on at the minute down at GP.
I don’t get why Swann keeps giving interviews in which he blames covid for everything. All the other clubs have experienced similar problems with it.
If all he’s going to do is blame that all the time, he may as well not say anything. I want honesty, not the same old excuses.
Not interested.
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Northumb, we have a good enough midfield in Beestin/karacan with Gillead and Eisa/ Green on the wings when playing in a 4/4/2.
No excuse not playing Loft and Olomola up there to see how they get on. I don’t get why he thinks playing Loft isolated is ever a good idea.
Coincidently we played our best football in a 4/4/2. I wonder why.
I can’t see it changing next season when he’s in charge. I think this is just Cox in a nutshell…ultra cautious.
All he does is blame covid. Does he not realise that every other club are suffering with the constraints too ?
Olomola is fit and he isn’t being played. No excuse setting up like that, it’s unacceptable….simple as
Very non committal on the better players signing new deals as well so as I predicted, McGahey, eisa, Karacan and Gillead will all be off.
How can this style of football be defended ?
So it’s a new season next season…if Cox is playing this negatively now, is he going to get players in who are better than Gillead, Eisa and Karacan to enable us to play more expansive ?
I highly doubt it.
No excuse….Stick Olomola upfront with Loft, in a 4/4/2 with Gillead and Eisa/Green out wide and at least give it a go.
Sorry, I’m just not convinced with cox at all.
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Gillead will go. Eisa we know is going. McAtee will be going “no great loss there though”. I can’t for the life of me see Karacan staying either.
Van Veen will more than likely be moved on. I would personally move McGahey on as well…poor injury record and not sure we’d miss him that much. Sign Bedeau up to another contract and have him, Taft and Onariase.
Just remembered that we have to shift on Turan and Jarvis who are both tied to contracts as well. Jesus, forgot about those two.
Hippolyte can go as well for me if there’s a conference club who will take him on a season long loan. Yeovil might want him back, he’s just about good enough to be a fringe player…doesn’t really add much though.
Hallam will be going, as will Butroid.
I hope to god the recruitment is better than last time. There will be one hell of a rebuilding job to do come next season.
No more Turan’s and Jarvis’s please.
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Why don’t you ask if you can be involved in the next one WonderGoals? Stop hiding behind your avatar and ask Peter yourself.
Matt is free to get my mobile number if he asks for it and next time there’s a forum, I’ll ask a few choice questions.
That’s an open invitation to Matt if he wants it.
I’m not hiding anywhere.
I won’t suspect he’d like it but I’ll ” In the nicest way possible” I’ll make Swann feel the most uncomfortable he’d have felt in a long time.
I won’t take politician speak either, I’ll ask the question until I’m satisfied with the answer or he flatly refuses to a point he doesn’t want to go any further.
Either way, I’ll give it a damn good go.
My number is here Matt if you want it. I’ll gladly pass it on to you.
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Regarding the questioning, do you think it possible that, prior to broadcast, the boys went through the questions they had ready and Mr Swann selected the questions they could ask and to which he could give a vague non-answer?
That’s what I was thinking but I’m back to what I said before, if that is indeed the case and you can’t ask the questions that really need answering….what is the real point of it ?
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No excuse whatsoever to not play
O’Malley Taft Onariase/Mcgahey Clarke
Eisa Beestin Karcan Gillead
Loft and Green
Look, loft and Green are hardly ideal but why would anybody with even half a braincell throw everything else out the window just because Green is up there with Loft instead of a proper established striker ?
We do have quality here, especially Gillead and Eisa out wide but they’re being played in such a way that they’re completely stifled.
O’Malley is a quality attacking LB, he even ended up getting dropped for Brown. I don’t know what’s going off down at GP but it’s nonsensical whatever it is.
Why the hell doesn’t Cox just think to himself that his way clearly isn’t working and just go 4/4/2 with 2 upfront ?
It can’t be that hard to come to that conclusion, surely ?
Get Dales back involved far another option on the right hand side and least try and win games of football.
Cox was getting somewhere with 4/4/2 but understandably changed it when Mcgahey, Onariase, Brown and Van Veen were injured but least we have better defenders available again.
If anybody reads this from the club….please get on your hands and knees and tell Cox to show even an ounce of positivity and field a proper side with the intention of actually winning the game.
not sure why people are getting worked up about the questions asked.
I wouldn’t say more worked up, more disappointed. If you’re not sure why people were disappointed at the questions asked, then I give up.
It’s almost like Matt and co were shit scared to ask anything too challenging. All that get’s me is, Matt has a lot to say on twitter venting his disappointment like the rest of us and then has him on a live forum and his arse virtually drops out.
I bet they’re told by Swann or have an inkling if they push him even a little bit by asking questions then it will be the end of it, which begs the question if that’s the case “which is appears to be”…..what’s the point in it all if you feel you’re unable to ask the questions which needs answering ?
I mean if you’re too scared to ask the questions that need answering, not sure what purpose it serves.
People went out their way to send questions in, some of which were fantastic but again, if you daren’t ask the questions in case Swann throws a massive tantrum…is it worth peoples time ?
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If they completely ripped Swann apart for 2 hours we probably wouldn’t hear from him again
Look, I appreciate all Matt does, he does a sterling job. I’ve already said so. Nobody wanted them to rip into him for 2 hours but he could have been given a much tougher examination.
I wouldn’t want anybody to have a a verbal battle with him, all I wanted was tough questions to be asked.
There were some sterling pressing questions sent in…one’s people really need answering but nothing really got put to him.
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Complete and utter waste of time.
Blamed covid for nearly everything and used politician speel to explain the few more difficult questions he got put to him…resulting in him speaking a lot but not really saying anything.
I wanted Turan and Jarvis records read out to him and asked why if the records were so bad, why did we choose sign them on 2 yr contracts ?
Those are the kind of questions I want answering. I want to know who makes up this so called transfer committee and whether it’s going to be scrapped, now that another raft of poor players have been signed.
That needs asking.
Mr Swann got very, very easy ride there.
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The hosts don’t help matters. I appreciate all the hard work Matt puts in with this site and the twitter page but he and the others could have made it a bit more challenging for him.
Some of those questions sent in were cracking….non got asked though. Time is an issue but even still, ask a few of the difficult one’s.
That’s the last one I’m wasting my time listening to.
Damp squib.
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I’ve noticed the hosts didn’t even ask one of those hard questions which were sent in. All very nicey, nicey.
If even some of the hard questions don’t get put to him, why do we even get asked to sent them in, in the first place ?
All a waste of time.
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