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Post by arry11 on Sept 1, 2024 22:22:55 GMT 1
I have seen some crap played from every promotion side we have had and this league can be tough. what 3 crap preformances on the trot now ? and yesterday was shocking even before ward got stupidly sent off. I am not even talking about the preformance i am talking about grit i am talking about determination to not get beat. I saw very little of this yesterday , we were slack and very slack at that and even at the end Rotherham's winner was so slack it was not even funny to watch. This group will not get us where we want to be, they are not going to do the right things enough to get enough points and in quite a lot of the tough games they will get beat. Unless teams are utter garbage or miss chances we can't get the job done it seems. we have played "well" thus far for what 30 minutes against peterbrough , the rest has being utter dross. I agree it was a shambles but lets not forget the dodgy ref giving them a penalty for sod all who knows what the result may have been if that had gone the right way.
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Post by bells ringing :) on Sept 1, 2024 22:35:29 GMT 1
what 3 crap preformances on the trot now ? and yesterday was shocking even before ward got stupidly sent off. I am not even talking about the preformance i am talking about grit i am talking about determination to not get beat. I saw very little of this yesterday , we were slack and very slack at that and even at the end Rotherham's winner was so slack it was not even funny to watch. This group will not get us where we want to be, they are not going to do the right things enough to get enough points and in quite a lot of the tough games they will get beat. Unless teams are utter garbage or miss chances we can't get the job done it seems. we have played "well" thus far for what 30 minutes against peterbrough , the rest has being utter dross. I agree it was a shambles but lets not forget the dodgy ref giving them a penalty for sod all who knows what the result may have been if that had gone the right way. we gave the ref the perfect chance to make the deicison mate, through our shit play. we were slack from the kick off , as we were slack all game. The second goal was slack as from our supposed experienced pros. I have seen 30 minutes of decent preformance this season thus far, the rest has bin lets see if we can get away with doing as little as possible. We could easily have dropped points in both home games thus far and were shocking shit on tuesday and that carried onto yesterday. The mentaility is all wrong and it wont change , the players are happy with this like they were last season, if anything i expect a lot more defeats to start coming . Teams will have seen yesterday that if you get at town , its the same old town. We looked for excuses after the game in terms of the ref, but it does not exucse the fact we lost the fight and rotherham were far mroe dangrous than we were and we allowed rotherham to do what they wanted to do .
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Post by arry11 on Sept 1, 2024 22:48:39 GMT 1
I agree it was a shambles but lets not forget the dodgy ref giving them a penalty for sod all who knows what the result may have been if that had gone the right way. we gave the ref the perfect chance to make the deicison mate, through our shit play. we were slack from the kick off , as we were slack all game. The second goal was slack as from our supposed experienced pros. I have seen 30 minutes of decent preformance this season thus far, the rest has bin lets see if we can get away with doing as little as possible. We could easily have dropped points in both home games thus far and were shocking shit on tuesday and that carried onto yesterday. The mentaility is all wrong and it wont change , the players are happy with this like they were last season, if anything i expect a lot more defeats to start coming . Teams will have seen yesterday that if you get at town , its the same old town. We looked for excuses after the game in terms of the ref, but it does not exucse the fact we lost the fight and rotherham were far mroe dangrous than we were and we allowed rotherham to do what they wanted to do . Bloody hell we have only just played 4 league games and won three and goals been scored from open play instead of set plays let the team settle down.
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Post by bells ringing :) on Sept 1, 2024 22:51:28 GMT 1
we gave the ref the perfect chance to make the deicison mate, through our shit play. we were slack from the kick off , as we were slack all game. The second goal was slack as from our supposed experienced pros. I have seen 30 minutes of decent preformance this season thus far, the rest has bin lets see if we can get away with doing as little as possible. We could easily have dropped points in both home games thus far and were shocking shit on tuesday and that carried onto yesterday. The mentaility is all wrong and it wont change , the players are happy with this like they were last season, if anything i expect a lot more defeats to start coming . Teams will have seen yesterday that if you get at town , its the same old town. We looked for excuses after the game in terms of the ref, but it does not exucse the fact we lost the fight and rotherham were far mroe dangrous than we were and we allowed rotherham to do what they wanted to do . Bloody hell we have only just played 4 league games and won three and goals been scored from open play instead of set plays let the team settle down. If you cannot see the glaring issues/ holes , then thats cool . The issues/ holes will become very apparent and will cost us , if not addrssed asap .
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Post by Sparrow on Sept 1, 2024 23:13:19 GMT 1
7 players brought in is certainly not trying to do it cheap as chips. The 2 lads coming in on free transfers will both have got decent signing on fees and as established players at this level will be on decent wages We signed 2 for decent league 1 transfer fees in Sorensen and Evan, plus signing on fees, plus both on good league 1 wages We will have had to pay loan fees for the 3 lads we’ve signed on loan. The 2 from Wolves have both been out on loan before so won’t have been cheap. And I don’t think Marshal will either. All 3 will be on decent wages which we’ll be paying a good chunk of. Plus you can add Agents fees to all 7 of those. When you tot it all up, we’ll have invested/spent a decent amount of money for a club that’s just been relegated from the championship and thus had its budgets massively slashed. Who are the players here that should have gone - that other clubs would have wanted. The only bit i agree on is Hogg. We should have got a replacement for him, no way should he be starting matches the overall point i am making, is we have not done enough to change the losers mentaility of the squad. Yesterday proved it , in a difficult game we got buillied and domanited . We yet again are far too easy to play against, most of thie squad are used to losing and it needed a wholsale change and it didn't get it. the squad needed an enema and it didn't get it . So i’ll ask again, who would you have wanted us to sell that we haven’t, that other clubs would be willing to buy? You’re seeming to suggest selling literally the entire squad from last season and replacing them all, that’s pretty much impossible. Consider this. Let’s look at the CB position. Playing 3 at the back we need 6 players in the squad who can effectively play CB. Someone will be first choice and someone will be 6th choice. Now say we sold Lees, Pearson, Turton & Ruffles. That would leave us with Helik, Balker and Spencer as CB options. We’d then have to sign 3 CB, they have to be better than the ones we’ve sold and as per your post, they have to be players used to winning. So you’re essentially trying to sign lads who’ve been first teamers, in teams that are winning, to come and compete with Helik, Balker & Spencer. That’s not easy to do. They are starters at the clubs they are at, but could end up on the bench or not even in the match day squad if they join us And who exactly is going to sign Ruffles who didn’t play last year and Turton who hardly played for 2 seasons. Or Tom Lees who will be 34 in November. So we might like to sell them, but who’s gonna buy them? We can’t buy replacements if we can’t sell them in the first place
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Post by arry11 on Sept 1, 2024 23:29:39 GMT 1
the overall point i am making, is we have not done enough to change the losers mentaility of the squad. Yesterday proved it , in a difficult game we got buillied and domanited . We yet again are far too easy to play against, most of thie squad are used to losing and it needed a wholsale change and it didn't get it. the squad needed an enema and it didn't get it . So i’ll ask again, who would you have wanted us to sell that we haven’t, that other clubs would be willing to buy? You’re seeming to suggest selling literally the entire squad from last season and replacing them all, that’s pretty much impossible. Consider this. Let’s look at the CB position. Playing 3 at the back we need 6 players in the squad who can effectively play CB. Someone will be first choice and someone will be 6th choice. Now say we sold Lees, Pearson, Turton & Ruffles. That would leave us with Helik, Balker and Spencer as CB options. We’d then have to sign 3 CB, they have to be better than the ones we’ve sold and as per your post, they have to be players used to winning. So you’re essentially trying to sign lads who’ve been first teamers, in teams that are winning, to come and compete with Helik, Balker & Spencer. That’s not easy to do. They are starters at the clubs they are at, but could end up on the bench or not even in the match day squad if they join us And who exactly is going to sign Ruffles who didn’t play last year and Turton who hardly played for 2 seasons. Or Tom Lees who will be 34 in November. So we might like to sell them, but who’s gonna buy them? We can’t buy replacements if we can’t sell them in the first place Take no notice of him just another one who as no idea how things work.
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Post by galpharm2400 on Sept 1, 2024 23:51:52 GMT 1
So i’ll ask again, who would you have wanted us to sell that we haven’t, that other clubs would be willing to buy? You’re seeming to suggest selling literally the entire squad from last season and replacing them all, that’s pretty much impossible. Consider this. Let’s look at the CB position. Playing 3 at the back we need 6 players in the squad who can effectively play CB. Someone will be first choice and someone will be 6th choice. Now say we sold Lees, Pearson, Turton & Ruffles. That would leave us with Helik, Balker and Spencer as CB options. We’d then have to sign 3 CB, they have to be better than the ones we’ve sold and as per your post, they have to be players used to winning. So you’re essentially trying to sign lads who’ve been first teamers, in teams that are winning, to come and compete with Helik, Balker & Spencer. That’s not easy to do. They are starters at the clubs they are at, but could end up on the bench or not even in the match day squad if they join us And who exactly is going to sign Ruffles who didn’t play last year and Turton who hardly played for 2 seasons. Or Tom Lees who will be 34 in November. So we might like to sell them, but who’s gonna buy them? We can’t buy replacements if we can’t sell them in the first place Take no notice of him just another one who as no idea how things work. The point is clearly we were on a loser due to us not being able to clear out those who were not really going to be any benefit to us even a division down. Unless we paid them off it was highly unlikely that anyone would take them on and those that went out on loan were again likely to still be costing us money to play for someone else. Birmingham shed 15 out of contract first team squad members... The 'enema' was going to cost a lot just to clear the decks. Its the reason we had 5 million in and significantly less out?? We didnt clear the decks and players on good contracts who should be on the bench as cover, are starting games. Perhaps we are in a consolidating season where the decks are finally cleared with the outside hope that we have just enough to get up, and next season whichever division we are in, is the new, new dawn?
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Post by stevehtfc on Sept 2, 2024 0:10:25 GMT 1
the overall point i am making, is we have not done enough to change the losers mentaility of the squad. Yesterday proved it , in a difficult game we got buillied and domanited . We yet again are far too easy to play against, most of thie squad are used to losing and it needed a wholsale change and it didn't get it. the squad needed an enema and it didn't get it . So i’ll ask again, who would you have wanted us to sell that we haven’t, that other clubs would be willing to buy? You’re seeming to suggest selling literally the entire squad from last season and replacing them all, that’s pretty much impossible. Consider this. Let’s look at the CB position. Playing 3 at the back we need 6 players in the squad who can effectively play CB. Someone will be first choice and someone will be 6th choice. Now say we sold Lees, Pearson, Turton & Ruffles. That would leave us with Helik, Balker and Spencer as CB options. We’d then have to sign 3 CB, they have to be better than the ones we’ve sold and as per your post, they have to be players used to winning. So you’re essentially trying to sign lads who’ve been first teamers, in teams that are winning, to come and compete with Helik, Balker & Spencer. That’s not easy to do. They are starters at the clubs they are at, but could end up on the bench or not even in the match day squad if they join us And who exactly is going to sign Ruffles who didn’t play last year and Turton who hardly played for 2 seasons. Or Tom Lees who will be 34 in November. So we might like to sell them, but who’s gonna buy them? We can’t buy replacements if we can’t sell them in the first place And we sell all our prospects 🤦🏼♂️ Ayina be next to see the door
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Post by richhtfc on Sept 2, 2024 7:31:08 GMT 1
Take no notice of him just another one who as no idea how things work. The point is clearly we were on a loser due to us not being able to clear out those who were not really going to be any benefit to us even a division down. Unless we paid them off it was highly unlikely that anyone would take them on and those that went out on loan were again likely to still be costing us money to play for someone else. Birmingham shed 15 out of contract first team squad members... The 'enema' was going to cost a lot just to clear the decks. Its the reason we had 5 million in and significantly less out?? We didnt clear the decks and players on good contracts who should be on the bench as cover, are starting games. Perhaps we are in a consolidating season where the decks are finally cleared with the outside hope that we have just enough to get up, and next season whichever division we are in, is the new, new dawn? Can’t help feeling like the stadium ownership is key, if I was Nagle I’d be conservative splashing the cash until I was sure there was a route to offsetting costs in a sustainable way. The three way ownership has been a millstone around the neck of the club for years.
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Post by Big Ern on Sept 2, 2024 8:13:50 GMT 1
The midfield was the problem on Saturday. No issues with Koroma who I felt played well, none particularly with the defenders and although Sorensen had a poor game he generally plays well.
The issue is Hogg, Evans and Wiles. A very very poor midfield at the moment leading to us being cut open with ease. Passing terrible also.
We were crying out for Kane.
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Post by drumriggend on Sept 2, 2024 8:56:08 GMT 1
The midfield was the problem on Saturday. No issues with Koroma who I felt played well, one particularly with the defenders and although Sorensen had a poor game he generally plays well. The issue is Hogg, Evans and Wiles. A very very poor midfield at the moment leading to us being cut open with ease. Passing terrible also. We were crying out for Kane. It’s amazing how every player who is out injured becomes a world beater.. Kane and kasumu are greatly missed.. Until we see them play again.. 🥴🥴
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Post by Big Ern on Sept 2, 2024 9:07:38 GMT 1
The midfield was the problem on Saturday. No issues with Koroma who I felt played well, one particularly with the defenders and although Sorensen had a poor game he generally plays well. The issue is Hogg, Evans and Wiles. A very very poor midfield at the moment leading to us being cut open with ease. Passing terrible also. We were crying out for Kane. It’s amazing how every player who is out injured becomes a world beater.. Kane and kasumu are greatly missed.. Until we see them play again.. 🥴🥴 To be fair to Kane he has hardly played and when he has he has played well. He also knows how to pass a football.
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Post by galpharm2400 on Sept 2, 2024 9:18:19 GMT 1
It’s amazing how every player who is out injured becomes a world beater.. Kane and kasumu are greatly missed.. Until we see them play again.. 🥴🥴 To be fair to Kane he has hardly played and when he has he has played well. He also knows how to pass a football. They had a midfield that got forward and got back, they supported the forward ball and they got back and weighed in with the defending. They simply worked harder than our much vaunted 'quality midfielders'. The times you heard Wiles or Evans mentioned tells the story, again..
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Post by drumriggend on Sept 2, 2024 9:40:44 GMT 1
To be fair to Kane he has hardly played and when he has he has played well. He also knows how to pass a football. They had a midfield that got forward and got back, they supported the forward ball and they got back and weighed in with the defending. They simply worked harder than our much vaunted 'quality midfielders'. The times you heard Wiles or Evans mentioned tells the story, again.. I honestly didn’t know Evan’s was playing for the 1st 25 minutes.. Never in the game at all.. 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
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Post by ram on Sept 2, 2024 9:45:19 GMT 1
Regarding transfer policy,Nagle seems to take anything Cartwright tells him as gospel! I suppose now we will cheerfully wait till January,and then join the Luton/Taylor roundabout. {Only to be buggered about again}
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Post by galpharm2400 on Sept 2, 2024 9:56:27 GMT 1
They had a midfield that got forward and got back, they supported the forward ball and they got back and weighed in with the defending. They simply worked harder than our much vaunted 'quality midfielders'. The times you heard Wiles or Evans mentioned tells the story, again.. I honestly didn’t know Evan’s was playing for the 1st 25 minutes.. Never in the game at all.. 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ Difference between Peterborough and the games since, bar Morecambe, Workrate forward and back. Same team, same tactical approach more than likely, simply less support of the ball and covering the ground when defending. Oddly we more than not get the numbers back but then fail to press the ball quick enough near our goal, maybe just getting back is 'doing enough'. I know I use that phrase often but it is the perception I have of large parts of the matches from some of the Town team. The Danny Ward 'challenge' and the second goal are more evidence of this added to the late penalty for Stevenage, the 20 minute shocker against Shrewsbury and the walsall debacle. If it continues we might not lose by many but if the other team outwork us, we will lose.
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Post by Arbie 1976. on Sept 2, 2024 10:14:31 GMT 1
Saturday was a huge warning shot across the bows for me, alarm bells should be ringing big time. There yet again seems to be very little character when the going gets tough. After yesterday i would be shocked if we got promoted, there just isn't the IT factor there . When the going gets tough we fold, same as last year. The club did not act like they should in the summer and we are going to pay for it. A promotion winning team do not ever play like we did yesterday, the mentaility the character yet again is not there. O wait it is there if teams make it easy, if they don't we fold. I have seen some crap played from every promotion side we have had and this league can be tough. we are mentally weak and have been for years, for all Hogg has contributed to us over the years he is not a leader and organiser. Think he will not be able to link up the play and distribute quickly enough. Probably time for us to look for a change. This is not a Hogg bashing he's a good guy. UTT.
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Post by dm on Sept 2, 2024 10:19:25 GMT 1
7 players brought in is certainly not trying to do it cheap as chips. The 2 lads coming in on free transfers will both have got decent signing on fees and as established players at this level will be on decent wages We signed 2 for decent league 1 transfer fees in Sorensen and Evan, plus signing on fees, plus both on good league 1 wages We will have had to pay loan fees for the 3 lads we’ve signed on loan. The 2 from Wolves have both been out on loan before so won’t have been cheap. And I don’t think Marshal will either. All 3 will be on decent wages which we’ll be paying a good chunk of. Plus you can add Agents fees to all 7 of those. When you tot it all up, we’ll have invested/spent a decent amount of money for a club that’s just been relegated from the championship and thus had its budgets massively slashed. Who are the players here that should have gone - that other clubs would have wanted. The only bit i agree on is Hogg. We should have got a replacement for him, no way should he be starting matches the overall point i am making, is we have not done enough to change the losers mentaility of the squad. Yesterday proved it , in a difficult game we got buillied and domanited . We yet again are far too easy to play against, most of thie squad are used to losing and it needed a wholsale change and it didn't get it. the squad needed an enema and it didn't get it . I'd love to see Hogg's stats for wins vs losses. I'd bet the number of losses he's played in makes up at least two thirds of the games he's played. But so many won't let go.
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Post by theterrier42 on Sept 2, 2024 10:26:15 GMT 1
Any chance we go for a free agent striker then?
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Post by tepidterrier on Sept 2, 2024 10:54:13 GMT 1
Saturday was a huge warning shot across the bows for me, alarm bells should be ringing big time. There yet again seems to be very little character when the going gets tough. After yesterday i would be shocked if we got promoted, there just isn't the IT factor there . When the going gets tough we fold, same as last year. The club did not act like they should in the summer and we are going to pay for it. A promotion winning team do not ever play like we did yesterday, the mentaility the character yet again is not there. O wait it is there if teams make it easy, if they don't we fold. I have seen some crap played from every promotion side we have had and this league can be tough. Last time we got promoted from this league I think we were worse than the previous 2 seasons where we'd failed in the playoffs. Despite being unbeaten for a good part of the season it was such a flimsy team, they dined out on Rhodes' incredible 40 goal season. It's a long season and there's plenty of time to exorcise the demons we need rid of.
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Post by Jimuano on Sept 2, 2024 10:58:18 GMT 1
The midfield was the problem on Saturday. No issues with Koroma who I felt played well, one particularly with the defenders and although Sorensen had a poor game he generally plays well. The issue is Hogg, Evans and Wiles. A very very poor midfield at the moment leading to us being cut open with ease. Passing terrible also. We were crying out for Kane. It’s amazing how every player who is out injured becomes a world beater.. Kane and kasumu are greatly missed.. Until we see them play again.. 🥴🥴 This also applies to Kian Harratt. He wouldn't make one iota of positive difference to the first team (what with him being shit and all), but that doesn't stop some folks saying "why did we let a striker go?/Harratt would have done a job" Doesn't matter what position you play, if you're not good enough surely you shouldn't be here. Great decision letting him go.
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Post by Sparrow on Sept 2, 2024 11:08:31 GMT 1
Take no notice of him just another one who as no idea how things work. The point is clearly we were on a loser due to us not being able to clear out those who were not really going to be any benefit to us even a division down. Unless we paid them off it was highly unlikely that anyone would take them on and those that went out on loan were again likely to still be costing us money to play for someone else. Birmingham shed 15 out of contract first team squad members... The 'enema' was going to cost a lot just to clear the decks. Its the reason we had 5 million in and significantly less out?? We didnt clear the decks and players on good contracts who should be on the bench as cover, are starting games. Perhaps we are in a consolidating season where the decks are finally cleared with the outside hope that we have just enough to get up, and next season whichever division we are in, is the new, new dawn? Birmingham have actually let 18 players go that were part of their squad last season. Players that between them played 404 championship games (Average of 22 games per player). 7 of those 19 left at the end of their contracts, 2 who's loan ended, with a further 4 that have gone on loan. So they actually only sold 5 players. They've then gone and signed 22 players, spending the best part of £30m on Transfer fees and receiving a mere fraction of that. Their wage budget for the season has most probably significantly increased from last season. They have a 27 player first team squad. How many teams in the history of football have done something like that having being relegated from the Championship to League 1 (Div 2 - Div 3) Rotherham have got rid of 19 and signed 16. However, of those 19 they've got rid of, 13 left at the and of their contract, 1 was a loan that went back to his parent club and 2 have gone out on loan. So they lost 14 players at the end of their contact and actually only sold 3 players. Everyone they've signed is either a free transfer or loan signing. 26 players in their squad. We've got rid of 12 players who were part of the first team squad last season, that played a total of 244 Championship matches (average of 20 games per player). 2 players who left at the end of their contract, 3 players returning to their parent clubs and we sold 4 players that were part of the first team last season We've then signed 7 and have a squad of 26 players. We've actually sold 1 player less than Brum and of all the players that left, they played a very similar average number of games to the Brum players that left. Our main problem this summer was the number of players still under contract. Brum were able to let 9 players leave at the end of their contract/loan. Rotherham were able to allow 13 to leave at the end of their contract/loan. We let 5 players leave at the end of their contract/loan. Pearson we took the 1 year option and Hogg we offered a year to. Even if we'd allowed them to leave, it would still be a lot less than Brum or Rotherham. We've not been able to bring more in, simply because we've not been able to get more out. If 4 or 5 more players had been coming to the end of their contracts and we let them go, then we'd have let 16/17 players leave, a similar number to Brum and most probably brought in 11/12 players. Which would have been a pretty good overhaul of the squad. You can't get rid of player if no one wants them or they don't want to go. And you can't just pay someone off and then replace him with better. The costs of doing that are too prohibitive.
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Post by drumriggend on Sept 2, 2024 11:31:46 GMT 1
It’s amazing how every player who is out injured becomes a world beater.. Kane and kasumu are greatly missed.. Until we see them play again.. 🥴🥴 This also applies to Kian Harratt. He wouldn't make one iota of positive difference to the first team (what with him being shit and all), but that doesn't stop some folks saying "why did we let a striker go?/Harratt would have done a job" Doesn't matter what position you play, if you're not good enough surely you shouldn't be here. Great decision letting him go. It’ll be the same when hoggy gets injured/suspended.. People will be saying we miss his experience.. 🥴🥴
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Post by daltonterrier44 on Sept 2, 2024 11:43:11 GMT 1
Any chance we go for a free agent striker then? I doubt it, be interesting to hear the excuses why though!
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Post by Matt1908 on Sept 2, 2024 11:49:10 GMT 1
Any chance we go for a free agent striker then? I doubt it, be interesting to hear the excuses why though! Obviously nobody in the world (who is available) is better than Lord Ward... Duh
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Post by allan 1958 (OAF-WROY)(SSLFF) on Sept 2, 2024 12:25:05 GMT 1
7 players brought in is certainly not trying to do it cheap as chips. The 2 lads coming in on free transfers will both have got decent signing on fees and as established players at this level will be on decent wages We signed 2 for decent league 1 transfer fees in Sorensen and Evan, plus signing on fees, plus both on good league 1 wages We will have had to pay loan fees for the 3 lads we’ve signed on loan. The 2 from Wolves have both been out on loan before so won’t have been cheap. And I don’t think Marshal will either. All 3 will be on decent wages which we’ll be paying a good chunk of. Plus you can add Agents fees to all 7 of those. When you tot it all up, we’ll have invested/spent a decent amount of money for a club that’s just been relegated from the championship and thus had its budgets massively slashed. Who are the players here that should have gone - that other clubs would have wanted. The only bit i agree on is Hogg. We should have got a replacement for him, no way should he be starting matches the overall point i am making, is we have not done enough to change the losers mentaility of the squad. Yesterday proved it , in a difficult game we got buillied and domanited . We yet again are far too easy to play against, most of thie squad are used to losing and it needed a wholsale change and it didn't get it. the squad needed an enema and it didn't get it . Yesterday proved nothing! A foolish challenge a non penalty and taking the lead with 10 men
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Post by allan 1958 (OAF-WROY)(SSLFF) on Sept 2, 2024 12:26:29 GMT 1
Bloody hell we have only just played 4 league games and won three and goals been scored from open play instead of set plays let the team settle down. If you cannot see the glaring issues/ holes , then thats cool . The issues/ holes will become very apparent and will cost us , if not addrssed asap . That's cool but with out substance
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Post by galpharm2400 on Sept 2, 2024 12:43:57 GMT 1
If you cannot see the glaring issues/ holes , then thats cool . The issues/ holes will become very apparent and will cost us , if not addrssed asap . That's cool but with out substance The issues began against Peterborough, then magnified in the next two games, albeit wins. There was a backlash against anyone who pointed out the likely issues biting us on the arse sooner or later. Unfortunately it was sooner. I guess the overall reality of our situation began 2 seasons ago but we have had the opportunity to relieve some of the obvious issues this summer and look where we are...??🤔 We are still dealing with errors of the past but making more problems for ourselves as we go? My view is still that if the team work as hard as the opposition we still have just about enough to get reasonable results against most teams in this division but 'just enough' is a malady that has been with us for too long now.
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Post by BLUE&WHITE on Sept 2, 2024 14:14:26 GMT 1
The midfield was the problem on Saturday. No issues with Koroma who I felt played well, none particularly with the defenders and although Sorensen had a poor game he generally plays well. The issue is Hogg, Evans and Wiles. A very very poor midfield at the moment leading to us being cut open with ease. Passing terrible also. We were crying out for Kane. Kane does knit the midfield together but the big issue was the lack of ball playing ability for the defence and particularly Hogg. Midfield spent all game watching the ball ping past them, over them or trying to chase it down but if they did win it back they had been pulled all out of position (the positioning should get less as the team develops and gets used to knowing where their places are etc) Players like Evans dont become sh/t overnight, it's too easy for people to just say they aren't good enough rather than look at the issues.
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Post by oneneilwarnock on Sept 2, 2024 16:02:20 GMT 1
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