wiggy
Darryl's Love Child
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So you are saying we will finish bottom half then?[/QUO
With him in charge yes...only ever wants to win 1-0....no thanks!
So you are saying we will finish bottom half then?[/QUO
With him in charge yes...only ever wants to win 1-0....no thanks!
One penalty today and we would be 6th again. Close margins.
We could of had one yesterday and tomorrow and still missed .:smile:But we had a penalty today.
Don't know about the finish but we keep heading that way at the moment.
Deegan, Timlin and Clifford are essentially the same player. They do the same role. Deegan, a bit of a favourite because he gets stuck in, does not have a forward move in his head and is surplus to requirements. Leonard is the best player we have and is wasted out wide. Stick in him in the centre, give him the attacking role, build your midfield around him.
Atkinson, doesn't quite know what his role is and gets lost. Feel a bit sorry for him because he clearly can play.
Jam - Gives me no pleasure. can you see what I mean. we continue to be unconvincing in the final third. why I said realistically the other day when we were5th, we were in a slightly, very slightly false position. but we can be good enough to be there when we are more dominant, ruthless and clinical. Oh, and perhaps a lone forward if we can get one. Lee Barnard won't be able to cope with playing continuously I'm afraid. I know forwards are hard to come by and just hope that's the reason we've failed to get one thus far.
So, that was utterly ghastly.
Lets start with the bleeding obvious. We do not and cannot score goals. For an hour we were the best team by a mile, yet created one decent chance which sadly fell to John White. The problem isn't the poor sod who plays up front. It doesn't matter who it is, he is isolated, on his own, double marked and doesn't stand a chance. If we are to play 4-5-1, one of the central three HAS to act as an attacking midfielder. Today Deegan, Timlin and Atkinson showed no desire to get forward. On several occassions Corr was in the box on his own, and Williams was the most advanced player.
Deegan, Timlin and Clifford are essentially the same player. They do the same role. Deegan, a bit of a favourite because he gets stuck in, does not have a forward move in his head and is surplus to requirements. Leonard is the best player we have and is wasted out wide. Stick in him in the centre, give him the attacking role, build your midfield around him.
Atkinson, doesn't quite know what his role is and gets lost. Feel a bit sorry for him because he clearly can play.
Brown does not know what his best team is, and as a result chops and changes. The poor sod up front gets dropped after just one game, so there is little confidence even when they do find a chance. Worrell, who looks a quality act, is the one player who seems to struggle to get a start. Which is mad.
We do cannot finish teams off. Oxford and Exeter have all taken points from games where they came from behind where we should have been out of sight by half time. Newport were as bad as I've seen this season, scored with their only chance. Once they scored, we did not know what to do and simply rolled over. They could have had more. We didn't muster a serious attack again.
Things have to change. I don't call for managers heads, I understand we are League Two for a reason. Brown comes across as a proper football man and a likeable one too. However, he needs to get a blank piece of paper and start again. We have too many midfielders in the squad, he needs to be ruthless and let two go. Deegan and one other.... He needs to work out how to play 4-5-1 with the players he has, or bring in someone to play in the hole or AM on loan. If he can't, go 4-4-2. He needs to work out how to get Hurst playing like he did for the last two seasons. If he cannot do that, then maybe it is time for a change.
Agree with this LF, Deegan might appeal to a lot of supporters for his tenacious style, but both Clifford and Timlin have that in their lockers. Deegan doesn't pick a pass like Timlin does, or get forward like either of them do at times. He is surplus to requirements as I said on the Deegan contract thread the other day.
I understand that Timlin and Leonard are both coming back from injury, what about Clifford's inspired first month of the season? He's been rewarded by being benched!
Brown got it badly wrong yesterday, I don't mean with Payne not starting, but by starting Weston ahead of Barnard who had a really good game on Saturday. Why stick with playing a lone striker who, at times, is far too isolated? For goodness sake, let's have Barnard and Corr start together.
Is it just me .... or does this seem so reminiscient of the days when we had Harold, Hooper, McDonald and Paynter ....... :'(
Also agree with a lot of what Lord Football wrote.
I posted last week that the two big problems we have (other than the lack of an Assombalonga type) is the injury to Coker and the lack of form of Leonard. Attacking full backs are essential in the game today, and as John White isn't that type of player, having Coker in the side gives us an extra dimension. Williams has done OK but he isn't Ben.
Secondly, the poor form of Leonard means PB is having to play an extra holding player (at least, he feels he needs to), whereas an on-song Lennie can do both a defensive and attacking role.
On top of that we have a lot of other players not on their game right now, such as Prosser, Hurst and Weston, for whatever reason.
Against Bury I'd like to see Barney and Shaq playing together up top, with Worral and Hurst or Weston on the other wing, and Timlin and Leonard in centre-mid. Unfortunately this system means no place for Payne, but Barney can't beat defenders for pace and Shaq can't do hold-up play/dirty work, so you need to play both. PB obviously prefers the solidity of 3 in midfield but this then means you can only have one upfront.
It's a tricky problem with the players we currently have.
Frankly I don't need this type of abuse.