Mantom Signs

[LBBlue]

In 2015/16 Mantom played 47 times for Walsall scoring 9 goals as they reached the League 1 Play offs.

In 2016/17 he moved to Scunthorpe - Appeared 34 times -mainly from the subs bench -they also reached the play offs.

In 2017/18 he appeared 12 times for Scunthorpe before getting injured in October and ending up with us on loan.

A review of his time at Scunthorpe. I assume that his injuries have all caught up on him and slowed him down.

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/sam-mantom-never-quite-show-1711514

 

[Rob Noxious]

......incidentally, if selected this week, Hyam will be sporting one sock down, one over his knee, one short leg down, one up, and one shirt sleeve rolled up, one down.........he thinks he's good enough to do all these gimmicks, bit like Broughton in the early days of white boots!

Alan Ball left Everton in 1971.

 

[wildheart]

Alan Ball left Everton in 1971.

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Yea, Alan Hinton wore white boots, Peter Lorimer's were yellow and Georgie Best had red boots. Maybe Hyam would like to try Leeds sock ties that were numbered?
https://www.google.com/search?q=leeds+united+sock+numbers&rlz=1C1GCEA_enGB849GB849&sxsrf=ACYBGNRtK-Jj4ECU644rHurHONP2MDfRcQ:1569853885344&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=T90FBVSvFwIIdM%3A%2C5W7ppEJfeeI2dM%2C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kT_AbjAOBeLkC6jeya2aJ5LVtZM3g&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-m7254fjkAhXiVRUIHWrrDy0Q9QEwAHoECAgQBg#imgrc=v975-s3V8R177M:&vet=1

 

[Firestorm]

Or go for those Steve Perryman boots with the rotating plate with the studs on to enable quick turns

Mantom could do with a pair of Powerpoints then Milligan could shout out the best number to kick it with

 

[Leigh_Seasider]

In 2015/16 Mantom played 47 times for Walsall scoring 9 goals as they reached the League 1 Play offs.

In 2016/17 he moved to Scunthorpe - Appeared 34 times -mainly from the subs bench -they also reached the play offs.

In 2017/18 he appeared 12 times for Scunthorpe before getting injured in October and ending up with us on loan.

A review of his time at Scunthorpe. I assume that his injuries have all caught up on him and slowed him down.

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/sam-mantom-never-quite-show-1711514

I’m almost 100% sure there’s more to Mantom than we are seeing. Confidence shot to pieces? Too many injuries? Who knows but it just isn’t working for him at SUFC. He’s been woeful this season. Whatever we signed him to do, he ain’t doing it.

 

[RobM]

Just read the first 35 posts on this thread...

 

[Special Blue]

Alan Ball left Everton in 1971.

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Alan Ball was a quality player,anyone who plays in boots other than black and not good enough deserves to be kicked up in the air!

 

[Rayleigh boy]

cannot be expected to play in a 2 man midfield while managers saddle him with Cox, Kelman, Hutchinson etc

against a 4 or 5 man midfield playing Mantom plus one other is a disaster -

Mantom, Dru, Dieng was OK - plus

he might be fine with Dieng and Hyam and Demetriou (Milligan can't hack it) -

 

[Tombstone Blues]

cannot be expected to play in a 2 man midfield while managers saddle him with Cox, Kelman, Hutchinson etc

against a 4 or 5 man midfield playing Mantom plus one other is a disaster -

Mantom, Dru, Dieng was OK - plus

he might be fine with Dieng and Hyam and Demetriou (Milligan can't hack it) -

That post has absolutely no substantiation whatsoever.....

 

[Rayleigh boy]

That post has absolutely no substantiation whatsoever.....

yes it absolutely has ...

 

[Tombstone Blues]

At no point at all has Mantom been ‘saddled’ with Cox, Kelman or Hutchinson. He has certainly not been played in a two man midfield with any of them ever!

A two man midfield whether it be Mantom and one other or any combination of any two, will always struggle against 4 or 5 man midfield. Mantom being one of them is irrelevant. It will always be a disaster whenever you are outnumbered or out worked by opposition players.

Mantom, Dieng and Dru was not ok....it was moaned about as a combination that didn’t work for an entire season while we scrapped against relegation, by just about anybody and everybody that watched any of the games....

Suddenly after three months out with mysterious calf injuries Dieng has become a name of a player who can turn our season round??

Id reconsider that one before he starts playing again if I were you.....

Demi who has looked nothing short of “way off it” and typically off the pace for a player returning from injury has become a must pick in midfield? Based on what? When Powell picked him there last season there was uproar!!!

Not to mention how does a midfield of Dieng, Mantom, Hyam and Demetriou solve or problem in midfield???

 

[Rayleigh boy]

whatever you say we have been starting with 4 attackers and 2 midfielders all season -

check the team selections -

saturday at Roots Hall it was Miligan and Hamilton with Cox and Macca -

thats the problem

clear as day

in this league you have to win the midfield -

loads of teams play 5 man midfield and one up front -

we play a 2 man midfield with a wide man (Macca) and a striker Cox (dropping in) and get smashed very week -

not rocket science -

sorry if you want to have a a long "hes crap" moan at a player (you are not alone in that)
but its the managers that have been a bit stoooopid ....

in my humble opinion .

 

[Tombstone Blues]

That’s not how we started Saturday at all!!

The midfield was Milligan and Hamilton Central with Kelman and Macca wide AND had Cx dropping in! That’s a five man midfield in defensive situations straight away.

No team in the league will play 5 or even 4 central midfield players all detailed to win the ball or defend. The most you’ll see is three man central midfields with both wide players then being forwards / attacking players with a centre forward.......more likely would be one of the three central midfielders having licence to attack too.

I said it before, 4 attack minded players is not unusual and certainly not too many for any formation you come up with.....in fact any less and you’ll have problems.

Our problem is the fact none of our central players can play forwards, pass forwards or run forwards with any real effect....Cox being in there as a ‘10’ makes sense until you see how he’s playing at the moment!!!

Prime example Saturday when Hamilton played into him in midfield there was no one around him and definitely no one goal side of him and he turned back towards his own goal and played backwards.....this came about because he has no confidence in himself to attack with any speed due to his form and his fitness......

You have to have a trade off.....you want someone to breaklines and create? Then you have to have players around him that can cover balance and break up.....