EastStandBlue
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Being at Uni, my only Southend outing since September was Forest away which wasn't a particularly good performance aside from Leon's red card, but my obersvations today were:
No creativity
Without Bailey/Gower, we really are incredibly uncreative. Black gets dragged in too central, Maher has lost something of his game and Morgan is, well, naff. We were left with Charlie and Leon creating their own oppurtnities which, quite frankly, they failed at today.
Maher
Poor. Gave the ball away an awful lot with misplaced passes and was caught in possesion on more than one occasion. Perhaps he knows that he's second fiddle to a preferred midfield partnership of Macca and Bailey, but on todays offering he's done nothing to overt that theory.
Fragility
Today we looked incredibly fragile at the back. No idea if this is a continuing problem, but every attack in the first half Oldham looked like scoring despite being distinctly ordinary going forward.
Wings
No point playing wide players today. Black continually got dragged inside, especially after Macca's sending off, and Morgan was about as useful as a chocolate teapot. Was pushed off the ball too easy and when he produced a product it was poor... No better than JCR and a poor mans Wayne Gray, if we pay good money for him in January i'd be disappointed on todays offering.
Some good points:-
Charlie Mac
Puts it about and engineers himself space up top. with Bailey i feel him and Leon can be a very productive partnership.
thats about it i'm afraid. In a game spoiled by a needlessly pedantic ref we didnt do an awful lot wrong, but we certainly didnt do an awful lot right.
No creativity
Without Bailey/Gower, we really are incredibly uncreative. Black gets dragged in too central, Maher has lost something of his game and Morgan is, well, naff. We were left with Charlie and Leon creating their own oppurtnities which, quite frankly, they failed at today.
Maher
Poor. Gave the ball away an awful lot with misplaced passes and was caught in possesion on more than one occasion. Perhaps he knows that he's second fiddle to a preferred midfield partnership of Macca and Bailey, but on todays offering he's done nothing to overt that theory.
Fragility
Today we looked incredibly fragile at the back. No idea if this is a continuing problem, but every attack in the first half Oldham looked like scoring despite being distinctly ordinary going forward.
Wings
No point playing wide players today. Black continually got dragged inside, especially after Macca's sending off, and Morgan was about as useful as a chocolate teapot. Was pushed off the ball too easy and when he produced a product it was poor... No better than JCR and a poor mans Wayne Gray, if we pay good money for him in January i'd be disappointed on todays offering.
Some good points:-
Charlie Mac
Puts it about and engineers himself space up top. with Bailey i feel him and Leon can be a very productive partnership.
thats about it i'm afraid. In a game spoiled by a needlessly pedantic ref we didnt do an awful lot wrong, but we certainly didnt do an awful lot right.