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Said it enough times, thick as mince. No plan B and my god Beestin out wide- when will that ever work. Beestin isn’t worth a place in the squad. Torpey had it right on Humberside – bringing off Elliot and leaving Wilson and Beestin on the pitch was just bizarre.
When we need a plan B he just hasn’t got a clue. We looked aimless and leaderless in front of a bumper crowd
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Why did the club agree to play the match when your main 14 goal striker is just coming back from suspension?
Then to not start with Whitehall was absolute madness.
Wilson was merely pushed around all second half and Beestin was heavy legged and completely lost.
Siembe Ferris would have been a better starting option as he kept getting behind the Tamworth defence, with more time in the game that may have paid off.
Taking Elliot off was another baffling decision. I also agree that our style needs twerking as the midfield lacks bite.
Moving to 3 up front away at Farsley with Whitehall, Elliot and Roberts up top was a massive positive.
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The problem is, our ‘play’ is all in front of the opposition… easy to negate.
We don’t have anyone who gets down the sides or behind.
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I thought Torps was being over optimistic about the remainder of the season at the end. Didn’t sound like he believed himself. I didn’t. Expecting us to win both games in hand and Tamworth to drop 6 is a tall ask. Though you never know.
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Dean was brought in to fail and I suspect that was Hiltons plan this year coupled with unaffordable wages. More failure, greatly increased debt – then club gone.
Tom Pugh was fully fit and in form, brings him back, gives him a start then on the bench !! Dion Sembie-Ferris fully fit and in form, brings him back because we need a winger and he puts him on the bench !! Just do not get a semblance of a plan.
Alfie Beestin got covid and sadly seems to have suffered long term, inconsistent at best is the feeling from others comments. Cam Wilson – don’t know what has happened to him, in both academy and the U23’s he was full of flair, frightened of no defenders no matter how big they were.
Sounds as though the plan was ‘Don’t lose’ which if so is so negative. This team should be top, play-offs are not a good plan.
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That said, sacking JD when you’re second in the table is probably a little extreme, would be seen by most football pundits as a knee-jerk reaction, and would likely be out-of-character for the new board. We have to remember, Tamworth are on an incredible run of results and are top because they are winning every match they are playing.
Aye, it would bring back memories of Swann and Alexander. ‘Doing a Scunny’ would become a byword for clubs in promotion slots who sack their manager.
Most teams have a bad spell during the season. If we can get over ours and have a storming finish with a day out at Wembley, we’ll be in the dreamland of er… the NL before you can say ‘Tommy Orpington’.
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I watched the Boston v Tamworth game last week which was 0-0, if either team had scored they would win, but neither of them did. Utter dross like most of the games in this league.
Last nights game for us it was like watching the same game as that Boston match, except Whitehall panicked, smashed the ball out for a corner and we conceded from a Sunday league level goalmouth scramble, this is the level of football we are at.
Formations, players, Beestin, Wilson, Clunan, or Pugh, Shrimpton or DSF it doesn’t matter we’d see the same game, get the same poor officials.
Until we’re on a financially solid footing everything else is just like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Who would we replace Dean with and who would pay for it, bearing in mind we are still digging ourselves out of a very deep hole ?4 users thanked author for this post.
Biggest crowd of the season with over 5000 Scunny fans in the ground and we play like that. The Tamworth fans singing ” 1-0 on your big day out ” was spot on, we were shite and they knew it. When he subbed Elliot ( stupid decision IMO ) for Kelly, JD was going for the ” hang on for a point routine” which just invites more pressure, saying that we flattered to deceive on a couple of breakaways that nearly paid off but in truth the tactics were poor last night and JD should know that. Sembie-Ferris to start on Saturday with Beestin on the bench, if not expect the same dross and possibly a gruelling 1-0 win, which I think Jimmy would take at this very moment. He’s under pressure but it’s entirely of his own making with tactics like last night
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The pressure is off now, we’re probably not expected to catch them, we won’t drop out the playoffs so let’s take the handbrake off and go for it.
The midfield three hasn’t worked for some time now, Scales doesn’t seem to be involved half as much now. How many times last night the three of them were in the same 5 yard square when we did get the ball we’re playing two yard passes and getting pressed by 3 or 4 players. When we get the ball down and try and play, there is one pass available, no one shows for the ball, and when they get it they have their back to goal and play the ball back to where it came from
Last night should’ve seen Whitehall up top, Elliot and DSF either side. Pace would’ve hurt them last night2 users thanked author for this post.
I don’t like Dean and don’t rate him as a manager but we don’t have any choice but to stick with him, there’s no way the club can be paying off a manager in the current financial position.
As for the selections, they said on Humberside that it was touch & go whether Sembie-Ferris would be available tonight, so on that basis it makes sense to start with him on the bench, so you prepare the team without him.
Whitehall’s exclusion really surprised me but he has just become a dad, plus he’s been out for several weeks, was he really in the right mental & physical condition to start?The one that really gets me is why Boyce has been dropped when, for my money, he’s been the stand-out defender this season.
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At this level, formations are pretty irrelevant.
It’s 11 v 11 on a fixed size pitch.
It’s a game of running.
Running to get back and behind your opponent when they’ve got the ball.
Running forward in support, on overlaps, in to space and getting beyond your opponent when we’ve got the ball.
If you don’t run and don’t work hard enough – then you’ll be inviting pressure on to you and not creating any outlets.
You’ve got to run further & faster than your opponent, win more challenges, win more headers, have more shots, make more successful passes.
It ain’t rocket science.Mentally, our players are shot now.
Jimbob doesn’t have the technical & tactical knowledge to get the best out of them on the pitch – and he certainly isn’t qualified as a psychologist to sort their heads out and transform them in to SpartansHow things are shaping up, the play off game/s will be a David v Goliath event… we know how that ended.
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That said, sacking JD when you’re second in the table is probably a little extreme, would be seen by most football pundits as a knee-jerk reaction, and would likely be out-of-character for the new board. We have to remember, Tamworth are on an incredible run of results and are top because they are winning every match they are playing.
Aye, it would bring back memories of Swann and Alexander. ‘Doing a Scunny’ would become a byword for clubs in promotion slots who sack their manager.
Most teams have a bad spell during the season. If we can get over ours and have a storming finish with a day out at Wembley, we’ll be in the dreamland of er… the NL before you can say ‘Tommy Orpington’.
Didn’t we have that tag already when Alexander, Dawson/Daws and McCall were sacked in quick succession?
You could be right, and it’s probably contributed to the freefall of the last few years. Talk of getting to the final and our own ‘Wembley’ might be optimistic, but getting rid of Dean at this stage would be even more folly. Who would want to take over a club that sacks its manager when second?
Here’s the run in, with venues.https://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/key-dates-confirmed-ahead-of-202324-season-76562
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