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One of the (many) questions this all raises is why did we have to wait until the end of the window? I know a lot of clubs wait until the deadline but at the same time most of our signings are rejects & released players, could they not have come sooner? Like you say, they’re going to take a while to get up to speed and “a while” is something we don’t have!
It might have had something to do with having to get rid of some ‘players’ first. It can’t have been easy.
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Why did we have to have 4 years of rapid decline before employing a manager that knows what he is doing and letting him get on with it?
Too little, too late?
We will see.
I remain to be convinced by Hill. He certainly talks a good game and has a decent track record but his scattergun approach to selection & poor results so far are not very encouraging. Here’s hoping he begins to change that on Saturday.
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Scattergun approach..are you surprised considering what he had to pick from ?
Why’s Beestin barely had a look in? Why did Wood not get a game until last week when suddenly he’s first choice? Why did we switch to a back 3 for a couple of games and then ditch it? Where did Millen disappear to for a couple of weeks? What’s happened to Jarvis (not even on the bench despite having no other strikers available)?
Plenty of other examples. I get that in the early stages he’d want to have a good look at everyone but it’s still happening now and whilst I understand that the players available aren’t that great, you’d think that he would have some idea of his best (or least crap) side by now?
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Beestin not fit and still struggling, Millen is like warm at best and certainly won’t replace the lad from Wolves unless injury or fatigue play a part ( like a couple of games back ) Jarvis been injured or late I believe and probably not fit though to start, Wood is a mystery but he’s the only exclusion I would have questioned. Think Hill has mixed and matched at times but with lack of quality, fitness, fatigue in younger players and injuries he’s probably been pulling his hair out TBF. Time to see what he’s made of now that he has players of his choice in the squad and has a better choice of options in different areas of the pitch. I just hope it doesn’t take the new players too long to gell with what we have left after the window.
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I think this is a bit harsh on Hill. I’m pretty sure he knows the team and formation he’d like to play but if, say on Thursday, 3 players test positive for Covid he’s b*******. Some selections have been strange certainly but don’t forget KDT made the squad one week, doesn’t that suggest no alternative. It’s complicated by the fact that the club stated that Covid infected players would not be named which could explain “unexplained” absences.
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Bring back Cox! We need the players unfit and incapable of anything but defending the 18 yard box! :-)
Good idea, he does have a better PPG ratio than Mr. Hill after all.
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Maybe, but he was useless. :-)
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Could not understand two substitution Sinclair who looked like the only player to cause Oldhams defence problems and Nuttall the best of the front two
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Is seven straight defeats a club record?
Replicates the Brian Laws era run of defeats, I believe it was in 1997 in his first spell. Things will change round but probably not enough in time for this season. Such is life
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Could not understand two substitution Sinclair who looked like the only player to cause Oldhams defence problems and Nuttall the best of the front two
Agree about Sinclair, the only thing I saw Nuttall do was miss a sitter. Pyke much the better for me.
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Thought Nutall held it up pretty well and showed good strength first half, fitness went second half and was deservedly subbed. We all see players different, I thought Grant looked good particularly first half my mate in the opposite stand thought he was poor. I thought Millen was shite, passed it poorly, took a stupid quick free kick which was way too long and went to nobody but their keeper, my mate thought he did ok. I thought Beestin was still not fully fit and was booked as a result because he couldn’t catch their lad in midfield who was breaking through so fouled him, my mate thought he was our best player. We all see players in a different light plus the opposite stand see things we in the east stand don’t and visa versa. Either way we both agreed that we were shite second half and Oldham deservedly won with their second half performance plus their fans were outstanding for the whole game. Well done Oldham fans you backed your team from start to finish brilliantly but your still going down because like us your team isn’t good enough for league two.
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A barometer of how things are when even Bucks has gone from trying to defend the indefensible to admitting he got it wrong and finally, not posting at all. Bloody bollocks.
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No, that honour still rests with Lawsy, 8 straight league defeats in 1997/8 and we finished 1 point off the play offs! Abandon hope all ye who enter here…
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Lol, don’t tell BPG Pyke!
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