If we were waiting for an answer on Friday and the player/agent still hasn’t decided then I’d make up their mind for them.
Has Saturdays performance changed our thinking about what we need?
“Beestin, Green and Rowe would never have got a chance,we certainly wouldn’t have found out that Taylor and Beestin are our best CM’s.”
The fans wouldn’t WG, that’s true. But the managers and coaches should be able to spot that during the bits we don’t see. Makes you wonder if, for some reason, the best players are not necessarily picked?
” Don’t know why these players don’t understand that playing well and showing you are a good player is the route to get a good move.”
Absolutely right Heath, McAtee came to the attention of bigger clubs by showing ability and committment. Being a mardy-arsed part timer will only take him in one direction, shouldn’t take a managerial genius to get that message across.
Here’s what I learned, admittedly based on a small sample.
1. Rowe is a better defender than Hornshaw.
2. Beestin is better than Vincent, and he’s our player.
3. Onariase is a top signing and more captain material then Gillead.
4. We need Brown fit asap.
5. Hippolyte should never be selected before a fit Eisa and probably not in front of Dales or Green.
6. Jarvis is not a ‘natural’ finisher.
7. We need McAtee match fit and interested.
Barton you’re a hard man to please. A player scores the goal that gives you 5 extra points in the PL and all you can say about him is:-
“ROWE–4–Did not really notice him playing, just went missing throughout.”
Yellow card for you!!
5 more and Russ out with covid.
That team we are putting out is really bare bones.
Watson, Cordner, Bedeau, Gillead & Eisa presumably the ones.
It’s going to be a rough afternoon.
Could be those but we only had 5 subs. Where were Olomola, Brown, Butroid & Dales?
Hope everyone is happy now. Will he be a Swanny or Cox appointment,I guess time will tell.
Bit of a clue here, let’s hope ‘it’s the future Jerry’:-
“First team manager Neil Cox added: “Mark’s an experienced goalkeeper that we’ve tried to get a couple of times when I’ve been at other clubs”
I’m delighted and WG will be over the moon that his advice is being heeded.
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” Well done to Iron goalkeeper Rory Watson on his inclusion in the EFL’s Sky Bet League Two team of midweek. #UTI #IRON”
Just a theoretical question. Do property developers/racehorse owners automatically know anything about football?
Interesting that PS has advisors when buying horses and allows a qualified trainer to train them and a qualified jockey to ride them. He is successful using this system, would it work with football?
“their back three was splitting and causing our front two massive problems”
I don’t quite undestand this. Firstly shouldn’t it be our front two causing their back three problems? Secondly if their back three are ‘splitting’ shouldn’t that create space for our front two to exploit? If a teams CBs are causing us problems then we really are in trouble.
“Cassidy, in this case we have no choice”
I’m not disputing that WG,as you say, it’s our only option. What I’m advocating is being careful in our choice. For instance you suggest:-
“Calum Woods at RB. Woods played 12 games last season in lg 1 with two assists so he must still have something to offer.”
Now I don’t know why he only played 12 games but could he be another Clarke?
That’s the cause of my concern, we’ve a habit of paying players for little return (e.g. Hammill) we can do without any more wage thieves.
That’s a big disappointment to me also WG. He’s done the lot as a player with years of experience but seems to be ineffective as an assistant. Does he fear for his job if he dares to interfere, can he not offer help and advice or is he just being ignored? Is he another with strings attached or a hand up his back?
“Plenty of players out there without a club, no excuse. I wouldn’t mind Conrad Logan, Woods, Junior brown and Wordsworth here.”
WG has highlighted what’s needed, no surprises as it’s been obvious to fans for some time and his suggestions might very well be the best available. Free agents are now our only option until January, my concern is why,at this point in the season, are these players still without a club. We could be looking at the bottom of a very deep barrel.
Look, I’ve been wrong a few times (Mrs CT will say it’s much more than that) but I can’t remember being as spectacularly wrong as I was about our players. In common with most others I had no idea as to the footballing ability of our new signings. What I thought I knew was that we had young footballers keen to forge a career in the game, prove they were up to league standard, even higher than league 2 in some cases. What I have seen is that few of them have that ability and even fewer have the desire. I hope call centre wages are not too far below what they’re earning now, the hours will be longer certainly.
