Are the players surprised when selected and when are they told ? The reason for asking the 2nd question is when you see peoples comments most hint at “Do they have a clue what we are doing”
At home I will not accept 1 up top ! It is negative. Same players get chance after chance, continually fail and others rarely get to see the pitch. Give others a chance – Rowe, Pugh, Hornshaw, Barks, Jessop, Butroid cannot be any worse than some are repeatedly failing.
Want someone up front Harry Jessop – more than capable. And a couple of wildcards who would drive defenders mad Finn Shrimpton (as joint striker) and Cameron Wilson (2nd year U18 if the rules allowed) he would drive at defences and frightened of little.
The youngsters should be there to supplement an experienced spine, not the other way round. We’d get hammered sixes and sevens with half of the under 18’s in.
I’m still supporting Cox for the time being but it gets tougher to do with his persistence in failing formations and line ups. His saving grace has been our injuries as with Onarisie, Mcghaey and Van Veen we’d have certainly accumulated more points.
However, A poor return from the Barrow and Grimsby games could be the catalyst for his demise.
Personally, I prefer them to be used as short term cover rather than part of transfer policy. They just add unnecessary numbers to the squad and we end up stifling our own players development.
Newey summed it up by saying We had no interest in winning the game. Midfield seemed to retreat 20 yards after half time and we lost all creativity in our game.
Cox might not have lost the game- but he certainly didn’t win it for us, need to get rid of this stupid formation and start showing some initiative. A relegation dogfight is fast approaching and I wouldn’t back the resilience of this current crop of players.
January 9, 2021 at 10:56 am
in reply to: Novak#200524
not saying we should transfer people for for such things just that a striker is a striker not a extra midfielder or defender.
This is a good point.
Strikers are too often becoming labelled as the first line of defence and too often lambasted for not continually pressing. Don’t get me wrong, if a centre back is facing his own goal then get the strikers on him forcing a mistake, but primarily I want them to be looking openings and getting into positions where they are threat.
Novak was a decent finisher at this level but too often he was getting his first touches 40-50 yards from goal. For me that’s a coaching issue and something we’ve seen in a few of our strikers in recent years.
January 8, 2021 at 7:55 pm
in reply to: Novak#200483
Another good player not played to his strengths; Ended up playing far too deep for us. One of the only players to come out with any credit during the relegation season and 6 in 12 for Bradford this season too.
It’s a shame there’s no supporters as I’m sure bartonscorpion was keen to see him back at GP.
An experienced striker and centre back would be ideal as they would not be breaking the bank and gives us the back up we need until manny, Mcgahey and Van Veen are close to returning
Harrogate, and possibly Colchester aside, we have looked second best against every side we have faced this season.
I tend to have a browse on an opposition forum after a game and it’s pretty much universal across the boards we are the worst team most sides have faced.
My main hope for survival was that Southend were going to be a basket case And one out of The rest at least one team would be worse than use. However, we’ve deservedly lost against Stevenage, Mansfield, Southend and the Cods.
With Brown, Van Veen, Onarosie and Mcgahey I’d be confident we’d have enough, however it’s increasingly unlikely all 4 will feature again together. If we lose Clarke and a midfielder we are back to getting tonked 5-0 at home.
Cox hasn’t pulled up any trees but I won’t call him out until he has his own team. This is the doing of Swann and the transfer committee dealing with chancers such as Askgodders and other morons flogging us shite. It’s alright moaning about COVID but it was his decision to put a side of 30+ players together in a scatter gun, cluster fuck transfer policy.
Everyone knows it but if we go down we will not come back up. We do not have the fan base of a Luton, Tranmere, Oxford, Lincoln, and even a Stockport whom have sank to further depths.
We are in a relegation battle to protect 70 years of proud league football history in the town.
A lot of the bottom sides picking up form now and I expect the cod’s to follow suit; we desperately need to get wins on board during January or else we will be in trouble.
A man full of narcissism and sound bites, left them well and truly in the shit by all accounts. Take it he didn’t end up investing a penny into the club then?
Swann certainly has his flaws but I’d taken him everyday of the week over Fenty.
‘’ after not being deemed good enough non-league club Barnet, El mhanni and Vincent had the last laugh’’
Yes, at our expense.
At least this is starting to clear things up about why we are signing so much shit during the last couple of years. What’s your bets godders has some connection to the Swann’s or rodders.
Be interesting to get Lee Turnbull on the podcast for his thoughts.
All this Cox not inspiring/motivating is total bollocks.
He’s Scunthorpe born And bred and there would have been fewer able to convey to that group of players what it means to fans.
If as a sportsman you can’t get motivated to do your job, especially in a local derby then you’re not up to the task regardless who’s in the dressing room.
Well I feel that most regular forum members already know my views regarding Scunthorpe keepers, as far as which of a poor choice should be our number one, I think that Watson just tilts my opinion.
Watson is poor with dealing with ground shots, and does not control his goal area enough, but is in my opinion quicker to react when saving shots, except does not deal with low shots very well, but is slightly better cutting out crosses.
Whereas Howards positional play is very poor, he is rooted to his goal line at all times and too many of our defensive problems are because he never deals with crosses, and if the defender does not clear these, too many goals result from them. He is very slow in deciding to move to the ball, and his punching results in the ball going in any direction, he appears to have threepenny bit type knuckles. Howards kicking is not good, but after saying that, Watsons is the same, far too many kicks would be better suited to Wigan or Hull KR.
At the end of the day, all these problems associated with both keepers point to the goal keeping coach, who fails to try and correct a few of them. Makes me wander why Mussa has a spell before matches of pumping crosses into the certre of the goal area which are collected by the keepers coming out and catching the ball, but in games, this never happens, if we can see these problembs, WHY CANNOT MISSA ??????.
Need to start improving the quality of balls into the box, must have had 15+ crosses tonight which fell to a barrow player.
Conceding goals at stupid times has to stop too, we have to manage games better around times after we score or close to half/full times.
Nevertheless, fair play to the team for persevering and getting the 3 points- good to see Clarke get on the scoresheet after a fairly ropey performance.
Big result to put some daylight between us and the bottom 2- it’s getting congested down there now. Hopefully we have no more injury worries this week.
