Didn’t feel such a kick in the teeth to concede late on when in reality we were fortunate to take anything from the game.
Defending was resolute again against a fairly decent morecambe side; however I was disappointed we didn’t do enough attacking wise, want to see Brown and Rowe supporting the wingers more often, the one time Rowe bombed forward we forced a save out of their keeper. Eisa is getting doubled marked every game now and needs support.
Unfortunate that Van Veen went off so early as he is the quality we need- Loft is what he is and needs someone to nod the ball down too and link up with. Playing Hallam in the ‘number 10’ role is a waste of a position. Get someone running in behind and force a centre back to defend facing his goal.
Positives are we have a committed, hard working team who finally look organised and clearly are playing for the manager. 7 points from 9 is a respectable return.
I think Cox got it right last night, we sat back and they couldn’t break us down. I have a feeling if we went all out attack we would have been picked off.
Ideally we all want to see attacking football but I feel last night was one of those games we simply needed to dig in, they’re more than a decent side at this level. Top 6 side after 10 games so they were no mugs.
Also, we have a number of players who aren’t even fully match fit…they’ll get better with more games.
100% agree.
Sometimes performances like last night need to put be into context: experienced players with hardly any training/games behind them; sat in the relegation zone; manager under pressure.
I don’t want to be watching that in 3 months time IF we are sat mid-table, but last night was a crucial win.
Massive win, huge credit to the team for the shift put in tonight.
Back 4 were outstanding. Mcghaey MOTM.
Jai Rowe did well considering Vale were relentlessly pinging balls towards the left winger all night- clearly targeting him. Rowe looks a suitable understudy to Clarke.
A fit Van Veen and we may have shown more attacking intent ( didn’t think he looked fit at all tonight), but for a team shipping 3/4/5 games every week to bring home 6 points and 2 clean sheets since returning, is a fantastic result.
I don’t know what the average figures are in league 2 but I was expecting far more too be watching than 466. We’d usually get more actually travelling to Oldham and watching it live.
First 30 minutes we would’ve folded in previous games; players stuck with their shape and grew into the game well. Shows what abit of experience gets you too; Onarisie and Brown were superb at the back. Thought Clarke looked massively off the pace but just heard he only trained yesterday, so fair play to him for having the bottle to get Involved straight away, he’ll only get better.
Eisa, Gillead and Beestin impressed; no idea why they didn’t double up on Eisa second half? Van Veen proved what the difference is at this level, those moments of magic which can turn a game which we have been desperately missing. Great finish for the 2nd.
Only complaint today is that we need to stop letting teams get easy crosses in the box, on another day Oldham would’ve scored from one and it seems to be a recurring problem.
The proposal of fans representation at boardroom meetings is a start; the key is appointing someone with the understanding of what the majority of fans are feeling and the confidence to challenge Swann.
The rest of the statement was just bluster and didn’t address the root cause of this shambolic start-the scatter gun transfer policy
This is a massive game for us and no exaggeration to suggest it’s a must win. Oldham, like us, have been a poor side for some time now; they were dreadful when we played them earlier this year.
Hard to suggest a line up with so many injury and fitness concerns but a half fit KVV trumps any other fully fit striker. I’d like to see Hallam featured in some capacity too.
Rob was superb.I agree with him 100%.Swann is the definition of incompetence.
On the other hand i thought Matt Dean was pathetic.He seemed terrified to let Rob say what he,and a lot more people,think of Swann.
Understand the need for balance but he couldn’t wait to interject the caller; probably anxious about the wrath of Swann.
The guy on the radio summed things up well and did well to keep his cool. COVID has f**k all to do with our current predicament and everything to do with blinkered decisions at a boardroom level.
Highlights what a joke it was for the game to go ahead on Saturday.
It’s a false economy aswell to suggest it gives players time to recover from injuries when two thirds of the team have a disease attacking their respiratory systems.
Heath, bit unfair regarding Turan he had one full game upfront with Donkey Loft and not really had a sniff since…oh, and he wasn’t even really match fit.
I’d go Olomola or Turan with Kev playing a bit deeper once their fit. Jarvis isn’t a bad player by any means but needs to sort his finishing out.
Why the obsession with Olomola?
Granted I’ve hardly seen him play but you seem convinced he’s the answer to our striking problems.
Disheartening to lose again but at least we actually looked like a team who could get something out the game. Finally getting some decent deliveries into the box and it’s a shame we couldn’t do more to capitalise- Jarvis should’ve buried that header first half and Green should’ve made the keeper work for his effort second half.
Beestin, Green and Onariase impressed. Howard had a good game overall but that howler was criminal and put the game beyond reach- really have to cut those errors out and quickly.
On a side note it’s a complete farce that today’s game should have been allowed to go ahead with half of our first team and coaching staff not in attendance.
1) If this guy is so good, why was he out of contract?
2) A squad of 31 players, how is that manageable?
Can’t offer much on number 1. Played for Some good sides during his career but not accumulated much game time for a 34 year old keeper.
2- it’s not, in fact it’s beyond a joke when the club has hardly any income whatsoever and more indicative of the complete scattergun approach which is our ‘transfer policy’.
Didn’t watch the game yesterday but had Cambridge on every Acca at the generous price of 6/4.
From the highlights We look soft as shit and confidence will be now sapped throughout the entire squad.
Worryingly I don’t see what the solution is; our scatter gun/cluster fuck of a transfer policy has left us with a bloated squad with little room for addition.
Cambridge were my dark horse picks this season; made some astute signings for this level including Wes hoolahan who is a great signing despite his age .
If we carry on from where we left off on Saturday it could be another hiding.
First decent side we’ve come across and rightly got a tonking for our efforts.
Not good enough in every department again and FGR showed how a side dominant in possession can effectively press a side and not just head sideways or backwards
And Just play 2 strikers at home for god sakes please.
Happy to defend the side to the hilt when they come home with the 3 points like last week but that was a really poor performance against another poor side that was there for the taking.
Could see the method behind the madness first half, overload the midfield and push the full back forward to compensate for the wingers tucking inside. Unfortunately we ended up with an overcrowded middle, too many sideways passes and no-one in the danger area. Felt sorry for Loft again.
2nd half was pretty much shambolic and we had no plan B. Cox has to take responsibility for that and move on.
Looks a good signing from the short amount of clips watched. 5 goals from 18 isn’t a bad return for a midfielder either.
The main focus should now be offloading players; with so few u23 fixtures there is no need for such a bloated squad, if anything it will probably cause Cox more problems having to omit 10 players every week from the match day squad.
I think we’ve got a real problem with expectations as a supporter base
No expects us to romp the league. What is annoying a lot of people is we’re not getting what we were promised.
He’s had 3 League Games!!!!
All I wanted was for us to have a go and at least try and play in a positive manner.
Not playing Eisa because he’s too positive is an absolute disgrace.
Play the best players in their positions and let them do their thing. All I want is passion, work rate and for our best players to be playing where they should be.
BS. real supporters views? Do we have fake supporters?. A real supporter wouldnt spit his dummy out and threaten not to attend if Novak was in the team.
The same Novak who banged 2 in for Bradford yesterday aswell.
