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What tactics can legitimately be employed when professional footballers lose the ball every other pass?
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A few dozen showing interest in our job?
Why? – What’s the matter with them?1 user thanked author for this post.
My hearing is pretty good. Certain that the commentator said Fletcher n Marsh came off.
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If it was Apter – sometimes, of course, there are good physical reasons to effect a substitution.1 user thanked author for this post.
Their Number 9 last Saturday – can’t be bovvered to look for his name – was such an excellent example of how to hold up the ball, back to goal, at the edge of the box.
A forward who can do that for us is essential.
Haven’t had one since Paul Hayes.1 user thanked author for this post.
Thanks, BI – I know you supported PS to a strong degree.
I didn’t like what I was seeing but having been in management, I was anxious that he would not find himself pilloried unfairly – as is so often the case with people with responsibility who are judged by those who have zero overview.
Those without the overview had probably worked on gut feelings instead. Gut feelings can be spot on sometimes, of course. (But personally, I mistrust ’em as a general rule.)
We eventually reached a point where I had to accept the majority view – however arrived at – and for quite some time now, I have wanted to see this man go.1 user thanked author for this post.
The drive from Sheffield to Scunthorpe has been worth my while since moving to S. Yorks in 1970.
It is no longer worth my effort nor my money to drive across.
My guest appearances will be almost as common as cuckoos in December unless I am incentivised by: sale of club; new players; the occasional win; a stuffed brown envelope bulging with notes of the realm; rumours of entertainment etc.7 users thanked author for this post.
O’Malley left midfield is perfectly okay – but must not be played as an LB!
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I always preferred Leonard Cohen.
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When there is a choice between incompetence and sinister motives – more times than not – incompetence is the correct guess.
There is adequate evidence for incompetence but the jury is out on anything else.2 users thanked author for this post.
Anyone ever told you that you are a gifted poet, IA?
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There were some positives yesterday:
1) Taft looked more comfortable with experience to his left side. Am not saying he played a blinder – but not bad.
2) Whitehouse’s work-rate was phenomenal – yes there were mistakes but he got stuck in AND won a lot of headers for a guy of no great bulk.
3) Fletcher won headers in CM and was unfazed by the general chaos.
4) Apter was a breath of fresh air. Most ball skills seen in a loanee since … since … er … erm …1 user thanked author for this post.
It would be ridiculous to claim that the present squad is not better than what we had last season.
What’s more, IMHO, both loanees were clearly improvements on any recruited over recent years.
Consequently, allowing for clear defensive weaknesses, this squad should still be taking some points and it isn’t.
We have no idea where our next point is going to come from.
I had demanded that Keith Hill should be allowed to stay til October. I can no longer justify that thinking.2 users thanked author for this post.
It is difficult to defend the decision to play Wallace but I can just about accept the experiment – I suppose.
Why he was not subbed after 25 minutes though, is utterly beyond me.
If we’d signed Rob Apter, we must have known that his abilities were far more polished than those of Wallace.
Ergo, Apter should have started.3 users thanked author for this post.
