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Extremely difficult to sack AB ten minutes after his contract extension, innit?
Yesterday left me profoundly worried. AB admitted that the first half had been badly below par but failed to see that a big improvement in the second half was simply not good enough. Being 50% better than dreadful equates to POOR.
How many defeats and bad draws will it take for him to see what so many of us are seeing?
His mind is set and I almost dread what will happen if we we win an odd game or two.
He had a system that worked. It was not at all fun to watch but we got the points.
He doesn’t seem to recognise that things have changed.1 user thanked author for this post.
Gotta disagree about Clunan yesterday, Cliff.
He worked harder than anyone on the pitch; never stopped trying to get the others to do their jobs; was my MOTM.
Okay. He wasn’t hugely successful – I’ll grant you that – but he wanted to win more than any other Iron player, IMHO.4 users thanked author for this post.
Butterfield, I am informed, is still not able to complete games and is in decline.
In 10 appearances for Gateshead, he has scored one goal and had zero assists.
(Didn’t they ship SEVEN the other day, BTW?)
Butterfield would add no height nor weight to our CM. Players who are slight in stature are not what we need in the current setup.
Ah. Remember those happy days of the past when – on occasions – we actually won a few headers in CM?1 user thanked author for this post.
We haven’t just ‘happened’ to lose 2 games back to back. Both results were entirely predictable.
We did well in the early games – from a purely points accumulation viewpoint, perhaps – but I did have reservations brewing after seeing the Needham Market game on TV.
What now worries me is that we cannot afford to sit on our hands and let several games go by before action is taken. We have a great position which – who knows – may not happen again for several seasons. We cannot allow the opportunity to slip through our fingers by inactivity.
If we do not have players already in our sights – we should have and with enquiries already made!1 user thanked author for this post.
Well. I trust that some who were getting rather blasé about us being top of the division three weeks ago – even when the cracks were clearly showing – might now be having to rethink.
The team has now gone extremely flat: struggles to pass accurately; has lost a great deal of desire; is failing to create oodles of chances; is missing the chances they do get; is being ‘read’ far too easily by opponents.
This has been hugely obvious for a good five+ weeks now.
I return to my original take on it all.
The Iron need ‘a presence’ in CM. One needs to be found – and very quick!
Furthermore, once your methods of play have been totally sussed by everyone and their cat – it necessitates having different formations to turn to.3 users thanked author for this post.
https://m.aiscore.com/live/football-guiseley-vs-scunthorpe-united ??
Dunno if this will do the job.
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We have now had a run of games in which the play has been increasingly unsatisfactory.
Poor passing, an absence of players fighting to get on the end of long throws are just the tip of what I suspect might be an iceberg.
It’s all very well saying “But we’re top of the league!” But if we carry on in this vein we could easily end October a good half dozen points behind top.1 user thanked author for this post.
Sigh!
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Commentary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_humberside
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Losing 1-0
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