Yes, Ferrite. That’s why my first line echoed your sentiment.
If I thought we could get thirty games out of Bish in a season – I’d have him back like a shot at 39. He only managed 23 in his last season at Mansfield, though. Niggling injuries for the most part, I understand. Sigh.
After all, Tony Ford and Beags were great older players for us as total professionals.
Not totally, Ferrite. There remain one or two other relatively minor matters still to be addressed.
Since Bishop’s departure – I have argued in posts, several times a season, that we need a ‘catalyst player’. Call him ‘a leader in the middle of the pitch’ or maybe even a ‘play-maker.’
The titles do not matter. So many on here have argued that you can use younger players provided that the side has a spine. Well, ours doesn’t!
CBs and KVV – fit – then fine but that glaring hole in the middle of the park …
I have tried so very hard to support Rory but he is just not improving.
Truly sorry to say it but, decent goalie in this week or we are seriously running the risk of a bottom two finish.
Watson – 5
Hornshaw – 5. Somehow the system made it impossible to defend down our right. They always seemed to have one more man available than we did. Permanently exposed. Can’t blame a young lad played totally out of position. Wholly unfair.
Cordner – 4.
Bedeau – 5.
O’Malley – 6.
Spence – 6.
Vincent – 5.
Gilliead – 6.
Eisa – 6.
Taylor – 5.
Jarvis – 7 early on. 4 later. 5.5 overall.
McAtee – 6.
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Loft – can’t be blamed for being ineffective with no support. 5.
Beestin – 6.
Conclusion – 6 players out of 14 hit the dizzy heights of ‘average’.
October 11, 2020 at 12:12 pm
in reply to: B Teams#195694
Take all of our CMs in the squad and playing any two together does not work – agreed, as plenty have said before – they are too alike.
Taken as individuals, I think most are pretty decent but …
You really can’t do without one solid experienced leader to build around. IMHO – most of those lads would be getting plaudits played alongside a Bish type.
Cordner must either ‘man up’ or quit the game. Two games back to back he has been a real weak link. I am not a Bedeau fan as he makes too many errors and misjudgements but I am starting to agree, Onariase and Bedeau, until McGahey eventually gets back.
GK in before the deadline?
Weren’t we told big Kev would be back in late October?
I’ve found that browsers work sometimes and not others. I don’t use Microsoft Edge normally but I find it the best, if that helps anybody.
I used Firefox today.
3 – 4 – 3 might be a bit of a worry. It would surely condemn the wide men into having to act as WBs.
Bit harsh on Vincent which is a good reason to try him at FB. He is a bit of a terrier.
Arguably, the kind of formations which are not close to 4 – 4 – 2 make some sort of case for the manager to continue with Hippolyte.
What I want and what I get may be some distance apart, Cass.
My memory isn’t what it used to be.
Irrespective of the above, can anyone else remember when Colclough last had a good game? – You know, a 7/10?
Has there been one since he recovered from his bad injury?
Gonna keep saying it. I tell all new managers from Day One on here which are the pitfalls to avoid.
All then plunge straight into them without passing Go. And do not tell me that they don’t all come straight to this forum to find out the lie of the land!
I know twice as much about cricket than I do about football tactics yet I have unhappily been 100% spot on every time – the managers are wrong – me right. That really should not be!
NOT blowing my own trumpet – just utterly peed off!
Interesting. ZERO interest in any of our players. apparently
Started so well. Total control but did not often get the ball into danger areas.
Who lost the ball to set up the goal, BTW? – Bedeau? – Then Cordner suckered by the experienced man. Good goal but I was stunned.
That was nothing compared to 2nd half tactics which were lacking. What a shambles. You have control of midfield and opt to surrender it. Lost all of the effectiveness of Taylor by switching role. Thought Vincent had had his best game – off he went!
Appalling goalkeeping.
Why no Onariase? We need him.
Yes, Mick. Fame at last.
What’s it like at the top?
Agree that Jarvis looked out of his depth and Colclough’s contribution was minimal.
Bedeau made some more of those unnecessary mistakes I had hoped that he’d left behind. He may soon be paying the price as a certain CB is starting to look pretty close to match fit.
Thought Green began by looking average or worse but seemed able to adjust to the pace of the game as time went on.
With such a lot to do, thought Beestin put in a very decent stint. There were mistakes but against the mighty kids, gathered at the cost of many millions from across the globe, he was arguably my MOTM.
Felt sorry for the FBs – play tight or not? The MC exceptional skills gave them the runaround. Thought they did as much as could have been reasonably expected.
I’m interested enough to watch from foreign climes.
Would quite like to see who plays and how well.
Not a fan of the hijacking of this tournament but not sufficiently peeved to boycott it.
Weren’t we told ‘no offers in for any player/s?’
It doesn’t necessarily mean that there aren’t folks out there sniffing and making pertinent enquiries.
The teaching comparison is a sound one.
For all the years I taught – it was odd. Of course I enjoyed the high achievers who were born naturals but I always got far more out of those who were not very academic but achieved success by desire and effort.
I think of one pupil who had precious little about him and who was heading for nowhere – fast – as the GCSEs were approaching.
I enlisted his family to give him support and I worked very hard to see him through to a ‘C’ grade in my subject. To my delight – and astonishment, he ended up with 7 passes in total.
He went to college and then to two universities, in his chosen career, he is a fellow with two Masters degrees and skills to die for.
The worst to teach were those who had the ability but just couldn’t be arsed. If there is one thing that gets me down it’s people who waste their talents.
A team that worked hard for each other, grafted, were not pretty and won a lot of ball to which they were not entitled. There is more desire across the entire team than there has been in years.
Brilliant defending in 6 yard box. Bedeau growing with every game.
Ref – same as guy last week – giving fouls for very little but no catastrophes 5 maybe even a 4. It’s a man’s game! This is not basketball! (No offence to those who play a super sport.)
BTW – am no longer recording refs.
Observations:
The usual 11 men behind the ball when leading. Got away with it but Cox is upsetting a lot of people with this despised tactic. I told him about this on Day One via this very site.
Vincent and Spence are both decent but maybe a bit too similar.
Hippo or Eisa? – The former defends better – the latter attacks better. What do we make of that?
Hornshaw finding it hard out of position but both he and O Malley looking better than Butroid.
Lotsa better players to come back pretty soon.
Loft was appalling at Crawley but looked like a real forward, yesterday.
Bring on Eisa to stand on half way line in last quarter.
Two defenders would have to have been employed. I reckon we might well have stolen a second and still kept a clean sheet.
THING IS – you can’t argue against a win but you ain’t going to get away with that kind of play every time you are sitting on a lead.
I always find it difficult to cope with players who have superb skills but only show them when the moon is in the right quarter.
I stated on here a couple of years ago that if you averaged a mark out of 10 for every game he played for – us, his average would struggle to make a 5. There were just so many 4 out of 10s. It is too easy to only remember the outstanding stuff.
Getting the fee we did was daylight robbery.
That handful of 9s which had us all so excited and saying things like “I really think the lad has turned a corner now” happened three+ times a season over a number of years.
Remember the George Kerr opinion expressed on Humberside.
Turan ahead of Loft for me, BLT.
Loft does not deserve a place in the first eleven after that display last week. He must be made to graft his way back into the first team – maybe via the odd twenty minutes from off the bench.
Next week we have: a match fit Hippolyte and a match fit McGahey; a fit but not match fit Turan; probably Clarke on the bench and McAtee back.
Immediate prospects for team strengthening.
With McAtee -starting, it should be 4 – 4- 2.
