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.
I think that weaknesses in FB areas had to be closed up – hence this formation to add greater cover.
Interesting how many of our team today won balls that were harder than 50/50. That really cheered me. I think every player who started did this a number of times each. Passing was often crisp 2nd half.
Great goal.
Hippolyte’s defensive qualities proved to be an added but unexpected bonus.
I have rated Gilliead since the first time I saw him, Ferrite. Always thought he’d end up as a CM.So many different skills.
I like Vincent – from what little I’ve seen.
Feel that pair will serve us well. Spence looks a better backup than Hallam to me. Can’t say too much about the others.
With injured players back: FBs will impove; CBs will improve; forward line will improve with KVV.
Currently, FBs and GK do concern me a bit, otherwise progressing nicely for a young side.
September 11, 2020 at 12:58 pm
in reply to: Turan#194548
Thanks, Mick. Good to know. Those two guys talked more donkey poo than I’ve heard in ages.
For me, that nasty tackle on Green, with malice aforethought, was a red.
O’Malley gets my vote too, Matt.
That was a long way off from the best team we can start to put out in the next two weeks. Chuffed silly that McGahey got 60 minutes. I’d be very tempted to start him on Saturday and be prepared to sub him after 70 minutes if necessary.
Lincoln commentators went on and on about our fitness levels when it was largely a question of far more experienced players naturally taking control against lesser experienced.
There were a great many problems in team selection for last night and I accepted the formation.
Neil had said that he would be resting players – and he did.
Like the look of Hippolyte. Promising.
Team for Saturday – Covid and injuries permitting? – McAtee back in the reckoning? What day did his isolation start?
Who to use as FBs may be the biggest question.
Has the German guy (I’ll learn to spell his name later) got his international clearance?
Nice to see that Bedeau will soon be under challenge for his place.
Cordnor and Harrison – that will be a super pairing.
Generally, not at all bad considering that ours is a virtually new team and Vale appeared to have a lot more experience.
There was more fight than we had grown used to.
Positives for most players but far too many mistakes at LB.
Really liked Loft. Good goal too.
Ooh. Innit gettin’ dead intellectual on ‘ere these days, like, me, NI and now Inspector.
(Mind you – gotta admit, NI, that I thought Midsummer Night’s Dream but did need to check it. Oh, the shame!)
The display by Watson was considerably less than ept.
Vincent and Gilliead will surely be CM with Eisa and Colclough on the flanks. No others looked capable of breaking into the side. Was it me or was Hallam rather ordinary? Spence marginally better.
The CBs apparently pick themselves but Bedeau showed some positives and Codnor looks okay. Sadly, it takes time to build a partnership.
O Malley caught the eye for me.
Jarvis puzzled me as I’d been led to believe that he was a ‘heavy’. Clearly not so.
This injury situation could hardly be worse – our best CB and our best goalscorer!
Sam Johnstone was pretty ordinary at SUFC.
It will be a long time til I forget that goal conceded at Rochdale – it wasn’t the only poor one but that was truly wretched.
There have been too many seasons in the last quarter of a century when GK has been a problem position.
