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Agree with that Bill but he showed enough at Alfreton to have been straight into our first 11.
Took Jimmy a while though.
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Elliott and Beestin are not wingers or even wide forwards whatever Jimmy thinks. Roberts and Law are injured and unlikely to have any major impact on this season and are likely to be gone by next season.
Wilson’s face doesn’t fit and does seem to have gone backwards this season. McAlinden had half a decent game when he first arrived but his Chester goal notwithstanding has not looked like doing much else ever since.
Can understand the Jimmy gambles because he is out of the door unless he wins the playoffs. Surprised the board are backing him with more players but I guess they want to be seen to have given every opportunity before sacking him.
Bottom line is Roberts and Smith always carried a goal threat whereas their replacements and would be replacements not so much.
You forgot the lad on loan from Bradford via Farsley Cliff. Understandable as we’ve not really seen him.
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Went to Brackley and Chester Awaywego and in both games we were lucky to come second.
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Looks like Scales was the only problem at Darlington then.
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Not scheduled for streaming which seems a missed opportunity for both clubs and the National League to make some dosh.
Tuesday away matches at Spennymoor and Darlington not scheduled for streaming either. Strange decision to not stream away games for a club in the top 6 for attendances across the whole National League structure.
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Watched it on stream Awaywego and I would say it was different to most of our away performances this season.
That was more down to Blyth than ourselves. They deliberately stood off us and kept a rigid defensive shape. We were allowed to pass at will across the back four and pretty much across the midfield with them thinking we would be ponderous and lack creativity in those areas. They got that right.
We did create and squander a few chances and had a perfectly good goal disallowed and if we had scored earlier we would probably have won comfortably against what was a fairly poor side.
As it was we scored late and then did the Iron speciality of sitting back and “managing” the game. Roughly translated this means surrendering the initiative until we make schoolboy errors to hand them a goal. This time Wilson and Fitzsimons managed to drop a clanger each in the same move.
If we had played with any pace and purpose we would surely have scored 4 or 5. Butterfield doesn’t half look good when he doesn’t play.
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A great many of our problems stem from the fact that the excellent Clunan has not managed to produce that same excellence which we had become accustomed to in the earlier part of the season.
Agree with that Les but I think what I happening with Clunan is part of a wider problem. Before and just after Clunan’s injury he set the tone for the midfield and back four to play crisp 1 and 2 touch football that moved teams around until a midfielder (usually Butterfield) or the wide forwards were in a position to run at the defence in the final third. Numerous times yesterday we ignored the simple switch to a man in space or delayed until the space was closed down and Rushall got back in their defensive shape.
Evans, Scales and Butterfield particularly guilty of needless ball carrying but Clunan, Kouogan, Denton and Ogle all did this at times. This has been happening more and more from the Farsley games onwards.
When we then lose the ball with a poor pass said ball carrier has then left a hole for opposition to exploit. Better teams than Rushall exploit this.
No team in this League can deal with short, accurate and crisp passing and this is what enabled us to blow teams away earlier in the season.
Have we stopped doing it for tactical reasons – if so then its a bad move Jimmy. It could be that the players have lost confidence. Maybe they bought into the HMS Piss the League nonsense.
You win Leagues by having your style and imposing it on most of your opposition game after game. See Man City, Liverpool, Wrexham and possibly Tamworth for recent examples of what I mean.
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Given the game has a 13:00 kick off could the clubs not convince the National League to stream the game?
Might lessen the chances of a West Brom vs Wolves type incident and earn the clubs a share of a good few £9:50’s.
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