I think part of the problem yesterday and probably in the two games before that is that Gillead, Spence and Beeston have all ran out of steam at the same time.
In the games before that they were what Les calls our continuity playes. Energetic, consistent and with bit of quality. Given how poorly most of the rest of the team are at keeping the ball these three never get a brrather during a game because they are constantly having to hunt the ball. When you have to this every Tuesday and Saturday it is bound to have an impact.
We need two players that can share this workload in these positions to allow a bit of rotation and enable substitutions when they tire in games.
At a push Green is a poor man’s Gillead but since Vincent’s injury we seem to have no alternatives in midfield.
The Forest lad has been disappointing so far and anyway seems a better fit to replace a disinterested McAtee rather than Spence or Beeston.
I would quite like Hornshaw to be given a chance in midfield. We know he struggled a bit at full back but his issues were mainly positional. He works hard and can pass the ball.
When you play one of the poorest teams in the division and you allow their goalkeeper a day off then the problems are much deeper than 2 or 3 players not showing passion.
Thought Bedeau was OK by the way. Eisa and Loft might as well have stayed on the bus.
I was happy with the performance againstead Colchester. We took the game to them and were positive certainly until the last 20 minutes or so whe we ran out of steam and ideas.
Not happy with the Southend performance and wouldn’t have been happy even if we had scrambled a result. We were tentative throughout and didn’t put up mmuch of a fight.
The quality might be lacking but in League 2 you win very few games when the team is passive and doesn’t work at least as hard as the opposition.
For quite a few games running up to Saturday we had a go and worked hard for each other. On Saturday we did not.
If we dont tonight we will get beaten again. If we do we will get a result.
Whoever plays.
December 11, 2020 at 4:58 pm
in reply to: Beestin#198920
Also BS how are we (and Cox) going to know if Taylor, Green and Jarvis are ever going to be any good if they don’t ever play.
Taylor was hihighly rated in a decent Port Vale team for 30 odd games last season. I think there is a player there in Green. He just needs a couple of goals and/or assists to help him gain a bit of composure on the ball.
Don’t forget many were calling Loft a donkey 3 weeks ago.
Basically Colchester did to us what we did to Carlisle. You win some if these and you lose some.
Possibly our best home performance thi season, certainly in the top 2.
Colchester got away with one and they know it. Anyone who has played in games where your team is comfortably the better side but the ball just wont go in.
9 times out of 10 the opposition goalkeeper has a great game and the other team score the one time your defence goes to sleep.
Worse teams than Colchester were spanking us a month or two ago.
I wasn’t aware I was giving you or anyone else any advice.
I thought I was giving an opinion.
Seems to me that after about 5 years of people like Trump, Farage and Johnson telling the western world that racism is OK it’s about time we heard more from people that think it isn’t.
Just my opinion though, you have every right to be as racist as you like.
