Howard reminds me of Tommy Evans. Fantastic shot stopper but every time a ball went in the box and when he had to come out to generally deal with anything your heart used to skip a beat.
No lack of experience where he’s concerned, he’s just limited as a GK…even at this level.
Watson is crap as well though.
On the new manager front, as I’ve said before….it’s asking far too much of Cox to keep us up, he simply doesn’t have a clue tactically how to turn it around, hence why he’s in the ultra defensive mindset he’s in, he simply can’t fathom any other way of going about it.
Too many and that’s the big issue here. I don’t know why Cox doesn’t even field 4/4/1/1 and at least have a go.
Cox chooses to play this formation consisting of 3 defensive midfielders and a striker isolated to such an extent he doesn’t have another player within 20 yards of him and then moans that we’re not creating enough.
Seriously, what the hell does he expect ?
He could field 4/4/1/1..stick Green RW and have Gillead in the no 10 role offering support to Loft or stick Green up and go 4/4/2.
I have absolutely no idea why he’s opting to go the direction he’s going in….makes absolutely zero sense.
How does he know he hasn’t got anyone else to play up front, he never gives any of the forgotten or ignored a chance !
Green is more of a wide player but he played in the striker position while he was a trainee at Blackburn Rovers and also played that position at Southport so he definitely knows how to play up there.
Why wouldn’t playing Green and Loft not be better that playing with Loft isolated upfront with a player not within 20 yards of him ?
Too much experimentation we’ll all argue but when you are leaking at the back and have no impact whatsoever up front – maybe you have to try something different.
There’s no maybe about it..choosing to set the team up like he is doing is going to have us limping to relegation.
Swann and Cox are lucky fans aren’t turning up to watch it, they’d have have been booed off countless times. People simply wouldn’t put up with it.
The playing style seriously needs looking at. Cox despite being way, way out of his depth needs to be braver.
The striker In question scored the other night against Liverpool, forgot his name already. I doubt he’d come here and even if he did, not sure he’d be the right sort of striker.
Ideally we need experience but with the crap we’re in, who’s going to want to come here. This needs an experienced Jon Parkin type….he would have been perfect about now !
You might well be right, didn’t work so well down the road though.
I know getting an experienced manager means they’re a dead cert to save us but whoever they are will have a better chance than Cox.
Swann lumping the pressure on Cox to do it is asking far too much, he’s clearly way out of his depth. The currently style of play he’s probably relying in because he’s not tactically clued up enough to go any other way with the team struggling the way it is.
I don’t really blame Cox. This would be a hard enough job for the most experienced manager, nevermind a rookie.
Why not stick Green up there along side Loft and have him feeding off the scraps ?
Cox said we haven’t got a viable striker to partner Loft which is why we play so conservatively. Cox is right in that sense but surely playing Green up there is better than setting the team up as he is doing.
Green’s played games upfront in his career so he knows how to play that role and he’s really quick..even when he’s played on the right he’s a willing runner and goes by people.
Not buying that excuse…no sense in having us set up like the way he has us at the minute.
To be fair to Cox he may become a decent enough manager given time but we haven’t got time. In my opinion to get the best out of what we have “which isn’t a great deal” we at least need an experienced manager to extract every bit they can.
Cox has them playing so negative it looks to me like the attacking players have lost the will to live.
There’s much wrong at this football, mostly caused by Swann. Signing an inexperienced manager from day one to guise a rag tag squad like this was asking a lot to start with.
I know we keep saying “me included” that we can’t keep sacking managers but we seriously need an experienced head at the helm to give us the best chance of staying up.
Cox is way out of his depth. An experienced manager would be severally tested, never mind a rookie. Asking far too much and Cox doesn’t/won’t have the first idea of how to guise us to safety.
I don’t know who’s out there manager wise but we need to appoint somebody preferably who’s guided a team through relegation battles and survived.
No doubt that’s not a cast iron certainty it’s going to be profitable but if we don’t look down that route, I feel we’ll go down with Cox in charge.
Playing like we are doing, so negatively is asking for trouble.
Stamp, we’ll have to wait a few weeks till both Mcgahey and Onariase are back and send Cordner back, bit risky but if they come back in say 10 days time and get some training under their belts, we should be fine to send him back.
If anybody would want Bedeau, I’d be tempted to move him on as well. As said on here yesterday, you can tell he has a bit of quality to him but he’s forever switching off during games, his concentration is what let’s him down, he’s a bit too error prone and slack for my liking.
I don’t think the style of his play suits this league, he likes a bit of time on the ball to carry the ball out from the back but you can’t really do that at this level…simply don’t have time.
A poster said he’s a poor man’s John Stones and they’re spot on…just don’t think he fits this league.
Taft, Onariase, Mcgahey and Barks…we’ll more than likely have enough at CB.
If we can move on Butroid, Bedeau and Dales and send Cordner back…we might have enough in the piggy bank for two strikers till end of the season.
I doubt Cordner will be sent back until Onariase and McGahey are fit. I think they’re due back in a few weeks time.
I think Bedeau will be moved on as well once those two are back and Barks will more than likely take his place.
If we can move Butroid and Hallam on as well and get a few strikers in, we’ll be a lot better for it. One on loan and one permanent initially until end of the season will do.
It wouldn’t surprise me if we soon signed Nightingale and then waited till end of this month when Mcgahey and Onariase are back and send Cordner back to Bournemouth.
Bedeau can go for me as well and promote Barks to the 4th CB slot.
I wonder if there would be a team out there that would want him ?
By the way I don’t know if any of you know this but Karacan was an ever present in Wycombe’s pre season games and did really well…he only missed one game.
Wycombe fans really liked the look of him but the club stalled on offering him a contract so he didn’t hang about.
If that’s anything to go by, there’s a lot of life in him yet…only 31yr old as well. I vaguely remember him as a youngster running the game for reading against Liverpool, long time ago now but still not that old.
Bit of a signing this one I feel.
January 5, 2021 at 4:41 pm
in reply to: Loft#200308
Cordner and Vincent can easily go back. Dales has 3 conference clubs interested in him already. Butroid will surely have a suitor at that level as well, he’s more than capable..just needs games.
Jarvis and Turan are going to be the hard one’s to shift.
If we move Dales, Butroid on and send back Cordner…that may be enough to get Pope. Vincent isn’t coming back either I don’t think, so, that’s another wage saved.
There may just be enough to get Nightingale as well. Ideally we’d need another striker to go with pope but that’s not half bad business.
He should get an experienced manager in till end of season, pay up/send the crap back and give it a go.
But he won’t. He’ll put Wilcox back i/c till the end of the season. The crap will stay. The best we can hope for is a couple of loans.
BRI – what happened to your New Year resolution?
I know he won’t but he should do because he’s the one that’s caused all this with him and his stupid merry band of men recruiting players when they had no idea what they were doing.
The blokes in denial, keeps blaming covid. I’d much rather he came out and blamed himself for being involved in player recruitment.
January 4, 2021 at 3:07 am
in reply to: Loft#200184
I said ok, not good and certainly not brilliant. Ok as in, he’d be half decent if he simply played as a foil doing all the donkey work for a more talented player “van veen” or came off the bench once in a while, apart from that though he’s not worth much more.
Swann could pay the contracts up of the crap players HE HAND A HAND IN BRINGING IN but he won’t. I think he’s lost interest if truth be told.
This could easily be solved by him if he really had the desire to. Let’s face it, he’s the one to really blame here.
No doubt he could pay the players up…send the crap loan players back and pay up Cox.
All his doing.
He should get an experienced manager in till end of season, pay up/send the crap back and give it a go..only this time let the manager have a huge say on who comes in.
I don’t think he’ll last much longer, if we stay up this season I think he’ll move on. Swann needs to anyway.
Fingers crossed he clears off.
Swann somehow gazumping Dennis Hobson at the last minute is the worst thing that could have ever happened to this club.
Criminal overspending when he flirted with the play offs twice and the most unconvincing promotion with Wilcox at the helm isn’t worth what the clubs become now.
Loft would be ok as a squad player or as a foil for say Van Veen but to lump all the pressure on him as the primary striker is stupid.
I will however say that miss was most likely one of the worst I’ve seen.
Swann’s caused this by signing Mooney, Jarvis and Turan. This is what happens when your chairman fancies himself as a player recruiter.
If we survive this season he needs to move on. I’m not expecting anybody to come in who’s awash with money but a chairman who actually acts as a chairman would be enough for me.
