Said yesterday he was out for a few months. I’d send him back if possible and get two cm’s in. Vincent won’t be available till late January/early Feb anyway.
I would have said a RB and CM player but now Vincent’s out for quite a while, it wouldn’t surprise me if 2 CM’s came in…even with experienced one we’re short there.
Taylor is more a no 10.
Beestin, Spence, Hornshaw and Taylor…not great options there.
O Malley is terrible, nowhere near ready for first team football, Butroid should be playing at the moment and cover for Brown and try getting O’Malley out on loan, he was dreadful last night
I’ve said the same for weeks now. Butroid would be my bet and Rowe would have been at RB until hopefully Clarke finds himself back to full fitness.
Very odd regarding Rowe. Cox keeps saying “oh, Rowe needs match fitness as he’s only got through one 90 minutes”…does he not believe in getting a players fitness up from first team football ?
Rowe’s had 2 weeks training and played 90 minutes of reserve football and came through fine…yet Hornshaw keeps being played there.
You work that one out !
Cox seems to make his decision on players pretty sharpish though as it appears after a shaky start, Butroid has been completely frozen out.
Who else is there currently in this squad besides Olomola with any type of experience who has any type of track record who’s ready to come in and improve us ?
Van Veen is a month or so away yet. I can’t see us going out and signing another striker, can you ?
Nothing to do with having a crush on Olomola, it’s down to the lack of quality options at our disposal.
Please believe me, if Van Veen was fit and we had other option besides him, I wouldn’t be hoping Olomola comes back A.S.A.P in a bid to score goals would i ?
Let’s think logically here MKiron, who else is there currently at the club in the striking department where you’d be like “Oh, get him in he’ll score us goals and make difference” ?
Jarvis, Mooney’s out on loan, Loft “who looks a bit of a donkey”, Turan, Kev Who’s injured, Green “who’s seen as a winger” and Olomola.
Who out of those who’s here and able to play seems the best bet to notch us some goals ?
Use your head MKiron….
Olomola and Turan in my opinion are our best bets. Kev would obviously make a huge difference but guess what MKiron..he’s currently injured.
Eisa to get the best out of him needs playing on the wing, no more sticking him here there and everywhere, he should be played where he’s most comfortable. Sticking him upfront is stupid.
I said last week Butroid should be back in. I know he has that bit of a dodgy start but he’s a lot better positionally than O’Malley.
I don’t get why Rowe isn’t playing, I don’t understand any of it. We need Olomola, Mcgahey and Rowe for the weekend.
I’d go Olomola and Turan upfront…our best two choices to be honest. I wouldn’t think that’s an option though due to keep playing that fecking formation with 1 upfront.
Can we cancel loan signings ?. Taylor was nowhere to be seen, he’s a good player but he’s a bit of a luxury player…he’s the type of player that needs to be in a team doing well to get anything out of…he’s not the sort to stick the boot in or track back.
Why did we need him anyway, we had Hallam and McAtee. Another masterstroke !
I’d much rather have had a capable experienced RB come in.
Fancy you’re already questionable manager having to sit it out and then having Wilcox as back up…only we can have such a back up.
I don’t understand what’s going on down at GP. Why that formation ?. Rowe even though not match fit could get his match fitness from playing in the 1st team, he’ll be no worse than Hornshaw…least he’s a natural RB.
90% of the time when we’ve played Eisa it’s always out of position.
Very odd indeed !
They need to play 4/4/2 get Rowe, Mcgahey and Olomola back and at least try and be positive.
Cox is setting alarm bells off. I know he’s been dealt a rough hand but playing players out of position and signing Hippolyte is a bit suspect to say the least.
Loft despite that wonder strike is looking like a complete donkey as well. I wouldn’t personally be too pleased on giving him free reign to sign players if those two are anything to go by.
Jarvis and Turan look more promising than Loft. Hippolyte is possibly the worst player I’ve seen play for us in recent times.
No Brown , McGahey , Clarke or Rowe. Vincent is out as well, he’s back at the weekend..same as the other 4 players. I think it’s fair to say I’m not feeling too confident.
Hornshaw at RB again ?
I hope Cox at least starts Gillead and Eisa and plays them where they should be played. Jarvis and Turan upfront. Beestin and Spence in CM.
I don’t know why I even bothered to go through the team, we’ll lose by 2 goals at the very least.
I also think it’s ludicrous waiting for a player who’s held together with cellotape but there you go. I didn’t sign him and make him captain, did I ?
Ideally we need a RB as well but a GK and CM would go a long way to helping us out. McGahey is due back in a weeks time and I’ll be crossing everything in the hope Clarke not only get’s fit but stays fit for a good while !
I’ve just heard Cox’s latest interview in which he said that we are looking at signing 2 more experienced players. Ideally we needed 3 but 2’s better than nothing.
Swanny doesnt take any notice of what posters say on this site
So, he signs a team full kids with no experience around them…signs a rookie manager and then resigns a permacrock and makes him captain. Throw into the mix we have one of the most unbalanced squads in Scunthorpe United history and you think people are unfair in having their say ?
Are you real ?. This is solely down to swannster playing real life football manager with the club. If Swann fancies himself as a manager/play recruiter then he needs to pack up all his businesses, horses e.t.c and take the qualifications/courses and try and become one.
I’d rather he not play the role while he’s here and feck everything up in the process.
Cassidy, we could get them in the club then for a week and put them through their paces in training and if they come through and look fit enough, contract to end of the season.
No other option now…it’s either that or keep going with these kids in which we’ll most certainly be relegated anyway.
At this point, what exactly is there to lose ?
If we look at said players and they pass getting put through their paces in training/practice games…it’s a win, win for me.
Cassidy, in this case we have no choice…we’ve been forced into this position by Swannster. I only put forward those players as examples. I can’t be 100% they still have the energy to compete but we’re talking about a 31 and 33yr old who’ve both have been playing competitive games.
It’s either we dip into the free transfer market or we’re most certainly relegated. As I said above, we’ve been forced into this position.
Ferrite, not sure about how it works with it recently being altered but all I know is, is that we can sign players right now…which is all I care about.
Only problem is we have an already inflated squad which is drastically unbalanced which includes a raft of kids with little to no experience.
This is why chairman are supposed to be in the background and allow the football people to deal with the actual football.
This is what you get when you have a chairman who fancies playing real life football manager with a real life football club.
Joe Murphy… not played much football in past seasons.
I’d go Ben Alnwick personally. Last 2 season he’s played nearly 30 games in the championship and is only 33yrs old.
Played 87 games in last 4 seasons so least he’s been somewhat active. Last 2 seasons, Murphy has only played 4 games and is 38 yrs old…not far off 39. I’m for experience but when you get somebody of that age who hasn’t had game time, it’s a bit suspect even for my liking.
To be fair to Jarvis and Turan, they both look to have something. Loft despite his good start looks a donkey.
Hippolyte was a pointless signing because Dales is much better and he’s already here. I don’t get that signing at all.
Taylor’s signing was stupid, we already have Hallam, McAtee and Van Veen who play in that withdrawn striker role, albeit with Kev out injured.
You go down the list, most of the signings are pointless. Cordner’s heads gone but with a more experienced head next to him might come good and Vincent isn’t a bad player but needs an experienced head alongside him as well.
Les, in regards to players still “having the legs to do a job”….I suppose we get them in and have a look at them closely.
Anthony Wordsworth for example has played 47 games in the last 2 seasons and is only 31 years of age. Calum Woods the RB I saw who was available played 13 games last season at lg 1 level, setting up 2 goals and is 33yrs of age we’re not talking about spent forces here.
I’d get them both in personally with Jak Alnwick as the GK we need. All available and we could do with all 3.
I don’t think Mr Swann makes any decisions based on what people say on here or social media awaywego
Signing a load of players off your own back and appointing a perma crock as your club captain is plenty enough. That’s already way too much involvement for any chairman.
Scunnymatt, as I said above…I was genuinely surprised who are still out there without clubs still…not players you’d deem crap but players with pretty decent track record.
Only question is…..how much of the budget has Swann wasted whilst fulfilling his youth squad dream ?
