The standard of recruitment while we were in the National League was very good, self-evidently otherwise we wouldn't have been promoted with more than 100 points. The squad as a whole last season...
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The standard of recruitment while we were in the National League was very good, self-evidently otherwise we wouldn't have been promoted with more than 100 points. The squad as a whole last season...
I've said previously that the current ownership won't make quick decisions to dispense with any of their Head coach appointments. They are data-led people who will want a decent sample size before...
That's certainly true!
At least we don't need to spend too long working out where the strengthening needs to be.
70 goals scored, second best in the league behind Mansfield.
70 goals...
Ironic, Robertson's been our best player for weeks, and tonight when most of the other players have improved, he has the proverbial 'mare! :s
Made it to half time 1-0 up. Not sure I want an "end to end" game when we're winning, but we probably couldn't play a containing game if we tried!
Good lad Sam!
I rate Cedwyn Scott highly too.
Yes he isn't proven in League Two yet, due to his very unfortunate injury, but I'd certainly want to give a fully fit version of him a chance to prove himself at...
I hadn't realised, but it sounds like a bloody good plan! :D
That's far too bleak. Fans are fickle both ways.
To quote your words, if we won the last 11 games, stormed the play-offs and went up, with the squad as it is, the fans would be singing Stuart...
Whatever Maynard's faults may be, it's being acknowledged by most that he's inherited a defence not properly equipped for this league, and he's right that this has been evident all season. So far,...
It could be a degree of naivety in deciding where to focus their recruiting energies, placing too much faith in the defenders we already had. We don't tend to 'churn' the squad as much as we once...
We've recruited plenty of good players, the latest being Scott Robertson, but you're still absolutely right.
We're very short (literally) of players who can dominate our own penalty box and lead...
It does look bizarre. I think he decides to come for the ball and then either changes his mind or collides with two players jostling in front of him, but either way the reaction is so melodramatic...
I'll correct this earlier comment above. I'd formed the impression that Austin came on to play the same role as O'Brien in deeper midfield, but having seen Stuart Maynard's interview they apparently...
If the current run of form, or not much better, goes on for another month or so, then I'm pretty sure Stuart Maynard will not be in charge next season and may not even make it to the end of this...
Jim O'Brien was excellent, constantly taking the initiative defensively and offensively, giving it everything for as long as he could, as he always does, and when he left the field he was spent. ...
My impression today was that the players individually were trying much harder to do the right things defensively and put in more meaningful challenges, and for much of the game it worked, but...
It's always in the last place you look! XD
Referring to the team or squad as "the group" seems to have become a cliche in modern times. "Not getting too high after a win or too low after a...
I think that's mostly true to be honest, but I wouldn't necessarily use it as a criticism of either the previous Head Coach or the current one. I think it's just the nature of getting promoted and...
"Give the manager more time" may well be a cliche and I didn't write it, but I did write "evolution not revolution", which I suppose is another! XD
Seven games and one month isn't enough time to...
It's certainly one of the most commonly used cliches on message boards, in the absence of a properly explained counter argument. >;)
For the overwhelming majority of the past two years (at least),...
Look for solutions within their model, and rightly so. It served us brilliantly last season, and it did reasonably well at the start of this season, but at the moment we've hit a wall and some...
It'll mean three away games in succession for us too.
Another thing that strikes me about our central defenders is that they're relatively young for that position, aside from Rawlo, and Brindley who isn't really a centre-half anyway. If there's one...
...or to put the above in Neil Warnock parlance, "We're soft as sh**!"