Cods wallop?

[gazan]

So we won 4-1 away at Fleetwood in that amazing opening sequence of results. However, we all know that that won't mean anything tomorrow. We could do with Thomas being fit. Then the only difference in the team could be a lack of Sanders and probably Demetriou, getting his midweek rest, from the previous meeting.
We could do with some goals though. Bell went cautious after our goal on Saturday (rightly so on that occasion) but I don't think we can continue to see a repeat of that.
I'm not expecting much, particularly not another double, so 1-1.

[lukcour]

For me the same poor strategy again. Constantly losing possession through hoofball from defence. This leads to few attacking and goal opportunities . The stats for league2 highlights what a poor standard exists this season. We should be in the one of the top positions chasing promotionwith the squad we have got and there is no chance for that.

I want my team to suceed and get promotionif possible. I make no apologies that I am not like a lot of our supporters who are happy if we are midtable as long as our academy graduates are in the team and one of our own is manager. Football is about results.

IMO the likes of O`Reilly and Pond being academy graduates with their club are far in advance of our own graduates. Ours spend far too much time going through the motions and lack commitment.

Fortunately with David Vaughan as manager of our youth side we are for one of the first times getting success so hopefully our next generation of young players will be better prepard for league football. But unless there is a change of manager in the under21 team this is not going to happen. For the last 2-3 years that has been a disaster. I often hear that we are a club developing young players. In the current under21 team all they are developing is losers.

[lukcour]

Completely clueless and boringly bad.

[Harlzed]

Second game running that the keeper was MOTM probably speaks volumes. We did well to keep this to one. Poor that we didn?t have a shot on target given how well we started. We look very tired now and have a tough game at the weekend. I would be tempted to field a weak side at the weekend and save ourselves for Tranmere. A threadbare squad that?s kept itself together well in recent weeks has run out of legs I think.

[Timmy58]

Second game running that the keeper was MOTM probably speaks volumes. We did well to keep this to one. Poor that we didn?t have a shot on target given how well we started. We look very tired now and have a tough game at the weekend. I would be tempted to field a weak side at the weekend and save ourselves for Tranmere. A threadbare squad that?s kept itself together well in recent weeks has run out of legs I think.

That is a very fair assessment of the state of the team at the moment. I am not sure I agree about fielding a weak side tho. I suspect other clubs may have something to say about that. One word about the keeper, he was pretty awful first half. Didn't cost us a goal, but God knows how!. Much better in the second half though.

[gazan]

My title for this thread was meant to be a punny and (vaguely) amusing joke not a prediction of the Alex's performance. However, it turned out to be just that. Strange how everybody just fell apart at the same time. I exclude Thibaut from that as he was fouled every time he had the ball and received no support from anyone. I still don't get what people are seeing in Holicek. He's constantly caught on the ball and seems to be incapable of playing a front foot ball to a team-mate. The recipient always has to stop or slow down.
After the praise for his efforts against Gillingham, Connolly reverted to type. He'd be a half decent National League player if he had brains. Why can he not stop wrestling with players and giving away stupid free kicks? Apart from that, he reminds me of Sass-Davies, except Billy could head a ball straight. Both were sort of okay (on a good day) in a back 3 but incapable of playing well in a back 4.
I have to admit that they did look really tired. However, I'm sort of aware that another person who used to post on here may hark back to a time when there were no substitutes, pitches were quagmires and players used to have a cigarette to calm pre-match nerves. That's a caricature, of course but then.....
I can't allow just the players to carry the responsibility for this performance. After, again, giving praise to the management for their handling of the last few games , it all went out of the window last night. Taking off nearly all the midfielders and replacing them with strikers and expecting defenders to lump the ball up to them was not the most intelligent move. There was never anyone there for the second ball. The forwards were all in a straight line with nobody offering movement. Poor.
It was a bad night all round (my train was 30 minutes late as well!). Let's hope that's all it was but this performance makes you tremble about playing Swindon on Saturday.

[lukcour]

Oh come on Timmy you can`t let these comments pass. Have a right go at Gazan.

Wow he cannot see what anyone can see in Holicek when in the last match you had him down as nearlu the man of the match

Eagerly waiting for your comments.

Gazan you forgot the swig of pop after the pre match smoke LOL

[gazan]

Oh come on Timmy you can`t let these comments pass. Have a right go at Gazan.

Wow he cannot see what anyone can see in Holicek when in the last match you had him down as nearlu the man of the match

Eagerly waiting for your comments.

Gazan you forgot the swig of pop after the pre match smoke LOL

It is quite normal for people to have a different perspective on things. Why make it personal?

[jimmyboldon]

It is quite normal for people to have a different perspective on things. Why make it personal?

Passive aggression, bordering on bullying. That?s why.

[lukcour]

Well that is my first laugh of the day. Thank you both.

[gazan]

Well that is my first laugh of the day. Thank you both.

I don't understand why it makes you laugh. Does that mean you enjoy being like that?

[Timmy58]

I don't understand why it makes you laugh. Does that mean you enjoy being like that?

Cheers for you input Gazan. I have been away for a few days so only just caught up on all this. I am not too worried, it is right that we all have different opinions. I am an eternal pessimist but I try to view things with a positive outlook. There are some, and they appear on Facebook as well, who just drip negativity and it really is disappointing. We are unlikely to make the playoffs, and I know we could do with going up purely from the financial aspect. But getting promoted with the current team and whatever possible additions is likely to result in a season of struggling and ever more vitriol directed at the players, the management team and the chairman. I don't profess to know what goes on behind the scenes but I am fairly confident there is a lot of hard work going on both with the players and with the efforts to bring in some investment. the latter is a likely minefield and get it wrong it could set the club back years. Onward and upward.

[MikeSB]

Cheers for you input Gazan. I have been away for a few days so only just caught up on all this. I am not too worried, it is right that we all have different opinions. I am an eternal pessimist but I try to view things with a positive outlook. There are some, and they appear on Facebook as well, who just drip negativity and it really is disappointing. We are unlikely to make the playoffs, and I know we could do with going up purely from the financial aspect. But getting promoted with the current team and whatever possible additions is likely to result in a season of struggling and ever more vitriol directed at the players, the management team and the chairman. I don't profess to know what goes on behind the scenes but I am fairly confident there is a lot of hard work going on both with the players and with the efforts to bring in some investment. the latter is a likely minefield and get it wrong it could set the club back years. Onward and upward.

You keep drawing me in as people talk absolute nonsense which means they like the Chairman, Directors, management and coaches have zero idea about how football should be played. I mean what idiots came up with an idea that you play football to stop the other side scoring and basically sign defenders and not attackers/Strikers which should always be the priority and was for over 100 years before they morons got in charge.

You need ONE manager,not three,ie saving large sums of money for strikers etc. You get rid of an academy system that drains over one million pounds a season on negative football and players who haven't a clue etc.

That is ALL you need is ONE person who INSTRUCTS his players NOT to pass the ball sideways and backwards and they get fined for no shots on goal. people should not be paying large sums of monet to watch the crap they are watching at all levels of the game. You get fed up with hearing the obvious? Get used to the truth and not be happy just as it is...

[MikeSB]

When a team loses to another team that has not won a game for 9 months, then the whole management team and coaches should be sacked on the spot even though we may love them dearly. Football is a results game or isn;t it? What is the point of drearily losing games to head for another mediocrity season?

[gazan]

Thanks, your Highness for pointing out that ONLY YOU know anything about football. Who decided defending was a good idea...? Well, the Italians for about 20 years.
Lee Bell tried to play your way on Tuesday...at least 4 up front and nobody in the middle! And THAT was idiotic!!!