In comparison with this season, tonight's was a tremendous result. It's not our job to entertain the home fans. Shrewsbury proved that last Saturday.
Phillips in line for player of the season, oh you doubting ones!!
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In comparison with this season, tonight's was a tremendous result. It's not our job to entertain the home fans. Shrewsbury proved that last Saturday.
Phillips in line for player of the season, oh you doubting ones!!
We ended up with 1 more point than I'd anticipated.
We're now 11 points above 21st and 11 points off the play offs.
A poor quality game from both sides although entertaining, for me anyway. I thought we just shaded the 90 mins and both teams got into some great areas where a lack of quality in the final 3rd was on show. WTF do we do in training regarding crossing the ball? and how many times do we as supporters have to mention what is blatantly obvious that we need more attacking wide men and shouldnt be constantly relying on our full backs to get forward to cross the ball. Phillips is becoming more important to us and pulled off one or 2 really good saves, he commands the area well and came and got good punches to dangerous balls from set pieces, patrols the edge of the box for balls over the top, and has come on in leaps and bounds this season. A point away from home is always nice, but with a bit of composure it could have been all 3 but Blackpool will also be thinking that too and a draw seemed a fair result. UTM
What about entertaining the away fans?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jocksgloves1
A tremendous result it wasn?t it was ok. The performance was tedious.
Loads of regular away fans not there last night.
Tremendous.
I very rarely go away, so it's just the result that matters for me.
Fair enough but for me the result won?t make any difference to our season but we?re showing nothing to encourage us supporters that we?re on the right path.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jocksgloves1
Oh and the abuse of Powell last night from some fans at the end was uncalled for.
He?s missing having McWilliams at the side of him.
Wow, that's unbelievable any one of our supporters abusing Powell, Pocket. Whilst I didn't see it live and watched it on tv and by the standards Joe Powell has set himself this season, he didn't have the best of games quality wise, but he was constantly wanting the ball and always trying to get us on the front foot but it just didn't go for him last night. Anyone with any knowledge of football would have been able to see the commitment and desire of the lad last night and he is, for me anyway, our player of the season thus far. UTMQuote:
Originally Posted by Pocket rocket
I am surprised that people abused Powell, how insane is that? He works so hard for that team and is all over the pitch, look at how many assists he has got, never mind the number of times his tracking back has stopped a goal. Yes his set piece quality hasn't been as good as we all expected but my god, we are very lucky to have a player of that quality in our team. I also think that McWilliams is a bigger miss than people thought he would be. So looking at this season overall, my opinion is there is failure across key positions in the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pocket rocket
I won't defend Evans because i think he is a better manager in his head than reality shows. He surrounds himself with mediocre people (something I think he has in common with TS), because it is all about him. However if the tradesman isn't given the tools and materials to do the job, then the output will always be worse than it could have been. Now i have no idea if SE is to blame for pressurising the board to sign off on some deals to bring in some players, that meant we blew a good budget on a few players or whether it was others in the club that just gave bad contracts, what i will say is bad contracts have occurred at RUFC before SE came back. It is clear now that JCH and Raggott were gambles that have not paid off and I suspect they take quite a bit of that budget, however rafferty, Powell, james, Jules, McWilliams and Kelly (yet to see the best of him) have been decent L1 signings.
All teams get injuries it isn't unusual for a squad to have 4 or 5 out injured, so when you have a first team squad of 19 players excluding the U21 loans and internals and one of those 19 is a player you didn't want here (Kayode) then you get an outcome below what you would expect.
The squad is too small and for me that issue sits at board level, including the Director of Football Recruitment. We are not playing attractive football, losing repeatably to L2 teams and some of the basics like set pieces are poor and that sits at SE and PR door. What we are seeing is the accumulation of failure across the club.
SE: "I think it's a commendable performance when you consider we were without the likes of Sean Raggett, Dan Gore, who's heartbroken because he's going to miss a few weeks, we're missing (Johnson) Clarke-Harris, we're missing (Shaun McWilliams), we're missing (Alex) MacDonald. Do they start tonight? probably most of them do."
Translation: Well done on drawing against a team who haven't lost at home in the league since October (and who have only lost one in the league in almost three months). We were missing a player who got injured whilst watching from the bench on Saturday, another who I mouthed off about being a lightweight, but it's seemingly more serious than I'd very publicly suggested, and a few others. To be clear, despite my praise for tonight's effort, most of these lads who are injured would get a game ahead of those who played. I'm off now to speak to God.
Slowly he's getting a bit out of this incomplete squad as he gets to know them, and yet his man-management skills are still utterly useless. Gets a decent result then implies the injury yo-yo (Raggett), the completely immobile JCH, and/or a couple of players who were always assumed to be second string, would have started ahead of those putting the graft in.
11 points from either position of concern in the league, a season where there have been no standout performances we'll remember past May, a squad ready to be broken up again in the summer, a fan base at odds with each other and some of the players (honourable mention to whichever pillock(s) gave Powell a hard time), and the same resounding lack of noise from the Caesar seats about anything they want to do to create a bit of impetus - unless the hotel was meant to do that?!?! Or maybe things will change with the fictional centenary...?
Mediocrity and slipping down the league is fine, but absent leadership and archaic management grates all the more when that's happening.
No doubting his effort. However, he is the most appallingly bad user of a dead ball I have ever seen. That is indisputable. In fact there is very little contest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronners
Contrast that to the moving cross which supplied for the odo goal. Evans is negligent to keep allowing this.
Edit. To be equally fair, you could apply the same reasoning, accurately, to many other players for different reasons.
So many players, poor at certain things which completely undermines individual and collective performance.
No wonder things are as they are.