Player ratings vs. Salford City 14.12.24

[Observerpie]

What a spineless display, no desire whatsoever. No player gets more than a 5 from me and some less than that.

[ThaiPie]

What a spineless display, no desire whatsoever. No player gets more than a 5 from me and some less than that.

Yes, agree. Nobody terrible, but nobody did anything good. Just everybody poor. A collective 5.4 from me.

[MapperleyMagpie]

Yes, agree. Nobody terrible, but nobody did anything good. Just everybody poor. A collective 5.4 from me.

Agreed , no one deserves more than a 5 and some like all the midfield 3.5

[SmiffyPie]

Lots of huffing and puffing but no va-va-voom from any of them. Everyone responsible for producing that team and that performance, below average.

[marshall55]

They are either so unfit or just can't be bothered or a combination of both

[irishpete]

You can actually give them a rating???
Pathetic performance from professionals

[irish_pie]

That was absolutely garbage today, Salford looked the better organised and coached team...they simply wanted it more and didn't make the ridiculous mistakes that we did on numerous occasions ...Bass has had a bad few games but still a brilliant keeper for us....Not many deserve a mention especially the back line which was all kinds of shocking... if SM defends that performance he needs sacking tonight...very bad day at the office

[Pie-eyed&legless]

Looking at some of the training video’s I wonder if there is any coaching of our players or do they just knock the ball to each other?

[Woodsetts_Pie]

I was tempted to give ratings for the first time but there?s no point. 4, maximum 5 all round.

A captain cajoles & whips players into shape if they?re not doing the business. MP today was a silent captain.. To me that?s no Captain.

I agree with Marshall55, the lethargy - not just today but in most matches I?ve seen makes it look like the team have trained for 4 hours before they actually get to kick off.

My main blast tonight has to be for Maynard. I?ve thought for a while that he is tactically naive. But that assumes he knows what he?s doing in the first place. I?ve come to the conclusion he?s tactically stupid. To continue with right footed players on the left; left footers on the right; Abbot further forward than Crowley; Crowley further back than Abbott; Jatta always coming back from an offside position (happened with ML as well); One up front game after game; Substitutions just to give people ?minutes in legs? or save legs etc.

Is recruitment the problem, as some think? I?m not sure. If players are played in positions where they can play well, with confidence, and make a positive impact we would be 6 or 7 points better off by now.

But they?re not.

[BigFatPie]

I can understand no one wants to do them but I thought such a piss poor performance deserved some further consideration!

Bass 4 Is Slocombe coaching him one on one? The lad who started earlier in the season seems to have forgotten how to kick the ball, and he?s not making many saves either.

Tsaroulla 6 Not bad first half got forward ok, but he?s just being massively handicapped by being played on his wrong side. Has chances to put an early cross in but he inevitably comes back inside and the chance is lost.

Platt 6 Again did ok, headed it and cleared it when required. Like everyone else looked uncertain in possession. CD

Bedeau 5 Looked off it, some heavy touches and poor passes. Some refs may have sent him off for that challenge near the end.

Ness 5 Looks fairly uncomfortable on the ball, steady in defence but not entirely sure why Macari was dropped to make way for him to be fair.

Austin 4 I remember when he played left wing back at Salford last season and was really good. It?s indicative of how we?ve gone downhill since then that he was pretty bad today, the latest in a series of anonymous performances that have been nothing like the old Sam Austin we once knew.

Palmer 4 I really don?t want to criticise him because we all know what a good player he can be, but performances like today?s prompt the question of what does he do? Because apart knock it back 10 yards into his own half it wasn?t much. Like Austin it?s got to be much more than a coincidence that he?s become a much worse player under Maynard.

Crowley 7 Great to see him back, even if it was in that stupid withdrawn position that Maynard insists on playing him. Held on to the ball too long and tired before he was pulled off but the little bit of quality we had went through him.

Abbot 6 Plaenty of energy, got forward more than before but like others it didn?t seem awfully clear to me what he was trying to do. At this rate he?ll be getting recalled, cos Spurs won?t want his confidence being knocked by our clown show.

Didzy 4 Got round the pitch but nothing worked. He?s getting on a bit but he wasn?t like this under Williams. Just another example of someone who?s a different player under this coach. And not in a good way.

Jatta. 3 His worst game for Notts. Simply terrible, missed an early chance and it went downhill from there. Couldn?t have trapped the proverbial bag of cement. What?s gone wrong when we couldn?t even take him off today?

Martin Hinchy Crap and anonymous respectively.

Maynard -10. I know quite have few have jumped on the bandwagon just lately but I don?t recall having such a dislike for a coach pretty much from the off. . Sets us up appallingly, has zero charisma, takes no responsibility for anything, talks in the most banal of cliches, has nil ability to change a game and seems to do nothing except make players worse.
We really do have some good players and he?s totally wasting them.