⚽ Match Thread vs. Salford City [EFL L2] 23.03.24

[Eastcoastultra1977]

That was absolutely garbage.No intensity,effort,confidence, nothing.End of season crap.

What does this manager say to the team? FO Maynard.

[The_Don_ORiordan]

No intensity, no movement, no pace.

Add to that a traffic cone in the middle of defence…..

[the_anticlough]

Really poor.

They're playing like Maynard's thought processes - hesitant, muddled, scared
And it starts with him. The answer to Nemane being out isn't to take Jones away from the left and put the toothless Chicksen there. From being down on one side, he's made sure we're down on both

Nemame - Austin
Jones -Jones

is obviously better than

Nemane - Jones
Jones- Chicksen

If he says it was to 'nullify' whatever Salford have, then I give up completely

[jackal2]

Really poor.

They're playing like Maynard's thought processes - hesitant, muddled, scared
And it starts with him. The answer to Nemane being out isn't to take Jones away from the left and put the toothless Chicksen there. From being down on one side, he's made sure we're down on both

Nemame - Austin
Jones -Jones

is obviously better than

Nemane - Jones
Jones- Chicksen

If he says it was to 'nullify' whatever Salford have, then I give up completely

I wrote my comments last night and this morning without having seen your post above, but we've seen exactly the same thing.

If Stuart Maynard can't get simple calls like that right, then there's no hope for him. He talks about consistency and getting "back to back wins" to build momentum, but then makes decisions that directly kill off any potential momentum he had from the Bradford game.

[the_anticlough]

I wrote my comments last night and this morning without having seen your post above, but we've seen exactly the same thing.

If Stuart Maynard can't get simple calls like that right, then there's no hope for him. He talks about consistency and getting "back to back wins" to build momentum, but then makes decisions that directly kill off any potential momentum he had from the Bradford game.

I think the whole ground saw that one, Jackal
Moving JJ to the right isn't the worst part of it. I always hate it when managers come in and have to 're-learn' all the old lessons the previous managers had to learn. While all us fans can do here is groan and say here we go again.

The evidence on Chicks at wing-back isn't in the 2022-23 goal total, as great as that was, it's in the film of every game in our run-in last year, and whenever he's appeared there this season. We all know Chicks is a solid defender, but we also know he doesn't have what it takes to attack L2 defences. It's horrible that we have to see SM learn that during the last throw of the dice to keep our season alive.