Mitchell Joins Eastleigh

[matt_magpie]

Unlikely, I'd say. The talk from the club when we signed him in 2021 was that he was the striker we'd wanted all summer (still not sure if we were after Dallas at that time, but I wish we had been). Also, I can't imagine Burchnall knowing that much about the league and players at that time, which wouldn't have been necessary anyway given our recruitment system.

The frustrating thing for me is that I still recall Kairo playing really well for Kings Lynn against us in the 2-2 draw in 2021 and even scoring the last-minute equaliser. He was a real handful that night, something we never saw when he played for us.

Good luck to him and I hope he now starts banging in some goals against our rivals.

Think I was one of few that thought he could be decent, now I’m a bit 50-50.
In all honesty I think he’s made 2 bad moves which wasn’t his fault.
It sounded like Rowe just discarded him because he went away with his national team and let’s face it that’s plausible with the type of person he is.
Then he moves to us with us playing one striker and Wooton was never going to be dropped.
Strikers need goals and therefore game time and he’s had little at both clubs. There’s also a lot of mickey taking on social media and when confidence is low that can only compound it.

[the_anticlough]

Think I was one of few that thought he could be decent, now I’m a bit 50-50.
In all honesty I think he’s made 2 bad moves which wasn’t his fault.
It sounded like Rowe just discarded him because he went away with his national team and let’s face it that’s plausible with the type of person he is.
Then he moves to us with us playing one striker and Wooton was never going to be dropped.
Strikers need goals and therefore game time and he’s had little at both clubs. There’s also a lot of mickey taking on social media and when confidence is low that can only compound it.

We know who he is as we've seen him at his best - and that's decent. Just not for a team chasing big things at the top end of the table. He could never get a run in the side and he's not at that level.
If a mid-table team gave him a run of a dozen matches, he'd prove himself IMO.
Prospects to get higher than that? Not great, or he'd have played with fury and desire against Coalville for example.

[MagpieNate]

LW suggested we are better with just Langstaff up front as we have more control with an additional midfielder. Might be that Scott will be the back up we all think we need.

Personally, I’d like a different option up front.

[legs77]

Yes but sometimes having an extra midfielder doesnt mean its a negative move it depends who you are playing and how do you expose their weaknesses.

An example could be Torquay play 442 which means 2 CMs if we go with 3 we might boss the midfield/game which gives you more chance of winning.

That is just my thinking but tactics go out the window if you have 4/5 players who play sh*t as you are likely to lose regardless of system.

[Magpies1959]

Just because it is a game we have to win, (as they all are at the moment) doesn't mean we can't control the game ad take it to them, as the second half at Solihull proved. Involved in taking it to them, and changing the game so that we controlled it was a certain JB. It seems when you have a dislike for a player, durham, that is it, they are cast aside and constantly blamed and barracked, thinking AN and JB in particular.
If LW decides the way to win tomorrow is Macca and Scott up front and less control then I am cool with that, equally if LW decides we need more control of the game to win it, by playing Macca as a lone striker and more control from midfield I am cool with that also.

[durhampie]

JB to date has had one decent display of 20 minutes, prior to that he has been poor. On that basis he doesn't deserve to be in the starting lineup ahead of those who have played well. If he continues to improve, then fine.

[legs77]

JB to date has had one decent display of 20 minutes, prior to that he has been poor. On that basis he doesn't deserve to be in the starting lineup ahead of those who have played well. If he continues to improve, then fine.

Bostock and Jones both played well when they came on at Solihull they both kept the ball and the game ticking over.

Nothing world beating but it doesn’t need to be, if the other team don’t have the ball they can’t score.

Personally I think JOB comes in tomorrow.

[Magpies1959]

So rather than be encouraged that a player has improved his performance (more than likely due to improved fitness), you would rather judge whether he should be in the team, based on his previous displays (not poor in my eyes), when not as fit. I do tend to agree with Legs77 that JOB will start tomorrow, as at the moment I think he is better suited to start a game than JB, GB or EF.

[Glad2BeAPie]

Has to be surely.

Maybe the plan is to play Macca on his own, and have Scott as a backup on the bench and get even more midfielders in. And if that is the plan, it's a mistake

[legs77]

Maybe the plan is to play Macca on his own, and have Scott as a backup on the bench and get even more midfielders in. And if that is the plan, it's a mistake

Yeah that would be a huge risk as if one of them got injured we'd only have one striker fit unless you consider Ruben one.