In this post you are being very rational but to use the phrase “ what have you done for me lately” is a phrase I would normally associate with a selfish ‘me me me’ type of person. Perhaps you are not that type of person, I certainly hope so and that it was said out of sheer frustration with the current situation. Perhaps you may wish to clarify.
Yes just get back to your bottle banjo
Ok so I'm glad we have found some common ground.
About Cameron's level I said I can't see him staying at League 2 level and that he could struggle in a normal team at NL level. By that I meant that he can do well in a good team at NL level because the focus would be more on his ability on the ball, with teams not able to carry too much of an attacking threat against him.
If he played for let's say a mid table NL team and had to defend a lot against burly quick attackers, I think he would struggle there as well. Basically, more than attributing a level to Cameron I was saying that I just don't think he is a natural defender - to me he doesn't seem to like defending and doesn't seem to have the natural instincts. Baldwin for example also makes a lot of mistakes but seems to relish getting into battles with defenders at least.
Re: goals conceded being due to our attacking style, yes we did disagree because I said that some of them were down to the style but a lot of them were down to our defenders.
You are going to absolutely hate this, but I would say
Maynard coming in has proved my point more than yours. We are still conceding 2 a game even though we are much less kamikaze now. Our wing backs have been told to stop more crosses coming in rather than just jockeying and they generally do that.
We are protecting the defenders more but the goals keep going in. Not all the errors have been from Cameron, not all of them from defenders/keepers (Crowley's leg dangle and Robertson's yellow card bonanza are mistakes that have changed the course of games not committed by defenders.)
Having said that, just in the SM era we have had Cameron deciding to eschew the new style of blocking crosses with hands behind back and opt to track the flight of the ball with his left hand, making sure to be half a step inside the penalty area for maximum stupidity. That cost us 2 points.
Then his cameo on Saturday
Sorry I fat fingered the send button and can't amend.
To continue the post:
Cameron's cameo on Saturday where his defending for the goal prompted the normally ultra diplomatic Stall to exclaim "Kyle Cameron, what are you doing?" or words to that effect. We can't say that cost us points exactly but it sucked the enthusiasm out of the stadium and turned the atmosphere. He had a couple of other dodgy moments too.
We have also had set pieces against where all the opposition's main aerial threat had to do was trundle round to the back post and head in unmarked.
Not forgetting Slocombe's pirouette or Rawlo coming on to sure up the defence against a physical striker and heading straight into his own net either.
Our back line (including keepers) is just really bad. We have tried to protect them more, but they will find a way to let goals in whatever we do.
That's why we have people who really don't want to criticise the team if they can avoid it, like Stallard and like the new manager, saying the defenders aren't good enough. Whatever people may think of Maynard's ability as a manager, I think he's absolutely right to say we aren't equipped to defend. We need new players in most defensive positions.
Of course, all pretty obvious to most.
Still thinking Maynard tactics team selection lack of motivation skills he's out his depth.
As I posted in another thread a Luke or jimbo team would have thrashed garbage like Salford
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