Good – Midfield (defensively), defence.
Bad – anything that involved us going forward.
We could have played for 15 years and never scored. Poor Madine came on and I don’t think he touched the ball. We have absolutely zip going forward. No wonder no strikers want to come here as if they have seen us play then they know even if they scored 50 goals last season they wouldn’t get 5 this season. Even JJ has started passing the ball backwards (not all bad at least he is passing). Don’t see how anybody is getting excited about next season as we will get 46 0-0 draws.
If the back 4 stay the same good and don’t think they will do a lot wrong next season.
I know that this will come as a total shock but we need some one with an idea about attacking football. Today was 4 or 5 passes between midfield and defence then long ball to nobody, oh and by the way Clinton is total and utter .......... and that new boy trialist was good for 2 mins and then gave up.
Everyone enjoy next week I will be on a beach so I know I’ll be having a good time.
46 nil nil draws
posted on 30/7/11
i think today was full of positives imo, prutton was outstanding and i think semedo will be awesome for us and could be a legend in the making.
i honestly cant praise semedo enough.
megson has got us performing as a unit and that is what we need to get out of this league.
i must admit we didnt see much from the strikers but in fairness they were up against some quality out there.
im assuming jj was taken of as a precaution rather than that pullis put an offer in at half time .
we do need 2 more strikers but the ones we have will get goals this season
WTID
posted on 30/7/11
Kimmy and prof et al, good points. "Playing as a unit" is what we need to see. Football is a team game I don't care what anybody says it doesn't matter what players you've got if they can't play as a team. IF meggy has achieved that and IF we can be resilliant in the face of set backs then we will have a chance this year.
posted on 30/7/11
Kick em...Kick em hard...
posted on 30/7/11
You might laugh spartacus but I grew up playing football in Sheffield schools, football was a man's game in them days and a certain amount of kicking was expected.
posted on 30/7/11
You'll love Smeg...
posted on 30/7/11
I'm reserving judgement sparty but I do like to see a team play like a team. Kicking isn't a substitute for scoring goals, but you ain't going to get promoted out of L1 without having a bit of backbone!
BTW why aren't you out in Graves Park tonight?
posted on 30/7/11
Right then all of you that can’t read I shall try and say this simply. Everything about the defence and the defensive qualities of the midfield was the best I have seen in a long time and we didn’t’ look in any trouble today at all. We can have the best strikers in the world but without getting some sort of service to get given the ball they will not do anything. Our midfield including Prutton, Semedo and JOC (when he came on) all did a good job, as what has been said the back 9 looked like a unit. However the two up front stood no chance as there was nothing coming forward to give them anything in the way of service. As the title of the article says 46 nil nil draws. We just have nothing going forward at all. It is as if the midfield are 3 thousand miles away from connecting with the strike force. If anyone that went today didn’t see the same then I can’t see how, and I will gladly meet everyone for a beer and have a good old fashioned debate, my round first.
I genuinely love all this and disagreement is what it is for.
Thank you all,
Suffering - will it continue………. In the air at the moment but hope not.
posted on 30/7/11
Do the yoof still go in Graves Park? I though it was just the smack 'eds
posted on 31/7/11
Madine did touch the ball. He set up a chance for JOC just before the end.
Maybe GM would have more success finding a striker if he didn't insist that he will only have players whose names begin with M - Madine - Morrison - Modest. He has gone for Mellor & McDonald. Why won't he try players whose names begin with the other 25 letter of the alphabet?
posted on 31/7/11
Probably the same reason he's wasted 2 months chasing Mellor without any other irons in the fire..
Idiocy or Aspergers... I'd say the latter sums up Meggy!