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Post by upthejunction on Jul 30, 2022 22:21:01 GMT
Today's futile performance has raised the heckles with a lot of supporters who in fairness saw this coming. Whilst individual performances were poor by many players, the bottom line is that the team was not prepared ready for the season. The pre-season matches have not helped in gelling a team capable of competing in this league. The formation is inappropriate for the personnel on the books. Taylor did well but he is a centre half. Clarke is nowhere near ready to be blooded. Wilmott is not playing in a role that suits him so he looks poor. Flint looks solid but decieves. The midfield lacks bite, ability to hold the ball and pass. The forwards are not getting service. We lack structure, pace and creativity. There are no leaders on the pitch. Unfortunately the Management and coaching staff have drastically failed, during the close season, to put in place the basics necessary to compete.
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Post by Gods on Jul 30, 2022 22:32:48 GMT
Good points, even if you did abandon those old grammatical favorites the sentence and the paragraph!
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Post by nottsover60 on Jul 30, 2022 23:47:54 GMT
Today's futile performance has raised the heckles with a lot of supporters who in fairness saw this coming. Whilst individual performances were poor by many players, the bottom line is that the team was not prepared ready for the season. The pre-season matches have not helped in gelling a team capable of competing in this league. The formation is inappropriate for the personnel on the books. Taylor did well but he is a centre half. Clarke is nowhere near ready to be blooded. Wilmott is not playing in a role that suits him so he looks poor. Flint looks solid but decieves. The midfield lacks bite, ability to hold the ball and pass. The forwards are not getting service. We lack structure, pace and creativity. There are no leaders on the pitch. Unfortunately the Management and coaching staff have drastically failed, during the close season, to put in place the basics necessary to compete. I don't see the point of our pre season games. We didn't play any high quality opposition apart from Leeds early on when we were only just into pre season training and they presumably were even further away. I thought the matches were supposed to increase in intensity. We didn't play the same eleven once I don't think so they weren't used to familiarise the players with each other or team shape. They didn't build confidence as we lost to inferior opposition. I never read much into pre season but I did wonder what we were hoping to achieve from our matches this year. It seemed to be just to 'get minutes into players' legs' but surely you can do that in training matches saving the expense of travel and I would guess hotel expenses. This especially seems to be the case when you look at the minutes given to younger players who are not yet going to be part of the match day squads. |
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Post by thevoid on Jul 31, 2022 0:10:13 GMT
Good points, even if you did abandon those old grammatical favorites the sentence and the paragraph! American spelling of 'favourite' there 😉 |
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Post by Gods on Jul 31, 2022 8:22:20 GMT
Good points, even if you did abandon those old grammatical favorites the sentence and the paragraph! American spelling of 'favourite' there 😉 Spellchecker! |
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Post by deeside2 on Jul 31, 2022 8:27:45 GMT
MON just seems to be going through the motions until he's sacked. There's no organisation, drive, commitment, passion, or determination, and the team just look so slow, one-paced, abd downright despondent.
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Post by xchpotter on Jul 31, 2022 8:31:01 GMT
We often seem undercooked when a season starts, whether that is physically or tactically. You would think though that considering how important this season is after successive years a bit more effort might have been put in my management and coaches to make sure we hit the ground running. It just seems like the undercurrent of apathy and “that’ll do” still runs strong throughout the club.
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Post by wilcopotter on Jul 31, 2022 8:32:49 GMT
Today's futile performance has raised the heckles with a lot of supporters who in fairness saw this coming. Whilst individual performances were poor by many players, the bottom line is that the team was not prepared ready for the season. The pre-season matches have not helped in gelling a team capable of competing in this league. The formation is inappropriate for the personnel on the books. Taylor did well but he is a centre half. Clarke is nowhere near ready to be blooded. Wilmott is not playing in a role that suits him so he looks poor. Flint looks solid but decieves. The midfield lacks bite, ability to hold the ball and pass. The forwards are not getting service. We lack structure, pace and creativity. There are no leaders on the pitch. Unfortunately the Management and coaching staff have drastically failed, during the close season, to put in place the basics necessary to compete. MON post match interview is worrying when talking about the goals conceded. Basically, he said he doesn’t have any better defenders, they couldn’t cope so he swapped markers and they didn’t cope, even went on to say the second goal being a volley and the nature of it was concerning. Well, if that’s the manager more or less saying the defence isn’t good enough, then we looked deep in it imo. |
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jul 31, 2022 8:36:51 GMT
Can someone tell me, why does MON persists with this formation when it clearly doesn't work?
Shirley his assistants can have a word in his ear, or are they just yes men? They must realise they will be out of a job too if MON is sacked.
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Post by nottsover60 on Jul 31, 2022 8:38:10 GMT
American spelling of 'favourite' there 😉 Spellchecker! ... is very annoying when you know you have spelled things correctly. I get fed up of it changing were to we're. EDIT: and we'll to we'll as it has in this sentence and as it just did to me in another thread. I sometimes think it knows I hate misplaced apostrophes! |
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Post by Gods on Jul 31, 2022 8:38:11 GMT
Today's futile performance has raised the heckles with a lot of supporters who in fairness saw this coming. Whilst individual performances were poor by many players, the bottom line is that the team was not prepared ready for the season. The pre-season matches have not helped in gelling a team capable of competing in this league. The formation is inappropriate for the personnel on the books. Taylor did well but he is a centre half. Clarke is nowhere near ready to be blooded. Wilmott is not playing in a role that suits him so he looks poor. Flint looks solid but decieves. The midfield lacks bite, ability to hold the ball and pass. The forwards are not getting service. We lack structure, pace and creativity. There are no leaders on the pitch. Unfortunately the Management and coaching staff have drastically failed, during the close season, to put in place the basics necessary to compete. MON post match interview is worrying when talking about the goals conceded. Basically, he said he doesn’t have any better defenders, they couldn’t cope so he swapped markers and they didn’t cope, even went on to say the second goal being a volley and the nature of it was concerning. Well, if that’s the manager more or less saying the defence isn’t good enough, then we looked deep in it imo. Perhaps he is thinking Souttar is the answer to fixing the defence. Trouble is I don't think we'll see the big man this side of January which is about the time the manager may be picking up his P45. Which for us normally follows the FA Cup round 3 exit against league 2 opposition! |
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Post by wilcopotter on Jul 31, 2022 8:43:21 GMT
MON post match interview is worrying when talking about the goals conceded. Basically, he said he doesn’t have any better defenders, they couldn’t cope so he swapped markers and they didn’t cope, even went on to say the second goal being a volley and the nature of it was concerning. Well, if that’s the manager more or less saying the defence isn’t good enough, then we looked deep in it imo. Perhaps he is thinking Souttar is the answer to fixing the defence. Trouble is I don't think we'll see the big man this side of January which is about the time the manager may be picking up his P45. Which for us normally follows the FA Cup round 3 exit against league 2 opposition! If he truly is waiting for Souttar or even Powell to come back and fix things after signing 7 players that really does tell you how bad it is. |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Jul 31, 2022 8:44:33 GMT
... is very annoying when you know you have spelled things correctly. I get fed up of it changing were to we're. That’s the most annoying one! |
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Post by xchpotter on Jul 31, 2022 8:52:22 GMT
Can someone tell me, why does MON persists with this formation when it clearly doesn't work? Shirley his assistants can have a word in his ear, or are they just yes men? They must realise they will be out of a job too if MON is sacked. I used to have an assistant called Shirley…she was rubbish at her job. |
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Post by tomdickorharry on Jul 31, 2022 9:12:04 GMT
Shirley you would have warned her
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Post by kidcrewbob on Jul 31, 2022 9:19:55 GMT
Seems MoN cannot motivate, communicate or react effictevly to the the ebb & flow of a game - the players looked like they didn't know what they were doing for the most part
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Post by a on Jul 31, 2022 9:33:25 GMT
Perhaps he is thinking Souttar is the answer to fixing the defence. Trouble is I don't think we'll see the big man this side of January which is about the time the manager may be picking up his P45. Which for us normally follows the FA Cup round 3 exit against league 2 opposition! If he truly is waiting for Souttar or even Powell to come back and fix things after signing 7 players that really does tell you how bad it is. Absolutely. Yet another excuse. |
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