Away vs Cambridge United - Sat 15 Feb 2020

McCartan was playing in midfield, 4-5-1.

 

When McCartan was on we were 4231, against their 442. We had a man over in midfield because it's more a 451 out of possession. The extra man is something which we absolutely have to do because we're not strong enough to play a flat two. Then he went off we went 343/541 and it was 2v2 in the centre of the park which, without a ball winner, we cannot play.

 

Fair play to you for going but maybe your anger should be aimed at the players who were not marking their man for both goals? And for the run up to the Grimsby goal?

I didn't see anyone on here unhappy with the team sheet at 2pm.

Better defending and we would be 5th.



The brutal truth is that we just have too many bang average players.

 

A huge Akpan sized hole. He was knackered by about 60 minutes.

 

You are more obsessive over Stuart than @Ricc.

 

when has Akpan ever put a foot in anywhere hes a fecking coward

 

Ah OK. T and A team sheet had in up top with Novak. Only listened to last 20 mins on T'Radio

 

Just seen the table. How the feck are we still within touching distance of the playoffs? My god this league is shite.

Just imagine if we hadn't had to suffer Bowyer for half a season we may well have been planning for league one already.

 

Yes, I know he's poor and to be fair the midfield cupboard is both well-stocked and bare. But it can't be denied that the game changed significantly when Paudie came on. He's just the latest in an enormously long line of players who come to us with good track records and highly thought of but turn out to be useless for us. And, conversely, there are those who are useless for us and go on to be great elsewhere. This has been going on for so long that there must be some fundamental explanation. I just think that we're a club that's very naive in the football world and consistently just don't get managerial appointments or player signings right.

 

Fundamentally we are what we are. Spent most of our time in the lower echelons of the football league. Made it to the promised land of the top division of supposedly the best league in the world. But we were doomed to fail. We are what we are. No getting away from it.

 

Could be all down to to the coaching set up the team can't do the basics. It all went downhill when McCall was sacked by Rahic. Then we had Collins /Drury then Drury /Greyson then Drury /Hopkins and then Drury /Bowyer is there something we're missing.

 

Drury and Jankel from the Blockheads.

 

Hit me with your rythm stick !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I’m not having this ‘let the manager have time to get his own team’ crap again. You can’t give every manager this excuse. McCall has inherited a squad before and got them playing decent football. Admittedly it was a better squad but it’s clear where the faults are and hopefully Stuart can see where the issues are to resolve them with the squad he has at the minute. We have enough players to be able to compete for a play off position this season.

 

They certainly used the wind to there advantage the second half, I saw the whole of the second have and was not surprised why he brought another defender on they we camping in our last third but he also brought Connolly on who put a great cross in that really Novak should have done better with the header.
Prichard was brought on to try and give more in midfield, we got beat and it hurts because they scored two late goals but Cambridge were so much on top second half it surprised me they didn't score before any subs were made we were living a charmed life at the back.

 

Thanks Tom. Glad to see somebody's got a sense of humour.

 

To be honest Bronco that could have been a game changer. If that had gone on the feeling on here would be totally different. And so would my bank balance.

 

Supported City for over 60 years.
You need a sense of humour when you're a city fan.

 

Touche.