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Just How Bad Is This Squad?

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by JonButterfield, Nov 21, 2020.

  1. Rogered Tart

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    Has to have been, its the only time in the past 20 years something has worked at VP, so can't trust anyone else at the club to have implemented it.
     
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  2. trevor

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    Was it around this time last season as we struggled around the same position that posters were saying do not worry, plenty of time we will not go down.....
     
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  3. Bronco

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    This time last season we were already down, that's why we employed Bowyer because of his record of getting Blackpool promoted first time.
     
  4. bantamdave41

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    Just a note. We didn't get relegated last season. That be the season before gents!!! We was 7th at this time last season..

    Freudian slip?
     
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  5. Bronco

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    I though I post that, you on the lash ;).
     
  6. bantamdave41

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    Either I've misread or I'm daft as a brush. As a betting man, I'm on the latter :)

    No alcohol for me mate. Gave it up on February 13th after a bad situation in Chester and a subsequent trip to the doctors. 281 days dry and feeling great!!
     
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  7. NorthernMonkey

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    Watching City games competely sober? You poor, poor man.
     
  8. Somerset Bantam

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    The defense is taking a lot of flack, but I find it difficult to truly judge them when we have a midfield that offers them absolutely no protection at all - teams just seem to waltz through us as if there is noone there. Watt, for all his qualities, offers the defensive protection of a chocolate fireguard.

    The best teams defend as a team - we do not.
     
  9. bantam2708

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    My guess is Nathan Thomas who went to Hamilton.
     
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  10. XCIV_Bantam

    XCIV_Bantam Squad Player
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    Wonder if it was within the wage cap or not. Hopefully people are starting to realise we cant spend to get out of this league. I also wonder if we are laying off signings till new CEO comes in...
     
  11. Get Rid Of It

    Get Rid Of It Squad Player
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    If it was Nathan Thomas then City were looking to bring in a left winger and seeing where he has been out on loan it is very hard to believe he was wanting too much money.
    Unless we are so skint City cannot even afford to spend the salary cap limit.
     
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  12. JonButterfield

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    Our (available) attacking options in recent games:

    Billy Clarke - easily the best of them, but at 32 he's not going to suddenly become a prolific goalscorer. Clarke is a complimentary forward, not one to rely on.

    And then you have this lot:

    Donaldson - finished
    Samuels - a kid with no experience of scoring goals at any senior level
    Dylan Mottley Henry - categorically not league standard, nothing to do with age

    How maddening is that?!

    Guthrie being fit would make naff all difference, so that leaves all our hopes on an injured Lee Novak, who is an average League Two striker who will probably score 10 goals if he plays 46 games.

    DE.

    PRESS.

    ING.

    And for all the talk of free agents, good luck finding a goalscorer...

    Stuart got it badly, badly wrong by relying on DMH - and he got it badly, badly wrong reinforcing our front line with the Samuels kid. Two massive mistakes that are going to cost him his job.
     
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    I agree.But how can he get it SO wrong.He’s been in pro football all his life and it’s incredible how he can see things so differently.DMH will never be a league standard player as long as he’s got a hole in his arse.Yet Stuart sees it so different.Baffling.
     
  14. JonButterfield

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    He must have gambled on the cheap with DMH and Samuels. Look, I'm not tearing Samuels apart or anything, but he could do with learning about League football in a side that creates more chances - his getting starts for us where we are now is a waste of everyone's time.

    All I can say is McCall thought he get the best out of a rapid winger and a pacey young, hungry striker.

    But the more injuries we get to the old duffers, the more teenagers we've got walking into our first team. That they do admirably for their age is nowhere near good enough for what we actually need. I think Hosannah is the only young player who would get game time under Parkinson, and yes, that does include Staunton.
     
  15. River_City_Bantam

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    Having drifted our way into one of the most unnecessary relegations ever a few years ago, we now seem to want to repeat the process, only without the safety net of another League division below us. I cannot get my head around the idea that Stuart is either so mid-bogglingly thick, or incompetent, as to be satisfied with the players he's got -- regardless of what has been said publicly. But what does that leave other than pressure from above to cut costs, seemingly at all costs, and not sign the types of players we all know we need? We are now tracking below the guaranteed-safety pace in terms of points and the games through December will be tough.

    With apologies to Joe Strummer:

    "...an' I wanna move the City to the Clash City Rockers / We need a little jump of electrical shockers..."

    Because right now we are more the "City of the Dead"!

    RCB
     
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