Partnerships

I was impressed with the triangular partnership of Halliday , Gilliard and Pointon in the Swindon and Wrexham games . Fast passing on the deck with desire to attack looked very good.

 

Both Taylor and Stubbs were hitting long balls yesterday, the difference is that Taylor is quite good at it and generally finds his man, whereas Stubbs usually misshits or overhits his passes.

 

You're right, one of the problems is the unbalanced squad size and frequent chopping and changing of personnel. There's no chance of building an understanding when you're in one minute and out the next. I would put the constant tinkering at the root of why we've been stuck in league 2 so long. Under Jewell, Parky, and Stuart to a degree, you could name 80% of the side on a game day. Not now, the defence changes too regularly and will probably keep changing until GA works out his best combinations. It'll be the same all over the pitch for the foreseeable, so I'm not expecting great results. Over the last 5 years, we've had way too many poor players and unbalanced squads, something I'm pleased GA has recognised and will hopefully address at the earliest opportunity. This lands squarely at the door of an inexperienced CEO who can't say no and allowed this to happen in the first place, and will probably continue to do so until he gets someone in the building who knows what they're doing.

 

Without a shadow of a doubt we need a pair of pacy, athletic , 6-4 centre backs who can reasonably dominate forwards . I couldn’t give a flying toss if they can’t spray around 50 yd passes. 20 yards with accuracy will do. Back to basics are required in the bottom two tiers….We ain’t Man City.

 

What about Tomkinson, the young lad we signed on loan from Norwich City ?

 

He is currently working on the theory that if you never play your stature grows exponentially and you become world class, as initially tested by Jake Reeves.

 

In fairness good call, but have we seen enough of him?

 

He looked OK against Man City's kids, but that doesn't tell us much.