Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Away V Scunthorpe - Tuesday 23 March@ 7pm

Thought that was in.

 

I’ve seen enough. Amazing start lads, you really lifted us. But I’ve seen enough now to know it was a fluke, take us to the end of the season. Kept us up, great achievement.
Next season back to the youth team and make way to a high calibre proposition....... Graham Alexander, Richie Wellens.... yes please.
City fans fed up of ‘tread watering’, we can’t stomach another season tread watering in L2. Poor.

 

utter shit. the management haven’t learnt a fecking thing in these last 5 games

 

Hmmmm... The recent games are a worry. Simple elements of the game poorly executed and lacking in the effort department.

 

Really poor that. Like Carlisle, we’ve lost against a very very mediocre side and at times looked weak against Scunny coming forward.

We look like we have completely run out of steam and ideas vs where we were a few weeks ago. Perhaps a few players suffering from fatigue and maybe even getting caught up in the success of the form and struggling to dig in at the moment.

 

With the season truly done at this point, the management team need to get their act together an try something new. this current system does not work without cooke. it is baffling to say that we had to put on two strikers on near the end of the game to get a grip of the midfield. Rowe probably played more forward passes than the rest of the midfield combined.

What we have learnt though (some albeit is bleedingly obvious)
⚪️ Both fullbacks need upgrading. AOC is decent defensively an will provide good cover but isn’t adept enough to be an attacking influence. Wood on the other hand is either well off the pace (for some time I might add) or hes reached his limit. hopefully its the former.

⚪️ 1 Up top doesn’t work but we already know that

⚪️ Crankshaw can actually put in a decent cross, but He's limited too much by his defensive duties. he has potential; I just think the system we play is limiting him from showing that. Vernham on the other hand is a more finished article, if he could be given a free-er role, similar to what McCall gave Mark Marshall than I think we could get the best out of him. similar to cranshaw though, the system doesn't get the best out of him an he ends up going missing in games.

⚪️Our midfield is a shambles. Watt has gone off the boil, cant string a pass these days, leaving Sutton who isn’t the sort of player to play defence splitting passes, neither are. we need to upgrade, massively in that area come summer time, cus without it; we may as well assume we’re being managed by a younger an more naive version of PP. Have McCardle (Paudie) hoof it up the pitch to Hanson (Cook) and hope for the best. only unfortunate thing is we haven’t got a player like Wells to latch on to these knock downs; on the rare occasion we win em. speaking of which, give that lad from boro a go. hes been brought here for a reason, may as well at least try something new. ANYTHING new besides what we’re doing right now


Think thats about it. Management learn from your mistakes before it costs you. an get the summer window right. it’s imperative we do otherwise we’re gonna be stuck in this shithole of a league for years to come.

 

Confident of a third successive away win on Saturday, probably the same side as the one that drew with Port Vale

 

On the bench I'd imagine. Be surprised if he walks straight in. 2 from Clarke, Pritchard and Evans will start.

 

I'm hoping Sutton doesn't try too hard and gets himself sent off...

Score first and I think we'll go on to win it.

 

You have to wonder about the pitch being covered, questions need to be asked surely a club like Scunthorpe would have pitch covers, did they want the game called off ?.

 

Any reason why we can't get the Morecambe game played on Tuesday? We need to get fixtures played at the earliest opportunity

 

It was a Derby Side entirely comprised of youth players after they had a major covid outbreak this week. I don't even think the management team were there, and their training ground has been closed in recent days so they won't have had any opportunity to prepare.

 

Its piss poor. Their should be a consequence, probably a fine. Its really not good enough.

 

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If the pitch isn't playable today then its not gonna be playable tomorrow.
Don't know what they are holding back for in postponing this game.

 

Could efforts have been made (by the EFL not scunny) to have made options of using another ground where possible

They knew it would be a shortened season anyway, games affected by covid and games always postponed for bad weather, could they have asked teams to be flexible regarding fixtures.

Probably difficult but not unmanagable for someone to turn around and say scunthorpe's pitch isnt fit, but Donnys is fine so we will play there.

 

Amazing how a bit of good form helps them get the pitch fit to play

 

Games postponed, mind