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

The “positive strides” we made in January have been minimal. Only Canavan has made a meaningful impact.

 

Interesting that Trueman said that the team were too expansive at the start of the game, and believes that contributed to their early goal. Clearly Trueman will stick with the 4-3-2-1 going forward and try and make us harder to beat again, rather than attacking teams from the off

 

Not sure the poor lad knows whether he is coming or going with this system, he has started receiving the ball and passing it back half the time, has he been told ‘keep possession’? Needs to be putting full backs under pressure they had a player making a debut tonight must have been laughing his tits off.

for me both him or Vernam are equally as bad right now, it just isn’t working in midfield, that includes Watt who looks done, and needs a major rethink and changes.

 

Need to start playing people who are going to be here next season

No disrespect to Donaldson but he's not gonna be here next season.

Also play Cousin-Dawson right back. AOC not gonna learn more that he's not a right back and he's out of contract and gone in summer.

 

So we were well beaten by a poor Scunthorpe side and you reckon that is a positive?

 

Agree about FCD, however, unavailable tonight due to international call up from Northern Ireland

 

Do you know him.....................

 

Possibly, but the removal of several players who were clearly not good enough was also a positive was it not? My point is there was work to do then, and a start was made, and there is further work to do now.

 

How many of the new signings would you give more than 5 out of 10 over the piece? Canavan? I can see others may benefit from a different system.

 

Sales will be poor next season anyhow with all the uncertainty still about when all fans can be admitted to stadiums again.

 

Did I say it was a positive

 

He put two great crosses in second half which should have lead to goals much better of the two in my opinion

 

He put two great crosses in second half which should have lead to goals much better of the two in my opinion

 

Sadly both players have gone backwards, we know playing wide men can be a massive advantage if that players is getting the ball and taking his full back on, he's still a kid and learning, we saw tonight how someone like Gilliead can pick the ball up and make yardage into the oppositions half.
Andy K saying Cranshaw has been our best player the last two games firing good crosses into the box, as they say footballs a funny old game.

 

Which they will ignore and cherry pick the ones that cause no aggro.

 

Yes we were unlucky not to score but Scunthorpe were unlucky not to score another 2 or 3.

 

My concern is that I was really optimistic when Sparks set out his agenda and appointed Bullock and the joint managing duo to address the dire situation we were in.So having been euphoric at the start it gave us I witnessed what can be achieved. However, like most of us, my belief is waning and another flash in the pan doesn't ease my concern. Ultimately we can rightly question T&C, but in my view there is also a collective responsibility to look into our stuttering progress which must also involve Ryan and Lee imo. Too many false dawns of late down at VP so a bit of humility and home truths would not go amiss with the fans right now.

 

How long is his contract? Bit of a punt taking on an untried 32 year old with only non league history. Of course, in the right formation it may pay off, but do we change the whole team just for one player?

 

Nah, we don't change the whole team for him by any means, but he's already shown he can be useful whether he starts or comes off the bench. He's just not consistently excellent, which pretty much describes every striker at our level.