Most liked posts in thread: Away vs Crawley Jan11th

Because our manager has no idea how to coach attacking football. I genuinely believe he hasn't a clue.

 

'Til Meghan says he can come back...

 

Wake up and smell the coffee, it’s not about the defeat today, it’s about the consistent poor performances and draws away from home we should be winning.
Did you see Plymouth battered Carlisle today, a 400 mile trip. Remind me how we struggled to a 0-0 draw up there.

 

Enough is enough.

That’s it for me, Bowyer did nothing to arrest the slide out of league One and has underperformed this season with the resources at his disposal having been backed to the hilt.

Time to go Bowyer, and take your awful brand of football with you.

 

I don't think today's shambles had much to do with formations or tactics, as far as I saw we had players who could not play a simple ball to a team mate, time after time after time.
We had players not picking up loose balls, players letting opponents run at them without a challenge, and players continually playing sideways and backwards, the entire midfield was woeful and I don't know what beef Reeves had when subbed, he was terrible.
A shocking performance that made Crawley look top of the league material.
Thanks lads, a 06.55 start today and not due back until 22.30 all being well, over £200 spent, pissed off? Bloody right I am.
Cannot even be bothered rating them, but plenty of 4's

 

Good idea,I would of made them all walk home!

 

This would be my starting lineup

O’Donnell
Henley
BRE
O’Connor
Wood
Connolly
Reeves
Cooke
Ismail
Vaughan
Doyle

call me old fashioned but this team would win the league.

 

23 goals for swindon, most prolific striker in Europe, he spends 45 mins back here playing Bowyerball, and you think its Doyle who's shit?

 

Don't blame Doyle, he's shown what he's capable of. Not his fault we create absolutely knack all. Bringing him back has shown our frailties as an attacking side. That won't change no matter who you put upfront.

 

It’s a strange thing how certain players only perform at certain clubs. Not here to rub your noses in it, but this has really blown up in your faces. Granted, only one game and things may change.

Has anyone checked in on Fordy?

 

Doyle starts

 

That result showed our inadequacies for all they are worth. We bring back the top scorer in the league and create jack frigging sh!t for him. Yet Swindon don't seem to have trouble finding the net. Sick to death of watching the same boring shite week in week out. If i was Doyle i'd be pleading with Power to open the purse strings to bring him back, what sort of striker wants to slog their guts out every week with little to no chance of scoring. We've already ruined Vaughan.

 

Bloody optimism got to me, train tickets booked.
7.01 from T'interchange, back at 22.30, down to the Valley for match tickets tomorrow.
Please don't let me down again lads.

 

There first goal was a joke our two central defender both challenging for the same ball allowing the lad to get a shot away, having said that the lad hit it firmly.
Today can't even be written off as a bad day at the office because we've seen similar and got away with it.

 

You're asking the team to suddenly complete change the on field philosophy at the drop of a hat after being in a defensive mindset all season. Not one of our victories or draws has come off the back of free flowing attacking football bar possibly Swindon and first half against Salford. I thought Doyle coming back would pose problems for Bowyer and it has. He has no idea how to get the best out of his strikers, Vaughan looks fed up. We're in the play offs but not by any virtue of attacking football.

 

What an absolute shocker of a performance.

Weak in the tackle. No innovation. No creativity. No urgency. No pace. No strength. NO MOVEMENT!!!! We were second best all game, the final score flattered us and we thoroughly got what we deserved.

Have to be fair to Crawley, they beat us in every position and part of the pitch.

Granted, we were marginally better the second half but not by much. The first half was as bad a performance I can remember for a long time. Palmer and Henley were very poor. The normal dependable AOC and BRE were given the run around by Palmer for them upfront.

McCartan was the only one who made a difference and tried to get his foot on the ball and look forward. Doyle and Vaughan were given absolutely nothing to work with Bowyer urgently needs to address this. I can’t recall making the keeper work once.

Not a good day in the office at all. Dramatic improvement needed not just in the next home game, but more so at Colchester.

 

Every time I've seen City this season they have been utter garbage, in the last 2 wins l honestly don't think we were any better than the opposition, Mansfield & Morecambe!

I am not used to these players, but l looked at Richards-Everton in the first comical moments v Morecambe and he reminded me of Matt Clarke.....but in clogs. Then the penny drops, he's our CB, one that Accrington Stanley didn't really want. Then as it became apparent that only Reeves could control the ball as well as Morecambe l realised just how many shit players we have. I just don't buy the idea that we have a good squad, l think it's a shit one.

 

The "solution" is as follows

1. Stop blaming Bowyer for the relegation and realise that we're in a far better position than the likes of you predicted in May last year. Remember, the abuse the likes of myself and Park got when we pointed out that we could turn those failing players around and mount a promotion challenge only to be told we were heading for the conference
2. Understand that frustrating though it is, not having players like Prichard, Cooke and even Ismail (to say nothing about Donaldson) have a big impact on the creativity element of our team. Even Mellor is a miss compared to that wimp of an excuse Henley
3. Going back to the good old fashioned 'Parky' formula, i.e. giving a manager time. At this time in 2012 - the noise about how bad Parky was for the club and how he should be gotten rid of, was so loud you could hear it for it miles. Is Bowyer really doing worse than Parky did in the same period?
4. Realising that sacking Bowyer will do nothing more than make you feel better. Sacking managers every 20 games (as it would be the equivalent for the last three) doesn't work. Go look at Wycombe and the very up and down ride they had in this league for about six seasons, before Ainsworth got it right

Sacking is as easy as it's ridiculous. I continue be amazed that fans think it's always the solution to a problem when the clubs that have managers for the least amount of time, are the ones who nearly always under-achieve

I'll judge Bowyer at the end of the season and not before. He's earned that right. It's a minor miracle, given the toxic nature of the club and been forced to have an unsettled side, that we're firmly in the race

Kick the cat, dust ourselves down, look forward to the Scunny game, when hopefully one of the influential players are back

 

A distinctly chilly south east afternoon. A few City goals hopefully to warm us up.