Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Bradford City V Newport County Saturday 24/10/2020

I am pretty certain Stuart has been in the game long enough to have a good list of contacts and does not just use technology.
But having contacts does not mean we will get a glut of quality players. We are a fourth division football club , with the same buying power under the salary cap , as every other club in the division.
Stuart needs to decide on his best 11 and formation and stick to it. Let teams worry about us, not the other way round.

 

I was watching the NRL final this morning and before the start the guy asked the Penrith coach what his last words to his players would be and he said "play to their strengths (and some other stuff)"

I can never imagine Stuart saying something like that at the moment because all we seem to do is set up and focus on the other team.

I'd like him to go back to the 3-5-2 from the start of the season. Play Wood and Hosannah as the wing backs because those two are clearly our best chance of scoring and we need to get them furthest up the pitch. Stick with that formation and work out who the best three defenders are and rotate Novak, Donaldson and Samuels until we find a pair that works well.

Just stick to one plan and make it solid and build from there. The formation (and player) roulette has to end.

 

the performances straight after Bowyer left we're not good either. it's not now and the latter, it's a continuation.. McCall has done nothing to rectify the issues we were having previously. if anything we are weaker in certain areas.

one of the main issues is that some players will realise that due to weak squad depth and inbalance, they are technically undroppable - Callum Cooke for instance. for everything he supposedly offers; we've seen very little so far. but who is knocking on the managers door saying they should be given a chance to show what they can do? we have central midfield options of Cooke, Watt and Sutton plus a couple of your players - less than 150 (being generous) football league appearances between them I bet. you need experience as well as quality in the middle of the park to dominate games, especially at this level - if McCall couldn't see this (being an ex-midfielder himself) then it's worse than we thought.

 

Really really poor, I was critical at the time of not replacing Vaughan and I think the flaws up front are being highlighted. I hope for the love of God we weren't relying on anything from Zeli this season as we have nothing out wide..... Cooke looks a shadow of the player he was. I don't know what it is about AOC either, I don't like him. A focal point of our regression over the last few seasons.

Really disappointing.

 

We've had numerous managers, numerous players, ditched Edin, brought back Rhodes, signed experienced strikers and introduced youth. For all that we are still gradually getting worse season on season. The confidence in the side drains away at an alarming rate and I can't understand why.

We've supposedly the best man manager we could get and even he can't motivate them. There is something deep seated that is wrong at the club and no matter how many times you move the chairs around, we still see no improvement.

The club needs a clean sweep or possibly do what Parky did and bring a whole team with them, from scouts, to physio, to assistant manager, to goalkeeping coach. Leave no residue from the past just fresh ideas. Ditch the bad apples or weak and look for available leaders with good character. It'll cost short term, but long term its got to be better than painting over the cracks season after season.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/54602587
Not according to this, Newport can fulfil their fixtures

 

Well this has started well

 

French is crap.

 

Question from Andy Kiwomya....

"When that ball comes in to the box, where is Curtis Guthrie"?

Good question, Andy.

 

Shee han

 

Was Lee Novak signed the same day as Guthrie? You could actually be on to something here.

I vaguely remember Bowyer saying he didn't make those signings but could be mistaken.

 

Samuels looks good. I think.

 

Game over, going to be active on here tonight

 

could be much worse if Newport had gotten out of 2nd gear.. not sure why anyone is surprised with the standard of performance so far - it's exactly the same as how we've been playing for the previous 10 games so far this season and those at the end of last season. anyone who thinks this squad and management team are better than this needs to give their heads a shake; this is the level we're at now. top half of the bottom of league two as best.

 

Raynor feels sorry for McCall on Radio Leeds. Why?

 

Mate, we've been appalling.

 

We could do OK with this squad (inadequate and poorly balanced as it is) if we just had a settled formation and played to our (albeit limited) strengths. Problem is the formation changes every match are just awful.

 

They are average but good at what they do Flynn reminds me of parky in a way. Knows how to build a solid defensively sound side. Has pace where it’s needed and a few good physical strikers for this level. Experience too in Dolan etc.
As I said earlier I am sure we could try poach him for us but Newport May go up this time

 

That's a big no from me.