Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: City vs Harrogate | League 2 | 12/10/20

Nothing wrong with the image. It really is this bad.

 

Great save ROD

 

That was an excellent save.

 

You'll find somewhere !!!

 

Aye, Tyler French too apparently

 

22 attempts at goal from Harrogate

Were supposed to be at home

Rudderless ship with no formation or plan

Ridiculous talk of signing a raw young striker saying he's the last piece of the jigsaw

 

Stead different class to our strikers, and I will make an early prediction that the kid from Wolves is not the answer.

 

Yeah, I've been miles off haven't I, no reason to be negative tonight is there?

FFS. You're one of the deluded simpletons who lap up this shite and keep making excuses for it. I actually think some enjoy it, in a twisted way.

We've just been handed our arse by Harrogate Town. And you dismiss it as 'Negativity'. Damn right I'm negative. Weve been turned into a joke.

 

Spineless, clueless, embarrassing,totally void of any skill whatsoever.

Harrogate totalling dominant in every department, the scoreline flattered us.

First time I've seen them play since February, and they look even worse than last season on that showing.

Poor squad assembled by McCall.

 

Another McCall tinker lesson. Buys Evans, a decent player at this level, but was he really what we needed or was it just another player he knew who was available. Goes with a back four not allowing the full backs to get up and leaves Clarke isolated with no one around him then takes Clarke off and goes with three strikers. I love you to bits Stuart but sometimes you don't help yourself.

 

The match thread turning into another flogging of Rhodes, Rupp and even Edin...
McCall is to blame for tonight. Christ knows what formation he was playing. I firmly believe he did that tonight to accommodate Evans!! Which just shows how naive he is.

 

Thanks.

Was in pretty bad shape last week but much improved over the weekend.

 

The team has been lacking an enforcer/leader since Jones. Opposing midfielder don't have anything to worry about.

 

Why has McCall ditched the 3-5-2? With the players we have, it's the only one I see that gives us balance.

The diamond is a no go for me. Harrogate was the template for how to play against us if we play that way and it's far too easy to do. Press us high, force us long and it's game over. Our hold up play is poor and we have no pace to run in behind. That means the ball just keeps coming back. The width that comes from the fullbacks doesn't happen because they don't get forward due to the constant turnover in possession. And if you have a man tight and aggressive to Clarke, as Harrogate did last night, there goes any creativity through the middle too.

 

I thought he replaced Jackson and quite a few of the players he inherited were not recruited by Mccall

 

He’s been tried and didn’t do much. He showed early promise, but this season he just seems to drift in games. We just don’t have any driving midfielders sadly.

Yesterday just highlighted that we don't have anyone who can either take the game by the scruff of its neck, or have the spark and creativity to do something gamechanging. As mentioned, Wood had probably his worst game I've seen for a long long time. When they were apparently targeting our left flank, I was laughing at the telly, telling them that they are trying to phase our best player. Unfortunately it worked out. I'm not sure if it's because he didn't have any cover further up the pitch, but I can't remember him looking so flustered and making so many unforced errors. This in part, was Wood also having one eye on Staunton, who in my opinion (not the views of FCW Andy Kiwomya) also had a shocker. Again, misplaced passes, poor clearances and getting caught out of position. French to be fair, at least tried to be involved, but looked rusty on the ball, with a couple of first touches leading to loss of possession, and a lot of hit and hope balls towards to the box. I don't think their byline was touched once.

And that's just the defence. I really can't be bothered typing out many lines about how poor our midfield was. You all saw it. Levi Sutton running with the ball then taking one touch too far, Watt playing too deep, Evans playing on the wrong wing, Clarke being outmuscled and outthought, Cooke being a former player of the one we first had bla bla bla.

At least Donno did ok I thought. Thankless task, especially when his striking partner was trying to do the same. Gurthrie is the new Brunker. Runs on, runs into people , gives away fouls. And Samuels - I have a bad feeling about this one. As much as I want him to succeed, I don't think he's the goalscoring machine we're looking for. I hope I'm wrong!

 

The view from the Racing Post.

 

Hope we don't take the knee tonight.
If players aren't allowed to have poppies on their shirts then, all this BLM political protest has to end.
Anybody know what they want ?

 

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In the wine rack it’s a Cru des also got some nice cheese for half time no bloody Bovril oops we’ve kicked off