Eoin Doyle

Superb this is our stand out January signing ...

Well done City for showing big Kaoooooooonas

 

We had 17 shots against Macclesfield, and 26 against Salford. I expect Doyle would have finished a few of them given his form.

Also... having just gone through our stats I'm surprised to see our passing accuracy is so high. Around the 70% mark. It certainly doesn't feel like that when I've been watching games at home....

 

Sorry but who are our first team quality CDM's? Reeve's isn't one. And I'm not certain Palmer is. And Cooke most certainly isn't

I'd get rid of Palmer and one of either Akpan or Anderson, bring in a tough nut CDM and then be as creative and as positive as we like

If we're going to play with two wingers then we'll need protection for the back four. Otherwise we'll be doing what Swindon and others have done at time, i.e. getting beaten 3-0 at home having dominated

 

O'donnell
Henley Bre Anthony oconor c.Woods
Reeves
Conelley ismail
Cooke
Vaughan Doyle

 

Nonsense be buggered, Park. Bowyer has cost City at least EIGHT+ points with his 'safety first' approach. Imagine ........ City would now be in TOP placing, had GB had more faith and flexibility.

 

O'donnell
Henley Bre Anthony oconor c.Woods
Reeves
Conelley ismail
Cooke
Vaughan Doyle

Looks like a strong team to me

 

spot on

 

And how many points has he garnered with it how do you know we wouldn’t have leaked goals. We are an ordinary league two side and Bowyer is using what we have to best effect.

 

Until Donaldson comes back and then Doyle on the bench

 

To be fair to Swindon, if thats true, Pittman a good signing fir this level

 

Definitely still in need of an out and out left winger for balance

 

This

 

Reeves is first and foremost a defensive midfielder, his best work is just in front of the back four. Cooke is supposed to better further forward but i've not seen it yet and Palmer, well i'm not sure what he's good at. I'd say we lack a quality attacking midfielder rather than a defensive one.

 

Swindon are top therefore they are doing more things right than anyone else.

 

Yes, but only if well supported by a pressing MF, as backup. We are NEVER first to any 'second ball' at the moment ...... 'Cos no one is there !!

 

Eh? Who's are two defensive midfielders? We don't even have one, in the true sense, at the club. They might look like they are set up defensively, but that's all down to Henley in particular been stuck permanently in reverse in our third

As far as I can see Bowyer, likes whatever system is going to get the best result and so far he's largely been proven correct

He's already stated and I quote "it is up to us to keep producing chances for him" - which clearly means he won't be playing upfront by himself, which has only been because Donaldson was out and Oteh not effective enough

 

In my opinion in order to play 442 you need somebody to hold the ball up. Because with 2 central midfielders they are usually out numbered so it leads to direct football which ironically some fans don’t like either and what more and more teams are turning against because they prefer to try and control midfield

 

And Ismail is only available half the time. I'd like to see a quality left winger brought in.

 

Well ..... If City are so "Ordinary" ..... How else can we better that, than to FULLY utilise all the players we have at our disposal ? And therefore not only justify our current top 7 placing, but aiming for the TOP.

 

There six points, having played a game more. To read the posts on here, you'd think they were 16 and had played a game less

Their style isn't that successful that we have this almost neurotic gay abandon to what's got us to where we are already

Playing with a set up like we had against the Carlisle, Northampton or Swindon matches are fine. You'd think we'd never had a decent attacking performance all season