Fleetwood Mission Impossible

James Mason‏ @JamesMason_78 3h3 hours ago
James Mason Retweeted Gillingham FC

Win, lose or draw & no matter the miles travelled this is a great tweet. It shows an understanding between club & fans. In my opinion (for what it’s worth & I’ve been there) official accounts take note. Winning is never guaranteed. Recognition of your fanbase should be.

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A huge thanks to the 259 #Gills supporters that made the trip today. We wish you a safe journey home! @KentProImages
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Interesting and spot on little dig from Mason.

 

In regards to the game though, very poor yet again. To go in 1-1 and them down to 10 men was a good time to come out in the 2nd half and press them a bit more. Instead we come out exactly the same, poor, sloppy and end up losing the game without any real sign yet again of scoring a goal.

Read we've had 13 shots on target in the 6 games, that's just over 2 a game. Simply not good enough. We can blame Rahic all we want but this lies solely down to Collins and his inability to find a way to create chances.

Sooner Josh Wright gets dropped the better as well, pathetic excuse of a footballer nevermind a captain.

 

Josh Wright had his best game for us. Shouldn't of been taking off.

His midfielder partner though has been awful.

 

Fordy. Stop. Now. Josh Wright was lucky to get 3 out of 10 today, he was utter gash.

 

What is your match report Rog, if you can be bothered?

 

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I'm not giving him another game mate. It's obvious now

 

Blimey @Onside, I had no idea you had such a dark side!

 

Ha ha, well that made me laugh, lol

 

Even if it was his best game, he was still absolutely terrible.

 

Unless he has a new job at gillingham ?

 

A tough one today. Didn't go with any enthusiasm even though i missed the horror show against Wycombe. Not even sure what formation we were playing from the off, although it quickly appeared Miller was wide right of possibly a three, who knows, who cares?

Evident early on that the team has little confidence either in itself or the manager as no seems to know their roles (again). Three early crosses into the box leave O'Donnell flapping, Evans gets booked for putting one in with his hand, the other hits the bar/post, the other one goes in. For us Payne hits the bar and is the only bright spark for most of the half. It's clear Fleetwood want to gift us the three points by giving away a silly penalty then having Burns sent off for a wild tackle. At last Doyle gets a goal for his efforts, albeit a penalty, as we create next to nothing for the lone striker upfront.

Second half starts off like the first with us having absolutely no idea how to utilise the extra man we have. Evans then proceeds to take the piss out of Chicksen and sets up Hunter for the early goal. Meanwhile we carry on flogging the dead horse. Eventually Collins realises a winger might be a good idea and brings on Gibson and Wood on the flanks. Both put in a shift, Wood in particular puts in some good crosses. Last throw of the dice Collins brings on the Panzer but then proceeds to take off Payne. Wonderful scenes. Mellor comes close with a header but thats pretty much your lot folks against a resolute 10 man Fleetwood. They were nothing special but battled hard with 10 men, they played a lot of long ball and their front line of Madden and Evans in particular played well. Final whistle goes, cue some booing and choice swear words although nowhere near as much as you would have thought after such a pathetic performance. Gibson, Wood and Panzer come over to appease the fans.

All in all a piss poor performance despite what Thornton and Collins think on the Pulse. Creating next to nothing against ten men for over a half. Defence looked shaky as owt as did the keeper who seems to have no trust in his back line. Even the basics seem a struggle, passing to a team mate seems to be well down the menu as does any sort of movement off the ball. Which then brings me to the central midfield. Quite possibly the worst pairing i've had the privilege of watching. These two ain't gonna get any better and give next to nothing for the team, either defensively are offensively. This team is crying out for a leader in the middle of the park (amongst a lot of things i admit) but this leader is now pivotal to our season. Make no mistake, as it stands we are genuine relegation candidates and worryingly we have nothing to come in bar a half fit Reeves and Jones, if they ever do get to that half fit stage. Only positives in my humble opinion were Gibson and Wood when they came on, and a couple of neat touches and a shot from Payne. The rest goes in the drawer marked 'utter shite'.

How messrs Rahic and the three degrees turn this rudderless tanker round, who knows? One things for sure, most fans are either losing or have lost confidence in Rahic and Rupp. Forget Collins, in the grand scheme of things he's a puppet on a string. But if he does get the P45 on his desk next week, what manager in their right mind would be mad enough to take on this poisoned chalice. Stay tuned for next weeks losing the will to live episode from Blackpool where the donkeys on the beach show more movement than our entire central midfield.

 

Well he's on gardening leave until December so I doubt it.

 

Thanks @RogeredTart. Couldn't make today but did say to my youngest (as we've got Blackpool tickets) that we'd probably end up seeing more donkeys at the game than on the beach!!! And I wasn't talking about the Blackpool team!!

I do really despair at the moment - edge of the Championship to the edge of League 2...

 

I gained a lot more respect for James after that Tweet.

I shouldn't be so fickle, I know, but it's obvious he's seen first hand how poorly the administration are handling, well, EVERYTHING.

 

I held back from getting blackpool tickets to see what today would be like. I usually like the day out at Blackpool but will have to think really hard about going Saturday. The team is just dead, there is nothing there.

 

Thanks @Rogered Tart it is as bad as thought, I listened to Pulse and Leeds to see if it was any different, unfortunately not. Apart from Thornton begging the fans to give Collins some slack, I do understand, but he took the job, he must have known he was not up to the task, and now hanging on for a payout I presume. The players appear completely rudderless, if the light ever comes on in Edins brain and he decides to cut his losses and appoints a manager, and he leaves him to it, they might be able to scramble a team together to keep us up, but I doubt it.

 

I didn't even realise Blackpool tickets were available, hadn't heard anything to say they were.

 

They were yesterday when i got the Fleetwood tickets, think they had just come in.

 

I'm not sure how it gets better, Collins has little in the way of options. Going from 4 wingers to one doesn't help but he has to drop one of Akpan or Wright. Wright preferably as a least Akpan does something although at this moment i'm not sure what. Without that quality in the centre we are going backwards.

 

Interesting, thanks. Nothing on the website or twitter!

Likely to be pay on the day at this rate anyway.