Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Home v Barrow Sat Sept 18th @ 3.00pm

Summer window clearly didn't go to plan (again).

"Not enough goalscorers" in the words of Adams. We could all see it before a ball was kicked, why couldn't the club?

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Sorry to hear about your health issues. Although not a priority in life, it must still be hard not being able to watch the team you have supported all your life.

 

What’s the difference between creating 30 chances a game or 1 chance a game if we don’t win? This is my whole point. It’s a nonsense stat to get excited about unless the chances are turned into goals!

 

Vernam's header against Walsall, Cooks header against Salford and Vernams one on one last Saturday , I say he has good cause to suggest we take them we win the game.

 

Noble had a chance to earn a draw against Man Utd utd yesterday. He missed it. They lost.
Vernam had a chance to put us in the lead on Saturday. He missed it, we drew.

The amount of chances means nothing if you don’t take them!

Anyway I’m tired of this now. It’s an agree to disagree moment. Let’s hope on Saturday we create goals rather than chances, and then we’ll all be happy.

 

I still remember the pelters I got for wanting Ian Evatt. Oh well never mind.

 

For me Gilliead and Vernam are in last chance saloon we can't keep playing them if they're not going to score goals Gilliead in particular doesn't even look like scoring at least Vernam has got into good positions

1 goal in the last 4 games isn't good enough and if all the defence have to focus on is Cook then we've got a problem

 

Time for 4-3-3 perhaps?

I would keep Vernam in and bring in Robinson for Gillead if he is fully fit

 

What was his excuse at Scunthorpe though Offy?

His numbers have always been exceptionally low for a forward looking player and it seems to me we're getting, in terms of goal involvement, exactly what we bought.

 

Agree.

Angol was another physical presence we aimed for when going long, which is showing its importance now we only have Cook, its easier to nullify. Angol won so many second balls as he gambled on Cook flicks and we played from there. Doesnt happen without him in the side. I watched Vernam vs Walsall and he wasnt interested at all. He just let Cook crack on and just meant Walsall picked up the ball more often then not. It cant be due to fitness, so its down to laziness or buying into his own hype.
Gilliad is a talented player but doesnt offer enough out wide and often takes up Cooke's space when coming inside. We havent seen much of Eisa yet due to injury so will be interesting to see what happens once he's back. Not sure DA fancies Crankshaw too much.

 

Eisa is getting better by the day whilst he’s injured. So good in fact he’s going to inject some pace into Gilliead. If he’s out much longer it will be like signing Ronaldo

 

Bolton were going nowhere fast until the January transfer window when they brought in some real quality, at the possible risk of bankrupting an already skint club. Had the wage cap not been ditched they would still be bottom half. It wasnt until the window signings kicked in that they turned it around.

For all our "lack of quaility" we will win more than 7 of our first 24 matches. Doyle scored 8 league goals in those first 24 matches. I'd have money on Cook scoring more by the halfway point this year

 

Not won in 4 matches now if you include the Lincoln game which I think we should as we played a fairly strong side by that competition standard.
Don’t want it to become 5 and then it starts to get into a bad run territory. barrow pretty poor away from home aside from beating Oldham who seem in turmoil.
gotta be winning this for me

 

An interesting tactical thought. Barrow will come to smother, could work. And just a plea - let's not give up on Robinson before he's even started. Not the most prolific of goalscorers in terms of goals per games...but he has scored alot.

 

Barrow have sold 460 tickets of their allocated 1000 at lunchtime today.

 

We'll dick 'em, one - nowt.

 

Jumpers for goal posts m9. That way when Vernam heads wide again we can cheat and say it went in.

 

I agree with the sentiment but I'm not really sure why you've singled Vernam out as he was the only one who was running at his man and the only one looking like actually creating something.

 

It does and the beauty of it is that you can add more time to your stay without having to go back to the car park if you are going to be longer than you anticipated.