Most liked posts in thread: Home V Cheltenham 28.01.20

It’s quiet on here, are people waiting for a poor result or is my wifi down?

 

Effort is a minimum requirement. I'm not sure why people talk about players putting in effort like it should be applauded. It's a given that they should put in the effort.

 

Listened on the radio tonight and putting everything into perspective after the events since Saturday it sounded like we bust a gut unlike Mansfield.
Fans want effort and even with ten men the commentary suggested it was on show.
Get some fresh faces in by the Friday transfer deadline and hopefully things on the pitch will improve.

 

Nice to watch from the comfort of my sofa as couldn't be bothered with the cold and rain! Given the circumstances before the game which had reduced my expectations to zero, and the sending off I'll take that. Not much chance of competing when you're down to 10 for half the game. Not a lot of quality on show but they can't be accused of not putting in a shift so I guess that's something to build on.

Devitt let us down tonight big time. Stupid making a challenge like that when on a yellow and gave us a right job. Annoying as thought him and Cooke seemed like a decent midfield partnership with more forward intent than we've been seeing.

Glad Donaldson is back we have missed his strength but he needs to stay injury free. Noticeable after he came off nothing stuck for us up front, Oteh is far too lightweight.

Surprised with Bowyer's double sub leaving no subs left, we'd have been screwed if we'd picked up another injury, I'd have kept McCarten on.

Hats off to Connelly never stopped running and close to creating something out of nothing with his pass to himself and tackling the keeper.

 

100% agree. Our only goal also came from one of the worst and most blatant dives I've ever seen. Any competent ref would have booked McCartan
11v11 Cheltenham had 2 great chances to score while we created nothing.
Second half was all about defending the lead and i can accept that but I don't understand people thinking that tonight was in anyway an improvement. It wasn't.

 

I think you are overly stats conscious. Yes, they had more of the ball (over 70% of it... I have my doubts as to the accuracy of these stats). But did they create more? Do you honestly feel they were dominating with the majority of possession they had in the 1st half?

I think we gave them a lot to think about in the first half. Ran at them, applied the press at the right times, got forward a lot quicker (think reeves slows the tempo down) and overall had an urgency about ourselves.

I would rather us have 20% passing accuracy, 28% possession... Including any other meaningless football manager statistic you can find if it means three points.

Don't look into the stats too much pal. We honestly weren't that bad first half. If I remember rightly, ifollow had us at over 60% possession against Mansfield for much of the game and where did the possession dominance get us?

 

Spot on, pointless football is dead right.

Passes for the sake of passing, no idea, no big picture, no master plan, their second half performance made it easier for us to defend and not harder because they allowed us to concentrate nine players in the box.

Nothing dynamic about what they were trying to do, it's football by numbers. It's rubbish. It's pub players trying to emulate Man City.

 

The effort from the players killed off the potential ‘toxic’ energy but the football needs to be a million times better to get anywhere this season than a few late challenges and chasing shadows.

 

I can take tbe odd defeat, that in isolation isn't an issue. What I can't take is a team set up to prevent them being allowed to give it a go.

We had the effort and desire that was missing against Mansfield, what we didn't have (and haven't all season) is a man in charge with the courage required.

 

I watched on ifollow last night as am currently away, there were 2 occasions in the second half where our player threw the ball into the stand during a break in play to waste more time. Now I know we were down to 10 but as already said this didnt mean we had to develop such extreme tactics. Have we really sunk so low at home against the mighty Cheltenham that we had to do this? This is not game management this is desperation.

 

I'd agree with this. This club needs a long term sort out, not a quick fix looking for one last roll of the dice. I so desperately want out of this division but may have to concede that the problems at this club are so deep rooted it make take years to turn round. At the moment we have nothing, a clueless manager somewhat hamstrung by a squad of player massively over rated by a large section of its fan base, to a point where even the lowest teams in the division are starting to play us off the park.
Firstly the club needs to change at the top. Theres no hunger there to take the club forward. If Rupp stays he needs to ask questions of Rhodes in where the ambition and drive is. Ideally a new owner would take the reigns but we all know that ain't gonna happen. I'd then get rid of boring Bowyer and look for a manager with a vision and strategy of how he wants next season to shape up, give him the next six months to get accustomed to the club and let him identify targets he wants for position he feels are needing of strengthening, not just bring in any old Tom, Dick or Harpal like Bowyers has done.

 

I've just won a 2 week holiday in a quiet little town in China so I won't be able to make tuesday......

 

It's a gamble and a risk either way. I have given Bowyer the benefit of the doubt for a long time but what has been a game changer for me over the last couple of games is evidence right before my eyes that he has lost the dressing room. I'm not sure he can rectify that, are you?

 

I wont be there tomorrow. Can someone boo extra loud throughout, just to compensate? Thanks.

 

Been to confession at church and this is my penance.

 

He did, he got very good reviews from Wrexham fans and scored a few too.

 

Well that's Bowyers excuse in the bag.

 

If we put in performances like that more often and tonight’s hard fought draw came after a couple of good wins, fans would be more forgiving. Problem is the run of form we are currently on and draws at home aren’t really helping our cause.
Big few days coming up now in the window. Oldham at weekend then who just beat Mansfield 3-1