Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Home V Crawley(Creepy) Tuesday 13th April@7.00pm

But he is being used like James Hanson. Which means he's not suited to our formation. Which means he's a luxury player at best, or a passenger like today. I don't care how many goals he's scored (mostly at lower league level). If he comes in and can't play to the best of his ability - perhaps due to the management playing him wrongly (ala Doyle and Vaughan) - then a successful goal count means nothing. Please don't send me down the Ross Hannah, Kai Bruenker, McClean road....

 

Forget next season, this season was there for the taking. Maybe we have over achieved because this squad looks distinctly average now. Possibly a victim of their own success they deserve another transfer window but if we don't see promotion this or next season they are done.

 

I think last night summed up this division where the team that takes the opportunities will go on and take the spoils. Just like Saturday there was nothing between the teams in terms of chances, arguably we had more last night than against 10 man Grimsby. The clear cut chance for AOC, the free header for FCD, Donaldo hitting the bar with a cracking strike, the great save from Vernam and others. And yet at no time did we look any better than the opposition, you could argue they had more control of the game. Without Cooke, Sutton and Canavan this team will not get you promoted. And even with them the right balance of attack and defence isn't quite right. I don't think Trueman fully trusts Rowe, Vernam or Crankshaw yet and that limits his attacking options, the reason he stuck with 4-2-3-1 when Cooke was available was because it was the best fit available for what we had.
No reason we cant win on Saturday but equably we could get turned over.

 

Good post mate just the one thing that I would question is why did T&S bring him to the club knowing the way he played and knowing he would not be filling that position in their sef up ?

 

Up until the Carlisle game I thought we were very solid as a defensive unit. Unfortunately T & S decided to drop Hornby to bring in a keeper notoriously weak in commanding his 6 yard area. I don’t remember seeing the defence and Hornby having a go at each other, but we’ve seen dissent for the last 2 games between ROD and the defence. Both keepers have faults but for me the defence were more settled with Hornby, though I doubt we’ll see him again unless there’s an injury or nothing left to play for.

For the record I’m not blaming ROD for the goals last night.

 

BOTH Should have started. This “ rotating players” is winding me up. It’s probably winding the players up big style?

 

But I never said he was to blame for last night, Those words were put in my mouth by Northern Monkey to validate his post, What I did say is that we have let a lot of headers in since he came back and the defense seams weaker with him in goal, And just to add the players were not happy and having a go at him after we conceded,

 

Couldn't agree more. Our defence whilst Hornby was in goal looked solid, knew what they were doing, trusted Sam to come when he needed to and let them know when he was doing it. ROD and the back four too often look like strangers, not sure who's responsible for what. But what really peeves me is that when ROD gets the ball in his hands and the lines have been cleared, he waits for bloody ever to release the ball, which is then usually a speculative long hoof, which loses any hope of swift, accurate counter attacking. He needs to be quicker in his decision making - and frankly, most of the rest of our team need to be, too. We're just so sluggish and slow, give the ball away far too often.

 

Tight 1-0 victory.

 

I've got it @ahar964 . Come on City, let's smash them 7-0.

 

Thanks for your efforts TB but it's hardly PlatinumChaos level

 

People haven't been allowed to go out and socialise for months now, I'd guess that's the most obvious answer.

As for watching the game whilst out, mobile phones work wonders these days

 

Front foot from the start!

 

Suitably chastened.

 

At least one more goal than them on the final whistle

 

Certainly options up front from the bench tonight - just hope the players relax a bit and utilise the team we are starting with, but I am optimistic 2-0 or 2-1

 

Why are we having another minutes silence? We had 2 mins one on Saturday.