Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Swindon Town (H) @ 15:00 5th March

You're being disingenuous with that comparison. For a while our first choice wide men have been Daly, Gillead and Delfounseo, and he's a better option than at least 2 of those, if not all 3.

 

Bass is so shit.

 

O'Donnell is not the answer. No chance he makes the saves that Bass did in the last 5 minutes! Rash decision aside, Bass is way better than O'Donnell and Bass isn't anything special.

 

Is it just me, or do we flag badly in games? Fitness looks a real issue.

 

He was the left back again in a four today.

 

Result obviously a kick in the balls because Swindon deserved nothing from the game, but still positives to take.

Was impressed with the pressing, intensity and intension to play out from the back.

Just a shame the shocking recruitment has left us with a plethora of players who can't finish and a defence who can't stop gifting goals. If we had better quality players in both boxes then I'd be confident of a strong end to the season. As it is I'm just praying for a couple of wins soon so we can be safe.

But good signs for next season.

 

Why did Bass feel the need to sprint 20 yards to foul their player. I hope he got pelters in the changing room after that. fecking stupid decision

 

Ironically after pulling a world off to keep Davison header out he had a rush of blood that point would have kept that 10 point cushion between us and Oldham.

 

Difference today than any performance I’ve seen this season was the midfield controlled the game and looked way more comfortable and confident.

Watt looked like the player we first signed, Cooke was industrious and Evans was a MotM contender (who was actually awarded it?).

Plenty of positives. We looked much more solid and organised. Undeserved result but far more
positives than that.

 

Just confirms that the lot of you watched a completely different game to the other 15,000 at the ground.

The defence was an absolute disaster zone and coupled with a very good performance from 3 of the 4 midfielders there were multiple credible options for the MOTM award.[/QUOTE]

 

He’s awful. He’s been found wanting for a lot of goals since he arrived. Awful goalkeeper. Only Adams would manage to make our goalkeeping department worse by bringing him in totally unnecessarily when we already had two perfectly adequate keepers here already. You couldn’t make it up.

 

I was up for us bringing in a new GK as the other two aren’t good enough, but Bass seems to always have a rash moment in him. If he’s highly rated that suits us fine if he returns in the summer. We just need an experienced stopper.

last year Bolton had a young lad on loan. A nervous wreck. Evatt threw him under a bus after his blunders and then brought in an old timer midway through the season. Gilks was it?
Their defence improved massively and they went up.

In the summer we need someone with experience like that. just a solid, safe pair of hands. Not had a reliable keeper for a fair few years now. Even Mclaughlin and Duke werent great in the golden years but they had A great defence infront of them.

 

Madness not bringing in a centre half in January.

 

Who'd walk into our side, you don't get a goal return of 14 in 27 games by being Mr Nice guy take the constant bitching away and I thought he was very good on the day.

 

Will have to agree to disagree. Full of heart, but poor on the ball, positionally poor, poor discipline. If we're going to succeed next season, assuming we stay up, then it'll need the likes of Paudie to be back up players.

 

Ordinarily I would agree about points over performance but as Walsall away showed points can mask so much. Green shoots and performance promises more for the rest of the season. We wanted change, and this shows it. The points attitude got us Adams as manager

 

You would have to say a much improved performance yesterday and a long way better than recent performances. However, still massively frustrating - not just the last second penalty. Arguably, that shouldn’t have mattered we had that many chances. Clearly much better set up and more motivated but lack of quality at both ends remains huge concern. Having said that we have who we have now and the improvements need to keep coming. There may be quite a few teams below us, but a few points are required soon to steady the nerves.
On another point, Hughes after match interview was very balanced. You could just imagine Adams calling out Bass individually if he was still here couldn’t you? Sure, it was a bad error, but he made a great save not long before it.
Plenty of work still to do, but improvements clear I think.

 

If we are serious about promotion, then Rupp could do worse than similar to Lawn. Loan the club a million to be paid back within say 3 years or sale of the club. And should we get promotion say a 15% season ticket increase to help pay back the loan and pay for good quality in league 1. It doesn’t take an owner to throw his or her fortune away, just one who’ll take a calculated gamble and trust those at the club to use it right and the fans to turn up to make a return on said loan.