Most liked posts in thread: The Positives and Negatives

Pretty much as @Tennesseebantam & @donhutchinsaffro have said.
Initially I used to read C&B posts when Burke came to you, then when Cullen joined I started posting a bit. I've always followed Josh as his dad was/is a WH ST holder in the same block as me at he Boleyn, and is a near neighbour of my brother.. Over time you get a feel for a club and its fans.
Obviously you can't change your team but BCAFC is the second result I look for, followed by Charlton again this year, the mighty Heybridge Swifts (7th tier, localish, usually do a few games there as season), Boca Juniors (my dog is called Tevez).
There are a few parallels to be drawn between us too, we've had some bad owners, we live in the shadow of "bigger" clubs, and we detest Dirty Leeds.

 

Positive You got a better result than me
Negative It was in L2

 

Positives

We didn't lose
Rhodes and Rupp will have to wake up
Bowyer will have to question himself
Drury will have to work even harder to prove himself
Maybe new players will urgently come in this week now.
People will start questioning Bowyer's win ratio here.

Negatives

Midfield is woeful.
We should be on 6 points.
No width, no pace! No idea.

 

What i wouldn't give for a Josh Cullen right now.

 

Josh Cullen would transform this team. He'd sit in front of the back four mopping up everything, spraying passes around, allowing Palmer and Gibson to concentrate on attacking creativity.
Way too good for where are now though, obviously.

 

If you are looking for positives then so far.

O'Donnell. Made some good saves today and could say was arguably out motm. Looks to have got his confidence back.

The centre backs. Both had a battle today with a physical team and were generally good, as they were last week.

The front two. Both have different attributes that could dovetail as the season progresses, Vaughan's movement and pace and Donaldson's hold up play and knack of getting free kicks at pressure times are a pleasure to watch.

Jordan Gibson. Positives and negatives from this lad but there is something to work on. Positives in the physical side of his game, has started both games well . Negative with his decision making, should have put Donaldson in today instead of shooting and gets ragged as the game goes on but there has been improvement.

None of the rest has really impressed me yet, the two full backs were poor today and playing Henley on the left is nonsensical. Palmer has struggled the first two games to get into any rhythm, although this could be down to the midfield set up favoured so far by Bowyer. Anderson doesn't seem to fit into any position which in turn doesn't help Palmer. Hopefully a new CM will fix this problem. And then the real elephant in the room, Doyle in a '10' role. What the f**k is all that about? Its achieved nothing in two games now and needs to be shelved immediately. Pronto. And Scannell needs to start in place of Doyle. Without question.

There is potential in this side, there should be with the fact most of have played at a better level than league 2. But only if you play to system that suits the players at your disposal. Square pegs in round holes does not work.

 

I reckon his interest in Burke and Cullen drew him here and he just likes the general banter.

 

I noticed Lewis O'Brien made his debut for Huddersfield today, another who stood out straight away and way too good for our level. A loan signing of the level of Cullen or O'Brien would be my priority if i was Bowyer because both had they ability to marshall a game and we don't have anyone who can.

 

Qué?

 

Fordy and Captain Blackadder would spontaneously combust.

 

Positives:

Central defence looks solid and dominant.
Donaldson's hold up play is good.
Vaughan will score goals if supplied.
Scannell came on today and had Hendrie on toast which shows the ability he has.

Negatives:

Henley isn't a LB.
Anderson is dog shite.
Palmer can't play his own game as he has to do everything in the middle.
No creativity from central midfield when its an absolute necessity in a narrow formation.
Doyle hasn't got the ability to play as a 10.

 

Unbeaten so far with a team that hasn't yet hit its straps and I suspect GB still thinks isn't his best 11 due to injuries.

Sure we all want 6 points from the first 2 games but in truth we havent looked like losing or getting battered like we did last year.

Glad I am not like @Fordy117 who flaps more than a sheet in the wind.

Quite happy to see the team working hard for each other.

No panic in Keefly thats for sure.

 

Gibson was woeful and very good. There doesn't seem to be a balance!

Positives - great ball in for Vaughan, does look confident on the ball.

Negatives - he is an arrogant little shit who thinks he is better than he is. That drag back that went out for goal kick was uncalled for. He had a chance to square it.

 

When you lost as many games as we did last season, I'm not sure suffering defeat in one of your two opening games would do much to bolster confidence.

 

Positives- we played 4-4-2 with wingers and stretched play. The number of times we out great delivers into the box or played Donaldson through was impressive.

Cons- it took Bowyer until now to realise what the majority of us could see

 

IB is okay he is friendly fire..a genuine interest in footy

 

Positives
- Bar one lapse at the corner today and a deflected header, the defence has looked very solid in the opening 2 games.
- Donaldson and Vaughan look like a quality front pair who can cause any L2 defence problems.
- The final 15 minutes when we were settled into 442 I thought we looked good.

Negatives
- The 433 doesn’t seem to provide us with much attacking intent due to the lack of a proper “no. 10” and attacking fullbacks.