25-01-2025, 19:24
I feel relatively calm so no one is going to get both barrels undeservedly. In fact I feel rather subdued, which I guess is what this football does to you.
Balker looks like a rolls Royce defender and showed some class today, I think he was subbed because he's not ready for a full 90 yet, he's played what, 120-150 minutes in 9 months? His partners on the other hand...
Pearson and lees are so slow mentally on the ball, it takes them a working week for their brain to tell their feet what to do. They are too limited to play alongside each other, it needs to be one or the other, probably Pearson for me. Speaking of feet, well legs, lees have definitely gone, I thought they were going over the last few weeks, today confirmed it, he has zero pace left and it looked like he was struggling to be dominant in the air, looked like he was struggling to put power into a jump. If we aren't going to sign another centre half it needs to be balker and Spencer/lonwijk either side of Pearson.
Turton is a right back not a wing back, so having him and Pearson there pretty much stifled any ventures forward and resulted in a turn back and pass back. Spencer did okay, not brilliant. Hogg for me is someone to come on when you're shutting up shop like away at Wycombe. I don't think wiles and Evans work in the same midfield and wiles just about edges it based on the goals he's scored. Kane looked sluggish when he came on and Hodge just added to the height in our side...
Taylor and Charles made runs but the pass was for a different run each time. Think Taylor is still getting sharp, Charles tried too hard, wanted to prove too much of a point.
Duffs tactics frustrated. He says we won't play long to small strikers, yet that's all we did, we won 0 headers up there, if that's what we are going to do, we needed to sign a big man. What we need to do is zip it around and give them chances to run on to. Duff didn't seem capable of changing it.
And can someone explain why, our greediest player in koroma, gets a prime chance to shoot but elects to pass it behind everyone?
Balker looks like a rolls Royce defender and showed some class today, I think he was subbed because he's not ready for a full 90 yet, he's played what, 120-150 minutes in 9 months? His partners on the other hand...
Pearson and lees are so slow mentally on the ball, it takes them a working week for their brain to tell their feet what to do. They are too limited to play alongside each other, it needs to be one or the other, probably Pearson for me. Speaking of feet, well legs, lees have definitely gone, I thought they were going over the last few weeks, today confirmed it, he has zero pace left and it looked like he was struggling to be dominant in the air, looked like he was struggling to put power into a jump. If we aren't going to sign another centre half it needs to be balker and Spencer/lonwijk either side of Pearson.
Turton is a right back not a wing back, so having him and Pearson there pretty much stifled any ventures forward and resulted in a turn back and pass back. Spencer did okay, not brilliant. Hogg for me is someone to come on when you're shutting up shop like away at Wycombe. I don't think wiles and Evans work in the same midfield and wiles just about edges it based on the goals he's scored. Kane looked sluggish when he came on and Hodge just added to the height in our side...
Taylor and Charles made runs but the pass was for a different run each time. Think Taylor is still getting sharp, Charles tried too hard, wanted to prove too much of a point.
Duffs tactics frustrated. He says we won't play long to small strikers, yet that's all we did, we won 0 headers up there, if that's what we are going to do, we needed to sign a big man. What we need to do is zip it around and give them chances to run on to. Duff didn't seem capable of changing it.
And can someone explain why, our greediest player in koroma, gets a prime chance to shoot but elects to pass it behind everyone?
Another day, another door, another high, another low