Today....Start to worry Guys

[bexleyboy]

Start to worry guys, today was awful, yes I know it was a warm-up etc etc but I expected some effort.
We had done well in pre season scoring goals and playing good attacking football then why oh why did Powell go back to negative tactics playing the truly awful Bradley Pritchard as a wide man again...did he not learn anything Last season. Pritchard is a defensive mid player not a winger today he looked lost to be honest. This as nothing to do with money this is down to bad management.
One effort on target in 90 mins and one just over from Kermit late on...there was no movement up-front as Kermit struggled all alone was not until Pigot and Green come on that we at least moved forward.

No Simon Church ??

We need players up-front and a midfielder who can score goals, sorry to say Jackson looked slower today then last season and had two chances to score today but did not have the legs to get there...

Hamer 6 Couple saves
Solly 7 One of the better ones
Wiggins 6 Looked of the pace
Morrison 5 Looked shaky
Devitte 6 Could have done more for their goal
Harriott 6 Only one good run did not see enough of the ball
Stephens 6 Suffered, got the ball looked forward nothing ..so ended up playing back and sideways like all the others
Gower 7 Come out the game ok
Pritchard 4 Awful, how did he stay on only Powell will know
Jackson 5 Legs have gone, can't play the box to box role
Kermit 5 Did not stand a chance, perhaps should have done better with the header.

Green 6 At least moved forward and created
Pigot 7 Looked good but left to late by Powell
Cousins 6 To late
Evina 5 Should have done a lot better for their goal

Let's hope this week brings in the players we need , at least 2 strikers and a box to box younger midfield player.

[reamsofverse]

Church is way off the pace and that came from CP himself. Personally I thought that this has been the problem all his career not just today. Agree 200% with your Pritchard comments not sure about the bad management on CP's part though. However in saying that you can't sit around waiting for help forever you need to do what you can yourself sometimes while you are waiting for that help to come along and playing BP on the right when DG is again on the bench is open to criticism and deservedly so.

Like I have said on another thread this is last season's problem why has CP still got it dangling around his feet, he should have managed players out of the club in the summer to take prevent this happening again.

Let's be honest here, not all our problems are down to a lack of players come in, what about some of those that are still here?

Put BP in the middle, to all sense and purposes that would give us a much need option in the middle the biggest option being to offload the going through the motions attitude of Dale Stephens then if Green really isn't in CP's plans let him go too and let's bring a proper right winger in.

If you help yourself, don't just wait for it to come along, having players who couldn't get in last season's team looking like they won't get in this one either is something that should have been dealt with, I don't see the purpose of keeping players for the sake of it and you can add Cook to that list too.

[bexleyboy]

Surely these games are for players that need match fitness

[Deleted]

Back to the wall campaign. Keep things tight. We have a decent back four. Nick something where we can and survive.

[reamsofverse]

Jul 27, 2013 22:59:18 GMT @puddlejumper said:

Back to the wall campaign. Keep things tight. We have a decent back four. Nick something where we can and survive.

I don't think we have mate, two good full backs and 4 iffy centre halves with no pace.

[Deleted]

Even in that 5 man midfield there was no defensive one. No Cousins in there from the start or our lucky charm Andy Hughes (see we lost again without him).

[bigandy99]

Don't worry yet guys - lets see how we do over the first few games. We SHOULD be better than Yeovil and Barnsley ( I feel) so we need to outscore one other team... Huddersfield, Wendies for example... Don't be too downbeat before we've kicked a ball in anger. COYA!!

[jonkool]

Top man Big Man - no need to panic Capt Mainwaring!

You are dead right there m8 and you can't get away from the fact that CP has the ability to motivate the troops so all we need is the cutting edge to support Yann plus some new investment when the Spivs move on

[bigandy99]

Gotta keep believing JK - nobody trains all week to lose on a Saturday!

[reamsofverse]

Not sure about him being able to motivate everybody jonkool to be honest, some people refuse to be motivated, perhaps they have good reason but they are still at the club and shouldn't be, and that is down to the manager.

[reamsofverse]

Jul 28, 2013 18:57:52 GMT bigandy99 said:

Gotta keep believing JK - nobody trains all week to lose on a Saturday!

I'm sure that the Peterborough, Wolves and Bristol City players thought the same andy, they all went down!!

I admire your optimism but it's bottom three for me this season, we are not good enough nowhere near it.

[jonkool]

An important few weeks then when CP is allowed some movement on the player recruitment front!

[Deleted]

I don't see us out of the bottom six all season tbh. I hope we have enough to avoid the bottom three. Not confident at all.

[valleyviper]

After the Bournemouth game we have three home plus one away, can see us in the top six come end of August, from then on it's the ski-slope unless an injection of capital is forthcoming, may get a lift in October but cannot see anything other than disappointment from then on.

However, should we start badly from match one, we'll be propping up the league until year end, maybe a resurgence in January with a loan or two, then hanging on by our finger tips to the end of the season, in an effort to maintain championship status.

[paulmortimer]

Need I remind you of our home form last season? Being at home or away means nothing in this league

[jonkool]

Not wrong there Paul!