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Post by laughinggas on Oct 6, 2018 22:30:46 GMT
Couple of times Clarke gave ball away coz Lines and Sincs were nowhere to be seen so he was isolated.
Now you may argue oh one example but superb reverse pass by Clarke to Leads who had a lot to do to get there, he then pulled if back along the deck for someone to shoot , Matthews?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 22:41:08 GMT
This is how I saw it... Looked at the team sheet....despair....Nichols picked again. No Sercombe. No Kelly. Dear oh dear. If you want a goal, need a goal, lets pick a non scoring striker....i blame dc for this failing tactic. Granted, Nichols in first half defensively was notable. But the blame clearly lands at dc door when again he doesn't score or assist or do anything to warrant an undroppable situation. So we play with 10 men. Walsall were on the front foot alot. We struggled to cope with them at times and I want to say they were a very decent team. Just, all the play acting, ref baiting and timewasting didn't bestow them. I really liked Dobson number4, and their number 3 left foot delivery. I thought their disallowed goal was a handball and rightly booked number 3. But Walsall defended well, by throwing themselves in fronted of ball and blocking numerous shots. And when they broke, they broke in numbers. They also got back in numbers, but therein is one of my main observations... We are too slow on attack. Our tempo is too slow. There's not enough movement in front of ball.... Plenty to side and behind. This leaves little options when attacking. I would put Ollie Clarke/Bonham m o m they both out played themselves. Ollie was brilliant at breaking up moves and play in the simple ball....Bonham kept the game competitive til the end. I really like James Clarke! His physical competitiveness was the main bane of Walsall complaints to ref, but I've seen the same against Nat Harrold, Gaffers, Ellis and the like without so much of a sniff. Fair play, we have a real combatative reliable source of defending....his pass to Ollie as a hospital ball left alot to be desired though. What's happening to Danny Leads? His crossing seems to be worse this season? Therein lies the problem....cross to whom? Reilly/Nichols/Jakubiak all smaller than the average centre back.. So....poor service and poor finishing was the story of our day. Hey, I'm seeing a team that is never gonna score many goals with Nichols playing in. It's taking up valuable tine and space which could be used forming partnership elsewhere. Carry on, and we will struggle. Agree its depressing when dc picks nichols yet again. Under dc we used to break away so quickly but now we dont seem to have players surging forward to support the break! We have to play payne because hes a big strong lad who has a reasonable goal record,whatever the issue is with him the manager needs to sort it out because were not a good enough team to play with 2 small strikers. Danny leadbitter seems to have lost all belief in himself which is a bloody shame.
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Post by bluetornados on Oct 7, 2018 0:17:41 GMT
I thought that when the new owners came in we might have seen some money for some decent players, nothing has changed from previous seasons unless we sold a star player, even then where is the money..e.g Harrison.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Oct 7, 2018 6:08:49 GMT
I thought that when the new owners came in we might have seen some money for some decent players, nothing has changed from previous seasons unless we sold a star player, even then where is the money..e.g Harrison. That's so true. Nothing has changed, we are a selling club. To a certain extent, for all their money, do are c*ty'82.. The takeover/cash injection is a ruse or distraction, DC had over 4 months to buy a left back, he didn't. He knew we had a keeping crisis, he had to resort to loan. We desperately need width and winger, we only brought one in. We recruited only two strikers, and a loan whom all seem to partner the one striker that cannot score, and to top the lot the few games we played at start saw us play one up front!(?). DC has to take responsibility for these mistakes.
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Post by TaiwanGas on Oct 7, 2018 6:26:05 GMT
Nilgols makes Andy Spring look like Ardiles, I want to cry now, if I may.
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Post by crater on Oct 7, 2018 7:13:06 GMT
I thought that when the new owners came in we might have seen some money for some decent players, nothing has changed from previous seasons unless we sold a star player, even then where is the money..e.g Harrison. That's so true. Nothing has changed, we are a selling club. To a certain extent, for all their money, do are c*ty'82.. The takeover/cash injection is a ruse or distraction, DC had over 4 months to buy a left back, he didn't. He knew we had a keeping crisis, he had to resort to loan. We desperately need width and winger, we only brought one in. We recruited only two strikers, and a loan whom all seem to partner the one striker that cannot score, and to top the lot the few games we played at start saw us play one up front!(?). DC has to take responsibility for these mistakes. Aren't most clubs selling clubs though? Waive enough cash and you'll buy almost any player... Even the big clubs sell players they'd probably rather keep. Waive enough cash and you'll get Stockley or Doidge...don't waive enough cash and you'll get Payne
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Post by mangogas15 on Oct 7, 2018 7:34:23 GMT
Couple of times Clarke gave ball away coz Lines and Sincs were nowhere to be seen so he was isolated. Now you may argue oh one example but superb reverse pass by Clarke to Leads who had a lot to do to get there, he then pulled if back along the deck for someone to shoot , Matthews? Yes to be fair that moment created a good chance and one of Leadbitters better crosses. These flashes from Clarke have become more frequent this season.
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Post by basel on Oct 7, 2018 8:01:08 GMT
We were not good enough.As DC said,the forwards and creativity was'nt good enough.
I too would like to see Kelly given a run of games. It looks like Sam Mathews now does more when the Opposition have the ball and I think him more effective than Bennet and Sinclair outwide.
We need effective strikers and I worry that unless we sign them,we'll get relegated.
Goals win games. No goals lose games. No points. Relegated.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2018 8:28:17 GMT
Does anyone think we deserved to lose? Not me.
First half was theirs and the second was ours. Ok, they had more shots than us, but our midfield just don't create enough opportunities for the forwards. Easy to criticise Tom Nichols, but how about Sinclair, Bennett and others?
Walsall were bluster after the first half and the worst cheats at the Mem since Bolton. Their numbers 9 and 11 could challenge Paul Newman for acting ability.
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Post by basel on Oct 7, 2018 8:39:03 GMT
Does anyone think we deserved to lose? Not me. First half was theirs and the second was ours. Ok, they had more shots than us, but our midfield just don't create enough opportunities for the forwards. Easy to criticise Tom Nichols, but how about Sinclair, Bennett and others? Walsall were bluster after the first half and the worst cheats at the Mem since Bolton. Their numbers 9 and 11 could challenge Paul Newman for acting ability. Hello Dr F.I would say as a football club as whole,we deserved to lose for selling our best,noteffectively replacing them and more to your point perhaps not scoring a goalata home game. Plenty of effort made Mathews great strike defence images,GK excellent etcNot enough though is it. Bennet not up to much rarely effective
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Post by Igitur on Oct 7, 2018 8:39:56 GMT
Does anyone think we deserved to lose? Not me. First half was theirs and the second was ours. Ok, they had more shots than us, but our midfield just don't create enough opportunities for the forwards. Easy to criticise Tom Nichols, but how about Sinclair, Bennett and others? Walsall were bluster after the first half and the worst cheats at the Mem since Bolton. Their numbers 9 and 11 could challenge Paul Newman for acting ability. Sinclair continues to play out of position, so is not effective, Bennett seems to be yet another Rovers player drifting in and out of games. Nichols is pants and has always been so, we have no height up front so punting the ball long against a back four of 6 footers is pointless- how long have we been saying that?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2018 9:28:25 GMT
DC’s stubbornness is his greatest asset, however where Nichols is concerned his greatest weakness. 20 goal a season striker? my arse. He is a fraud, throw him out. Next what we constantly see from the opposition are settled sides with settled combinations. DC’s ‘project’ method is busted and probably a large contributing factor as to why our best players piss off elsewhere knowing if they play well they keep the shirt let alone the issues caused by the constant changes, where the hell was Kelly yesterday Martin would struggle at parks level. We may just about pinch enough points to stay up, we may even end up mid table but it ain’t going forward in the manner we expected.
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Post by laughinggas on Oct 7, 2018 9:50:13 GMT
Interesting comments in DC interview along the lines of Players not showing the confidence on the pitch that they show in training.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2018 12:52:08 GMT
Interesting comments in DC interview along the lines of Players not showing the confidence on the pitch that they show in training. I thought the whole interview was very revealing particularly his comments regarding the red side of the city. I genuinely believe he would be gone at the first opportunity that presents itself due to the obvious let downs he’s worked through including the UWE fiasco and training facilities. I think he may be suspicious of the long term thinking behind Tony Craig’s recruitment, clearly a player manager option emerging there.
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Post by kingswood Polak on Oct 7, 2018 13:37:37 GMT
0-1 Morris, last minute of the game. 'From nothing' Don't let anybody tell you it was 'from nothing' 3 great saves to keep the score at 0-0, one superb back post clearance when all their player had to do was nod it in, at the other end a free kick pushed on to the post and nothing else of any note. The difference was work rate, we are so slow going forward they had all the time in the world to get organised, when we mess around and lose the ball within a few seconds they had 3 attackers on the edge of our box. Nichols adds comedy value, but as a footballer he's dog dirt. Tried to cross the ball after 8 minutes, hit it straight into Swampy's legs despite him only being about 5 yards away. Then after 17 minutes was running towards the ball and just fell over, nobody near him, he just fell over. Utter waste of a shirt. Get rid. Walsall had us totally sussed from the off & it was a very poor game but we did start to push when subs were done. To be honest I think Walsall deserved the points as we look like a team who have ran out of ideas & enthusiasm. The place was a library once again but what is there to cheer about. In my opinion something is very wrong & we look like the team that went out of the league again. We sit so deep and the players are either losing the ball or making far too many mistakes. A cold and crappy day compounded with crappy football
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Post by kingswood Polak on Oct 7, 2018 13:48:26 GMT
This is how I saw it... Looked at the team sheet....despair....Nichols picked again. No Sercombe. No Kelly. Dear oh dear. If you want a goal, need a goal, lets pick a non scoring striker....i blame dc for this failing tactic. Granted, Nichols in first half defensively was notable. But the blame clearly lands at dc door when again he doesn't score or assist or do anything to warrant an undroppable situation. So we play with 10 men. Walsall were on the front foot alot. We struggled to cope with them at times and I want to say they were a very decent team. Just, all the play acting, ref baiting and timewasting didn't bestow them. I really liked Dobson number4, and their number 3 left foot delivery. I thought their disallowed goal was a handball and rightly booked number 3. But Walsall defended well, by throwing themselves in fronted of ball and blocking numerous shots. And when they broke, they broke in numbers. They also got back in numbers, but therein is one of my main observations... We are too slow on attack. Our tempo is too slow. There's not enough movement in front of ball.... Plenty to side and behind. This leaves little options when attacking. I would put Ollie Clarke/Bonham m o m they both out played themselves. Ollie was brilliant at breaking up moves and play in the simple ball....Bonham kept the game competitive til the end. I really like James Clarke! His physical competitiveness was the main bane of Walsall complaints to ref, but I've seen the same against Nat Harrold, Gaffers, Ellis and the like without so much of a sniff. Fair play, we have a real combatative reliable source of defending....his pass to Ollie as a hospital ball left alot to be desired though. What's happening to Danny Leads? His crossing seems to be worse this season? Therein lies the problem....cross to whom? Reilly/Nichols/Jakubiak all smaller than the average centre back.. So....poor service and poor finishing was the story of our day. Hey, I'm seeing a team that is never gonna score many goals with Nichols playing in. It's taking up valuable tine and space which could be used forming partnership elsewhere. Carry on, and we will struggle. Here's a couple more observations for you. Like most teams we come up against, they threw themselves on the floor, often with no contact whatsoever, their No 11 did it with no Rovers' player within a yard of him, instead of booking the player the referee made it clear he had seen what happened by laughing at him. 10 mins later he booked the bloke, so, yet again, we suffer because an official doesn't apply the rules. But judging by last week's effort, we wouldn't have scored against 10 players, so it probably didn't matter in the end. Ref Danny's crossing, watch what happens, he always overhits them, we always attack the front and middle of the goal. Do we train during the week, is our manager watching the game or practicing his post-match comments already, surely he must have noticed this? Quarter of the season gone, we are in a relegation position, something needs to change. Has to be said, DC seems to have lost himself & he has to take responsibility for how we are doing. I think he’s now just seemingly incapable of knowing his best 11 let alone using the tactics needed to win games. Personally I lay this at his door. Over to you DC
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Oct 7, 2018 14:54:17 GMT
Here's a couple more observations for you. Like most teams we come up against, they threw themselves on the floor, often with no contact whatsoever, their No 11 did it with no Rovers' player within a yard of him, instead of booking the player the referee made it clear he had seen what happened by laughing at him. 10 mins later he booked the bloke, so, yet again, we suffer because an official doesn't apply the rules. But judging by last week's effort, we wouldn't have scored against 10 players, so it probably didn't matter in the end. Ref Danny's crossing, watch what happens, he always overhits them, we always attack the front and middle of the goal. Do we train during the week, is our manager watching the game or practicing his post-match comments already, surely he must have noticed this? Quarter of the season gone, we are in a relegation position, something needs to change. Has to be said, DC seems to have lost himself & he has to take responsibility for how we are doing. I think he’s now just seemingly incapable of knowing his best 11 let alone using the tactics needed to win games. Personally I lay this at his door. Over to you DC There's a many unvocal minority with your train of thought, Kp..
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