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Post by chelt_gas on Oct 8, 2014 21:12:11 GMT
This was from a good friend who's seen non-league for quite some time. Fairly good analysis from 90 minutes of football on Saturday.
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Post by pirate on Oct 8, 2014 21:36:58 GMT
He's right and it is obvious. Need to shell out to get out of this league THIS YEAR. Stumped regarding who though.
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Post by aldershotgas on Oct 8, 2014 21:45:24 GMT
Nice post,thanks......didn't go to the game (thanks to higgs).......but would have to agree....we need a 20+ goal striker........If Woking can score 5 at Southport, then why can't we ?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2014 21:51:13 GMT
Should of signed cureton when we had the chance, he would get a hatful against the opposition we've faced so far.
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Post by mullerrd on Oct 9, 2014 5:33:12 GMT
I am not in the ' would you have him back ' camp for any former players, and have no personal loyalty to Jamie Cureton, but it beggars belief that we weren't prepared to sign him as a 15 goals ( minimum ) a season player in the summer. This can only be for non football reasons and if the board were not prepared to give him what they saw as a lucrative one year deal for the sake of a much improved chance of first time promotion then it simply shows a lack of genuine ambition.
Our goals for stats are appalling and I fear we could rue the day we chose not to sign JC at the end of the season if we don't act quickly to address what is an obvious problem.
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Post by chelt_gas on Oct 9, 2014 7:03:37 GMT
Taylor and White are the modern day Gilroy and Mike Davis. As good as a marshmallow hammer.
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Post by gasgomarchingin on Oct 9, 2014 7:40:05 GMT
Sinclair looks Ill? What because he has a long beard?
Taylor is s**t? Very, very harsh.
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Post by Topper Gas on Oct 9, 2014 7:43:24 GMT
Sinclair looks Ill? What because he has a long beard? Taylor is s***? Very, very harsh. I thought those comments were bizarre aw well. Also why moan about the club's twitter feed it hardly the BBC twitter feed.
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Post by Topper Gas on Oct 9, 2014 7:46:41 GMT
Taylor and White are the modern day Gilroy and Mike Davis. As good as a marshmallow hammer. I can't recall either of those ever played for England or scored 1 goal in every two league games for thier former clubs?
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Post by Clevedon gas mk 2 on Oct 9, 2014 8:45:32 GMT
Totally agree with mullerd our goals for tally will cost us promotion if we dont get a striker in NOW. This has to be sorted as soon as possible! Rovers board are you listening.!!!!
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Post by rocknrollaayatollah on Oct 9, 2014 8:49:11 GMT
The Gas 14 points above Dover, who'd have thought it cheltgas?
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Post by stevek192 on Oct 9, 2014 8:56:53 GMT
We had Rendell and he was absolutely useless and he looked little better against us a few weeks ago and yet he has scored 11 goals but would he have scored 11 for us? There is something about the way we play that I can't put my finger on which makes us a low scoring team. I think it might be that we spend too much time "running the channels" and defenders coming out far too slowly and never reaching the half way line as a unit.Compress the play and keep two players in the centre of the opponents defence pressing on the last man and let our "wingers" do the Channels. That's my theory but of course I may be completely wrong.
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Post by chelt_gas on Oct 9, 2014 9:00:25 GMT
Sinclair looks Ill? What because he has a long beard? Taylor is s***? Very, very harsh. I thought those comments were bizarre aw well. Also why moan about the club's twitter feed it hardly the BBC twitter feed. 'Ill' is just yoof slang for not nice appearance rather than something associated with health. Taylor is not very good, at least in the games he's played so far according to this forum. Our Twitter is probably policed so may be somewhat diluted.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2014 9:30:02 GMT
We had Rendell and he was absolutely useless and he looked little better against us a few weeks ago and yet he has scored 11 goals but would he have scored 11 for us? There is something about the way we play that I can't put my finger on which makes us a low scoring team. I think it might be that we spend too much time "running the channels" and defenders coming out far too slowly and never reaching the half way line as a unit.Compress the play and keep two players in the centre of the opponents defence pressing on the last man and let our "wingers" do the Channels. That's my theory but of course I may be completely wrong. Our strikers never come short for a pass and nobody from midfield ever makes a run beyond our forwards,O'Toole did it last season and scored a fair few of his goals via that route.Someone like Gow might be the missing link for us right now but basically we are a team that make ourselves bloody hard to beat at present but there does seem to be a fear of getting caught out by pace when from what I've seen no teams in this league are blessed with a load of speedy attackers anyway.As SteveK has said many times we defend too deep and don't push up enough when in possession and that is all about DC being indoctrinated by John Ward into safety first football as the first priority.imo we need to be a bit more braver in our style of play if we want the goals to start flowing for us and a pacy right winger should be the priority signing for me,finding one may not be easy of course.
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Post by dido on Oct 9, 2014 9:48:59 GMT
It's all very well the defence pushing up from too deep but how much space does that leave behind those Olympic speedsters Trotters, Parkesy and McC? Pity Yatesy can't give them some of his pace.
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Post by Royal Blue on Oct 9, 2014 10:08:58 GMT
I wouldn't be adverse to us signing a striker who is more consistent in front of goal but you aren't going to get one mid-season. Cureton probably would have done the job had we signed him in the summer but it's inevitable that one day soon his age will catch up with him and he'll become less effective. DC maybe thought it wasn't worth the gamble when he can sign younger players with the potential to develop like Taylor. I can understand his point of view on that.
Taylor is not s***, not by any stretch. The work he does, the runs he makes and his overall contribution is good but at the moment a combination of poor decision-making in front of goal and some bad luck means he's not finding the net very often. At the moment both MT and Adam Cunnington are missing chances I'm sure they'd fancy themselves to score more often than not and because they are both enduring that sort of spell at the same time it looks worse than it is. I genuinely think Taylor can and will score goals for us and fingers crossed he goes on to prove that. Nobody should be getting on his back yet.
With White he looked well off the pace in his early appearances this season but he hasn't been given much game time recently and so we can't really judge him fairly. I'm sure he'll get some minutes on the pitch over the coming weeks and it will give him a chance to show what he can do.
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Post by p4perlant3rn on Oct 9, 2014 11:59:53 GMT
I wouldn't be adverse to us signing a striker who is more consistent in front of goal but you aren't going to get one mid-season. Cureton probably would have done the job had we signed him in the summer but it's inevitable that one day soon his age will catch up with him and he'll become less effective. DC maybe thought it wasn't worth the gamble when he can sign younger players with the potential to develop like Taylor. I can understand his point of view on that. Taylor is not s***, not by any stretch. The work he does, the runs he makes and his overall contribution is good but at the moment a combination of poor decision-making in front of goal and some bad luck means he's not finding the net very often. At the moment both MT and Adam Cunnington are missing chances I'm sure they'd fancy themselves to score more often than not and because they are both enduring that sort of spell at the same time it looks worse than it is. I genuinely think Taylor can and will score goals for us and fingers crossed he goes on to prove that. Nobody should be getting on his back yet. With White he looked well off the pace in his early appearances this season but he hasn't been given much game time recently and so we can't really judge him fairly. I'm sure he'll get some minutes on the pitch over the coming weeks and it will give him a chance to show what he can do. Agreed. Give me Taylor over Chris Beardsley every day of the week.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2014 14:56:14 GMT
Taylor and White are the modern day Gilroy and Mike Davis. As good as a marshmallow hammer. I can't recall either of those ever played for England or scored 1 goal in every two league games for thier former clubs? Which one was that?Surely you dont mean Taylor,career record 102 games 29 goals,best seasons return is 10
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Post by irishrover on Oct 9, 2014 15:58:47 GMT
I can't recall either of those ever played for England or scored 1 goal in every two league games for thier former clubs? Which one was that?Surely you dont mean Taylor,career record 102 games 29 goals,best seasons return is 10 You do wonder why we couldn't have done slightly better with our recruitment up front looking at the pedigree of those we signed. Generally, it looks like we've done very well with recruitment in other areas of the team but up front it just seems a bit lacking. Maybe it's just been bad luck or perhaps with Brunt still on the wagebill (and still hopeful of a comeback) we didn't want to commit too much money to forward line at the expense of the rest of the squad (definitely something we've done before-Hoskins springs to mind). I don't think it's that big a problem though - we're currently winning without a particular effective strike force and so we know where we need to upgrade. It's better than struggling at the other end because then there'll be a massive argument about whether the problem is defenders, midfielders or full backs. From what I've seen we're playing quite good football, we're solid at the back and we're creating opportunities we're just no taking them so we know exactly where we can improve and hopefully Clarke has an idea of who he might be able to bring in.
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Post by Heathcombe Blue on Oct 9, 2014 18:21:13 GMT
Which one was that?Surely you dont mean Taylor,career record 102 games 29 goals,best seasons return is 10 You do wonder why we couldn't have done slightly better with our recruitment up front looking at the pedigree of those we signed. Generally, it looks like we've done very well with recruitment in other areas of the team but up front it just seems a bit lacking. Maybe it's just been bad luck or perhaps with Brunt still on the wagebill (and still hopeful of a comeback) we didn't want to commit too much money to forward line at the expense of the rest of the squad (definitely something we've done before-Hoskins springs to mind). I don't think it's that big a problem though - we're currently winning without a particular effective strike force and so we know where we need to upgrade. It's better than struggling at the other end because then there'll be a massive argument about whether the problem is defenders, midfielders or full backs. From what I've seen we're playing quite good football, we're solid at the back and we're creating opportunities we're just no taking them so we know exactly where we can improve and hopefully Clarke has an idea of who he might be able to bring in. Irish you say we are solid at the back -- But one of my biggest worries this season has been Tom Parkes playing along the ground. His passing and distribution leave a lot to be desired. Hopefully this will get better with confidence .
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