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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 9:38:44 GMT
He is moaning that we played 2 rookie CB's. What is he supposed to when our first choices were inavailiable? I'll give you a fact and that is that Steve loves to criticise DC, fact. He could of flown in Steve Yates from Crete surely
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Post by markczgas on Sept 3, 2017 9:54:01 GMT
My lack of confidence in DC's transfer dealings are really down to the fact that so many of his signings are bit part players many of whom rarely play two games on the trot irrespective of how they play. It amazes me that DC was willing to play two rookie centre halves yet was not willing to take a chance with Telford who scored two in the week. I think most Managers have sussed out now that our full backs like to go on runabouts and play in behind us at every opportunity. There are times,like yesterday where we look a tactical shambles and this has now been evident in half our games played. Gung ho rather than organisation.Maybe a bit of truth in that but we conceded the first 2 goals from corners due to a player/players not bothering to even get close to a player in our 6-yard box !! We were actually looking pretty good at 0-1 - the 2nd goal killed us off. I have to say - the 2 CBs struggled yesterday but so did the fullbacks and midfield - we didn't get tackles and blocks in and even when we did win the ball back near our goal we then gave it straight back to them. As DC said these are the basics. Somebody else said we are too light-weight with Lines and Sercombe in together - this is becoming evident - we did miss Sinclair yesterday - but it does show the squad is thin or DC is not playing players who have been waiting patiently. Although, we missed Sweeney, Locks and Sins yesterday the fact that we have conceded 11 in 5 suggests we need to shake things up - and give some players 2 or 3 games to see if they can make us tougher to beat but still a threat going forward. I'd like to Parts at RB, Bola at LB, and Gaffers and Harrison up front - they'll give opposition defences plenty to worry about. And for goodness sake ditch Moore - play Telford or Nichols there - they'll do more going forward for sure and will probably do no worse defensively.
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Post by markczgas on Sept 3, 2017 9:57:21 GMT
He is moaning that we played 2 rookie CB's. What is he supposed to when our first choices were inavailiable? I'll give you a fact and that is that Steve loves to criticise DC, fact. He could of flown in Steve Yates from Crete surely I honestly thought that DC would play Parts and Broadbent in the middle. Burn can't do the basics (at the moment). BTW even with Yates there last season we conceded a ton of goals last season - especially away from home ! Yates probably thought Crete's better than this
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Post by stevek192 on Sept 3, 2017 9:58:50 GMT
The problem is that this will happen again and again the two players coming in will not be good enough. We needed at least another experienced centre half both as competition for Lockyer/Sweeney and to cover for this event.Just to compound the problem the two full backs were going forward leaving huge gap0s both sides which Bradford exploited. Surely defensive duties should have been priority with two rookie centre halves.
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Post by peterparker on Sept 3, 2017 10:12:29 GMT
The problem is that this will happen again and again the two players coming in will not be good enough. We needed at least another experienced centre half both as competition for Lockyer/Sweeney and to cover for this event.Just to compound the problem the two full backs were going forward leaving huge gap0s both sides which Bradford exploited. Surely defensive duties should have been priority with two rookie centre halves. Bit they might be good enough next time. Not going to write Burn as bad as he was, and broadbent off after a handful of games. They will have learnt a lot by being battered like that and hopefully they will come back better for it
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Post by 2nd May 1990 on Sept 3, 2017 15:03:41 GMT
The problem is that this will happen again and again the two players coming in will not be good enough. We needed at least another experienced centre half both as competition for Lockyer/Sweeney and to cover for this event.Just to compound the problem the two full backs were going forward leaving huge gap0s both sides which Bradford exploited. Surely defensive duties should have been priority with two rookie centre halves. Bit they might be good enough next time. Not going to write Burn as bad as he was, and broadbent off after a handful of games. They will have learnt a lot by being battered like that and hopefully they will come back better for it Exactly. One of the biggest mistakes that people make is to think that what happens in one moment will repeat ad infinitum. There are so many variables in play that this is actually impossible. Inexperienced players don't remain inexperienced forever and they do have the capacity to learn, especially from a coaching staff that have done brilliantly. It wasn't pretty yesterday but everyone knows that Bradford is a tough place to go to, as evidenced by the fact that they went the whole of last season unbeaten at home.
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 3, 2017 19:12:04 GMT
The problem is that this will happen again and again the two players coming in will not be good enough. We needed at least another experienced centre half both as competition for Lockyer/Sweeney and to cover for this event.Just to compound the problem the two full backs were going forward leaving huge gap0s both sides which Bradford exploited. Surely defensive duties should have been priority with two rookie centre halves. We bought in an experienced CH just season, Peter H, and he wasn't much better than what we had. The problem is there are no guarantees even with experienced players that they are better than what we've got. I know what you mean about yesterday but we're Bristol Rovers not Man C and our first choice CHs Tom and Sweeney are first choice for a reason, they are better than the others. We can't have 4 brilliant CHs, in this league it doesn't work like that. Also Broadbent did ok yesterday, esp in the first half when he was important in keeping it down to 1. But our FBs esp Leads went missing at times yesterday and although I heard a poster say DC had said Joe P can't play 3 games in a week, he really should have played if he was fit. That he didn't play tells me he was probably injured, so we might have gone in to that match against one of the best teams in the league without 3 of our best defenders. I think that gives a bit of context, not that DC ever makes excuses. UTG!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 20:09:51 GMT
The problem is that this will happen again and again the two players coming in will not be good enough. We needed at least another experienced centre half both as competition for Lockyer/Sweeney and to cover for this event.Just to compound the problem the two full backs were going forward leaving huge gap0s both sides which Bradford exploited. Surely defensive duties should have been priority with two rookie centre halves. Goodness me, how many clubs at this level gave two first teams.? Your comments mean nothing unless placed in the real world.
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Post by gaelgas on Sept 4, 2017 8:40:17 GMT
The problem is that this will happen again and again the two players coming in will not be good enough. We needed at least another experienced centre half both as competition for Lockyer/Sweeney and to cover for this event.Just to compound the problem the two full backs were going forward leaving huge gap0s both sides which Bradford exploited. Surely defensive duties should have been priority with two rookie centre halves. We bought in an experienced CH just season, Peter H, and he wasn't much better than what we had. The problem is there are no guarantees even with experienced players that they are better than what we've got. I know what you mean about yesterday but we're Bristol Rovers not Man C and our first choice CHs Tom and Sweeney are first choice for a reason, they are better than the others. We can't have 4 brilliant CHs, in this league it doesn't work like that. Also Broadbent did ok yesterday, esp in the first half when he was important in keeping it down to 1. But our FBs esp Leads went missing at times yesterday and although I heard a poster say DC had said Joe P can't play 3 games in a week, he really should have played if he was fit. That he didn't play tells me he was probably injured, so we might have gone in to that match against one of the best teams in the league without 3 of our best defenders. I think that gives a bit of context, not that DC ever makes excuses. UTG! Totally agree mate, we can't expect to hold 4 top CHs, like you say we're Bristol Rovers not Man City. The one thing I don't really understand is why Partington played Tuesday if he can't do 3 games in a week. Surely better to give him a full week of rest for, like you said, one of the toughest games of the season, and play Leads against Wyscum or Bola?
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 4, 2017 11:19:40 GMT
Gaelgas, you're right it is a bit strange that Joe P played v Wycombe. Perhaps he got a tweak or something in the match, I don't know. With DC you never really know his thinking and he always surprises us! UTG!
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