Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2020 14:34:21 GMT
Support is going down at the present time and it is hardly surprising with six shots at goal being an improvement on most of the matches since GC left. A point against Fleetwood is not a disaster but playing this way is also going to make it a struggle to beat even the worst teams in this divisions. The midfield players are probably as big a problem as the strikers with none other than Ginnelly and Rodman having any pace whatsoever and the others look bewildered at the present time as to what exactly they each should be doing.
Blackman 7 Looks a good keeper. Much quicker off his line and good distribution and the defence finally looked confident again and restricted a strong Fleetwood forward line to very little,
Kilgour 6.5 a solid game in a new position to him and hopefully it won't be long before Little is challenging him for that place
Davies 6.5 A little rusty at times but that is to be expected after so long a lay off and it is great to have him back.
Craig 7 MOM back to his best after a recent lull in his performances and led the back four well and kept Ched Evans very quiet.
Holmes-Dennis 6.5 Like Davies a little rusty but he is one hell of a talented full back if we can get him playing regularly and I am sure if that happens we will see many frays into the opposition half rather than just a couple.
Upson 5.5 Not one of his better games but not at all helped by the fact that all the midfield players are similar in their qualities and this was made worse when Ogogo came on and restricted our attacking threat even more.
Clarke 5 Similar to Upson but it is good to have him back to provide competition but three defensive midfielders on the pitch at the same time with only one forward up front is not going to provide entertainment or I believe get us the results we need.
Sercombe 6 Not on his best form and being played in a position where you would think he could get shots in but he failed to do this yesterday. We don't really have another like him so I hope his injury is not serious as his absence without replacement would hamper us.
Barrett 5.5 I like the look of him but not in the position he is being played. with the loss of a bit of excess weight he could be the creative midfielder we are looking for and the right age.
Ginnelly 6 Another I really like the look of. He has the skill and pace to excite but what we lack at the present time is the player to give him the ball more often. He was much better first half than second half where either he tired or just didn't get given the ball.
Clarke-Harris 5 Another disappointing performance and anybody that tells me it was a good penalty they are having a laugh. Any penalty that hits the keepers foot is a poor penalty and I have to9 say that I was not confident that he would score as he has been so poor recently. To be fair he got little of the protection that the referee gave to the Fleetwood players where every touch seemed to bring a free kick. IMO we should only get rid of him in this window if the price is right and that for me is an absolute minimum of 2m with so long left on his contract. whether he stays or goes we must sign a replacement plus at least one other striker.
Subs: Ogogo 4 very rusty and struggled to get possession and made us even more defensive.
Reilly 4 Totally lost in a short appearance.
Rodman 6 Gave us a bit more width and a bit more attacking threat and won the penalty.
Crowd 5 Quiet but tried hard to get behind the team but in fairness the entertainment is missing.
Ref 2 This was more about what he missed than what he gave. Terrible.
Fleetwood 5 an average League 1 side with some good players attacking wise.
BG Early days but has a tough job IMO to make us an entertaining side. There were glimpses in the first half of what he is trying to do but just not in a large supply.
We move on to the next stage of Ben Garners reign on Tuesday but to be honest I do not see even the mediocre Bolton team bringing us the much needed victory and the best I can see is a 0-0 draw. I would say that 46 points will be enough to stay up this year and the quicker we get there the better but I can see it being mainly reached with one point returns unless we can obtain two aces in the next week.
JCH is far far away from being a 2 million pound player. Taking half of that would be good business. Sell why he has some value and before he returns to the form that had him sat in Coventry reserves.
Rovers need the money and other similar players are out
there at much cheaper prices.
This smacks of the delusional figure placed on Tom Lockyer... again often quoted as not less than 2 million, we should have let him go for a quarter of the price instead he left for nothing.
A million for JCH and it should be a done deal!
