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Post by percy on Jan 3, 2023 9:07:15 GMT
Any news on Gibson injury? He’s been the most consistent of the back 3 but we know has injury problems. Could need 2 more centre backs in the window if he’s out for more than a game or two.
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Post by Kingswood Polak on Jan 3, 2023 12:33:37 GMT
Can’t string two halves of football together Before the game, my son said he'd love to ask JB why we're always crap in the first half and good in the second. Strangely, it was the other way round yesterday. I guess it's like a lot of things which are being built/developed, it can take a while for it all to work well on a consistent basis. Barton's still learning his trade, and has a team of mainly young players. I am no expert Tilly but I’d expect pro footballers to perform for the whole game. We just keep gifting others teams, goals. Let’s hope the Jan window addresses this.
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Post by WeAreTheGas on Jan 3, 2023 12:45:37 GMT
Before the game, my son said he'd love to ask JB why we're always crap in the first half and good in the second. Strangely, it was the other way round yesterday. I guess it's like a lot of things which are being built/developed, it can take a while for it all to work well on a consistent basis. Barton's still learning his trade, and has a team of mainly young players. We just keep gifting others teams, goals. The only thing I can really put this down to is the lack of experience throughout our defence. Because individually I rate most of our defenders and think they can more than hold their own at L1, but collectively we seem prone to switching off/lapses of concentration at key moments or making poor decisions in dangerous areas. There were games where our young back four made similar errors last season but no one really remembers them because often the opposition weren’t good enough to capitalise. It’s a different story this year when you’re presenting these chances to McGoldrick, Nombe, Ennis etc. You look through our midfield and it’s bursting with experience - Coutts, Finley, Rossiter, Whelan, Sinclair + Anderson out wide - then you look at our defence and it couldn’t be more at the opposite end of the spectrum. Not saying we need to rip up or overhaul our defence at all, but I do think an older head or two back there would help to eradicate some of the mistakes gifting teams goals.
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Post by olskooltoteender on Jan 3, 2023 12:49:49 GMT
I don’t know if anyone else on the East Terrace noticed but a bit of mischievous quality from Finley yesterday. He was being marked on one of our throw ins near halfway - he pointed to his markers feet and said “your laces are undone” - the twerp fell for it and Finley gained a yard to receive the ball. Excellent 👏 Class!
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