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Post by stevek192 on Dec 3, 2020 12:11:29 GMT
althepirate- I would agree with you and think the big problem is that PROVEN Strikers cost money!! tommy could probably go out and find lots of strikers that would improve us if his budget was say 400,000 or even 200,000.The final say though does come down to the Manager and BG must take the blame for providing us with a totally unbalanced squad.
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Post by stevek192 on Dec 3, 2020 12:05:34 GMT
chewbacca, The problem is not all down to comparing new players v who they replaced- the problem is replacing them all at once.If you replaced Grant with Ollie Clarke you would not improve this team. if however you put JCH in THIS team you would improve it immediately because of the effect a natural goalscorer would have on the team and individual performances. I would go as far as to say that Clarke Harris would have adde4d 12-15 points on to our total so far- that is how important a goalscorer is when you find one and 1.5 million is no good whatsoever if you don't invest at least some of it in a replacement. The problem with our "Club blueprint" is to make money on players signed is fine BUT you must INVEST some of that money in QUALITY replacements that can perform now not in three years time!
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Post by stevek192 on Dec 3, 2020 11:47:57 GMT
I think we will find that Tommy has provided some good p-layers - our problem is that too many of them are in the same position and have exactly the same qualities.Players who we signed who should be quality ie Ehmer,Baldwin are making poor errors and at the moment it seems every error they make ends up in our net. I very much like Tisdales interview and hope he can get it right preferably before we are adrift at the bottom.
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Post by stevek192 on Dec 3, 2020 11:32:11 GMT
Justin Blue, reactionary maybe ,drivel unfortunately not! watching Rovers at the moment is something which unfortunately it is in my blood and I can't stop it despite it not making pleasant viewing. I can only hope that we can get a lucky win soon and suddenly the errors will go out of players games and the few moments of class which is visible at times in these players become more regular. With a couple more attacking options this squad is capable of turning this around but the longer the present run goes on the less likely that becomes.
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Post by stevek192 on Dec 3, 2020 1:00:00 GMT
Its just a case of deja vu every game. Same old mistakes, most oif our goals against under Garner were just like the second goal last night. Three at the back and a wing back breaks with nobody in front 9of him to defend and the three centre backs on the other side of the area, ball i8n Kilgour asleep and in the net. Last season we consistently played Ollie Clarke and Upson and now we have Grant and Upson- no better at all.I do0 not doubt that we have some talent and had we kept JCH we would have been well towards the top because he would score goals most games. I think with Otzumer , Hanlan and Nicholson around him we could honestly have been looking at a great season. Instead as usual we have not replaced JCH like Lambert before him and many others and will probably pay the ultimate price. Yes thankfully it is still early doors but I just can't see where a win will come from.
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Post by stevek192 on Dec 2, 2020 21:11:19 GMT
Jaakkola 5.5
Hare 4 Ehmer 3 Baldwin 3.5 Leahy 3
Grant 1 Upson 4 McCormick 6 Oztumer 7 Nicholson 8
Hanlan 3
Subs: Kilgour 4 Walker 2 Koiki 2 Westbrooke 4
Ref 6 Gillingham 6
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Post by stevek192 on Dec 2, 2020 21:01:37 GMT
What a load 0f dross. Absolutely dreadful. Defending bloody awful and when we change to a back three we immediately get caught out wide with no full back or cover anywhere near.Centre halves are dire. Gran t just gets bypassed too much and Upson far too slow. Don't know where the next win in the league will come from as we don t look like scoring goals in the League. We just have a totally unbalanced squad with very few attacking options and Tisdale filling the team with defensive players. The only consolation is we dont have to go out in the cold and watch this rubbish. Its still early but I cant see anything but relegation at5 this moment in time.
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Post by stevek192 on Dec 2, 2020 18:42:48 GMT
Cannot understand why Mitchel Lawson doesnt even get in the squad withh no0 forwards on thhe bench. Would also have liked to see Barrett on the bench at least.
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 29, 2020 16:10:07 GMT
Jaakkola 7
Hare 7.5 Ehmer 7 Baldwin 6 Leahy 7
Grant 5.5 Liddle 5
McCormick 7 Oztumer 8 Nicholson 8
Daly 6.5
Subs: Kilgour 5 Westbrooke 4 Harries 3
Ref 8 Darlington 5
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 24, 2020 23:28:49 GMT
Jaakkola 6
Hare 3 Ehmer 8 Baldwin 8 Leahy 7
McCormick 7 Grant 6 Upson 5.5 Koiki 6
Oztumer 6 Nicholson 8
Subs: Barrett 7 Walker 6 Westbrooke 6 Kilgour 5
Ref 5 Wigan 3
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 24, 2020 19:55:05 GMT
Havent seem anything in either Hare or Grant but performance pretty good. Referee seems very lenient. We should be leading by one or two but knowing us will probably pay for those misses.
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 24, 2020 18:46:18 GMT
What has happened to Mitchell-Lawson if he cant get in a squad with no forwards whatsoever. Surely youngsters should have been recalled? Koki likes attacking ,perhaps he will be p0layed up top!
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 24, 2020 18:42:23 GMT
Surely there must be some out of contract strikers around?
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 22, 2020 10:51:09 GMT
If that starting eleven was the best we could put out then I would suggest Tommy sold PT a dummy yesterday. Kilgour is awful, Harries looks like he is in a dream half the time. Personally I think Grant looks the best defender when he is back so perhaps start with him and Ehmer with Little and Koki as full backs. Certainly needs a shake up and unfortunately although I like Upson he does not have the energy or seemingly the willingness to move quickly and forward. Play Nicholson out wide with three midfielders- Westbrooke, Oztumer and McCormick and a front two of Hanlan and Mitchell Lawson.Some will say we dont have a ball winner in the midfield but after what I have seen this season there is no point trying to play the way we have been with a ball winner who doesnt very often win the ball! Lets take the game to Wigan like we should have done yesterday against the worst Swindon team I have ever seen.
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 22, 2020 0:18:00 GMT
Jaakkola 5
Kilgour 1 Ehmer 6 Harries 2
Hare 2 Grant 4 Upson 5 McCormick 5.5 Tutonda 4
Nicholson 6 Hanlan 5
Subs: Westbrooke 3 Koiki nole Baldwin nole
Ref 5 Swindon 4
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 21, 2020 17:05:41 GMT
I personally wont care if I never see Kilgour in a Rovers shirt again. The bloke if a liability but there again this afternoon there are quite a few players who I wont be sad to see the back of.Lets just go back to a basic back four with a few attacking players in front of them. This was like playing withh a team of defenders with a back five and then Upson,McCormick and Grant in midfield withh just Nicholson and Hanlon with an y hope of scoring a goal. That was one of the worst games I have watched against a Swindon side that must rank as one of the worst ever. 1-0 down and then brought on two defenders. Unbelievable but must have been guided by someone on the team select6ion and substitutes. I am only thankful that I havent been able to travel to watch this absolute crap that we have had dealt out this season.
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 18, 2020 20:07:48 GMT
Playing a back three gives the opposition too much space to attack us. We look likely to concede all the time. Didn't really think there was much improvement in our play tonight.
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 17, 2020 10:14:43 GMT
Ollie Clarke has hardly set League 2 alight,Sercombe has done OK there but we have much better footballers now so I have the feeling the right Manager with one or two tweeks could give us a really good side.It has to be taken into account that we were up against the worst weather conditions in the first half with a liability of a goalkeeper. We were doing well in the second half until the third goal killed us off.I just hope under a new Manager we will cut down on the passing in our own half and play the good attacking players with maybe a different formation and perhaps the new Manager will be able to get an out of contract striker. We can but hope.
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 16, 2020 1:21:26 GMT
We have a goalkeeper coach.Surely if Andre Jnr was better than JVS he would be in the squad by now? What makes some think Andre is a better keeper? I am not impressed by JVS but have a feeling that Andre is worse.
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 15, 2020 11:31:53 GMT
Kilgour has been awful this season and I hope not but have a feeling he is a bang average League 2 centre half and has been over rated-hope I am proved wrong. I think all the players have the ability but would personally like to see Leahy and Kelly out on loan.
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