Gas Vs Junior Irons Matchday Thread

Watching us play I’m not convinced signing JCH would have made much difference.
Most of our football is played in our half and when we get to the oppositions third we mostly go backwards.
JCH isn’t a player who’s mobile and runs in to spaces from what I remember and he’s a few years older now.
The problem I think is how quickly we move the ball from defence , I wasn’t at the Lincoln game at home 1-1 but I looked at the stats we had 600 accurate passes but half of them were our keeper and two centre half’s.
It’s sh** to watch and it’s not successful, we played that way under Garner and were awful and would have probably gone down had he not been sacked.
With these better players we’ll probably stay up but quite simply our manager is holding them back tactically with his visions of how he wants league 1 players to play like world class players.

I know the bristol post is awful and I can't stand it but your right. Last few seasons we have had regular updates from Sam frost regarding state of the squad, build up to the matches etc. I used to enjoy reading the pre match press conferences they were informative and interesting. We literally hear nothing now. No one has a clue what's going on in the build up to a game.

Is this still the matchday squad?

The CBs complaint is not a good one imo.
5 CBs who are all starters is not healthy for a lg1 team. JB can't help injuries and we've had these unfortunate runs of injuries before.

Not many were complaining about Connolly going and iirc some were actually getting on his back!

JCH was clearly an unrealistic target which got real, and you don't have a back up plan incase a transfer runs into the last 30 seconds.

We lost in the pizza trophy,try not to get carried away.

lose to West Ham u21s in the last 10 mins and its a meltdown, smashed Cheltenham in the same competition a fortnight ago and its dismissed as nothing.


Perspective

Win or lose in this competition (😔) does not really matter. It's about momentum, about formation and tactics maturing to give fans some confidence for the season. So far, and we are nearing the end of first ten game spell and it's a bit all over the place on those metrics. Win Saturday against Wigan and perhaps we can look forward to the next 10 game block with a bit more confidence.

We looked sloppy, expected a few to try to make a claim for inclusion on Saturday, not bothered by the competition but does give confidence if we win those type of games.

Need to kick on with the league form.

maybe read the content of the posts. Dont care about the result much, not even that bothered if it wasnt the greatest performance. The worries are 1) we dont have good cover in centre back or up front, really highlighted last night 2) joey continues to play players out of position in some weird hope thet last 8 times they played there they showed they couldnt do a job.

Hope we have Wilson and Taylor at the back and JM up front on Saturday. If he goes with Hoole again expect a heavy loss and people on here calling for him to be shipped out

Gibbons scored twice v Cheltenham two weeks ago 😀

Always Thought it would be Tough! Problem is you look around our Team and there is no Flare or Desire. When you have Youthful players among your squad running everything down and fighting for every ball it changes the dynamic of the whole Teams performance unfortunately we don't have that and Barton too scared to try it! Good Managers bring on and develop their up and coming players ours unfortunately in Mr Barton is naïve and thinking a bunch of old 'experienced' players are enough to make him look good when really it is having the opposite effect, and is really quick to dig them out if they don't perform!