Gas V The O’s Match Day Thread

Get on it, I’ve just seen Bananarama around the back of the West Stand.

Pathetic tonight ..

Connor Taylor / Jack Hunt / Grant Ward / LT for 20 minutes put in a shift.

Connor was excellent …

Loanees can go back now as far as I am concerned ..

Cox - distribution rank bad - give Jed a chance .
Vale- Lack of footballing brain to give away that cheap free kick ( has been good previously though)
Crama - disaster waiting to happen and once again he sh** the bed ! Thus time in the five minutes he was on the pitch.
Bogarde- if you’re not interested lad then go back to Villa's junior side.
Woods - Ginger Bilbo Baggins who adds nothing.

Collins added nothing again / Marquis just proved he is past his best and L2 ticket please in January . Jevani Brown - I would rip up his contract - total joke who ambles around the pitch. Adds nothing.

Mangan and coaching staff - Clueless ! Whelan aside I would flush the rest out of the Mem asap.

Desperately need a new leader now .. and probably need to rip up the JB premiership play book and start fighting with some L1 nous and spirit.

Jevani Brown made some good runs but was never picked out ….. he’ll come good.
Collins is a good player and as soon as he came on he added threat to our forward line. 
Agree on much of the other stuff but perhaps a bit harsh on Bogarde.

The fact is that Mangan is not a Manager and it will be an almighty mistake to appoint him. Unnecessary substitutions,same tactics as JB ie all back from corners and then struggle to get out. Like for like changes made that are exactly that except the players coming on were worse. Crama is not even as good as Connely. Marquis is a poor mans Martin. JCH would have taken the net and keeper out at the end.Why take off Thomas and change the defence- we werent great but we were holding them fairly easy.
I want to see a team that when scoring one wants to get a second and a third. Less playing in our own half and pushing players forward to close the opponents down We make poor teams look average. We ahve good attacking players but they are being wasted by having to get back and work all the time.
I blame the owners because if they didnt have a clue who was going to manage the side then they shouldnt have sacked JB especially with the run of fixtures we had.I really worry that we are going to really struggle this season.

Clarmont Gas, Well thank god you arent the Manager. mGood footballers do not become bad overnight. Javani Brown was brilliant at Exeter, I agree on Crama-terrible. Cox nothing wrong other than two distribution errors. We need to bring in a Manager who can create a style that gives attacking football and bring as end to the rubbish playing the ball out and getting ourselves under pressure and the crap all back in our box and not being able to get out. Marquis shows every reason why we needed JCH.
Owners get some balls and sort it out -now.

Yep agree. He's incredibly frustrating. Has some good attributes but doesn't protect the ball well enough whilst controlling it. Needs to respect possession. First you control the ball, then you progress.

Soon as Crama came on I said to the person stood next to me' there is mistakes in him' then he goes and scores an own goal

Only two things wrong last night:

1) Slow play out from the back, putting us under pressure. I said on the Derby thread, the thing that Grant offers at CB is moving the ball quickly and we did miss that last night. No question Conner Taylor is a better defender and an absolute rock at the back. However for some reason, when he plays we get pegged in at the back.

2) Not taking our chances. We had plenty of chances to win that last night, but decision making in the final 1/3 was poor. Four occasions in the game where we should have scored:

1) First half switch from left to right was beautiful, Thomas takes the ball down lovely in acres of space. When there was green space to run into, he crossed into the box instead, was cut out by their defender. We should have at least got a shot on target out of that.

2) 2nd Half, Marquis 1 on 1 with the keeper 1st time. Goes for the far top corner, hits it over. Keeper was beaten, should have kept it down.

3) We win a free kick just outside the box on the RHS. A beautiful free kick, straight off the training ground ending with Evans in acres of space one the edge of the box with only the keeper to beat. Shot was shocking, still orbiting earth. NASA expecting reentry over the weekend.

4) Marquis 1 on 1 number 2. Clearly Marquis is struggling with confidence. He seemed to be in two minds as to how to beat the keeper. Ended up neither burying it or showing the keeper "The eyes" and slotting it away.

We didn't have much urgency all night but still could have walked away with a good victory, we did create enough chances just made bad decisions at the key moments.

Walking away, definately felt live 2 points dropped. Compared to the game vs Lincoln where it felt like 1 point won.

Management sentiment the same as everyone else, give it to someone soon. It feels like it impacted on the squad last night. Maybe different to most is that I think Mangan can do the job.

Anyone else notice the confusion on the faces of our defenders when Crama came on and tried to pass on Mangans instructions?
Felt like they thought it was wrong move. We were defending well, why mess about. Proved correct.