Gas V Burton Match day thread

That game today was no different to when we lost at Accrington last season, and Barton spent the last 20 minutes of the game sulking.
For the last few seasons we have had nice tippy tappy footballers who play well against good footballing sides.
But as MT can see we can't raise our against against physical, horrible sides. It was the same last season as this.
They seem to hate the physicality and back off from getting stuck in. They can't play against sides that use nous rather than skill.
They are literally bullied off the park.
Injuries to Finlay and others and Martin not playing hasn't helped.

We need to get some solid, fearless players who aren't afraid to get stuck in and lead from the front against horrible sides.
That's the way it has to be done sadly in this League.

We had games in the latter stages of Barton's reign where we played lovely football, 65% possession and NO SHOTS ON GOAL.
If that's what you like, fair play to you.
MT tried to get more speed out of them in his initial games and it seemed to work.
Injuries have forced us to play players who don't seem to grasp the basics and hate the more physical side of the game.
But we seem to have been like that for a while.
MT is going have to work on the psychology as well as the physicality of our side as at the moment they seem physically and mentally fragile.

Clearly MT just needs add shots on goal part. MT sounding defeated in post match interview, maybe he needs some psychology help as well.

I don't think any psych is going to make me want to take on the giant Burton brought on in the second half, how tall was he 6'9"? 

Tempo is key.
Whenever we’ve played with a quick tempo this season we’ve done well, when we play that awful slow football the oppo get back and we’re crap.
And that’s under Barton , Mangan and Taylor.
We had a few games under Barton where we moved it quickly - Wigan , portvale spring to mind , under Taylor Portsmouth , Charlton Oxford and Bolton we were quick and direct not giving them chance to regroup.
Under Mangan we moved it quickly in every game apart from reading where for some reason we played some of the slowest football this season and I think we scraped a point hence he’s the one with the best PPG out of the three.
On Tuesday and in the first 60 mins today if we’d been any slower with our passing and movement we’d have gone back in time.
I disagree with those saying we hoofed it today, in fact it was slow , short passing slow movement trying to work our way through the pitch but we didn’t move the players or the ball quickly enough.
We did launch it a bit in the final 10 but the majority of today was like Tuesday just on a better pitch.
If anyone can prove me wrong regarding winning a game this season playing a slow tempo game then please do because to me it’s very clear what works and what doesn’t at this level.
Just a shame that Barton and now Taylor can’t seem to see it.
Mangan did I think but he’s history now.

He needs f**king backing from our sh*t owners is what he needs! Utter disgraceful backing in the window - completely sold up the river.

Lose pretty much all the assists in the squad and replace him with a few wet behind the ear kids who don't even belong to us!


These owners are going to bury this club. Mark my words.

Conteh transfer fee was around £250K/£300K plus a £100K/150K salary and potentially signing on fees?  

He needs f**king backing from our sh*t owners is what he needs! Utter disgraceful backing in the window - completely sold up the river.

Lose pretty much all the assists in the squad and replace him with a few wet behind the ear kids who don't even belong to us!


These owners are going to bury this club. Mark my words.

I got told I needed a reality check when I moaned about the plans to add ends on the stand...it's difficult to have any trust in new owners.

January was a disappointment, i only hope we manage to stay up and money is spent in the summer.