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Post by RD on Aug 14, 2025 10:53:03 GMT
Staggering from a professional footballer with experience at a higher level. I don’t like to fire accusations at people but that looks a clear lack of effort. He literally just stands there. He doesn’t once look around him to see where the forward is. To compound things, look that the reaction from his teammates. Not one player having a go at him. This lot don’t care. It’s obvious. The lack of proper on pitch leadership was an issue all last season too. Another reason why the bunch of losers will probably continue to lose, nobody with a 'when the going gets tough, the tough get going' mindset. Recruiting players like McEachran and saying they bring experience is all well and good but having a lot of games behind you is not the same as being a leader. Problem is you want the leaders in from day 1 to sort the mentality out during pre season. Nail on head. All delicate little flowers. We had Hutch's dad on here sympathising it was a "confidence" issue; these lot need to grow a pair. Utterly pathetic. |
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Post by TAGas on Aug 14, 2025 10:58:11 GMT
Staggering from a professional footballer with experience at a higher level. I don’t like to fire accusations at people but that looks a clear lack of effort. He literally just stands there. He doesn’t once look around him to see where the forward is. To compound things, look that the reaction from his teammates. Not one player having a go at him. This lot don’t care. It’s obvious. The lack of proper on pitch leadership was an issue all last season too. Another reason why the bunch of losers will probably continue to lose, nobody with a 'when the going gets tough, the tough get going' mindset. Recruiting players like McEachran and saying they bring experience is all well and good but having a lot of games behind you is not the same as being a leader. Problem is you want the leaders in from day 1 to sort the mentality out during pre season. Sounds like Scott Sinclair |
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Post by Gaswood on Aug 14, 2025 11:01:13 GMT
It’s been clear for many of us to see from the moment Southwood joined, when you kindly confirmed the stats to back up my thoughts. He’s a major downgrade on Jed Ward, and offers not one single outstanding feature over what we had. The first goal positioning is shocking. The second goal too, he hesitates in the area at the initial attack and does the Hokey Cokey on the edge of the six yard box, before making no positive action towards the follow up stage and shot. In the previous game he made himself as small as possible when coming out, like an “Anti-Schmeichel” lowering himself down and getting easily chipped. I sincerely hope Im wrong and he’s low on confidence, but I simply do not think he’s good enough, and worse than that, he is far inferior to what we already had, probably on significantly more money. People in the Fleetwood match talking about two “great saves” were referring to the one that was offside, whereby it was a stock save for anyone with half decent positioning, straight at him, to move his foot. I’d say that one was a bread and butter save. The second one was chest height and 4 ft to the side, which again means as long as positioning is okay, you should be getting to it… we used to call those “one for the highlight reel” as you couldn’t really not save it, but it looked good. If we look closely at it though, the angle that he pushes it out is not great either, and could have caused a follow up. People don’t seem to see it!!! Find me a team who have been promoted with a poor goalkeeper. Throwing Puddy in at the end of the conference season nearly cost us. His mistake at Dover and then the handball at Wembley which he should have seen red for. Had he been in net all season, I don’t think we would have gone up. I hope Southwood improves because we are going to struggle to stay in this division if he can’t even get his angles right. Exactly mate. Kids playing at the park get called out for getting angles as bad as that. His kicking has been awful too, and as the main gripe people seemed to have with Jed was him not dominating his box for crosses, he definitely did that more than Southwood at this point! |
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Post by Gaswood on Aug 14, 2025 11:10:26 GMT
The lack of proper on pitch leadership was an issue all last season too. Another reason why the bunch of losers will probably continue to lose, nobody with a 'when the going gets tough, the tough get going' mindset. Recruiting players like McEachran and saying they bring experience is all well and good but having a lot of games behind you is not the same as being a leader. Problem is you want the leaders in from day 1 to sort the mentality out during pre season. Sounds like Scott Sinclair Absolutely. There are players that lead and put everything in, and others that just can’t do that. Linesy used to be like a lower league Beckham for us in that his control of the team, his dictating of the pace, coming to get the ball from defenders when needed, but generally just marshalling was a huge benefit. That instruction and organisation makes a huge difference and we need it back. We also need someone to do the dirty work now and set an example that way. The likes of Mauge and Lescott used to spur others on purely through their tenacity. I mean right now, if we could go back a few seasons and get Abu Ogogo back as he was then, we’d see a real change in our midfield. That’s a pretty sad statement that a bit-part player that was released as surplus to requirements 4 years ago would be a side-changing addition in this current bunch. Same up front - what we’d give for a “Guy Ipoua” type, when years back they had no chance of a run in the team! We’ve gone so far backwards it’s unreal. |
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Post by gasmania on Aug 14, 2025 11:57:01 GMT
Sounds like Scott Sinclair Absolutely. There are players that lead and put everything in, and others that just can’t do that. Linesy used to be like a lower league Beckham for us in that his control of the team, his dictating of the pace, coming to get the ball from defenders when needed, but generally just marshalling was a huge benefit. That instruction and organisation makes a huge difference and we need it back. We also need someone to do the dirty work now and set an example that way. The likes of Mauge and Lescott used to spur others on purely through their tenacity. I mean right now, if we could go back a few seasons and get Abu Ogogo back as he was then, we’d see a real change in our midfield. That’s a pretty sad statement that a bit-part player that was released as surplus to requirements 4 years ago would be a side-changing addition in this current bunch. Same up front - what we’d give for a “Guy Ipoua” type, when years back they had no chance of a run in the team! We’ve gone so far backwards it’s unreal. It's voices on the pitch too. You want a couple of players who command respect and authority from the squad, if they talk you listen. Not because they are nice guys and friendly, but because they are winners who won't take any 💩 and will tell you. Doesn't even need to be berating mistakes, waking people up if they've started slow, encouraging, driving them forward, organising the structure so people arent miles out of position for no reason. We are going to concede the first goal more times, but where is the voice of authority on the pitch to drag out any kind of fighting spirit from the rest. Where is the voice that keeps chins up and instills belief that it's not over. We have had teams that you just never thought they were beaten, no matter how hard it looked you believed there was a chance they could get back in it. The players are not bad and shouldn't be performing like this but its a squad with the softest underbelly imaginable. Leaks into the fans as well who lose faith and don't believe getting behind them will help them through. |
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Post by TAGas on Aug 14, 2025 12:06:30 GMT
Absolutely. There are players that lead and put everything in, and others that just can’t do that. Linesy used to be like a lower league Beckham for us in that his control of the team, his dictating of the pace, coming to get the ball from defenders when needed, but generally just marshalling was a huge benefit. That instruction and organisation makes a huge difference and we need it back. We also need someone to do the dirty work now and set an example that way. The likes of Mauge and Lescott used to spur others on purely through their tenacity. I mean right now, if we could go back a few seasons and get Abu Ogogo back as he was then, we’d see a real change in our midfield. That’s a pretty sad statement that a bit-part player that was released as surplus to requirements 4 years ago would be a side-changing addition in this current bunch. Same up front - what we’d give for a “Guy Ipoua” type, when years back they had no chance of a run in the team! We’ve gone so far backwards it’s unreal. It's voices on the pitch too. You want a couple of players who command respect and authority from the squad, if they talk you listen. Not because they are nice guys and friendly, but because they are winners who won't take any 💩 and will tell you. Doesn't even need to be berating mistakes, waking people up if they've started slow, encouraging, driving them forward, organising the structure so people arent miles out of position for no reason. We are going to concede the first goal more times, but where is the voice of authority on the pitch to drag out any kind of fighting spirit from the rest. Where is the voice that keeps chins up and instills belief that it's not over. We have had teams that you just never thought they were beaten, no matter how hard it looked you believed there was a chance they could get back in it. The players are not bad and shouldn't be performing like this but its a squad with the softest underbelly imaginable. Leaks into the fans as well who lose faith and don't believe getting behind them will help them through. Because we know that if we go a goal down, we are not coming back from it. The last time we went a goal down and came back to win was againts Burton on the 5th Oct 2024 and before that was Carlisle on 24th Feb 2024 |
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Post by readinggas on Aug 14, 2025 12:48:03 GMT
Absolutely. There are players that lead and put everything in, and others that just can’t do that. Linesy used to be like a lower league Beckham for us in that his control of the team, his dictating of the pace, coming to get the ball from defenders when needed, but generally just marshalling was a huge benefit. That instruction and organisation makes a huge difference and we need it back. We also need someone to do the dirty work now and set an example that way. The likes of Mauge and Lescott used to spur others on purely through their tenacity. I mean right now, if we could go back a few seasons and get Abu Ogogo back as he was then, we’d see a real change in our midfield. That’s a pretty sad statement that a bit-part player that was released as surplus to requirements 4 years ago would be a side-changing addition in this current bunch. Same up front - what we’d give for a “Guy Ipoua” type, when years back they had no chance of a run in the team! We’ve gone so far backwards it’s unreal. It's voices on the pitch too. You want a couple of players who command respect and authority from the squad, if they talk you listen. Not because they are nice guys and friendly, but because they are winners who won't take any 💩 and will tell you. Doesn't even need to be berating mistakes, waking people up if they've started slow, encouraging, driving them forward, organising the structure so people arent miles out of position for no reason. We are going to concede the first goal more times, but where is the voice of authority on the pitch to drag out any kind of fighting spirit from the rest. Where is the voice that keeps chins up and instills belief that it's not over. We have had teams that you just never thought they were beaten, no matter how hard it looked you believed there was a chance they could get back in it. The players are not bad and shouldn't be performing like this but its a squad with the softest underbelly imaginable. Leaks into the fans as well who lose faith and don't believe getting behind them will help them through.
It was painfully obvious at Fleetwood - nobody talking to each other, nobody on the team who was driving on. In contrast the Fleetwood players were chatting to each other like a bunch of fishwives and wanting the ball being played to them. |
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