Match Thread

Not pretty but 3 more points in the bag. Also nice to watch it on a professional looking tv channel, very slick.

Quoted from pontoonlew

Too many individually poor performances but we won so I'm sure everybody will forget about that and not have anything to say about excrement performances until we lose again. Not good enough for me, too many players just aren't working in a 4-3-3. Last season we came on here every week and said we wasn't good but we still won so it didn't matter. Well for me it did, because when we started to lose those games we suddenly didn't know what to do with ourselves. For too long we hid behind victories when we had massive flaws in our side and if we don't sort it out it's going to happen again.

We won today but I'm massively underwhelmed.

Can't disagree with any of that. Thought Hearn was anonymous, Thomas was awful, Shop was offside, Jobeck can run all day but can't cross a street, Thanoj wasn't in the game at all, Hatton can leave with my blessing. in fact I'll take him wherever he wants to go. He was like a excrement Tom Newey today. Can't see how 4 3 3 can be persevered with because the players simply don't know their roles. Hearn and Colbeck are not wide forwards, Thanoj, Disley and McLaughlin are virtually the same player! there's no creativity, nobody willing to get a foot in the ball and take his man on or away from the danger to create space. Can't see this side being champions.

Not that different to Welling, the only difference is we got the goal. More or less got the points total we deserve from 5 "easy" games though.

Quoted from Biccys

Can't disagree with any of that. Thought Hearn was anonymous, Thomas was awful, Shop was offside, Jobeck can run all day but can't cross a street, Thanoj wasn't in the game at all, Hatton can leave with my blessing. in fact I'll take him wherever he wants to go. He was like a excrement Tom Newey today. Can't see how 4 3 3 can be persevered with because the players simply don't know their roles. Hearn and Colbeck are not wide forwards, Thanoj, Disley and McLaughlin are virtually the same player! there's no creativity, nobody willing to get a foot in the ball and take his man on or away from the danger to create space. Can't see this side being champions.

For me it's strange decision after strange decision and it is concerning.

Building a front 3 round a guy who can't score goals (I really rate LJL but at the end of the day he has to score at some decent rate to warrant 46 games). Yet refusing to build it round Hearn. 4-3-3 can work but not at the minute, we don't have the personnel out their on the pitch. Let's face it we are trying to copy York, it was clear from the off that S&H were keen admirers of their side. For some barmy reason we started the change of the squad at the back by deconstructing the best defence in the league. I like the middle 3. Up front York played with 3 quick strikers, we play with a Lump in the middle, an out and out winger more suited to a 4-4-2 and a striker who is half the player out wide as he is in a 4-4-2. We then decide to keep the two wingers more suited to a 4-3-3 in Rodman & Nielson (the fact he's in the stands when they claim he needs match fitness is dumbfounding) out of the starting 11 all together.

It's a bit of a mess at the minute, they signed the right players for the job yet gave the wrong players the wrong positions. As I said, they will all see it as going brilliantly until we lose a few and they'll be wondering where it's all going wrong. Hearn has two goals, granted but he's no way near the threat he was but is still quite blatantly as good.

Quoted from GrimRob

Not that different to Welling, the only difference is we got the goal. More or less got the points total we deserve from 5 "easy" games though.

Losing at Welling and winning tonight is funnily enough better for our points tally....agree we should maybe have more points in the bag than we actually do but 10 from 5 played is still not too bad a return

I think it's a master stroke to play the best striker in this league out wide. This tells me all you need to know about these two. They could get us promoted, but I'd still think they were a pair of idiots, and I'd be right.

Three points burgled really. They were quicker to the ball, closed us down, ran through us - all the things we are supposed to do with 4-3-3 and they played 4-4-2! It was only after the goal that we got some control.

The passing was terrible for most of the match and some players looked brainless. All 3 in midfield went up or went back together so the only ball out from defence was route one or down the channel. They got caught out too often and ended up chasing after their bloke. A better side would have punished us for it. Thanoj has the ability but he needs players to move around a bit for him to pass to. They don't seem to know where to play him. He needs to be either in front of the back four as a quarter back or up in front of the other two to supply the strikers. He spent most of the game wandering about.

Hearn just cannot adapt to 4-3-3. I thought he could but he can't. Rodman could be an asset because he at least knows when to come inside. Colbeck was alright. OK his crosses are not brilliant a lot of the time but he will do a couple of decent ones in a game and we scored from one. If he was any better than that he wouldn't be playing at this level. The Shop would do better to hold the ball up more to let the midfield join in instead of looking to flick it out wide so much but to be fair he got a load of rubbish hoofed up to him.

The back 4 were reasonable. The full backs looked bad because they had nobody to pass to either so they just  kept lumping it.

3 points, not convincing at all, worrying seeing hearn's reaction when he was brought off, looked fuming

Quoted from Hagrid

3 points, not convincing at all, worrying seeing hearn's reaction when he was brought off, looked fuming

I suppose a win bonus might make him feel a bit easier about being subbed

Well that was a frustrating game to watch.   Hatton and Aswad need to get closer to the winger and not give them 5 yards to cross the ball.  Paddy looked good and never stopped running.   Thanoj did ok and continued to keep the momentum going by passing it around without causing them problems.  Colbeck played ok and although some of his crossing was awful eventually he got one right although rodmans movement was good I like the look of him ever since seeing him against Aldershot.   I just dont know whats happened to dizza seems a different player to last year his passing and shooting was terrible.  Lenny did well when onside and eventually he'll find his shooting boots.  For me liam is wasted on the left.  The centre backs seem fine although Doigs pace worries me.

its still early and the more they play the better they will get.  However I dont think now is the time to change to 433 I think we have players that can play in the 442 anyway what do I know lol.  Still a vital win roll on Nuneaton.