We have a lot of young players and yes we are making mistakes. A few games ago RCC had a couple of shockers but he played well today. Yes Phillips made a very poor error that cost us a goal and probably the game...but he will learn and hopefully improve. I thought Murphy didn't have the balls he thrives on; he needs to push t past the full back and use his speed...his control is not good enough to try and trick his way through. Armstrong seemed to switch off after we conceded and lame ire didn't impress today. I thought fleck had good first half but his touch and drive disappeared second. Bigi and tudgay did ok when they came on. Ramage ok but not a Ben turner. Stokes and rickets didn't have their best games...thought stokes would try the outside a few times but didn't seem confident enough to do it. This was possibly the worst collective performance this season (certainly at home). Hopefully the next half dozen games will see us back on track...they are all winnable on paper. The way we recover from a very disappointing week will show us all whether we have a realistic chance of promotion.
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I thought he had given a penalty away in the first couple of minutes, it was a bit dodgy. A bit like what happened to vincelot in the week
Willis too.Mogga I guess can't do much at the moment with the lack of defenders.
Martin out is a blow
Turner we sent back crocked
Lorentzson we crocked him on day 1
Reda crocked himself
Seems to be our jinx area of the team.
If we miss out on promotion, it'd be interesting to see how many points were dropped overall by goals conceded when the team played it cute in defence when they could have just cleared.
Willis too.
To be fair, he is our 4th choice right back. If we had everyone fit, Lorentzson, Willis and Ricketts would all be preferred to him.
I am basing my judgement on the fact that he surely can't be worse than Phillips!Phillips certainly seems error prone, be it directly like today or indirectly i.e. giving away a penalty.
Note of caution with Lorentzson, we seem to be pinning a lot of hope on him, but he's an unknown quantity in this league. I'm sure he will be a great signing but let's not heap piles of pressure on before he's even played a game.
Then you'd have to also work out how many chances would have been lost by hoofing rather than passing.
I'd rather the players were encouraged to have confidence in their ability rather than be scared to settle on the ball myself, even if it does mean a few cockups.
Guess it would have to be Bigi, cos I think we would really miss Vincelot in the midfield big time.The obvious answer if there is no alternative is to put Vincelot or Bigiamara at full back.
The obvious answer if there is no alternative is to put Vincelot or Bigiamara at full back.
Guess it would have to be Bigi, cos I think we would really miss Vincelot in the midfield big time.
Does Bigi have the discipline to play that role I wonder? Not convinced myself.
I'm sure that I read somewhere that Bigi has played at fullback for Toon.
May be worth a try then. Phillips' confidence will not at all be high after yesterday and we need to change the back four around a bit.Yes I think he has. He seems an obvious choice if there is no one else.
Shame, he showed promise early on.
Needs to go out on loan IMO, aswel as Haynes.
Indeed! Only one who rates Phillips is his old man. Won' be anywhere near the team when everyone is fit anyway-bit like Haynes on the other side.Said it all that Mowbray took him off! Bad bad mistake and destroyed the gameplan.
If he needs to learn let him do it elsewhere on loan. He might come back a far better player for it.Indeed! Only one who rates Phillips is his old man. Won' be anywhere near the team when everyone is fit anyway-bit like Haynes on the other side.
Don't get the "young player needs to learn" non-sense either. How long do we wait-he is now 22?
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