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Yep, not a good look.Apple Wumble wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:56 pm Ross is a very emotional bloke and often went mental at the officials and opposition bench last season. Agree though, as a manager, players look to you to be the one in control.
Right on all counts especially this comment...''Top of the West. wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:53 pm It was a turgid performance, slow to get the ball forward and rarely if ever got in behind them. Only Brophy looked like he could unlock the back four he was great on the ball but as often is the case his final ball/cross was poor.
5-3-2 is killing us we haven't got the personnel to play it and create chances, both Ling and Widowson will make to go forward and turn the ball back or inside because they don't really have an attacking gene between them. We either need to change shape or recruit two experienced wing backs (which we won't) so we need to change shape.
I was also really concerned by Ross Embleton today, seemed more intent in getting involved with the fourth official and opposition bench than anything else. I was all in favour of the continuity of appointing from within but Embleton seems a tad "immature" and I would have preferred Danny Webb, Ross needs to get his act together and concentrate on getting things right on the pitch rather than getting antagonised on the side lines at the slightest little thing.
I would give Ross a dozen games to work things out, he needs to show some guts and change formation and bring in a couple of experienced players before the window shuts or return to the back benches and work under an experience manager.
Agree with all that.Byways1 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:25 pmYep, not a good look.Apple Wumble wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:56 pm Ross is a very emotional bloke and often went mental at the officials and opposition bench last season. Agree though, as a manager, players look to you to be the one in control.
He needs to grow up fast and lead by example.
I have my doubts, but will give until the end of October.
My gut feeling is he hasn’t got what it takes and the board will probably move before then.
Expect to see Russ back in the dugout.
But it doesn't matter that we didn't score in the first three of those games. We set out to achieve an objective in two of those and were rusty in the third. What matters are the games this season.Sid Bishop wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:15 pmLike it or not, I was just stating the fact that in our last 7 competitive games ( not counting pre-season friendly's ) we have scored just one goal in 7 games.Smendrick Feaselberg wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 5:45 pmSituations were different though for those games though. We set up to be hard to beat at Solihull, the last game was nervy and we only needed a point so why go gung ho and the trophy was after a three week break without a competitive fixture against a team that had been playing that sort of game up til then. This season is clearly more of a concern since we will be playing teams like this week after week and with largely this personnel moving forward. As someone that states the obvious most of the time I thought you'd have seen this.Sid Bishop wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 5:39 pm Taking into consideration that our last two league games of last season were both 0-0 and in the very last game of last season, we again failed to score in the 1-0 FA trophy final defeat by Fylde. So add the four games this season and it means that in our last 7 games played, we have only scored ONE GOAL !! It would seem that we have a very big problem in scoring goals !!
Like it or not
Smendrick Feaselberg wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:34 pmThis is a run of 7 matches in which we have scored just one goal, a trend which you are choosing to ignore, but ok, have it your own way then, So this season, 4 games competitive games played and Os have only scored 1 goal, happy now ?Sid Bishop wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:15 pmSmendrick Feaselberg wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 5:45 pm
Situations were different though for those games though. We set up to be hard to beat at Solihull, the last game was nervy and we only needed a point so why go gung ho and the trophy was after a three week break without a competitive fixture against a team that had been playing that sort of game up til then. This season is clearly more of a concern since we will be playing teams like this week after week and with largely this personnel moving forward. As someone that states the obvious most of the time I thought you'd have seen this.
But it doesn't matter that we didn't score in the first three of those games. We set out to achieve an objective in two of those and were rusty in the third. What matters are the games this season.
No, I'm far from happy at that given it will cost us down the road. It's not that I'm ignoring the trend, but more that I'm able to filter out the irrelevant part of that - i.e. the lack of goalscoring in those three games wasn't an issue - and focus on the bit that matters - which is performance in the current squad where the objectives are different. Just saying something is a trend without looking deeper into it is rather hard of thinking. It doesn't matter that we scored one goal in seven games, but it does matter that we have scored one in the last four.Sid Bishop wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:48 pmLike it or not, I was just stating the fact that in our last 7 competitive games ( not counting pre-season friendly's ) we have scored just one goal in 7 games.Smendrick Feaselberg wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:34 pmBut it doesn't matter that we didn't score in the first three of those games. We set out to achieve an objective in two of those and were rusty in the third. What matters are the games this season.Sid Bishop wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:15 pm
Like it or not, I was just stating the fact that in our last 7 competitive games ( not counting pre-season friendly's ) we have scored just one goal in 7 games.
Like it or not
This is a run of 7 matches in which we have scored just one goal, a trend which you are choosing to ignore, but ok, have it your own way then, So this season, 4 games competitive games played and Os have only scored 1 goal, happy now ?
This. But surely the management know teams will do this to us at home and should make a plan to counter it. Or am I naive?Forty-Niner wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 6:21 pm Stevenage set up not to concede, keeping nine men in defence for most of the game and the ineffectual Kurtis Guthrie on his own up front.
Their game plan was successful and they probably deserved their point.
And you could say exactly the same for Widdowson, but he doesn't get the same slating on here as Ling.RedDwarf 1881 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 6:36 pmI was watching Ling closely . It's true what people say about him . He can't cross the ball and he passes backwards a lotPrestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 5:59 pm Because Ling is the closest thing we have to a wingback.
I was watching Ling closely . It's true what people say about him . He can't cross the ball and he passes backwards a lotTom Chance wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 9:56 pm [quote="RedDwarf 1881" post_id=36803 time=<a href="tel:1566063410">1566063410</a> user_id=180]
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Because Ling is the closest thing we have to a wingback.