Exiles thread - Scunthorpe (H)

[cockhat]

Cisse. What have we bought?

A goal scorer!

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Cisse. What have we bought?

A goalscorer.

[EliotNes]

Dave Victor "the least Orient deserve" what is he on

I don't know but can I have some

[Eat The Rich]

It took a set-piece.

That's not an endorsement of our football. We still need to change. Get it forward quicker. Get players up and around Abrahams. Have a go Jobi for goodness sake.

[Smendrick Feaselberg]

[Admin]

Going to be against a lot of opinions here but we’ve looked better today with the 4-2-3-1. sh*t defending for the goal but that’s more to do with basics like pressing and being the right sid le as a centre half rather than overall shape. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not fantastic but there’s just a bit of improvement in terms of going forwards.

[Give it to Jabo]

Come on Os. something to build on

[Give it to Jabo]

Cisse: he has a languid style, so he draws criticism, But GET IN!

[Beradogs]

Freeman is looking a little brighter.

[Mistadobalina]

Going to be against a lot of opinions here but we’ve looked better today with the 4-2-3-1. sh*t defending for the goal but that’s more to do with basics like pressing and being the right sid le as a centre half rather than overall shape. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not fantastic but there’s just a bit of improvement in terms of going forwards.

Agreed. One of the things I don't understand is we're getting into quite decent wide positions and have a striker who's in theory better in the air than Johnson yet refuse to cross it and wind up overcomplicating things. Don't really like it when people say a teams trying to be too clever, but it's definitely the case with us. We have inverted players all over the pitch and I'm not sure your average League 2 player is good enough to pull that off.

[gshaw]

Stick Cissé upfront for rest of the season let's go route one, maybe he's the target man we've always wanted hiding in plain sight...

[Orient Punxx]

Looking good - going to win this.

[essexfootball]

Looking good - going to win this.

Think that's a false dawn, these aren't any good, it's like Grimsby part 2

[cymruO]

HT and it's been better. Abrahams has had nothing but more threat.

[Still wrong]

Looking good - going to win this.

Think that's a false dawn, these aren't any good, it's like Grimsby part 2

Must be something in the air up there.

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Going to be against a lot of opinions here but we’ve looked better today with the 4-2-3-1. sh*t defending for the goal but that’s more to do with basics like pressing and being the right sid le as a centre half rather than overall shape. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not fantastic but there’s just a bit of improvement in terms of going forwards.

Agreed. One of the things I don't understand is we're getting into quite decent wide positions and have a striker who's in theory better in the air than Johnson yet refuse to cross it and wind up overcomplicating things. Don't really like it when people say a teams trying to be too clever, but it's definitely the case with us. We have inverted players all over the pitch and I'm not sure your average League 2 player is good enough to pull that off.

Abrahams is strong and quick but he’s not big and won’t bother most L2 defences aerially. And none of Freeman or Kemp or Clay are going to help out either.

[Eat The Rich]

Can you imagine if Wilko decided he was prepared to put himself about and play through the middle a la Loft. Then, maybe, we'd have another way of playing that was a bit more direct. Instead he's "more comfortable" doing diddly piddle from the right.

I know what Frank Clarke would have told him.

[corkeireorient]

Looking good - going to win this.

Thats that then !

[Smendrick Feaselberg]

True quote from Glen Wilkie, “ if you try the same old thing you can’t expect a different outcome”

So if you run 10 miles regularly you shouldn't expect to achieve faster times or be able to run further?

Correct, you'd need to do speed work, hills, and longer distances to achieve that

Damn, must have been something other than two 10 mile runs a week for five weeks that consistently improved my times and helped me to build up to half marathon distance then.

[Beradogs]

Can you imagine if Wilko decided he was prepared to put himself about and play through the middle a la Loft. Then, maybe, we'd have another way of playing that was a bit more direct. Instead he's "more comfortable" doing diddly piddle from the right.

I know what Frank Clarke would have told him.

Show pony. Have always said that. Just does enough every week and thinks a league two footballer is making it. If he put in 100% he could play much higher.

[Smendrick Feaselberg]

Stick Cissé upfront for rest of the season let's go route one, maybe he's the target man we've always wanted hiding in plain sight...

gshaw when this happens "Ling is telling McAnuff to play Cissé up front!"

[Story of O]

Why soak the pitch at half time? Big puddle in our half now

[gshaw]

Happe and now Brophy been caught in that muddy patch, just get rid early in that area or it'll cost us

Stick Cissé upfront for rest of the season let's go route one, maybe he's the target man we've always wanted hiding in plain sight...

gshaw when this happens "Ling is telling McAnuff to play Cissé up front!"

Be wonderful to see some non-Ling-approved tactics and selections but never gonna happen. I'll take a 5'2" midfielder from the middle and a striker on the wing from the top please Martin

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Brophy lucky not to be red carded

[Beradogs]

I thought that was a red. Marginal but wouldn’t have been surprised.