13-03-2017, 11:39
Why oh why on Tuesday night don't we do something like play German and Simons up front - two strong young lads who should be keen to show? Peterborough have a good big centre back in Tafazolli (who we should have grabbed when he was at Mansfield) so if they can cause him any problems it'll be the green shoots of promise.
We have hardly given Simons a start. He might not be up to it, but unless we give him a run of two or three games at least and watch his confidence grow or the opposite, how will we ever know? Matt is quite right about where we will be recruiting next year's team, but if you look at those playing in non-league who are grabbing the interest of league clubs you mostly find they are actually FAILED LEAGUE PLAYERS. They followed much the same pattern as Rai Simons, got a few sub appearances, a scatter of starts months apart and after a year or two at most they've been released. Then suddenly to everyone's amazement they are getting 25 goals at Welling United or somewhere and it's who'd have thought it?
This is our chance to give these players their chance. We released Chapman without ever giving him a league game ..... and now we've played rush-goalies for a season. Let's build and to do it we need to know about the building blocks we are using - let's find out about our players. So in behind German and Simons let's play Dennis and see if and when they can disrupt the opposition he can grab a goal or two (or at least a shot or 4). Let's play Mitchell to run at the opposition without fear of failure because now we can't fail - we already have.
Derby just sacked Steve McClaren for winning one in his last ten, what's Mr Caldwell's record? Yet both Matt and I think he should be given a proper chance next season IF he actually wants it. But the here and now he talks about is relegation and what we do with it.
We have hardly given Simons a start. He might not be up to it, but unless we give him a run of two or three games at least and watch his confidence grow or the opposite, how will we ever know? Matt is quite right about where we will be recruiting next year's team, but if you look at those playing in non-league who are grabbing the interest of league clubs you mostly find they are actually FAILED LEAGUE PLAYERS. They followed much the same pattern as Rai Simons, got a few sub appearances, a scatter of starts months apart and after a year or two at most they've been released. Then suddenly to everyone's amazement they are getting 25 goals at Welling United or somewhere and it's who'd have thought it?
This is our chance to give these players their chance. We released Chapman without ever giving him a league game ..... and now we've played rush-goalies for a season. Let's build and to do it we need to know about the building blocks we are using - let's find out about our players. So in behind German and Simons let's play Dennis and see if and when they can disrupt the opposition he can grab a goal or two (or at least a shot or 4). Let's play Mitchell to run at the opposition without fear of failure because now we can't fail - we already have.
Derby just sacked Steve McClaren for winning one in his last ten, what's Mr Caldwell's record? Yet both Matt and I think he should be given a proper chance next season IF he actually wants it. But the here and now he talks about is relegation and what we do with it.