Kev, as I once tried to tell Bob's before I left, has made some very good signings at Southport. The other week they only had one player in the team who was playing when he took over. Dion Charles who scored yesterday was a particularly good signing. But the only team Southport might catch to make the play-offs is Kidderminster and if they did Brackley, York and Salford/Harrogate look too good. But Kev has done great, but Southport are currently 10th.
My objection to what Jack is doing is that not only do the teams he selects look dodgy, but also he is apparently not casting an eye to OUR future. Five of Saturday's players were on loan. Whilst I've nothing against Jacob Brown, we've given him a better chance than we've EVER given Ricardo German. On Tuesday night German terrorised Nantwich's goalie who was on-loan from Blackpool, on Saturday Ricky was sitting out a waterlogged game whilst we gave invaluable experience to a Barnsley player! Where's the sense in that? We picked a centre back combo which had no chance of handling Lincoln's aerial threat - we might have gone for Talbot, Willock, Maguire, Whitmore and have learned how close our players were to handling the kind of threat next season will bring. Willock's young, but he's big and combative. We were without possibly our best player in Reed, so do we give more experience to Rowley? No he gets to watch until we are behind. Basically from the players available, I think we'd have struggled anyway on Saturday, but it seems as obtuse that the man who the supporters were so worried about losing in the transfer window is now down the pecking order to a player who rarely ever scores, as it is that we blood a Barnsley youngster for them when our own young players are the only successful aspect of our club.
I've said this a thousand times but loaned players are only any use IF they get you more points than your own players. Does it look like they could do worse? I hope Jack is asking what his current aim is. Is it to stay above Barnet and hope Sutton win the Vanarama and choose relegation over a new playing surface? Maybe Jack is thinking of hitting the road before next season in the Vanarama. If not he needs to be bringing through our young players for next season and scouting currently successful non-leaguers to turn them into a viable team.
Our remaining games are of developmental interest only. Like West Brom, we went down yesterday.
My objection to what Jack is doing is that not only do the teams he selects look dodgy, but also he is apparently not casting an eye to OUR future. Five of Saturday's players were on loan. Whilst I've nothing against Jacob Brown, we've given him a better chance than we've EVER given Ricardo German. On Tuesday night German terrorised Nantwich's goalie who was on-loan from Blackpool, on Saturday Ricky was sitting out a waterlogged game whilst we gave invaluable experience to a Barnsley player! Where's the sense in that? We picked a centre back combo which had no chance of handling Lincoln's aerial threat - we might have gone for Talbot, Willock, Maguire, Whitmore and have learned how close our players were to handling the kind of threat next season will bring. Willock's young, but he's big and combative. We were without possibly our best player in Reed, so do we give more experience to Rowley? No he gets to watch until we are behind. Basically from the players available, I think we'd have struggled anyway on Saturday, but it seems as obtuse that the man who the supporters were so worried about losing in the transfer window is now down the pecking order to a player who rarely ever scores, as it is that we blood a Barnsley youngster for them when our own young players are the only successful aspect of our club.
I've said this a thousand times but loaned players are only any use IF they get you more points than your own players. Does it look like they could do worse? I hope Jack is asking what his current aim is. Is it to stay above Barnet and hope Sutton win the Vanarama and choose relegation over a new playing surface? Maybe Jack is thinking of hitting the road before next season in the Vanarama. If not he needs to be bringing through our young players for next season and scouting currently successful non-leaguers to turn them into a viable team.
Our remaining games are of developmental interest only. Like West Brom, we went down yesterday.