25-02-2023, 11:09
I'm an atheist Matt. Faith is ollocks. Especially when the god concerned is a loud-mouthed red-faced old stereotype.
There are plenty of sides around who create lots of chances and regularly fail to convert. If you have a known non-scorer up front, backed by a midfield of irregular scorers and a defence from which you leave out the only goal scorer you can create as many chances as you like. One week you might strike lucky as we did against Torquay or West Brom', but most weeks defences will hold you easily, because the more chances you discard the greater their confidence becomes.
I don't want us to try to match the spending of Wrexham and Notts County. I've spent years on here researching non-league players and discarded EFL players who could do us a job for nothing or next to it. But if you are creative in your recruitment and you even match that around the middle of the park at times the entire exercise loses its point if at the end of 90 minutes you can only be expected to score 1 or 0.
It has been becoming more evident throughout the season that Mr Cook's priority is for his team to look a certain way. If the shape, the passing and the general aim looks right he's delighted. He can forget the 0-1 or 1-2 score line because like you he's convinced the results will come.
I think you have to plan to score goals and to stop them being scored against you. Attack wise we lack a plan and we've weakened our defence and sealed it up again by adding in a very defensively-minded midfielder (who necessarily weakens our attacking ambitions). The run of defeats isn't serendipity. It reflects our overall ability. Cookie isn't doing what he used to do. He's fobbing us off with a picture of it. The real deal would translate into the results column. He isn't being himself. He's a bad actor that's all. Are we going anywhere right now? If the answer is no, what's the point of continuing to do the same things with the same people?
There are plenty of sides around who create lots of chances and regularly fail to convert. If you have a known non-scorer up front, backed by a midfield of irregular scorers and a defence from which you leave out the only goal scorer you can create as many chances as you like. One week you might strike lucky as we did against Torquay or West Brom', but most weeks defences will hold you easily, because the more chances you discard the greater their confidence becomes.
I don't want us to try to match the spending of Wrexham and Notts County. I've spent years on here researching non-league players and discarded EFL players who could do us a job for nothing or next to it. But if you are creative in your recruitment and you even match that around the middle of the park at times the entire exercise loses its point if at the end of 90 minutes you can only be expected to score 1 or 0.
It has been becoming more evident throughout the season that Mr Cook's priority is for his team to look a certain way. If the shape, the passing and the general aim looks right he's delighted. He can forget the 0-1 or 1-2 score line because like you he's convinced the results will come.
I think you have to plan to score goals and to stop them being scored against you. Attack wise we lack a plan and we've weakened our defence and sealed it up again by adding in a very defensively-minded midfielder (who necessarily weakens our attacking ambitions). The run of defeats isn't serendipity. It reflects our overall ability. Cookie isn't doing what he used to do. He's fobbing us off with a picture of it. The real deal would translate into the results column. He isn't being himself. He's a bad actor that's all. Are we going anywhere right now? If the answer is no, what's the point of continuing to do the same things with the same people?