07-07-2023, 17:06
I think it`s inevitable that there are going to be some outgoings, otherwise we`re going to end up with a squad like a Cecil B de Mille cast. DW as good as said after the Matlock game that Gyasi is away and I agree with you about Asante and Rowe. (Quigley as well? I suppose it depends on whether PC wants to play 1 or 2 up front.)
Cookie said last year that he wasn`t happy with the number of goals that we were putting away and that he wanted us to be more clinical in front of goal. If we have Grigg and Dallas – and in my book that`s still an IF until it`s official – with the potential for goals from behind them in the form of Dobra, Colclough et al I`d be astonished if that turns out to be the case this year. Barring injury issues, this squad should be full of goals.
It`s difficult to be completely objective about the Matlock game. I did go along on Tuesday as intended and have to say that until Mandeville`s goals after the first half-hour or so it was a fairly even contest. At half- time we brought on some of the `big guns` - Grigg, Colclough, Dobra to name a few – and it became an avalanche after that; we could have scored even more. Whether that`s entirely down to us or whether Matlock brought on their second string or tired it`s impossible to say, but what was noticeable to me was that we showed no sign of easing up when the goals started to go in. We were pushing just as hard in the last 5 minutes of that half as we were in the first 5. Maybe that`s a sign of the extra ruthlessness that Cookie wants.
The bloke I felt really sorry for was their `keeper. Having let in 9, you would assume that he had a shocker, but he didn`t. I can`t remember him being glaringly at fault for any of the goals and he actually pulled off a couple of very decent saves that stopped us getting double figures. Who`d be a `keeper!
Cookie said last year that he wasn`t happy with the number of goals that we were putting away and that he wanted us to be more clinical in front of goal. If we have Grigg and Dallas – and in my book that`s still an IF until it`s official – with the potential for goals from behind them in the form of Dobra, Colclough et al I`d be astonished if that turns out to be the case this year. Barring injury issues, this squad should be full of goals.
It`s difficult to be completely objective about the Matlock game. I did go along on Tuesday as intended and have to say that until Mandeville`s goals after the first half-hour or so it was a fairly even contest. At half- time we brought on some of the `big guns` - Grigg, Colclough, Dobra to name a few – and it became an avalanche after that; we could have scored even more. Whether that`s entirely down to us or whether Matlock brought on their second string or tired it`s impossible to say, but what was noticeable to me was that we showed no sign of easing up when the goals started to go in. We were pushing just as hard in the last 5 minutes of that half as we were in the first 5. Maybe that`s a sign of the extra ruthlessness that Cookie wants.
The bloke I felt really sorry for was their `keeper. Having let in 9, you would assume that he had a shocker, but he didn`t. I can`t remember him being glaringly at fault for any of the goals and he actually pulled off a couple of very decent saves that stopped us getting double figures. Who`d be a `keeper!