29-08-2016, 16:44
Wolves might have some interesting youngsters you know Pooch ....... Sounds a bit like a good man cutting off his nose to spite people who don't give a fig for him. Your team is playing even if a herd of donkeys has arranged the whole show! (Do donkeys have herds?)
I think you are right, Sam Hird is terminally slow, which makes him an either/or with Ian Evatt. Unless the opposition features Jon Parkin our current combination will lose out whenever there's space available for the opposition forwards. And as I keep saying problems at centre back are magnified with a young inexperienced keeper. Tommy Lee is a keeper who loves hero-time and he gets plenty of limelight with the defences we provide. For a young lad, replacing him is a sink-or-swim situation. The centre of our defence is used to being hauled out of the shit by Tommy (which I suppose is why we played him even when he was injured), and they expect the same from Fulton. If he can't deliver it might ruin him. (Look where he came from, a club so dissatisfied with its first choice it has a replacement on the injured list ....... and its own former second choice wasn't even considered for the job, so how highly does that rate young Fulton?)
It came as no surprise to me to see that at 0-3 the two potential non-triers in our side both had to be substituted. When Gardner and O'Shea go AWOL our attacking potential is at best halved. It's Ariyibi and Evans versus the opposition back four and defensive midfielders. IMO that with O'Shea and Gardner in tandem we are bound to have a lot of performances like Saturday's. Occasionally they'll be very good, but they are a huge risk.
Whenever I played I always found that whatever the level if several of your players weren't doing it ..... the rest were dragged down. I'm hoping that is the case with Nolan, McGinn and Donohue. Certainly playing full back when you are worried about the pace of your own centre backs and two of the midfielders you're looking for when breaking forward aren't looking for you ......... is a direct route to failure. And Nolan ..... he had worries behind him and in front of him ....... how was that going to end up with a good performance?
I don't think the Wolves game should be a punishment. It has to be a rehearsal. It's the ideal time to try Allinson in goal. Back four has one change, Raglan comes in for either Evatt or Hird. Mitchell replaces Gardner. Dennis replaces Ched Evans, because we can't only win when Ched plays great ....... or else we'll lose out when he's in court and after Christmas when we've sold him.
I think you are right, Sam Hird is terminally slow, which makes him an either/or with Ian Evatt. Unless the opposition features Jon Parkin our current combination will lose out whenever there's space available for the opposition forwards. And as I keep saying problems at centre back are magnified with a young inexperienced keeper. Tommy Lee is a keeper who loves hero-time and he gets plenty of limelight with the defences we provide. For a young lad, replacing him is a sink-or-swim situation. The centre of our defence is used to being hauled out of the shit by Tommy (which I suppose is why we played him even when he was injured), and they expect the same from Fulton. If he can't deliver it might ruin him. (Look where he came from, a club so dissatisfied with its first choice it has a replacement on the injured list ....... and its own former second choice wasn't even considered for the job, so how highly does that rate young Fulton?)
It came as no surprise to me to see that at 0-3 the two potential non-triers in our side both had to be substituted. When Gardner and O'Shea go AWOL our attacking potential is at best halved. It's Ariyibi and Evans versus the opposition back four and defensive midfielders. IMO that with O'Shea and Gardner in tandem we are bound to have a lot of performances like Saturday's. Occasionally they'll be very good, but they are a huge risk.
Whenever I played I always found that whatever the level if several of your players weren't doing it ..... the rest were dragged down. I'm hoping that is the case with Nolan, McGinn and Donohue. Certainly playing full back when you are worried about the pace of your own centre backs and two of the midfielders you're looking for when breaking forward aren't looking for you ......... is a direct route to failure. And Nolan ..... he had worries behind him and in front of him ....... how was that going to end up with a good performance?
I don't think the Wolves game should be a punishment. It has to be a rehearsal. It's the ideal time to try Allinson in goal. Back four has one change, Raglan comes in for either Evatt or Hird. Mitchell replaces Gardner. Dennis replaces Ched Evans, because we can't only win when Ched plays great ....... or else we'll lose out when he's in court and after Christmas when we've sold him.