Terries v Cherries

**St Charles Owl** · 13-04-2021, 21:44

(13-04-2021, 21:14)Lord Snooty Wrote: Rotherham gone 2-1 up.

I can't see us reaching your points tally but Rotherham certainly have more fight than we have so they could. Your saving grace may well be Coventry, I fancy Rotherham to overtake them as I don't expect Coventry to pick up many more points. Its going to be tight though!!

**Lord Snooty** · (This post was last modified: 13-04-2021, 21:52 by Lord Snooty.)

Rotherham should've beaten us on Saturday. They have Coventry an Birmingham to play next. I reckon they will go above us soon, leaving that third spot between us, Coventry and Derby.

3-1 to the Millers now. Sad

WakeyTerrier · 14-04-2021, 09:44

At 18.05 last night I said the following to my fellow Flockton Town fans in the first half via group text
"If ever a team looked like it didn't have a plan then this is it. Some of them look like they've never played in the same team"

Once again Carlos has been found wanting.

To kick things off we play O'Brien at Left back which means we lose his much needed drive from midfield.

Then in the second half we move our most dangerous player of the first half Rowe to right back.

Talking of subs what is the point of doing those subs 7/8mins into the second half. Why isn't he doing them at half time. It's like he's saying we'll give it 10 and see what's changed...well nothing changes.

Did I read somewhere that Pipa wasn't fit to play, so why was he picked on the bench

"I think in some moments of the game we played better than them. I think in some moments we were taking control of the game, trying to create a numerical advantage in the middle of the pitch"
I'm not sure which match CC was watching but it wasn't the same game i was watching. Bournemouth were in full control, yes our second half was better but Bournemouth had eased off at that point, gone into game management if you like.

For me, the most important thing today was the reaction of the team in the second half. When you are losing 2-0, you may think the result is more difficult but the team didn’t give up today
See my previous point, its no good starting to play when you've conceded 2 goals, why don't we react at 0-0

We are going to make it very difficult for the opponents to take the game because we are going to leave everything on the pitch

We've seen precious little of making anything very difficult in the past 3 months, the past 3 days we've been battered out of sight by Norwich, got away with murder against Rotherham and were comfortably beaten by Bournemouth no matter what the final score says.

jjamez · 14-04-2021, 10:27

I think the problems I'm having most are that there are massively glaring issues on and off the pitch, that loads of fans are seeing, yet the powers that be either don't notice, don't want to notice or are completely oblivious to it, whichever, they ain't acting.

Surely we're at a stage now where we need to get a couple of wins to put ourselves truly clear. Forest have done that and we play them next, Barnsley game I dont hold any hope out on, but Blackburn and Coventry are very much winnable games if we actually try and play.

Surely we are at a stage where we or the coach stops talking about players having or playing with little niggles or have attitude issues and tells them to grow a pair and think of those out there that earn less than what they earn per week in a whole year. Surely it should be less 'we are managing his recovery' and more can you play? Yes or no. Toffolo was suffering with this back injury weeks before his suspension and he was doing fine. Patch him up and send him out, O'brien at lb is wrong on so many levels. Koroma has been out for months, but he'd impact a game drastically from the bench, get him on there.

Scrap this negative formation and look at what the best teams do, they move, they're fluid, they play with the pitch as wide as possible and don't turn down the cross field ball when the winger is open like we do. We have pace, let's bloody use it and have more of it on the bench, let's get as many forward as possible like in the early part of the season when we were a few points off the playoffs. Let's drive at teams, we have a way of keeping it secure too.

Schofield is the keeper, the others are crap.

Pipa will be like a new player on the right where he belongs

Sarr needs an edmonds Green at cb with him in a 2,so do it.

Patch Toffs and get him out there, if that ain't possible, stop using obrien or a right footer and use brown, even though he ain't great hes still a better candidate, or use critch low, maybe not as attacking but hell we're loading the attacking part so it doesn't overly matter.

Hogg and obrien in Central midfield, one holds, the other drives. Doesn't need intricate passing, it needs drive, commitment and spaces. You drive at them, teams back up or come out of position, either way you make progress. Stop the turning it back to cbs all the god damn time.

Wide men, well we have Rowe, Aarons and Thomas who all wanted to attack players yesterday and take them on, go on, have at it. Shove mbenza back on the bench and bring jk back to switch it up on the left when one of the wingers has ran himself into the ground.

Attacking midfield, left field but ward. He's not doing anything up top alone, so get him deeper and facing goal. Look at some of the goals he scored last time he was here, get him back in those positions. He can still get in the box from there.

Up top still has to be Campbell unless someone thinks sanogo will get onto crosses but I haven't seen anything to suggest he would. Campbell and ward would more than likely keep switching which is a pain for defenders too.

Keep mbenza Holmes and bacuna away from starting, it ain't working

**Lord Snooty** · 14-04-2021, 11:47

Theo has been calling Carlos 'Clueless' all season, which I thought was a bit harsh. But now, I'm coming round to thinking he was right all along.

The latest bit of inexplicable decisioning was last night, 2-1 down with 5 minutes left, he brings the totally ineffective Jaden Brown on and leaves the likes of, erm Alex Pritchard on the bench. Hmm! Blush

Maybe not then. But if Titchy is on the bench, he ought to have come on. What is the point of him being there at all, if he's not going to use him? Might as well have had one of the young uns there.