[spireitetoo]

No let me put it another way...

Oh dear jack...

The plan was to strengthen in january, you hsve now brought in a complete team of signing, some don't even make the bench, some are already injured, and some are clearly not good enough, we were better before you made all the signings, you have put too much faith in kids, we are a shambles all over the pitch, clueless infact, and now you should start shouldering some of the blame.

[jack bauer]

spireitetoo, on 13 February 2018 - 10:11 PM, said:

No let me put it another way...

Oh dear jack...

The plan was to strengthen in january, you hsve now brought in a complete team of signing, some don't even make the bench, some are already injured, and some are clearly not good enough, we were better before you made all the signings, you have put too much faith in kids, we are a shambles all over the pitch, clueless infact, and now you should start shouldering some of the blame.

we needed quality not quantity.

[Brimington Barry]

spireitetoo, on 13 February 2018 - 10:11 PM, said:

No let me put it another way...

Oh dear jack...

The plan was to strengthen in january, you hsve now brought in a complete team of signing, some don't even make the bench, some are already injured, and some are clearly not good enough, we were better before you made all the signings, you have put too much faith in kids, we are a shambles all over the pitch, clueless infact, and now you should start shouldering some of the blame.

I think the memory of Lester as a player, will shield him from a great deal of criticism TBH. If however, the club does go down, he will have to shoulder some of the blame at that stage.

Baz

This post has been edited by Brimington Barry: 13 February 2018 - 10:20 PM

[gordon_brittas]

I advocated the appointment of Ronnie Moore and was criticised by a section of posters on this board. IMO a Ronnie Moore side would not be in the bottom 2, we would be mid table at best now.

Lester has been found out. He will be gone at the end of the season when we have been relegated.

[Essex_Spireite]

Poor management in games. Even the things we were doing well firstly under Jack are now not happening (possession, creating chances). We are so easy to play against. We have a shocking goalkeeper and only one striker who scores, the other one is a pathetic embarrassment.

Lester signs Hines. He didn’t play again tonight. What was the point in signing him?

[Waller is my hero]

Well I can’t see it, but JL will get the keys to the kingdom IF he can turn this around!!!
HE personally, needs to show strength of character to motivate this bunch of players to perform!!
Siege mentality is required with this squad

[ELTON 2020]

Waller is my hero, on 13 February 2018 - 10:20 PM, said:

Well I can’t see it, but JL will get the keys to the kingdom IF he can turn this around!!!
HE personally, needs to show strength of character to motivate this bunch of players to perform!!
Siege mentality is required with this squad

I would imagine he's trying his hardest to do this already. This is staring wide-eyed into a chasm, a deep horrible, bottomless abyss.

[Bonnyman]

Talks about fitness non stop but brings Giles coke in after 2 years out the game, it's absolute boll0x and makes his whole fitness ethos a farce.

[Stoptalkingbol]

No excuse for such negative football against a really poor Cambridge side. Far too long again to make subs, we were crying out for some pace down the wings with two up top. Dodds is a waste of space out on the left.

As for O’Grady, he can ****off and never play for us again. He’d look a joke in a Sunday league side. Comical touches and hoofs into the stand. No goal threat, no assists, can’t hold the ball up. Compare that to Ikpeazu who offered the total opposite and on a fraction of that scrubbers wage. He has to be up there with one of the worst signings we’ve ever made.

[Bonnyman]

Essex_Spireite, on 13 February 2018 - 10:20 PM, said:

Poor management in games. Even the things we were doing well firstly under Jack are now not happening (possession, creating chances). We are so easy to play against. We have a shocking goalkeeper and only one striker who scores, the other one is a pathetic embarrassment.

Lester signs Hines. He didn’t play again tonight. What was the point in signing him?

Why sign a player with a regressive profile, he has dropped down the divisions for one reason..he is not good enough.

[Bonnyman]

Stoptalkingbol, on 13 February 2018 - 10:38 PM, said:

No excuse for such negative football against a really poor Cambridge side. Far too long again to make subs, we were crying out for some pace down the wings with two up top. Dodds is a waste of space out on the left.

As for O’Grady, he can ****off and never play for us again. He’d look a joke in a Sunday league side. Comical touches and hoofs into the stand. No goal threat, no assists, can’t hold the ball up. Compare that to Ikpeazu who offered the total opposite and on a fraction of that scrubbers wage. He has to be up there with one of the worst signings we’ve ever made.

O Grady is musclebound he has no elasticity..absolute nightmare signing if the wages are believed

[Nitrous Oxide]

Why play Coke for 80odd minutes in his first game in years to risk injury?
Why play O’Grady, he can’t control it, can’t hold the ball up and loses it with next touch? He jogs around the pitch, spends more time trying to hold the defenders because he knows his shortcomings, simply not good enough.
Why play Weir at left back, when JBW could’ve done a job?
Tonight we should’ve gone 1up top with 5 in the middle to stop the supply to their big lad.

Poor management, poor play. Not good when you’re freezing you tats off.

[Stoptalkingbol]

Bonnyman, on 13 February 2018 - 10:41 PM, said:

O Grady is musclebound he has no elasticity..absolute nightmare signing if the wages are believed

Nightmare signing even if he was on his 50 pence head a week. He doesn’t even offer the battering ram option for his size. Doesn’t score, doesn’t create, doesn’t look after the ball, waste of space. Looks like a rugby sevens player.

[jack bauer]

when jack came in it took a while to get going but he then hit upon something that was working and we had a decent run, ok we then had hird and evatt and now they are gone, but did we need all those changes? easy to say now in hindsight but an experienced keeper, centre back and a goal scorer would've been a better idea than 11 new players, several of whom are injured, several of whom are clearly not very good.

[spireitetoo]

Bonnyman, on 13 February 2018 - 10:37 PM, said:

Talks about fitness non stop but brings Giles coke in after 2 years out the game, it's absolute boll0x and makes his whole fitness ethos a farce.

To be fair to coke, he was one of if not the best of our players for the majority, he tired badly which is understandable but he put himself about used the ball well, and wasn't afraid to get stuck in, pity the lightweights round him couldn't do the same

This post has been edited by spireitetoo: 13 February 2018 - 10:55 PM

[SpireiteFitzy]

Bonnyman, on 13 February 2018 - 10:37 PM, said:

Talks about fitness non stop but brings Giles coke in after 2 years out the game, it's absolute boll0x and makes his whole fitness ethos a farce.

Coke, Martinez, Ebanks-Blake, Herd etc etc etc the club have been doing this ages now. Im flabbergasted we don't learn from this. We pick up, on paper, decent players but they either havnt played any football in a long time or have had bad injuries ( and havnt been picked up by any other club) and we just throw them straight in to every game and what happens, they break down within a month barely to be seen again and we get saddled with a physio room that resembles a peak time tube train and then wonder why.

[ELTON 2020]

spireitetoo, on 13 February 2018 - 10:54 PM, said:

To be fair to coke, he was one of if not the best of our players for the majority, he tired badly which is understandable but he put himself about used the ball well, and wasn't afraid to get stuck in, pity the lightweights round him couldn't do the same

I reckon Coke won't be frightened to tackle - something our players are incapable of doing.

[Doughnut]

jack bauer, on 13 February 2018 - 10:47 PM, said:

when jack came in it took a while to get going but he then hit upon something that was working and we had a decent run, ok we then had hird and evatt and now they are gone, but did we need all those changes? easy to say now in hindsight but an experienced keeper, centre back and a goal scorer would've been a better idea than 11 new players, several of whom are injured, several of whom are clearly not very good.

Lets be fair that 'decent run' was about 4/5 games with a couple of wins thrown in. It wasn't an extended period whereby we dispatched teams with ease on a long streak of wins. When Jack took over the vast majority of this forum believed pretty much the whole squad was not good enough and had no balance, thanks to the Caldwell/Branston era (or should that be 'error'). Most believed we did need wholesale changes: the goalkeeper wasn't good enough, defensively we were leaking goals, our midfield was always second best and provided little defensive coverage and no supply for the forwards. Dennis has done well but collectively we haven't scored enough.

[Valley Blues]

Stoptalkingbol, on 13 February 2018 - 10:38 PM, said:

No excuse for such negative football against a really poor Cambridge side. Far too long again to make subs, we were crying out for some pace down the wings with two up top. Dodds is a waste of space out on the left.

As for O’Grady, he can ****off and never play for us again. He’d look a joke in a Sunday league side. Comical touches and hoofs into the stand. No goal threat, no assists, can’t hold the ball up. Compare that to Ikpeazu who offered the total opposite and on a fraction of that scrubbers wage. He has to be up there with one of the worst signings we’ve ever made.

Who crossed the ball for our opening goal?

[spireitetoo]

Doughnut, on 13 February 2018 - 11:03 PM, said:

Lets be fair that 'decent run' was about 4/5 games with a couple of wins thrown in. It wasn't an extended period whereby we dispatched teams with ease on a long streak of wins. When Jack took over the vast majority of this forum believed pretty much the whole squad was not good enough and had no balance, thanks to the Caldwell/Branston era (or should that be 'error'). Most believed we did need wholesale changes: the goalkeeper wasn't good enough, defensively we were leaking goals, our midfield was always second best and provided little defensive coverage and no supply for the forwards. Dennis has done well but collectively we haven't scored enough.

And we expected jack to bring in suitable players to fill those voids, how wrong we were......cos nowts changed!

This post has been edited by spireitetoo: 13 February 2018 - 11:07 PM