[Walton Spireite]

And yes can be pass forwards. No one of the most over rated players I have seen. I will answer my own question bring back Chris perkins or cliff Carr.

This post has been edited by Walton Spireite: 11 May 2025 - 09:11 PM

[s42blue]

Where were you on the winning run?

Where were you when folk were having a go on the Play Offs or Not thread?

Worst kind of “fan”. Enjoy the ups, ride the downs. It’s a game. Get over it and get a life

This post has been edited by s42blue: 11 May 2025 - 09:11 PM

[Walton Spireite]

s42blue, on 11 May 2025 - 09:11 PM, said:

Where were you on the winning run?

Where were you when folk were having a go on the Play Offs or Not thread?

Worst kind of “fan”. Enjoy the ups, ride the downs. It’s a game. Get over it and get a life

Top 7 was a bare minimum so I was keeping my powder dry.

[hilly81]

Walton Spireite, on 11 May 2025 - 08:59 PM, said:

And yes can be pass forwards. No one of the most over rated players I have seen. I will answer my own question bring back Chris perkins or cliff Carr.

Perkins and Carr are probably a bit old now.

[s42blue]

Walton Spireite, on 11 May 2025 - 09:13 PM, said:

Top 7 was a bare minimum so I was keeping my powder dry.

Pfft. A bare minimum but still didn’t back…..

[jack bauer]

gordon had a good game, he rarely gave the ball away, dug us out a few times and locked down his chanel (the first role of a full back). That said, if sparkes is fit enough, i'd be tempted to start him, we need to score 2 goals and his delivery is top draw for this level

[Mr_Pleasant]

jack bauer, on 11 May 2025 - 09:36 PM, said:

gordon had a good game, he rarely gave the ball away, dug us out a few times and locked down his chanel (the first role of a full back). That said, if sparkes is fit enough, i'd be tempted to start him, we need to score 2 goals and his delivery is top draw for this level

Sparkes puts in a great cross. My issue is that we rarely have the men in the box in open play to get on the end. We don't really play that way. It seems slightly confused to me

[jack bauer]

Mr_Pleasant, on 11 May 2025 - 09:39 PM, said:

Sparkes puts in a great cross. My issue is that we rarely have the men in the box in open play to get on the end. We don't really play that way. It seems slightly confused to me

cook's first spell, i remember him saying about gary roberts, that the players have to anticipate robbo putting the ball in cos he gonna do it, sparkes is the best crosser of a ball since roberts, but you are right his quick eye for a cross will not be worth it if we don't have people in there to meet the cross, do you play bim? do you play bim and grigg?

[lindave]

Not a massive fan of Gordon but he was my motm.

[lindo-spireite]

lindave, on 11 May 2025 - 10:40 PM, said:

Not a massive fan of Gordon but he was my motm.

Personally thought he was rubbish yesterday, but not too worried as he’s solid enough rest of the time.

[lindave]

Rubbish,cl are you having a laugh. He was all over the park never put a foot wrong. Are you getting him confused with MO ?

[lindo-spireite]

lindave, on 12 May 2025 - 05:22 AM, said:

Rubbish,cl are you having a laugh. He was all over the park never put a foot wrong. Are you getting him confused with MO ?

Naa MO was absolutely useless

[Bluekent]

lindo-spireite, on 12 May 2025 - 04:12 AM, said:

Personally thought he was rubbish yesterday, but not too worried as he’s solid enough rest of the time.

I agree I didn’t think he was very good yesterday but a couple of others weren’t at it including Mandy but they’ve got plenty of credit in the bank to have an off day , just a shame it was a play off semi. Olakigbe was a waste of time tho , I’d have pulled him at half time. He did Mandy no favours whatsoever. The second goal came from him being useless on the right , I feel Mandy could have done more , not watched the highlights so not sure if boot could have done better as well or not.

[Walton Spireite]

Bluekent, on 12 May 2025 - 06:18 AM, said:

I agree I didn’t think he was very good yesterday but a couple of others weren’t at it including Mandy but they’ve got plenty of credit in the bank to have an off day , just a shame it was a play off semi. Olakigbe was a waste of time tho , I’d have pulled him at half time. He did Mandy no favours whatsoever. The second goal came from him being useless on the right , I feel Mandy could have done more , not watched the highlights so not sure if boot could have done better as well or not.

Correct MO is garbage. Offered absolutely nothing.

[Trigger]

Bluekent, on 12 May 2025 - 06:18 AM, said:

I agree I didn’t think he was very good yesterday but a couple of others weren’t at it including Mandy but they’ve got plenty of credit in the bank to have an off day , just a shame it was a play off semi. Olakigbe was a waste of time tho , I’d have pulled him at half time. He did Mandy no favours whatsoever. The second goal came from him being useless on the right , I feel Mandy could have done more , not watched the highlights so not sure if boot could have done better as well or not.

The funny thing is, according to flash scores mandy was out motm by quite a distance.

I thought he'd had flu all week

[Osborne again]

Lewis Gordon is the best left full back we've had for a long time, but the whole team had an off day.

[sophocles]

Bluekent, on 12 May 2025 - 06:18 AM, said:

I agree I didn’t think he was very good yesterday but a couple of others weren’t at it including Mandy but they’ve got plenty of credit in the bank to have an off day , just a shame it was a play off semi. Olakigbe was a waste of time tho , I’d have pulled him at half time. He did Mandy no favours whatsoever. The second goal came from him being useless on the right , I feel Mandy could have done more , not watched the highlights so not sure if boot could have done better as well or not.

Walsall quickly spotted that Olakigbe wasn't dropping back to help LM, and they very obviously targeted that flank in the first half. I don't blame Mandy, because he's a very good attacking midfielder who is having to do a job he's not really suited to, hence the penalty from a mistimed tackle that needn't actually have been attempted as the attacker had already lost control of the ball. The second goal, of course came from the same side as they continued to pressurise Mandy, and he was, understandably afraid to dive in after his earlier experience. Their scorer struck the ball very well, but on most occasions those efforts are blocked or deflected, and I wouldn't attach any blame to Boot, as he was completely unsighted. My biggest gripe regarding our performance is that we hardly ever got a ball into Grigg in a scoring position, which negated our main goalscoring threat. The good news is that we still have a chance to put it right.

This post has been edited by sophocles: 12 May 2025 - 11:35 AM

[lindave]

Walton Spireite, on 11 May 2025 - 08:59 PM, said:

And yes can be pass forwards. No one of the most over rated players I have seen. I will answer my own question bring back Chris perkins or cliff Carr.

Bring back Albert Holmes and shaun O'niel.

hilly81, on 11 May 2025 - 09:17 PM, said:

Perkins and Carr are probably a bit old now.

and both still crap.

[stainlessstephen]

I still remember that header Cliff Carr scored at Crewe - perhaps the smallest player on the pitch.