Yeah, I kinda feel sorry for him though. He gets chucked into that kind of game but what has he been given previously? A couple of cameos from the bench. It's a terrible situation really.Not nocking Burton but he looked today like a kid thrown into an adults game
Ffs the team is not bad - but Mellons tactics are - I believe that clueless idiot should carry the can for this rubbish !I think it is the depth of the squad that is the issue, which is almost certainly due to finances.
Lol.Ffs the team is not bad - but Mellons tactics are - I believe that clueless idiot should carry the can for this rubbish !
You have not got a clueFfs the team is not bad - but Mellons tactics are - I believe that clueless idiot should carry the can for this rubbish !
And you recon you do ?You have not got a clue
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.There has to be a bit more guile from the players too. At 6'9" tall, the goalkeeper wasn't going to miss much in the air so quite why we kept putting high balls into the box, I'll never know.
We're hardly reliant on Burton though, as Ian pointed out he's been confined to a few cameos and just a couple of starts in his Rovers career. It equally could have been said that Kane Hemmings played as though he was older than Peter Clarke and didn't have a goal attempt worthy of the name in 95 minutes on the park, which is more of a reflection of why things went wrong in an attacking sense yesterday. I don't think Burton will be the answer to our goal drought, but he offers something different to the regular pair and we need to give him enough match time to show if he can develop. As an aside, Paul Lewis seems to be another to add to that list of players whose value improves while sat in the stand.Nobody is singling out Burton. They are emphasising that our reliance on him demonstrates we don't have enough attacking options.
As it happens, he has barely any less Football League experience than youngsters like Bristow and McAlear, who I don't recall you giving an easy ride to due to inexperience.
We are completely reliant on Burton as back up to the strikers at the present time, which is the point I was making. Glatzel and Mumbongo are both out long term with no return date in sight, and Lewis is not a striker even if he was fit. My point is that the striker situation is not sustainable in the medium term.We're hardly reliant on Burton though, as Ian pointed out he's been confined to a few cameos and just a couple of starts in his Rovers career. It equally could have been said that Kane Hemmings played as though he was older than Peter Clarke and didn't have a goal attempt worthy of the name in 95 minutes on the park, which is more of a reflection of why things went wrong in an attacking sense yesterday. I don't think Burton will be the answer to our goal drought, but he offers something different to the regular pair and we need to give him enough match time to show if he can develop. As an aside, Paul Lewis seems to be another to add to that list of players whose value improves while sat in the stand.
I don't recall laying into either Bristow or McAlear. They are both development players and will have weaker areas in their game, which the coaching staff need to get them working on. I thought that the full-backs were our best players at Harrogate and that McAlear ought to have been introduced in recent games, don't understand why he's fallen so out of the picture.
Have seen the match highlights and teams seem to be getting wise to our difficulty with defending balls down the left flank. Something else for the coaches to work on...
Along with most supporters, I agree it was ill-judged to recruit another injury-prone striker in Mumbongo when we were already getting a high-risk loanee in Glatzel. This has left us short of attacking options with Jolley already injured. We're not totally bereft of choice though, Morris or Hawkes could be deployed in the no 10 slot and youngsters Jake Burton and Sam Taylor were deemed worthy of contracts.We are completely reliant on Burton as back up to the strikers at the present time, which is the point I was making. Glatzel and Mumbongo are both out long term with no return date in sight, and Lewis is not a striker even if he was fit. My point is that the striker situation is not sustainable in the medium term.
You seem to believe that, whatever his limitations, Lewis offers less to the side than Burton, which I would politely suggest is wrong. Lewis can do a job in a number of positions and contributes goals on a fairly regular basis, whether played in midfield or behind a striker.
We should not be giving match time to Burton if he is not good enough, which based on the several full games I have seen him play, I don't believe he is. They are at similar ages and stages of development, and you can judge for yourself who is the better of Burton and Bristow. Bristow had played effectively no first team football before he arrived in the summer, whereas Burton has been around the first team squad for several seasons now.