Yep, pretty much.Worst 93 minutes of football I have seen in my life.
Yeah, this is not going to come as a complete revelation, but if we don't change things soon, we will be going down.Relegation looms - no doubt about it.
That's harsh on Cressa - his delivery from set pieces was poor but he also put in 4 or 5 brilliant crosses from open-play, certainly more good deliveries than bad. Also Wooton did alright, better than Goodison. Gulasci did nothing wrong. It was a very poor performance but try to maintain a sense of perspective. Analysing individual performances largely misses the point of our problems. No excuses for this performance or result though - simply unacceptable.
"Supporters" pathetic as per.
Mclaren was poor but IMO no worse than Mendy for example, so felt a bit sorry for him (or any player) going off to that tirade of abuse. Not sure what Blanchard did to deserve being dropped for the less convincing Darville, nor am I sure what McLaren did to deserve a recall given Les' indirect criticism of him last week. Think Fraughan needs to play from the start more often, either in central midfield as a replacement for the injured Labadie, or out on the right for Akins. Without Labadie and ITM our starting XI doesn't have the required quality to stay in this division, quite simple. Looking forward to their return as we progress towards the end of the year - don't forget about Taylor, Broomes and Mahon, too.
Still think we'll at least still be in the fight on the last day of the season. As long as we can keep in touch with those around us until we get our best players back, we should be ok.
Ohh, and bring back Bakayogo. One of our performers last season, he's been warming the bench for months. What are you playing at Les? Even if it to sit further up on the left ahead of Cresswell. Let's play with some god damn width instead of this ludicrous 433.
He did put in a couple of good balls, but there's little point when they miss the one man in the box.
Ohh, and bring back Bakayogo. One of our performers last season, he's been warming the bench for months. What are you playing at Les? Even if it to sit further up on the left ahead of Cresswell. Let's play with some god damn width instead of this ludicrous 433.
How's that his fault? You're right though, we need to utilise the extra man in centre midfield in those situations - at least one of Mendy, Welsh or Mclaren should be arriving in the box as/before the cross is being played, in addition to Enoch and the forward on the opposite flank.
You get what you pay for at the end of the day.
I'm not a fan of McLaren but I would never jeer one of my own team nor would I react in the very sad way many of the crowd did at his substitution. That simply is not on. I wont accept any response along the lines of we pay
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I don't think we can be this naive. I hate to say it, but this wasn't the only poor performance of the season and it certainly won't be the last.Fingers crossed that this can be put down to experience and is not repeated.
Would you go to work, put in no effort at all and mug off all of your colleagues and customers and expect people to respect you?
The fans went easy on the players yesterday.
Having listened to the game online, McLaren's name was mentioned about 3 times which sums up his contribution really. There's also a clear colleration between McLaren playing and Rovers not winning - it's like starting the game with 10 men.
Parry's decision to play McLaren ahead of Blanchard is bizzare, stupid and ridicoulous. Blanchard has been one of our best players this season and must be part of the team every game if we have any chance of staying up.
Speaking of staying up, this tactically retarded 4-3-3 has got to be ditched. The idea of choosing a formation is to play one that gets the best out of the players you have avaliable to you - 4-3-3 does not do this. I'm not going to go into the detail as to way 4-3-3 is useless with our team as we've all gone through it a 100 times before. I'll only make 3 points as to why 4-3-3 is a waste of time:
I believe that Les should do the honourable thing and step down from his position. He did a great job keeping us up last year, but he should have left it there. By taking on the job this season he's effectivley saved the bus from falling off the cliff in the Italian Job and then gone back and shoved it 10 yards further off the ledge to try again!
- It provides no width.
- Enoch is isolated upfront (or whoever else draws the short straw and plays upfront)
- We can't keep possesion as the system is so rigid and relies on hoofs down the line or through the middle.
This season he had to bring his own players and whilst he has made some good signings (Enoch and Blanchard), other players such as Wood, Darville, Cathalina, McGurk, Akins and Morrow are clearly not up to it.
We need someone with knowledge of the lower leagues and contacts throughout lower league football, not a physio with funny programme notes. The obvious choice as manager for me is the Accrington manager John Coleman - who was interested in the job when dumber (or dumb - your own opinion really!) was sacked. However he's just signed a new 5 year contract and since the club probably can't afford a pack of paper clips at the moment that seems unrealistic now.
The Chief could even be worth having a look at - well respected within the game, loads of qualifcations and vast expierience in the lower league, I also think he was the brains behind the management team last season. However is rather shoddy departure suggests to me that PJ may have burned his bridges with him.
Parry needs to go, we someone capable of picking a decent team from the players avaliable and someone who doesn't have a fetish for 4-3-3. 10 points so far is unacceptable, if this was anyone else there would be absoultely no slack whatsoever - people keep saying we have no money, but Bournemouth and Accrington have no money yet there going ok - stop clutching at straws and accept we need a manager who can actually organise the players.
After yesterday a 1/4 of the season is gone and we have 10 points and we have faield to score in the league before 44mins so far this season - that is pathetic. On that basis we're going to go down comfortably on 40 points, change is needed now.