Thea Gilmore - not bad but not that specialWhat gig were you at?
I’m not as worried as you mate, as the post earlier explained, we score goals spread across the team Ie Goodrham Brannagan Leigh and RR. So many clubs rely on a main goal scorer and nothing else, which can be more risky imoYou look at the firepower our rivals have and you have to cringe a little.
Once we ballsed up on Marriott we had no options.
Hopefully we keep it tight in midfield and get a few on the break or from set pieces with Goodwin's height.
Struggle to get deals done???Well, we go in to the second half a striker short, who needs goals in a promotion challenge right.
7 out of ten to be fair. Well done to those involved.
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You look at the firepower our rivals have and you have to cringe a little.
Once we ballsed up on Marriott we had no options.
Hopefully we keep it tight in midfield and get a few on the break or from set pieces with Goodwin's height.
We are the fifth top scorers in the league with a new centre forward, winger and centre midfielder coming in, a few more attackers coming back from injury, no one has scored loads more than us.
With respect, so what? Age doesn't matter if you're relying on them here and now, as we have been this season. You don't get extra points for having X number of teenagers in your team.
We've really screwed him the last 18 months or so by needing him around when he's not ready but also barely giving him any minutes and often asking him to do donkey work holding the ball up in the corner. He needed a loan to play regular minutes at a lower level and I think we could have had a decent option this season but he never got it. It's a shame and he could still make it but while he's playing for us he needs to be treated the same as everyone else.
I reminded posters that GO'D is 19 in response to a comment that he is" not up to it at this level and shows no sign of getting there"
Being in a first team League 1 squad at 19 is already impressive. Who knows what it was like being a young player under K Robinson who seemed to choose youth team favourites on a whim, and ship people out on a whim too..
Mannig asked him to use his physical strength to hold up the ball at the end of games. A big responsibility for a very inexperienced player.
I absolutely agree that "We've really screwed him the last 18 months or so by needing him around when he's not ready but also barely giving him any minutes and often asking him to do donkey work holding the ball up in the corner."
Buckingham has decided to kepp him, and that can only be because he thinks he has a role to play. I'm sure lots of teams would have snapped him up. Maybe that's mismanangement, or maybe its because the coaching team think he could be what we first hoped when we watched him help the youth team do so well.
I'd disagree that "while he's playing for us he needs to be treated the same as everyone else" He needs to be treated like a 19 year old. Talented. inexperienced. who needs lots of good management to help him make the step up to first team football.
He can still go on loan to a non league team, different transfer rules for them.
Yeah but I think we need him if only to give Goodwin and Harris a rest late in the game. I’d like to think he’ll come good goal threat wise, he’s def looked better with his general play imoHe can still go on loan to a non league team, different transfer rules for them.