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The matches seem to be coming thick and fast now.
At time of writing this post, the weather is set to be a warm 12oC!
At time of writing this post, the weather is set to be a warm 12oC!
We tried to press pboro high and they played through us with relative ease leaving us stretched. Their defence was really good. Think we should have sat back and tried to hit them on the counter.
Been the same for the last few years the opposition press high and we have no plan B to counter it.Des Buckingham would not have been my choice for manager however I have to say that I don’t think anyone could sort out the problems we have overnight.
It is obvious to me that when teams who can press us and do it well , we have no escape route. We tap it around and sooner or later a long ball is played hoping to find Harris who is outnumbered
The other way to stop us is to outmuscle us which is what Cambridge Cheltenham Wigan did.
Hopefully Des Buckingham can put things right we desperately need some more players in with some physicality like Leigh
We desperately need this in midfield and up front because that would give us more options
I'm not sure we did try to press them high, at least not collectively or consistently. Individuals at times for sure but that was part of the issue.We tried to press pboro high and they played through us with relative ease leaving us stretched. Their defence was really good. Think we should have sat back and tried to hit them on the counter.
Our defence was shocking.I recall them having a few good chances when they drew us into their defence and hit us on the break. I think a goal game from that where 2-3 balls cut us open.
Ronnie Edwards is destined for higher things, and everyone knows it.We tried to press pboro high and they played through us with relative ease leaving us stretched. Their defence was really good. Think we should have sat back and tried to hit them on the counter.
Same here with the booing and departure. It's not good to hear but, the performance was just not entertaining for supporters. Too many wayward passes, too many errors and too many times shown what an active and speedy press can achieve.I don't know, but there was a lot of (very deserved) booing from the travelling support at half time yesterday. Don't know about full time, I made a dash for the car park when the third went in.
I can't say how much was directed at the manager specifically though. He'd put what looked like a strong enough team out and they simply didn't perform to an acceptable standard, so it was at least as much at the players.
Murphy to start is a must. And, despite being a good substitution, Bennett for Thorniley should have come at half time too.Our defence was shocking.
Thorniley looks awful, what's happened to him? He doesn't look like a league one player.
Moore wins a lot in the air and blocks well but he is so slow and it was exposed. The first goal came from him losing the ball by trying to take them on just inside their half. They then countered quickly and we were wide open. Brown was the only one who came out with any credit. Mcguane and Cam didn't help much either. Posh never gave them any peace!!
Mills was hopeless and I gave up on Harris weeks ago.
That was 6-0 without Beadle even though he made a mistake for one of their goals.
The only outfield positive for me was Murphy, the only threat we had and it pushed them back a bit.
Bennett in for Thorniley on Tuesday and Brown back to the middle. TBF that was a good sub by DB .
Murphy is starting.Murphy to start is a must. And, despite being a good substitution, Bennett for Thorniley should have come at half time too.
Consistently fail to find one? I guess it depends how far back you are defining consistently as, as until Matty Taylor started firing blanks last season we had one!
Maybe super Des isn’t so good perhaps.I don't think "turn" is right but many will be asking questions, as they are entitled to.
And before that? Beano?
Matty Taylor was f**king class. Love the guy. But he's the exception that proves the rule.
It's not an allowance of one striker per generation. You can have one every season!
Blackpool, one of our promotion rivals (and much like Peterborough, a club that regularly achieves it) scored just 2 goals in their first 5 League games this season. So they identified the loan availability of one of the most prolific strikers the 3rd tier has ever seen, signed him - and lo and behold he's gone on to score 13 (thirteen) goals in 16 starts.
And yet we're still saying 'we had Matty Taylor' - as if we're being greedy for thinking he could be replaced...
I think Smyth would need to do a bit more yet, before he takes the shirt off Stevens.Nothing's working right now, Harris is useless, we don't have enough quality in wide areas, and we don't control the ball enough in the middle of the pitch.
It's pretty obvious we need to change something, with a bit of out of the box thinking.
So f**k it, try this:
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Short's been doing much of the heavy lifting while Des gets used to his new surroundings, so that's not really it. Des has been standing around with his hands in his pockets trying to figure out how to be useful as his remit was for more of the same. Of course, his question would have been 'same of what?'The 2 games Craig Short took care of not only did we score 8 goals and win both, there felt like there was a togetherness with the whole team and coaching team.
I thought the new man was going to come in and give the whole place a real lift but it seems to have had the opposite affect.
Short's been doing much of the heavy lifting while Des gets used to his new surroundings, so that's not really it. Des has been standing around with his hands in his pockets trying to figure out how to be useful as his remit was for more of the same. Of course, his question would have been 'same of what?'
Not been allowed to put his stamp on things but sounds like that's changing now. Hard to judge him given we're trying to maintain the LM way. You'd like to think we'd have performed better under Manning but we'd put in a couple of concerning performances before he left. Add in an injured Leigh, Long, Edwards et al and a distracted Cam and we'd have been perfectly capable of putting in the same performance under LM as we did yesterday.
My concern has been the players' reactions and body language. They look they've been collectively dumped by their partners and their heads have gone. Not convinced Des is the man to light a fire up them, but they shouldn't really need it; they've proved they're good enough for a promotion push at the start of the season, and need to start believing it.
Goes without saying, but Tuesday's massive.
What’s the betting her gets injured in training tomorrow!Murphy is starting.