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Post by davidm on Feb 10, 2017 16:40:16 GMT
After a terrible week, what will happen tomorrow?
The accounts, while not unexpected, are still shocking. £20M needed, directors at loggerheads, where are we heading?
Promotion to the Championship is becoming more and more essential if only to slow down the financial meltdown. I can’t bear to think of the outcome if we are in League 1 again next season.
Football-wise, a really poor performance at MK Dons with more injuries.
We really need a good performance to buck us all up.
I went to Walsall where we failed miserably to beat 10 men. One of many lethargic away showings this season so we need to get some form of revenge tomorrow.
So to the match. Who will play right back? Please not Vela. We must also include Le Fondre in the starting line up but not as a left winger please.
A win is essential to stop the top 2 getting farther ahead and also to stop the group behind us actually overtaking us.
Desperate days but I hope for a 1-0 win. A clean sheet please as they are few and far between these days.
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Post by whitesince63 on Feb 10, 2017 20:19:52 GMT
I agree on everything there David, including not moving Vela and playing ALF in a central attacking role. I just wish I had more confidence in Parky not continuing with the lump it to Madine stuff we've suffered all season and which our opposition has now sussed.. to be fair we shouldn't even be considering not getting 3 points tomorrow, despite Walsall's recent run of good form. It would in my opinion be an excuse if any of the players or management used the off field stuff to affect them. They are professional footballers who are paid to play football and if anything, the current state of play should galvanise and encourage them to give even more not less. I said after the last sad showing I'd had enough, boiling on the long run home but now isn't the time to give up on them, so I'm hoping Parky picks an attacking line up tomorrow and I can drive back to Lincoln humming instead of grumbling. COYWM 3-1 to the mighty whites for me.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Feb 10, 2017 23:17:34 GMT
I predict another Bournemouth on the horizon!! I can see Fleetwood Town going up via the play offs and not at our expense as I can see us fading away from the top 6 with all the behind the scenes turmoil. I'm not convinced at PP as I do believe this crop of players would have gotten us to where we are (3rd) without a manager, but that said, the thought of losing him over the background scandal could set us back even further. We owe Walsall a bloody good rout on Saturday, but formation and team selection will probably have us down for a draw at best, a defeat would not surprise me at all either sadly
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Post by greydad on Feb 11, 2017 8:19:51 GMT
A good performance today would indeed buck us all up, and offer at least a modicum of respite from the off-field squabbles and turmoil currently besetting the club. Whilst agreeing with those who are averse to moving Vela to resolve Wilson's absence, if it comes to a choice between he and Derik I would suggest from past evidence that Vela is the more adaptable for the role, and would certainly offer more going forward. Perhaps Thorpe would be an option for right-back, although his selection would necessitate the exclusion of another loanee...whatever the defensive permutation there appears to be no alternative to Moxey if Taylor remains sidelined, in which case wide left midfield support will be key. Options up front provide much food for thought ...there is little point in busting a gut to bring in ALF unless he is to be utilised effectively, but is he best deployed alongside a target man, from whom he can feed off? Madine can hold the ball, use his chest to some effect, but lacks mobility..would Long and ALF be a better option to consider? ALF himself is not a target man, so if he were to be a lone striker the long ball tactic will be even more futile. Is it worth P.P. considering adopting Conte's Chelsea solution..use Wheater, Beevers and Derik/Thorpe as a back 3, with Vela and Moxey as wing backs? The manager has difficult choices to make, but does need to show a little more imagination and flexibility, and hopefully select a team that will have a real go at the opposition and enthuse the home supporters.
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Post by whitesince63 on Feb 11, 2017 9:53:04 GMT
For me, today will be Parky's biggest test by far. Does he have the ability to make the changes necessary to account for our injuries and at the same time develop an alternative system to accommodate his new signings. If he continues with the current direct route with Madine up top alone then we'll know he's just a one trick pony and has no flexibility. I'm hoping he surprises me and does something constructive but history tells me he doesn' t have it in him in which case I agree with rftr that we'll be lucky to come out with a draw. Still, you have to have hope so I'm going forim to surprise me and we will come out with that 3-1 win. Come on Parky, it's all up to you.
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Post by andyl on Feb 11, 2017 14:16:46 GMT
It's the team I wanted especially if it lines up with three at the back. But the proof of the pudding..
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Post by andyl on Feb 11, 2017 14:36:52 GMT
Didn't we once get 8 v Walsall. Tony Caldwell. I wasn't there. Anyone?
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Post by riochforthereebok on Feb 11, 2017 15:06:51 GMT
Well that didn't take long 1-0 down after 4 mins
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Post by riochforthereebok on Feb 11, 2017 15:27:09 GMT
That's better 2-1 And Zac's new team getting a right good hiding at Norwich
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Post by OohMac on Feb 11, 2017 16:10:58 GMT
Recently we've lost or drawn after taking the lead. I wonder if going behind is the shot/kick up the arse these players need. The word for 2017 has been complacent.
The books look shocking but Ken has always rolled the dice, the fact that ALF plays today is testament to that. Obviously some contracts and deals made little sense nothing Ken or Dean can do about past mistakes. He's worked with the FA and for me he's given PP the tools to compete. Far from sugar daddy but also far from Oyston at Blackpool. A team with Wheater, Spearing and Alf should be in automatic promotion contention. Throw in Vela, Clayton, Beevers and the squad should be enough for this league at least.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Feb 11, 2017 16:50:52 GMT
Crikey How many 88th minute goals does Billy Sharp score at Sheff Utd😡
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Post by OohMac on Feb 11, 2017 17:21:45 GMT
Crikey How many 88th minute goals does Billy Sharp score at Sheff Utd😡 Too many! There will be more twists to come no doubt but would think Sheff U will go up and leave us, Scunny, Fleetwood and Bradford maybe scrapping it out. Clough with an assist today, think every Bolton fan wants him to do well. Financially probably benefit him from getting a decent move. Let's hope we get 20% sell on or a buy back maybe.
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Post by andyl on Feb 11, 2017 17:56:16 GMT
Full marks to PP today. He did go with three at the back. He played Trotter. We had more support for Spearing in midfield, a very useful winger in Morais and ALF buzzing about in support of Madine. I thought also that his choice of subs, his timing of subs and the efforts of the subs brought us back into contro after a very limp half hour in which Spearing went into headless chicken mode.
And we got off to the worst possible start with a well hit freak 40 harder. These days keepers cannot stay on their lines. Was Alnwick caught by surprise.Yes. Could he have saved it. Doubtful for me.
But we were a threat on set pieces. Le Fondre won a corner and Madine headed it in off the post. Then Spearing given a second chance to cross whipped in an evil bullet cross and we got an own goal. Just maybe Le Fondre's presence assisted the chaos.
And then the best of all -Trotter got the outside of his foot over an awkward bouncing ball and hit it delightfully in for a fine third. As many times observed Trotter has that bit of extra talent that helps us out from time to time. PP has not used him well in recent games but today he supported and covered for Spearing on occasion and we were the better for it. If neither Trotter nor Vela commanded midfield and we had a very bad second half both played their part defensively.
As for the back three Derik looked at home and was the best. Wheater and Beevers struggled in possession so what and our distribution was too negative. But they did knuckle down in that second half and made a lot of clearances
Up front Madine was much in evidence. One of his better days until called upon to convert an open goal. He froze. Unlike Long whose speedy and feist cameo culminated in a belting goal from a slightly worse angle. He did however miss his own sitter later. Solomon came on a made one nice run.
We haven't found the holy grail with this back three but it did hep midfield defensively and we were more on the front foot. Www all but conced a goal when Alnwick lost his footing and we had another cleared off the line at a vital time under pressure. But all in all better and the new men breathed some life into us not least Morais who for me was our man of the match
Alnwick 6 Derik 7 Wheater 6 Beevers 6 Taylor 6 Morais 8 Vela 6 Trotter7 Madine 7 Le Fondre 6 Spearing 6. Long 7 Thorpe -did well at the right time
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 18:04:15 GMT
Well done to the whole team we really needed that from being 1-0 down inside 4 minutes to win 4-1 that will do for me. 🍻Time and plenty of it 😀😀
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Post by riochforthereebok on Feb 11, 2017 18:28:14 GMT
Well done to the whole team we really needed that from being 1-0 down inside 4 minutes to win 4-1 that will do for me. 🍻Time and plenty of it 😀😀 Yeah well said chip I had every right to be doubtful of today's result given past results so I'll take that Well done lads COYWM
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