barrycowdrill

Overall the collective wasn’t at it today. No point picking out players individually because they were all miles off it. Stockport to their credit were organised, tough to break down, disciplined, tidy in midfield and had 3 big strong forwards who caused problems. A successful formula at this level that. we’re looking so light up front it’s a worry. think the 0-1 flattered us a bit to be honest. Baxter made 3 great saves. Doesn’t give any confidence at all that performance that we can get the local game monkey off our back with 2 bigger ones to come..

He seems the first man you look to dig out to be fair. and if his defensive frailties are the issue then taking him out the team isn’t the solution. It’s finding someone to play alongside him to do that work. because I guarantee you now, and it’s ok you using isolated games as examples to support your claim, but out of 10 games we’d win more with him than we would without him.

Knew someone (probably you) would have more gumption and time than I have 🤣

You’re absolutely obsessed with getting him out that team all season youve been on about it. Jesus

Not sure the players will look to put Novembers debacle right cos I don’t think many of them cared that much at the time. However, I do think they’ll now want to put Tuesday right. however the next 3 games will really show if the previous results against local sides were just a manager issue or a mix of him and player character issues Hoping the former. So, a quick start. 2-0 win.

Playing at his own pace again. Which is inevitably slower than what’s needed

Bet that’s triggering for you 🤣

Yet they gave it all to Stockport…

I fucking love this fella. the quickest I’ve ever had the feelings. Man woman or anything in between

I’d say Sheehan was pretty pivotal as well today too.. rather than nice to have 🤔

Just like that

The comment was more around our consistency. Yes we had runs of 5 wins out of 6 etc under IE but many of those were unconvincing because of the level of our performance. When we did play well it was often followed up by an absolutely rank one. The performance level on Tuesday drove the result so hopefully SS can get more out of them more consistently than we saw in the past. Naturally off the back of that, results will follow

Think we’d become accustomed to ‘after the Lord Mayors show’ the last few years. You could pretty much bank on the type of performance and result today after being great the game before. it’s little things like following that 9/10 performance up with a decent 7 or 8 today that will show if we’re properly beginning to turn the corner. would take a solid and professional 2-1 with the score making the game look closer that it actually was

Pretty much what I said 11hrs ago…

Sheehan is still pivotal. Don’t worry about that. Tues was one of the very rare occasions where Schuey acknowledged we might not have the majority of the ball. Brum have some decent footballers in there so felt we needed some legs to rattle in to them. What we gave up in control we got back in closing down and pressure. That didn’t work great in the first half hour hence them controlling the game. But once Thomasson and Morley got to grips with their roles better the balance started to shift. Along with the press the front 2 made on their back line. however, as I said, that’s a very rare occasion at this level. The games will now flip back to us having the majority of the ball, teams putting the press on us and asking us to break them down. So we don’t have anyone better than Sheehan in receiving the ball under pressure, controlling that midfield with the ball and dictating play. SS isn’t as rigid as Evatt as we have already seen and using a horses for courses approach is working very well so far. But more often than not Sheehan will start.