barrycowdrill

There’s 2 dates where our window should be assessed. 1st and 31st August. Until then I couldn’t give a flying fuck. Even less of a fuck about what other teams are doing. thankful for the break from it all at the minute. Excitement will of course build over the next few weeks but judgement will come next May not when every fucker is lathered in factor 50

“Patterns, rotations, high press, low blocks” 😴 football at this level is very simple. You don’t need a football equivalent of the Da Vinci code to be successful in it

The squad is built on the principle of ‘if we have the ball the opposition can’t hurt us’ however, we’ve seen time and time again they’re not good enough to deliver that successfully. Play inevitably breaks down, we lose the ball and we’re easy to slice through. Any conservatism in the team such as “if we lose the ball here and we’re in the shit so I’ll just sit back a touch” was a complete foreign principle to them. I don’t dare try and recollect how many times we saw the midfielders or wing backs tearing back and being wrong side and us outnumbered because that basic thought / in game knowledge wasn’t in anyone’s minds. that’s going to be the challenge for Schuey this pre season. Teaching stupid dogs new tricks

Think it’s highly likely Southwood will be our No 1 next season to be honest. He’s a solid, dependable keeper for L1 and the main job won’t be getting a better version of him, it’ll be improving the back line to protect him more full back areas are a problem, defensive midfield is a problem, then you chuck in the fact he’s after wingers, a target man and another striker who will run in behind, then trying to improve on a steady L1 keeper is low down on the priority list for me

They’ll be getting this

https://x.com/macauleyrobert1/status/1913288142016102753?s=46&t=vBnus82IYeydXgQHQJGmrA he’s had enough of all of em. And so have we

That mob are 2nd in this league the loudest cheer of the day wasn’t a goal. Wasn’t an effort at goal. Wasn’t a great piece of play. It was for an untried and untested 17yr old kid coming on to the pitch. Both of those points are a sad and pathetic indictment of our season after 45 games everyone in that squad, individually and collectively have coasted through the season and fallen way below standards and expectations. wrap it all up, rip it to pieces and see you all in August

There’s actually no point digging anyone out singularly these days. Collectively they just haven’t got the character or ability to defend and do the basics when the going gets tough. It ain’t their fault. Some have it some don’t and they weren’t brought in because of those attributes. new gaffer bounce is over and it’s starting to expose that it was actually more than Just the old gaffer. Keep us well away from those play offs, let Schuey rebuild for next season and we’ll go again with hopefully a bit more bite and nous

Seems a decent striker at this level and one to help get you out of it. However the Stoke lot I know rate him as one of the worst they’ve ever seen. Miles out of his depth. Considering the over paid and over hyped shit they’ve had the last few years that’s some accolade

Think Jude sees himself as the talisman. Has to get involved in everything and try and make stuff happen. but rather than him be involved in all that and do a few nice things it’s maybe about others stepping up so he’s involved less but more effective

Foden has the same issues now Scholes had a few years back. Being played in a position he doesn’t want in order to get him in. he plays a similar position for city an awful lot of the time. The issue being moving forward is Tuchel wants his wide men to give width and get at defenders. A job that Saka does brilliantly. Whereas at city Foden is almost directed to come inside and play in tight areas so the full backs get get round and in behind. He’ll no doubt be shunted over to the left when Saka is fit and the whole cycle starts again FWIW I do believe there’s room for both him and Jude in midfield. Foden as the 10, Jude as an 8 with freedom to get up and down. The concern with that is, would Foden influence games as much as Jude does? I don’t think he does. So you end up worse off than when you started

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