Evatt to Stay or Go? (Poll)

[Leyther_Matt]

13 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Evatt needs to work that one out not me

 

Seriously though it's the big question isnt it. 

When Santos is stood there like a lighthouse with his foot on the ball facing a packed midfield unwilling to come forward, what does the manager do?

Tell Santos to run forward? Spread the play wide? Change the formation? Get the forwards to move more?

It's our achilies heal and could well be the managers downfall.

Whatever the solution he needs to spend all summer thinking how we are going to break down packed lines, becasue after 3 seasons in, oppositions will be turning out week after week with the same game plan as Oxford.

I still wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat shouting “give it to Ogbeta!”

Midfield three were completely marked out of the game which left acres of space out wide but Toal wasn’t capable of playing that way and Santos was being the worst version of himself.

We can certainly do worse things than hit Collins and Charles in the channels, mind. 

[Mounts Kipper]

13 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

I'll miss turning up for games looking forward to watching Maghoma, thinking I wonder what he'll conjure up this week.  We don't get many of them players in L1.  Collins and Bod probably the only others I looked forward to watching (can't count CMG due to lack of games), maybe Sheehan if absolutely on top of his game.  We've lost 2 of our most technically gifted players and I hope we get at least one in this summer to provide a spark, it doesn't mean we'll get any more points but let's have something to be enthused by. 

No fear that CMG won’t deliver the goods if he stays fit… and he’ll not be bottling tackles, ducking out of headers and failing to track. 

[DazBob]

1 minute ago, Mounts Kipper said:

No fear that CMG won’t deliver the goods if he stays fit… and he’ll not be bottling tackles, ducking out of headers and failing to track. 

CMG won't be anywhere near as good as Maghoma was in the second half of last season.

Let It go, man.

[Whitesince63]

2 hours ago, gonzo said:

I'd say it's more in game big decisions.

The fundamentals you could argue don't have us far away. We were despite our shortcomings a hares breath away from promotion.

It's those rigid subs and sticking to plan to the bitter end are his downfalls for me.

 

Hairs breadth.

[Zico]

52 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:

For me its the wingbacks.  Whenever I think about how we might beat the better teams, I find it hard to look beyond the limitations imposed by the importance placed on how well JDC and Williams play.  It feels like we're hamstrung by that formation, in the absence of an outstanding player like Bradley or even Fossey.  We are all talking about who we might sign, but if there's a quality winger or full back available, we are simply not in the market for them.  Morais at his peak wouldn't get in our squad, Dapo had to go, Sadlier etc.  It feels like we are restricted;  "tweaking" the system seems inadequate as we won't have the players in the squad to play a different system, JDC and Williams are 2 guaranteed starters from the squad as it stands and the better opposition will continue to relish the predictability of how to nullify us. 

JDC wasn't the first choice target last summer so maybe we'll look for another RWB

I'd be more than happy if we signed Ashworth 

[gonzo]

3 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Hairs breadth.

Haha no way

Thought it was the breath of a hare like a in a race or hunt.

Every day is a school day.

 

 

[Whitesince63]

8 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Haha no way

Thought it was the breath of a hare like a in a race or hunt.

Every day is a school day.

 

 

We all have them 🤣

[Mounts Kipper]

1 hour ago, DazBob said:

CMG won't be anywhere near as good as Maghoma was in the second half of last season.

Let It go, man.

In your opinion. 

[Tombwfc]

1 hour ago, Mounts Kipper said:

No fear that CMG won’t deliver the goods if he stays fit… and he’ll not be bottling tackles, ducking out of headers and failing to track. 

 

Nothing against CMG, but he's a bit part player who did his achilles in February. Anyone who thinks he's going to replace Maghoma next season is living on another planet.

If he can get close enough to fitness to be an option off the bench at the business end of next season, he'll have done brilliantly.

[Jol_BWFC]

2 hours ago, DazBob said:

CMG won't be anywhere near as good as Maghoma was in the second half of last season.

Let It go, man.

Ultimately, as someone else posted above, Maghoma is too good for this league. Too good for us.

[Popeye doyle]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28644678/#:~:text=Conclusion%3A An Achilles tendon rupture,level than their preinjury status.

if you read the conclusion paragraph the outlook doesn’t look good, unfortunately for CMG or the club or fans. If he’s ok and I hope he is for his sake, it can in some instances take 2 years to get back to pre injury status.

[Mounts Kipper]

10 minutes ago, Popeye doyle said:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28644678/#:~:text=Conclusion%3A An Achilles tendon rupture,level than their preinjury status.

if you read the conclusion paragraph the outlook doesn’t look good, unfortunately for CMG or the club or fans. If he’s ok and I hope he is for his sake, it can in some instances take 2 years to get back to pre injury status.

Be sad news if it finishes him Let’s hope he makes full recovery, comparing stats based on his time at Fleetwood show he’s more than capable of replacing Maghoma if he can get fit. 

[wakey]

52 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

 he’s more than capable of replacing Maghoma if he can get fit. 

let it lie man 😁

[Dr. Feelgood]

1 hour ago, Popeye doyle said:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28644678/#:~:text=Conclusion%3A An Achilles tendon rupture,level than their preinjury status.

if you read the conclusion paragraph the outlook doesn’t look good, unfortunately for CMG or the club or fans. If he’s ok and I hope he is for his sake, it can in some instances take 2 years to get back to pre injury status.

Bloody Hell, that goes into a whole lot of psuedo detail simply to say an Achilles injury is a bastard & takes a long time to recover, & many never, really, do.

Which, I think, most of us know already.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

5 hours ago, Tombwfc said:

 

Nothing against CMG, but he's a bit part player who did his achilles in February. Anyone who thinks he's going to replace Maghoma next season is living on another planet.

If he can get close enough to fitness to be an option off the bench at the business end of next season, he'll have done brilliantly.

As he didn't play much, we can't really judge how good he would be for us.

He suffered a couple of injuries so I don't understand how that makes him a bit part player- he simply wasn't available. 

Once he started playing, he did well.

Assuming he can get back to full fitness, we can only judge him then.

I liked the look of him, and he finished his chances in different ways. Just hope he can get back.

[L/H White]

7 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

No fear that CMG won’t deliver the goods if he stays fit… and he’ll not be bottling tackles, ducking out of headers and failing to track. 

you're talking absolute bollocks now 

you've a small sample size of CMG work to go off here to make such a statement FFS 

Have a day off 

[tomski]

17 minutes ago, L/H White said:

you're talking absolute bollocks now 

you've a small sample size of CMG work to go off here to make such a statement FFS 

Have a day off 

He sounds ace.

[thebells]

8 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

No fear that CMG won’t deliver the goods if he stays fit… and he’ll not be bottling tackles, ducking out of headers and failing to track. 

Fair play, I agree about Maghoma bottling headers, tackles and tracking back. Not as a rule but there were certainly occasions where that happened. He cost us a goal in the play offs against Barnsley. . . 
 

. . . But he adds more than we lose with him, and to suggest ‘no fear’ about CMG is hard to evidence based on a few performances. If CMG does come back, he’s unlikely to play as a midfielder anyway. Evatt fancies him upfront 

[Steejay]

19 minutes ago, thebells said:

Fair play, I agree about Maghoma bottling headers, tackles and tracking back. Not as a rule but there were certainly occasions where that happened. He cost us a goal in the play offs against Barnsley. . . 
 

. . . But he adds more than we lose with him, and to suggest ‘no fear’ about CMG is hard to evidence based on a few performances. If CMG does come back, he’s unlikely to play as a midfielder anyway. Evatt fancies him upfront 

Yeah, in a kind of Dapo role…oh!

Edited June 1, 2024 by Steejay

[Tombwfc]

2 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

As he didn't play much, we can't really judge how good he would be for us.

[B]He suffered a couple of injuries so I don't understand how that makes him a bit part player- he simply wasn't available. [/B]

Once he started playing, he did well.

Assuming he can get back to full fitness, we can only judge him then.

I liked the look of him, and he finished his chances in different ways. Just hope he can get back.

 

He started three league games from August to the end of February. That makes him a bit part player, quite clearly. 

I didn't say he was shit, but it's a ridiculous leap to say he's going to replace Maghoma based on 380 minutes of football. Plus he's unlikely to be fully fit at any point next season, and he plays in a different position. But other than that...

[Mounts Kipper]

3 hours ago, L/H White said:

you're talking absolute bollocks now 

you've a small sample size of CMG work to go off here to make such a statement FFS 

Have a day off 

Ha ha.. hes played quite a few career games, plenty of information to go on. 

[Mounts Kipper]

1 hour ago, thebells said:

Fair play, I agree about Maghoma bottling headers, tackles and tracking back. Not as a rule but there were certainly occasions where that happened. He cost us a goal in the play offs against Barnsley. . . 
 

. . . But he adds more than we lose with him, and to suggest ‘no fear’ about CMG is hard to evidence based on a few performances. If CMG does come back, he’s unlikely to play as a midfielder anyway. Evatt fancies him upfront 

He’s played plenty of games at other clubs.. enough for Luton to sign him.

[L/H White]

48 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Ha ha.. hes played quite a few career games, plenty of information to go on. 

how many have you watched?

[Mounts Kipper]

33 minutes ago, L/H White said:

how many have you watched?

Don’t have to watch them, the stats tell the story.

[Steejay]

Statistics, statistics, statistics.