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Quoted from HertsGTFC

Similar to Vernon and Hooper if you give Matt the ball to his feet he's probably going to do better, when will we learn route 1 does us no favors?

Slade claims he does not instruct his players to play longball,if he does not they are disregarding his instructions,who do you believe?

Quoted from friskneymariner

Slade claims he does not instruct his players to play longball,if he does not they are disregarding his instructions,who do you believe?

Who do you?

Keeping the ball on the deck would probably favour Dembele, Berrett, Woolford, Hooper, Vernon and Jones does suggest we should do just that!

Quoted from Garth

Who do you?

Have not got a clue.If you believe Slade then he has a problem.

Quoted from Mariner_09

Keeping the ball on the deck would probably favour Dembele, Berrett, Woolford, Hooper, Vernon and Jones does suggest we should do just that!

Dembele in particular needs the ball to his feet, not into the space in front of him, he comes to the ball every time looking for it but often it sails over his head into the channel for Matt/Vernon/whoever to chase down.
I am beginning to think what is the point of him being in the team when tactics/ his team mates dont play to his strengths, we are clearly set up to play narrow with ageing full backs who struggle to push on and support and then Woolford on one wing who also cant be effective as an attacking winger...Dembele in his current role wont be as effective as he potentially can be....would love to see him picking the ball up 30 yds from their goal and running at their last line of defence more often.

Quoted from lowerfindus

He had a bad game. Exactly!!!!!

Not the only one I'm afraid. Benefits from having Woolford infront.

We have a lot of players low on confidence. It's far too early just to write them off.  Much like our form most GTFC players are very up and down at the moment.

That's what the manager needs to sort!

Or the players should stop reading the Fishy,

If they was a little low on confidence before they will be after reading this.

Quoted from friskneymariner

Slade claims he does not instruct his players to play longball,if he does not they are disregarding his instructions,who do you believe?

The ability to play along the ground depends on the rest of the team moving into space to make themselves available. There is a shortage of attackers at GTFC who do that - I honestly thought that would be something that Woolford would be better at but him, Matt & Jones were all culpable of a lot of ball-watching on Saturday.

Here's my take on the game, or from what I remember about it as a whole.

- 2 poor teams with absolutely no end product.
- Seemed like Dembele could be a very good player if he plays to his strengths. Very quick and looks like he could be useful, needs to be track back more.
- Jaiyesimi looked like he spent more time on his bottom than out else when he come on. How many times did he slip over?
- Was expecting more from Lincoln, poor overall.
- Why was Summerfield taken off? He looked the best player on the pitch.
- Good turnout from both sets of fans too.

Still, my run continues. Haven't seen Town lose in a long time  

I'll be back! #UpTheMariners

I think you're getting Jaiyesimi mixed up with Rose who slipped onto his arris about three or four times after coming on! I suppose Jaiyesimi did slip over once or twice but he was mostly turning down the opportunity to go down the line because he wanted to keep it on his right foot. Lots of left foot kicking practice required for that lad!

Quoted from rancido

The  Board , including JF, and the Chief Executive of course but that is for the whole squad. How the manager utilises that budget is down to him. There is no way that Slade had to bring in so many players  this summer. Fewer better signings would have cost no more and would have been beneficial to the team in general. Slade has got nearly all of his signings wrong this summer and that has nothing to do with JF.

In your blind detestation of slade you've conveniently forgotten the injuries we had and still have and all the suspensions we've had to cope with, which means we've had to use almost the whole squad already. If we only had 22 we'd have been struggling to put a bench out at times