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I'm already looking forward to his 18 minute Boxing Day cameo at left wing back
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FishOutOfWater |
November 12, 2019, 1:09pm |
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I'm already looking forward to his 18 minute Boxing Day cameo at left wing back
I think there's more chance of it being a 1.8 minute cameo..... bringing subs on at the death is a sure fire way of us returning to winning ways isn't it?
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Son of Cod |
November 12, 2019, 1:32pm |
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Hardly been given a sniff all season in the league though, has he? What is it, 1 start and then 10-15 minutes every other match? He's only really had a consistent run of starts twice and one of those coincided with his best form. Okay, he drew about 7 or 8 blanks but then he hit 3 in 5 games, with one of the other games in that run being the Tranmere game in which he played really well. Draws another blank and it's back to sporadic starts and 10-15 mins off the bench. Part of the reason these type of players leave us and do well elsewhere is that they get a fair crack of the whip. I'm not saying he's the answer to our problems, but I still don't want to write him off yet.
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November 12, 2019, 1:49pm |
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Vernam is another of our players who haven't an ounce of devilment in them.
Glides past a player or two and thinks job done.
Really he should be in our team because of his skill levels but there seems to be zero will to win. Cardwell is another perfect example - he would be better as a choir boy rather than a division 4 centre forward.
I love skilful players and would always build a team around them, but they also need a cast iron will to win or it all goes to waste.
All these problems can be laid at the manager's door - he is supposed to be managing a team to win football matches but we hardly ever shoot, never get in the box, never reach the byeline, are always on the back foot, always cautious. We need a change of manager.
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MuddyWaters |
November 12, 2019, 4:02pm |
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Vernam is another of our players who haven't an ounce of devilment in them.
Glides past a player or two and thinks job done.
Really he should be in our team because of his skill levels but there seems to be zero will to win. Cardwell is another perfect example - he would be better as a choir boy rather than a division 4 centre forward.
I love skilful players and would always build a team around them, but they also need a cast iron will to win or it all goes to waste.
All these problems can be laid at the manager's door - he is supposed to be managing a team to win football matches but we hardly ever shoot, never get in the box, never reach the byeline, are always on the back foot, always cautious. We need a change of manager.
He seems to me to be the type of player who would get into a Bignot team but not a Jolley/Hurst/Slade team. Make of that what you like.
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KingstonMariner |
November 12, 2019, 4:28pm |
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Hasn’t he got to sort out Brexit first
Hell, miracles he can do but not that
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chaos33 |
November 12, 2019, 5:14pm |
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Vernam is another of our players who haven't an ounce of devilment in them.
Glides past a player or two and thinks job done.
Really he should be in our team because of his skill levels but there seems to be zero will to win. Cardwell is another perfect example - he would be better as a choir boy rather than a division 4 centre forward.
I love skilful players and would always build a team around them, but they also need a cast iron will to win or it all goes to waste.
All these problems can be laid at the manager's door - he is supposed to be managing a team to win football matches but we hardly ever shoot, never get in the box, never reach the byeline, are always on the back foot, always cautious. We need a change of manager.
Agree strongly with all that, apart from the final sentence. I’m not quite there yet. Vernam is like many of our players, although not all. In the team one week and out the next. Then maybe 10 minutes in a position that isn’t yours, and then out again. I blame the manager and the players for that. Too much tinkering but then too many who’s performance levels are below par or inconsistent. Collectively, the squad and management have joint responsibility for the pattern of substandard performance of the last few weeks. I think we should be aspiring to better and demanding higher standards than those being shown.
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Teestogreen |
November 12, 2019, 5:19pm |
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Vernam is another of our players who haven't an ounce of devilment in them.
Glides past a player or two and thinks job done.
Really he should be in our team because of his skill levels but there seems to be zero will to win. Cardwell is another perfect example - he would be better as a choir boy rather than a division 4 centre forward.
I love skilful players and would always build a team around them, but they also need a cast iron will to win or it all goes to waste.
All these problems can be laid at the manager's door - he is supposed to be managing a team to win football matches but we hardly ever shoot, never get in the box, never reach the byeline, are always on the back foot, always cautious. We need a change of manager.
Getting Falkingham from Harrogate in would be a start. Very impressed - reminded me of Joe Waters last night.
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diehardmariner |
November 13, 2019, 12:38pm |
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Vernam is another of our players who haven't an ounce of devilment in them.
Glides past a player or two and thinks job done.
Really he should be in our team because of his skill levels but there seems to be zero will to win. Cardwell is another perfect example - he would be better as a choir boy rather than a division 4 centre forward.
I love skilful players and would always build a team around them, but they also need a cast iron will to win or it all goes to waste.
All these problems can be laid at the manager's door - he is supposed to be managing a team to win football matches but we hardly ever shoot, never get in the box, never reach the byeline, are always on the back foot, always cautious. We need a change of manager.
Sums it up perfectly. A 'nice' player. We only really have Max Wright as someone who isn't afraid to get the bull by the horns and go at teams. To an extent Rose can do it, but not like Wright.
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November 13, 2019, 1:05pm |
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Getting Falkingham from Harrogate in would be a start. Very impressed - reminded me of Joe Waters last night.
Now that is high praise indeed. To liken a non-league player to, in my eyes, one of the best midfielders to ever play for us, he must really have been something special.
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