Rose and Hooper

Quoted from arryarryarry

I would add that it hasn't taken long for MJ to start getting flustered being interviewed, I thought Dave Burns was spot on with his assessment of the second half, I thought we were crap with only a weak shot by Hooper near the end being our only shot on target in a really must win game.

Really? I didn't listen to him get flustered for a second. I thought he dealt with Burnsy's challenging questions very, very well. The right questions to ask and very credible answers in my opinion.

Same here if anything he turned it around it was Burnsy who backed off.

Quoted from The Waif

We looked better when Vernon came on. He at least can bring others into the game around him. Not a coincidence that he’s played in the majority of the games we’ve won this season.

Think there's a sound case for playing Vernon. He shows for the ball, holds the ball up, brings others into the game.
Clearly he is a player better suited to a passing game. Having a player like that actually encourages the team to pass it more, I believe.

The (fair, I think) criticism that he doesn't score goals is now looking a bit hollow. He won't be keeping Jimmy Goaldenboots out of the side.....

Hooper did OK alongside Wilks, I thought. In the first half in any case. We offered little up front after Wilks had to go off so he must have been doing something OK. On the other hand, after they rejigged their defence at half-time, it shut our attacking play down far too easily and it became too much hit and hope.

How much of this was because Rose did sweet F.A. in the second half, I'm not sure. I can only imagine he was left on because he has shown he can nick a goal here and there and is quite strong in the air, something which can't be said for our other midfield options.

Have to say, when you looked at the bench yesterday, you could see why we're in such dire straits at the moment - no attacking threat to bring on at all and, when Wilks departed, he was replaced by a young central midfielder with a handful of first team appearances. Are Jaiyesimi and Matt injured?

Name another midfield player who was good in the air and could nick the odd important goal but had infinity more heart and was an immeasurably better footballer than Rose!

I task everyone!

Quoted from Mariner_09

Name another midfield player who was good in the air and could nick the odd important goal but had infinity more heart and was an immeasurably better footballer than Rose!

I task everyone!

Hmmm..... the Ginger Pirlo, and he should have been retained for another season to give us a bit of the continuity we lack.

If we had the likes of Shaun & Dis I’d be much more confident of getting out of this.

BTW all this praise of Wilks I just don’t see it TBH

I'm by no means a big fan of Hooper but I have to say I thought he genuinely tried yesterday - he won a fair few headers, ran the channels, tried to close defenders down and made a decent chance for Wilks in the first half. It was a better centre forward display than we've seen from anyone else in a town shirt in the last month or so.

rose just wanders about, doesn't put himself about and is a lazy lazy player. I think thats the best town are going to give and for me its not staying up material, we battled hard but clearly not good enough.