Hackers + Liam Hearn

Im worried that next season we will end up with a team of hackers plus Liam Hearn. A goal scorer like Hearn will keep us up and around the right end of the table but we need more. Central midfield is weak though better than previous seasons.


Initial rumours regards players and contracts are not an encouraging sign. Mike Coulson has been a good player for Town in a bad era and despite not perhaps fulfilling his potential the goals and assists he has suggest he should be kept and is indeed a key player. Young hopefuls like I'Anson seem to be low in importance regards development and contracts and this for me is very disappointing.

There are no signs for me that we are looking to progress and create a team that can play good attacking football. We have been miles behind the good teams in this division and Smashy and Nicey do not seem interested in players who have that bit of technical quality. They like effort and fitness and Im not sure that alone is good enough to get in the promotion mix.

One winning run a season is not enough and we have been found lacking at the key moments if the season.

Good point but which would you have Woods and his seasons in charge or S&H this season in charge I know which mine is (this) as myself I am upset not getting into the play off yes but hey we are in a better position now and playing better football so UTMM.

If they wanted hackers why diden't they just keep Michael Leary.

Well they nearly did keep Leary. Church was brought in as a replacement.

The football was better under Woods, we tried to play the right way even to the point we tried to play too much. My main concern is we try to play too little under these two and that for me is very dissappointing and worrying.

Next season will be a spitting image of this with one big run and frustration either side unless they try to create a rounded squad. Last pre-season was too fitness intensive and lacked some of the team shape/formation/pattern of play practice that was obviously lacking early season when we struggled. Pre-season is important and I dont want to hear about how fit we are going to be. I want us to try to play to a formation with a set pattern of play so players have a chance to get a grip of how we are going to approach the season. This balance of fitness and team shape was stuck perfectly by Russell Slade (even though Slade ball is awful to watch he got the team doing what we all wanted, winning).

As proven this year, you cant win the league but you can lose it. A few more points early doors and we would have been well in the mix come the end of the season. We have to start well.

Coulson is a good player...  I hope we keep him

i hope we retain the lot except for Duffy and makofo. Duffy because i honestly believe we can attract a player of better quality to play his role, and Makofo because lets face it it looks like his time at the club is over any way and i never thought he was that good even when pepople were ranting about him at the start of the season

I think it would be a shame if we lost the likes of Couloson, church and silk as some are suggesting

Hasn't anybody learnt anything? This 'we don't play good enough football' is absolute shite. This was the reason people didn't want the better candidate in Slade and were happy to have Woods 'as long as he played football'. People actually happy to swap success for 'good football' one things for sure we may have tried to pass it with Woods but at no point did I ever think it was good.

Scoring goals is good, we have scored an absolute excrement load of them this season but I guess if we aren't passing it about before it doesn't count does it? It's a really daft ideology imo. I trust these two massively.

I don't care if we play barca style football or long ball, we just need to get out of this league. Passing football is good don't get me wrong but this league is tough and full of bullies and as we have seen most this season many teams play to disrupt the flow of games. Our successful season was under slade and look what type of football he played.

Not many decent pitches in this league either once the winter came in, today for example. Get it forward quick but midfield needs to support the strikers when it does go forward

Quoted from pontoonlew

Hasn't anybody learnt anything? This 'we don't play good enough football' is absolute shite. This was the reason people didn't want the better candidate in Slade and were happy to have Woods 'as long as he played football'. People actually happy to swap success for 'good football' one things for sure we may have tried to pass it with Woods but at no point did I ever think it was good.

Scoring goals is good, we have scored an absolute excrement load of them this season but I guess if we aren't passing it about before it doesn't count does it? It's a really daft ideology imo. I trust these two massively.

That sums it up for me too.