Wilks / Jackson

Any news on these 2 cos I can’t see where the goals are coming from otherwise , bambi on ice Matt certainly isn’t going to deliver them. Is it me but Matt looks like he’s got some sort of balance problem his legs seem to work in a opposite type of way to how they should

Wilks was in contention for Saturdays game but didn't quite make it so should be available for this weekend. Jackson not too far behind him if I recall.
Certainly time for a shakeup in the attack, a DVD of the last few games would show that never mind the terrifying stats

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Any news on these 2 cos I can’t see where the goals are coming from otherwise , bambi on ice Matt certainly isn’t going to deliver them. Is it me but Matt looks like he’s got some sort of balance problem his legs seem to work in a opposite type of way to how they should

That made me laugh

Matt is a shocking player, he takes almost a second to react to anything and it's lost by the time his legs move. Did anyone see him sheilding the ball, all the way to the line? He just let it roll out and gave them a goal kick! Never seen anything like it. His second touch is invariably a tackle, I am no pro but I could watch him for ten minutes before deciding he was a carthorse and incapable of playing at this level. What the intercourse was Slade and the scouting 'network' thinking?

Anyway, I am convinced Wilks could be the answer. He has pace and trickery, if he is fit he should play and not wide. Play him centrally as he is a centre forward, no more square pegs in round holes.

Matt would probably play better with a someone up front with him, as he won't score you many goals...

If you chopped matts legs off he could probably nick a goal for us.

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Matt would probably play better with a someone up front with him, as he won't score you many goals...

Best not to play him at all then as he can't hold the ball up, won't create anything and despite his size can't head the ball. In short, he's flipping shite.

If he’s not gonna be the guy to stick his toe/head on the end of something and get a goal like we first thought, he shouldn’t play.

For all his faults, Vernon can at least control the ball. Maybe have him up top with Wilks if he’s fit.

intercourse knows.

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Matt would probably play better with a someone up front with him, as he won't score you many goals...

Matt makes the Eiffel Tower look mobile.

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Matt is a shocking player, he takes almost a second to react to anything and it's lost by the time his legs move. Did anyone see him sheilding the ball, all the way to the line? He just let it roll out and gave them a goal kick! Never seen anything like it. His second touch is invariably a tackle, I am no pro but I could watch him for ten minutes before deciding he was a carthorse and incapable of playing at this level. What the intercourse was Slade and the scouting 'network' thinking?

Anyway, I am convinced Wilks could be the answer. He has pace and trickery, if he is fit he should play and not wide. Play him centrally as he is a centre forward, no more square pegs in round holes.

I mentioned this about Matt in another thread over the weekend.

I had a real close look at him when the game was dead and buried. We all knew it anyway but he is a real shocker; he runs like he is on black ice, on his tiptoes and even stopping seems beyond him. Yet I remember when we  signed him and he played at Accrington he was a revelation - chasing down and causing a right nuisance of himself.

So whats gone wrong? Something must have happened just before Christmas behind the scenes; we have been absolutely dire and I don't think we are even trying that hard to be honest. There doesn't seem to an ounce of fight in the team at all, apart from the superficial ones of talking to the press or pumping a fist at the crowd. The new manager hasn't seemed able to get them to roll their sleeves up let alone play any better, and the very least I expected was to be pressing the opposition from front to back in an effort to get us out of trouble.

Jackson is a different matter altogether. It's clear he is past his prime, even at 30. His goalscoring has declined sharply over the last 4/5 years, I assume he has suffered with injuries. But if you can get him on the pitch, he is the most natural goalscorer at the club by some distance. He's the sort of player that should play at 80 percent as he can still nick a goal.

Jolley does have options, although his team selection on Saturday concerned me if I'm honest.

Matt will never score a good amount of goals because he is never in the right place at the right time. He doesn't anticipate the direction of the ball and moves to where it's going after it has already gone. We have seen this time and again this season. He will score now and again by sheer persistence, but all the stars have to align, just for him to get a strike at goal. Even then, most of his efforts are weak and lack direction. Even in a good side, i doubt he'd get much beyond ten goals in a season. Jackson showed within two minutes that he has the nose for a chance and if we can get him on the pitch and present some decent crosses or passes to him, he has a much better chance of scoring than the others.

I can understand Slade signing Matt after he scored something like 7 in 12 for Plymouth and they loved him there. Like someone said, he did start fairly well for us and then he had some personal issues, i think his young daughter got ill if I remember rightly and this obviously knocked him.

He then scored 2 in 2 on his return for us but since has just lost all confidence. I think we sometimes underestimate the role confidence and psychology plays in football and once you're stripped on confidence, this can badly affect your performance and be incredibly difficult to regain. I think we're seeing that in the team at the moment. I do believe once we get that one win, we'll kick on. Easier said than done though unfortunately.

I thought he did OK against Port Vale, albeit with little support.

I don't really see how he receives criticism for lack of effort as he always runs his socks off from what I've seen. Often to little avail as he's slow to react and therefore chasing down too many lost causes, but I certainly wouldn't say he doesn't work hard.

His successful spell at Plymouth probably came about because they had more of a grip of midfield with wingers who could do something. Not something we can be accused of this season.

Yeah, to be fair, he does run his socks off and he did actually look a decent striker for about a month, then just seems to have gone to pieces. I wasn't aware of his personal issues with his daughter, so that could perhaps explain things a little, alongside the general lack of confidence of the side as a whole. Maybe my opinions are a little harsh then given those circumstances. I won't criticise him for effort.

Runs his socks off but looks awful , he’s a centre forward who doesn’t score goals and the reason why he doesn’t score is because he doesn’t look totally switched on to the game hence always being late to react to a run a cross. I’m praying Wilks and Jackson are fit both must be better than him surely

Just a thought but does playing matt in an awful team make him look worse than he actually is ?

He certainly wasnt too bad at plymouth .

If i remember correctly, Matt was quality against Mansfield at home, run them ragged and they couldn't handle him at all.

Running down the channels, getting in the way, winning free-kicks, and a general nuisance

He was taken off after Mansfield started playing silly games and got him a booking, and they went on to equalise shortly after

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That made me laugh

It makes me cry.

If we could get MacSheffery providing good service to Wilks and Jackson we might finally be able to create chances.

Until we can do that we are pissing in the wind.

I think half of the problem with Matt is that he looks quite tall and ungainly to the point that the defenders in this division can get away with manhandling him to a ridiculous degree. Against Port Vale in particular, he was getting his shirt pulled up around his shoulders at times but the referee was turning a blind eye to most of it.