Rochdale match thread

I think last seasons Summerfield would have been a plus in this team. We had fast forwards on display tonight yet for the entire match not one pass through the channels.Where are the brains in this team. Rochdale played with a plan- we did not. We must improve for Lincoln but the season is still young. 2 more loan players could improve us vastly.

Good to see a couple of youngsters being given a chance but with a few players out injured/suspended we had no choice but to issue a squad number to a youth player.

I thought Rochdale were good and their superiority showed. We had spells but in the main part they controlled the game. Patient possession in the lead up to their first goal waiting for the right opportunity to open up.

McKeown was back in yellow so everyone could see him.

Welsh seemed to play too advanced for much of the game. It is clear he hasn't got the pace to get back although he took a booking to stop Rochdale breaking from deep. I noticed in the warm up today that Clifton was only using his left foot so I wonder if the management team are working on that side of his game to provide left sided competition in midfield?

Saturday is going to be a tough test for our team as we seek to stop free scoring Lincoln and their two forwards; Akinde and Akinde-Pen.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

We also had a bench full of kids tonight.

Good.

Guess the troll remark was aimed partly at me. But hey ho. I would rather speak how I find instead of looking through home bargains rose tinted glasses.

Quoted from Freemoash88

I thought JJ would of had a better start this season tbh

I didn,t hes never been consistent at league level

Quoted from denni266

Guess the troll remark was aimed partly at me. But hey ho. I would rather speak how I find instead of looking through home bargains rose tinted glasses.

Agree. This present team irrespective of injuries or suspensions is not good enough. We are a team of ordinaries. We can make excuses all day long . Whether it is the players that don't fit the system or the system doesn't fit the players something is wrong and needs to change sooner than later. Last night I couldn't make out what formation we were playing or what the players positions were. I know Rochdale are a league above but we were drawn out of position so easily and are completely defunct of the ability to change any plans that we may have had. I want Town to do well  but we urgently need improvement before this loan transfer window closes to do so.

Quoted from golfer

Agree. This present team irrespective of injuries or suspensions is not good enough. We are a team of ordinaries. We can make excuses all day long . Whether it is the players that don't fit the system or the system doesn't fit the players something is wrong and needs to change sooner than later. Last night I couldn't make out what formation we were playing or what the players positions were. I know Rochdale are a league above but we were drawn out of position so easily and are completely defunct of the ability to change any plans that we may have had. I want Town to do well  but we urgently need improvement before this loan transfer window closes to do so.

I agree we are ordinary but then again I dont think we can expect much more. Last season we were shockingly bad so ordinary is an improvement of sorts.

Loanees, subject to attitude, may well improve us but I think there was too much unfounded expectation at the start. Mid table is about the limit of this squad IMHO & i expect massive fallout on social media after Saturday

Regardless of the fact that the squad is a few players light, most of the teams we play this season won't be as good as Rochdale (or, probably, FGR).

We can and hopefully should play better than in the two home games so far. The main thing is that we need to take the points available when we play the weaker teams. I'd argue we played a good bit better last night against Rochdale than against FGR, even though Rochdale look a superior side. Just need to keep on developing and one or two new players could be all it takes to make us more competitive.

I hate to say this but DC was the route cause again last night, bad passes, no concentration and beat in the air on countless occasions, I have to realistic and look at that starting 11 and in my opinion these are the only players I would say could make a good core of a solid team.
1-macca
2- Davies
3- Welsh
4- vernham
5- hessaintailer
6- Cook
7- Whitmore.
So to me that leaves us at least 4 players we need to make this team competitive, MJ has only has 1-window so far and I would say judge him after xmas once he's had another bite of the transfer cherry, oh and please, someone enlighten me, what the hell is Robles doibg playing in a football league team?,sunday pub league quality at best!!