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January 19, 2019, 10:56pm

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I’m pretty confident that nearly every club we’ll play this season has a better playing budget than us.

With respect to Cardwell I don’t see it myself but trust MJ and AL’s judgment for the decision for the new contract. Was it a new contract for coachability or was it a change of terms because he’s featuring more regularly? I doubt we’ll find out but I can see both sides of that coin and why both parties would want it sorting.
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I hate threads like this that target certain players for criticism.....his confidence will be shot if he reads the fishy tonight  



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January 19, 2019, 11:15pm

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I hate threads like this that target certain players for criticism.....his confidence will be shot if he reads the fishy tonight  



Totally agree he is still young and learning his trade,

All this criticism will not be making him a better  player,

Loads on here called Andy Cook look where he is today.


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Quoted from promotion plaice

I hate threads like this that target certain players for criticism.....his confidence will be shot if he reads the fishy tonight  



I’d be amazed if he actually knew The Fishy exists, I’m sure he had better things to do with his Saturday nights!


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Offensively we are rubbish. The statistics over the full season show this. Okay Cardwell was not great today but he has had some decent games and absolutely gives his best. Finding strikers is the hardest part and I see that Jolley is creating a strong spine to this team but is struggling as have previous managers to find creativity. I do hope he brings in a winger that can’t beat a man and a bigger forward and it is certainly much easier to bring the winner in utm
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Thomas was no better to be fair the service and type of service were once again woeful.

Against experienced big central defenders we just don't have any ideas resulting in the aimless hoof that sail over everybody's heads.

The midfield seems to have NO creativity was so ever so to just blame one striker seems very harsh, strikers need a decent supply.

If the end of last year was promising (we were making plenty of chances) January has brought all that crashing back down to earth.

Sorry but survival looks more likely than mid-table obscurity and playoffs forget it.

One thing that we cannot accuse ANY PLAYER of is lack of effort and that maybe the thing that saves us.
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Quoted from Mrs Doyle
Thomas was no better to be fair the service and type of service were once again woeful.

Against experienced big central defenders we just don't have any ideas resulting in the aimless hoof that sail over everybody's heads.

The midfield seems to have NO creativity was so ever so to just blame one striker seems very harsh, strikers need a decent supply.


If the end of last year was promising (we were making plenty of chances) January has brought all that crashing back down to earth.

Sorry but survival looks more likely than mid-table obscurity and playoffs forget it.

One thing that we cannot accuse ANY PLAYER of is lack of effort and that maybe the thing that saves us.


Overall I thought Lincoln's midfield five were sharper than ours in closing down space which denied us the time to be creative and pick a pass. It seemed like Lincoln came out of the traps too fast and ran out of gas for the twenty minutes before half time which gave us more time and space to play. I'm pretty sure Cowley would have told them at half time to measure their effort in the second half and ensure it that it didn't happen again towards the end of the game. We missed Clifton's energy, and as he can go for a full 90 minutes, he could have made a real difference in the game yesterday as O'Connor and Frecklington are no spring chickens and in my opinion are the weakest part of their team due to their relative lack of mobility. We just didn't have the ammo in there to exploit it like we did in the game at BP. We have to win the right to be creative and other than the 20 minutes before half time.. we didn't..
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Wasn't sure of the stats but just checked - we've only had 4 shots on target in our last 3 league games. Whatever our budget is, that's clearly not going to win many games and we'll soon be looking down again rather than up.
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To posters who think I am being too harsh on Cardwell, consider that this is professional footballers who live and die by their displays on the pitch.

Well deserved criticism on a message board is not going to hurt him, nor I accept,  make him play any better.

The point sticks though. Has anyone seen the remotest reason why he should start ahead of Vernam, Cook or A.Rose?

It could be that his greater physical presence is giving him the nod, but he is not using his height and bulk to any advantage whatsoever.

Personally, I am at a loss why we have given him a longer contract but if there is an effective player in there he ought to be showing it now aged 22.

I think he has scored one senior goal - a tap in - and when a team is so desperate for goals it doesn't make any sense.

If we are never going to be able to afford to pay the wages for goalscoring forwards then we will have a perpetual problem which of course is outside the remit of Jolley or indeed Cardwell.
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Wasn't sure of the stats but just checked - we've only had 4 shots on target in our last 3 league games. Whatever our budget is, that's clearly not going to win many games and we'll soon be looking down again rather than up.


Prior to Mansfield on New Years Day we scored 11 goals in 3 home games with a relatively settled side since then with injuries and suspensions etc.. we've had real disruption and this has been at a time when we've played 3 decent teams and a team fighting for their lives.

Though we need a better partner for Thomas I feel the issues come from mid field as the service the strikers have been getting has been pretty poor so I get why we went 3-5-2 yesterday if it allowed the FB's to press on and the midfield to get further up the pitch.

Personally I think our season turned a corner away at Carlisle when we went 4-3-3 in the first half maybe that's the answer who knows but a front 3 of Thomas Verman and Embelton would in my mind be more dangerous.



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