Any optimism has gone

I've never been overly impressed with RHJ at full-back, truth be told. I'd personally have kept Mills this season ahead of RHJ, though Hendrie is certainly superior to both of them.

I suppose RHJ has potential as a wing-back and has scored goals in the past as well, but I don't think he's going to be playing ahead of Hendrie but for injury.

We just seem to be incredibly streaky under MJ. We either seem to have long winning runs or long losing runs. I just hope we don't repeat what happened last January though it does seem to be eerily familiar to the 20-match winless run of 2018 and starting from a very similar position in the league.

I would say the only difference is I think we have a better depth to our squad than this time last year but saying that I do worry that if MJ insists on 3-5-2 and we lose the next 2-3 games then the any confidence will fall through the floor and it becomes increasingly difficult to get back on a winning streak...afraid it's over to MJ and AL to sort this mess out ...if we can bag a draw on Saturday I will be more inclined to worry less about being dragged back into the relegation mix...

Quoted from GrimRob

We just seem to be incredibly streaky under MJ. We either seem to have long winning runs or long losing runs. I just hope we don't repeat what happened last January though it does seem to be eerily familiar to the 20-match winless run of 2018 and starting from a very similar position in the league.

I was thinking exactly the same. I am always very nervous when a team is creating very little and that is where we are at the moment. We have been in a similar position with MJ this season before and he turned it on its head down so hopefully will go again. We have to be patient and fingers crossed for at least a draw on Saturday. I am surprised he has not gone for a pacey winger And we all know how difficult it is to get a forward We are desperately short of options. I feel for the forwards in that they are always working off scraps and so they are on a bit of a hiding Best chances for me seem to be generated from the centre halves Which is not a great reflection upon the way we play, Utm

When Jolley became Town manager he tried playing 3-5-2. He used it in his first 5 league games before switching to 4-1-4-1. He then tried 3-5-2 for the first game of the season (home to FGR), but immediately reverted to 4-1-4-1 the following week. And obviously he switched back to 3-5-2 for the away games at Lincoln & FGR.

Here's our record under Jolley when he's gone 3-5-2...

P 8
W 0
D 2
L 6
F 3
A 18
GD -15
Pts 2 (0.25 pts per match)

And when he's not used 3-5-2...

P 31
W 14
D 5
L 12
F 37
A 33
GD +4
Pts 46 (1.48 pts per match)

I think those stats say everything about what formation we should be using.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

When Jolley became Town manager he tried playing 3-5-2. He used it in his first 5 league games before switching to 4-1-4-1. He then tried 3-5-2 for the first game of the season (home to FGR), but immediately reverted to 4-1-4-1 the following week. And obviously he switched back to 3-5-2 for the away games at Lincoln & FGR.

Here's our record under Jolley when he's gone 3-5-2...

P 8
W 0
D 2
L 6
F 3
A 18
GD -15
Pts 2 (0.25 pts per match)

And when he's not used 3-5-2...

P 31
W 14
D 5
L 12
F 37
A 33
GD +4
Pts 46 (1.48 pts per match)

I think those stats say everything about what formation we should be using.

This isn't true at all I'm afraid.

When he first came here last season, we played a 3-4-3 in his first game at home to Port Vale, and from then on it was a back 4 with either a 442 or variation of 451.

The next time we played with 3 centre-backs was the first game of this season, which was the first time we played 352 under MJ.

So these stats aren't correct.

I think it says that 3-5-2 is relatively untested.

I'm afraid my optimism waned when we had the intervention from the boardroom  

Quoted from MuddyWaters

I'm afraid my optimism waned when we had the intervention from the boardroom  

Funnily enough that has coincided with the downturn...Fenty strikes again!!...he could and should have stayed "shut up"...

By reading between the lines in the telegraph no players coming in unless we offload a few.. so no striker looks likely after reading in too it