Unpopular opinion

We are not as bad as it seems...

We are not great, and boring to watch, but David and Whitmore look okay to me, with Ohman back, we have 3 decent centre backs

We are however, lacking creativity big time. Losing Embo has been huge on the season, but MJ knows that, and I'm sure it will get sorted.

Upfront is the main problem, and again, Jolley isn't stupid, I'm sure he will be sorting it.

Be prepared for another steady season IMO, I don't think 1 more window can turn us into a play off side at all, but stick with Jolley and Limberick, and we will make another forward step next season.

Slate me and hit me with that x, it's fine, but 1 win last week didn't deserve the mad positivity we got if its going to go again after another defeat.

those 3 decent centre backs have contributed to 22 defeats....

Quoted from Jarmo.Is.God

We are not as bad as it seems...

We are not great, and boring to watch, but David and Whitmore look okay to me, with Ohman back, we have 3 decent centre backs

We are however, lacking creativity big time. Losing Embo has been huge on the season, but MJ knows that, and I'm sure it will get sorted.

Upfront is the main problem, and again, Jolley isn't stupid, I'm sure he will be sorting it.

Be prepared for another steady season IMO, I don't think 1 more window can turn us into a play off side at all, but stick with Jolley and Limberick, and we will make another forward step next season.

Slate me and hit me with that x, it's fine, but 1 win last week didn't deserve the mad positivity we got if its going to go again after another defeat.

I'll go with that. But the club captain signing has to be more of a success than John Welsh!! (Don't know who at the club is responsible for signing players)

Quoted from Jarmo.Is.God

We are however, lacking creativity big time. Losing Embo has been huge on the season, but MJ knows that, and I'm sure it will get sorted.

Ah right, all we have to do is find another England u21 international willing to come on loan for a year and drag this shower close to his standard. Plenty of those floating about.

Sure he’ll get it sorted.

Quoted from The Boys Paddock

those 3 decent centre backs have contributed to 22 defeats....

Yeah true... Nothing to do with the midfield... numpty

Quoted from Teestogreen

I'll go with that. But the club captain signing has to be more of a success than John Welsh!! (Don't know who at the club is responsible for signing players)

100%, however I was delighted when he signed, but some signings just don't work

Quoted from ska face

Ah right, all we have to do is find another England u21 international willing to come on loan for a year and drag this shower close to his standard. Plenty of those floating about.

Sure he’ll get it sorted.

Doesn't have to be English, and doesn't have to be young, and doesn't have to be an international... just be able to create chances

agree, defence is more or less sorted, although perhaps a backup left back with league experience could come in whilst ring finds his feet...
Creativity is exactly what we are missing, embo was a huge loss, i really think if we had the creative players and played decent football on the deck not this aimless hoofing, dennis would have scored a few. I'm a fan of jolley but i am yet to see the fast attacking football he promised - today and other performances of late have looked very much like those under Russel Slade...

A club in our position financially can only be run successfully one way. Its like any Business starting out with little financial power, we must buy low sell high. We can't afford to buy high i.e. proven players/proven successful investments. Explained in terms of property we need to buy outdated, run down houses cheap and renovate them ourselves - selling for profit. We must gamble on young players and conference/ lower league successes in the hope they can make the step up because buying journeymen on their way down or just league 2 cast offs isn't going to get us anywhere beyond lower/mid table!

We have a lot of fantastic young players - clifton is testament to the fact that if given the chance they can shine, Ahkeem is still nursing an injury hence why he isn't really turning on the taps in terms of pace, but regardless he need the right football played, not aimless hopeful hoofs that he won't win in the air... Wright looked very promising today - and yet another player that proves that running at and beating your man is the way to go - it really isn't done enough in our team!

Quoted from Jarmo.Is.God

We are not as bad as it seems...

We are not great, and boring to watch, but David and Whitmore look okay to me, with Ohman back, we have 3 decent centre backs

We are however, lacking creativity big time. Losing Embo has been huge on the season, but MJ knows that, and I'm sure it will get sorted.

Upfront is the main problem, and again, Jolley isn't stupid, I'm sure he will be sorting it.

Be prepared for another steady season IMO, I don't think 1 more window can turn us into a play off side at all, but stick with Jolley and Limberick, and we will make another forward step next season.

Slate me and hit me with that x, it's fine, but 1 win last week didn't deserve the mad positivity we got if its going to go again after another defeat.

yep, agree

Quoted from 139847

agree, defence is more or less sorted, although perhaps a backup left back with league experience could come in whilst ring finds his feet...
Creativity is exactly what we are missing, embo was a huge loss, i really think if we had the creative players and played decent football on the deck not this aimless hoofing, dennis would have scored a few. I'm a fan of jolley but i am yet to see the fast attacking football he promised - today and other performances of late have looked very much like those under Russel Slade...

A club in our position financially can only be run successfully one way. Its like any Business starting out with little financial power, we must buy low sell high. We can't afford to buy high i.e. proven players/proven successful investments. Explained in terms of property we need to buy outdated, run down houses cheap and renovate them ourselves - selling for profit. We must gamble on young players and conference/ lower league successes in the hope they can make the step up because buying journeymen on their way down or just league 2 cast offs isn't going to get us anywhere beyond lower/mid table!

We have a lot of fantastic young players - clifton is testament to the fact that if given the chance they can shine, Ahkeem is still nursing an injury hence why he isn't really turning on the taps in terms of pace, but regardless he need the right football played, not aimless hopeful hoofs that he won't win in the air... Wright looked very promising today - and yet another player that proves that running at and beating your man is the way to go - it really isn't done enough in our team!

Good post.

But we can't play nice attacking football if we haven't got the players for it, and Embo was part of the plan to do that... We've had a bad season with injuries etc, so we've had to change our style of play accordingly.

You can't predict a big signing missing the full season, Cook missing majority of season, then Embo injury ending his season early, he's not a magician, but he's doing what he can, with the players and budget he has got...