Lee Bowyer

Think we need a good yard dog type central midfielder first. Take some pressure off the defence. Add a bit of steel in the centre of the team. Then look at the attacking section after sorting that out.

Quoted from DB

According to Findlater in the GT Clifton was on crutches after the game. Anybody know anything about this?

He got nailed after about 20 minutes. It’s a shame because he was the only one who went beyond Green all game. I was surprised to see him come off as Hewitt was the midfield passenger this week.

Quoted from headingly_mariner

He got nailed after about 20 minutes. It’s a shame because he was the only one who went beyond Green all game. I was surprised to see him come off as Hewitt was the midfield passenger this week.

Yeah I noticed Clifton was pushing further forward until he went off.  Hopefully that's on Hurst's instructions as we definitely lack midfielders pushing beyond the front man/picking bits up in that gap between midfield and attack.

Williams, Bennett, Tilley...they're all much about muchness players aren't they?  Tidy and neat on the ball but ultimately don't go anywhere with it.  In a good side that's on fire you could probably use a few of those luxuries and I imagine they would be effective.  But we're not a good side.  Whilst I agree with Hurst about the 11 dogs, we still need everyone to be putting their bodies on the line.  One thing we can't afford is people bottling challenges.

Was encouraged by the signing of Rose and his first few performances, but progressively he's got worse.  He seems to have mastered the art of getting on the ball but not actually benefiting the play with it.  Almost to the point that he's a point in between A and B that's not needed, watch the amount of times he takes the ball off the defender to make a simple pass to the full-back, when really Pollock/Waterfall could have made that pass easily themselves.

According to the GT Clifton did his ankle himself early on. Big doubt for Saturday.

Also Tilly was not injured. Make of that what you will but it seems loan time beckons for the lad.

I wondered about Rose from the second he asked for a list of good vegan restaurants in Grimsby. I suspect he quickly realised it was a bad fit.