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Match Thread Colchester A

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HertsGTFC
April 17, 2024, 10:55am

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I said a while back and my thinking hasn't changed

Either Artell will be a massive success or it will end in disaster with nothing much it between , I guess we will find out next season with a summer to shape his own squad .



We could find out in the next 10 days or so if we lose by 2 goals in both our games & Sutton win by 2 in theirs.


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I said a while back and my thinking hasn't changed

Either Artell will be a massive success or it will end in disaster with nothing much it between , I guess we will find out next season with a summer to shape his own squad .



We could find out in the next 10 days or so if we lose by 2 goals in both our games & Sutton win by 2 in theirs.


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I think he's exceptionally limited tactically by the fact we're just so short of quality and pace throughout the side. What can you do to change things up? Most of our central midfielders aren't good enough and are much of a muchness. The wide players we have are Vernam who has been injured a lot, Eisa who's one of the laziest and least contributing players we've ever had barring his worldies and Gnahoua who although tidy and hard working has really not delivered an end product at all.  Our strikers are Rose who is excellent, Wilson who is inconsistent as his career stats show, Pyke who's shite up front and Obikwu who's a young lad who often looks uninterested. We've not really got any defenders capable of playing in a back four, certainly not in a back four behind our inept midfield. So what can you do? He's shored things up for sure on the mess we were in at the start of this year but you can't go more direct as we have no height or pace, we can't not have five at the back cause we'd start conceding loads again and our strikers are generally a bit shite. He showed against MK Dons that he can get it tactically spot on in the right circumstances and although some of his substitutions and starting line ups have baffled me, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until he has a squad that isn't fooking terrible.

Like I said he is keeping his powder dry till next season because he hasn't got a lot to work with, but I wouldn't have gone to Colchester last night with us only needing a point and be as wide open as we were in the early stages. Surely the right thing to do was keep it tight and get them nervy.

All easy in hindsight I admit but I still can't see what he likes about Obikwu and an extra midfielder might have been better.
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The main problems are poor passing, slow play, ongoing injuries and several players who have lost form or had weaknesses sussed by opponents.

We are a smaller in height squad so we get bullied by the Akindes up front of this league and by dominant centre halves when attacking.

The signings in January have helped but there were too many square pegs to fill at once.

For Clifton and Holohan both not be fully firing has severely weakened midfield and puts far more pressure on defence and attack to take up the slack.

Artell cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear, but January showed that he can see better players.

Budget obviously plays a big part in not just decimating a full squad in one go, so he just has to try to make the best of what he has.

However, the 1st sentence will be what he sees in matches, and why we cannot consistently
play like the Crewe game and he must be so frustrated at how different games pan out.

6000 plus stadium and armchair critics who all could do a better job??

Who would be a manager in lower divisions, certainly not me !!
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The main problems are poor passing, slow play, ongoing injuries and several players who have lost form or had weaknesses sussed by opponents.

We are a smaller in height squad so we get bullied by the Akindes up front of this league and by dominant centre halves when attacking.



But apart from that, we're brilliant!
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If Sutton do win their last two, which is certainly possible given that MK will be resting players ahead of the playoffs, then will have won 6 of their final 8 games, which is pretty spectacular. That’s more than we have won in a about 30 I think.

I bloody hope we manage a point next week.
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If Sutton do win their last two, which is certainly possible given that MK will be resting players ahead of the playoffs, then will have won 6 of their final 8 games, which is pretty spectacular. That’s more than we have won in a about 30 I think.

I bloody hope we manage a point next week.


Funnily enough both Sutton and us have Crawley to play and depending on how other results go they probably will need to win both games but I’m pretty sure they must win v Sutton otherwise things are taken out of their hands. So they will be well up for it on as will Sutton and I expect the game to involve a few goals and hope most of them go in Sutton’s net. Just concerned that Crawley can be iffy at the back as they clearly demonstrated at BP in the first half where another injury time goal cost us what would have proven an invaluable point.
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Demonstrated that by conceding 3 to Colchester the other day too.


JESUS AT THE CENTRE
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Bet365 have us at 1000/1 to be relegated so if anyone is really worried then get a tenner on it. You'll.be able to get yourself a conference season ticket with your winnings and still have £9600 left over to donate towards the cost of the new bogs.
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Demonstrated that by conceding 3 to Colchester the other day too.


If you watch those goals they make some of our defending look solid. They were certainly in Notts County mode in that game.
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