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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 17:59:07 GMT 1
‘Blind faith’ would be more appropriate. Christ what a dreadful half of football
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Post by tvor on Feb 16, 2019 17:59:20 GMT 1
Can someone please explain what formation we are supposed to be playing?? It's 3-4-3 or 3-4-2-1 depending on how you look at it, the same formation used in most games recently. Back three of Williams, Waterfall and Beckles Midfield four of Bolton, Grant, Norburn and Golbourne Front three of Campbell, Gillead and Whalley but with only Campbell really playing as a traditional forward. For me it was a selection that was too negative for a home game and Ricketts substitutions were also poor. Golbourne offers nothing going forward so isn't suited to this system, when Haynes is fit it will work better. Gillead was a passenger today. If he wasn't going to play wide then he shouldn't have been selected.
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Post by SouthStandShrew on Feb 16, 2019 17:59:24 GMT 1
Ricketts clear off.
Was a must win and we haven't.
s**te.
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Post by Scarecrow on Feb 16, 2019 18:01:40 GMT 1
I think I’ve resigned myself to the fact we are going down. The team this year has been poor and I’m not looking at Ricketts, I’m looking squarely at Roland and co who managed to take a team who finished 3rd in the league and put us in the relegation zone the subsequent season. 12 years on and back to league two. 12 years on from the move and it’s the same old story.
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Post by tvor on Feb 16, 2019 18:05:28 GMT 1
According to the official Shrewsbury Town website, we are playing 3-4-2-1. Is this correct! I think we should have a sweepstakes every week, name the bloody formation! We've been playing this formation for several games now.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 18:05:41 GMT 1
Where’s the urgency to go and win these types of games? There’s no go in us.
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Post by ssshrew on Feb 16, 2019 18:05:47 GMT 1
I’m resigned to relegation too. But more than anything it will be the standard of refereeing that will finish me off. I just can’t take it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 18:06:58 GMT 1
What a complete foul up the past 3 months have been. I was on the fence regarding Askey but I didn't get the feeling he was ever going to put is in a relegation battle. This is dismal.
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Post by tvor on Feb 16, 2019 18:07:24 GMT 1
Far too negative today from Ricketts today for a game we really needed to win when looking at the fixtures coming up.
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Post by philjh on Feb 16, 2019 18:07:54 GMT 1
Only chance we have if DE can keep himself fit, we need a leader on the pitch cos I don't think we have one off it, seems to be clueless, going to be tough,at the moment the 2nd division looks to be getter closer !!
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Post by ShrewsburySTFC on Feb 16, 2019 18:10:15 GMT 1
Give up on Dave Edwards. We could have messi in the team and he wouldn’t save us.
Mainly because Ricketts would play him at centre back.
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Post by percy on Feb 16, 2019 18:13:27 GMT 1
Poor show. Just cannot understand it. The team is far less than the sum of its parts, Could not see a second goal coming for us at all.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 18:19:22 GMT 1
A couple of questions for those who went today.
How much desire did we show? Did we press for 90 minutes? Did we start off on the front foot?
I'm interested to know how much our team wants it, are they really putting in a shift for the manager?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 18:26:51 GMT 1
In my opinion that was not the result we wanted but we go again next week.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 18:30:16 GMT 1
Dreadful game between 2 poor sides. We lacked any sort of energy, creativity, forward thinking ideas or passion. Did we even want to win, or just avoid defeat?
Gilliead contributed nothing for 77 minutes and how Ricketts thinks he can play in the middle is baffling. The smallest player on the pitch was given a free header for the goal! Bringing Payne on for Campbell was an abysmal substitution.
We are going down
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Post by tvor on Feb 16, 2019 18:30:51 GMT 1
Kinell, Ricketts post match interview was a depressing listen.
"Good performance" "At times it worked really well" "Pleased with the point" "Some pleasing signs" "Gillead did really well"
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Post by zenfootball2 on Feb 16, 2019 18:46:08 GMT 1
A couple of questions for those who went today. How much desire did we show? Did we press for 90 minutes? Did we start off on the front foot? I'm interested to know how much our team wants it, are they really putting in a shift for the manager? not enough desire we need 11 players with Whalleys desire typified by tracking back half the pitch to put in a tackle. we pressed in periods but had a gaping hole down the left which gave them acres of space to run into ,this was not all down Gilliead but he hardly tracked back this left the wing back Golbourne very exposed against a pacey player , beckles often did not back him up whilst we scored early one of the few times hte ball was on the ground we then conceded in a very short period of time
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Post by shrewswolf on Feb 16, 2019 18:52:21 GMT 1
Another managerial master class from the manager. No wonder Askey stayed quiet in the post match, it stopped him talking absolute s**te like Ricketts.
Askey’s football was pretty with no end product but never looked to be taking us to League Two. Askey left us in a position where the majority (even the Askey Out campaigners) thought the players were good. Coyne took us on a little run to relative comfort & Ricketts himself admitted to taking on the club in a good place.
What a contrast to that good place we are now. If he truly believes we pushed on well towards the end, that Gilliead played well & that aspects of our performance were pleasing, he genuinely is as clueless as his team make him appear. The players cannot get away with this, their cup exploits show a side we rarely see in the league and that casts a shadow on their character, but to a man they have regressed under Ricketts. There appears to be very little potential in any of them right now, even Grant has become all the more bit-part during games.
‘Resting’ Fejiri after a free week is the most comical thing I can remember in a long time. Just give him Monday & Tuesday off training you weirdo. To then persist with Whalley up front & Gilliead as a passenger in the hole for as long as he did... embarrassing.
Route one, home form destroyed, defensive record in tatters, all at sea when we ‘give it a go’ & mind numbingly boring route one b******s when we set up more cautiously to take the point at home to meandering & not arsed mid table Burton with lower mid table away form. Cracking..
When the stadium continues to empty with your team on the ‘attack’ with just minutes to go, you’ve lost ‘em. Poor players, worse manager.
Bring on that trip to Crewe.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Feb 16, 2019 18:55:03 GMT 1
dire from town an awful game to watch tactically we are a one dimensional team who lacks depth and who never seems to learn or grow .
we have a keeper seems incapable of releasing the ball quickly by the time he does clear it Burton have set up there defence, combined with to many kicks going in to touch. The bulk of the time town went route one , which result in Burton easily retaining the possession, when we did not do route one the distribution was dire.
i wish the other players would share Whallleys energy .
silly fouls gave away numerous free kicks in dangerous areas exacerbated by a very poor ref and A number of Burton players who's main tactics was to look for free kick or penalty.
it is like reliving and watching a horrible groundhog day game with the same dire performances and a clueless tactically inept team.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Feb 16, 2019 18:57:58 GMT 1
Kinell, Ricketts post match interview was a depressing listen. "Good performance" "At times it worked really well" "Pleased with the point" "Some pleasing signs" "Gillead did really well" for heaven sake utter dribble the game swirled around Gilliead apart from one determined run he failed to track back causing real problems for the defence. really concerned if he thinks this route one rubbish is a good performance. i have seen non league teams play better than we did today
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Feb 16, 2019 19:01:36 GMT 1
There are some good pubs in Nailsworth.
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Post by horse01 on Feb 16, 2019 19:03:38 GMT 1
I never thought I would type this in a million years.....
Ricketts is proving to be worse than Askey
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Post by ssshrew on Feb 16, 2019 19:10:01 GMT 1
Well I’ve learned two things today.
1. I can’t cope with the standard of refereeing 2. After listening to that interview I could be a football manager except I wouldn’t be happy with a draw when we need points!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 19:11:54 GMT 1
There are some good pubs in Nailsworth. Forest Green are having a decent season and may well be heading up whilst we drop down. At least Notts County are picking up a few points, that's a good city for a weekend away.
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Post by tvor on Feb 16, 2019 19:12:51 GMT 1
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Post by SeanBroseley on Feb 16, 2019 19:17:22 GMT 1
Important players unavailable today: Laurent and Docherty are particular misses. Grant was anonymous and the back three looked exposed. Pleased to see Waterfall in for Sadler. Goldborne looked knackered at half time. Hint of a foul for their goal, which was a typically weak goal to concede. I thought Burton dropped two points today because we looked there for the taking. All over the pitch we looked outnumbered.
In August 2018 I thought our squad looked better than August 2016, And it was strengthened again last month. These players should be good enough to maintain our League One status. But there is no coherent playing system.
Two poor managerial appointments in one season. The second worst than the first.
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Post by northwestman on Feb 16, 2019 19:53:16 GMT 1
Happy with that lineup.. That’s he exact back 5 I’ve been hoping for and I don’t think it’s the end of the world okenbirhie taking a rest . Whalley Campbell Gilliead will offer plenty of pace and hopefully less long ball rubbish Wrong call I'm afraid. Whalley was everywhere on the pitch other than where he should have been i.e. on the wing. Campbell was isolated and was hauled off with half an hour left to be replaced by Payne, who produced little of note. Gilliead was totally ineffective despite SR ludicrously saying in his after match comments that he had a good game.
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Post by hankmaloysenior on Feb 16, 2019 19:58:08 GMT 1
Criticised Ricketts on the other thread. Totally deserved. But that does not excuse the players.
Gillead - I had high hopes for him but he offers absolutely nothing - no threat, no end product, no quality - that's a pretty lethal combination for a winger.
Golbourne - How many times can he mark the wrong side of a throw in before he realises he needs to get goal side? I don't care if he hasn't played all season, he's a 30 year old fullback who's played over 300 games - it's basic stuff.
Waterfall - I actually feel sorry for him, he's a top half League 2 defender playing a level too high - he tries to win every ball even if it's not his to win and he's far too hands on for League 1. He knows that if he gets turned, he's in trouble, so he gets touch tight, but he exposes us badly if they get to the ball first and he's so lucky not to give a pen away every game.
Beckles - What is that ball he keeps playing out from the back? - he's perfected a 30 yard aimless looped ball, often to nobody, occasionally vaguely towards the striker, who can do absolutely nothing with it. Repeatedly meat and drink for the centre half.
Arnold - I think he's a decent shot stopper but his distribution is dire. When a quick roll out is required, he holds onto the ball until the opposition get everyone back behind the ball and when he does kick it quickly, it's embarrassingly poor.
Whalley - Great footballer but is it in his contract that if he plays, he has take set-pieces because they're garbage. Mystifying that he's still taking them.
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Post by tvor on Feb 16, 2019 20:01:40 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Feb 16, 2019 20:16:47 GMT 1
What the hell was Beckles trying to do there? Waterfall fell over too. There were 2 Burton players left at the far post with only Golbourne in attendance.
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