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August 19, 2014, 1:19pm
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Is this not why we have 4 strikers, why should all the responsibility and blame for lack of goals fall to him.



Oh dear, where do we get them from.

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Don't be ridiculous.

If you want to criticise LJL for missing a couple of chances, feel free to do so. Just as long as you recognise that he's been the only one of our strikers who has forced a number of saves and actually got in position to have some efforts on goal.

On a similar note, if I want to point out that Connell has done absolutely nothing at all in 3 games and hasn't got near to scoring, I will. If somebody wants to gainsay about this point, they should feel free to do so.


You can criticise Connell or anyone else for all you like. I have no axe to grind for/against him. I was just pointing out that some people on here get shirty if you criticise John-Lewis but are then happy to criticise other players.

What I will say in response to your point about Lennie having more shots on target is, look at his longer record not just the last 3 competitive games.

You seem content to point out that people are panicking after 3 games, yet you yourself limit comments to those same 3 games.

Time will tell of course, once we get the injured players back, but I honestly can't see this manager getting us promoted.


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It wouldn't have taken much for us to win the first 3 games and this with an injury crisis amongst the attackers.

With a full squad available, I reckon we'd have won at least 1 or 2 of the games. Nuneaton in particular were absolutely dead on their feet in the last 20 minutes, but we simply didn't have any subs we could bring on to add an extra threat. At the time I said that I'm sure we'd have won had even one of our wingers been available to us and we hadn't needed to play with 4 central midfielders.

The new season has begun and our first team when fit and settled could potentially contain 5 or 6 different players to our strongest squad last season. That's half a team. Thinking that last season's performances and results indicate exactly how the current team will perform isn't fair on the new players and isn't logical.

I think we've got a stronger squad than last year already (with another player or two set to arrive, hopefully), so I'm expecting that we will do better in general than last season. Injuries permitting, of course.

Whether it will be enough to see us promoted automatically is a different matter. I tend to doubt we've got enough attacking quality in the squad as yet to go up as champions. Hopefully one or two new signings could change this, but realistically, I'm expecting the play-offs to be our best hope.
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He's only interested in signing defenders  


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It wouldn't have taken much for us to win the first 3 games and this with an injury crisis amongst the attackers.

With a full squad available, I reckon we'd have won at least 1 or 2 of the games. Nuneaton in particular were absolutely dead on their feet in the last 20 minutes, but we simply didn't have any subs we could bring on to add an extra threat. At the time I said that I'm sure we'd have won had even one of our wingers been available to us and we hadn't needed to play with 4 central midfielders. [Winfarrah?]

The new season has begun and our first team when fit and settled could potentially contain 5 or 6 different players to our strongest squad last season. That's half a team. Thinking that last season's performances and results indicate exactly how the current team will perform isn't fair on the new players and isn't logical.[The criticism is of the manager - his selections and tactics.  I can't honestly see him delivering a promotion winning team in a month of Sundays.]

I think we've got a stronger squad than last year already (with another player or two set to arrive, hopefully), so I'm expecting that we will do better in general than last season. Injuries permitting, of course.

Whether it will be enough to see us promoted automatically is a different matter. I tend to doubt we've got enough attacking quality in the squad as yet to go up as champions. Hopefully one or two new signings could change this, but realistically, I'm expecting the play-offs to be our best hope. [So not really a better squad than last season then]




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[Winfarrah?] A young player who has made a handful of appearances in his short careeer. He's apparently being converted into a full-back yet you think he should have started in left midfield in front of McLaughlin who played there many times for us last season? That would have been deemed a strange choice had it not gone well, don't you think?

[The criticism of the manager's selection and tactics?] The selection was all but forced on Hurst due to the injuries to all of the attacking players. On Tuesday, the tactics weren't so much the problem as the poor performances from many of the players in the 3-5-2 system. Few of the players performed well enough yet we still ought to have won, really. The way in which many critics are ignoring the fact that pretty much all our strikers and attackers have been absent this season leaves me really baffled. It's almost as if there was some other sort of agenda.

[Not a better squad from last season?] Strange viewpoint here. It is obviously possible to have a better squad without being the best squad in the division. If you sign better players (which I think we have), you have a better squad. This doesn't mean that other teams can't sign players to have the best squad.
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[So not really a better squad than last season then]

Depends whether you subscribe to the view that the status quo throughout the league has been maintained. I suspect with Forest Green having splashed the cash again and new boys Eastleigh being able to afford players like Constable the league is possibly stronger than it was last year. Gateshead and Halifax are still to be reckoned with and it would appear Wrexham may be resurgent this season. It's a reasonable hypothesis to make therefore that to attain a play off place the squad needs to be stronger.

Winfarrah looks a real prospect but it is a dangerous route to go down on the basis of one excellent game to assume that he is the ideal replacement for Aswad. Unfortunately I wasn't at the game on Saturday but must admit that I was surprised that he wasn't playing.

To a large extent, currently, P.H.s choices for team selections are somewhat restricted by what is available to him. I really do not understand what is so hard to grasp about that...


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[So not really a better squad than last season then]

Depends whether you subscribe to the view that the status quo throughout the league has been maintained. I suspect with Forest Green having splashed the cash again and new boys Eastleigh being able to afford players like Constable the league is possibly stronger than it was last year. Gateshead and Halifax are still to be reckoned with and it would appear Wrexham may be resurgent this season. It's a reasonable hypothesis to make therefore that to attain a play off place the squad needs to be stronger.



So you're basically saying that you don't think we will get in the play-offs?
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So you're basically saying that you don't think we will get in the play-offs?


That's a bizarre inference to take from his post. Can you explain your logic?
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So you're basically saying that you don't think we will get in the play-offs?




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