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Pollock and Rose were dropped from the team v Exeter to accommodate Hanson and Davis. Vernam not even on the bench when he is the most natural replacement for Wright.
This week, Gibson, who has barely put a foot wrong, dropped so that we can accommodate an out of form right back and Green, not Rose, Ogbu or Vernam starts instead of Wright.
We, including the manager, all talk about playing counter attacking football and yet we pick our slowest striker. Makes no sense to me.
Not saying he got the selection right, just that when you remove one piece unless you have a replacement you end up with several other changes. Players being outside of their natural position will obviously limit the team but there were times when the players made mistakes that can't be accounted for by being out of position. Just slow thinking. Or cautious thinking - too cautious. Vernam was on the bench. He came on for Green. Pollock was the replacement in the Exeter game so to see him swapped out next game wasn't a surprise. |
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Original post in this thread from a serial moaner pretty embarrassing, especially the misspelling of our manager’s name.
Anyway, which manager was it who recently said ‘Grimsby have a bit of everything’? That’s good. We just need to be smarter at deploying it. The glaring issue for me, is if our Plan A revolves around crosses to Hanson, then we surely must be playing with some width and working on delivery and set pieces. For me the team is often not set up to prioritise this. One natural attacking wide player in the squad looks like a management oversight to me. It seems to be fairly evident after this number of games that we are probably going to be a middling sort of team. Better than being strugglers but I think we could be making much better use off what we’ve got at times.
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A Ben Pringle or such like on loan is a must ASAP.
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Not saying he got the selection right, just that when you remove one piece unless you have a replacement you end up with several other changes. Players being outside of their natural position will obviously limit the team but there were times when the players made mistakes that can't be accounted for by being out of position. Just slow thinking. Or cautious thinking - too cautious.
Vernam was on the bench. He came on for Green.
Pollock was the replacement in the Exeter game so to see him swapped out next game wasn't a surprise.
Vernam wasn't on the bench for the Mansfield game - Green came on for Wright and did exactly what he did against Salford - tried too hard against a former club which had a negative rather than positive effect. I understand why some like Green - he works really hard but, to me, he offers less threat than Wright, Rose, Vernam, Ogbu and possibly even Cook. |
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Well, as Captain he should take the bull by the horns and ignore them if he can see lumping it up just ain't working, that's his role!!
You don't honestly think he kicks it towards Hanson on purpose ? |
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Got to be said, I'm surprised to see people complaining that Vernam didn't come in to replace Wright on the wing. From my recollection, Vernam has always been pretty anonymous when played out wide.
Unfortunately, I worry he may be one of those players with ability but who is unable to find a position where he can bring this to bear. Or perhaps, one who is only good in certain positions/formations but not good enough to change the way the manager wants to play.
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Got to be said, I'm surprised to see people complaining that Vernam didn't come in to replace Wright on the wing. From my recollection, Vernam has always been pretty anonymous when played out wide.
Unfortunately, I worry he may be one of those players with ability but who is unable to find a position where he can bring this to bear. Or perhaps, one who is only good in certain positions/formations but not good enough to change the way the manager wants to play.
Vernam can't really have done much worse that most of those that started on Saturday. |
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Got to be said, I'm surprised to see people complaining that Vernam didn't come in to replace Wright on the wing. From my recollection, Vernam has always been pretty anonymous when played out wide.
Unfortunately, I worry he may be one of those players with ability but who is unable to find a position where he can bring this to bear. Or perhaps, one who is only good in certain positions/formations but not good enough to change the way the manager wants to play.
Yeah but if a player isn't getting in the team the fans think he's better than he has been when playing. |
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You don't honestly think he kicks it towards Hanson on purpose ?
Erm, yes.!!😂😂 |
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Football is a simple game, divide the pitch into four quarters.
Left sided players, ie those with a left foot play on the left and right footed players, play on the right.
Gives the correct balance, those with pace play out wide.
So Mr Jolley you lost sight of the fundamentals on Saturday and got it all bottom about face, hence the woeful first half.
You're fault 100%
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