Let's talk about the Stockport game

I would drop effete in a heart beat.

I'd do this but have Kiernan in somewhere.

Its not what team you put out at the moment  its if the players that play actually perform . We know they can perform better but are not at the moment.. So what is it that is affecting them . ???

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Its not what team you put out at the moment  its if the players that play actually perform . We know they can perform better but are not at the moment.. So what is it that is affecting them . ???

Confidence - every player and manager at every level of football from time immemorial has said how much of a difference it makes to performances.

Sick of them. Off on holiday for a couple of weeks so some respite.

Focus on not giving the ball away, when we haven’t got the ball work harder than we did on Thursday to win it back, Salford seemed to have time on the ball.

With or without the ball talk to each other and let people know what’s going on around the pitch. This may sound harsh but it looks like a couple of the players are hiding a bit.

No idea about what the team will look like but I suspect it won’t change too much as we have limited options in reality. Would like to see Hunt in but suspect it might be Morris and this might surprise some but I expect the back 4 to be the sane as the one that finished the game on Thursday.

Bit worried to be honest as we could come out of the 3 Christmas games with no points, it may have done but I can’t remember that happening before.

Stockport are hitting their straps now and in really good form. I can't see us beating them to be honest.

We have good spells, followed by bad, rinse and repeat. Can't see this bad spell ending tomorrow, although I live in hope.

See they have already made a new signing. We might get a couple of loans in 3 or 4 weeks time.

Can only see one outcome Stockport winning comfortably ,I desperately hope I’m wrong though

I do think we’ll lose because I feel like Stockport have a better side and are better coached, but I don’t subscribe to the view we don’t work hard enough to compete. Sure, we are making simple mistakes that we need to cut out in order to do anything, but I do feel like we lack ability on the ball in the midfield.

We have midfielders with lots of strong points. Green is good in the air and strong in the tackle, Holohan is good at nipping in and pinching the ball before carrying it forward, Clifton can run for days etc. Salford seemed to have midfielders that could collect the ball under pressure and then turn their man once or even twice and get away. I feel like the only player we have that can do that consistently is Hunt.

I’ll let you guys decide who should partner these but I think these 4 should be starters tomorrow:

X         X       Hunt     Khan
             McAtee
                Orsi

Orsi didn’t get the best write up from a lot on Tuesday but I thought he actually looked ok at least for the first 30 minutes. He linked up with McAtee and was a willing runner throughout. The alternative is probably Pepple or Kiernan which I’m fine with, but I absolutely hope we don’t go back to McAtee leading the line.

Salford's midfielder who we couldn't get near belongs to Man United. Not a surprise we couldn't get near to him, really. I'd imagine Salford are probably paying 100% of his wages. It helps when the main shareholder of a club is a billionaire. They certainly had more pace in wide areas and at full-back than us, however. Made it especially easy for them to see out the second half without incident (in addition to our crap passing). Pace is something our squad badly lacks and it is an asset which Hurst has never seemed bothered about which always surprises me. As a former full-back, you'd think he would be well aware of the difficulties bit of pace can cause defences.

Given the poor run of form we're in, I'd be happy if we got a point tomorrow. Main thing is to make sure we don't give away any of the stupid and sloppy goals which we've been shipping of late. If they are better than us, then so be it, but make them work for it.