Gav

After Rose, hands down my favourite current town player

Looking at that clip he looks like he’s past the last defender on that angle so possibly was given offside anyway? Won’t have been easy to tell as the free kick for offside will have been taken the same place as a goal kick. Would probably have been more heartbreaking if he had have scored and it had been disallowed!

If he’d played every game this season I’m pretty confident we’d be in a healthier position than we are now .

Like quite a few of our players ,he's decent if used correctly and to his strengths - he puts a shift in and when not asked to get on the ball too much can be effective ; he's very good at arriving in the box and has a good shot on him .

I would like to see him in the middle , ideally with Thompson when he's fit and just asked to do what he does best (it looked like the penny had dropped somewhat with the Morecambe performance ) Clifton on the left with Holahan & Thompson in the middle and then one of the more attacking wide players on the right would give me a lot more confidence .

I'm not sure whether the setup against Morecambe was more by circumstance than design though ?

I suppose we will see on Saturday as a good few should be back available you would have thought .

I though Obikwu had a good game on Saturday , he's obviously green but looks a better all-round option to me than Pyke or Wilson ; there was one really nice bit of play on Saturday were he won a 50/50 with his head and got cleaned out , quite cynical from them , something that we seem to struggle with - stopping the play when the other team is on the counter .

With everyone’s current mindset regarding Gav I know this is going to be unpopular. Some have said he is a league 2 player and I would disagree. Although he has many good traits, including good character and the ability to to score, under pressure from the spot, he severely lacks in some of the basics, specifically passing. I would go far as saying he has been consistently poor at even the most basic passing, even when not under pressure. This team is so poor and has been all season, which in part explains our current predicament. As such it’s easy for certain players with certain characteristics to “shine”. But let’s not fool ourselves, there are reasons why Gav has had limited game time and that’s because at this level he’s below average at best.

Quoted from heppy88

With everyone’s current mindset regarding Gav I know this is going to be unpopular. Some have said he is a league 2 player and I would disagree. Although he has many good traits, including good character and the ability to to score, under pressure from the spot, he severely lacks in some of the basics, specifically passing. I would go far as saying he has been consistently poor at even the most basic passing, even when not under pressure. This team is so poor and has been all season, which in part explains our current predicament. As such it’s easy for certain players with certain characteristics to “shine”. But let’s not fool ourselves, there are reasons why Gav has had limited game time and that’s because at this level he’s below average at best.

I agree.

The fact that Gav’s become the preferred option just shows how weak we are in midfield. Andrews and Green should be nowhere near the starting eleven at this level.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

I agree.

The fact that Gav’s become the preferred option just shows how weak we are in midfield. Andrews and Green should be nowhere near the starting eleven at this level.

Amazing how some think Green is anything but a non league clogger

Quoted from MuddyWaters

I agree.

The fact that Gav’s become the preferred option just shows how weak we are in midfield. Andrews and Green should be nowhere near the starting eleven at this level.

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