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He did play well yesterday, obviously if Warne reverts to a back four then it’s Nelson and Cashin.
Glad he’s picked his form up though, at the beginning of the season both he and Nelson made bad errors (Nelson passed straight to a Wigan player who scored I believe) but I think Nelson stayed in due the right foot left foot combination with Cashin. Then with a run of games and team form improving Nelson got more settled.
Bradley has been involved more in recent weeks and has grown in confidence given the extra game time.

He did play well yesterday, obviously if Warne reverts to a back four then it’s Nelson and Cashin.
Glad he’s picked his form up though, at the beginning of the season both he and Nelson made bad errors (Nelson passed straight to a Wigan player who scored I believe) but I think Nelson stayed in due the right foot left foot combination with Cashin. Then with a run of games and team form improving Nelson got more settled.
Bradley has been involved more in recent weeks and has grown in confidence given the extra game time.

He did play well yesterday, obviously if Warne reverts to a back four then it’s Nelson and Cashin.
Glad he’s picked his form up though, at the beginning of the season both he and Nelson made bad errors (Nelson passed straight to a Wigan player who scored I believe) but I think Nelson stayed in due the right foot left foot combination with Cashin. Then with a run of games and team form improving Nelson got more settled.
Bradley has been involved more in recent weeks and has grown in confidence given the extra game time.

Did Crewe really have 6-7 regular first team players absent?

Did Crewe really have 6-7 regular first team players absent?

I’m getting the feeling your not a fan of Collins?!! 😂

It’s the back end of last season as well, think we’ve won 1 in 8 at home, 3 in 12 overall. There are new players to bed in etc etc but the lack of any cohesive football up the top end of the pitch is worrying!

It’s the back end of last season as well, think we’ve won 1 in 8 at home, 3 in 12 overall. There are new players to bed in etc etc but the lack of any cohesive football up the top end of the pitch is worrying!

I wasn’t necessarily blaming NML, he’ll play where he has to to play but as you say the system doesn’t suit him, he probably doesn’t want to play it so perhaps isn’t committed in playing it as well as he could. It is down to the management which was really what I was getting at. Also NML hasn’t played well for a few weeks regardless of the position in my opinion, no slight on him over the whole season just feel Warne has over relied and over used him recently when perhaps a few sub appearances and an impact off the bench might have helped him and the team?

Can’t say it wasn’t expected, seemed to be hanging on as if we had 10 men, not sure why Warne insists on 3-5-2 currently it’s clear we don’t have the players, NML at wing back has never worked and he hasn’t played well for weeks not even sure why he’s still picked, should be on the bench.
Thought Warne was going to go for games, didn’t do that today with 5 at the back in the second half.
 

Can’t say it wasn’t expected, seemed to be hanging on as if we had 10 men, not sure why Warne insists on 3-5-2 currently it’s clear we don’t have the players, NML at wing back has never worked and he hasn’t played well for weeks not even sure why he’s still picked, should be on the bench.
Thought Warne was going to go for games, didn’t do that today with 5 at the back in the second half.
 

Tend to pretty much agree with all this, Warne definitely got his selection wrong, McGoldrick ended up playing 50 odd minutes, don’t see why he could not start them come off after an hour?
Felt for Collins and Springett a bit, both short on confidence but Collins doesn’t help himself, seems to get involved in everything other than getting the ball under control, the service wasn’t great but he has to do better.
NML hasn’t played well for weeks and I don’t understand his continued selection, seems he’s playing for what he could potentially do given past performances rather than current form. 
Davies unfortunately isn’t up to speed and will never get there like he was last season as he just hasn’t played enough, however he wasn’t helped today by Smith’s indecision and generally bad decision making. I would play Rooney and tell him that position is his barring injury until the end of the season. 
Cashin continues to have an off spell, wants to win every ball, you could trace their first goal back to Cashin putting the ball out for a throw in the left back area when he could simply have turned and gone back to Wildsmith.
Having said all that it’s nice to be moaning about football after last year and this season has in my opinion been better than could have been expected, hopefully see what the playoffs bring and if not go again next year with a Warne team. The potential teams coming down don’t fill me with worry and the league next year would be of less quality?
 

Tend to pretty much agree with all this, Warne definitely got his selection wrong, McGoldrick ended up playing 50 odd minutes, don’t see why he could not start them come off after an hour?
Felt for Collins and Springett a bit, both short on confidence but Collins doesn’t help himself, seems to get involved in everything other than getting the ball under control, the service wasn’t great but he has to do better.
NML hasn’t played well for weeks and I don’t understand his continued selection, seems he’s playing for what he could potentially do given past performances rather than current form. 
Davies unfortunately isn’t up to speed and will never get there like he was last season as he just hasn’t played enough, however he wasn’t helped today by Smith’s indecision and generally bad decision making. I would play Rooney and tell him that position is his barring injury until the end of the season. 
Cashin continues to have an off spell, wants to win every ball, you could trace their first goal back to Cashin putting the ball out for a throw in the left back area when he could simply have turned and gone back to Wildsmith.
Having said all that it’s nice to be moaning about football after last year and this season has in my opinion been better than could have been expected, hopefully see what the playoffs bring and if not go again next year with a Warne team. The potential teams coming down don’t fill me with worry and the league next year would be of less quality?
 

Tend to pretty much agree with all this, Warne definitely got his selection wrong, McGoldrick ended up playing 50 odd minutes, don’t see why he could not start them come off after an hour?
Felt for Collins and Springett a bit, both short on confidence but Collins doesn’t help himself, seems to get involved in everything other than getting the ball under control, the service wasn’t great but he has to do better.
NML hasn’t played well for weeks and I don’t understand his continued selection, seems he’s playing for what he could potentially do given past performances rather than current form. 
Davies unfortunately isn’t up to speed and will never get there like he was last season as he just hasn’t played enough, however he wasn’t helped today by Smith’s indecision and generally bad decision making. I would play Rooney and tell him that position is his barring injury until the end of the season. 
Cashin continues to have an off spell, wants to win every ball, you could trace their first goal back to Cashin putting the ball out for a throw in the left back area when he could simply have turned and gone back to Wildsmith.
Having said all that it’s nice to be moaning about football after last year and this season has in my opinion been better than could have been expected, hopefully see what the playoffs bring and if not go again next year with a Warne team. The potential teams coming down don’t fill me with worry and the league next year would be of less quality?
 

Tend to pretty much agree with all this, Warne definitely got his selection wrong, McGoldrick ended up playing 50 odd minutes, don’t see why he could not start them come off after an hour?
Felt for Collins and Springett a bit, both short on confidence but Collins doesn’t help himself, seems to get involved in everything other than getting the ball under control, the service wasn’t great but he has to do better.
NML hasn’t played well for weeks and I don’t understand his continued selection, seems he’s playing for what he could potentially do given past performances rather than current form. 
Davies unfortunately isn’t up to speed and will never get there like he was last season as he just hasn’t played enough, however he wasn’t helped today by Smith’s indecision and generally bad decision making. I would play Rooney and tell him that position is his barring injury until the end of the season. 
Cashin continues to have an off spell, wants to win every ball, you could trace their first goal back to Cashin putting the ball out for a throw in the left back area when he could simply have turned and gone back to Wildsmith.
Having said all that it’s nice to be moaning about football after last year and this season has in my opinion been better than could have been expected, hopefully see what the playoffs bring and if not go again next year with a Warne team. The potential teams coming down don’t fill me with worry and the league next year would be of less quality?
 

Tend to pretty much agree with all this, Warne definitely got his selection wrong, McGoldrick ended up playing 50 odd minutes, don’t see why he could not start them come off after an hour?
Felt for Collins and Springett a bit, both short on confidence but Collins doesn’t help himself, seems to get involved in everything other than getting the ball under control, the service wasn’t great but he has to do better.
NML hasn’t played well for weeks and I don’t understand his continued selection, seems he’s playing for what he could potentially do given past performances rather than current form. 
Davies unfortunately isn’t up to speed and will never get there like he was last season as he just hasn’t played enough, however he wasn’t helped today by Smith’s indecision and generally bad decision making. I would play Rooney and tell him that position is his barring injury until the end of the season. 
Cashin continues to have an off spell, wants to win every ball, you could trace their first goal back to Cashin putting the ball out for a throw in the left back area when he could simply have turned and gone back to Wildsmith.
Having said all that it’s nice to be moaning about football after last year and this season has in my opinion been better than could have been expected, hopefully see what the playoffs bring and if not go again next year with a Warne team. The potential teams coming down don’t fill me with worry and the league next year would be of less quality?
 

We’re in the third tier of English football, the further down you go the worse the refereeing is going to be especially now they have all been bumped up because of VAR in the Premier League. Because of this lack of experience some I feel do get caught up in the atmosphere at PP and feel they shouldn’t be seen as a home ref and sometimes go the other way… some just aren’t very good!!
Yesterday’s game was frustrating, played really well first half and bar the first 15 of the second I thought we were ok after that but we had already let them back in. Liked Rooney at right back, more pace than Smith and got forward well. Smith was good in midfield as well, positioning very good and seemed to pick up a lot of second balls because of it. Would liked to have seen Warne drop Knight back deeper into midfield to counter their change at half time which may have helped us keep control? On that I don’t think Knight was at his best yesterday, worked hard but quite a few things he tried didn’t come off, he’s more than allowed that given recent performances. 
Anyway, bit of a free hit on Tuesday in that for once we are the underdogs, I would start the same team and go for it, nothing to lose?!

We’re in the third tier of English football, the further down you go the worse the refereeing is going to be especially now they have all been bumped up because of VAR in the Premier League. Because of this lack of experience some I feel do get caught up in the atmosphere at PP and feel they shouldn’t be seen as a home ref and sometimes go the other way… some just aren’t very good!!
Yesterday’s game was frustrating, played really well first half and bar the first 15 of the second I thought we were ok after that but we had already let them back in. Liked Rooney at right back, more pace than Smith and got forward well. Smith was good in midfield as well, positioning very good and seemed to pick up a lot of second balls because of it. Would liked to have seen Warne drop Knight back deeper into midfield to counter their change at half time which may have helped us keep control? On that I don’t think Knight was at his best yesterday, worked hard but quite a few things he tried didn’t come off, he’s more than allowed that given recent performances. 
Anyway, bit of a free hit on Tuesday in that for once we are the underdogs, I would start the same team and go for it, nothing to lose?!

We’re in the third tier of English football, the further down you go the worse the refereeing is going to be especially now they have all been bumped up because of VAR in the Premier League. Because of this lack of experience some I feel do get caught up in the atmosphere at PP and feel they shouldn’t be seen as a home ref and sometimes go the other way… some just aren’t very good!!
Yesterday’s game was frustrating, played really well first half and bar the first 15 of the second I thought we were ok after that but we had already let them back in. Liked Rooney at right back, more pace than Smith and got forward well. Smith was good in midfield as well, positioning very good and seemed to pick up a lot of second balls because of it. Would liked to have seen Warne drop Knight back deeper into midfield to counter their change at half time which may have helped us keep control? On that I don’t think Knight was at his best yesterday, worked hard but quite a few things he tried didn’t come off, he’s more than allowed that given recent performances. 
Anyway, bit of a free hit on Tuesday in that for once we are the underdogs, I would start the same team and go for it, nothing to lose?!

Wildsmith
Smith   Forsyth   Cashin   Roberts 
      Knight   White   Hourihane
   Sibley   McGoldrick   Barkuizen 
4-3-3, Sibley further forward (all of a sudden he just plays fullback) rest NML as I think he was well off it on Tuesday although he is allowed a bad game after recent good performances. Don’t think Dobbin was as bad as some make out on Tuesday but would still give him a rest. Collins might play instead of McGoldrick as 3 games in a week might be too much? 

Wildsmith
Smith   Fozzy   Cashin   Sibley
               Knight    Bird
Barkuizen  McGoldrick  Dobbin
                      Osula
a bit of rest and rotation for me, play Osula as he’ll have good feelings from the away game against them. Collins looked a bit off it the other day and needs a rest, NML the same although he did set up the goal against Cambridge but wasn’t that great otherwise compared to his usual standards. Give Hourihane a rest and bring him on for McGoldrick on 60mins in the number 10 position?
 

Wildsmith
Smith   Fozzy   Cashin   Sibley
               Knight    Bird
Barkuizen  McGoldrick  Dobbin
                      Osula
a bit of rest and rotation for me, play Osula as he’ll have good feelings from the away game against them. Collins looked a bit off it the other day and needs a rest, NML the same although he did set up the goal against Cambridge but wasn’t that great otherwise compared to his usual standards. Give Hourihane a rest and bring him on for McGoldrick on 60mins in the number 10 position?
 

Wildsmith
       Chester  Cashin  Forsyth
 NML  Smith  Hourihane  Roberts
                 McGoldrick
               Osula     Dobbin
Could swap Hourihane for Bird if you prefer but they can’t play in the same team, pick on form. Bird not been great lately so I would give Hourihane a go?!

Wildsmith
       Chester  Cashin  Forsyth
 NML  Smith  Hourihane  Roberts
                 McGoldrick
               Osula     Dobbin
Could swap Hourihane for Bird if you prefer but they can’t play in the same team, pick on form. Bird not been great lately so I would give Hourihane a go?!

I think it’s clear we haven’t got the personnel to play 3-5-2 but Warne isn’t going to change what has worked for him in the past and you would imagine January will be important in trying to get the players he wants to play that system? In the meantime the lack of pace in the back three worries me and showed last night.
 
Could Roberts play as one? Forsyth at left wing back? And I’d like NML more central if we aren’t going to play with wingers.