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He did look quality but I thought Fapetu was the pick, closely followed by Darren Robinson, especially when he went alongside Elder at Centre Half.  Cox looked very assured at only 17 putting in a lovely cross which Wilson nearly profited.  Wheeldon looks a talent and Cruz Allen, at 16 showed some neat touches and nearly scored.
It's really refreshing seeing the youngsters coming through again and not looking out of place, (I know it's 'only' Wolves U21's), especially after seeing the vultures pick off all our previous talent.
As you said, some of them, including Tony Weston are ones to watch and hopefully they will get a few more opportunities.
Cheers
Gangway D from the Terrace 
 

He did look quality but I thought Fapetu was the pick, closely followed by Darren Robinson, especially when he went alongside Elder at Centre Half.  Cox looked very assured at only 17 putting in a lovely cross which Wilson nearly profited.  Wheeldon looks a talent and Cruz Allen, at 16 showed some neat touches and nearly scored.
It's really refreshing seeing the youngsters coming through again and not looking out of place, (I know it's 'only' Wolves U21's), especially after seeing the vultures pick off all our previous talent.
As you said, some of them, including Tony Weston are ones to watch and hopefully they will get a few more opportunities.
Cheers
Gangway D from the Terrace 
 

He did look quality but I thought Fapetu was the pick, closely followed by Darren Robinson, especially when he went alongside Elder at Centre Half.  Cox looked very assured at only 17 putting in a lovely cross which Wilson nearly profited.  Wheeldon looks a talent and Cruz Allen, at 16 showed some neat touches and nearly scored.
It's really refreshing seeing the youngsters coming through again and not looking out of place, (I know it's 'only' Wolves U21's), especially after seeing the vultures pick off all our previous talent.
As you said, some of them, including Tony Weston are ones to watch and hopefully they will get a few more opportunities.
Cheers
Gangway D from the Terrace 
 

He did look quality but I thought Fapetu was the pick, closely followed by Darren Robinson, especially when he went alongside Elder at Centre Half.  Cox looked very assured at only 17 putting in a lovely cross which Wilson nearly profited.  Wheeldon looks a talent and Cruz Allen, at 16 showed some neat touches and nearly scored.
It's really refreshing seeing the youngsters coming through again and not looking out of place, (I know it's 'only' Wolves U21's), especially after seeing the vultures pick off all our previous talent.
As you said, some of them, including Tony Weston are ones to watch and hopefully they will get a few more opportunities.
Cheers
Gangway D from the Terrace 
 

Interesting shout.  I wouldn't if I'm honest but he does score goals at this level. 
Having watched much of the Crewe game back, it really did highlight bizarrely how little we offer going forward.  Washington nor Collins didn't get any change out of the young Crewe centre backs, but most of all, our movement up front was very poor - no attacking the near post, no delaying the run to attack the ball or taking players underneath for someone to target the back.  NML did it for his header second half which he should have buried, then we did start to pull crosses back for midfielders to run on to, for how CH scored. 
I'm still harping on how we never replaced Didzy, and I feel a more powerful striker, or one with subtle movement would score a hatful for us.  
Depending on TJJ then I think we also need some raw pace up front so I'd be looking for two strikers in January.  Jebbison on loan from Sheffield United would be one of those for me. 
It also struck me, how few sides play two up front these days.  Talking of Marriott (and Collins), their best goalscoring periods seemed to come when playing as a pair up front, but the trend in Football these days is one up front with a deeper number 10 / midfielder.  We have signed them both, Marriott we paid well over the top, but then played them up front on their own.
Going to be an interesting window.
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So we chucked the money at Bradley instead? Goals cost money, always have. We could have sold him on if he'd scored us to promotion. 

And waggy. And wash. But still people say we didn't sign a striker.
Whether they're any good or not, now that's where the debate is. And that's on Warne.

Today more than any other game was our inability to finish. Some of the attempts were pathetic.
This falls on PW as he failed to get a replacement striker in. That was the same front six, with Washington replacing Didzy - so not one single person can argue we strengthened.
Thats on PW as he didn’t have the ability or pull to get anyone in.

please someone teach Collins how to stay onside....
another frustrating one. more clinical finishing and it would have been over in the first half.
full credit to the players for keeping going until the death!
what bothers me more than anything else is that the players don't seem to be enjoying themselves, and I think that's a reflection of the fans constantly  getting on their backs. 

Agree to disagree then on how poor we were...we struggled against the usual suspects who played to frustrate us....we need a better striker to solve the problem i.m.o

Did we play crap?
Completely dominated but couldn't score until late on....our problem,as ever,is out forward line against teams that sit in the box.
We need a new centre forward in January (no s*** Sherlock)

Such an exhausting club to support

Well maybe I’m going to be shouted down for this, but I didn’t think we were terrible. We’re tidy playing through to the edge of the box, but then either hit a powder puff shot or push it out wide for a cross, which is inevitably high and long. 
Two silly goals conceded, with Forsyth falling asleep for the first and Wildsmith not strong enough for the second. 

I'm going to go against the grain here and suggest it's our final cross which has been our downfall here. The overall football hasn't been too bad imo. 
Also, the ref has been excellent and has let the game flow as well as any ref I've seen all season.

Could it be that we played it to feet and didn't just have him running the channels? No blame is meant anywhere and I hardly dare ask obvs.

Unless you scrap the offside rule, how on earth do you set up a side to suit James Collins?

Brings me back to me banging on about not replacing Didzy.
His movement, taking the ball in tight areas, moving the ball quickly and/or spreading play, thus stretching the pitch, it helped the whole team as well as being a father figure to Dobbin and Will Osula, plus his goals. 
Writing was on the wall for Warne having not seen this. I know people will argue he ain’t had the funds but that’s a massive achilles heel.
For me that’s why we ain’t Top 2, but should comfortably be Top 6 and then January we get the best striker we can (should have done it before imo)
Not sure I’d trust Warne with another window, but some of the names being mentioned I wouldn’t trust them either ! 
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Which is ironic as we have been crucified the last 2 away games.  🙂

Id wager we wont be sacking cos of cost and if we did recruiting an already in work manager 
so that leaves the others that are u employed for a reason 

Warne has gone on record many times saying he loves a cross, and whilst it’s probably served him well over the years we don’t have the strike force. Collins has got on the end of an odd one but nowheee near enough. 
I agree in that at our goal and chances (Washington, Bird and Hourihan) came from the bit of Football we played so either the players are not capable of doing this consistently or the manager does not want too or can’t coach them. 
Worryingly a couple of players look completely out of sorts. He also seems to hook or drop the same players. 
I almost feel sorry for him, as he’s starting to look a broken man. 
I’m really split on wether he should go now or let’s evaluate come December - could we trust him with another transfer window knowing how many are going to be at out contract or will probably move on. 
They might not be listening but the outside noise must be deafening…
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I’m anti sack Warne, then punt on someone else in hope that it works.
Not sure if that makes me pro Warne by default.
Im not sure any manager can resolve the goal scoring problem without recruiting someone who we cannot recruit. This problem has been around since Cocu with several managers other than when we all to briefly had McGoldOne.
We desperately need to find a gem forward from none league or somewhere. Until this happens we can keep perming different managers with likely similar outcomes.

I haven’t heard the interview, and frankly can’t be bothered to listen to it. I respect however @ziggazagga’s opinions, and he is fully entitled to make them. He and his son are paying good money to watch what has been a piss poor show since March. I am glad Barker (and Warne, and Mendez Laing), are hearing the noise, and might raise their games accordingly. One win against an ordinary Exeter side is nothing to get too carried away with, although the victory was welcomed. Let’s get a run of wins under our belt and then that would be the time for Barker to respond to the expectations of fans.

I do agree in that it wasn’t great, I thought it was an extremely poor performance with very little fluidity or cohesion and coughing up possession without any real pressure. Warne said himself we lacked aggression - personally I thought we lacked more. I agreed they didn’t batter us but they deserved their win. 
I think we opened them up once, maybe twice in 90 minutes and Warne said if we’d been playing till Monday we probably wouldn’t have scored.
it was his other comments which annoyed, as he inferred that if we’d took our chances we’d have easily won, their keeper man of the match etc - completely disagreed with this. 
I am expecting us to go to places like Shrewsbury and give a far better account of ourselves than we did, especially with the squad we have -  Cheltenham was the same - it’s why so many questions are being asked of the management when the team puts in that kind of performance. I am one of those who is concerned. 
Maybe that’s why I could be accused of being entitled, which is what the recent posts have been debating. 
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I do agree in that it wasn’t great, I thought it was an extremely poor performance with very little fluidity or cohesion and coughing up possession without any real pressure. Warne said himself we lacked aggression - personally I thought we lacked more. I agreed they didn’t batter us but they deserved their win. 
I think we opened them up once, maybe twice in 90 minutes and Warne said if we’d been playing till Monday we probably wouldn’t have scored.
it was his other comments which annoyed, as he inferred that if we’d took our chances we’d have easily won, their keeper man of the match etc - completely disagreed with this. 
I am expecting us to go to places like Shrewsbury and give a far better account of ourselves than we did, especially with the squad we have -  Cheltenham was the same - it’s why so many questions are being asked of the management when the team puts in that kind of performance. I am one of those who is concerned. 
Maybe that’s why I could be accused of being entitled, which is what the recent posts have been debating. 
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