rammieib

Exeter are not down to ten men.

Crossing to our six foot plus strikers …

How can you say that? Zero shots on target, 4 shots with an XG under 0.1. And this is against an awful opponent. Were dogsh1t again as it stands. Which players are playing genuinely well?

But CBT, then play wingbacks so he has no position.

This is just turgid again. One good piece of football with an offside to ruin it but still not sure what we’re trying to do. Any sign of a set piece it’s go long - I think we want to pass it around but then we lose it. Four shots, nothing on target. It’s just another game that’s passing by and we’re making no impact. One less defensive player and one more attacking player please Warne…. But he won’t. We are lucky there are so poor.

To be fair, there is absolutely no way any of us can comment if we’re watching Rams TV - Sibs wasn’t in the screen!

Could have been a red

You judging that from Rams TV over a lino who was in line? 🤣

Can we please stop hoofing the ball up any time we get a set piece. Jesus it’s awful. Play football.

So the £36m that Clowes has put in as interest free loans - this has paid of the 19m or so we owed companies after coming out of admin, Quantuma fee and operating cash?

1-1 Gayle

What does that question even mean? Are they asking about the quality on information within the accounts or are they asking about the financial stability of the club?

Will we even have more than 30k to sell or will the segregation knock 4000 out?

Win 3-0 FRGS - Bird

The lack of notice (i.e Less than one day) for when away tickets are put on sale is really bloody annoying. An E-mail out to all fans would be a nice touch.

I partially agree but the manager and his style of play has a huge weighting on it especially when the days of paying silly money/salaries are gone.

Had Rosenoir taken us up which I am 100% convinced he would have done either last season or this season, I would trust him 100% to find players of Championship ability. On the miracle/fluke Warne Ball gets us up, do you trust him to be able to attract any decent players to this club?

Sensible post - so I'll pick it apart a little. We are second because other teams are atrocious. We have the highest wage bill by a long way - of course that doesn't guarantee success but I do believe we have a number of very good player - its the way they are being told to execute their jobs which is the issue for me. 5 at the back - we struggle to create. 3 Centre backs, two wing backs who often become full backs and two holding midfielders - this is a recipe for not creating - as we have seen multiple times now. So what/how has Wildsmith been coached by Andy Warrington. Surely after the debacle at Oxford, Wildsmith would have received coaching on what to do in that situation? So poor decision by Wildsmith especially as he delayed his coming out but not being coached very well is he. Second goal - the pass form Wilson was poor - he gunned it to Ebou Adams but it was not on the ground. why as a team do we seem to put so much focus on getting the direction of the pass correct that anything over 15 yards seems to be a few bounces. Watch Man City play, watch Arsenal, watch Brighton - when they pass to each other the ball stays on the deck. This means the receiving player can control it immediately or make a first time pass more successfully. Wilson hammered it to Adams off the deck. So poor coaching for me again - not to mention the fact that Wilson went backwards. However - I don't have such an issue with that. However - Can you tell me how many times our players actually move into space? They don't - we're static as anything. This is one of the big changes to NML's game - he wants the ball to feet every time - a defender isn't worried about him (or literally anyone) on our team making a run into space. I'm sorry - our football has been shambolic for most of the season. We win games IMO because we generally have better players who are able to pull bits of magic out and thus deliver - NML being a prime example. Worth noting that the top five contributing players offensively this year are all Rosenoir signings/Academy. (NML, CH, JC, MB and TB). Warne hasn't bought in, as yet, an offensive player able to make any impact in this team. I trust CBT will come good though. My final point on the coaching (away from the head tennis) - literally how dated and old school is the tactic of when we get a set piece anywhere from about 20 yards inside our half, the tactic is literally put everyone up to their box and just chip a high ball in. That's park football stuff. I cannot remember that being anywhere near successful in goals we have scored this season. I genuinely thought I'd seen a change after Stevenage away - next game goal kicks were being taken short, same with free kicks - CH, MB, NML, EC, CN - they were all allowed to 'play football' - and then we started winning - but now, this has gone out of the window again - and not once did I see Warne last night telling the team to keep the ball on the deck. if we scrape over the finish line, I'll be amazed but grateful - but with Warne there and his limited repertoire of coaching - we're screwed next season whichever league we are in.

No - But our defenders were heading it as strong and far as they could instead of heading it to Bird/Smith who were very often just simple lay off headers. I guess its what you get when you sign players like Bradley. The amount of points lost form winning positions would suggest that looking comfortable is never comfortable. We should 100% be pushing for that second. By going on a proper offensive, in my opinion we have as much chance of conceding a goal from being offensive as we do from just 'looking comfortable' if you get my drift.

1Wildsmith - 5 (Cost us a goal by delaying coming out and then being reckless) 24Nyambe - 6 (Not much support in front of him, spotted this by going alone a couple of times) 7Barkhuizen - 5 (Seems to lack confidence) 35Nelson - 6 5Bradley - 5 6Cashin - 6 (Stopping putting square pegs in round holes) 2Wilson - 5 (Although Adams should be controlling the ball - why can't we pass to players with the ball staying on the deck - this is a real bugbear of mine) 12Smith - 6 (Battled well but ultimately not sure what he really offers - he is going to score and doesn't create) 17Sibley - 5 (Left wing, centre mid - all over the place - not his fault) 32Adams - 6 (Some good tackles, but should have done better with the pass to him) 27Blackett-Taylor - 6 (No real time, team don't seem to trust him yet) 11Méndez-Laing - 6 (Again - Always wants the ball to feet, never seems to run in behind much - thats easy to mark against) 8Bird 🐦 - 5 (Very soft, lost all his 50/50) 25Gayle - 6 (Pleasantly surprised with some of his hold up play but never threatened) 10Waghorn - 5 (No impact of any type) Second game in a row now I couldn't give anyone a 7. Rather telling that.

Much wrong? Wow. We'd had three shots at half time. We had played head tennis for much of the first half. I think everything was wrong.

1) Agreed 2) From a business perspective, I believe the Championship will be worth an extra £7-10m in revenue. Of course our costs go up but who doesn't want this. I'd also suggest - we stay down, Bird is already gone, I am sure Cashin will move on (We just get a decent fee) so what will we be left with? Our better ball playing players will have left (Bird, Cashin, Hourihane), a manager playing lump it football, a depleted squad size, a manager who seems to struggle to attract good attacking players (Which attacking players has he bought in who are a success - even Wilson for all his skill doesn't contribute much in goals/assists). It's a disaster waiting to happen under Warne.

Got to play through the midfield for this to happen.

At half time, both teams had had three shots, with the Cash goal being the only effort on target. We were home to fifth bottom who were winless in 18, and we’d had three shots. By the 98th minute we hadn’t fashioned any half decent open play opportunity.

In my opinion, that only goes to show how low your expectations have dropped. Tonight was all about head tennis. How far can we head the ball. Not a single player, bar Bird but even he was guilt a lot, tried to play any element of football. Not a single time in the many many times of head tennis, was Warne in his technical area telling them to get the ball down. This pathetic brand of football, Lump it high, get a free kick anywhere put it in the mixer, etc is his comfort zone. Good players have lost the ability to play because Warne doesn’t want them to. Now confidence to play football has gone. Its depressing. I actually care very little now. Even if we go up, we will 100% be in a relegation battle. We lost our manager who would have delivered us good football. Now we are left with diabolical football, poor off the field strategy and a 15% hike in ST prices. If we don’t go up, watch 3000 drop off the gate easily. Clowes won’t have the balls to get rid of him IMO. It’s actually very sad where we are.