rammieib

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.

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.

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.

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.

Idiotic challenge you could see him making several seconds before he did. Bradley did fantastically to head it straight to them and kick it straight to them before getting done for pace in behind for it too. Truly top notch play. 

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.

It really does not matter about the formation or which personnel in what position. This is how Warne wants to play - pragmatic, hard-working but with little movement or creativity. It's like watching the straight lines English football of the 1980s. 
I genuinley cannot stand any team who will take any opportunity to lump the ball in the box from a free-kick from absolutely anywhere on the pitch. This makes sense for a team with little resources, but we are the wealthiest team in the division! Warne seems to consider these as our best chance to score rather than back our players to pass the ball around and create space.
The sooner this season is over, the better. Either we bore our way to a joyless promotion or he gets sacked for not achieving it. 
I wish I had that option like on Football Manager where you can go on holiday and come back at the end and hope everything has worked out alright. 

We sit 2nd in the league but I genuinely believe any half competent manager would have had us all bar promoted by now with the amount of points everyone else below us keeps dropping. The scenes on here when we limp into the playoffs and get dumped out in the semis will be quite something. How many years left on his contract? Wake me up when its run out or Clowes grows a pair. 

I actually like Eric Steele.
I don't want happy happy joy joy, if want that I'll read the threads on here.

Whatever one thinks of his commentary, I think Ed’s return is a great example and encouragement for others who suffer from similar problems and can’t believe they’ll ever get better, let alone return to work.

But you hit the mail on the head there.
Stop playing NML upfront/inside. Put him back where he is more effective…. On the wing.
Elder is absolutely not a wing back. He’s the most ‘stand still’ player in the club. I mean - even if you’re not going to our pace a defender, make a run to create space for someone else. He’s an atrocious player.
However fundamentally we have three centre backs, a left wing back playing left back, two holding midfielders and we wonder why we can’t make an offensive pass and keep hold of the ball.
Excluding Gayle when he came in, I think Sibley tried a couple of times to make a run through (but he needs selling in the summer, where is the Sibley who burst into the scene with the Man Utd/Blackburn games) but for those who said we are Ok, what game were you watching?
The sky highlights show Cashins header off the line, the goal and Birds dragged shot….. thats because that is all we had. 90 minutes of football - three attempts. Sweet jesus.

But you hit the mail on the head there.
Stop playing NML upfront/inside. Put him back where he is more effective…. On the wing.
Elder is absolutely not a wing back. He’s the most ‘stand still’ player in the club. I mean - even if you’re not going to our pace a defender, make a run to create space for someone else. He’s an atrocious player.
However fundamentally we have three centre backs, a left wing back playing left back, two holding midfielders and we wonder why we can’t make an offensive pass and keep hold of the ball.
Excluding Gayle when he came in, I think Sibley tried a couple of times to make a run through (but he needs selling in the summer, where is the Sibley who burst into the scene with the Man Utd/Blackburn games) but for those who said we are Ok, what game were you watching?
The sky highlights show Cashins header off the line, the goal and Birds dragged shot….. thats because that is all we had. 90 minutes of football - three attempts. Sweet jesus.

I love playing three centre backs, two defensive midfielders and a LB who has absolutely no idea what to do as a wingback and subsequently offers nothing.
Weve basically gone from playing Collins to playing another CB.
The football is just so bad and clueless.

1Wildsmith 4.5
35Nelson 6
5Bradley 6
6Cashin 6
2Wilson 6
4Hourihane 5
7Barkhuizen 6
32Adams 5.5
12Smith 5
20Elder 3
24Nyambe 6
8Bird 🐦 5.5
17Sibley 6
25Gayle 6
11Méndez-Laing 5.5
 
Really difficult to say anyone played well.

I love playing three centre backs, two defensive midfielders and a LB who has absolutely no idea what to do as a wingback and subsequently offers nothing.
Weve basically gone from playing Collins to playing another CB.
The football is just so bad and clueless.

I love playing three centre backs, two defensive midfielders and a LB who has absolutely no idea what to do as a wingback and subsequently offers nothing.
Weve basically gone from playing Collins to playing another CB.
The football is just so bad and clueless.

I love playing three centre backs, two defensive midfielders and a LB who has absolutely no idea what to do as a wingback and subsequently offers nothing.
Weve basically gone from playing Collins to playing another CB.
The football is just so bad and clueless.

I love playing three centre backs, two defensive midfielders and a LB who has absolutely no idea what to do as a wingback and subsequently offers nothing.
Weve basically gone from playing Collins to playing another CB.
The football is just so bad and clueless.

I love playing three centre backs, two defensive midfielders and a LB who has absolutely no idea what to do as a wingback and subsequently offers nothing.
Weve basically gone from playing Collins to playing another CB.
The football is just so bad and clueless.

Yeah I would have liked a top drawer opener/number 3

2 year contract extension for Zak Chappell.
Had a good first season, particularly in the T20.

Shocking in this day and age that a stand with restricted view seats is still built.

The restrictions of the BP are in place for the rest of this season.  I think he wasn’t anticipating we would need to make any further signings this season but now that we do we need to comply with the BP.  He did say they had to agree the Nyambe deal with the EFL, which was a similar situation.
Otherwise, when it comes to the next window we can operate the same as any other club.  That’s my take on it anyway.

You can't loan free agents?

Anyone confused? Radio Derby/Eric Steel said we changed the formation? I didn’t we think we did - we just bought on Smith and moved Bird forward but it was always being backs.
The only thing we probably did was told NML to go out wide a bit more?
Did we go to four at the back? Was Elder (who I thought was awful) or Cashin Left Back?
It’s going to be a long run in.