Chris_Martin

He was forced to was he ? I suppose he was forced to play 8 defensive minded outfielders too ? 2 shots on goal all game, playing stevenage, at pride park, in the 3rd division. And your crediting warne ?

just a reminder, we are playing in the 3rd division

helps if you only play 2 attacking players...

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All three goals v Exeter were prime example

what? i highly doubt clowes would have given a different manager more money to spend. He has a budget for the season, I think almost any football league manager would struggle to get relegated from league one having all these players

that has a defined way of playing football as a team. we have no patterns of play, we are a side that relys on individual moments.

Another thing you cant answer then😅

thats very unspecific what are all these variables then? I'm pretty sure the no.1 thing that determines how well we do, will be how we play football.

which is....

but they're not regretting it now... a team that quickly puts loads of crosses in is not an identity

point being they were a possession based side then changed and went to a counter attacking style. Fine. We are neither, we have no identity

it also shows just how incredible our squad is for league one

yeah sure

Lets be honest, the clean sheet was a touch fortunate. They did hit the post and accumulated 1xg to our 1.2xg, as well as having more shots. The 3 goals were good quality, but the problem is that there is just no pattern of play to either our attacking or defending. We just completely rely on moments of brilliance from a NML or Bird for example. It's identical in that regard to Didzy last season. We are basically the man utd version of league one. No identity, no pattern of play, fairly boring to watch, heavily reliant on moments from individuals, and just getting enough results to keep us near the top.

doesn't warne always say something like get it forward as quick as possible though ? it's one of the reasons we have such little possession and struggle to control games

if we're counting then there's at least 3 others that only gave him a 5 so i'm not the only one that didn't think much of his performance. Despite being a target man, he lost most of his headers and duels. On the rare occasion he did hold the ball up, 50% of the time he missplaced his pass. I understand we have no one else fit at the moment, so he'll have to carry on playing. I just don't see how that performance warrants anything above a 5

Didzy made most of his goals himself last season

yes. i gave him the 4 for the work rate he put in. How can you score him any higher than that when he didn't actually contribute anything else?

so nothing this game then😅

his entire assessment can be summarised by saying he ran round pressing a lot. Is that really worthy of a 7.5/10 ? FYI - established analytical sites such as sofascore (which people have used to defend him previously), had him as our worst performing player too. only 50% accurate passes, only 40% ground duels won, only 33% aerial duels won, lost possesion 12 times,

So you can't actually come up with an answer then🤣

what positive contribution did he have this game?