| Observations off the top of my head 21:02 - Nov 12 with 1510 views | Garv |
Chaplin and Harness isn't working at the moment. They'll come back into form, but currently they're struggling. I don't know why they don't switch more. We seem obsessed with Chaplin and Burns linking up, which has its benefits, but I'd love to see him play more on his strong side and get involved with play down the left.
I'm really enjoying Humphreys. Felt he was better first half than second but he's going to fun to watch for the rest of the season. Big shoes to fill with Ball and Evans out. Edit: I did forget Camara will come into the fold more, which will help.
Second half I never saw us scoring. We had balls flash across the box but it felt like if anything was going to get us a winner it was going to be luck.
Why did we bring on Burgess to play the David James role and then not put the ball in the box?
Jackson. I'm sorry, I know he's popular and he's had unwarranted stick in the past. There was talk when McKenna came in that we'd started concentrating on what he could do rather than what he couldn't, and he was benefiting from it. That's commendable but when what he does do doesn't amount to much, where does that leave us? He really didn't offer much did he? We talk about our strong squad, but it didn't feel strong when he came on to play right wing when we were desperately trying to break a team down.
I maintain the opinion that we don't score enough goals out of nothing and we don't shoot enough or with enough quality, and it could potentially be our downfall. We play great football, but we can't keep trying to score the perfect goal when it's not on.
No disaster, but there's definitely a nagging doubt about home games like this and Lincoln going against us.
Also, anyone know a decent sound engineer? [Post edited 12 Nov 2022 21:23]
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| Observations off the top of my head on 21:20 - Nov 12 with 1387 views | TheBoyBlue |
We were very predictable in the second half. Get the ball at the back, pass to a static winger, bit of fiddling about, back to the wing, cross in the box headed away. Nothing else. Pretty, but nothing else offered to catch them out. The occasional long ball, pass down the middle for Ladapo to run on to. |  |
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| Observations off the top of my head on 21:23 - Nov 12 with 1361 views | Cuffy81 |
Agree with pretty much everything you've said.
Harness and Chaplin are both out of sorts, taking extra touches, sloppy on possession, unfortunate for us they both seem to be out of form at the same time.
Teams seem to have got wise to how we create overloads out wide and both Lincoln and Cheltenham seemed happy to let the ball come in and defend their box.
We missed Evans today for me, his ability to switch play gets the ball to our wide players quicker when they are in more space, today when we did get it wide they had numbers back to deal with it
We'll work it out, McKenna is no fool. | | | |
| Observations off the top of my head on 21:27 - Nov 12 with 1330 views | Bobsthename |
Why have we no plan B? | | | |
| Observations off the top of my head on 22:43 - Nov 12 with 1185 views | NorthSuffolk |
Definitely agree on Chaplin and Harness, they simply haven’t created or contributed enough these last few games.
However, I don’t see how you can call out Jackson from that game - he came on and created at least 3 chances where we were crying out for an instinctive goal scorer to come and tap
In his balls across the box. | | | |
| Observations off the top of my head on 22:57 - Nov 12 with 1142 views | bournemouthblue |
| Observations off the top of my head on 22:43 - Nov 12 by NorthSuffolk |
Definitely agree on Chaplin and Harness, they simply haven’t created or contributed enough these last few games.
However, I don’t see how you can call out Jackson from that game - he came on and created at least 3 chances where we were crying out for an instinctive goal scorer to come and tap
In his balls across the box. |
He'd have scored had Chaplin not got in his way too |  |
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| Observations off the top of my head on 07:54 - Nov 13 with 914 views | ITFC_Forever |
We can’t keep saying that games like yesterday were “one of those days”. When it happens regularly, it becomes a trend and we need to do something about.
Looking forward to seeing how Humphreys takes his opportunity in the next few weeks.
And if it means we don’t have to listen to Foz, then I’m all for the PA system not working. Nice guy and bastion of the local music circuit he may be, but he’s not suited to match day presentation at PR. Bring back Rob C. |  |
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| Observations off the top of my head on 08:20 - Nov 13 with 862 views | LeoMuff |
We create very little centrally, all goes wide which is too easy to defend. In these games we need a really creative central mid |  |
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| Observations off the top of my head on 08:49 - Nov 13 with 790 views | DJR |
| Observations off the top of my head on 22:43 - Nov 12 by NorthSuffolk |
Definitely agree on Chaplin and Harness, they simply haven’t created or contributed enough these last few games.
However, I don’t see how you can call out Jackson from that game - he came on and created at least 3 chances where we were crying out for an instinctive goal scorer to come and tap
In his balls across the box. |
Yes, arguably Jackson got into as many threatening positions in the short period he was on the pitch as Burns did in the entire time he was on the pitch. |  | | |
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