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Pring needs a run of games now as dasilva is utterly incapable of being productive in the final third and has been poor in this respect for a long time now.

second half has a prime example where he was put through on the overlap and was indecisive and ends up lifting it to the back post with no one to go and attack it.

Also we need to go back to wells and Conway as semenyo looks to be going through the motions. Offered next to nothing yesterday 

6 minutes ago, Fuber said:

I'll bite.

Jay is probably my most disappointing player the last handful of games.

He's constantly targeted and does OK, but going forward I cannot remember the last time I saw him actually beat a man.

And his crossing and end product is farcical, never beats the first or second man, any shot from outside the box is a conversion, every time.

The only metric he beats Pring in is passing and ball control. But every other metric (pace, crossing), I'd rather have Cam.

Someone can feel free to correct me, as I may be spouting rubbish, but his end product is rubbish.

Isn't it something like 8 assists in four years?

Very well put.

For the amount of time in good positions per game jay gets into his output is abysmal.

He will regularly end up in space with time to either shoot at goal or try to pick out a man but I’ve given up even getting up from my seat as you just know it’s going to be a pathetic attempt.

For me he’s had enough time now and under three managers he has not improved. We need to invest time into cam now as I feel he has the greater potential of the two and no doubt less expensive 

I think mentality is part of it, however the cold reality is numerous players simply aren’t good enough.

O Leary would not get near a starting place in another championship side 

Vyner whilst much improved this season is not someone you’d look to bring in to build a defence at this level

Dasilva has good close ball control but cannot deliver a quality cross with any regularity and can’t shoot.

Going back to the original point though the inability to deal with the direct sides has been an issue for years ever since the LJ days and we haven’t exactly brought in many players since then that are up for a scrap and mix it up in the niggly games and so we go round and round getting done by the most basic tactics. It’s gone beyond frustrating now 

Why oh why must we keep being our own worst enemy

Just now, BCFCGav said:

Need to cheer them on bloody loud on Wednesday. They need it. 

100 percent this as I feel we’re up against it now needs to be a siege mentality to try and spur them back to life

Then again with the current set up with away fans all behind the one goal we basically concede the atmosphere at home!

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say after the last 3 performances we have been found out 

If we have a fit experienced proven centre half available why on earth have we persisted with Andy king at centre half ?

How many unforced errors and goals conceded are we prepared to accept before he gets dropped or moved to a different position?

He just can’t help himself taking stupid unnecessary risks

would much rather klose with Atkinson and vyner

For all the flak vyner gets he’s looked way more solid than Naismith so far

Really good effort but Naismith needs to either change position or sort his bloody head out as we can’t keep doing this.

infuriating as the team deserve better than having those stupid errors holding them back 

It’s an absolute disgrace how bad our defence lets the rest of our play down . 

Naismith needs to play further forward in midfield as he just can’t help doing stupid things at the back 

Well that’s just comically bad. School boy stuff

How I have missed the familiar frustration and disappointment 

Let’s hope this isn’t a habit that takes months to shake off again 

3 minutes ago, bcfcredandwhite said:

I'm pretty sure that the game you refer to was NOT his first full season, but the (less than) half season when he took over from Cotts, where we were in the relegation zone and heading for an immediate return back down to League 1, before he guided us back to safety (with a little help from Pembo in the first instance).

It would be more accurate to suggest that a lot have forgotten just how dire the first half of our first Championship season was under Cotts!!!! 

Love him, like him, dislike him or hate him, we NEVER looked like relegation after that under LJs tenure - in fact, I don't think we ever dropped into the bottom 3.

Whatever one's opinion is of LJ, our final league position improved EVERY season year on year under his tenure until his sacking. The league table doesn't lie.

I thought LJs first FULL season wasn't that bad really - just the frustration of falling away towards the end - which became something of a trademark of his.

Nope his first full season we survived on the penultimate game by winning away at Brighton.

The first full season we started well results wise but had to come back from behind virtually every week then the wheels fell off.

Same season we had the famous interview with SL refusing to sack him for a horrendous run basically saying it’s my toy I put more money in.

The following seasons cup exploits have really clouded peoples memory as that first full season was an absolute shambles 

5 hours ago, JBFC II said:

To be fair that’s incredibly selective. 
 

He inherited a side who were already in a relegation scrap and left them in mid table, with some highs and lows along the way. Yes financially him (but mainly Ashton) screwed us over, but positionally we haven’t seen anything better than under LJ as a club since his dad, 13 years ago

I think he was referring to the Tammy season where we survived the game before last day of the season.

I think a lot have forgotten just a how dire LJ’s first full season was

Can we just end the season now?

We really need to get some more mentally stronger players in the summer and we’ll be decent.

for all our promise it is no coincidence we keep making stupid errors so we need to cut those who can’t keep their heads over 90+mins

7 minutes ago, ashton_fan said:

I think we'll struggle to get anybody better than the 2 keepers we already have. We could do with another commanding CB like Baker that's our main weakness against teams with tall strikers at the moment.

Strongly disagree

by virtue of the position there are always keepers looking for game time and if we cannot find at least one keeper to come in who has better leadership and command of the box than our current selection then our scouting must by non existent

Extremely irritating result which sums up where we are at this time 

we are starting to consistently play well and some of the kids are shining

That said you cannot avoid the obvious and that is max is absolutely not good enough for this level, and the constant rabbit in headlights on the goal line moments are just way too common and a clear deficiency in his game 

2 minutes ago, Selred said:

Or why not keep Bentley?

Because by resorting to max it’s a safe guess to say Pearson doesn’t fancy Bentley for whatever reason.

For all our good play we are undone by weakness at the back we need a proper keeper to come and claim crosses which we haven’t had since Nikki 

Max looks like a school boy out there . Bentley back in next game and sign a strong keeper in the summer as a priority 

Pitiful goal to concede . O’Leary for his positives should really come and attack that 

I can't recall seeing such a biased ref for a long time. A complaint has to be made as he was an absolute disgrace

2 minutes ago, Sturny said:

Lansdown doesn’t need to go, he just needs to learn 

Only another two decades and the penny might drop....

All well and good changing manager but some unbelievably still can’t see the obvious...the players are absolutely sh*t. 

A mismatch of mentally weak or never were good enough ‘footballers’ assembled under the previous regime as they would be subservient to the owners vanity manager and we now are left with this shambles. 
 

Plus look at the track record in our owners choices....

1 minute ago, ashton_fan said:

Not much, most of it went on the stadium and I don't hear anyone complaining about that. The trouble is we don't get enough income to pay Championship wages, that's why SL has to subsidise the club every season.

I don’t buy that look at the squad wilder assembled to take Sheffield Utd up?

Also look at Coventry and Blackpool this year there’s no way their wages and fees come anywhere near ours.

we have overspent like kids in a sweet shop on absolute litter we fans are suffering but the club are frankly getting what it deserves