I agree with your assessment generally. I quite like Abrahams but I would be giving him 20-30 mins off the bench currently, not starting with him. He has lots of hustle and bustle to his game but he did lose the ball consistently during contact. I think Poleon hasn't been given much of a chance yet, though what I have seen hasn't been impressive. Jefferies probably isn't a defender and it would be interesting to see him as a midfielder (Mickey Mouse Cup perhaps). We do have players that can go to the byeline and cross the ball, but they seem not to. Is this because the Manager has told them to play another way?lowandhard wrote:Let’s be honest about this, that was fairly woeful but don’t forget our history, many County sides in the past have lost to non-leaguers and at least we didn’t do that with a pretty depleted team so I’ll settle for that.
Equally important is the injury situation. My sincere hopes for a speedy and complete recovery for the casualties tonight and I’m worried for Howkins as that was a bad knock, I saw it clearly at the time and consider it a straight red any day of the week, it was late and more a butt than a clash imho.
I wish people wouldn’t pick on Jefferies, he’s a young lad and promising too but I feel we’re playing him out of position, I reckon he’s a midfielder, I’d like to see him there.
By our recent lamentable standards we should have been home and hosed by ht but football-wise we were awful. Something has to change and I don’t think Poleon or Abrahams are the answer, even the worst of us playing up front would be lethal from a yard out ( Abrahams ) and Poleon’s reaction of laughing when his “shot” landed somewhere near Tiptree was doubtful as far as I’m concerned. They were laughing at you mate not with you!
Townsend , the central defenders ,Sheehan and Haynes looked ok , the rest looked out of sorts but delighted that Amond despite not having a good game must be played as it appears he’s the only one who can finish presently. I believe this is because of the game plan, we must get the ball wide and cross from the byline to give the forwards any chance at all of scoring. Whether that means a signing or two I know not because Flynn’s priorities are complicated by needing to strengthen nearly everywhere and on our budget he’ll have only the opportunity to bring in a couple.
I'm finding watching County recently very frustrating. I feel we have a very good side, but for some reason they are playing hoofball. I also feel that players are being played in their wrong positions far too frequently. Football is a fairly simple game, perhaps the Management are over-complicating things and try going back to the basics a bit. Lets start with trying to keep the ball on the deck and passing to each other. Lets see whether the team can play the ball forwards as a first option instead of backwards. Lets play with width and encourage our wide players to run down the tramlines to the byeline and cross from there rather than speculative balls from midfield. Lets pick the players in their natural positions where possible and if that means having to blood a youngster then do it. Lets be bold in how we play football instead of the meek performances served up recently.
