Have we given up on George Cox? He seemed a good player when he played. Playing Jacob Greaves at centre back for 60 minutes over 20 minutes for Sean McLaughlin - is that a sign? Could be read either way!
You have your opinion, you’re welcome to it, others have a different opinion. Repeating your opinion fifty times will not make it fact, nor will it negate the differing opinions.
Barry Richardson "As a player, he was a goalkeeper who notably played in the Football League with lengthy spells at both Northampton Town and Lincoln City. He also played professionally for Scarborough, Preston North End, Mansfield Town and Doncaster Rovers before dropping into Non-League with Halifax Town and Gainsborough Trinity. Between 2004 and 2018 he was registered as a back-up player for teams he coached." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Richardson_(English_footballer) Some people are better coaches than players
you dont seem to understand the difference between "repeating" and "addressing the point somebody makes" Person A: "TLT makes some fantastic saves" Sensible person: "That hasn't been demonstrated in the Bradford City match by him pushing the ball into the danger area when it was going wide." Person B: "TLT plays out from the back well" Sensible person: "TLT seems to panic and lets attackers close him down before attempting to clear"
David Robson, the same as last season. Make a youth player with no League experience your third choice and if you end up losing both your regular keepers you can get an emergency loan.
And yet only one of those goalkeepers played first team football last season for any meaningful amount of time. Robson played more than both, also a good keeper. We have three good youth goalkeepers, will have to see what happens this season but I expect TLT or Robson will go out and whichever one doesn’t will stay here and be third choice.
Tbf, I'd be amazed if that applied to anyone on this board. I expect that pretty much everyone is like me, desperate for him to do well. And maybe that's why some of us get frustrated when things are clearly not going as well as we'd realistically hope. Whilst we are waiting for things to hopefully come together, it would help if Rosenior (and some on here) didn't spout rubbish about how well we've played when we clearly haven't. Rosenior saying things like️ “We should probably have scored five or six, seven goals. I'm really happy with our approach play into the final third.”. Really. How the hell can he be happy. More BS or deluded. We were yet again poor into and in the final third, once again against lower league opposition. Just like we were last season. I'm sure we all understand there's hopefully a couple more signings to come, that these are only friendlies and so on, but come on. And it's a message board, to exchange views, to get things off your chest, etc.
That is your opinion, you’re talking as if it was a fact. The fact is your opinion on the performance yesterday is the minority. you also keep mentioning the level of Bradford despite them beating Sunderland earlier in the week. All the evidence of pre season games meaning absolutely **** all yet you’re acting like a last minute equaliser courtesy of a young keeper error turned a pretty decent performance into a terrible one. Agree re your final point though and you’re perfectly entitled to say what you think. That is the point of this place.
Just postponing judgement day on our creativity until we've had chance to get some creative players in and up to speed, would be reasonable I think.
OK, I'll start every post with imo if you like just to make it crystal clear! Shouldn't really be needed though as you state that you agree with my final point (I'm getting things off my chest and giving my views). I've never once mentioned the result, the equaliser, TLT. My views would have been the same had they not equalised, just like they have been since Rosenior has been our manager - we are so poor in and into the final 3rd and I'm not seeing what Rosenior (and some on here) are apparently so happy about. I hope that it comes together very soon.
If pre season games are not important why do some forgive players being below expectations if they didn't complete a pre season? What magic takes place in a pre season? (Plenty saying the games aren't important) is it the fitness training and why can they not do it once the season has started. There was a weird comment the other day about a player who hasn't done a pre season for 6 or 7 years. Liam said he wanted transfer business done early, will the players coming in late and later miss this magic moment and not be up to speed with the game plan once the season starts.
Great excuse isn’t it Next season you just wait Business done early Full preseason in all the legs err minutes in on and off the training ground etc etc bollocks
Pre-season is as much about looking sharp in matches as it is about being physically fit. Tetteh, for example, has looked way off it all pre-season. He may be physically fit and healthy but his holdup play, his first touch, his pressing and work rate are all below par. Traoré’s got quality but he looked rusty in the 20 minutes he played yesterday.
I think he’s more impressed with how we get into the final third. Which I would agree with, that’s the “approach play” he’s happy with. However like you say, in the final third, the players are not executing, they get the ball in good areas which is down to how Rosenior sets them up to play. But they are not executing. Tufan played a few **** passes in good areas, Vaughan Allahyar both lack end product. Aside from Delap’s hold up the other forwards were lacking, he obviously just lacked the finishing touch.
