They're providing my football fix tomorrow, away at Pontefract. Should be a decent game with both on the edge of the play offs, rather similar to us
I just don't see Ferriby making it. A win at Pontefract would help, but just feel its just out of reach this season. We've just come up second best more often than not against the top 6-8 teams. Think they need a few signings (especially up front) to make a push. Been really unlucky with key injuries though this season. Donald has been a big miss. Goals against is a big reason we will miss out o playoffs.
Well they've been ****e so far against a very direct and physical side. 2-0 and probably game over already
Found their level I think with the current crop of players. They don't want to start climbing the leagues again, they went pop last time.
I think they are targetting getting to the northern prem. Personally (given the size of support) i think its sustainable to get there, no higher though. Be interesting to see if they make a push for it next season. Would probably need 5 or 6 really good players to go for it (playoffs and upwards). As you say, think some of the current crop are at the limits of there ability. Been great for them no doubt having back to back promotions.
Watched a fair bit of that league at local wessie clubs, especially since lockdown when it was all you could watch, and it always seems like the bigger more physical teams do best. It's very "old school" down there. Didn't look to me like Ferriby were very good at that side of the game at all yesterday and perhaps is something they need to address next season
I agree. They could do with a bit more height and physicality about the place. Stockton are a prime example.
They absolutely do not need physicality, it’s not 2019. What they need to do is get with the times and be better at retaining possession and not scoring goals.
Looks like we’ve signed Ramell Carter from Spurs U16’s… He’s got a big online following due to his rather impressive ball skills, check out the videos on his Insta (let’s hope he can take advantage of those skills in an actual game).
He payed No.6 at Spurs, so he's probably the brick ****house defensive midfielder we've been looking for...
Hull City have signed Tottenham Hotspur youngster Ramell Carter with the youngster set to link up with the club's academy after making the move from North London. Carter, who originates from West London and was spotted by QPR early on in his fledgling career, shot to attention as an 11-year-old for his skills and even boasted a popular YouTube channel with more than 100,000 subscribers, whilst appearing in a JD Sports Christmas advert, before being given the chance to impress at Spurs Lodge, the club's state-of-the-art training facility. And now, six years on from breaking through as a YouTube sensation, the talented youngster who admits to being inspired by Brazilian legend Ronaldinho, will call East Yorkshire his home after signing terms with Championship promotion hopefuls City.
Rosie on the striker situation... "My job is always to pick what I think is the best team. There's loads of different characteristics to what a team looks like and how we need to look to be successful. There's loads of data, there's loads of metrics on it. "As a team, when I play, I don't like calling it no strikers because we have strikers in the striker position. Our metrics are actually really, really good when we play without a recognised striker in terms of our pressing, in terms of the amount of times we win the ball back, in terms of the amount of times we successfully build into the opposition's path, in terms of our possession statistics and the control and dominance we have in the game, all of the metrics are telling me we're a play-off team. "If you go through the season our points total, the goals that we've scored, the goals we've conceded - we are literally on track to finish in the play-offs. "So my job is to pick a team and look at the bigger picture. I need this team to grow. They're new players. It takes time for them to create connections in the final third, but if I don't play them and I don't get them to connect, we won't see the maximum potential of (Anass) Zaroury or Fabio (Carvalho) of Abdush (Omur) of Ozan. They're outstanding players who I believe can take us and play at the next level. "They haven't scratched their potential yet because they've played eight games together. I want us to peak in the play-offs, so we're going to have to swallow the fact we dropped two points at Birmingham sometimes, we have to swallow the fact that maybe we don't win a game because my job is to get us promoted. To do that, I have to make us peak at the right time and I feel like we're on track to do that." On Noah Ohio.... "We recognised Noah as somebody who could come in and help us with his athleticism, with his ability, but he's very young. He's 21 years old, he's had no experience in England. We knew that he would be someone that would take time to build, but who could make a difference to us again. "What Noah needs to work on, for all of his strengths; he's quick, he's strong, he needs to work on his reliability in possession and how how to keep possession for us in a way that he plays and his positioning and his pressing and where he needs to be. "And that takes time. It took Liam (Delap) time. Liam didn't start to really flourish until maybe October or November, because Liam's 21 years old, it takes time for him to learn and adapt to a system. "Noah's got unbelievable potential, he's a great kid, but to throw him in at 21 years old with no experience of first-team football in England and expect him to be the difference for me, that's crazy. That was never the intention of bringing him to the club, it was to make sure he was part of a group that get to the Premier League." On Aaron Connolly.... "That's him (he's looked frustrated in training). He wants to be successful now. The injury that he had against Norwich was horrific. Yes, his shoulder was damaged, but actually, he had a long concussion for 10 days to two weeks. That sets anyone back, that's a really, really difficult injury to overcome. "We've had to give him time, we've had to give him time to build himself up and you can see he needed the game minutes (against Curacao). I can't put him in games when we're fighting for the play-offs and hope that he's going to be OK. "I need players that I can rely on, not through any fault of Aarons. It's an injury that set him back, but I can't just throw him in. I can't throw players in, in the position we're in at this stage of the season, I need to know when they come in they can do the job physically, tactically and do the job they're asked to for the team. "Mentally, I think he's in a better place. I think he's someone who wants success now and if the success doesn't happen, he gets really down on himself because he knows what a good player he can be. He's a massive part of the group, he's really popular with the players. He's a great kid off the pitch, but on the pitch, he shows his emotion, and that's the type of person he is. I don't want him to change because that's the type of lad that he is. He does, he needs to get fitter, and that game would have helped him." What's the ongoing plan with Billy Sharp? "He's been top. Everything that I've wanted from him off the pitch in terms of his experience, his professionalism, the words of wisdom, the encouragement he gives to the players, the demands he has in terms of our training, he's an outstanding character. "That's the first thing I would say about Bill. The second thing is Billy had played games in LA and tried to get himself fitter in January and kept coming to the group, but we recognise Bill is someone who can make the difference later in games. That's what he knows, that's the conversation I had with him. "We see him as someone in the key moments who can make a difference because the reality for Billy and the truth is for me to ask him to play Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday in a really high pressing, high functioning physical team at his age is not the way that we need to use him. We can talk about the strikers or the no-strikers, my job is to pick the right team."
