Gills match thread
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Maybe Monkey, if you believe in those sorts of "happenings". But I don't. I think Coley put his finger on it during his interview. He was at fault yesterday and not as he said for getting the players up for the game. First of all he experimented with the player choice to accomodate what he see's as our best players.....playing some out of position.......the midfield was all over the shop during the game......something definately wrong there.......and I can't put my finger on it..........Plus of course Evans got the tactics right, pressing us high and making the defenders go long most of the time to our forwards by-passing the midfield......against the Gills we probably needed another grafting midfielder alongside Seamus to help break up play, win the ball back and play the simple balls forward to our creative midfielders......Just some thoughts.....
John Doolan was very vocal during the first half in attempting to get Seamus on the ball more to break up play and create the link in the passage between defence and attack.
I was surprised at how high up the pitch he was playing for large parts of the first half considering Sean and Johnny Russell are much more attacking midfielders.
As has been previously mentioned, we are trying it seems to fit our best 11 players into a system that may not suit them.
McConville in particular has struggled in the CM roll. A switch with him and Pritchard is a possibility. I think Coley made the right decision swapping Sykes and Nottingham after the first half, but we were just too sluggish throughout the pitch.
Game of small margins though and I hope this is a sign that we are a good team that even when we played below par, we still had chances. Seamus’s strike from my position didn’t look like it missed by much, Colby and Notts both had free headers.
Hopefully Butchers noggin isn’t too badly broke and he is back in contention ASAP.
I was surprised at how high up the pitch he was playing for large parts of the first half considering Sean and Johnny Russell are much more attacking midfielders.
As has been previously mentioned, we are trying it seems to fit our best 11 players into a system that may not suit them.
McConville in particular has struggled in the CM roll. A switch with him and Pritchard is a possibility. I think Coley made the right decision swapping Sykes and Nottingham after the first half, but we were just too sluggish throughout the pitch.
Game of small margins though and I hope this is a sign that we are a good team that even when we played below par, we still had chances. Seamus’s strike from my position didn’t look like it missed by much, Colby and Notts both had free headers.
Hopefully Butchers noggin isn’t too badly broke and he is back in contention ASAP.
Scrap the Seamus strike part - just seen the highlights, miles off haha!
Don't forget as well Charles really should have scored in the 6th minute had that gone in different game has Stanley's heads would have been up, but Butcher was a big miss to me Coley made a couple of mistakes ( he isn't infallible ) Sykes should have started in the back 3, should in my opinion brought Uwakawe on and moved Pritchard inside Russell hasn't had a decent performance for a while, would it have made a difference who knows positive,s had we took the chances playing badly we would have won, referee irrelevant same for both sides, Conneelly even though it's his job as Captain spent far too much time talking to him concentration should be on the game even so he was one of our better players yesterday.
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As has been previously mentioned, we are trying it seems to fit our best 11 players into a system that may not suit them.
McConville in particular has struggled in the CM roll. A switch with him and Pritchard is a possibility.
for me sean is a wide player and always will be. pritchard however has improved on last season by playing wider also. so who do you play there. for me you cannot accomodate both on the pitch together as you take away something from both players by playing em centrally.
As has been previously mentioned, we are trying it seems to fit our best 11 players into a system that may not suit them.
McConville in particular has struggled in the CM roll. A switch with him and Pritchard is a possibility.
for me sean is a wide player and always will be. pritchard however has improved on last season by playing wider also. so who do you play there. for me you cannot accomodate both on the pitch together as you take away something from both players by playing em centrally.
The main problem for our team shape yesterday was getting the right balance across the midfield four but also fitting the right players into those roles. I would say that we have our best goalkeeper now playing well in Baxter. The back three is sound with, from the left, Burgess...Hughes and either Nottingham or Sykes. Conneely is a successful fixture in the deep midfield role. Bearing in mind that I don’t think that Wing Back is the correct role for Sykes and with the current crop of injuries to our midfield players and yesterday having to make that early change for Butcher, I would have started or moved Sykes to/at Right Back and Nottingham at Right Centre Midfield. Pritchard and McConville are much too similar to each other to play them adjacent to each other so I would have brought on Uwakwe for Butcher and played him wide on one wing and McConville on the other but with the freedom to swap wings freely. Pritchard’s role in this arrangement would be for him to cover as much ground as possible being creative in a free roaming way whereas Nottingham could have stayed more pivotal in the central role that Butcher has been playing so well recently. Bishop and Charles paired up front is an obvious choice too. Gary Robert’s as first choice sub is versatile and experienced enough to replace all but the three at the back plus Conneely.
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As far as I saw and I'm aware; the only dug out issue was an official warning given to Steve Evans after 35 seconds for a volley of foul and abusive language which everybody in the ground heard
Couldn't hear him on iFollow but you didn't need to be an expert in lip reading to get the gist - disgusting individual!
As far as I saw and I'm aware; the only dug out issue was an official warning given to Steve Evans after 35 seconds for a volley of foul and abusive language which everybody in the ground heard
Their assistant manager or coach definitely got a yellow.... I’m sure of it this time !!
yes it was big gob rayner. no matter how succesful him and the fat man are i would not want em within 100 miles of any club i supported. most managers at times let it rip but those two put it to another level.