Scunthorpe Thread.

cashman said:
Disagree Sam, they were obviously gonna come out all guns blazing wi the wind behind em, Aint top fer nowt.
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Cashman I have to say I agree with Sam.
As I just said in my previous post, we gave midfield away in the second half. It would have been better to have packed the midfield with Liddle, Hatfield and Atkinson. I would have left Koyode on to defend free kicks and corners with his height and taken Moly, Murphy and Joyce off early on in the second half...as soon as they got one back was the clear signal for that!
Scunthorpe are clearly a good side though so we should give them credit and they are clearly up near the top of our division on merit. It's only a couple of years ago that they were in the Nationwide division, two levels higher than us!
Gee....FRUSTRATED though!:mad:
 
cashman said:
Disagree Sam, they were obviously gonna come out all guns blazing wi the wind behind em, Aint top fer nowt.
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Exactly!

So how do you go about countering that?

For me you have two options:

* Push onto the front foot and go for a third
* Pack the midfield to plug the gaps and defend like your life depends on it.

We tried to hold onto the game playing 4-4-2 - they always had a spare man to pass to as we had a man short in midfield.

The ONLY way that play could work is if you had pace in behind with the 2 men you leave up front - then the opposition can't over commit for fear of being caught but with Kayode and Bowerman they were safe as houses!
 
Bowerman was a correct substitution i have no doubt, the lad was absolutely knackered. He had a decent game i thought but was well goosed.
 
I must say also our defending from set pieces was incredibly negative - several times we didn't have a single player outside of the penalty area.

Leave a man up at the half way line - he takes 2 defenders with him and gives our keeper more room to come and claim the ball - plus it gives any clearance a chance of sticking rather than going straight to the opposition.
 
Time to move on me thinks....all players gutted after game....the results for the next two games are FAR more important.....Bury at home and Torquay away.....
 
cashman said:
I can remember our longest serving manager saying the best defence is in the opponents half.
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And how many times did we throw away a 2 goal lead from the first half to lose the match 3-2 when he was manager? A few I'll wager. I can remember the taunts from opposition fans of 2-0 up and you mucked it up on a number of occasions.
Although I agree with what he is saying, he would have done well to remember that when he was manager!!:eek:
 
I think it was game of two halves.. of the elements. Scunthorpe got the better of them in the second half, otherwise not that much to choose between them. Never going to be a classic in those conditions but well done to Buzzer and his volunteers for getting it on, and the referee for allowing it to continue. From where I was sat the Whinney Hill side looked very iffy and probably worse than it was against Morecambe.

The attendance was up against the weather, the weather won.
 
Outback Ozzy said:
And how many times did we throw away a 2 goal lead from the first half to lose the match 3-2 when he was manager? A few I'll wager. I can remember the taunts from opposition fans of 2-0 up and you mucked it up on a number of occasions.
Although I agree with what he is saying, he would have done well to remember that when he was manager!!:eek:
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Aye,he was well known for the dog walker's failing of not being able to hold on to a lead!
 
Something very strange here - we lose by an odd goal and nobody's complaining about the officials!!
 
Stuck here at home I put on Radio Lancs just to hear the half time summary to hear the ominous news that Scunny were hugely adding to their attacking power by introducing 2 forward subs and that "They were really going all out for it". I was amazed that we didn't appear to react to that straight away and only put on like for like subs late in the game rather than bolstering the midfield/defence immediately, as others have mentioned. I appreciate that JB's half time talk probably wouldn't have anticipated such a bold move from Scunny's manager, but the addition of McSheffrey alone should surely have brought a more effective response? Today's results suggest that the damage hasn't turned out to be as bad as it might have been but we can't afford to be out thought tactically in our next two games!
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, I know, but..........
 
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