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Post by BWFC_Insane » Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:36 pm

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Ok last night we had a team of Howard, Wabara, Wheater, Beevers, Taylor, Spearing, Derik, Vela, Morais, Henry, Long - with the likes of Le Fondre, Trotter, VSO, Dervite, Moxey etc on the bench.

All those defending Parkinson, his tactics, the embargo & the squad limitations / injuries etc, can you honestly say that Bristol Rovers had better players than BWFC did last night ?, and if not and they had inferior players (on paper) all over the pitch - how come they played us off the park (apart from the 1st 10 mins) with a style of attacking quick football that we should be able to play if we had a manager who believed in and could coach good football....are we saying that the players we have didn't play passing football at their previous teams.
Have they had to rebuild a squad twice throughout the course of the season without being able to pay a transfer fee? Are they hamstrung by injuries?

Because that is the issue. When Parky had the team he finally wanted fully fit and up to speed (later than it should of been thanks to the owners situation) we went on a great run and played some very attractive stuff. Since that team has been dismantled by a combination of injuries, loan returns, and forced sale of Clough, and replaced by players who hadn't played football, aren't match fit and certainly aren't as good as what we had before, we've understandably struggled.

But last night, we had a lad playing who blatantly are months off being ready. Others who were left on the bench because again, they're simply too rusty. We had Spearing off at HT.

You don't go up when you constantly have to rebuild key parts of your squad. We were going great with Ameobi and Clough offering our creation. They are both gone and replaced with rejects from clubs (at the time) below us in the table. Unfit rejects at that. Do the very simply mathematics.

We will be hanging on for a play-off place at best. But our manager is not to blame for this situation. The owners and their inability to sort this football club out is where the blame lies. Had Parky been able to keep Sammy and Zach and perhaps add one or two in, and we still slumped, then ask him questions. But expecting him to mid-season piece something together with castaways and unfit ones at that, with no other choice, AND suffer key injuries alongside it? Nah. Parky created the spirit in the team that gave us a great chance at promotion. Dean and Ken have pissed most of that away.

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Re: Twas on a Tuesday night the gas man came to call, Bristol (H) 28/02/17 - KO 8pm

Post by DJBlu » Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:36 pm

Peter Thompson wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:30 pm
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The better players? Maybe not. A season together? Yes. Knowing how other players play is as important as ones own skill. They had a team out there. Not individuals shoe horned into positions at the last minute.

You were on about throwing Long in up front instead of Wilkinson. That didn't work. What now? A team needs time to gel no matter what team it is. We haven't got time on our hands so hopefully we'll stay in the playoffs and the team will be on the way to playing the system and how each other tick.

It's not all about individuals.
Feck me, it was never going to work with Parkinson continuing to play hoof ball to a 5ft 10" striker was it, the ball needs to be played quickly on the floor if Long is played as the lone striker - its simple tactics that several people on here just don't grasp.

Did anyone seriously think it would work with Long up front still playing hoof ball, we could have Linekar, Rush, Messi, Suarez etc in the team up front and it won't work whilst Parkinson continues his route 1 / hoofball system
Aye,

Remind me again how we scored last night?

The plan that you should be worried about is the get a goal and defend.

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Re: Twas on a Tuesday night the gas man came to call, Bristol (H) 28/02/17 - KO 8pm

Post by Peter Thompson » Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:39 pm

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Jesus wept. Anyone coming in from the cold and reading this would think we are a team languishing in the bottom 3....

Can we have a bit of persepctive please?

Almost to a man on here everyone was predicting a hard struggle this season, with nothing to cheer about.

We are currently sitting 4th in the table with a game or 2 in hand, which if we win takes us to 2nd. Even if we don't win, there is currectly daylight between us and the teams below, so all is not lost is it surely?

Yes, we've had a fairly rotten run of it in recent weeks, but lets also not forget that we are up sh1t creek financially, which has led to the embargo not yet being lifted and massive restrictions on what we can and can't do. We couldn't re-loan our most creative player of the end of last year (Ameobi) and we had to sell Clough. We've also had a horrendous injury record, and as a result of players not being able to be rotated we are now suffering the suspensions form the inevitable accumulation of cards.

But f*ck me - can we all wake up and smell the bisciuts? We are actually doing alright you know? We are in the play offs, potentially 2nd, and have a manager who - for the first time in years - actually seems to know how to defend and how to win games. I notice those who are having a pop at the manager and the players haven't offered a better alternative yet either.....

Come on - quick straw poll - if you'd been offered to be in the current league position at the start of the season, given all the limitations we have - who wouldn't have taken it???
Feck me another one - we had a spell earlier in the season when we where solid and knew how to defend, but currently the team can't defend for toffee, also football is about attacking & defending you don't win games if you can't attack effectively and create chances and score goals and also we haven't won that many recently have we ?

I'll repeat he may be a decent bloke, but tactically especially in the going forward attacking sense is absolutely clueless, he only knows one way of playing which is hoof ball, in every game we start the 1st 5-10 mins playing football and then for the remaining 80-85 just resort to hoofing it - as I said in the previous post we could have any prolific striker in the world playing for us and they wouldn't score if they we're under 6ft because the team would still fire long aimless hoofs at them, we even did it to clough at 5ft 6".

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Re: Twas on a Tuesday night the gas man came to call, Bristol (H) 28/02/17 - KO 8pm

Post by BWFC_Insane » Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:41 pm

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Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:30 pm
DJBlu wrote:
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The better players? Maybe not. A season together? Yes. Knowing how other players play is as important as ones own skill. They had a team out there. Not individuals shoe horned into positions at the last minute.

You were on about throwing Long in up front instead of Wilkinson. That didn't work. What now? A team needs time to gel no matter what team it is. We haven't got time on our hands so hopefully we'll stay in the playoffs and the team will be on the way to playing the system and how each other tick.

It's not all about individuals.
Feck me, it was never going to work with Parkinson continuing to play hoof ball to a 5ft 10" striker was it, the ball needs to be played quickly on the floor if Long is played as the lone striker - its simple tactics that several people on here just don't grasp.

Did anyone seriously think it would work with Long up front still playing hoof ball, we could have Linekar, Rush, Messi, Suarez etc in the team up front and it won't work whilst Parkinson continues his route 1 / hoofball system
Long doesn't want the ball into feet. He needs it down the channels to run in behind with his pace. As Parky has explained that was the plan last night. It didn't happen because we simply aren't good enough on the ball. The creative players are gone. We are a functional team at best.

And as ever, the tinted glasses some wear seem to block out how much of a general contribution Madine makes. We miss him when he isn't playing. And that isn't anything to do with the manager "not being able to coach". No decent manager would come in and do anything other than Parky has. Get them organised. Build some spirit. Try to be hard to beat and work on set plays. We'd be fine if that owners and injuries hadn't robbed us of our entire midfield.

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Post by Peter Thompson » Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:45 pm

DJBlu wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:36 pm
Peter Thompson wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:30 pm
DJBlu wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:51 am
The better players? Maybe not. A season together? Yes. Knowing how other players play is as important as ones own skill. They had a team out there. Not individuals shoe horned into positions at the last minute.

You were on about throwing Long in up front instead of Wilkinson. That didn't work. What now? A team needs time to gel no matter what team it is. We haven't got time on our hands so hopefully we'll stay in the playoffs and the team will be on the way to playing the system and how each other tick.

It's not all about individuals.
Feck me, it was never going to work with Parkinson continuing to play hoof ball to a 5ft 10" striker was it, the ball needs to be played quickly on the floor if Long is played as the lone striker - its simple tactics that several people on here just don't grasp.

Did anyone seriously think it would work with Long up front still playing hoof ball, we could have Linekar, Rush, Messi, Suarez etc in the team up front and it won't work whilst Parkinson continues his route 1 / hoofball system
Aye,

Remind me again how we scored last night?

The plan that you should be worried about is the get a goal and defend.
Yes as in most games we start playing decent football for the 1st 5-10 minutes and then just revert to hoofing it for the remaining 80-85 mins - and surely the try and get a goal & defend is a Parkinson tactic is it not ?

We may as well try and sign Owen Farrell & Ian Ormondroyd then Parkinson's tactics may possibly work....

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Post by BWFC_Insane » Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:48 pm

Peter Thompson wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:45 pm
DJBlu wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:36 pm
Peter Thompson wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:30 pm
DJBlu wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:51 am
The better players? Maybe not. A season together? Yes. Knowing how other players play is as important as ones own skill. They had a team out there. Not individuals shoe horned into positions at the last minute.

You were on about throwing Long in up front instead of Wilkinson. That didn't work. What now? A team needs time to gel no matter what team it is. We haven't got time on our hands so hopefully we'll stay in the playoffs and the team will be on the way to playing the system and how each other tick.

It's not all about individuals.
Feck me, it was never going to work with Parkinson continuing to play hoof ball to a 5ft 10" striker was it, the ball needs to be played quickly on the floor if Long is played as the lone striker - its simple tactics that several people on here just don't grasp.

Did anyone seriously think it would work with Long up front still playing hoof ball, we could have Linekar, Rush, Messi, Suarez etc in the team up front and it won't work whilst Parkinson continues his route 1 / hoofball system
Aye,

Remind me again how we scored last night?

The plan that you should be worried about is the get a goal and defend.
Yes as in most games we start playing decent football for the 1st 5-10 minutes and then just revert to hoofing it for the remaining 80-85 mins - and surely the try and get a goal & defend is a Parkinson tactic is it not ?

We may as well try and sign Owen Farrell & Ian Ormondroyd then Parkinson's tactics may possibly work....
It isn't about tactics. It's about the players being able to do what is asked. We haven't got the balance in the side. So when we get under pressure, WHERE is the outball other than long to someone upfront? Nobody can pick the ball up in midfield and get us up the pitch. None of our players have that in their games.

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Post by Peter Thompson » Wed Mar 01, 2017 2:02 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:41 pm
Peter Thompson wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:30 pm
DJBlu wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:51 am
The better players? Maybe not. A season together? Yes. Knowing how other players play is as important as ones own skill. They had a team out there. Not individuals shoe horned into positions at the last minute.

You were on about throwing Long in up front instead of Wilkinson. That didn't work. What now? A team needs time to gel no matter what team it is. We haven't got time on our hands so hopefully we'll stay in the playoffs and the team will be on the way to playing the system and how each other tick.

It's not all about individuals.
Feck me, it was never going to work with Parkinson continuing to play hoof ball to a 5ft 10" striker was it, the ball needs to be played quickly on the floor if Long is played as the lone striker - its simple tactics that several people on here just don't grasp.

Did anyone seriously think it would work with Long up front still playing hoof ball, we could have Linekar, Rush, Messi, Suarez etc in the team up front and it won't work whilst Parkinson continues his route 1 / hoofball system
Long doesn't want the ball into feet. He needs it down the channels to run in behind with his pace. As Parky has explained that was the plan last night. It didn't happen because we simply aren't good enough on the ball. The creative players are gone. We are a functional team at best.

And as ever, the tinted glasses some wear seem to block out how much of a general contribution Madine makes. We miss him when he isn't playing. And that isn't anything to do with the manager "not being able to coach". No decent manager would come in and do anything other than Parky has. Get them organised. Build some spirit. Try to be hard to beat and work on set plays. We'd be fine if that owners and injuries hadn't robbed us of our entire midfield.
I agree with the Long comments, what I don't agree with is that a professional football player (of which most of ours are supposedly championship standard) who is coached & told by his manager to put ball through into the channels just ignores the instructions and decides to just hoof it instead time after time - in my book that's coaching as is organisation, speed of passing, movement, pressing etc....if not we may as well not have a coach if its down to the players to decide themselves how to play

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Post by dave the minion » Wed Mar 01, 2017 2:48 pm

Peter Thompson wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:39 pm
Feck me another one - we had a spell earlier in the season when we where solid and knew how to defend, but currently the team can't defend for toffee, also football is about attacking & defending you don't win games if you can't attack effectively and create chances and score goals and also we haven't won that many recently have we ?

I'll repeat he may be a decent bloke, but tactically especially in the going forward attacking sense is absolutely clueless, he only knows one way of playing which is hoof ball, in every game we start the 1st 5-10 mins playing football and then for the remaining 80-85 just resort to hoofing it - as I said in the previous post we could have any prolific striker in the world playing for us and they wouldn't score if they we're under 6ft because the team would still fire long aimless hoofs at them, we even did it to clough at 5ft 6".
Well, that "spell earlier in the season" has led to us being in the top 3 or 4 all season and still in with a fighting chance of going up automatically or making the play-offs, so I'll take that to be honest at this stage.

PP is not the best manager in the world - or else why would he be at our place - but he is the first in a long time to be getting the best out of our shambles of a club (at elast until very recently - maybe the last 3rd of the season will show him up and you might be right?).

However, what you are failing to do is offer any viable alternative? Face facts, we are a mess at the moment as a club, but its credit to the manager, staff and players that we are still in contention to go up at all, rather than letting the whole thing fall on its arse. Don't forget there were a lot of fans thingking we could go down again this season, so to be where we are at this stage is pretty good in my mind.

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Post by TANGODANCER » Wed Mar 01, 2017 2:50 pm

Might the reason we're all at sea right now be little to do with Phil Parkinson (who must be a gibbering point with lack of players, lack of funds and a club in turmoil generally) that we haven't got the players to even pick the same side each week and let them get used to each other? Ameaobi and Clough gone, Warbara never played for us before last night, Solomon untried, Madine, as second rate as some see his as missing for two games due to whatever illness, Wilkinson about out fourth or fifth choice up front, an out of form Alf, Spearing out for two games banned (and now looking like out for the season) two keepers with St Vitus dance, Pratley, Davies, Wilson, etc etc out for the duration, Vela hanging on a cliff edge suspension rap with his balls tied to a daffodil and we've just taken two points from games when it could have been four or six (or none if we'd lost).

So it's the managers fault he can do little except his best till things improve a little? Meanwhile, we're still very much in the race with two games in hand on a bunch of like minded and similar skill levels clubs who think they have just as much right as Bolton to be up there fighting fo a chance at promotion. So Parkinson is suddenly scapegoat of the month, is that it?
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Post by Dave Sutton's barnet » Wed Mar 01, 2017 2:55 pm

Watching the game slip away from us last night, I wondered if it summed up our season: early excitement turning to worry then fear; from lift-off to momentum to inertia to gravity. It was bad enough following it remotely, so I can well imagine the dawning inevitability for those who were there, particularly if they’re in the habit of catastrophising.

The night could have gone a lot worse, because it’s not just us who are wobbling. Scunny lost, at home, to Wimbledon; the Iron are in the bottom six of the last-6 form table (we’re 9th, Bradford 14th, Fleetwood 4th).

All is far from lost. Had we held on - a useless theoretical, I know – we’d have been joint-second with a game in hand, and we’d be wondering if we’d rediscovered the knack of protecting a lead. We nearly did; the goal came from a reorganisation enforced by lack of fitness, but although some on here say Wabara looked knackered, others seemed to say he looked good. There’s reason to hope that we can be solid again, which would be a step forward after one clean sheet in 12. You might even say that’s the sort of game we’d have lost a month ago.

But obviously we need to score, and after the initial well-worked goal from a fluid system, it’s worrying if we are reverting to moronic long balls. That often happens with a lack of will in midfield, a department which has been almost comically shot to pieces all season long. I see Jem Karacan is now expected to carry the department on his shoulders. Good luck to him, but it might take a bit more responsibility-grabbing from those around him.

We still have the players to do well. Parkinson is a man of systems and teamwork, so I still think he has done very well with the rotating buffet of players available, and if things can settle down a bit on that side it wouldn’t astonish me to see us grind to promotion through the play-offs.

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Post by BWFC_Insane » Wed Mar 01, 2017 2:56 pm

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Might the reason we're all at sea right now be little to do with Phil Parkinson (who must be a gibbering point with lack of players, lack of funds and a club in turmoil generally) that we haven't got the players to even pick the same side each week and let them get used to each other? Ameaobi and Clough gone, Warbara never played for us before last night, Solomon untried, Madine, as second rate as some see his as missing for two games due to whatever illness, Wilkinson about out fourth or fifth choice up front, an out of form Alf, Spearing out for two games banned (and now looking like out for the season) two keepers with St Vitus dance, Pratley, Davies, Wilson, etc etc out for the duration, Vela hanging on a cliff edge suspension rap with his balls tied to a daffodil and we've just taken two points from games when it could have been four or six (or none if we'd lost).

So it's the managers fault he can do little except his best till things improve a little? Meanwhile, we're still very much in the race with two games in hand on a bunch of like minded and similar skill levels clubs who think they have just as much right as Bolton to be up there fighting fo a chance at promotion. So Parkinson is suddenly scapegoat of the month, is that it?
Exactly. PT always disliked Parkinson (mind he disliked Allardyce too - I suspect there isn't a manager we could appoint he'd like for more than a month or two) and was just waiting for it to go wrong.

It's gone wrong because of the situation. One we could all see coming given the owners failings. One I could see from way back in June. Very hard to go up with a transfer embargo, especially when you have an injury curse on top, and sell off your better player alongside not paying the bill for your other one.

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Post by Peter Thompson » Wed Mar 01, 2017 3:14 pm

I haven't always disliked Parkinson at all....that's a complete lie BWFCI - I thought it was an excellent appointment at the time and I'm not having a go at the appointment.

My issue with Parkinson is his poor tactical nous & insistence on playing hoof ball regardless of who is playing up top - and his inability to get us playing decent football, lets be honest in a lot of games earlier in the season we were solid but quite fortunate, and I can count on one hand the number of good 90 minute performances.

I just want a manager who can get us playing decent pass & move football with some creativity that is good to watch - most of this season (Gillingham apart) the football has in the main been boring as hell to watch, its painful watching it live at the ground.

Is that too much to ask....?

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Post by Abdoulaye's Twin » Wed Mar 01, 2017 3:32 pm

I'd quite like to eat ice cream every meal, but fortunately I'm old enough to realise you can't always get what you want for a whole gamut of reasons. 4th place? I'd have laughed at you in June if you'd suggested we were languishing in 4th at this stage of the season. Many of the players we have didn't have the guts to lift their eyes from the pitch last season and the fact they're fighting for points and each other is nothing short of a minor miracle. I can only credit Parky and his team for that.

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Post by BWFC_Insane » Wed Mar 01, 2017 3:58 pm

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I haven't always disliked Parkinson at all....that's a complete lie BWFCI - I thought it was an excellent appointment at the time and I'm not having a go at the appointment.

My issue with Parkinson is his poor tactical nous & insistence on playing hoof ball regardless of who is playing up top - and his inability to get us playing decent football, lets be honest in a lot of games earlier in the season we were solid but quite fortunate, and I can count on one hand the number of good 90 minute performances.

I just want a manager who can get us playing decent pass & move football with some creativity that is good to watch - most of this season (Gillingham apart) the football has in the main been boring as hell to watch, its painful watching it live at the ground.

Is that too much to ask....?
We had Coyle and Lennon. Both of whom wanted to play nice football, with some creativity that is good to watch. How did that work out?

Fact is this league is a grind. We played good football when Sammy and Zach were here. We've lost our two creative talents. Not sure what you'd expect any manager to do about that.

Take, Pratley, Davies, Zach, Sammy, Lawrie - out of any squad in this league and see how they do.

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Post by Peter Thompson » Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:02 pm

My last post on this - you Lemmings must be very easily pleased if your happy with Parkinson's brand of non football....

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Post by DJBlu » Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:10 pm

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My last post on this - you Lemmings must be very easily pleased if your happy with Parkinson's brand of non football....
We don't hold a high opinion of ourselves and demand perfection from a team of raggy dolls. We also take mitigating circumstances into account and use a little common sense when the team is rife with injuries. Had the team remained at full strength and we had the players at our disposal to play the wonderful football you demand then maybe. It's hard to agree with you when the system was working before the injuries/player sales kicked in.

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Post by officer_dibble » Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:46 pm

None of us are happy with shite football.

None of us are happy with how we keep dropping points.

Everyone bar one accepts that their are circumstances beyone PPs control that have affected our ability to challenge for top spot, and as is lookimg increasingly likely, second.

I mean christ I am praying we sign this ex Reading chap just so Trotter doesnt play on Saturday. And that would be yet another unfit new person to include. You dont win titles or get promoted by making the number of changes PP has to his starting XI.

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Post by officer_dibble » Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:53 pm

Things I hold PP somewhat accountable for:
Substitutions incl Derik at RB
Starting Wilkinson last sat
Playing Trotter over say Alex Perry
Ill discipline - Spearings ban, Long last night (didnhe raise his hands at the ref like Iles suggested), but mainly whatever the hell has gone on with Madine

Things I do not blame on PP:
Injuries
Decimated squad during January
Only being allowed to sign players on 31st Jan (and 31st August i suppose)
Owners being a pair of cnuts
Transfer embargo still being in place
Previous owner and chairman making a right balls of it
Not paying toon for ameobi (if that is true)
Sale ofmZach Clough for £7 million less than the chairmans asking price to pay wages
Gary Madine being a total plant pot

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Post by Athertonian » Wed Mar 01, 2017 7:33 pm

Last night saw a Wanderers side outplayed by Bristol. Their number 23 ran the show for Rovers, don't know the guys name but he was the best midfielder I have seen so far this season.

So many giving Parkinson some stick for his tactics etc and team selections but all he can do is select from an already depleted squad which has been ravaged by injuries. I doubt Sheff U would be in the position they currently hold had they have suffered a similar fate, not forgetting the off field saga which still continues.

I cannot see us getting an automatic promotion spot and could even struggle for a play off place. Parkinson must be as frustrated as the ardent of fans, but had he a full squad to chose from maybe we would have been in pole position.

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Post by jimbo » Wed Mar 01, 2017 7:55 pm

When we had our good run we had a settled side which breeds familiarity and confidence. January has seen that ripped apart by people leaving, injuries and suspensions.

Where we once had clough and ameobi, we now rely on players who spent the first half of the season either not being good enough for us, or not being good enough for teams around us.

We're relying a lot on morais and long, but they weren't needed by Bradford and fleetwood. Wahabra hasn't been able to get a contract anywhere all year. Wilkinson is Wilkinson and trotter is trotter.

It's no surprise we're not as good as we were before January.

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