Fred_NTFC
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« Reply #80 on: September 03, 2010, 15:35:34 pm » |
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Well he did say that defensively we were okay at Hartlepool, so I'm personally not worried about the rest of the season.
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Welly Cobb
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« Reply #81 on: September 03, 2010, 17:15:19 pm » |
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He said we were a f***ing shambles. He also said that we need cover, but striker is all consuming priority, which is also true. A full-back is more important at the moment than the centre-back at the moment.
Defensively we look ordinary, but it's not as big a problem as the strike-force at the moment, which is why he's concentrating on getting a striker in. There's literally no need to be going in for the manager after one JPT f***-up. Christ, after the Reading result, people were on the moon about some of our players. There is still quality in this side, as demonstrated by the pre-season and cups, but we haven't had it our way in the league games yet. We lost to Torquay fairly, we should have beaten Aldershot and drew, and we also drew, perhaps slightly luckily, with Wycombe and Bury who are kicking about our standard.
And that's it so far. There are teams in worse positions than us, and this talk of relegation at this particular moment in time is just stupid.
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NTFC Nut
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« Reply #82 on: September 04, 2010, 00:05:44 am » |
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We are no longer looking for a centre back, Sampson just remembered we have Harris who can play there... If only the chuckle brothers needed a 3rd brother, I think Sampson would fit in nicely.
What were you expecting him to come out and say? He obviously feels he now needs TWO strikers with Purcell being out for the season (and I'd agree with him), and that extra forward is going to have to come at the expense of the money previously earmarked for a new centre-back to come in. He is hinting at this with the comments he made to the press but he's not going to come out and say "the defence is shocking but I haven't been given enough cash to rectify the problem" because Cardoza would kill him. Instead he's putting a positive spin on having to rely on Harris as a back-up centre-half, which is precisely what you'd expect him to do. Get off Sammo's back ffs, it's getting tiresome. This situation isn't his fault.
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Marvo
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« Reply #83 on: September 04, 2010, 07:21:52 am » |
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I still disagree. The priority for getting a winning side on the pitch may be two new strikers but as for sheer numbers it is still a centre half that is the more urgent aquisition.
I also think that if I were funding the team and the manager (before the Purcell injury) had asked for more money for a striker I'd be thinking well what's wrong with the four we already have? At the very least I'd have asked him to move one of them on before splashing out on another. Guinan refusing to go or being unable to attract interest from another team is probably where the real fault lies.
Anyway, don't all pin your hopes on somebody arriving that's going to bag the 20+ goals we need, we've been looking for one of them for decades and I hardly think that if there is one out there he'd be sitting at home twiddling his thumbs. The best we can hope for is a young kid on loan from a club much higher up the ladder.
Meanwhile if we did get another centre back, Holt could move to left back to cover for the injured Marcus Hall.
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Insider
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« Reply #84 on: September 04, 2010, 09:47:59 am » |
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Shankly through to Dalglish at Liverpool built there sides around the best defenders they could buy. Yeates, Smith, Hughes, Lwrenson, Hanson and so on. Shanks made it the key position in his teams. The chances of Holt going the season without injury is zero and Sammo doesn't seem to fancy Harris in central defence at this level. McKay, Herbert and Constantinou up front using pace and guile rather than brute force and ignorance is he only way forward from an attacking perspective. Jacobs, Thornton and Osman in midfield today. Aldershot bullied us at Sixfields last season; we can expect the same if Guinan plays. Sammo needs to be bold today, but I expect he'll play it safe and try to grind out a 0-0.
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The 12th Marquis of Sixfields
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« Reply #85 on: September 04, 2010, 10:19:05 am » |
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Marvo, I thought you loved the 87 season? If they scored, we'll score one more and all that? Why the obsession with defenders then old chap? You're completley going against everything you stand for in life
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The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2023
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« Reply #87 on: September 04, 2010, 11:56:21 am » |
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Marvo, I thought you loved the 87 season? If they scored, we'll score one more and all that? Why the obsession with defenders then old chap? You're completley going against everything you stand for in life
I suspect because in 87 we could score whereas now we couldn't hit a barn if we were in it. So the priority has to be a proper central defender. And that's not mentioning that before the start of the 86/87 season we'd already got one of the best central defensive partnerships we've ever had in Russ Wilcox and Keith McPherson.
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Marvo
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« Reply #88 on: September 04, 2010, 12:48:08 pm » |
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Marvo, I thought you loved the 87 season? If they scored, we'll score one more and all that? Why the obsession with defenders then old chap? You're completley going against everything you stand for in life
It isn't an obsession, it's a case of numbers. We only have two central defenders, one of them a makeshift, we have three strikers, four if you count Constantinou. It's common sense. Having said that, if we had Trevor Morley and Ian Benjamin up front, Gilbert and McGoldrick down the flanks with Richard Hill maurading through the middle I wouldn't give a toss about a central defender.
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Marvo
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« Reply #89 on: September 18, 2010, 21:41:05 pm » |
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Just all thought you'd like to recap your thoughts about us not needing a centre-half.
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MK_Cobbler
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« Reply #90 on: September 18, 2010, 23:24:37 pm » |
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I'm starting to get bored of always being right!
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NTFC Nut
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« Reply #91 on: September 19, 2010, 00:50:19 am » |
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Just all thought you'd like to recap your thoughts about us not needing a centre-half. I don't think any of us ever said we didn't need another centre-half, we were just stating that signing a striker had to take priority. And at the time, it did.
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Marvo
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« Reply #92 on: September 19, 2010, 06:52:54 am » |
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I don't think any of us ever said we didn't need another centre-half, we were just stating that signing a striker had to take priority. And at the time, it did.
How do you work that out then, did we win 4-3 yesterday?
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Insider
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« Reply #93 on: September 19, 2010, 07:47:39 am » |
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I don't think any of us ever said we didn't need another centre-half, we were just stating that signing a striker had to take priority. And at the time, it did.
No it didn't. Sammo just got lucky that it took another 2-3 games to pick up a central defensive injury. We needed a new CB before we signed a striker, just that you couldn't see it. When you're as old as Marvo and I, you'll appreciate these tactical nuances.That Sammo hasn't seemingly acted before this week and, worse, doesn't seem to have any prospects or contacts says it all.
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HertsCobbler
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« Reply #94 on: September 19, 2010, 07:53:24 am » |
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..and remember last season Sammo "whinged it" having let our third and all be it dodgy centre back McCready out on loan. As a result when Hinton and Beckwith in the back end had bans we had to play Holt there. Whilst I do not a return to Atkins' policy of having about 6 centre backs on the books, we are paying for Sammo's stupidity.
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