FFS! Why do we have to make so many tippy tippy passes instead of being more aggresive and getting it forward quicker too many hopefull long balls forward as well to no one. We can,t keep playing well one game and then turn out this shite the next and expect to be there or there abouts at the end of the season. Looks like we are the next Wrexham stuck here for ever.

James was anonymous and has been for a long time, Kabamba made a big difference. Richardson looks like a footballer but that’s where the similarity ends. We were actually ok in after the substitutions, but the curse of the ‘let’s try the most passes in the box syndrome’ kicked in.
I wished I’d taped the bloody match and watched the meteorites outside instead.

We actually used the ball well in possession at times even in the first half to a point and worked some really dangerous positions but we just aren’t clinical they had a couple of players who didn’t particularly look like footballers but put some great delivery in from set pieces and in open play from wide areas, the final decision or final ball or quality of strike is where it went wrong. Donaldson is a decent footballer but he’s got score more if he’s going to play in position he does he had three great openings last night and didn’t work the keeper once, that simply isn’t good enough. How many great positions does Kitching get in (often worked by himself) and nothing comes of it. It’s not the possession or passing that’s the issue we play some good stuff outside the area, if we played with no goals we’d be the best team in the League!

Holohan changed things when he came on because he was positive, direct and looked to do things quickly. He deserves a proper run. Last night was the season so far in a nutshell. I reckon it’s time ditch the back three as well.

Is Cunningham carrying a knock because he is our best centre back so iv no idea why he hasnt been starting?

Was obvious earlier in season that playing Featherstone and Mafuta doesnt work so disapointed he went back to it. We basically lost Kennedy who is always in an advanced position and trying to get on the end of things for a midfielder to sit and hold Mafutas hand in front of the back 3. Surely Holohan was the obvious choice?

Disapointed with Hignett.

Featherstone probably got the shirt for creating the winner on Saturday but Holohan seems to be the one who loses his place for not doing much wrong. Gus actually looked quite good further up the pitch later in the game he’s more than just a holding midfielder.

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We looked much better when we went to a back four and I've been wondering about our use of back three with wing backs. My understanding of the popularity of the back three is that the modern game had become so frantic and compressed in midfield that your usual sources of creativity, centre midfield and wingers simply didn't have the space or time needed to create damage. By adding an extra central defender you turn your full backs into a threat because they can use the space they often have in front of them without worrying too much about being caught out of position.

All well and good but none of it applies in the National League. Teams often defend deep and fitness levels vary so they rarely try to keep a sustained hard-running, pressing approach going for any length of time. After 60 minutes in particular there is often lots of space in midfield. The wing back thing just isn't necessary at this level and your full backs can still go forward, as long as one stays back there is still three defneders to take care of one or two strikers. The extra player is more useful in midfield.

If you pick James purely because he chases down defenders and offers nothing in an attacking role, you are playing with 10 men from the kick off, I just don`t see what he offers except he runs!
Richardson has the occasional good game but is limited in everything except maybe heading, but they usually lack direction.
Kitching is better this season but still has frailties, watch him in a 50/50, he ducks out and because of having no right foot will always shoot from an obscure angle unless he switches to the right and comes inside.
Cunningham has a calmness about him, has skill and a decent future in that role if Hignett removes the pickles!
Holohan is more attacking than Featherstone and perhaps he is so focused on protecting the defence, he is sacrificed.

Toure should be in the middle up front with Muir instead of James, he can hold the ball and lay it off.

5 at the back has it`s uses but you need the right players to do it, sadly we have not seen the correct players, Hawkes has gone backwards, give Bale a go on the left, re runs like a rabbit which gets some players a run out apparently!

I think higgy has been watching Man U, lets see if we can advance up the pitch as slowly as possible by getting a thousand passes in before the half way line, then when we get into the opposition half if they haven’t managed to get every one back in defence, we go back into our half until they do. We do not have anyone who can intimidate defenders. As much as I like James he is not going to dominate defences at this level. Sure, we keep possession of the ball but possession alone is not going to increase our goal tally or even attempts on goal. I also think higgy needs to introduce shooting practice in training, not just during a kickabout. Last night emphasised this wayward marksmanship. Hoolahan, Donnelly, Toure to name 3. Even Maputa works himself into some very good positions on the edge of the opposition box and you think HIT IT. I think the confidence of most of our players in taking responsibility for fear of failing is zilch. It looks like we are after the perfect tap-in goals.
Stockport had very little up front but we gave them more. Richardson’s inability to read the game led to the second goal. The first goal was unfortunate being a big deflection but his shot should have been blocked. Featherstone was again intent on doing his pirouette in our box late in the game, caught in possession, could very nearly cost us another. Again Stockport were one on the worst teams I’ve seen us play this season yet we managed to help them along to 3 points.

James doesn't just chase defenders down. He makes intelligent runs that stretch the defence, retains the ball well and usually passes accurately. Although you always want goals from a forward I think there is enough there to make him an effective part of a front three, particularly when one of them is Touré who plays in bursts and would be wasted if he was doing all the hard running that James does. I certainly wouldn't put Touré up the middle, running at people and cutting in seems to be his greatest strength so a flexible wider role seems right.

Agree with the comments about Cunningham and Holohan that various people have made. Hard to see a good case against either of them getting a proper run in the team.

shooting abysmal. pointless little passes and build up so slow you could go for a piss and still see the end of the move, a shot wide or high. it looked like a home game where the visitors did a smash and grab on pools. think the way they lined up for the game might have been a bit of a surprise but it did not excuse poor defending and lack of penetration. if we had started with the side out that finished the game then the result may have been different. honestly can anyone really see where the season is going to start with a bit of consistancy and a settled side.

He doesn`t make intelligent runs though, he just runs down the line, gets shrugged off the ball and sits on his ass with arms outstretched asking for a foul, he can`t beat a man, doesn`t score and offers the sum of fuck all.
I appreciate you cannot get to most games and listen on the radio, but when you attend every home game and a dozen away games you see it week in and out.

I assume Cunningham lost his place after giving away a couple of soft penalties, but his all round game is better than Richardson's and he should come back in. Holohan looks like our best attacking threat from midfield - I'd prefer to see him start in place of Donaldson rather than as wing back. Hignett claims he's prepared to be ruthless to get results and that shouldn't exempt the club captain, who has been very wasteful in front of goal recently.

Pools had 90% of the game in the second half. It was like playing at home against a bad side, which was part of the problem - Toure never had less than 2-3 Stockport players closing him down. We're a one trick pony in attack and the season is as good as over if that doesn't change. Pleased to see Kabamba get his goal, but he offered nothing up front in his 3 recent starts, which is why James got another chance.

Other teams in the division are strengthening with loans and signings. I guess Kabamba deserves another run of games up front, but if he doesn't chip in a couple more goals by the end of October I really hope Raj is prepared to splash the cash and sign another goalscorer, even if it means shipping a couple more out.

I would have thought playing donaldson alongside toure and having holohan going through the middle woud be more of a threat.

For what i watch when pools have james & richardson playing its us playing with 9 men.

or is it the style of play and not the players themselves that where the fault lies.

I think they are very poor footballers in my opinion not matter what style of play

Hignett sacked!

I suppose thats the final nail in the coffin of this thread.

It's a reminder that Raj's verdict is the only one that really matters.