ToeJoe Jnr wrote:Very poor last night, and my early season optimism is beginning to wane!
Their goal started from them literally walking through the middle of the park. We have two defensive midfielders and quite honestly they chased shadows last night.
We are reliant on scoring goals from 25 yards as that is where most of our efforts came from last night. Yet the one decent effort we had was from Grigg with a header from about 5 yards. We need a fox in the box. Jarvis is the least effective striker I have ever seen. Most of his passes and runs are backwards and away from goal.
Our depth in squad is chronic, highlighted by bringing on Nicholls and Paterson who have the combined weight of a Quaver against a back four for Oldham who ate everything we launched (in the air!) up. If I was manager and turned round to see Nicholls looking back at me as an option, I would get the white flag out, yet people still think he will turn a game!
Big changes needed, for me I would bring back Walker, and Macken (if fit ), drop Taundry and bring Peterlin in. That way we have Walker, Butler, Chambers and Macken in the spine of the team, which is what Smith surely would have been building his squad around in the Summer? If that doesn't work then serious questions need to be asked.
In all fairness, we were far more of an attacking threat when Nicholls and Paterson were introduced as we had added pace which was what we were screaming out for. Although, they were still pretty ineffective, it did improve us slightly