brackley wrote:geoff skillet wrote:"Peterlin - who?
Chambers - see Peterlin - if Peterlin and Chambers are the answer, what on earth was the question?"
DS singled them out for special praise "Pets and Chambo", apparently.
Got to say I thought they were ok......... they got behind the ball and defeded resolutely and also played the ball around into the right areas without making any glaring mistakes - they were just ok........
The bigger problem as it has been all season is up front. Without any question Paterson frightens the life out of defenders with his pace and the fact that he is prepared to run at them - he is without doubt one major plus that has emerged since the start of the season.........the movement of Nicholls and Macken off the ball however is weak, which is where it falls down time and time again and is reflected by our goals scored tally to date.
We need an Ibehra or Ricketts (in his prime) type centre forward for Nicholls and Paterson to play off..........someone who can hold the ball up, give their back-line a game and have pace and an eye for where the goal is..........
If we can add this player to the team our results will be far different. Everything breaks down in the final third as we dont have a cutting edge....... we can always muster a goal but this is simply not enough of a lead to defend and then expect to take home 3 points, we needed a second goal yesterday to put the game beyond them and we just dont have it in the locker!!
Although there are some good points in there, I think there are a fair few wrongs too.
Firstly, if a side like Walsall is going to do well, it needs to be able to win games 1-0, Graydon did it to such an extent, the majority of our wins were 1-0, especially away from home. Money's sides did the same. Not that I expect anything like the results those to got, but the way we go about things should be the same. The game was there to be won Saturday, regardless of if we had more fire power (which we do clearly need no doubt) A Graydon, or a Money, would have seen that game out for a win 9 times out of 10, where as it seems inevitable the equaliser will come with this side, alot of the time down to poor decisions by the manager, who to be fair is still learning his trade, but needs to start to get a grasp on it quickly now.,
You want a striker who can play up front, hold the ball up, have pace, and an eye for goal, if we had 40millon to spend , we still may struggle to find someone like that. All those attributes make an all round striker, which every club in the land would die for. Macken is more than capable of holding the ball up, and bringing players in, infact I doubt we would find anyone better at it. He doesn't have the muscle of a Jabo, but you can't have everything in a lower league player, he certainly is far more intelligent footballer. Problem is, his age, and the niggling injurys he picks up, we have no one else like that. + he has been a little bit out of sorts recently.
First thing is first, and the soft late goals we are conceeding need to be stopped. Had we done this over the past few weeks, we would now be in the FA Cup 3rd round, and have an extra 2 points on the board from Saturday. The signing of Jarvis,was a huge boo, boo, and used up vital recources on a complete nothing footballer, when blending in Bowerman, and Paterson, who really seem to have something about them, would have been far better, and actually signing a half decent center midfielder.