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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Feb 21, 2018 12:44:27 GMT
All-in-all, my view is that there's a very clear candidate for 'not being a team player' in the squad and Jason Oswell isn't that person. Not once have I seen him and thought 'he doesn't try' although I have thought he looks tired for a couple of months and easily marked out of games when we play back to front and without width. While there needs to be focus on improving his hold-up play, the risk is that we forget the other elements he brings - a bit like the focus on Hinchliffe's kicking (which has been poor) compared to considering the confidence he brings to those around him and his high level of skills elsewhere in his game. spot on about both of them herm. yes; work on the weaker points of their games, but not to the detriment of the proven great parts. i have struggled to understand the regularly expressed dissatisfaction with hinchliffe - probably our most consistently good player over the last two seasons.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Feb 21, 2018 13:02:39 GMT
Excellent analysis, H.
Who, incidentally, is your 'very clear candidate for 'not being a team player' in the squad', matey?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2018 13:08:15 GMT
There never was a halo, Downy, just credit and appreciation where due - the same can be said for the criticisms posted here. How about offering an opinion of your own, as opposed to trying to rub your fellow County fans up the wrong way? I'd love to.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2018 13:09:19 GMT
I also think that there is a very good case to suggest that the Referee's have played their part in Oswell's decline in form. I've watched him held, pushed and generally pulled from pillar to post by a succession of defenders who've been encouraged by incompetent Referees who seem to think that is perfectly acceptable. I would suggest that the authorities need to encourage Referees to look after the better players if they want anyone to consider this level of football anything other than a bit Mickey Mouse
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Post by hermannsays on Feb 21, 2018 15:27:32 GMT
Excellent analysis, H. Who, incidentally, is your 'very clear candidate for 'not being a team player' in the squad', matey? Dixon. It's one of those where it could be written off as a stylistic thing (tall player looking languid) but having watched him (and praised him) for working hard off the ball and out of possession - in games when he's scored... - then I'm not having that one! He was the same height in those games too and I've seen other tall players looking like they're working hard. Oswell's run of games without a goal also started in the Kiddy FAT game when he should have taken the penalty Dixon decided to take. For those reasons, I'm out. Deborah Meaden.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Feb 21, 2018 18:16:47 GMT
Ah, right - gotcha. And, yes, I see where you're coming from - although had not thought of him myself, as I see him as something of a fringe player.
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Post by ceefer on Feb 21, 2018 19:10:23 GMT
I'll catch up with this thread later but this was a repeat of the Harrogate 'performance'...poor, awful, abject...
Why change a winning team?
Why drop your top goal scorer who takes a lot of flak from opposition players and leaves room for the likes of Warburton and Stephenson to score.
Some analysis of how Oswell scores goals is needed. Mostly via crosses fron the wings. He just doesn't get the service full stop.
In a must win game you field your strongest side.
Fitness is key... Stopforth and Winter ran out of steam...it's simply just not good enough.
Respect to Nuneaton for the fast flowing passing and breaks. They created so much more than we did.
Poor referee and liner.
Poor time wasting from Nuneaton and their manager needs to behave.
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Post by ceefer on Feb 21, 2018 19:11:26 GMT
One thing was positive...spoke to Kallum Mantack who said he expects to be out for another 6 weeks.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Feb 21, 2018 19:16:18 GMT
Good news about Mantack in your second post, Ceefs. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Feb 21, 2018 20:16:22 GMT
in the ten minutes plus five injury time after he came on last night, dixon managed to distinguish himself with a laughably incompetent performance. just ran about without any obvious purpose. i have seen him look alright as well, but often he's like a slowish car with brake failure on a downward slope. at some point there's likely to be an unspectacular crash, but in the meantime, he's just going to shrug at the other drivers rather than react to them.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Feb 21, 2018 20:48:50 GMT
That is pretty well spot on, exile - although he remains something of an enigma. The admirable way he tracked back to break up a late Maidenhead attack at EP sticks in the memory almost as prominently as the George West equaliser that followed less than a minute later. Last night, when Nuneaton countered, he simply shrugged...
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Post by gazz on Feb 21, 2018 22:26:09 GMT
Last night, when Nuneaton countered, he simply shrugged... The spirit of Jon Nolan lives on! Now that's some quality bantz, right there - now where's the nearest Nandos?!
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Post by hermannsays on Feb 26, 2018 1:35:46 GMT
Some analysis of how Oswell scores goals is needed. Mostly via crosses fron the wings. He just doesn't get the service full stop. ..and on Saturday, when a bit of service did come to him from Cowan, the result was a goal for us. Interesting that it's a FB again supplying... here's who has supplied the balls for Oswell's league goals (1 was a penalty): 4 Walker (inc. 2 corners and 1 FK) 3 Duxbury 2 Hampson (inc. 1 FK) 2 Minihan 2 Cowan 2 Ball 2 Warburton 1 McKenna So, this run of 5 league games without a goal... well, Oswell has only finished the first of those games before playing 45 v Harrogate, 70 v York, 55 v FCUMand 30 as a sub v Nuneaton. Probably of importance too, given how the FBs as a collective have been the width, in 4 of those 5 games, Duxbury was benched.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Feb 26, 2018 9:54:18 GMT
Interesting, too, that, of Oswell's eight assisters to date, half either are not currently playing for, or have left, the club!
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Post by ceefer on Feb 26, 2018 18:01:51 GMT
Some analysis of how Oswell scores goals is needed. Mostly via crosses fron the wings. He just doesn't get the service full stop. ..and on Saturday, when a bit of service did come to him from Cowan, the result was a goal for us. Interesting that it's a FB again supplying... here's who has supplied the balls for Oswell's league goals (1 was a penalty): 4 Walker (inc. 2 corners and 1 FK) 3 Duxbury 2 Hampson (inc. 1 FK) 2 Minihan 2 Cowan 2 Ball 2 Warburton 1 McKenna So, this run of 5 league games without a goal... well, Oswell has only finished the first of those games before playing 45 v Harrogate, 70 v York, 55 v FCUMand 30 as a sub v Nuneaton. Probably of importance too, given how the FBs as a collective have been the width, in 4 of those 5 games, Duxbury was benched. Cheers HS... surprised about Walker but not so much ref Duxbury. Oswell was so so close with that header on Saturday so hopefully his confidence will be restored and the floodgates will open once more.
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