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You should always have one player watching for it and covering a man lurking outside the area. When I was playing which is decades ago, we always got the smallest guy to cover that. He's not much use for marking anyone in the box so he can just watch for thathappening and get close enough to close the man down. Baz is the smallest guy so it's his fault.

They look capable to you but the manager is being hesitant to give them game time. Possibly he doesn't share your opinion. He see's them in training most days so he is in a better position to make the decision. No disrespect to you intended. I don't really know enough about them to form an opinion.

We ran out of steam, simple as that. Last season when we had a full squad we would have brought subs on with fresh legs on. For a variety of reasons we couldn't do that yesterday and we paid the price. We need more players to cover for these situations, hopefully the injury list will improve soo and possibly the new owners will get sorted in time to take over before/during the window and will sign a couple or more players to help us out.

I'd like to see him fit first, then we can see if he still has something to offer. There's no doubting he was a good player in his day but like Bannan he's getting on for a footballer and at some stage age will catch up with him. On the other hand his experience might be enough for him to be anasset to held guide young defenders around him and help them stay calm under pressure. Watching him play a couple of games when he is fit will soon let us assess him.

If the facts get in the way of your reason to berate the manager, just ignore the facts.

The ones we needed on the pitch to help us win that game were Cooper and Redmond but they were under medical advice that the maximum they could play was 15 minutes or the risk of injury would inrease dramatically. The alternative was to bring more kids on but if he'd done that and we'd have lost the knives would be out for him for it. Pedersen can't win, so he might as well do what he thinks best. Personally I can support him, he took on an impossible job when he was the only one who would. Brentford wanted him as Assistant Manager but he turned them down because he was happy here. The players wanted him as well. I accept he makes occassionally mistakes but I expect that of everyone. The decision whether he keeps the job will be down to the new owners. Until we know who they are and what they plan for the club I will continue to support the manager.

A reyt bit of swazz on it for a header. That takes class.

Good point. I forgot that.

A younger squad is what we all aspire to. That's not the reason they have done better than us though. They didn't have Chansiri as an owner , we did. That's the only reason for the big difference. We had older players because Chansiri decided they were the cheaper option. After a year or 2 they were worthless. Other clubs bought younger players who cost more but Sunderland got their money back and more besides when they sold them. DC thought he was astute. I'll not say what I think he was, the swear filter would have a fit.

How can he. At the moment we are in limbo. We have a very small squad with a massive injury list. It leaves us with nothing like a team. Otegbayo and Palmer as CB's I asked you. It's firefighting at present. We've just got 2 new signings but they aren't properly fit yet. Cooper should be on the pitch but he played Wednesday when he wasn't fully fit so he couldn't really play today. Iorfa banned. I'm surprised we only let in 3. Wait until the new owners are installed. Then we might see a bit of strengthening and we might see where we are heading. At present we are just trying to get from game to game without anyone dropping from exhaustion.

You are welcome to your opinion. (Even if it's wrong.) (Sorry I couldn't resist) Seriously his shot was a good one and the save was also good.

Cads has scored goals at every level on his way to the first team. He was a good finisher at every level. He's been pushed on beyond his true level buy he was scoring 1 in 4 at Lincoln in L1 last year. That's not bad as a 19 y.o. He will be 21 by the time we get there so he might do better than that. Don't give up on him yet and don't expect too much too soon.

Well said. Take a bow. I can't fault any of that.

But the swear filter won't let us say it.

I doubt anyone taking us over, who has experience in football already, will go for the old method of leaving recruitment to the manager. I certainly hope we don't get another Chansiri. I want a DoF and a general manager for the none football stuff. I also want a really strong recruitment team in charge of finding the right players that fit the way SWFC will play in the future, whoever is the manager or DoF. We've got the perfect opportunity to drag this club up into the modern world and I want us to take it.