Will he ever be presented with a passable chance by the rest of the team? Much much better players than him would not score for us playing in tiny if tonights midfield.
Funny how Leaburn seems to get chances when he's on the pitch though
It's as though Jayden's approach of jogging into the box and standing still isn't really paying off...!
What would you suggest Stockley should be doing differently to get more chance then? He has tow headers where he found space well but the ball wasn’t good enough to him. He had shot where the ball was pulled back but it was a on my and under hit and a defender blocked.
He’d have buried the same chance Leaburn just did but we deliver in average one decent cross per match.
He wouldn't even have been in the box! You think Stockley can keep up with CBT? He'd have been 10 yards behind.
Yes his lack of pace means you have to give him the service that he can work with, which we consistently do not. Leaburn is a much better option. So is Chucks. Trouble is, neither have been reliably available. Stockley has. I hope we move him on January and sign someone better, but until we can do that he’s what we’ve got and the constant digging out of him individually like it’s somehow all his fault, like if he ceased to exist we’d stop conceding dumb goals and score 2 every week, all gets very boring. If you give him decent crosses he can score goals, certainly a least a few compared to the horrible barren run he’s on now. He wasn’t fast last season or the season before but was a goal threat then because we gave him better service that he, with all his limitations, could be effective with.
Genuinely, how many decent crosses per match do we put in? Ones that miss the first man, passes between the 6 yard box and penalty spot around head height and doesn’t just pick out a defender? It’s really very few. We could sign 3 strikers in January but until we fix the quality of our final ball they will not get enough chance to score enough goals to win us matches. That’s without factoring in the fact we look like conceding 2 or 3 every week.
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It was crap defending all round.
Not good defending/goalkeeping.
3-1
Another away defeat, inching ever closer to the drop zone.
Really unlucky for AMB he did well to get to the shot but was left exposed.
Genuinely, how many decent crosses per match do we put in? Ones that miss the first man, passes between the 6 yard box and penalty spot around head height and doesn’t just pick out a defender? It’s really very few. We could sign 3 strikers in January but until we fix the quality of our final ball they will not get enough chance to score enough goals to win us matches. That’s without factoring in the fact we look like conceding 2 or 3 every week.