Has the weather conditions played a part ? Just seen the Luton players coming off at HT up at Everton and its pouring down in Merseyside. Shrewsbury's not a million miles from there.
One positive is it feels like last season we would have been a goal behind by now. Where as we are not, and have some quality on the bench to change it up.
Awful. Jones been a monster at the back and I have to say Isted had some great saves too. But this is poor and we need to sort it out in the second half.
Has the weather conditions played a part ? Just seen the Luton players coming off at HT up at Everton and its pouring down in Merseyside. Shrewsbury's not a million miles from there.
Bloody poor first half - yet again. Isted and the defence ok but only Dobbo of the entire midfield and attack has looked anything like decent. Alfie and TC particularly poor. Appleton needs to galvanise them or we're going to lose this.
CBT and Campbell are the two struggling to have ANY involvement in the game as a result.
Thomas of course isn't a Full-Back... Watson, would have been at fault surely had Isted not made the last save, he's been hot and cold, has struggled to get forward partly because of the Shrewsbury press, but has looked a threat when he has got forward.
But again those moments have been limited, so its largely been a repeat of last week, where the Full-Backs have been largely static
I've said it before and I will say it again: so much of our defensive frailty comes from our inability to keep the ball. If we are going to start the teams we do, we have to be able to keep possession and build from the back. We have been dogshit with the ball today.
I wish we'd given Garner this squad. I think this is a squad built far better for how he wanted to play. We gave him Inniss and Stockley and asked him to play possession football.
Lastly, May's place should not be guaranteed. No one's should. But in a game like this May is a passenger.
TC has been poor and while he looked good first half yesterday we're seeing the problem with him playing centrally.
Shrewsbury have been a yard faster and won practically all the 50/50s. Very fortunate to be on terms at half time. There needs to be a big improvement in the second half or we’ll be coming away from here empty handed.
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Astounding we’re level.
Which is exactly what we are.
Appleton has to shake them up for the second half.
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One positive is it feels like last season we would have been a goal behind by now. Where as we are not, and have some quality on the bench to change it up.
Isted made 3 good saves.
Rest was crap.
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You can see why they’ve only scored four goals all season - should’ve done a lot better with the chances they’ve had.
Sheesh!
CBT and Campbell are the two struggling to have ANY involvement in the game as a result.
Thomas of course isn't a Full-Back... Watson, would have been at fault surely had Isted not made the last save, he's been hot and cold, has struggled to get forward partly because of the Shrewsbury press, but has looked a threat when he has got forward.
But again those moments have been limited, so its largely been a repeat of last week, where the Full-Backs have been largely static
Appleton to blame. His line up is just not working.
Why on earth are we playing just one up front? We have no threat up front and can't hold the ball - it just keeps coming straight back.
Haven't been Isteds greatest fan so far but 3 really good saves from him have kept us level.
I wish we'd given Garner this squad. I think this is a squad built far better for how he wanted to play. We gave him Inniss and Stockley and asked him to play possession football.
Lastly, May's place should not be guaranteed. No one's should. But in a game like this May is a passenger.
TC has been poor and while he looked good first half yesterday we're seeing the problem with him playing centrally.
Pitch looks quite wide to me and Shrewsbury seem to have used it well a few times…
I hate this slow passing game, no pace, no attacking imagination.
We are brilliant at passing backwards/sideways.
Strangely we've seen similar to often for the last four managers!?
A week of training and this is the best we can do .
Pathetic