Kris Temple Twitter Re January - AFCB

LewSwimmin said:
Is it the fault with the players or the way we are set up? With two wide players hugging the touchlines, one midfielder sitting deep and another looking to get forward, there is often acres of space in the centre of the pitch empty of our players. If one midfielder ventures into this space he often has few options for moving the ball up the field via triangular passing interchanges. Would it help the midfielders if the two wide players moved away from the touchlines more?
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I think it is the fault with our system with our two wide attackers isolated on the touchline and Solanke up the middle on his own.

Look how Luton snuffed out our left side by preventing Anthony from coming inside which meant as well Davis being unable to go down the touchline.

They had the two aggressive six foot plus guys up front giving our two central defenders a hard time.

Without Zemura we just play it too predictable and at the back it's like watching walking football.

Unless we buck our ideas up with some invention, passion and controlled aggression we can kiss goodbye to automatic promotion or play offs.
 
Think rothwell would be a surprise plus doesn’t fit the narrative of building a squad of welsh players - Lawrence, moore, meps, brooks etc

We have a last throw of the dice now otherwise miss promotion and it’s goodbye to likes of Kelly Dom christie etc to balance the books. So some sensible investment is wise.

I think against some of the teams in this league, a presence like kieffer would be a decent signing. Not at £10m but a cash plus promotion bonus would be ideal
 
SSN

A number of Championship clubs are interested in Lincoln City forward Anthony Scully.

Scully has scored 12 goals in all competitions this season and his contract is up in 2023.

Scully has been capped by the Republic of Ireland U21s.
 
Do we really need any more central midfield players? We seem to have a glut of quality central midfielders as it is!

Laurence and/or Rothwell might be a marginal improvement in centre mid, but surely our main priority (other than centre forward) should be pace options down both left and right wings?

Lerma, Kilkenny and Billing seemed to be good enough to help win games earlier in the season and Pearson was very effective when needed, so why are we looking to move away from that?

Surely all SP needs to do is to look at the team line ups for our winning streak, go back to that and use this transfer window to sort out a decent 'Plan B'!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
 
boscombe botn said:
Do we really need any more central midfield players? We seem to have a glut of quality central midfielders as it is!

Laurence and/or Rothwell might be a marginal improvement in centre mid, but surely our main priority (other than centre forward) should be pace options down both left and right wings?

Lerma, Kilkenny and Billing seemed to be good enough to help win games earlier in the season and Pearson was very effective when needed, so why are we looking to move away from that?

Surely all SP needs to do is to look at the team line ups for our winning streak, go back to that and use this transfer window to sort out a decent 'Plan B'!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
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True, but how many times has billing not turned up, how many games has cook look ineffective.

Kilkenny is a strange one, has bags of quality, a beautiful cross-field ball, looks very composed but Parker doesn't seem to favour him :shrug:
 
Lee90 said:
Kilkenny is a strange one, has bags of quality, a beautiful cross-field ball, looks very composed but Parker doesn't seem to favour him :shrug:
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This is what troubles me about Parker. Some very good players seem to suddenly fall out of favour and go into a black hole. Steve Cook, Pearson, Kilkenny. Guys who are solid, hard to play against like Pearson, or with the creativity that we need like Kilkenny.
There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason.
 
Lee90 said:
True, but how many times has billing not turned up, how many games has cook look ineffective.

Kilkenny is a strange one, has bags of quality, a beautiful cross-field ball, looks very composed but Parker doesn't seem to favour him :shrug:
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Could also be looking at a potential change of system. I like Kilkenny as his passing range is excellent
 
boscombe botn said:
Do we really need any more central midfield players? We seem to have a glut of quality central midfielders as it is!

Laurence and/or Rothwell might be a marginal improvement in centre mid, but surely our main priority (other than centre forward) should be pace options down both left and right wings?

Lerma, Kilkenny and Billing seemed to be good enough to help win games earlier in the season and Pearson was very effective when needed, so why are we looking to move away from that?

Surely all SP needs to do is to look at the team line ups for our winning streak, go back to that and use this transfer window to sort out a decent 'Plan B'!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
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None of our midfielders score goals apart from Billing when he can be arsed.
 
Well we do need some better aerial presence in the box so Moore or Carroll fit that type of player?…not sure about midfield unless we were going to unload Cook,Pearson or Kilkenny? But with Stan injured and Lowe and Anthony not up to it often Lawrence would be a smart move IMO
 
Toronto John said:
This is what troubles me about Parker. Some very good players seem to suddenly fall out of favour and go into a black hole. Steve Cook, Pearson, Kilkenny. Guys who are solid, hard to play against like Pearson, or with the creativity that we need like Kilkenny.
There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason.
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If Lawrence or Rothwell are brought in I can see Kilkenny being loaned out unfortunately
 
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