Another hour wasted trying to force a Clarke Sharp partnership

[Leonardo Green]

Nearly cost us today. We've got to stop doing that.

Well recovered though, top of the league we go!!

 

[Keen Blade]

My take on this match is that CW ought to realize he's got some real dilemmas in the striking dept.
Can he swallow his pride and offload Clarke ?
Or Done ?
Who can he get ?
I think his talk about a new M/F is decoy bullshit - he must know he hasn't got a settled strike force.

 

[Danny_Boy]

Like Done or don't like Done I can see arguments on both sides of the fence for him but without his running we are easy to defend against, he creates space and causes panics and the likes of Sharp feed off that. For me Clarke is an impact sub and should not be starting.

Ideally we get a player that runs and pressures like Done but can finish as well in JTW. A player like that though won't come cheap.

 

[northsomersetblade]

Like Done or don't like Done I can see arguments on both sides of the fence for him but without his running we are easy to defend against, he creates space and causes panics and the likes of Sharp feed off that. For me Clarke is an impact sub and should not be starting.

Ideally we get a player that runs and pressures like Done but can finish as well in JTW. A player like that though won't come cheap.

Unless he's damaged goods and has a score to settle.....

 

[SwissBlade]

Nearly cost us today. We've got to stop doing that.

Well recovered though, top of the league we go!!

The team earned 3 points there by the sound of it

 

[Enigmatic]

We have good enough options for this league up front. The simple fact is that teams that come with one objective, to not concede, can make it very difficult for any team to score.

 

[itsinyerblood]

My take on this match is that CW ought to realize he's got some real dilemmas in the striking dept.
Can he swallow his pride and offload Clarke ?
Or Done ?
Who can he get ?
I think his talk about a new M/F is decoy bullshit - he must know he hasn't got a settled strike force.

I think any talk of Wilder and pride in the same sentence is not to understand our manager. By all means have a different opinion to CW, but any suggestion that he has a blind spot misses the point. No doubt both Wilder and Knill are completely aware of where we need to strengthen, whether the players they'd like to sign are available or affordable, time will tell.

 

[Danny_Boy]

Unless he's damaged goods and has a score to settle.....

I know it seems an unpopular opinion on here but Evans would give us a bit of both, against us this year He hassled our defenders and we didn't really look comfortable at the back until he went off. In my opinion if we can get him at the right price we'd be foolish not to take him on.

 

[upton blade]

I think both Clarke and done will score goals for us they just need that bit of luck imo..

 

[Tyler Durden]

Clarke and Gasham off, Done and Scougall on, wins the game.

My 100% record of being right is intact.

 

[PeteBlade]

By the logic of some people after the last game, the reason we won was purely because we took Clarke off and put Done on, You're only as good as your last game so it was purely Clarke's fault we were 0-0 and I'll not listen to any evidence that says otherwise.

 

[Caseh]

I think we have Sharps partner, with Lavery.

 

[INTERUNITED]

I don't give a toss who plays as long as we win!!!! They will all have a part to play either starting or as substitutes (as proved last weekend).

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Clarke and Gasham off, Done and Scougall on, wins the game.

My 100% record of being right is intact.

Basham adds stability to the midfield third. Good tackles etc.

 

[Ricky]

Clarke wasn't bad today and didn't hinder the team performance but Lavery made a real difference when he came on. He has that pace and trickery that we simply don't have anywhere else in the team. He's pretty combative too. He's probably a better fit for Sharp than Clarke is.

Basham adds stability to the midfield third. Good tackles etc.

Basham brought the ball out of defence brilliantly pretty much every single time he had it, anyone should be able to see that. Another good game from him.

 

[Harry's Game]

I know it seems an unpopular opinion on here but Evans would give us a bit of both, against us this year He hassled our defenders and we didn't really look comfortable at the back until he went off. In my opinion if we can get him at the right price we'd be foolish not to take him on.

Errrm I don't think Evans is an unpopular option on here these days fella, it would 99.9% in favour of getting him now.

 

[Danny_Boy]

Errrm I don't think Evans is an unpopular option on here these days fella, it would 99.9% in favour of getting him now.

Fair enough, perhaps the ones that don't want him have bigger gobs haha.

 

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

Things in football don't happen immediately

There's still half a season to go, it might happen it might not but I think people are too quick to dismiss players if they don't click straight away

 

[Harry's Game]

Clarke is an impact player now, half an hour left in games against tired defenders he brings physicality and looks a threat, doesn't look like that when starting games.

Lavery has surely earned a start at Bury now?

 

[Bladesman]

Clarke was fucking awful.

 

[Ricky]

This period has shown how important all the strikers are and what a role they have to play.

6 points could've easily been 2 if we didn't have the likes of Clarke and Lavery to bring off the bench.

 

[coolhandluke]

Clarke was useless today . His miss in the first half when he didn't just miss the goal from a yard out he missed the ball completely summed his performance up perfectly .

He had a couple of half chances with the head and got nowhere near the target .

I actually like Clarke and think he definitely offers is something but it's off the bench where he offers anything positive NOT from the start .

 

[Bladesman]

This period has shown how important all the strikers are and what a role they have to play.

6 points could've easily been 2 if we didn't have the likes of Lavery to bring off the bench.

Corrected that for you.

 

[Ricky]

Corrected that for you.

Yes because Clarke had zero impact against Oldham didn't he.

 

[DronnieBlade]

Clarke wasn't bad today and didn't hinder the team performance but Lavery made a real difference when he came on. He has that pace and trickery that we simply don't have anywhere else in the team. He's pretty combative too. He's probably a better fit for Sharp than Clarke is.




Basham brought the ball out of defence brilliantly pretty much every single time he had it, anyone should be able to see that. Another good game from him.

Agree. Basham was mostly very good today. 7.5/10.

Clarke ........... fuck me. Woeful. And has now added missing sitters to his list of "talents" !!!!

UTB

 

[Bladepicker]

Corrected that for you.

Apart from the fact Clarke totally changed the game and won us 2 points against Oldham.

Ricky is right, we have a good mix of strikers who can all bring something different to the party, that is crucial when trying to break teams down as they all offer a different challenge.

 

[FellBlade]

As Enigmatic said earlier,whoever we start up front is going to find it very difficult to score at the Lane when teams play with 10 men behind the ball all of the time.All the home games are very similar now.Its like attack vs defence training

 

[Leonardo Green]

As Enigmatic said earlier,whoever we start up front is going to find it very difficult to score at the Lane when teams play with 10 men behind the ball all of the time.All the home games are very similar now.Its like attack vs defence training

Sharp has scored 16 times this season, about 2 of those were when playing with Clarke

 

[BigBed]

Your wrong!!

This was not "another hour wasted trying to force a Clarke / Sharp partnership" to work.
It was infact "Another hour PROVING a Clarke / Sharp partnership will NEVER WORK"

For people who disagree, and are obviously seeing something the rest of the known world are not...............then I'm sorry but, you should've gone to Specsavers!!

 

[robbiez666]

The only way Sharp and Clarke would work against teams sitting back is we had two pacey out and out wingers who regularly got round the back of the defence.

The problem Clarke has is because he's not playing regularly he's not 100% sharp.

At the moment, he's much better as an impact sub with Sharp/Done or Lavery starting. He need the pace and running to pull defences out of shape, players out of position and to harry for mistakes.