Hammond and Coutts

[Blade]

I'm with alco on this. I thought the midfield three were very poor again today. For me the best transfer deal we could do in January is for adkins to ask for a million quid to pay as many of these players up as we can and start again.

 

[alcoblade]

I'd argue that also, because we haven't exactly set the world alight since he left have we?

That's like saying we should have stuck with Weir because Clough and Adkins performed poorly.

The footballing world had their chance to judge Porter, and Colchester stepped up. I was clearly right.

Are we in trouble In trouble again because of players like Coutts, or in spite of them. The majority evidence is for the former.

We should be discussing our inability to sign good players despite being prepared to pay well above the third division market rate.

That remains the problem to this day.

UTB

 

[blade67]

Words fail me.

Hammond had a better game, which isn't hard. - 5

Coutts. Wow, just wow. An absolute fucking passenger throughout. Pedestrian and poor. He put his shirt on the right way - 1

UTB

Harsh on Hammond, who I really don't think is part of the problem. He clearly gets through tonnes of work and his ball for sharp in the first half WS the best pass in the game. Coutts is OK but the problem is the lack of balance. We need an athlete in there to help us control the game. We also need 2 or 3 more players in other positions, mind you.

 

[alcoblade]

Harsh on Hammond, who I really don't think is part of the problem. He clearly gets through tonnes of work and his ball for sharp in the first half WS the best pass in the game. Coutts is OK but the problem is the lack of balance. We need an athlete in there to help us control the game. We also need 2 or 3 more players in other positions, mind you.

I actually think Hmond is gradually improving- just really slowly and from a really low base. The lack of mobility from each amplifies it from the other.

Wiith Coutts, it's not just poor mobility and workrate. There are no long range passes, no tackling, no goals, no beating a man. He usually passes the ball crisply, and that's where it ends.

Hammond has definitely got more in the locker, and more to come. I'm fairly sure it will come at a big financial cost though.

UTB

 

[loyalblade95]

They did OK it seemed to me and even Edwards was praising Hammond.

Had it on radio n he was praising Hammond quite a lot also praised sharp quite a bit as well

 

[JohnDenver]

And yet Edwards said he thought it wasn't the players that were the problem, he seemed to think it was the "TACTICS" but then what does he know.........

Edwards must be mates with some of them.

If he thinks the problem isn't with Collin and McEv at the back. With the three plodders in midfield. With JCR supplying the ammunition. With our nerve shredding goalies....

We do have capable players in some positions, especially up front. But we've a gaping chasm at the back, a prematurely geriatric engine room, and wide men who need satnav to find the opposition penalty area.