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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Thorney on January 31, 2026, 02:43:28 pm
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Never really complained about brandon before like many have but.....
I thought when he came on today his body language and performance were abysmal.
Appeared to be sulking and all he added to the game was fouls and offside.
His 1st involvment was being offside and carrying on to smash the ball wide full well knowing he would be carded and didnt even try to be shocked. Then chasing a ball down just decides to barge the defender in the back instead of holdong off and attemptong to put him under pressure.
A very half arsed attempt from him today
Think grant will be very unhappy with that impact today.
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A donkey, and he will be well down the pecking order if the medical team can keep Frankie fit.
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He's an awful player, absolutely clueless.
Its like going down to 10 men when he comes on. He deserves to be nowhere near a professional football pitch.
On the other hand, bradford could bring on paul mullin off the bench who was excellent, says it all.
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He's an awful player, absolutely clueless.
Its like going down to 10 men when he comes on. He deserves to be nowhere near a professional football pitch.
On the other hand, bradford could bring on paul mullin off the bench who was excellent, says it all.
Mullin should have been second yellow carded towards the end for kicking the ball away
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As much as i agree with what has been said, i am astonished that Maxwell doesnt have a thread. If we offer him a new contract (even if in league 2) then we have completely lost the plot. Never seen a left back so weak and easily beaten in my life. Kicks things out of play, clearences are aimless and has no pace. Injuries have killed the lad but if Senior was fit and Mccann played him because of rotation then he needs his head testing. Broadbent also going backwards at an alarming rate. Basing our squad at league one standard, we have a good 6,7 robbing a living. I fear for us even more if we get an injury to a big player because frankly the player behind him is complete ga$h
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He's an awful player, absolutely clueless.
Its like going down to 10 men when he comes on. He deserves to be nowhere near a professional football pitch.
On the other hand, bradford could bring on paul mullin off the bench who was excellent, says it all.
Dont think mullin improved them 1 bit. Gave alot of free kicks away.
Looked more like a player who was trying to play for himself rather than the team.
Cannot see him having a great time over there
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He's an awful player, absolutely clueless.
Its like going down to 10 men when he comes on. He deserves to be nowhere near a professional football pitch.
On the other hand, bradford could bring on paul mullin off the bench who was excellent, says it all.
What’s so good about Mullin exactly?
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He's an awful player, absolutely clueless.
Its like going down to 10 men when he comes on. He deserves to be nowhere near a professional football pitch.
On the other hand, bradford could bring on paul mullin off the bench who was excellent, says it all.
Dont think mullin improved them 1 bit. Gave alot of free kicks away.
Looked more like a player who was trying to play for himself rather than the team.
Cannot see him having a great time over there
Maybe, but I dont want this to turn into a mullin thread .
Its about hanlan being awful
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Hanlan and Sharp aren’t good enough for League One. You lot are will get upset about Hanlan’s body language but that’s just him. Haks is class but his body language is hardly great is it.
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Hopefully okoronkwo is fit for tuesday, and Hanlan is nowhere near the bench.
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Good god - this place really does get embarrassing at times.
Please explain what he could have done in those last minutes, and why he is to blame. Also what the agenda is apart from not being Street.
We paid the price today for others missing good chances not him.
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The subs made both teams worse.
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Good god - this place really does get embarrassing at times.
Please explain what he could have done in those last minutes, and why he is to blame. Also what the agenda is apart from not being Street.
We paid the price today for others missing good chances not him.
Your missing the point, we've got zero threat in hanlan coming off the bench.
It has the opposite effect, it weakens us.
Looks like okoronkwo is out for 4 weeks. It never rains it pours.
Might be in trouble now
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Halan will join a growing pyramid of subpar to inadequate forwards we've signed over the last decade.
Reo Griffiths. Rakish Bingham, Kwame Thomas, Aidan Barlow.... how long do you want to go on.
Got to look at the recruitment. Probably a 50/50 between not having a high enough budget for good strikers, and just bad decisions.
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Biggest thing rovers need to look at is Lee glovers position at the club come the end of the season and get someone else in.
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The subs made both teams worse.
They brought Wright on who smashed in the winner
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Unreal response to some players. They are heros if we will and terrible players if we lose.
Its hard to make an impact as a sub, as Mullins showed today.
If Hanlan had shot that Bily shot that got cleared off the line, everuone would be saying he is rubbish.
Its crazy.
Also thought Billy looked nowhere near a 40 year old.
Look at the bottom of the table, the way we are playing we will be OK, always creating chances and hopefukky build and push on next year.
Come on Rovers.
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Biggest thing rovers need to look at is Lee glovers position at the club come the end of the season and get someone else in.
Isn’t he McCann’s man? He isn’t going to want to give away that responsibility and power to a club chosen appointment.
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I think Hanlan could well be sulking about being behind Sharp in the pecking order and understandably so in my opinion. He did himself no favours today though. We missed the Everton lad today big time and shows how badly we still need strengthening up front for next season.
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Did Gibson do anything when he came on?
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Did Gibson do anything when he came on?
For 15 minutes I’d forgotten he’d come on, if that helps!
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Suspect one of Gibson/Middleton will leave in the summer (if not both).
Personally I like Middleton, but Grant seems not to as much.
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Middleton has been disappointing whenever he's been given a chance, not the player I was hoping.
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Sharp is no longer the player required upfront . Trying his heart out isn’t working for me . We lost today because we never had any effect in front of goal and Adelakun should be more disciplined and could have played along side Hanlan up front . McCann lost a key centre back and putting Bailey in , instead of Pearson was a mistake and could have left Broadbent on the bench as his form has drifted .
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I don't think Hanlan is that bad overall. However I still think we need a different option if Frankie is out. Which probably says it all.
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If there’s a worse player than Hanlan in this division I’d love to know who it is
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Did Gibson do anything when he came on?
For 15 minutes I’d forgotten he’d come on, if that helps!
If we stay up I think he will be on his way.
We can’t have players performing once every 7 or 8 games.
He’s also now proving he’s not up for a battle.
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I don't think Hanlan is that bad overall. However I still think we need a different option if Frankie is out. Which probably says it all.
He is total garbage and offers nothing. He rarely wins a ball and I really do struggle to understand if he does anything at all, a total passenger.
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Hanlan hasnt played many gsmes recently, we saw he could make a difference once he had a few games. Sharp I think did well.
Every professional player in all of the leagues are rubbish occording to you lot. There are not many players even in the premership that play well every game.
Just how people are nowadays I suppose. Moan moan, slag off, when they come good never agree they said they were rubbish. A strange world.
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Hanlan hasnt played many gsmes recently, we saw he could make a difference once he had a few games. Sharp I think did well.
Every professional player in all of the leagues are rubbish occording to you lot. There are not many players even in the premership that play well every game.
Just how people are nowadays I suppose. Moan moan, slag off, when they come good never agree they said they were rubbish. A strange world.
OK then. We give in. Hanlan is absolutely brilliant, and we've no chance of going down whatsoever, because the squad is oozing with quality all the way through.
Is that alright for you?
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Hanlan hasnt played many gsmes recently, we saw he could make a difference once he had a few games. Sharp I think did well.
Every professional player in all of the leagues are rubbish occording to you lot. There are not many players even in the premership that play well every game.
Just how people are nowadays I suppose. Moan moan, slag off, when they come good never agree they said they were rubbish. A strange world.
OK then. We give in. Hanlan is absolutely brilliant, and we've no chance of going down whatsoever, because the squad is oozing with quality all the way through.
Is that alright for you?
There is an inbetween you know.
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Halan will join a growing pyramid of subpar to inadequate forwards we've signed over the last decade.
Reo Griffiths. Rakish Bingham, Kwame Thomas, Aidan Barlow.... how long do you want to go on.
Got to look at the recruitment. Probably a 50/50 between not having a high enough budget for good strikers, and just bad decisions.
He’s definitely a better footballer than the four you’ve mentioned.
The issue for me is, I don’t know what type of centre forward he’s meant to be. How do you use him?
Can anybody compare him to another striker they know of?
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Halan will join a growing pyramid of subpar to inadequate forwards we've signed over the last decade.
Reo Griffiths. Rakish Bingham, Kwame Thomas, Aidan Barlow.... how long do you want to go on.
Got to look at the recruitment. Probably a 50/50 between not having a high enough budget for good strikers, and just bad decisions.
He’s definitely a better footballer than the four you’ve mentioned.
The issue for me is, I don’t know what type of centre forward he’s meant to be. How do you use him?
Can anybody compare him to another striker they know of?
Thing is, he really isnt better than those four is he ?
Your question has already been answered, kwame thomas.
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I bet that any poster sticking up for Hanlan and saying he is good enough for this league and our club wouldnt gamble their life on it if it came down to it. Hes a garbage Theo Robinson and thats saying summat.
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Biggest thing rovers need to look at is Lee glovers position at the club come the end of the season and get someone else in.
Isn’t he McCann’s man? He isn’t going to want to give away that responsibility and power to a club chosen appointment.
He needs to see his mates will be his downfall though.
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He’s not a centre forward. That’s pretty obvious. He’s a wider forward player. Under no circumstances should he be played through the middle on his own. A waste of his time and our time.
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Biggest thing rovers need to look at is Lee glovers position at the club come the end of the season and get someone else in.
Isn’t he McCann’s man? He isn’t going to want to give away that responsibility and power to a club chosen appointment.
He needs to see his mates will be his downfall though.
God knows how you have got to that. The recruitment isnt bad.
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He’s not a centre forward. That’s pretty obvious. He’s a wider forward player. Under no circumstances should he be played through the middle on his own. A waste of his time and our time.
He doesn’t have the skill to play a wider forward role.
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If we’re going to slag him off at least spell his name correctly.
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If there’s a worse player than Hanlan in this division I’d love to know who it is
You really dont need to look far.
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He's an awful player, absolutely clueless.
Its like going down to 10 men when he comes on. He deserves to be nowhere near a professional football pitch.
On the other hand, bradford could bring on paul mullin off the bench who was excellent, says it all.
Mullin did enough to earn a red card today.
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He’s rubbish. He wasn’t much good in that little spell he had earlier in the season either, people just totally overrated him/it as we’d been SO ineffectual up top for weeks.
Of all the bad signings we made in the summer, this one is far and away the worst… Because there was no excuses to not know what we were getting. It was all there. And we signed him to be first choice!
He’s resulted now to what I like to call ‘the Toyosi Olusanya tactic’ which is to just give away a foul or stray offside so that you aren’t exposing yourself by trying to do something you can’t. It’s just pure masking and dodging at this point.
I believe he was quite an expensive free agent too. Dreadful business.
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He’s rubbish. He wasn’t much good in that little spell he had earlier in the season either, people just totally overrated him/it as we’d been SO ineffectual up top for weeks.
Of all the bad signings we made in the summer, this one is far and away the worst… Because there was no excuses to not know what we were getting. It was all there. And we signed him to be first choice!
He’s resulted now to what I like to call ‘the Toyosi Olusanya tactic’ which is to just give away a foul or stray offside so that you aren’t exposing yourself by trying to do something you can’t. It’s just pure masking and dodging at this point.
I believe he was quite an expensive free agent too. Dreadful business.
Playing on the shoulder of the defender you will be offside often. Adeleken was offside several times trying to make a curved run, why not mention that? Hanlan isnt rubbish, he isnt a world beater but not rubbish.
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Did Gibson do anything when he came on?
Didn’t notice he came on tbh.
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Is it just me, or do some folks put far more importance on things which, in the big scheme of things (and unless your livelihood depends upon the success of Doncaster rovers), don’t really matter at all.?
I blame social media, and the fickleness of folks to follow whatever batshit is written online, leading to over exaggerated opinions.
Far too much unwarranted anger - some folks really need to get a life.!!
Rant over.!
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Is it just me, or do some folks put far more importance on things which, in the big scheme of things (and unless your livelihood depends upon the success of Doncaster rovers), don’t really matter at all.?
I blame social media, and the fickleness of folks to follow whatever batshit is written online, leading to over exaggerated opinions.
Far too much unwarranted anger - some folks really need to get a life.!!
Rant over.!
So you're having a rant over other people having a rant?
Joke btw
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Biggest thing rovers need to look at is Lee glovers position at the club come the end of the season and get someone else in.
Isn’t he McCann’s man? He isn’t going to want to give away that responsibility and power to a club chosen appointment.
He needs to see his mates will be his downfall though.
God knows how you have got to that. The recruitment isnt bad.
In the summer we signed...
Grehan
Gotts
Hanlan
Middleton
Pearson
Lo-Tutala
Ajayi
O'Riordan
Crew
Olusanya
Only two of which have added value, in O'Riordan and Gotts, who we took 4 months to work out his best role.
We have a handful who are potentially alright but don't fit into a McCann team like Olusanya, Middleton and Hanlan.
Then we have a load who haven't been good enough, in Grehan, Pearson, Ajayi, Crew and Lo-Tutala... The latter two you'd hope they would have pushed on after previous quality loan spells but unfortunately not the case.
2 out of 10 is a horrific ratio. Hopefully January is a better figure but we'll see after a few months.
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It wasn’t a great summer of business was it? And that’s factoring in us doing most of our business early doors, rather than scrapping around at end of the window. We need to do much better this summer.
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Biggest thing rovers need to look at is Lee glovers position at the club come the end of the season and get someone else in.
Isn’t he McCann’s man? He isn’t going to want to give away that responsibility and power to a club chosen appointment.
He needs to see his mates will be his downfall though.
God knows how you have got to that. The recruitment isnt bad.
In the summer we signed...
Grehan
Gotts
Hanlan
Middleton
Pearson
Lo-Tutala
Ajayi
O'Riordan
Crew
Olusanya
Only two of which have added value, in O'Riordan and Gotts, who we took 4 months to work out his best role.
We have a handful who are potentially alright but don't fit into a McCann team like Olusanya, Middleton and Hanlan.
Then we have a load who haven't been good enough, in Grehan, Pearson, Ajayi, Crew and Lo-Tutala... The latter two you'd hope they would have pushed on after previous quality loan spells but unfortunately not the case.
2 out of 10 is a horrific ratio. Hopefully January is a better figure but we'll see after a few months.
It’s rather telling that so many threads eventually revert to criticism of poor recruitment which is indisputably proved by the number who don’t make the grade and are discarded. It makes you wonder why the competence of the “recruitment department” is not more scrutinised by the press. Why isn’t such a failure rate examined and explanations sought? Loan players go back to where they came from with no comment as to why the club made the mistake of signing them in the first place; its almost as though the club expects us to accept that it’s just a lottery with no assessment of potential really made.
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Hanlan and Middleton are both good League One players. Yet we’ve signed them and either don’t play to their strengths, or they just don’t fit into our system. Middleton especially has been tracked by McCann for several years. Yet he never plays with wingers who go on the outside. Mystifying.
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Sorry but Hanlan is definitely not a good player in L1, if he was then he would be starting every game. His time here and his past career have proven that.
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Hanlan has been playing for, and repeatedly signed by, league 1 clubs for years.
He may not be above average at this level, but plenty in the game clearly think, and thought, that it’s his level.
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Yes but many of those have found that he has not performed for them, and some have been critical of him.
I don’t think it will have helped the fact that he suffered a serious ACL injury in Nov 23 and spent 11 months out till Oct 24.
Following his return he played 29 games and scored 4 goals, before we signed him.
Sorry but he was signed has our main man to lead the line, this was a very big risk, and one that clearly has failed.
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I posted pre-signing that he couldn't hit a barn door. If I knew that, why didn't the recruitment team?
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In the games I have seen him, I felt his first touch let him down and he prefers to shoot with his right foot.
Perhaps the coaching team should give him some personal coaching in these areas to help him improve. Only practice helps you improve.
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Hanlan needs goalscorers around him.
Now that there’s 3 of them around him (Adelakun, Lee, Molyneux) he could come in handy as a player who runs the channels / occupies defenders to make more space for them to thrive.
Lee has only played as a striker in a 3-5-2 at Wrexham even when he wasn’t in his main role as a midfielder. He isn’t a plug in and play solution as a striker.
Maybe McCann could go for a 4-4-2 diamond if BH, FO and BS aren’t on the pitch. With Mols and Haks as split strikers.
Clark
Sterry Byrne / Pearson McGrath Senior
Gotts
Bailey Clifton
Lee
Molyneux Adelakun
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Hanlan has been playing for, and repeatedly signed by, league 1 clubs for years.
He may not be above average at this level, but plenty in the game clearly think, and thought, that it’s his level.
Not since he did his acl
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Hanlan needs goalscorers around him.
Now that there’s 3 of them around him (Adelakun, Lee, Molyneux) he could come in handy as a player who runs the channels / occupies defenders to make more space for them to thrive.
Lee has only played as a striker in a 3-5-2 at Wrexham even when he wasn’t in his main role as a midfielder. He isn’t a plug in and play solution as a striker.
Maybe McCann could go for a 4-4-2 diamond if BH, FO and BS aren’t on the pitch. With Mols and Haks as split strikers.
Clark
Sterry Byrne / Pearson McGrath Senior
Gotts
Bailey Clifton
Lee
Molyneux Adelakun
"Hanlan needs goal scorers around him" :lol:
So he needs players around him to do HIS job for him?
He's an absolute passenger, and a liability.
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Hanlan needs goalscorers around him.
Now that there’s 3 of them around him (Adelakun, Lee, Molyneux) he could come in handy as a player who runs the channels / occupies defenders to make more space for them to thrive.
Lee has only played as a striker in a 3-5-2 at Wrexham even when he wasn’t in his main role as a midfielder. He isn’t a plug in and play solution as a striker.
Maybe McCann could go for a 4-4-2 diamond if BH, FO and BS aren’t on the pitch. With Mols and Haks as split strikers.
Clark
Sterry Byrne / Pearson McGrath Senior
Gotts
Bailey Clifton
Lee
Molyneux Adelakun
"Hanlan needs goal scorers around him" :lol:
So he needs players around him to do HIS job for him?
He's an absolute passenger, and a liability.
I don't agree
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With Hanlan, he has traits that people would see and say he will be a good player.
From time to time he pulls out something and you say that's why we signed him.
However his lack on consistency is because he lacks the instincts and Football IQ on the pitch.
Not being in the right position or not following up on something because he is ball watching.
Best one was taking two players on and the doing a pass so bad it went out for a throw.
He will put the ball in the net from time to time, but he won't be able to give you the consistency to be the number 9 we need to be competitive in League 1.
Watching someone like Street or Frankie play in comparison is night and day in regards to the instincts that are needed to be a good number 9 in this league.
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Hanlan needs goalscorers around him.
Now that there’s 3 of them around him (Adelakun, Lee, Molyneux) he could come in handy as a player who runs the channels / occupies defenders to make more space for them to thrive.
Lee has only played as a striker in a 3-5-2 at Wrexham even when he wasn’t in his main role as a midfielder. He isn’t a plug in and play solution as a striker.
Maybe McCann could go for a 4-4-2 diamond if BH, FO and BS aren’t on the pitch. With Mols and Haks as split strikers.
Clark
Sterry Byrne / Pearson McGrath Senior
Gotts
Bailey Clifton
Lee
Molyneux Adelakun
Haks has only started one match as a striker (it was at Scunny) and he got subbed at half time.