Let's talk about the Crewe Alexandra game

[ncRover]

All of our current midfielders are contracted for next season - Broadbent, Bailey, Clifton, Sbarra, Close and Westbrooke.

A concern for me was offering Kyle Hurst a new contract.
He’s having a poor time up in Scotland playing at a worse standard than L2. No goal involvements in 8 games.
Him and Gibson the contracted left wingers leaves no room for another. Neither good enough for L1 as first choice.

[eastender]

15 mins injury time at Bradford

[Colemans Left Hook]

 i just put £5 on them at 32/1

[Colemans Left Hook]

and £1 @ 110/1

[drfchound]

15 mins injury time at Bradford

Seems like they will play in until Bradford score.

[Filo]

15 mins injury time at Bradford

Seems like they will play in until Bradford score.

15 minutes of added time

[ravenrover]

Them? Who?

[Colemans Left Hook]

 bradford

no matter who wins the league i make a big profit

[Filo]

Now into 17th minute

[Colemans Left Hook]

bradford lost which is fine

[drfchound]

Todays results not too bad for us in the end then.

[Colemans Left Hook]

this league reminds me of a dads army sketch when someone asks for a volunteer  and everyone but one takes a step back

now all the teams are doing ( not winning) that so Walsall stop top AT THE MOMENT bewar of Port Vale

[ravenrover]

Beware Colchester

[DRFCSouth]

What happened down the front today when we scored? Right commotion going on. Stewards holding onto fans & one of ours dragged away?

[ForsolongaRover]

We don't want to involve our midfield. They are there to stop other sides playing. We missed our usual back four playing diagonal balls or running behind our wingers. As a result we had to rely on our midfield to create chances. Hence we were poor.

Sterry is being missed the most.
He adds so much to,our attacking play.

I made this point on Lucky Pint. Perhaps there is more room out on the wing, but of the midfielders only Bailey has the confidence skill and imagination that Sterry shows game after game. If Sterry has L1 quality where does that put those who started in the midfield today? Bailey apart, none of them shows what we get from Kelly who I know makes mistakes, but midfielders surely have to take risks. We also lacked cohesion up the left side; Gibson is better with Maxwell behind him.

[donnyguy]

15 mins injury time at Bradford

It was a medical emergency in crowd.

[Pancho Regan]

I wish we could have brought Kyle Hurst on today.

I’ve been really patient regarding Gibson but he’s just not good enough I’m afraid. Dreadful today.
Same with Ennis. His loan hasn’t worked at all.

[drfchound]

I have said recently that I thought Gibson had been improving but today he fell back again.

[roversdude]

Don’t think the pitch helped Gibson today (although a professional footballer should be able to play on anything)

[Colemans Left Hook]

I wish we could have brought Kyle Hurst on today.

I’ve been really patient regarding Gibson but he’s just not good enough I’m afraid. Dreadful today.
Same with Ennis. His loan hasn’t worked at all.

err Ennis wasn't dreadful today - he was a breath iof fresh air   ---  he almost scored the winner as the defender threw himself to deflect the ball to hit the post -

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Really hard to judge Ennis on the limited time he's had being kept out by Gibson who's being given the benefit of doubt and has been clinging on by a thread, hoping he'll deliver the goods. Maybe today might  convince McCann to give Ennis more of a chance.

[Bills view]

Ennis was unlucky with the deflected shot but our attacking players must do more to impact the game. I've not been convinced by him.

Moly is V. Good but we don't see enough of the others.

You would think they would be desperate to impress to get in the starting line up.

It's a shop window for loanees to showcase their ability and the forwards are mainly judged by goals scored, chances created or by vtal contributions to moves.

[Padge_DRFC]

Easy to look good in a stretched game 80 minutes in. Ennis isn't an improvement on Hurst. Neither are good enough for promotion.

Kelly is the obvious choice to play. If playing with Broadbent and Bailey we can afford him to play and take risks and do what the other midfielders cannot do.

[GazLaz]

Easy to look good in a stretched game 80 minutes in. Ennis isn't an improvement on Hurst. Neither are good enough for promotion.

Kelly is the obvious choice to play. If playing with Broadbent and Bailey we can afford him to play and take risks and do what the other midfielders cannot do.

The way Kelly can travel with the ball adds something different centrally. You could make a fairly strong case that out of our 7 central midfielders Clifton and Broadbent are the worst two.

[Alan Southstand]

The way Kelly can travel with the ball adds something different centrally.

That’s put the Indian sign on him - you just know he’ll get crocked on International duty!

[andysly]

I still believe in Gibson, he’s got the ability to be a decent player for us but his confidence is shot.
I found myself feeling sorry for the lad yesterday, all of us that have played will have experienced games/periods when nothing goes your way, the best thing for him at the moment would be a knock in training that keeps him out the way for a few weeks.
GMc dropping him out would just drain any remaining confidence from him.

[mushRTID]

About Gibsons confidence.
How much more does the team need to suffer while we wait for it to improve?

He scored a belter on his debut.
A short while after in an interview he said he was playing in his best/favourite position.
That first half at Grimsby…wow. It couldn’t get any better and the fans sang his name all day and at the end.
His manager constantly picks him and has said in public he’s one of the best wingers in the league.

All this while playing in a side near the top of division.

If these things aren’t going to improve his confidence, how long exactly are we meant to wait?

[andysly]

Confidence, comes and goes, he’s trying too hard and making it worse.

[Padge_DRFC]

This attitude thing of Gibson seems nonsense. I don't see a lad not trying at all. Yesterday Crewe knew he was a threat and had 3 round him many a time. Big compliment from Crewe yesterday to him. Marked him out the game. Possibly why he was taken off.

[DonnyOsmond]

This attitude thing of Gibson seems nonsense. I don't see a lad not trying at all. Yesterday Crewe knew he was a threat and had 3 round him many a time. Big compliment from Crewe yesterday to him. Marked him out the game. Possibly why he was taken off.

Is the left back not getting up enough to free him up when Senior's playing instead of Maxwell?