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Official Match Thread Bolton Wanderers v Southend United

OXLEY 7 - on a hiding to nothing
ELVIS 8 - Excellent yet again from Elvis , gave everything, superb player
WHITE 7 - Commanding, composed, controlled, steady
HOBSON 7 - Didn't much wrong , great distribution
KYPRIANOU 7 - Excellent match again , great balance + deserves more games
EGBRI 2 - Cant knock his effort but again was awful. Not good enough.
DEMETRIOU 5 - Buzzed about nicely
OLAYINKA 5 - played out of position again and struggled. What a player he could be!
McCORMACK 6 - strong, imposing, missed him when he went off
DIENG 7 - Won plenty of headers , gave us another option attackingly , but no support
GOODSHIP 3 - No confidence , no bottle, has pretty much given up.

SUBS:
STERLING 5 - is a striker. we need a striker , yet played left midfield + is no good there
ACQUAH 5 - won a couple of headers
R.TAYLOR 6 - Been banging on about him up front + he caused plenty of problems with his aggression , size , mobility + exactly what we should have had up front all season in the circumstances. Needs more chances up front!


No shock that we lost heavily again … we play every game effectively with 9 men - Goodship & Egbri have no quality to be playing at this level. Its taken almost half the season for Molesley + his coaches to start coming round to exactly what we have all been saying since week 1. When we have a physical presence up front , get the ball forward quicker , don't ponce about at the back + get some confidence , we are a half decent team.
Feel like we watched different games

Oxley - yes hiding to nothing but should have done better for the third goal, if your c9ming get it dont go half way. 7
Bwomono - steady game but he has to improve, enthusiasm is good but he needs to be more vocal, better postionally and be more decisive both attacking and defending - 5
White - agree with what you say - 7
Hobson, was steady nothing special, he needs to be more divisive when in possession - 6
Kyprianou - tend to agree - 7
JD - was solid, maybe he has to play in midfield as his knees wont last at the back anymore, but if he sits and holds then he can do a decent job - 6
McCormack - strong yes, imposing maybe but at times he was found wanting, if Taylor were fit he wouldn’t make the 11 for me - 6
Olayinka - yep out of position, I said this after the last game too (we did the same with Taylor in a game as well). He looks a good player him for where he will hurt teams - 5
Egbri - too light weight, gives up possession easily, quick for sure but you need more than that. At t8mes he looks good but more often flatters to deceive - 4
Dieng - did ok, I would have had him in central midfield with Olayinka in the more advanced role with Sterling or Rush wide and McCormack on the bench. But he put in a shift - 6
Goodship - not a lot too say don’t think he could buy a goal right now, some poor touches and finishes - 3
 
-------------------------------------OXLEY-----------------------------------
ELVIS-------------HOBSON------------------WHITE----------KYPRIANOU
DEMETRIOU------MCCORMACK------OLAYINKA----DIENG---NATTY-GEORGE
----------------------------AKINOLA----------------------------------------------

HART
STERLING
GOODSHIP
ACQUAH
SEADEN
TAYLOR.R
PHILLIPS

We need to keep the faith - If the Embargo ever gets sorted , the above team can more than hold its own in this division. We can still do this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

UTB

Maybe, but I feel it's going to be too late. Can we really believe that the registration of Akinola and Hart now will save us ? The potential new striker - are they really going to be good enough to help us into play off form which is what will be needed ?
 
Walsall firmly glossed over just how cack MM is, wish we never won it so he'd be gone by now. Ron has literally stuck two fingers up to the fans, he knows we are down and he doesn't care as it saves him money, its all about the stadium he doesnt care what state the team that plays in it is

You wish for us to have a lost a game we fought hard to win?
 
All of the so called strikers would struggle to score in a Sunday park match, they have zero ability, if we go down to the National league that looks likely I believe they would struggle as well, soon as their contracts are up get rid of the lot of them.
 
Feel like we watched different games

Oxley - yes hiding to nothing but should have done better for the third goal, if your c9ming get it dont go half way. 7
Bwomono - steady game but he has to improve, enthusiasm is good but he needs to be more vocal, better postionally and be more decisive both attacking and defending - 5
White - agree with what you say - 7
Hobson, was steady nothing special, he needs to be more divisive when in possession - 6
Kyprianou - tend to agree - 7
JD - was solid, maybe he has to play in midfield as his knees wont last at the back anymore, but if he sits and holds then he can do a decent job - 6
McCormack - strong yes, imposing maybe but at times he was found wanting, if Taylor were fit he wouldn’t make the 11 for me - 6
Olayinka - yep out of position, I said this after the last game too (we did the same with Taylor in a game as well). He looks a good player him for where he will hurt teams - 5
Egbri - too light weight, gives up possession easily, quick for sure but you need more than that. At t8mes he looks good but more often flatters to deceive - 4
Dieng - did ok, I would have had him in central midfield with Olayinka in the more advanced role with Sterling or Rush wide and McCormack on the bench. But he put in a shift - 6
Goodship - not a lot too say don’t think he could buy a goal right now, some poor touches and finishes - 3
I agree with most of that, but Egbri 'quick for sure'?
It looks that way because his bat's wings legs move at pace - but he doesn't.
IF he were fast he would get past full-backs far more frequently as most in this league are no speed merchants - but he doesn't.
I'm supposed to feel sympathy for a young lad trying his best - but his best is just not good enough.
 
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If we go down to the NL we will need a complete rebuild just the same as we will if we stay in L2 somehow. There’s hardly any difference between L2 and the NL, if we were in that league now we’d be rock bottom with our current squad, we’d even struggle in the NLS.
 

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