yeah i see what you are saying dv.
one thing i am sure about is that wilson is evaluating his squad and giving some individuals playing time.i have read some comments thinking marshall was a positive.i thought he did one good thing(tried to beat his man and got a corner out of it)but i dont think we will see him play again.
Marshall didnt see much of the ball when he came on but the most obvious thing of note was he is alot more direct than McNamee and Kanu. He got his head down and ran. He actually got in behind the full back a few times. Two crosses got blocked for corners and the other time Lewington took him down because he knew he was away from him.
Now is really not the time to throw someone like Marshall in to asses him as we need points desperatly but maybe his directness might help us but I've not seen enough to know what his end product or defending is like
Why the fuck do people think Easton is the answer to our situation. He was good last season and has been bollox when has played this season. I'm firmly in the DV camp of realism about our situation
I think the difference between say Easton and Peacock this season is that Peacock has had a run in the team and Easton hasnt. They were our midfielders last season and they did a good job of it. Peacock hasnt lived up to it this season. Neither has Easton but Easton hasnt played enough. I'm a firm believer that someone playing every week is better than someone who isnt. The example would be say Shaun Wright-Phillips, awesome at Man City playing every week, first name on the team sheet. Went to Chelsea didnt play every week and is now a poorer player for it.
I'd like to see Easton given a run of games in midfield to see if he can be like he was last season but thats more out of hope than logic or anything else
It depends what context you look at the game in. In isolation, or if we were mid table we'd pretty much all be saying it was a great performance but a shame we didn't score and get the three points.
Look at it in the context of the season we have let two vital points get away. Two points that could end up being the difference between relegation and survival.
We still have the teams around us. We have to hope that somehow we defy our form against lower half teams and beat them.
At the moment I am looking purely at points. We do not win enough, the odd draw here and there is alright if you back them up with a few wins. Leicester and Millwall were good draws but then we go and lose to Hartlepool. We'd have been better off losing to Leicester and Millwall and beating Hartlepool.
Any other time in the season and I suppose i'd be happy about todays performance but the fact is we still cant seem to buy a win even when we play well like today. If our best, or at least if our decent form isnt enough to win games then what is? At the moment it looks like a team like Leyton Orient will drag themselves out of because in every 5 games they lose 2 and win 2 and draw 1. We on the other hand lose 0 and draw 5. They get 7 points we get 5.
Amankwaah was deemed to be shit when playing for Malpas. Wilson seems to have got some good performances out of him. Who knows, maybe the same can happen with Easton?
I do know what you're getting at though and agree on this point. Too many times people think the solution is a different player and it turns out not to be the case. That's not to say a player cannot come in a rejuvenated player, just like Amankwaah.
There can be no 'camp of realism' though. We've spent practically all season outside the drop zone, we're not leaking as many goals and suddenly people seem to think the 'realistic' viewpoint is that we're not good enough and we're going down. There are two sides to the argument, the optimistic and the pessimistic. The realistic only becomes true if you're in Cheltanham's shoes and you're a s good as down. Until then, everyone else around the drop zone has got a good a chance as any to stay up or go down.
Of course Amankwaah wasnt 'shit' under Malpas our stupid over re-active short term memory fans thought he was shit under Malpas. He came in to cover for injury and did alright, nothing like his current form but far from shit. Then he had a mare against Huddersfield and I dont think he played again till Wilson came in did he?
I'm not saying he was brilliant but he was ok under Malpas apart from Huddersfield but thats the one most of our fans remember. Not for example his first game away at MK when he was pretty damn solid.
Wilson and Amankwaah have previous, I mean Wilson gave Amankwaah his first professional contract and kept faith with him after he spent a long time out injured after his car crash. Wilson obviously rates him and you can see the confidence in Amankwaah, he's probably been our only improved player under Wilson, all the rest have been much the same.
Of course you are correct Si when you say our defence is much more solid but we dont look as good going forward. I used to fancy us to score every game but as soon as Cox hit the bar today it just seemed like it wasnt going to be our day. For once I dont have all the stats but Cox seemed to score more under Malpas. Now maybe we've sacrificed some of Cox attacking play to shore up the team (ie Cox dropping deep) I dunno.
Maybe Cox is just burnt out. I suppose this is probably his first actual full season and he's probably played more than all our players. He missed one game through suspension and got subbed off once but I think he's played every other minute
