Carlisle United vs Swindon Town Match Day Thread

[RobertT]

Off the back of only three games, so could easily change, we are in for a struggle here.

Wakeling has something and Khan can be worked with, but that defence is shocking and zero midfield support, much as last season.

Upfront, Wakeling does not want to play back to goal and as much as he was good with runs and driving, that meant nothing would stick and Carlisle just drove straight back us.

McKridy is similar to the start of last season, before he got going.

Reed is playing like his first game last season, which puts us in trouble.

New signings are worse than last seasons team I am afraid.  Too many rough edges and not sure any are Diamonds.

Add in last seasons players being off their best and you get this shit.  Lucky not to have conceded three more easy chances.

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

Upfront, Wakeling does not want to play back to goal and as much as he was good with runs and driving, that meant nothing would stick and Carlisle just drove straight back us.

This could potentially be resolved signing a striker and having Wakeling and McKirdy the wide guys.

zero midfield support

I'm hoping Clayton may end up being the answer here.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

Got to sell Reed - he’s been worse than hopeless every game. Perverse that Clayton and Darcy can’t get game time with that shower on the pitch. No way will Clem sack Lindsey until it’s too late. Who would take over anyway. Nobody wanted it before Lindsey got it by default.

It’s not the new players that are the problem - it’s the left overs from last season.

[RobertT]

Baudry will get some positive comments because he made a few good clearances, BUT, he and MacDonald were fucking atrocious at marking runs and movement.

[JBZ]

That looked like two poor Div 4 teams who are likely to be in the lower reaches of the division at the end of the season.  Unless STFC sort things out defensively,  this could go very badly.

[RedRag]

Amazed at the Man Utd- entitlement negativity on here.  This is League 2 ffs.  

We're a long way off how we finished last season.  The likes of Simpson were getting pelters at this stage.  As did Garner for all but the run-in.  One minute the players are rubbish.  Next minute, it's the coach.  

Fact is Clem has been nutmegged by the walk outs and has shown some naivety in the lack of response.  

We won a point and came quite well back after a very ropey first half with a new defensive line up/formation.

I'm not blind to the faults and, like everyone am concerned about the limitations.  If anyone didn't notice Carlisle were donkeys  in their finishing and were being opened up second half.  This is L2.

[RedRag]

Baudry will get some positive comments because he made a few good clearances, BUT, he and MacDonald were fucking atrocious at marking runs and movement.

True

But it didn't stop at the central defending.

The transition play was very poor, especially first half and the full backs either got "done" unnecessarily or, in Hutton's case, failed to keep tracking the spare man on the ball wide.

Do we have a defensive coach?  It is early days yet.

[adje]

I'm confused by our manager's post match comments. He makes no sense half the time.

[Nomoreheroes]

Lindsay:
- A good point on the road
- Tough place to come. They are a good side
- We wanted 3
- Dominated possession first half. Made it end to end 2nd
- Created chances, which we have been criticised for. Think it was double figures
- Problem would be if we weren't getting in position to score
- Today looked like being a threat
- Tough place to com
- Pleased with application
- Felt that we wanted to be more of an attacking threat so went 4 at the back. 433 made us more aggressive. More of an attacking threat
- Their goal: We have played it back to GK. He hoofed it and we didnt win it. We weren't locked in at the back.
- At times we were in control of possession, but didnt look ready if we lost possession
- Wanted the front 3 to press. Colchester scored against them doing the same
- Good to see Wakeling getting off the mark with a good finish
- Was heat a factor for subs? Wakeling looked to run out of legs. Williams looked to be tiring
- Hard slog for the players today. They put a lot into today
- Weather was the same for both teams, so not going to make an issue of it.

[Processed Beats]

Tough place to come, hard slog blah blah cliche cliche. Fed up of him.

[JoeMezz]

Lindsay:
- A good point on the road
- Tough place to come. They are a good side
- We wanted 3
- Dominated possession first half. Made it end to end 2nd
- Created chances, which we have been criticised for. Think it was double figures
- Problem would be if we weren't getting in position to score
- Today looked like being a threat
- Tough place to com
- Pleased with application
- Felt that we wanted to be more of an attacking threat so went 4 at the back. 433 made us more aggressive. More of an attacking threat
- Their goal: We have played it back to GK. He hoofed it and we didnt win it. We weren't locked in at the back.
- At times we were in control of possession, but didnt look ready if we lost possession
- Wanted the front 3 to press. Colchester scored against them doing the same
- Good to see Wakeling getting off the mark with a good finish
- Was heat a factor for subs? Wakeling looked to run out of legs. Williams looked to be tiring
- Hard slog for the players today. They put a lot into today
- Weather was the same for both teams, so not going to make an issue of it.

Sheridan V2.0

[adje]

I maybe wrong but his reasons for going with a 4 are remarkably similar to those he gave for going with a 3

[Jimmy HaveHave]

It sounds like Lindsey thinks we're going in the right direction

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

Amazed at the Man Utd- entitlement negativity on here.  This is League 2 ffs.  

We're a long way off how we finished last season.  The likes of Simpson were getting pelters at this stage.  As did Garner for all but the run-in.  One minute the players are rubbish.  Next minute, it's the coach.  

Fact is Clem has been nutmegged by the walk outs and has shown some naivety in the lack of response.  

We won a point and came quite well back after a very ropey first half with a new defensive line up/formation.

I'm not blind to the faults and, like everyone am concerned about the limitations.  If anyone didn't notice Carlisle were donkeys  in their finishing and were being opened up second half.  This is L2.

There is no entitlement. It just looks like shit and smells like shit and thus, is being called shit.

I understand this is League 2. Nobody is under any illusions of that. We can just see with our eyes that even grading on a curve for League 2, we are still.....shit!

[Crozzer]

Why all the negativity?  This season is going to be a slow burner with so many new faces brought in based on being on the way up rather than being the finished article. The dreadful home form of most of last season seems to have been forgotten about.