Shrimpsvoices

For me the last two games have provided enough evidence to show how inconsistent as a team we have been this season save for the opening games that saw is rightly at the top of the League.

Excellent against Portsmouth and below par v York.

If Jimbo can put together a squad that is able to be consistent in performing as we all know that they are more than capable then maybe next season will see much improvement both in performances and results particularly at The Globe (or whatever it will be called) next season.

With additions of extra quality and steel in midfield (Perkins ....and the Blackpool managers reluctance to confirm his future on Radio Lancashire suggest that he may be on his way out of Bloomfield Road ) plus maybe a speed merchant out wide then I see no reason as to why season 2015/2016 can't be the season when we are chasing an
automatic promotion place.

PMG said at the recent fans forum that he now doubts that we will ever be in a position to regularly attract gates of well over 2000 on a consistent basis, I'd love for him to be proved wrong and if we are chasing promotion then what better way to do it.....

Targets for me over the Summer should be to keep the defence and strike force in tact. I don't think we can do much better than Beeley, Wilson, Edwards, Hughes & Parrish at the back and Ellison, Amond, Redshaw & Mullin are about as good a strike force as we're likely to get.

As CC says, an overhaul of the midfield is needed. I would keep Kenyon & Fleming but let Wright, Williams and Goodall leave and we'll have to see what Drummy does in terms of hanging up his boots or not. Perkins & Wildig would be great signings if we could pull them off and then maybe look to pluck a goal scoring midfielder from non league too.

Would Perks be prepared to drop to our level at this stage of his career though? I'm not so sure...

Shrimpy wrote:Targets for me over the Summer should be to keep the defence and strike force in tact. I don't think we can do much better than Beeley, Wilson, Edwards, Hughes & Parrish at the back and Ellison, Amond, Redshaw & Mullin are about as good a strike force as we're likely to get.

As CC says, an overhaul of the midfield is needed. I would keep Kenyon & Fleming but let Wright, Williams and Goodall leave and we'll have to see what Drummy does in terms of hanging up his boots or not. Perkins & Wildig would be great signings if we could pull them off and then maybe look to pluck a goal scoring midfielder from non league too.

The most prolific combined goal scoring strike force in League 2. Assuming Padraig scores one more goal this season, we will have 3 strikers each having scored at least 10 this season......if only we had a regular goal scorer in midfield.....

John L wrote:Would Perks be prepared to drop to our level at this stage of his career though? I'm not so sure...

Perks is 31 I think and a return to his home town club (now that Sammy Mac has gone) would be the perfect move for him. However finance as always could be a problem but what an addition to the midfield it would be and would certainly be seen by many as a message of intent for next season.

We can only live in hope......

Christies Child wrote:

John L wrote:Would Perks be prepared to drop to our level at this stage of his career though? I'm not so sure...

Perks is 31 I think and a return to his home town club (now that Sammy Mac has gone) would be the perfect move for him. However finance as always could be a problem but what an addition to the midfield it would be and would certainly be seen by many as a message of intent for next season.

We can only live in hope......

He's 32, will turn 33 in June.

I think one thing you're missing in the consistency argument is that we play better football against clubs that are more open, hence presumably why we play better away and/or against better teams, as they will generally play more attacking/free-flowing football. In order to improve our consistency we need to find a way to combat more negative play from our opponents and open up the game for our own passing game to flourish. I hope Jim and Ken can give that some thought over the next few weeks, and come up with a plan for next season.

Shrimpy wrote:

Christies Child wrote:

John L wrote:Would Perks be prepared to drop to our level at this stage of his career though? I'm not so sure...

Perks is 31 I think and a return to his home town club (now that Sammy Mac has gone) would be the perfect move for him. However finance as always could be a problem but what an addition to the midfield it would be and would certainly be seen by many as a message of intent for next season.

We can only live in hope......

He's 32, will turn 33 in June.

Thanks for the correction. Even better age wise as a move to our club's engine room could be perfect at his age where he could control midfield.....

How about we start a transfer / signing on fund to bring him on board.....

Phil Anderer wrote:I think one thing you're missing in the consistency argument is that we play better football against clubs that are more open, hence presumably why we play better away and/or against better teams, as they will generally play more attacking/free-flowing football. In order to improve our consistency we need to find a way to combat more negative play from our opponents and open up the game for our own passing game to flourish. I hope Jim and Ken can give that some thought over the next few weeks, and come up with a plan for next season.

I think this is spot on.

The problems are there to be seen this season. We need another couple of midfielders in my opinion if we can add a 10 goal a season midfielder then maybe we won't be too far away. I'm hoping we'll sign a better left back too. Wilson gives the ball away far too much for me an had been very poor in recent weeks. It's silly games at home what have cost us this season so if we can sort our home form out well be in with a better chance next year !

Don't think we could afford Perkins .... Blackpool fans are keen on him staying put as well

Kendalshrimp wrote:The problems are there to be seen this season. We need another couple of midfielders in my opinion if we can add a 10 goal a season midfielder then maybe we won't be too far away. I'm hoping we'll sign a better left back too. Wilson gives the ball away far too much for me an had been very poor in recent weeks. It's silly games at home what have cost us this season so if we can sort our home form out well be in with a better chance next year !

I would have to disagree about Laurence Wilson. I think he has had a decent season especially when you consider some of the personal tragedy that he has suffered as outlined by Jim at last weeks Fans Forum.

Don't think we could afford a better one and IMHO he is a cut above both Robbie Threlfall and the lad we borrowed from Bury.

Christies Child wrote:

Shrimpy wrote:

Christies Child wrote:
Perks is 31 I think and a return to his home town club (now that Sammy Mac has gone) would be the perfect move for him. However finance as always could be a problem but what an addition to the midfield it would be and would certainly be seen by many as a message of intent for next season.

We can only live in hope......

He's 32, will turn 33 in June.

Thanks for the correction. Even better age wise as a move to our club's engine room could be perfect at his age where he could control midfield.....

How about we start a transfer / signing on fund to bring him on board.....

On your bike...

Heysham_Shrimp wrote:

Kendalshrimp wrote:The problems are there to be seen this season. We need another couple of midfielders in my opinion if we can add a 10 goal a season midfielder then maybe we won't be too far away. I'm hoping we'll sign a better left back too. Wilson gives the ball away far too much for me an had been very poor in recent weeks. It's silly games at home what have cost us this season so if we can sort our home form out well be in with a better chance next year !

I would have to disagree about Laurence Wilson. I think he has had a decent season especially when you consider some of the personal tragedy that he has suffered as outlined by Jim at last weeks Fans Forum.

Don't think we could afford a better one and IMHO he is a cut above both Robbie Threlfall and the lad we borrowed from Bury.

Yes he's had major issues off the field it won't of helped him this season but I feel we could do better with trying to loan someone aswell in that position to make Wilson know he has got some competition for his place. A left back an couple of goal scoring midfielders an hold onto our key players would be a good transfer window !

The other players seem reluctant to pass to Wilson. Time and time again, he's been well up in their half, unmarked in acres of space, waving his hands asking for the ball, but just ignored. More often that not, when he does one of his forward runs, it's because he's picked up the ball from the keeper and taken it forward himself. Are the team deliberately ignoring him because they don't trust him, or is he under-performing because he's not getting passed the ball? Chicken & egg?

I would like to see some stats that provide info as to where the highest number of crosses from an opponents wing comes from that lead to a goal. It wouldn't surprise me if it was from Willow's side. For me he doesn't mark close enough to his man always allowing his opponent space to run at him.

Again for me he seems to have lost that extra bit of pace that once took him past players and created openings for our strikers.

Christies Child wrote:I would like to see some stats that provide info as to where the highest number of crosses from an opponents wing comes from that lead to a goal. It wouldn't surprise me if it was from Willow's side. For me he doesn't mark close enough to his man always allowing his opponent space to run at him.

Again for me he seems to have lost that extra bit of pace that once took him past players and created openings for our strikers.

His crosses don't beat the first man. That's why he doesn't take corners anymore ! I'm not saying get rid in the summer but I'd be certainly looking to bring another LB in for some competition so he knows he can be dropped if under performing !

It's only a month ago that he scored our potentially goal of the season!

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