Gooch (Scapegoat)


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He’s way better than a lot give him credit for, but he’s so far out of form he looks substantially worse than he did as an academy prospect in the PL.

A fresh start maybe what he needs, or maybe the new manager can reignite the fire in him.
The previous new managers failed, do you think it might be because its impossible.
 
I could not believe that he started yesterday, he has lost the only good quality he had which was pace, now he try's to go past people but as he is now too slow he cannot and ends up loosing the ball and fouling players, yesterday he lost the ball about 6 times in the first half after which he wandered back to the halfway line, on the one occasion that he tried and succeeded in winning the ball back after he lost it some of the crowd we chanting GOOOCH i could not believe it. yesterday he was dross as were most of the players but he has been dross all season, backs into people and goes down expecting a foul to be given and then his arms are up and he is going on like a diva as he gets nothing.
i am not by any means trying to make him a scapegoat but he has been poor for too long and he should never have been on the park yesterday and for him to play the whole game beggars belief, its just that there are a lot of people looking at him with rose tinted glasses as he has been here for so long, hopefully mr Keene will come in and either get him playing or get him out of the first team and he will be released at the end of the season with all our gratitude for his past endeavours. HTL
 
Gooch’s decision making is his biggest flaw. This should have improved over time. Unfortunately it hasn’t.He simply has very little or no end product.
And yet he at least had a go yesterday. There were far worse hiding on the pitch
 
on the one occasion that he tried and succeeded in winning the ball back after he lost it some of the crowd we chanting GOOOCH i could not believe it.
Probably in the hope that it will try and lift him and the team rather than just booing or shouting abuse at the lad....radical I know.
 
I could not believe that he started yesterday, he has lost the only good quality he had which was pace, now he try's to go past people but as he is now too slow he cannot and ends up loosing the ball and fouling players, yesterday he lost the ball about 6 times in the first half after which he wandered back to the halfway line, on the one occasion that he tried and succeeded in winning the ball back after he lost it some of the crowd we chanting GOOOCH i could not believe it. yesterday he was dross as were most of the players but he has been dross all season, backs into people and goes down expecting a foul to be given and then his arms are up and he is going on like a diva as he gets nothing.
i am not by any means trying to make him a scapegoat but he has been poor for too long and he should never have been on the park yesterday and for him to play the whole game beggars belief, its just that there are a lot of people looking at him with rose tinted glasses as he has been here for so long, hopefully mr Keene will come in and either get him playing or get him out of the first team and he will be released at the end of the season with all our gratitude for his past endeavours. HTL
Gooch is no scape goat marra.... his play has been appalling for months into double figured months now.. He has picked up some really bad habits where he tries to beat a man , beats him, slows up and tries again ,then lose the ball which is when the arms start wind milling about. I think there a little bit of trying to be Aiden McGeady about him now but since his family came along and his injuries last season he has went backwards as a player most notably yesterday , he was the first one down the tunnel without staying on the pitch.
 
Anyone else think this lad is becoming a bit of a scapegoat?

I know he frustrates at times with his decision making but he can play some good football also when in his correct position.

He has taken on a tough role at right back recently and he is clearly out of his depth in that position, but people need to cut him some slack. This position should have been addressed in January and Gooch shouldn’t be playing there.

Yesterday at the match I saw a shocking ball played to him and before the ball even got near him the fans lost it with him. Gooch ironically trapped the ball and played it back to Doyle in what stopped the ball going out for a throw in to Doncaster and the fans around me looked a bit silly.

Gooch has been no worse than most during this bad spell but nobody else gets as much abuse as this lad.

I don’t think people want him to fail and people are right to expect better but people need to cut him slack.

No, his form had been terrible lately (and I’m usually one who backs all our players) his final ball, decision making and inability to beat a man is what he is rightly being criticised for.
 
No, his form had been terrible lately (and I’m usually one who backs all our players) his final ball, decision making and inability to beat a man is what he is rightly being criticised for.
Which is the reason people, rightly so, are pointing this out.
 
Apart from Pritchard he was our best player yesterday. Not saying much mind. Desperately need to stop pissing about and just leave him on the left wing though.
That’s a canny hangover u have there if u think that. Doesn’t know when to release the ball, not very good at all. Shouldn’t start again while the likes of Mcgeady, Prichard, roberts, Clarke are all about who can play on the wing
 
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