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Here's a poser for you.....just for one game, the second leg.

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If you put Johnson on gardening leave and asked Kevin Ball to attempt to motivate that group of players ahead of the Lincoln game would you be more or less confident that we'd overturn the defecit.

One game only, no suggestion of any longer term commitment.
 

Unbelievable that there really is a desperation/determination amongst some people, to pin this on Johnson.

We aren't being overrun in midfield because our midfielders lack motivation. We're being overrun in midfield because our midfielders are - to a man - shit, slow, limited plodders. Charlie Wyke isn't unable to trap a bag of cement because he lacks motivation. He can't trap a back of cement because he's an awful footballer. It isn't a lack of motivation that made Bailey Wright miss a free header from six yards out. It's not a lack of motivation that turned Flanagan and Burge into the football Keystone Cops. More motivation isn't going turn either Hume or McFadzean in to a presentable defender.

This shite group of players has failed repeatedly for three years, under three managers. Our current position has next to nothing to do with managers. We need better players. Plain and simple.

Massive summer for the recruitment team.
 
Less tbh. He'd play the 'good lads' mostly. The swings at Johnson tactically aren't really landing for me. Truth is I don't see any way of setting this squad of players up that will improve things. People talk about 4-3-3 as if it is a panacea but with a front three that involves two wingers who stay isolated way out wide and an immobile (admittedly brilliant one-touch) finisher who can't really play football, it doesn't really work that well. We're a mess of players who don't really fit together - and who were mostly recruited for a wildly different set-up.
 
Lord Alfred said:
If you put Johnson on gardening leave and asked Kevin Ball to attempt to motivate that group of players ahead of the Lincoln game would you be more or less confident that we'd overturn the defecit.

One game only, no suggestion of any longer term commitment.
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No, but I was surprised that the new temporary bloke didn't have more of a presence on the sidelines the other night - he looked as disinterested as the players did.
 
Lord Alfred said:
If you put Johnson on gardening leave and asked Kevin Ball to attempt to motivate that group of players ahead of the Lincoln game would you be more or less confident that we'd overturn the defecit.

One game only, no suggestion of any longer term commitment.
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Gods sake don’t send up to my garden, he’ll move the lupins behind the apple tree’s and put the rose tree’s in the pond.
 
Sweeper said:
Unbelievable that there really is a desperation/determination amongst some people, to pin this on Johnson.

We aren't being overrun in midfield because our midfielders lack motivation. We're being overrun in midfield because our midfielders are - to a man - shit, slow, limited plodders. Charlie Wyke isn't unable to trap a bag of cement because he lacks motivation. He can't trap a back of cement because he's an awful footballer. It isn't a lack of motivation that made Bailey Wright miss a free header from six yards out. It's not a lack of motivation that turned Flanagan and Burge into the football Keystone Cops. More motivation isn't going turn either Hume or McFadzean in to a presentable defender.

This shite group of players has failed repeatedly for three years, under three managers. Our current position has next to nothing to do with managers. We need better players. Plain and simple.

Massive summer for the recruitment team.
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If you think Johnson set the midfield up rightly to mitigate our limitations yesterday, you are in cloud f***ing cuckoo land.

That was the problem for the entire first half and at the root of the goal we conceded too.

The other problem was playing Flanagan, who ran out of steam because he was nackered. Don't blame Johnson on that one me, would have done the same and he was out best player in the first half.

Main point is Johnson is very palpably not very good under pressure. He's never won promotion, his arse absolutely dropped when the pressure was on here - and you can see that in his whole career. That's a problem for this job, its too big for him.

He did ok, no better (actually marginally worse) than Parkinson statistically, but played a more enterprising brand of football. But we'd have been put out of our misery long ago, if we hadn't lucked out on a loan signing from Wolves who Johnson didn't sign and barely wanted to play until injuries forced him.

He's not the man for this job. I understand people being sympathetic to him given the state of the club and players, but he very palpably isn't the man for the job and - as we didn't do with Ross - we should cut our losses whilst we can.
 
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Of course not. He hasn't got any kind of bounce whenever he has taken over before has he?
 
Comeback_Kenwyne said:
If you think Johnson set the midfield up rightly to mitigate our limitations yesterday, you are in cloud f***ing cuckoo land.

That was the problem for the entire first half and at the root of the goal we conceded too.

The other problem was playing Flanagan, who ran out of steam because he was nackered. Don't blame Johnson on that one me, would have done the same and he was out best player in the first half.

Main point is Johnson is very palpably not very good under pressure. He's never won promotion, his arse absolutely dropped when the pressure was on here - and you can see that in his whole career. That's a problem for this job, its too big for him.

He did ok, no better (actually marginally worse) than Parkinson statistically, but played a more enterprising brand of football. But we'd have been put out of our misery long ago, if we hadn't lucked out on a loan signing from Wolves who Johnson barely wanted to play anyway until injuries forced him.

He's not the man for this job. I understand people being sympathetic to him given the state of the club and players, but he very palpably isn't the man for the job and - as we didn't do with Ross - we should cut our losses whilst we can.
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What's the alternative? The whole team sits even deeper to avoid exposing our midfielders to any sort of pace and energy?

Aye, I'm sure that would have gone down really well.
 
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