danboyb
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Post by danboyb on Dec 27, 2023 9:46:01 GMT
Pretty sure we could recall him. Realistically he’s not ready for this level, but he’d offer us more than our attacking options currently available from the bench.
My one gripe with Harris is his reluctance to use our youngsters. Simper and/or Yearn should have been on the bench yesterday, and McConnell should have been used instead of Haunstrup.
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lesj
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Post by lesj on Dec 27, 2023 9:54:49 GMT
How did Haunstrup do ?
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Post by Tom Shaw's Fist of Rage on Dec 27, 2023 10:07:07 GMT
Don't think he touched the ball. But he's not a left winger he was brought in to double up with Andrew. Can't really attribute conceding to him and understand why Harris made the decision to try and see out the game but in hindsight maybe Janneh or McConnell in a more natural position may have been better. No Simper on the bench was more of a error in my opinion, May was cooked with 10 to go.
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Post by svh on Dec 27, 2023 10:09:01 GMT
Haunstrup was brought on to double up on their winger as we were under a lot of pressure.
However everything was mainly coming down their left hand side as Goodram is clearly their best player.
Stevens made two outstanding saves but will be disappointed with the winner.
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Post by pollycarpou on Dec 27, 2023 10:41:53 GMT
"My one gripe with Harris is his reluctance to use our youngsters. Simper and/or Yearn should have been on the bench yesterday, and McConnell should have been used instead of Haunstrup."
Not sure this is entirely fair as he has had limited time to assess them, Bringing McConnell on would have been a more attacking action and I think (as someone else has said) he wanted to reinforce the defence.
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danboyb
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Post by danboyb on Dec 27, 2023 13:11:20 GMT
"My one gripe with Harris is his reluctance to use our youngsters. Simper and/or Yearn should have been on the bench yesterday, and McConnell should have been used instead of Haunstrup." Not sure this is entirely fair as he has had limited time to assess them, Bringing McConnell on would have been a more attacking action and I think (as someone else has said) he wanted to reinforce the defence. The Haunstrup sub is a personal opinion, can see why he done it but I didn’t agree with it at the time and it didn’t work, as Harris admitted himself. I don’t think we really needed all 3 of Ryan Bennett, Rossi and Haunstrup on the bench. The option to bring Simper on would have been useful.
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rozza1
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Post by rozza1 on Dec 27, 2023 13:37:12 GMT
My one gripe with Harris is his reluctance to use our youngsters. Simper and/or Yearn should have been on the bench yesterday, and McConnell should have been used instead of Haunstrup. To be fair Bonner wasn't any better at this, especially this season. I get the frustration though. Simper for me needs a loan. McConnell has looked promising in the few very brief cameos he gets, so I guess he's the one I would have liked to have seen get more minutes. They all need to play though, keeping them here and then not using them is just detrimental.
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danboyb
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Post by danboyb on Dec 27, 2023 15:46:25 GMT
Yes, that’s a fair point. I don’t think Simper has made a squad under Harris, can only guess he’s not showing enough in training. .As you say, he didn’t feature much under Bonner either. Just seems a bit strange that he wasn’t included yesterday to give us a bit more variety from the bench.
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Post by hoolaohanrahanrahan on Dec 27, 2023 15:54:00 GMT
Think it's very much a case of facing a harsh truth when it comes to Simper.
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imp566
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Post by imp566 on Dec 27, 2023 16:29:24 GMT
Think it's very much a case of facing a harsh truth when it comes to Simper. He may well be one that thrives after leaving the club and developes a decent career for himself, a bit like Tom Knowles.
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danboyb
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Post by danboyb on Dec 27, 2023 16:45:46 GMT
Simper is one who would have benefited had we gone down last season. I think he’s more likely to be a Worman than a Knowles at the mo, but will see what we do with him.
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