Chester Vs Scunthorpe Match Thread

I havnt seen anything from him apart from a subs appearance at left back, hasn't been given a chance.

Agree about Kev Roberts. It was thought that he would play occasionally and be a sub, but he's pretty much started most matches and he's been a warrior. Only just pipped for M-O-M by Bainbridge, who seems to get better with each match. Agree about Willoughby, Weeks and Glendon too. Kurt should start if he's fit and play centrally.

Any fan that hounds any players need to give their head a wobble or even slates players after 1 game, players are entitled to have off days, but yeah I'd drop Glendon for Tuesday and start Hancox.

why sign a player if you've no intention of playing them .Callum needs to remember it's the fans money he is spending

Not quite that simple is it? He wouldn't have signed Hancox just for shits and giggles. Things just don't always work out as planned.

I'd agree Calum isn't making the best use of his squad.

I don’t think the midfield was the problem. Yesterday it’s the forwards who are at fault for wasting a good many chances we are creating ,even if we’re not at our best at present
I think it’s fair to say the spectator’s behind the goal are in more danger that the visiting keeper in the last few games.

Can't see how we can win it, small squad, injuries and players will be knackered when it really matters in the key games come March and April. 
We have a squad, all be it a small one but that was the managers decision at the start of the campaign.

Yet Peers was motm by some people. Personally thought he didn't have his best game.

I think 50% of the fans in the ground would agree with you. Another 30% would want a target man up there with Willoughby. 

Unfortunately these kind of things become a problem for the manager. If he sticks with his decision, and it doesn't prove right, the crowd turns and they lose their job. Cal is in a different position to most managers here, but the point remains accurate in general terms. Supporters might not be right in their views. The Manager is a pro, and they see things us mere mortals do not. However, getting the support onside with their decisions is important.

I would have thought Willoughby and Glendon would be among the higher earners in the squad. It's vital the higher earners are key in our plans. Otherwise we'd be better moved them out and getting better value. People that will play every week in their best position and perform. Same with Hancox really. If he's not going to play he needs to be costing us less than an equivalent player. 

I'm slowly coming round to a sort of 442. Willoughby and probably Peers playing close together, with Peers dropping off slightly. He's always looked better doing that against us. One wide in midfield, with the other tucked in. Mottley- Henry and Hancox(??). Leaving Bainbridge behind Weeks.

You've then got Caton, Turner, Glendon, Murray available to bring on and to change things up. But what do I know?

great post ,its obvious to most of us what's wrong but he either can't or wont see what the problems are .The net result is that the performance levels drop and we fail to gain enough points for promotion .Last season is in the process of repeating itself .

I like Turner, pretty quick and mobile.

Buxton is likely to be a different game to the Scunny,  Scarborough and Farsley games though. Maybe the changes for this one will be different?   We've certainly done a bit of changing the game after it didn't work previously.  When it might have in the next one,and vice versa.

I agree with most of the posts above. It feels like we are back where we have been several times under Cal. Always strong defensively but lacking in creativity and ability to put the ball in the net. Cal knows the problem and has talked about it for 2 and half seasons but I don't feel like he is any closer to solving it. He just can't seem to get the best out of the attacking players on offer to him. Only when Willoughby was banging them in for fun in his first season with us did we look capable of scoring enough goals week in week out. For me, Saturday was crying out for Iwan Murray to come on and offer something different in the middle as lumping it forwards wasn't working. If Mottley-Henry is playing we need to find a way of getting him on the ball as he was almost non-existent, much like Tollitt became last season. We long for a player like that Richie Bennett at Scarborough but Cal has never been able to bring that type of player to the club. Without that we need to play with width and a tempo to match. Even when players are wide the play is so slow that they are closed down and there are no options for the midfielders to hit. It's frustrating as it feels like another season has the potential to mould into a what might have been.

Has to be said that even in that 27 (was it?)-goal season Willoughby created all his own chances, rarely had any service.