Northampton (A) match thread - 1st April

[Warren]

Going back to Sang. When he was recruited I looked at his history. He has been at some good clubs - Cardiff, Cheltenham, St Johnstone. He battled away at Cardiff but couldn't become a regular at Championship level. When he went to Cheltenham, he was mainly a sub. He  got some reasonable game time at St Johnstone. At PV I think it's unfortunate for him and PV he got injured around the New Year. 

Flitcroft referred to him as a midfield player. But at PV and other clubs he has often found himself at RB / WB etc. To me, wherever he plays, his need for improvement is marking and tackling. He's pretty good on the ball and can cross OK even if not outstanding. My overall opinion - good squad player if we were in L2, but we are in L1 and he's not nailed down a place. 

 

Often sub appearances, occasionally runs in a team. 

[Warren]

14 hours ago, philpvfc said:

Someone needs to show Moore this before he makes his subs when we are 1-0 down

It's been several months since Chislett was effective. I don't know what is going on, but we have seen him too deep picking up the ball and dribbling to be effective as a goal scorer from advanced midfield / wide forward. He's also started getting tackled much more in the second half of the season - fair dues in that if no one else poses much of a threat the opposition will concentrate on him. Now he seems to have got one foot disease when it comes to shooting? He has gone massively backwards since the New Year. I can see why Moore took him off v Northampton. But I do hope he can get fixed this week and turn up as the player he was in the remaining games from the bench or starting. If so, I'd close his hatchback and take him off the forecourt. 

Edited April 3 by Warren

[philpvfc]

4 hours ago, robf said:

Mighten was playing before he got injured. Not sure what's going on with Lopata though.

Moore did drop him after the Reading game for some reason where he was our best player. 

[philpvfc]

3 hours ago, Warren said:

It's been several months since Chislett was effective. I don't know what is going on, but we have seen him too deep picking up the ball and dribbling to be effective as a goal scorer from advanced midfield / wide forward. He's also started getting tackled much more in the second half of the season - fair dues in that if no one else poses much of a threat the opposition will concentrate on him. Now he seems to have got one foot disease when it comes to shooting? He has gone massively backwards since the New Year. I can see why Moore took him off v Northampton. But I do hope he can get fixed this week and turn up as the player he was in the remaining games from the bench or starting. If so, I'd close his hatchback and take him off the forecourt. 

He hasn’t been as good but most the team have. Funso for example was as good as any player we had for the first half of the season, not so after Crosby went. Chislett has still been far better than Weir or Massey and does pose our biggest goal threat alongside Garrity another player who Moore in his untold wisdom seems to want to play deeper.