Obviously looks like he had one eye on Saturday. 

Why ?

Take care of business last night and Crewe, Grimsby and Colchester are almost out of the equation 8 or 9 points behind.

Suddenly lose at Crewe and they all back in the mix.

Rank bad management. He's always advocated the here and now yet last night clearly went the opposite way with his tinkering. 

9 hours ago, Guitar Ray said:

Folk are saying this was all on the manager, not true, a huge slice is on the players.  An absolute shameful performance first half, totally outplayed and out worked by a Barrow side who have little to play for except pride.  Fair play to them.  The bare minimum is to run around and compete for the ball, beyond that pass to a teammate. I’d like to know what the excuse is for that chalk and cheese display.  Not one player left the pitch at half time with any credit.  Connor Hall for example, garbage first half, totally different player second, and he wasn’t alone.  All of them found an extra 20% from somewhere, so where was it first half when we were a goal down and strolling around like all we had to do was turn up?

The biggest criticism of Moore would be why not start with your strongest side with a view to having a better start and more chance of scoring first, rather than bringing the better players on when they have less time to impact the game, or, worse still, when we’re chasing the game.

Absolutely that was on the manager.

Picked a poor midfield pairing, watched them get outnumbered for 45 minutes before changing anything.

Everyone could see our shape needed changing after 15 minutes but he just leaves it.  We then get more of the same in the 2nd half and DM waits until 75 minutes to make the attacking changes.

I’d love for someone to tell me what our tactics were 1st half. We looked like we had zero plan. All outfield players were so static it was astounding. 

Yet another home performance where  failed to even attempt to play on the front foot and get after a team. 

Sorry Ray this is squarely on the manager. It’s no coincidence we struggle against teams at the bottom at home. 3 of the bottom 4 were draws and we only beat Morecambe due to a bit of worldie from Curtis. 19 home games and DM has still not figured out.

Its not good enough for a team wanting promotion, to be honest we don’t look like a team wanting promotion.

 

 

I would give Rico a go, has the pace, Rhys, back 3 well they can sort that out. 

Wing backs no idea?  Depends who is fit.

If Rhys plays, he will need a sitter midfielder. Garrity forward more, 2 up front. 

Need to inject pace and width to the team.

The system we play we get caught out so much, from the other end of the pitch. 

Hall likes to go forward, no issue with that, but it is if you have no pace to recover him doing that, like in a few games. (not just Hall)

Then Tolaj and Stockley.

Main thing is we start the next game with an interest, not like Tuesday waiting for a break. 

 

6 minutes ago, MBE said:

Its not good enough for a team wanting promotion, to be honest we don’t look like a team wanting promotion

Here we go again 😆 and the rest of the top 7 are achieving those things ☝️ the table suggests otherwise mate 👀 I get your post, I agree with it all. But that last bit is getting a bit daft now 

Edited March 26, 20251 yr by VTID-New

4 minutes ago, ginginator said:

I would give Rico a go

100%. By far our most energetic & creative forward thinking player. He makes things happen & it’s no coincidence we looked so much better when he got on the pitch 

Just now, VTID-New said:

100%. By far our most energetic & creative forward thinking player. He makes things happen & it’s no coincidence we looked so much better when he got on the pitch 

Only problem with Rico is that he looks his best when he comes on as a sub. Very few times has he started a game and looked dangerous throughout it.

Just now, Smugsy said:

Only problem with Rico is that he looks his best when he comes on as a sub. Very few times has he started a game and looked dangerous throughout it.

Agreed. But he’s being brought on far too late in the game. Just think he deserves that start now because there’s a handful of others who aren’t at the races either & shouldn’t be starting 

3 minutes ago, darren1810 said:

Obviously looks like he had one eye on Saturday. 

Why ?

Take care of business last night and Crewe, Grimsby and Colchester are almost out of the equation 8 or 9 points behind.

Suddenly lose at Crewe and they all back in the mix.

Rank bad management. He's always advocated the here and now yet last night clearly went the opposite way with his tinkering. 

I understand your view point but to me it’s right to have an eye on the next 3 games because they are all in a very short sequence. If you just keep playing your 11 they will go flat. I thought this was the game to change it up a little especially how poorly we played Saturday however the selection was poor, very poor. 

What I don’t understand is why we setup with defenders to be in space against teams you are expected to have the ball against and should be attacking at home.  
 

To me that’s rank bad management, watching what happened Saturday and doing more of the same.

2 minutes ago, VTID-New said:

Agreed. But he’s being brought on far too late in the game. Just think he deserves that start now because there’s a handful of others who aren’t at the races either & shouldn’t be starting 

Fair point. I think he should have been used in the home games when we know the opposition will sit deep. He offers a different alternative than the mindless lump forward towards Stockley that we specialise in.

I reckon 80 points will go up

A win last night would have put us on 67 and momentum of 3 consecutive wins.

I can't see 16 points from the last 8 games which are(in no order) Bradford,Bromley,Gillingham, Grimsby at home

Crewe,Walsall,Wimbledon,Carlisle away

It's the points we've dropped by being too negative that are costly,plus Barrow have done the double over us.

Chizzy has been bombed out by Moore and it's only when Garrity is involved does the team look as if it has leadership. This is all on Darren Bore and his awful tactics and reactive,not proactive,decision making

1 hour ago, VantaaVale said:

I wonder if there is a single person on here that would have gone with that starting 11. And I also wonder if there is a single person on here that is surprised by the result of playing that starting 11.

An absolutely mind boggling selection for a home game and last night's result is all on Moore. What on earth was he thinking that team would give him (other than defeat)?

Opportunity lost through our own poor decision making.

Spot on. Then think about the players - would any of them have picked that side for such a pivotal game? Were any of them expecting it to work?

I doubt it and I guess that as they took the pitch with better players off it than on it they had little or no expectation of a decent outcome. To me, that goes a long way to explaining such a depressingly poor first half display - until Moore changed it to what it should have been.

But too late, the damage was done. 

1 minute ago, MBE said:

I understand your view point but to me it’s right to have an eye on the next 3 games because they are all in a very short sequence. If you just keep playing your 11 they will go flat. I thought this was the game to change it up a little especially how poorly we played Saturday however the selection was poor, very poor. 

What I don’t understand is why we setup with defenders to be in space against teams you are expected to have the ball against and should be attacking at home.  
 

To me that’s rank bad management, watching what happened Saturday and doing more of the same.

To me that game was the easiest of the 4, at home, 2 decent wins prior and we could have gone into the top 3. Momentum is everything at this level. 
3 points last night was just as important if not more than in Saturday. I don’t get why Moore made those changes it’s  dire management. Make one or two changes, sure, but 4? 
It’s also the players that came in. How many times has he started Hackford now where he’s been completely ineffective? Harper? Surely one of Walters or Croasdale could have started. 

Why not go full strength for 60 mins? Try and get ahead in the game and then look to rest players. I said before the game I think it’s ludicrous to be resting players with 9/10 games left. 

It wasn’t just the 11 that was the issue like you say, Harper and Garrity both sitting, massive gaps between the forwards and midfield

For me now is not the time to make numerous changes, every point / game is as important as the next and we have just thrown away 3 points (sorry Moore has thrown away 3) I really do look forwards to the day that he isn’t our manager 

22 minutes ago, VTID-New said:

Here we go again 😆 and the rest of the top 7 are achieving those things ☝️ the table suggests otherwise mate 👀 I get your post, I agree with it all. But that last bit is getting a bit daft now 

It’s the approach I’m referring to.

We are not positive enough in our play at home and don’t score enough goals to be a promotion team. 
 

We are still playing football at home trying not loose 1st. That is not a team going for promotion.

The irony of this comment isn’t lost on me but the cohort on here who after a win can’t wait to pontificate about what they perceive to be OVF negativity are conspicuous in their absence.

Just now, MBE said:

It’s the approach I’m referring to.

We are not positive enough in our play at home and don’t score enough goals to be a promotion team. 
 

We are still playing football at home trying not loose 1st. That is not a team going for promotion.

A thing you’ve referred to most of the season & I’m not disagreeing. Moore took a big risk last night & it massively back fired. I can’t see him taking the opposition lightly on Saturday.