And whilst Digby's control was well non existent why the **** did Scowen need to pass to him there, with two Fleetwood players around him and facing his own goal. It just shows up the lack of movement ahead and the tactic of square passing. Not to mention the piss poor efforts from Mawson and Roberts...
Watching it back I've decided that Mawson was more to blame than Roberts. He strolled back forcing Roberts to attempt to defend both sides, if Mawson had bothered to run (didn't he stroll back a few weeks ago when nyatanga scored an own goal too?) then Roberts could have shown him to the outside, as it was he was turned inside out trying to go both ways. Scowen is **** by the way, it was a God awful pass in a terrible position
I said it at the time. Whilst pretty much everyone around me was blaming Digby (he didn't exactly cover himself in glory) Scowen should never have given him the ball there. I like Scowen a lot too but I thought it was poor from him to give Digby that pass and then have a massive go at him when they scored from it.
Only just seen it and feel proper sorry for Digby considering the hammer folk have given him on here as usual. More than him at fault there, Scowen especially. I think it's clear now that we've not got as many good players as we thought.
I don't know mate. Think we have got some decent players just had the confidence sapped out of them by really poor management and a lack of experience/leadership alongside them.
It says summat when the once dependant Scowen`s form as disappeared over last couple of home games I`ve seen.
Strangely I thought he looked decent first 20 mins. One missed placed pass and a few on his back made him hide. He doesn't look confident. Not surprising when you have a few thousand just sat waiting for an error to jump on. But it's the sign of the times. We are fed up so I can understand frustrations. Shame really.
You ought to look at the reaction of Scowen before blaming the fans. I didn't hear much aimed at Digby, certainly not much he'd hear any way. I'm sure Scowen's verbal assault did him the world of good and there's no doubt he'd have heard it
He gets one start per 6 months or summat, and when he doesn't look amazing (not many would after so long out in the cold) he's cast back out into the wilderness. If he's not involved next weekend, I suggest we release him and let him have a career somewhere else. But if we think that's bad, what about the latest loanee we've added? Had about 10 games in his career and he's 22 ffs. Mind boggles as to why we're still not adding older heads. It might sound daft as ****, but Johnson could do worse than give Hassell a short term deal, or, play himself.
Not blaming the fans at all. A few were very verbal behind us tbh. I did see scowen reaction. My point was that no matter what he does he is on a hiding to nothing.