| Hilly's post-match comments 09:52 - Nov 1 with 3017 views | Luke8686 |
One of his most animated interviews imo, he was absolutely fuming. Says the players didn't do what they'd be practising all week in training, they might as well have been playing cards all week. Asked whether he made three subs at HT to become more attack-minded, he hit back and said there was enough attack-minded players from the start. 2nd half was better but he still wasn't happy at the final whistle.
And asked what he thought about the penalty incident at the end, he nearly flew off the handle and the interview had to be cut short before he ripped the interviewers head off |  | | |  |
| Hilly's post-match comments on 10:18 - Nov 1 with 2931 views | D_Alien |
It begs the question, why aren't the players putting into practice what they'd been training to do all week?
Is too much being asked of them, above and beyond their ability to deliver? It's a fine line to be drawn between extending players so they achieve their full potential, and setting the bar too high.
Or is it something really simple, such as players not making runs for their colleagues which then puts pressure on the man in possession? On such things, success and failure hinges.
I think we've all seen that, against teams who play the game tight we've looked pretty ordinary recently whereas against teams like Coventry who came to Spotland to play football, we're in our element. But we can't pick and choose who or what systems we play against. A critical month ahead of us. |  |
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| Hilly's post-match comments on 10:23 - Nov 1 with 2905 views | richfoad32 |
Ha ha. He was steaming, think there might be more than a few changes for the cup game. Sounds like he's losing patience with the injured players as well, maybe implying a spot of malingering when he says they'll 'decide' when they're fit.
Have to disagree with him on the peno, from where I was sat it would've been a soft decision. I wouldn't chance telling him that, the mood he was in though! | | | |
| Hilly's post-match comments on 13:03 - Nov 1 with 2608 views | electricblue |
At the end of the day the playing staff are hills signings so their performances or lack of are down to his choice of player.
For the progress and stability to be a force in League, a better quality of player will have to be signed...
You cant continue to improve players beyond their level of ability....... |  |
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| Hilly's post-match comments on 14:48 - Nov 1 with 2461 views | zxcvbnm |
| Hilly's post-match comments on 13:03 - Nov 1 by electricblue |
At the end of the day the playing staff are hills signings so their performances or lack of are down to his choice of player.
For the progress and stability to be a force in League, a better quality of player will have to be signed...
You cant continue to improve players beyond their level of ability....... |
Are you suggesting that we break the bank and financial stability of the club to buy better quality players? |  |
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| Hilly's post-match comments on 15:08 - Nov 1 with 2418 views | roccydaleian |
| Hilly's post-match comments on 14:48 - Nov 1 by zxcvbnm |
Are you suggesting that we break the bank and financial stability of the club to buy better quality players? |
He probably is, but seeing he seemingly never contributes anything to the club it'll make no difference to him anyway. Might be wrong on this of course.... Still fancy a pre match drink EB? |  | | |
| Hilly's post-match comments on 18:18 - Nov 1 with 2154 views | electricblue |
Will have a snifter one day.......
Let you know when..
And no im not saying break the bank upon signings.........
That is not the Rochdale way..
Long gone are the days of spending big bucks on players like flounders...Platt....O'connor. | |
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| Hilly's post-match comments on 19:17 - Nov 1 with 2028 views | Brierls |
| Hilly's post-match comments on 18:18 - Nov 1 by electricblue |
Will have a snifter one day.......
Let you know when..
And no im not saying break the bank upon signings.........
That is not the Rochdale way..
Long gone are the days of spending big bucks on players like flounders...Platt....O'connor. |
That O'Connor hybrid of O'Grady and Connor would have been some player. |  | | |
| Hilly's post-match comments on 20:22 - Nov 1 with 1900 views | macro |
| Hilly's post-match comments on 18:18 - Nov 1 by electricblue |
Will have a snifter one day.......
Let you know when..
And no im not saying break the bank upon signings.........
That is not the Rochdale way..
Long gone are the days of spending big bucks on players like flounders...Platt....O'connor. |
Hill is limited to who he can sign financially, so where is he going to magic these better quality players from? |  | | |
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| Hilly's post-match comments on 20:57 - Nov 1 with 1815 views | BigDaveMyCock |
From what I've seen 2 of our strikers/forwards are just not good enough to be regular starters. Calvin and Bunney seem to be in an endless cycle of impactful substitute appearances, which gets them a few starts, and they drop out again unable to consistently replicate the impact they have when they come on as subs. They then have another reasonable substitute appearance and the whole thing starts again.
Hendo is not playing well, and the player who mostly carries the goal burden, Vincenti, is not fit. Does anybody honestly think that either Calvin or Bunney could step in for 5-10 games to take the pressure off these players? Calvin just does not carry a goal threat on anything like a consistent basis.
Are they really anything other than impact subs? [Post edited 1 Nov 2015 21:36]
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| Hilly's post-match comments on 21:04 - Nov 1 with 1797 views | 442Dale |
| Hilly's post-match comments on 20:57 - Nov 1 by BigDaveMyCock |
From what I've seen 2 of our strikers/forwards are just not good enough to be regular starters. Calvin and Bunney seem to be in an endless cycle of impactful substitute appearances, which gets them a few starts, and they drop out again unable to consistently replicate the impact they have when they come on as subs. They then have another reasonable substitute appearance and the whole thing starts again.
Hendo is not playing well, and the player who mostly carries the goal burden, Vincenti, is not fit. Does anybody honestly think that either Calvin or Bunney could step in for 5-10 games to take the pressure off these players? Calvin just does not carry a goal threat on anything like a consistent basis.
Are they really anything other than impact subs? [Post edited 1 Nov 2015 21:36]
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Agree with all of that, though Calvin had found a level of form that was very good before his injury.
All of those points should mean Alessandra gets that run of ten games, two in his first two starts should have supported it further. |  |
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| Hilly's post-match comments on 21:17 - Nov 1 with 1763 views | BigDaveMyCock |
| Hilly's post-match comments on 21:04 - Nov 1 by 442Dale |
Agree with all of that, though Calvin had found a level of form that was very good before his injury.
All of those points should mean Alessandra gets that run of ten games, two in his first two starts should have supported it further. |
Agree that Andrew's form did improve. However, if you're going to play up top then you have to carry some of the goal burden otherwise it puts more pressure on others to bag. The usual suspects Hendo and PV are struggling at the moment so we need someone able to carry the burden. I agree, from what I've seen Alessandra looks the more capable. I suspect Calvin will start the next game though and it will be up to somebody else to score. | |
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| Hilly's post-match comments on 23:33 - Nov 1 with 1552 views | dingdangblue |
| Hilly's post-match comments on 21:04 - Nov 1 by 442Dale |
Agree with all of that, though Calvin had found a level of form that was very good before his injury.
All of those points should mean Alessandra gets that run of ten games, two in his first two starts should have supported it further. |
I wouldn't be surprised if Hill dropped Alessandra solely for that 'miss' v Oldham. He can be petty/ruthless like that at times . |  |
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| Hilly's post-match comments on 23:43 - Nov 1 with 1538 views | Yorkshire_Dale |
Calvin is doing OK right now.....in fact better than OK,,,,,,,,,,,just wish he WANTED to score a bit more, then he would be great.
Come on Calvin two Cup matches to grab a couple. | | | |
| Hilly's post-match comments on 08:25 - Nov 2 with 1347 views | BigDaveMyCock |
| Hilly's post-match comments on 23:43 - Nov 1 by Yorkshire_Dale |
Calvin is doing OK right now.....in fact better than OK,,,,,,,,,,,just wish he WANTED to score a bit more, then he would be great.
Come on Calvin two Cup matches to grab a couple. |
Not sure it's a question of 'wanting' Yorkshire. It's a matter of composure, timing and anticipation etc. You play Calvin and you have to rely on goals from elsewhere. That's not critical that's fact unfortunately - the stats are readily available. If others are scoring then that's fine. However, when we're finding goals hard to come by you may as well admit it that when he plays we are a goal scorer down.
Please don't defend him by claiming he is more of a creator of goals. He is no more creative than any other player and a forward in today's game should be able to be creative and contribute, at the very least, a mediocre goal return.
Craig Dawson has scored more from centre half and played 100 games less.
To play in that area of the pitch, with his obvious attributes of height and strength, and score so few is quite frankly poor. | |
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| Hilly's post-match comments on 10:36 - Nov 2 with 1229 views | JimmyRustler |
I can't think of many successful* teams over the years who haven't had a goal scoring striker in the squad. Hogan was our last and since him, we've relied on other contributions from players who aren't really in the team to bare the goal scoring burden. With all of this being said, it was only a matter of time before the goals dried up.
One counter argument to this however could be that the system we are currently playing isn't the kindest to your typical 20 goal a season striker. How many players in our team are willing to make those sacrificial runs and suck defenders in? Once we get to the 18 yard box we just stop, prod and poke and ultimately tend to overplay where someone should just be putting their foot through the fooker. Through balls are a rarity. When Calvin's on we just punt it up and hope it sticks to him and if by some miracle he actually wins the knock down, there's no one to get on the end of it and so it just seems like the same pointless exercise over and over again. At least when we tvvat it to PV, he nearly always wins the header and squares it back into a more dangerous, central area.
*not saying our current position isn't what we could consider successful though [Post edited 2 Nov 2015 10:38]
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