Devs speaks to the Braintree & Wit!

[ozbrit]

An interesting article at the papers online site:

Quote: Meanwhile, Devonshire admits he has been left confused by the Iron’s up and down recent form about how much business he needs to do in the January transfer window.

He added: “You look to bring players in thinking where you need to strengthen and then see how good the performance at Tamworth was last Saturday.

“You think there isn’t a lot wrong, but after the Macclesfield game you’re left thinking that you want half a dozen to comeA in.

“I seem to be scratching my head all the time at the moment.”

“We can only afford a certain type of player anyway and you can’t keep going and grabbing players from lower leagues.

“They won’t make that much of a difference so I’ll have to wait and see and perhaps have a chat with the chairman.” Unquote.



I suppose us fans would have to agree with most of that. The lack of consistency and the nature of our losses appear to derive from an imbalance of inexperienced players in the team. It'd be nice to see more mature heads who can settle the nerves of the youngsters, when things are not going to plan.
What must be compounding matters financially is our poor home form. We're one of the smallest towns in the competition, so we really can't afford to perform so badly at the Amlin or the uncommitted won't bother coming back. Devs needs money to bring in decent players, so he's caught in a catch 22. We have good and promising young players at the club, but if they don't perform to their peak potential they won't get noticed by big clubs. Income derived from profitably trading players would of course be another way for the Club to balance the books.
Top sides win as many points by coming back from early setbacks in matches, as they do when they've netted the first goal. How many times have we seen this happen with Chelski or Man U? Anyway, it's much more exciting for the spectators when your team comes from behind to grab the points.

So heads up lads and take control of Telford and never ever give up while wearing a Braintree shirt, great team work and endurance has been the Braintree brand through the years.


The full B&W article here: www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/sport/10154454.Braintree_will_have_to_find_clinical_edge_early/

[Iron In Me Blood]

Think you only have to look at the impact that Michael Gash had when he was with us earlier in the season to see what type of player we need to bring in, the only problem being wages which is where I guess Devs needs to speak to the chairman!!

[1672]

In my view our problem is not so much poor players. We have good players but they often don't put enough effort into their games, hence our inconsistency. When we do play well we are then let down by our inability to shoot accurately at goal.

Devs mentions the Macclesfield match, but we were all over them in the first half, with many shots at goal, but none were on target. If we had got one or more goals then the result might have been very different.

I have commented before on this forum about our inability, even in un-pressurised pre-match warm-ups, to kick accurately at goal. If I was manager I would set up a training board the size of a goal mouth and mark it with score areas, say 1 to 10, then run a competition between the relevent players as to who gets the best total score over, say, ten sets of ten shots, from different positions, and reward the winner with a big bottle of bubbly.

In fact I'll offer to pay for it myself, if it improves our goal-scoring ability!!