Salford City v Barrow, match thread

[behind the goals]

Pete said very positive signs but played a Salford side who played with freedom after listening to he's interview feel better now well done today Barrow.

[MisterPleasant]

Pete Wild's interview: loads of positives - 3 scored away from home; nothing changed in how we defend but players not taking responsibility; Salford nothing to play for; unbelievable efforts today, everyone trying hard; don't become a bad team overnight; lads have been brilliant; Chester looked tired after 30 games (more than expected); it's a sticky spell but fans stayed behind which shows appreciation of efforts; loads of football to play yet; nothing's changed, we've had a bad week, still a great bunch of lads. Was it a 5 - 3 game? No.

[Cuz66]

Stop tinkering with the team. I'm all for tweaking the system. Teams have sussed us. I hope we make playoffs, feel free to repost this if we make autos.

[AFC Blue]

Pete said very positive signs but played a Salford side who played with freedom after listening to he's interview feel better now well done today Barrow.

A team can only play with freedom if you let them.
It didn't require 5 changes we just had to put a midfield out then cut out the daft mistakes at the back.
Terrible starting line up for the 2nd game in a row.
Can't believe we pass back to the goalie every time we kick off....
Keep the bloody ball....its so frustrating

[Main Stand SeasonTct]

Pete Wild's interview: loads of positives - 3 scored away from home; nothing changed in how we defend but players not taking responsibility; Salford nothing to play for; unbelievable efforts today, everyone trying hard; don't become a bad team overnight; lads have been brilliant; Chester looked tired after 30 games (more than expected); it's a sticky spell but fans stayed behind which shows appreciation of efforts; loads of football to play yet; nothing's changed, we've had a bad week, still a great bunch of lads. Was it a 5 - 3 game? No.

I listened to the interview and as bad as the result was his interview was spot on

[blue nige]

If anyone needs cheering up look at the bottom of league 1

[Jim]

Stop tinkering with the team. I'm all for tweaking the system. Teams have sussed us. I hope we make playoffs, feel free to repost this if we make autos.

You say teams may have sussed us, but you don't agree with tinkering? It's ok to tweak but not to tinker? If you tweak the system, you probably need different types of player.

I thought the team selection today was pretty good. Chester needed resting, there were comments on here last week about Newby's defensive weakness, Salford are reputed to be a big, strong physical team, so Feely and Mazeed were good choices. Wild could have played the same team as on Tuesday, or last Saturday, and ended up with the same result.

[99_bluebird]

Pathetic performance, we’ve gained a good striker in Stockton and we have got worse, should have made changes at half time lucky to go in at 1-1. They controlled the game and we were lucky to go 2-1 up from a corner, bringing Sam foley on to change a game is never going to achieve anything.

[Matty]

Defensively dreadful today which cost us. Attacking wise we looked a different level compared to Tuesday. We need to give Stockton as much support as we can because he's a class above the rest of our attackers.

Still think Campbell and Spence are an absolute must together in midfield.

[Cuz66]

Really! White! Tuesday we had 3 strikers on against a team battling for survival! There's the difference. I left 10 mins to go.

[SayitagainSam]

Talk is cheap PW and you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig!

It's not simply a case of one bad game. The current collapse started 6 weeks ago since Jan. 06, with only 1 win since then.

We have the worst last 7 games Performance (5 points from a possible 21) except for 2 of the bottom 3 teams.

Facts don't lie and no post-interview sweet talk or pitch blaming can make up for the on-field disgraceful performances and results.

Something is not right, something has gone wrong with the defence and allowing 5 goals today, the season's worst proves that, as we have an excellent goalie.

I didn't see today's game, but would suggest going 4-4-2 and playing 2 proper full-backs who can tackle and defend instead of asking 2 attacking wing-backs to do that.

If we continue with a seemingly flawed formation and poor team selection, we will undoubtedly drop out of the play-off zone.

But with a 6 point cushion and 5 of the next 7 games at home, IF we play our best players (ie: Whitfield who only came on at 80 mins!) and stop rotating so many players every week, we've every chance to make the play-offs.

[HenneysKnee]

Surely a change of formation next week? Similar thing happened last season where second time around teams played us they knew exactly how to play against us. Can’t really lose anything at moment trying something new

[bhbb]

Send him back to behind the bar or whatever he was doing before this.

[Kieran]

A team can only play with freedom if you let them.
It didn't require 5 changes we just had to put a midfield out then cut out the daft mistakes at the back.
Terrible starting line up for the 2nd game in a row.
Can't believe we pass back to the goalie every time we kick off....
Keep the bloody ball....its so frustrating

Bang on this, making 5 changes smacked of desperation. Bring Campbell and Spence back in and trust the players who got us here (plus Stockton). A White and Gotts midfield was wrong on Tuesday and it was wrong again today, why would anyone of sane mind think otherwise? We are where we are this season because of Wild, but that doesn't make him immune from questions being asked and you do have to question his decision making recently. Is he feeling the pressure? Possibly, as he's demonstrated on a number of occasions so far that he doesn't do well when things start to go wrong.

[Jim]

Send him back to behind the bar or whatever he was doing before this.

Whom do you suggest for the next manager? Paul Simpson may become available soon.