I reckon he should ask for a postponement, give himself another week on the training ground to sort out the issues and get the new signings up to speed with the team.
What new signings? - We've only got one of them
Dixon, 7 days ago, Campbell 5 days ago.
Dixon is with the U21s and Campbell didn't start Saturday. So we will be missing no first teamers.
Dixon wasn't in U21 Squad today and by all accounts has trained mostly with NJ. Due to get game time with yoof, not the same thing. Jamacia pick him every game.
T Campbell started at Reading, as he has in every match, A Campbell yet to play. Neither is a current international.
Would have been idiotic to postpone the game, what's achieved by having it binned?
Jones gets the additional time to drill the players after a below par performance on Saturday. His post match reaction was so strong that it felt like that might have been on the table. That was about it though.
Good decision. If there is not a quick response to that steeming pile of kaka performance at Reading, we can merrily wibble on about Jones' ability as a coach.
I reckon he should ask for a postponement, give himself another week on the training ground to sort out the issues and get the new signings up to speed with the team.
What new signings? - We've only got one of them
Dixon, 7 days ago, Campbell 5 days ago.
Dixon is with the U21s and Campbell didn't start Saturday. So we will be missing no first teamers.
Dixon wasn't in U21 Squad today and by all accounts has trained mostly with NJ. Due to get game time with yoof, not the same thing. Jamacia pick him every game.
T Campbell started at Reading, as he has in every match, Neither is a current international.
Kanu played 30 L1 games last season.
Anderson has appeared in every game this season.
I subsequently clarified that Dixon was never going to be available for Saturday's game, because Jones said that he will play some U21 games before featuring in the first team squad.
The new signing referred to is of course Allan Campbell and not Tyreece Campbell.
Therefore my point was that we shouldn't postpone because of missing first teamers, because Allan Campbell like Dixon has never featured (replying to the comment that we should postpone to give the new signings time to get up to speed).
Neither Anderson nor Kanu started on Saturday and I don't think Kanu has started in any league game this season.
I reckon he should ask for a postponement, give himself another week on the training ground to sort out the issues and get the new signings up to speed with the team.
What new signings? - We've only got one of them
Dixon, 7 days ago, Campbell 5 days ago.
Dixon is with the U21s and Campbell didn't start Saturday. So we will be missing no first teamers.
Dixon wasn't in U21 Squad today and by all accounts has trained mostly with NJ. Due to get game time with yoof, not the same thing. Jamacia pick him every game.
T Campbell started at Reading, as he has in every match, Neither is a current international.
Kanu played 30 L1 games last season. but has barely featured so far this term
Anderson has appeared in every game this season. has featured barely any more than DK, we also now have Allan Campbell
Saturday afternoon at 3pm with a couple of subs unavailable with a regular week to prepare and a week to recover is always a far better option than a Tuesday 7:45pm breaking up the week, in this case probably between the Blackpool and Stevenage games at the end of the month NJ's definitely got this one right
Wow, what a joke. We should have utilised this opportunity to give our players a much needed rest, and familiarise the new signings with our tactics.
Not happy!
We’ve done that previously and after two weeks of training they’ve looked like they barely know each other!
This is true, I am however of course kidding. Wood have found it ridiculous if we postponed.
It wouldn't have been a ridiculous decision to postpone. NINE out of the 12 games this weekend in our division have been postponed, so that's an awful lot of managers deciding that they'd rather not play with weakened squads, and I doubt it was because all of them had lost 3 star players. Or they wanted 2 weeks on the training ground.
All of them would have had to consider the pros and cons of playing.
Well imo it would have, we are still one of the in-form teams, and Rotherham are out of form over the last 4. Now is as good a time as any to play them, and gives the players a chance to rectify that shower of shit at the weekend ASAP. Thankfully/hopefully Jones has had a similar mindset.
Would have been idiotic to postpone the game, what's achieved by having it binned?
Jones gets the additional time to drill the players after a below par performance on Saturday. His post match reaction was so strong that it felt like that might have been on the table. That was about it though.
It also would if been additional time for the players to dwell on a below par performance and allow negativity to foster, at least now they can go again Saturday and potentially move past it correcting their performance.
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T Campbell started at Reading, as he has in every match, A Campbell yet to play. Neither is a current international.
Kanu played 30 L1 games last season.
Anderson has appeared in every game this season.
The new signing referred to is of course Allan Campbell and not Tyreece Campbell.
Therefore my point was that we shouldn't postpone because of missing first teamers, because Allan Campbell like Dixon has never featured (replying to the comment that we should postpone to give the new signings time to get up to speed).
Neither Anderson nor Kanu started on Saturday and I don't think Kanu has started in any league game this season.
NJ's definitely got this one right
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Roll on the weekend.