And yet he’s played well over 100 games for Accrington in League One, so why is he seemingly incapable of League Two football now at the age of 27? This level should be a walk in the park for him. Harvey Rodgers looked great in his first couple of appearances, but has been seriously dodgy ever since. After a slightly shaky start last season, Niall Maher proved himself to be a more than capable League Two centre-half, albeit on the small side, but that wasn’t the issue on Saturday, nor was it against Walsall really. County scored the same goal 4 times in a row, and that can’t be a coincidence.īut then you look at the personnel. Saturday again was just basic, basic stuff, time and time again.

This is the bit I struggle to wrap my head around, because there’s no doubting that in recent weeks we’ve put on a string of defensive displays that are so far short of the minimum acceptable standard it’s not funny. There just has to be more to come from those two in particular, doesn’t there? I’m not questioning what you’re seeing in the here and now we’re all seeing it. At 27, Rodgers had played almost all of his career above this level when we signed him. Maher was virtually ever-present in a Halifax side with the best defensive record in the National League the season we went up - 35 goals in 44 games, and was fine for most of last season.

There’s no questioning that the basics aren’t being done currently, but the notion that the likes of Rodgers and Maher aren’t capable of them doesn’t really stand to reason. The defence has been dogshit all season, so all this ' theres a player in there' is codswallop.Ĭollectively and individually they are not good enough and I'd happily see the 4 that started on Saturday out the door ( Possibly push Glennon further forward or if we played with wing backs he'd do alright)īut their first job, is to defend, and none of them seem remotely capable of even doing the basics

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