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Smith or Logan?

Postby victor A block » Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:48 am

Rumours of a fallout or manufactured injury?

Which way is Flitcroft going to go. Smith has done ok without showing any real Championship potential, while Logan always has a mistake in him.

If he goes for Logan lets hope it doesn't cost us or I can see DF copping some flak. I think the loss of Bobby is potentially costing us more than the loss of White.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby MTFCMusings » Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:58 am

Got to be Smith. He has only cost us one point that I can think of, possibly 2, Logan cost us 2 in his last game alone.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby BH_Stag » Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:10 am

Smith for me, purely because it feels like he’s less likely to make a costly mistake and that must play on the defences mind also.

Agree Olejnik has been a big miss, a proper all rounder.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby PEAR CIDER » Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:14 am

Has to be Smith. As much as i like logan, his prone to error status he is getting is too much of a reoccurance
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby laneymtfc » Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:18 am

id say smith cause hes better with his feet, but we havent been playing football from the back as much as we did before so unsure...
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby I am Spartacus » Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:24 am

Smith. Logan has at least a mistake if not a goal inside him every 90 mins.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby James » Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:30 am

What's the rumour with Smith?

No-one has confidence in Logan at the moment, which is a really bad place to be with 8 games to go in a promotion race.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby Spiritater » Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:34 am

How about backing whoever plays and giving them a bit of support. Every custodian is but a moment away from a game changing incident no matter how good they are. That is the nature of the stoppers position it is more costly if he makes a mistake. Tyler's miss first half (didn't even get the chuffer on target ) was just as crucial. I'm not surprised Conrad is a little nervous when he turns out at the Mill.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby I am Spartacus » Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:42 am

Spiritater wrote:How about backing whoever plays and giving them a bit of support. Every custodian is but a moment away from a game changing incident no matter how good they are. That is the nature of the stoppers position it is more costly if he makes a mistake. Tyler's miss first half (didn't even get the chuffer on target ) was just as crucial. I'm not surprised Conrad is a little nervous when he turns out at the Mill.


The thread is about choice Smith or Logan? Not ‘are you backing the keeper or not’. I hope all back the chosen eleven from the kick off as we all need to give the players confidence to get us promoted.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby Spiritater » Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:54 am

But they don't do they? Many on here have made their mind up over Con and are just itching for his next error so they can pan him again. Against Crewe he may well play a blinder but if he does nobody will give him credit and will be on him like flies on sh** if he so much as kicks the ball poorly.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby EdwinstoweStag » Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:57 am

Keepers ALL have weaknesses. Ours do. I’ll back whoever DF selects.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby Conker » Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:01 pm

I am Spartacus wrote:
Spiritater wrote:How about backing whoever plays and giving them a bit of support. Every custodian is but a moment away from a game changing incident no matter how good they are. That is the nature of the stoppers position it is more costly if he makes a mistake. Tyler's miss first half (didn't even get the chuffer on target ) was just as crucial. I'm not surprised Conrad is a little nervous when he turns out at the Mill.


The thread is about choice Smith or Logan? Not ‘are you backing the keeper or not’. I hope all back the chosen eleven from the kick off as we all need to give the players confidence to get us promoted.


Always the case on here, apperantly having a perference is not supporting the lads!

Anyway I was warned several times Flitcroft likes a bit of GK roulette, worked wonders with dropping Logan for Ojenik but not so much for dropping Smith.

It’s got to be Smith, the defenders don’t have confidence in Logan and that’s the biggest problem. Smith has way better distribution and is equal shotstopper.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby cassellswasmagic » Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:07 pm

Smith by a mile. Logan is not as good as Smith imo.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby Bros » Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:12 pm

I wonder if he brought Logan back for the experience he has when we had the makeshift defence for a few games. Now the 3 Musketeers are back he can put Smith back in as he is more adventurous with his distribution and commanding the box
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby Hjeldefan » Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:35 pm

Smith, even though I am not a huge fan of his. Logan is an accident waiting to happen.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby pemill » Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:43 pm

Either to be honest, I don't think Smith has pulled up any trees since being here - Logan earned us 2 points against Crawley.

All players have mistakes in them which cost us points, Mal at Port Vale for isn't and come to think of it Mal was culpable in the lead up to the penalty incident against Lincoln, he should have cleared it or shielded it strongly, he did neither. Logan get the blames by many though but I don't think it was a penalty myself, the player was falling anyway and already played the ball. Walker has missed 2 excellent chances, 1 against Crawley the other against Lincoln, Grant missed a sitter against Crawley and the list goes on, all mistakes all costly.

Ditch the blame game and get behind the team, whoever DF decides to play.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby wardy12345 » Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:43 pm

Smith for me.

Logan is to slow and makes to many mistakes and makes me nervous every time the ball is anywhere him.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby MTFCMusings » Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:48 pm

pemill wrote:Either to be honest, I don't think Smith has pulled up any trees since being here - Logan earned us 2 points against Crawley.

All players have mistakes in them which cost us points, Mal at Port Vale for isn't and come to think of it Mal was culpable in the lead up to the penalty incident against Lincoln, he should have cleared it or shielded it strongly, he did neither. Logan get the blames by many though but I don't think it was a penalty myself, the player was falling anyway and already played the ball. Walker has missed 2 excellent chances, 1 against Crawley the other against Lincoln, Grant missed a sitter against Crawley and the list goes on, all mistakes all costly.

Ditch the blame game and get behind the team, whoever DF decides to play.


Did he? Two saves he was expected to make?
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby victor A block » Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:58 pm

pemill wrote:Either to be honest, I don't think Smith has pulled up any trees since being here - Logan earned us 2 points against Crawley.

All players have mistakes in them which cost us points, Mal at Port Vale for isn't and come to think of it Mal was culpable in the lead up to the penalty incident against Lincoln, he should have cleared it or shielded it strongly, he did neither. Logan get the blames by many though but I don't think it was a penalty myself, the player was falling anyway and already played the ball. Walker has missed 2 excellent chances, 1 against Crawley the other against Lincoln, Grant missed a sitter against Crawley and the list goes on, all mistakes all costly.

Ditch the blame game and get behind the team, whoever DF decides to play.


The point of the thread was to see who fans would prefer to see, nothing more. Not sure how Logan earned us 2 points as we got a point for a 0-0 draw.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby yorkshire stag » Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:03 pm

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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby tillydog123 » Thu Mar 21, 2019 2:02 pm

Logan is solid and good shot stopper and has the years of experience but think will go with Smith still as Logan does not seem to have a good rapport with the defence and recall White having a go at him over something at Stevenage and looked daggers at him.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby yellowstagsfan » Thu Mar 21, 2019 2:23 pm

No question Smith every time. Far in front of Logan. Commands his area and by that gives more confidence to the defence. Logan is too slow to read situations which leads to mistakes (Lincoln penalty) Good shot stopper but his attempt at the penalty was pathetic. Would much sooner have seen a good honest dive even if he was sent the wrong way.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby Sneag » Thu Mar 21, 2019 4:35 pm

Smith.
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby adamstag » Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:00 pm

It’s be a tough call between Logan and a cone, so on that basis I’ll go for smith
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Re: Smith or Logan?

Postby MTFCMAD » Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:07 pm

adamstag wrote:It’s be a tough call between Logan and a cone, so on that basis I’ll go for smith


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