Trouble is Elliott didn't play to Marriott's strengths. Long ball play with no tall striker to lay the ball to Marriott. Does Elliott not realise just because a player scored a lot of goals for a team higher up in the pyramid it doesn't mean they will continue to score if the set up is wrong.
The standard of play at York Street has largely been dreadful to watch this season - and that wouldn't be so bad if we won all the matches.
We certainly aren't good enough to move up a league - but I doubt we will get the chance to find out this season.
Spot on. You could say the same about Arnold as well - regardless of any doubts about his general attitude, quite simply with the way Boston were set up he was never going to be a success here. They both showed flashes of ability but they weren't the right fit for Elliott's style.
Unless there's a spectacularly sudden turnaround in the next couple of weeks, we'll be well off the playoff pace and will have made absolutely no progress whatsoever from a year ago. In fact we'll have gone backwards. This is turning out to be one of the most disappointing seasons I can remember as a Boston fan considering how high hopes were back in August.
Of Craigs 40 signings Davies probably the only real success , as Pete B suggests probably Marriott & Arnolds failure was down to Craig lack of tactical knowhow . Wih one success in 40 signings its going to take a long time to build a team !
Last season success was down to Keane , Hemmings , Rollins and Thompson .
This season as said we have gone backwards , the only progress I can see is while many of us doubted him Geo Willis has turned into a good goalie .
Of the six above players 3 were signed by Murray and one by Greene .
None of us like hoofball played by CE or Billy Heath but credit were it's due yesterday Heath proved a bit of science has to be applied to make hoofball successful .
