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Only saw second half but only positives for Town were Henderson got to do some Hollywood saves for his YouTube showreel and Vose played well when he came on. Oh and Bogle barely had a kick so hopefully the scouts won't be back!

No idea about the formation but it didn't work. We had about 6 defenders on the pitch and struggled to create anything - weird eh?

Who? What central midfielder do we have who's capable of such attacking play

Chose the wrong formation and personnel from the start today. 3-5-2 works away from home but for me we need attacking width at home and creativity in the centre of the park. We had a full back, comley in a defensive position anyway and a static disley in a team looking for a home win. For all those that have been screaming for disley to come back in the team, he had a poor game and we was overrun in the centre by bright, sharp and pacey centre midfielders that also showed great creativity and created the last two goals. We were second best and laboured, with little urgency to get forward. Our tactic was to pass sideways and backwards and when pressed by their lively midfield we hammered it forward expecting bogle and yussef to feed off the scraps.

Boyce shouldnt be near the first 11 and it pains me to say it but weve got better option than disley. If hes fit enough for the bench then mcallister should have had a run out. Putting bolarinwa up top didnt work and unless injured why did we bring pearson and comley off.

Next saturday we should go back to a 4-4-2 with Gunning and Collins at cb.

If we didnt need proof anyway we need to find a centre midfield and fast.

If anything today just highlighted our need for 1/2 creative midfielders, the amount of times we played wide or backwards rather than trying to play into the strikers feet was ridiculous. On numerous occasions the midfield had chance to run with the ball and take us forward but refused to do so, it is easy for teams to defend against sides who pass the ball backwards, sideways and slowly.

You can see why Bignot is going for a Osborne/Jones type player as he needs to find the balance between defensive/busy/attacking midfield three.

Secondly I would say positionally today Mills struggled, surely the idea of playing with wing backs is to spread high and wide and look to spread the pitch. A lot of times Mills was too deep and was often out the game. I don't want to sound too negative but today was shockingly bad.

Let's hope it's a bad day at the office and onto next week.

Midfield is letting us down, that's the first time I've left a game early in over 20 years, soon as that third went in I'd seen enough.

Quoted from cmackenzie4

Midfield is letting us down, that's the first time I've left a game early in over 20 years, soon as that third went in I'd seen enough.

So had I and everybody else, I've never seen so many people leave early.

UTM

Comfortably the worst performance I've seen this season. The  five at the back and only Disley in midfield with attacking intent didn't bode well from the start. Exeter worked hard to close us down but we helped time and again with sideways/backwards passing. Maybe had we done a bit better with the couple of headers early on it might have made for a different game but I cannot remember their keeper having to make a save. Unfair to single out any individuals. Only Henderson came out with any credit. Another decent crowd go away fed up at the lack of entertaining football.

After watching the post match MB interview its only made another clueless home performance feel much much worse
I really approved of giving this young up and coming manager a chance and still do and after last two or three games we seemed to have turned a corner
But that was poor mate, these are good players and I'm starting to wonder if the players understand what you are trying to get them to do, and the style in which you want them to play, as it certainly didn't seem it today (again)
Perhaps when things have calmed down you can have another go at telling us on MP
3 points a must next Sat..

Well that was very poor

Stupid formation which quite clearly doesn't work for home games, and with 6 defenders playing at home, you can understand why we created intercourse all, not because the opposition had 10 men behind the ball Marcus, it was because you set up with 6 defenders at home,

Very slow today, very pedestrianised and considering Bignot said there would be lots of shots and Crosses, well no there isn't, especially not at home, central midfield continues to frustrate, Disley wasn't a yard off the pace today, he was 1 mile off the pace, him and Davies 2nd half got completely walked all over, more so when Comley came off.

Very poor form from James Mckeown's other half, she was sat 2 rows behind me and when the first went in she started shouting out and clapping "we need Macca" when somebody asked who she was, she identified herself with as "Mckeown's other half" she then started to criticize Henderson at everything and when they made it 2-0 she said "my James would have saved those because he's a far superior keeper to that manc" she then copulated off a few minutes later.

Quoted from Davec

Well that was very poor
Very poor form from James Mckeown's other half, she was sat 2 rows behind me and when the first went in she started shouting out and clapping "we need Macca" when somebody asked who she was, she identified herself with as "Mckeown's other half" she then started to criticize Henderson at everything and when they made it 2-0 she said "my James would have saved those because he's a far superior keeper to that manc" she then copulated off a few minutes later.

I think I've seen Henderson claim more crosses in 5 games than McKeown's managed in 5 years.