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Exactly what I was thinking DNmariner when she was saying these things

Quoted from Davec

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.

Have you made that up?

No I haven't

I sit N81 in the main stand, and she was 2 rows behind me

His Mrs has just rubbished those claims on Twitter. [tweet]820362648541888512[/tweet]

Aaron confirmed.

Really poor today. Think that's the slowest I've seen us move the ball around this season. Apart from a few early crosses into their box, we created virtually nothing and faded pretty quickly. No effective width (although Andrew did his best) and we lost the battle in the middle.

In his interview today MB again stated that L2 is a step up and that some of the current players are basically not up to it. Yet it looks like his plan is to bring in National League players, some of whom will be jumping two levels very quickly.

Really hope he gets the players he wants and that they do improve us. But I think it's quite a gamble as it'll soon be a team largely of his design and he'll be judged accordingly.

well....dont mind admitting that for the majority of the first half i was half happy.....recently we have struggled with possession and for the majority of the first half i thought we retained the ball better than of late, admittedly we didnt threaten too much with it but Comley and the back three seemed comfortable to take it off Henderson...unfortunately it didnt progress much from there....no penetration from the central midfield and very little from wide but thats from the players selected rather than the formation. Still flashed a few crosses in early on, Boyce and Pearson probably should have done better on a couple of occasions.
Unfortunately today Dis and Davies both looked slow and way off what we need.
Bogle and Yussuf played miles apart from each other, one link up in their time on the pitch, Yussuf gave away too many stupid fouls and Omar is looking like mid season Omar from last year.... a frustrated individual.
The subs MB made.... Yussuf was just stopping our own pressure from building by fouling the opposition needlessly and offering nothing, Comley off for Vose ...understand Vose on but would have hooked Disley personally as Comley was the main midfielder coming to look for the ball....Pearson off , suprised by that one but then new fella certainly picked out a couple of non standard passes..... however...lost to a scrappy first goal from a set piece, then gifted them a second which killed the game and the players confidence and then caught out trying to chase the game....massively disappointing result.....so need that midfield dynamo/ creator.

I enjoyed Henderson throwing the ball to the defenders... for about half an hour. It became needless and predictable when Exeter figured that out, they began to close us down and we started giving up the ball. Change it up a bit ffs.

Bignot gave the worst performance of the day.

Exeter were everything I wanted us to be today.  Henderson kept the score down.  At 0-2 they still had more running in them than we had.  They had a break-away at 0-2 with 2 on 1, strong running from their 2 players.  We were slow to see the obvious danger, and then a defender ran back at half-pace.  That should have been 3-0.

We were slow in thought and deed.  They were the opposite.  Scored a very good third goal that was a just reward for their efforts and the travelling fans.

A key issue at home this season is our self-destruction.  We have given teams 2 pens, an og, Macca's dreadful error, 2 suicidal defensive passes and Summerfield's own style of aweful passes.  Bar the latter, all the other errors have led directly to away goals.  Macca's was just before HT and today's error killed the game.

We need to be more ruthless at home, as a starter, and not so generous to opponents.  Christmas is over.