Just back and a bit more..

Quoted from Garth

YOU NEED GLASSES, HE WAS THE BEST MIDFIELDER BY FAR, give credit where its due

Quoted from Hagrid

I think his distribution is woeful sorry Maringer. Everybpass is to an opponant or out of play

Quoted from moosey_club

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will try and offer my more considered thoughts, however, my post last night still stands for an overall summary....

Summerfield - passed the ball forwards with intent at times, actually giving the strikers and Dembele the ball to feet..
Clarke and Collins - steady but no particular test for them from the opposition
Davies - too many free kicks given away when he simply just barges into the back of players who are presenting no goal threat
Dixon & Woolford - zero influence on our ball retention or attacking play...its like having Robertson & Monkhouse...two aging players who cant outrun players and dont have the legs to even try....Woolford needs an overlapping full back to feed, Dixon needs a speedy tricky winger in front of him. With those two in the starting line we instantly lose a whole attacking option and have to rely on the opposite wing.
Dembele - bright moments ending in little end product, trying too hard probably but when the attacking width sits squarely on your shoulders then perhaps thats why
Hooper - made his goal out of nothing but not alot else, probably due to service and his partner for the night
Vernon - not alot of service to suit his capability, tried but just not capable of creating goals in that sort of style
McKeown - howler for the first, down his throat and straight through him but not alot of other.
Berrett - didnt really notice either way

Tactics - it is either a direct instruction from Slade to hit it long and then hopefully pick up the pieces....or the back four have so little option from the midfield they have to either go backwards and let Mckeown hit it or long or they just do it themselves.

Post Edit - oh and FFS can we please sort out the fking throw ins !!! We dont have a long throw in the locker so why do we persist with pretending we do ?? Every single attempt last night fell about 5 yds short of our players....either the player has to start closer to the thrower or we just scrap it...it didnt work 1000 times last season and it isnt going to work this season either if we carry on as is.

Either way up its uninspiring and 2000 less on the home gate since the opening home game speaks volumes considering  the defined target from the board/manager/club is play off / promotion.

The Fans arent buying it John.




A very good and in my opinion accurate summary. Have you thought of taking up sports writing ?

Quoted from sam gy

During our conference years, think if anyone was offered a drab 2-2 draw at home to Colchester on a Tuesday night to leave us mid table in lg2, we'd have taken it. There were certainly many posts on here stating things along those lines during those years.

Sounded like a dire game, which im not excusing but then....I can't really remember many games from the past 5 or so years that were actually entertaining in a football sense. We were just more clinical in the conference.

As for Slades comments...he just seems to be focusing on the positives rather than the negatives and it did sound like we had a fair amount of chances. Can't blame him for doing this when we've got a big derby game coming up and he wants to instil confidence in his players.

Quoted from grimps

During our champoinship years I think if anyone was offered a darb 2-2 at home to Colchester on a Tuesday night to leave us mid table inLg 2 I bet nobody would have taken it