Just Back on the Bus

Started brightly. All Town for opening 15 minutes but then totally inexplicable. Players at walking pace-no desire to push up against a defence that was at best unsure. The penalty (I'm sure the video has done the rounds-never touched him) put them on the front foot but instead of intelligently seeing out the half for a half time refocus, we contrived to concede a second straight out of Town's ever expanding catalogue of errors.
The introduction of Conteh for the second half made a difference and we punished them with a scrambled first and capitalised on a big error for the second. Couldn't quite manage a winner which our second half dominance maybe deserved. Still time for a couple of scary defensive issues including one where four players including the keeper watched the ball bounce in the 6 yard box.
My M.O.M Glennon-must have put in 20 decent balls over the 90 minutes.

Quoted from barralad

Started brightly. All Town for opening 15 minutes but then totally inexplicable. Players at walking pace-no desire to push up against a defence that was at best unsure. The penalty (I'm sure the video has done the rounds-never touched him) put them on the front foot but instead of intelligently seeing out the half for a half time refocus, we contrived to concede a second straight out of Town's ever expanding catalogue of errors.
The introduction of Conteh for the second half made a difference and we punished them with a scrambled first and capitalised on a big error for the second. Couldn't quite manage a winner which our second half dominance maybe deserved. Still time for a couple of scary defensive issues including one where four players including the keeper watched the ball bounce in the 6 yard box.
My M.O.M Glennon-must have put in 20 decent balls over the 90 minutes.

Have a safe journey home.

Quoted from barralad

Started brightly. All Town for opening 15 minutes but then totally inexplicable. Players at walking pace-no desire to push up against a defence that was at best unsure. The penalty (I'm sure the video has done the rounds-never touched him) put them on the front foot but instead of intelligently seeing out the half for a half time refocus, we contrived to concede a second straight out of Town's ever expanding catalogue of errors.
The introduction of Conteh for the second half made a difference and we punished them with a scrambled first and capitalised on a big error for the second. Couldn't quite manage a winner which our second half dominance maybe deserved. Still time for a couple of scary defensive issues including one where four players including the keeper watched the ball bounce in the 6 yard box.
My M.O.M Glennon-must have put in 20 decent balls over the 90 minutes.

Good summary mate thought young Cartwright might have nicked motm though 🤔 Safe journey home

Yeah Glennon was superb again but Cartwright just edges it for me today

Very fair review that. I had to sit in home main stand amongst the 10 year old FGR ultras that sounded like chipmunks. But you have pointed out everything me and our kid were saying. Safe journey home all, I have a night in Stroud to contend with now. 🍻🍻

Surprised at a lot of the comments in the match thread. Thought Forest Green had some really good players and the 7 was excellent.

Tough conditions and great resolve to rescue a point. We are scoring lots of goals.

I’m just happy to have somebody on the touch line who’s remotely capable of positively affecting a football match.

Win against Sutton & that’s a good points return from 3 games. Today wasn’t a day to play football & coming back from 2 down is something we wouldn’t have done earlier on in the season.

Both centre backs are letting everyone and themselves down by being consistently incapable of doing basic things correctly. Until we resolve this, we’ll continue to find wins hard to come by. Every game the same! It has got to be addressed.

How much we need a Paul Futcher type of player in the heart of our defence, we were the better team today and started off very brightly in tough conditions and really should have taken the lead. The penalty was a farce but we should have cleared the ball out from the lefthand side before the scramble in the area, and once we went behind you could see the confidence disappear and to concede a 2nd goal after possession was lost in midfield was so flipping frustrating. To get the 2 goals back was brilliant and felt FGR where there for the taking as they then lost confidence but we hit too many high balls out of defence instead of playing the ball to feet. 1 point is better than none but I felt after equalising we should have taken all 3 points. Credit to the management duo for changing things around in the 2nd half but bringing Amos on to replace a midfield player confused me.UTM

Quoted from chaos33

Both centre backs are letting everyone and themselves down by being consistently incapable of doing basic things correctly. Until we resolve this, we’ll continue to find wins hard to come by. Every game the same! It has got to be addressed.

If.. and it's a big if, PH had the opportunity to sign Ryan Bennett, it must go down as a big mistake. HR looks like he's a confidence player, Mullarkey isn't trusted to play there, one season too far for LW and Maher is running out of reliable partners and is now shooting himself in the foot..