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Terrible that. First half horrendous. Second much the same but for the first ten minutes

Barrow pressed us and identified our weak as urine defending from set pieces.

Huffed and puffed second half, hit outside of the post and nearly an own goal at the end.

Defensively this manager has not improved us, Hume is awful, awful. Rodgers is the same excrement as he was last season and its 4 losses from 6.

Is that improvement? Subs bizzare, he’s reluctant to go 2 up top till its too late, my thoughts on him are well known, and our inability to keep the ball out the net is putting us in danger in every game we play.

Glad I didn't go.

Still the best bet on the fixed odds coupons
GRIMSBY NO CLEAN SHEET,
Always shows a profit!

No shots first half but possession yawn. Rose on his own, again yawn. Set pieces oh my

I did post some time ago that 10 games will show how we're getting on, and it's not looking good for Artell

A lot of huff and puff. A distinct lack of skill. Defensively awful against set pieces.
Trust the data, we are a poor side.

I have made my mind up about Artell..

No more comments from me until we get a decent manager in.

Like I said on the Wright thread our goalkeeping set piece coach   isn’t doing a very good job

I did some ‘work’ last week as I was interested in some stats about town from last season. The full works is saved on a word document should anyone want it posting (be warned, it’s long, detailed and ultimately… boring), but one of the key things I took from it is that the game in which we had most possession (66%), we lost 6-1. On the flip side, the three games we had the least possession (all below 40%) we won.

It’s almost a parallel to that. >60% possession but we haven’t made it count. A much better second half where we’ve probably controlled the ball more, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re level, or even behind, on chances and shots at goal. As much as we looked better than first half (which wasn’t necessarily hard if we’re being honest) we still didn’t truly have a spell that made you believe a goal was coming. A few ‘out your seat’ moments but nothing sustained. We have no right to believe we should simply dominate the attacking flow of the game but certainly when behind we need to have both the direction, intensity and bravery to simply go at it. If you’re losing then without a shift in approach then that will most likely remain the case.

The second half renewed some belief that we’re able to compete with the teams up there but again provides frustration that two avoidable goals have cost us points.

I’m not ordinarily a Rogers hater or anything like that, I don’t see him as a top L2 player but equally I don’t think he’s poor. However, there were too many times he frustrated when on the ball and just looking so casual. I get the need to be calm and composed but there’s a limit before you can’t help but be annoyed. The whole point of playing out from the back is to create an opportunity to break into midfield rather than play into it, yet he often just stood with the ball when the space was in front. Very frustrating.

Shocking first half today. We gifted 2 goals with just not picking people up.

Not ruthless enough in our good spells.

If you're one of those people booing and giving the players shite for keeping the ball. You're a girl private.
We were really good first two home games, we played some good football in them.  It's got to be the aim.
Imagine going to scream at players to lump it.