Reality check

Quoted from GYinScuntland

WHAT?

When you lose you should look at how you lost and how to improve for next time, so you are learning the hard way by losing games but if you win like 6-4 and they scored 4 by excrement defending you seem to forget about the 4 conceded and you don't work on strength you work on weaknesses

Think you're right aaron just as long as the same things don't keep happening.
Without wanting to slag off S&H, guess that's part of the concern.

Agree with the OP.

Quoted from jimgtfc

After a disapointing night i think we should take a step back and have a look at ourselves. Were 4th in the league, 6 points off the top,  we have one of, if not the best defence in the league and all our rivals are as inconsistant as we are.

How many of us would have settled for this at the begining of the season?
How many of us would settle for where we are now at the end of the season?

Theres nothing there to settle for. If GTFC want to move on nights like last night are unacceptable and we shouldn't be dropping our expectations. Its only a couple of weeks ago we were humbled by Kiddy at home in the cup, last night was a sign that we are not the article and the garden isn't as rosy if we don't continue to strive for better.

Never try to justify sloppy defeats, demand that the players learn from them and move on.

Quoted from Paris Mariner

I tend to agree with this yet it continues to annoy me how over the last ten years or so, every time we have a great opportunity to either take advantage of our rivals hiccups or a big home crowd with an impressive performance to get them in for the next home game we f*uck it up. In the Buckley days, Div 1 Championship days we used to rise to the occasion. It's annoying that's all.

But, yes, 4th is great in all honesty and we're only 6 points of the top which is a great position to be in.

But we are facing the other side of the coin now and it's the other so called minnows that are rising to the occasion.

Quoted from AlanPoutonsTackle

Theres nothing there to settle for. If GTFC want to move on nights like last night are unacceptable and we shouldn't be dropping our expectations. Its only a couple of weeks ago we were humbled by Kiddy at home in the cup, last night was a sign that we are not the article and the garden isn't as rosy if we don't continue to strive for better.

Never try to justify sloppy defeats, demand that the players learn from them and move on.

Good points but not sure it's about accepting sloppy defeats ?

Just think it's about saying where we might have been if the mistakes had been cut out, we had more luck etc.
Obviously you can't point to these things forever but in the meantime let's not go OTT or be too downhearted about where we really are ?

I think some people think were Barcelona   were a non league team and unfortunatly we will sometimes put in non league performances. Even the top sides have bad runs. We can not and will not win every game. I seem to remember a certain Andy Cook scoring a hat-trick against the eventual champions Fleetwood last season. Yes we were poor last night but take away 2 individual errors that cost us a 2-0 deficit we'd be talking about a scruffy win that makes us look like champions. Football is all about fine margins, and last night those tight margins cost us. The point of my original post is that one bad game wont cost us promotion, the same as one good game wont secure it, and that i'm happy with where we are at the minute.

UTM

It's frustrating to lose, once again, to a bottom four team.  These dropped points against the likes of Nuneaton and Hyde may well cost us dear at the end of the season.  

Interesting to see how Arsenal conceded two goals to Ajax due to obvious defensive failings. Even top clubs can get it wrong.