A bit of perspective.

Quoted from Stevie Saunders

We are perfect for winning a dour, drab game 1-0 away from home.. as we have proved several times

And don't hold your breath - there will not be ANY goal machines in the transfer window... so we go with what we have which will not mean a title challenge but might get us over the line into play offs

Leopards don't change their spots , same with the man in charge . Brings someone in , fans  get excited only to see the same old faces doing the same old thing . It's there for all to see what needs addressing , surprised at what Lincoln did to us ? Not really  , we have been papering over the cracks all season  .    If we are bringing in players on loan play them , not even on the bench . Are we starting our usual new year crawl to the end of the season  .  Down hearted , down beat  , dam right  .

Quoted from DocTower

Leopards don't change their spots , same with the man in charge . Brings someone in , fans  get excited only to see the same old faces doing the same old thing . It's there for all to see what needs addressing , surprised at what Lincoln did to us ? Not really  , we have been papering over the cracks all season  .    If we are bringing in players on loan play them , not even on the bench . Are we starting our usual new year crawl to the end of the season  .  Down hearted , down beat  , dam right  .

The money wasted on bringing players in and not playing them,

Could have been used better by putting it towards signing a goal scorer,

Then Hurst would proberly coach it out of him, so its pointless whatever we want.

The thing what puzzles me more than anything is why bring players in and not play them?

With the cheapo young loannees, I can see they are just there for numbers and for the odd brief appearance as required, but I'm surprised that Watson hasn't had more of a look in.

I expect he's cheap as well but it does seem strange he's not had a few more minutes on the pitch.

Quoted from Maringer

With the cheapo young loannees, I can see they are just there for numbers and for the odd brief appearance as required, but I'm surprised that Watson hasn't had more of a look in.

I expect he's cheap as well but it does seem strange he's not had a few more minutes on the pitch.

Or at least on the bench . Hannah , don't know what he's done wrong , on the bench , Brown not fit on the bench , Paddy IMHO game changer on the bench , Bignot  steady eddy not a game changer .
Aswad not fit , Magney not fit  playing . The list goes on , as does the nightmare .

Nightmare? A bit melodramatic there!

Bignot is obviously ahead of Walker (the young full-back one) in the pecking order, but it seems very sensible to have him on the bench when Parslow is already playing and can't be there to try and cover a few defensive roles. Our wingers don't look capable of playing full-back so you need a specialist on the bench.

We didn't appear to have too many options on the bench yesterday, but you can't really help it when you have to sub two players before the start of the second half due to illness and injury.

How many 'game changing' reserve right backs are there in the world, never mind the Conference?!

Quoted from Maringer

We didn't appear to have too many options on the bench yesterday, but you can't really help it when you have to sub two players before the start of the second half due to illness and injury.

We didnt apear to have too many options on the bench because we havnt got a decent enough squad, end of. We are weaker in numbers than last season and arguably in quality.
We have three misperforming wingers on the books, Arnold has looked awful in the last few games, Makreth offers nothing over Coulbeck and Neilson flatters to deceive more often than not.
None of the three wide men are commanding a place on form, two of them get in and one will always be sub and in all honesty can anyone say either of them has "owned" their place this season?
Same in the striking positions, two are currently playing so one is guaranteed to be sub, the only time that changes is when we play one up and we will get two on the bench.
Centre midfield, its perm any two from three of Disley, Clay, Brown with the other one on the bench as Paddy doesnt get a look in normally, he only appeared yesterday for 10 mins due to illness and injury forcing the manager to put him on. Currently Disley is the only one playing anything like a sure starter.
And yesterday Bignot finally gets a look in after injury and suspensions finally whittle us down to the manager having to play him, hardly the easiest game to make your first(?) significant appearance of the season having done everything previously to avoid using him.
All the while two loanee/short contract players not even on the bench to aid the attacking line up.

Quoted from Maringer

Nightmare? A bit melodramatic there!

Bignot is obviously ahead of Walker (the young full-back one) in the pecking order, but it seems very sensible to have him on the bench when Parslow is already playing and can't be there to try and cover a few defensive roles. Our wingers don't look capable of playing full-back so you need a specialist on the bench.

We didn't appear to have too many options on the bench yesterday, but you can't really help it when you have to sub two players before the start of the second half due to illness and injury.

Yeh , ok then , change nightmare to bad dream .
Think it was at the begining of the season when Hurst wanted a smaller quality squad  , comments then were that it could bite you on the bum .  Options were to dip into the loan market  . With sickness ,  injuries and a drop in form , options are getting a bit thin .

Quoted from jock dock tower

Have watched with amazement at the calls for Hurst's head on this forum over the last couple of days

The internet, and fans forums in particular make it easy for people to vent their wrath on players and managers in the heat of the moment

This isn't for the last few days or the "heat of the moment" it's been nearly 3 seasons!

I'm sick and tired of people saying all this is a "knee jerk reaction" after a bad defeat and the fans wanting Hurst to go should look at the bigger picture, Jesus Christ thats what we have been doing for 3 years!!

It's quite clear that Hurst hasn't got what it takes to get a football team out of this league, by the signings he makes, the style of football, his tactical awareness  or his motivational skills. Look at the recent teams to get automatic promotion out the the conference, Luton, Crawley, Fleetwood, all stormed the league with attacking fast paced football and compare that to the utter dross we put up with. Yes we grind out those away1-0 wins but the way Hurst sends out the team particularly at home with this dour, play it safe attitude will get us nowhere and if anyone says how do you know that, I say history has proved this happens to our club all the time Hurst has been here.