On the beach ?

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

Let us call a spade a spade.

Ignore today - the wind made it a farce, but did their keeper touch the ball with his hands all afternoon??

In general, we don't attack enough, we don't create chances, we cannot win a ball in the air nor hold it up well enough up front, we don't get around the back or hardly get into the opposition box. There is just not enough forward momentum in our play. I love to see good football, a passing game on the grass and players comfortable on the ball, but there is precious little end product at all.

Pretty triangles in midfield will just not cut it in league 2. I know the manager is hamstrung with the lack of investment but we need a big target man who will be able to hold it up and bring the midfield further up, and two strikers playing off him to give defences something to worry about.

Every two weeks we are sat in the Pontoon and we hardly see any opposition keeper having to break into a sweat. If you don't get the ball into the box you will not score very often.

Quoted from Bigdog

Add to that, we are very static as a team and our movement off the ball is fairly poor and predictable when we've got it and we're very wasteful with our passing. I thought the players worked fairly hard today but there's been a dropping off in the intensity of our play over the past few weeks. Not by much, but enough to notice..

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Sums it up for me. We’re better than we were but not as good as we want to be. But if our budget is 18th to 20th in this league then that’s what we’ll get.

Quoted from forza ivano

Is this correct codger? Not having a go or doubting you but can you tell us more?

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Just putting two & two together based on MJ's midweek interview and John Tondeur's tweet about it.

I have heard from another source with a connection to the club that our budget is, in his words, nearer the bottom than the top.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Shocker of a game due to conditions but we do seem to have hit a bit of a rut.

Embleton is our creative force but he's off form and looks ready for a long rest.  

We definitely lack a killer edge but with a largely settled side plus what I'd guess would be a decent bit of budget to play with following the departures of Hooper plus potentially Collins, Thomas and maybe even Welsh I'm sorta confident Jolley can use that to good effect to address the balance. He's gone about it right in my eyes, make us solid and then add the match winners.

I still like the wingback system but it needs RHJ in that back 3 for it to be anything other than just another mundane back 5 that a lot of sides deploy.