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Quoted from KingstonMariner

I think you’re right. We’ll be half decent. And half bad. Maybe it’ll settle down in a month or two and we’ll be able to develop a consistent squad.

Apart from the goal I didn’t think Tilley was all that. He holds onto the ball too long too often. He’s a good player but it seems as if there’s too much ego in there for him to pass the ball quick enough.

I think it is often there is no movement in front and no one to pass to.

Quoted from Mariner_501

Fourth game this season I’ve seen. 3 losses and a draw where we didn’t have a shot on target.

Two games i have missed have both been wins. My fault.

Preston is class but this was his worst game for us.

Morton and Spokes were garbage.

Not sure what people saw in Gomis. Lost the ball every time he had it and never seemed to be in the right positions.

I'm the other way around... I've watched two games so far this season - Cheltenham and Leyton Orient. Maybe you should do the decent thing and pay for me to watch the game on Saturday instead 😎 UTM 🐟🐟🐟

Quoted from KingstonMariner

I think you’re right. We’ll be half decent. And half bad. Maybe it’ll settle down in a month or two and we’ll be able to develop a consistent squad.

Apart from the goal I didn’t think Tilley was all that. He holds onto the ball too long too often. He’s a good player but it seems as if there’s too much ego in there for him to pass the ball quick enough.

Can't agree with you there about Tilley KM ( but I won't be giving you an x    )

If anything when he joined us I'd say he played well within himself so it's good to see him looking to impose himself on a game now

He was unlucky not to score at Walsall with that effort late on that hit the post and while his goal at Cheltenham was lucky to have gone in, last night it was great to see him go for the chance as it arose and he put it away very well indeed

Maybe he did hold on to the ball a bit last night but to my mind, that might have been more because he knew more what to do with it than some of his team-mates around him

I think if he carries on with a good run in a side that plays together regularly, he'll do very well for us

UTM

You can't just blame the players for that woeful performance - Olly has to now pick the best possible available team instead of all this changing

Harrogate are a decent settled side, settled being the word.

We are still probably trying to find our best team out at the moment.

We have some good players not even in the squad last night like Williams, Scannel, Mohsni, Ohman and Rose so no need to panic as Ollie knows what these guys bring.most of them would go into most league 2 teams.

Was hoping Jackson jnr was going to get a run last night rather than Gibson just to see what hes about, after all he slammed 2 in for the reserves so is on the right track.

Quoted from monkeyboy

We have some good players not even in the squad last night like Williams, Scannel, Mohsni, Ohman and Rose so no need to panic as Ollie knows what these guys bring.most of them would go into most league 2 teams.

Shame he didn't bloody well pick them then!

Agree we have a number of what may be regarded as our better, or experienced players, missing but mystified by the absence of Sean Scannell who played all our first game and looked more than decent despite his obvious lack of match fitness. He also played for the reserves last week but has not made our bench in either game since and would, I would suggest, have been the ideal replacement for Edwards last night.

We continue Saturday/Tuesday in L2 for another two weeks and after that the 2 Tuesday night matches are EFL cup games so I expect after what IH has said we may well see this change of team approach continue for another 4 league games and I would hope after that all players should have reached the required levels of fitness and from then on we will see our best team selected on a much more regular basis.

Quoted from monkeyboy

Harrogate are a decent settled side, settled being the word.

We are still probably trying to find our best team out at the moment.

We have some good players not even in the squad last night like Williams, Scannel, Mohsni, Ohman and Rose so no need to panic as Ollie knows what these guys bring.most of them would go into most league 2 teams.

Was hoping Jackson jnr was going to get a run last night rather than Gibson just to see what hes about, after all he slammed 2 in for the reserves so is on the right track.

I think we all knew they was a decent team , well everyone except Ollie who decided to hand a load of youth team debuts out again .
It’s alright getting great away wins but we can’t just sacrifice 3 points in the name of fitness the week after

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Completely this, but I'd add that Macca probably should have let that ball run out for the first goal and turning our free kick into their 2nd goal was poor.

I think we have enough in the squad to be half decent at this level.      

Totally agree and it goes to show how fine the margins are.

Their first goal was a total freak goal, bet Macca was still thinking about that at 3AM.  Their second though Miller showed some real quality close control bringing the ball down on the run like that, real class that, but again we got unlucky with Maccas parry falling in the worst possible place.

Quoted from golfer

You can't just blame the players for that woeful performance - Olly has to now pick the best possible available team instead of all this changing

Agreed.. especially a team like Harrogate yesterday who are on good form. Will need our best XI for Carlisle on Saturday. It's probably a better idea to rotate the squad (if we were playing them) for the likes of Scunthorpe, Southend, Bolton, Barrow... teams who haven't had the best of starts

Best possible XI every game and deal with injuries as and when they come