Team for Southend

Quoted from Bigdog

Since Maidenhead away I'd beg to differ.. a bit hit and miss at best..

Maidenhead away, poor marking for equaliser
Bromley away, defence collapsed when down to ten men
Dover home, troubled for 20 mins
Altrincham away, conceded two and lucky not to concede more
Woking away, very good but Woking had plenty of chances
Yeovil home, ok
Wealdstone away, shocking
Notts County home, good but late goalscorer unmarked
Kidderminster away, penalty conceded unnecesaarily
Aldershot, chaotic at times against poor forwards

Sometimes problems slip under the radar while looking at bigger problems elsewhere..

Altrincham, we were down to 10 men, we were superb up till that point so thats not fair

Notts, Hunt didnt track his runner, not the fault of the 2 CB’s


Our lack of creativity in the middle imo is whats costing us currently

                          Macca.
Pearson.         Waterfall.        Towler.

Efete.       Fox.    Clifton.     Bagpaga.
                               Hunt
            Sousa.        Taylor.
              

Obviously,efete and bagpaga will have to put a shift in .

Quoted from Hagrid

Altrincham, we were down to 10 men, we were superb up till that point so thats not fair

Notts, Hunt didnt track his runner, not the fault of the 2 CB’s


Our lack of creativity in the middle imo is whats costing us currently

Teams don't get a free pass for conceding goals when down to ten, we've collapsed on both occasions ..

We restrict teams to very few chances which is good, but the amount of times teams score unmarked in our box happens far too often. It's a collective problem but centre halves and keepers are there to organise and they should have the best picture. It's concerning how vulnerable we seem to be when "lesser teams" get in and around our box. They're more solid defending our multitude of attacks compared to us defending their sporadic ones..

Thought we were very quiet vocally as a team yesterday..

Quoted from Phil the cod

Obviously,efete and bagpaga will have to put a shift in .

Well therein lies a problem - bapaga doesn't. Has qualities definitely but work rate and defensive ability aren't them, nor is wide play really, never a wing back. Bapaga is best in the oppo box

Quoted from Maringer

Have to say, on the few occasions I've seen Longe-King play, I've yet to be overly impressed. Very clunky with the ball at his feet. I'd expect the Waterfall/Towler partnership to continue if both are fit.

Play your best defence, try to play your best available players.

Assuming the currently unavailable players don't become available, I'd go for the following:

               McKeown
Efete  Waterfall  Towler  Crookes
           Fox  Hunt  Clifton
            Sousa  Bapaga
                  Taylor

We've tried that before, didnt really work, having said that maybe it's the best of a bad job.

Have we tried 4 4 1 1 with bapaga in the mcatee role?

Quoted from toontown

We've tried that before, didnt really work, having said that maybe it's the best of a bad job.

Have we tried 4 4 1 1 with bapaga in the mcatee role?

I think he went there 2nd half against Wealdstone. But could be wrong

With currently available staff;

                 McKeown

Sears   Waterfall   Towler   Crookes

       Sousa   Fox   Hunt   Clifton

              Taylor   Bapaga

Keep it simple

For me, Sears has to come back a real no nonsense defender, something we've probably lacked and he won't get wound up.

Suddenly picking a team has got very difficult.

Team spirit and drive appears to have gone. Normally in a hole in a game you look to your experienced players to dig out. One of our problems is our players in that category Coke , JL , Macca and now possibly Waterfall again aren’t worth a place in the side and frustrate when they are.

Macao balling out Revan is not good but  nor was Mactee shaking his head when the ball kept bouncy off Lenny against Yeovil.

Hurst natural reaction when things get tough appears to be to go into his shell contrast yesterdays interview with hose early in the season. Expect him to shore up the defence and build from them but the problem is it’s in the final third that we have been woeful in last month.

Don’t understand way Grant plays 20 minutes last week but isn’t ready for the bench this week given what we needed yesterday

Short of Mactee coming back and everything magically been cured which is a big ask I have see no answers other then getting the cheque book out and bringing in 3 or 4 new faces