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After reading this thread (whilst having a few beers) I’m struggling to read that no posters thought we should have been at least 3 or 4 up by the 30 minute mark in the game. We not only scored two but we’re also gifted 3 maybe 4 good opportunities that we squandered. Don’t want to jump on any bandwagon but we really are not good enough. The old age excuse of injuries….every team has them at this stage of a season but we have no quality in the depth of the squad. We’ve not improved in vital areas that any football person could identify I.e. Goalkeeper, dictating centre midfielder and an out and out striker, despite having the biggest transfer budget we’ll probably have for some years. I appreciate every league two team has stepped up to the bar to try and compete with this divisions elite spenders but seriously as town fans we are deluded if we think this squad can compete near the levels of a promotion/play off place finish.
We have improved in the likes of Rodgers, Mullarkey, Conteh, Eisa and Rose but it’s proved not quite enough in the games we’ve played. Correct me if I’m wrong but is this now 12 points dropped from winning positions at least. No excuse for 2-0 at home and loosing the game at any level.

Yet again another Saturday mid-September and sat here frustrated as f#*k throwing away another 3 points. It seems deflating being a mariners fan at times but we go again! Onwards and upwards UTM

Quoted from come_on_town

After reading this thread (whilst having a few beers) I’m struggling to read that no posters thought we should have been at least 3 or 4 up by the 30 minute mark in the game. We not only scored two but we’re also gifted 3 maybe 4 good opportunities that we squandered. Don’t want to jump on any bandwagon but we really are not good enough. The old age excuse of injuries….every team has them at this stage of a season but we have no quality in the depth of the squad. We’ve not improved in vital areas that any football person could identify I.e. Goalkeeper, dictating centre midfielder and an out and out striker, despite having the biggest transfer budget we’ll probably have for some years. I appreciate every league two team has stepped up to the bar to try and compete with this divisions elite spenders but seriously as town fans we are deluded if we think this squad can compete near the levels of a promotion/play off place finish.
We have improved in the likes of Rodgers, Mullarkey, Conteh, Eisa and Rose but it’s proved not quite enough in the games we’ve played. Correct me if I’m wrong but is this now 12 points dropped from winning positions at least. No excuse for 2-0 at home and loosing the game at any level.

Yet again another Saturday mid-September and sat here frustrated as f#*k throwing away another 3 points. It seems deflating being a mariners fan at times but we go again! Onwards and upwards UTM

Re your first point, I think the Pyke was shite comments pretty much cover that off.

I watched the game at work, I'm usually drunk off when work get in the way of going to BP but this morning I wasn't bothered when I gave my ST to my mate.
I am getting really copulated of with Hurst, his tactics, his signings and his fukin post match interviews.
As much as I don't like the bloke and didn't want him back I have given him my support but now if he can't pull us around in the next five games he has to go otherwise we will be walking into relegation.

For all the good the new owners have done , and it’s a lot . The real test will come when they have to appoint a new manager, they will be in the real football world then. PH is very secure in his job but if results and performances don’t improve then they may have to act

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Re your first point, I think the Pyke was shite comments pretty much cover that off.

Yeah I agree with you, should have maybe covered that in post  

Quoted from chaos33

Moronic thing to say when we are all disappointed and angry.

Some of us could see it coming we don’t feel the pain any less but until the rest of you stop giving Hurst and the owners a free pass on everything why is anything going to change?

Quoted from 123614

Lets see what everyone is saying at the end of the season.

True ..and not to get too excited,this side of Christmas
Swindon away next Saturday is going to be interesting
I can afford  1 pint in the Merlin to listen to some town fans opinions pre match then see for myself what we playing at
Hopefully a turnaround from today's performance
UTM

Quoted from ska face

100% right, couldn’t have put it better. Think a couple have looked at Conteh and decided he can do it all himself so leave him to it. He’s a 20 year old kid, in his first FL season, getting zero protection or support from the more experienced midfielders around him. His options are limited to playing it square to the fullbacks or playing it into a congested midfield ahead of him, nobody ever gives him a decent short option. It’s limiting him and us going forward.

Conteh won’t be the first player we have brought in who has looked like A Rolls Royce and 15 games later we have turned into a Morris Minor.

Just watched the highlights and the defending all round is laughably bad. Glennon is just oblivious, happily moving out as the ball is floated over him for the last goal. How the hell have we ended up without one competent left back?!

Yes we should have been 3 or 4 goals up early on.  This makes the final result worse.

Their keeper must have the patent on the number of unforced errors.  Matched by our awful passing and everything else in the second half.

We got worse from the 30th minute as the game  went on.  Crawley seemed to want it more.  They often had 5, 6 or 7 players attacking.  In one narrowly missed chance they had 5 players in our penalty area. Easily outnumbering our defenders.

Annoyed or beyond annoyed - not sure. Hurst’s summary of the match was as bad as our performance.