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Considering the way DA wants to play suspect Maher will be a bit concerned about who we might bring in when the window opens.

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Its not that we are trying to play out from the back but we do it too slowly, the number of times the ball could have gone straight out to Clifton, Hunt, Mullarkey and Glennon in acres of space straight from the keeper it always had to go 5 yards to Smith or Maher first. By the time they have a couple of touches their options as above are closed down. Add to that Eisa having a worst first touch than me, the rest of the midfield unable to complete a 10 yrd pass, results in games like today. It's simple some of our players are not quite good enough whatever style we decide to play.

Andy Smith left in May didn’t he?

Someone on way out calling for the manager to be sacked! female dog please, overreacting to getting beaten by a better team on the day.
Town looked like they'd been on the urine Friday night works do
That's one defeat in 7 games.

Quoted from Maringer

We'll never have a successful passing team with the two centre backs who played today. Practically every single pass that Maher made to Glennon (all 4,756 of them today) was either slightly behind him or forced him to check his forward motion to collect the ball. Rodgers ran forward with the ball when there was space in front of him on quite a few occasions, but he rarely managed to find a player with his pass or just whacked it at them too hard.

Hunt lost possession of the ball almost every time he received it and it really was one of his worst games for us. Conteh wasn't really much better.

Harrogate really, really well organised, tidy in possession and outmuscled us across the field. The number of overloads they managed to create without really trying was very worrying and it certainly didn't help that we just passed it straight to them no end of times. Very lucky to only lose by a single goal.

Thought Rodgers looked better today in his all round game. Maher was clearly a good player in the NL for Halifax, I think he’s out of contract in the summer (might be wrong) I’d be disappointed if he got another deal TBH.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Think it flies well over some people’s heads to be honest.

Oh I know.

It was garbage today but it's one game, it happens, especially when you're trying to introduce something that the players probably aren't good enough to execute week in week out.

Onto the next one..

Crap performance felt sorry for the 6 thousands that made the effort to go today.

Not getting all doom and gloom tho be interesting to see what he does in the Jan transfer window

I thought the players were having a competition who could give the ball away the most? The winner was, well they was all doing it very regularly so they may need to share the prize!

1st half I could see what the plan was, it was just being executed badly by players not capable of playing it, the fact is we have very few players in our squad who are capable of passing the ball around quickly with accuracy on a consistent basis, I understand league 2 footballers have their limitations but other league 2 teams pass it accurately and quickly so we clearly need to recruit some players who can do that, and for all the passing out the back, Rose is still very isolated when he is up their alone, we look better when he has somebody alongside him, we need to sign a striker in January as if Wilson and Pyke are injured that leaves Rose badly isolated, hopefully Pyke can stay fit now.

2nd half was a bit of a mess and I could not see what the plan was.

The corners was shocking, I think Hunt hitting the first man over and over and over and over again, his crosses barely left the floor!

In a nutshell.

Harrogate had far better individual players, combining to be the better team.

Quoted from Theimperialcoroner

It is glaringly obvious that Tuckman’s theory will help some people understand what’s going on with the players at the moment.

Need someone who can turn water into wine with this group