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Quoted from barralad

Surprised no one has beaten me to it so here goes.
I feared the worst when the taxi driver who took me from the station to the ground reckoned that given the almost certainty that Weymouth were going down their players had effectively given up with some of them already on their holidays. Too many times over the years of non-league matches we've seen teams raise their game against us. We should have won.....convincingly. That we didn't can be put down to three things as far as I could see.
1. Weymouth's willingness to put their bodies on the line. I lost count at the number of last minute blocks or tackles- particularly late on.
2. Some bad luck-shots deflected to safety etc.
3. And most importantly for me the failure of certain players to execute their part in what was perhaps the clearest game plan I've seen for a long while. Rarely this season if at all has a Town team made so much use of width. We now have players who can consistently cross the ball well, be it in the air or low inviting the likes of Taylor to get in front of their marker at the near post. Sadly, too many times particularly in the second half, where we had no-one prepared to gamble in the box and nick a goal. The fact that three of our best chances fell to Smith (2) and the irrepressible Waterfall tells a story. Defensively we were pretty decent apart from one aberration on the part of Crocombe where he inexplicably passed to an opponent who to be fair was so surprised he didn't make the best of it and a free kick which thumped Crocombes left hand post.
Midfield got through some sterling work-our command of that area was unchallenged and some of the passing was exquisite.
There was an interesting 20 minutes or so from Manny D who proved a real handful. The only time their keeper dropped the ball Manny was there but his goal bound effort struck a defender on the line.
Scannell did some good work with some excellent crosses at a time when the efforts of some Weymouth players had left them barely able to stand.
Six minutes of time added on simply prolonged the agony.
In my view 2 points definitely lost but it would take a special sort of awkwardness to be disappointed with four points from the last two games.

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Hate to say it but thrashing Chesterfield is no good when you go and draw at a club like Weymouth who are guaranteed to go down.

Quoted from Poojah

Ok, so let me follow your logic. Are you saying that the three points we picked up in last week’s tricky away fixture are now null and void, or that it would have been better not to have won there at all?

Going into the Chesterfield game we were 1 point clear of 8th placed Boreham Wood, who had 3 games in had. Following today’s game, we’re now 4 points clear of Boreham Wood, who now have only 2 games in hand.

Which part of that is ‘no good’?

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

C'mon pal, stop trying to reason with the nay sayers on this board ..their nowhere to be seen when we get good results but climb out the woodwork as soon as it's a "not so good" day.. honestly I give up, I'm banging my head on the sideboard as we speak!!