[Devongone]

Three defeats, two of which I certainly expected, and there's a kind of hush, all over the world tonight.

When Cookie came back neither Dancing nor I thought it was the right thing, so why the surprise when we prove we are far from unbeatable?

We're missing Dobra for sure.

Our attack isn't working because we've no actual plan of attack. We go forward in hope.

Our defence isn't working because the whole team isn't working to defend.

I reckon we get the formation wrong anyway. I'd go three at the back, two wing backs flanking two proper midfielders, three up front, swapping with each other flexibly and helping back into midfield when necessary.

Every part of the field is every player's responsibility. No not-my-jobbing.

And a proper goalie helps.

To be frank if I were a Wrexham fan 7-5 at home would remind me of last season against Dover and I'd be worried nothing had really changed, and if I were a Notts County supporter I'd be waiting for the run to end and the goals to dry up (because they will). I keep looking to see if anyone else is improving their team and trying to come through at a rattle - Boreham Wood maybe? The big three aren't convincing me, one's a flat-track bully and the other is waiting to snatch defeat from victory, and then supposedly there's us.

What do you think?

[Dancingwilldoit]

Said it many times but Paul Cook plays 4-2-3-1. That's it, everyone in the league knows it. Mark the 2 out of the game and put balls over the top of the back 4 and you will stand a good chance of winning.
He can only change like for like and doesn't seem capable of formation changes during the game.
When the whole team is on form we can wipe anybody out but it's a rarity that happens.
King and Horton are good going forward but are both dodgy defending, that puts pressure on Grimes and Williams. Cook seemed to do well last week so maybe a back 3 is a good option.
Sat in sunny Spain watching and listening to the UK going to the dogs. Football taking second place ATM. Who would have thought Brexit would turn out such a shit idea and we could elect a bunch of total absolute pricks? The way things are going nobody will be able to afford to go to a match, Sky will suffer mass cancellations and the Premier league will go pop. Maybe something good will finally result from Brexit.

[Devongone]

4-2-3-1 can be a good formation, really I tend to think any formation can work if everyone is prepared to work all over the field. If they feel it is more important to be where they were told to be than scoring or making a goal or stopping one ...... then it is likely to fail. And yes Dancing I think you are right everyone has got us worked out and unless nearly all our team are at the top of their game, we then become vulnerable.

I'm not quite sure how Brexit got the country into this mess though. Isn't it that international money markets are no more than glorified betting offices? Except punters in betting offices can't make the horses run faster or slower? Money markets buy and sell currencies for profit. Betting on both rise and fall they profit. Kwasi Kwarteng walks to the podium like a man with lead in his boots, they crash the pound. The markets have no confidence they cry, no you are just profiteering little pricks who produce nothing and add nothing to the sum of human happiness.

Germany is up shit creek without a nordstream paddle, Italy has gone Fascist, and it'll be nice in Spain, until a cold snap hits. I struggle to see the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, Vlad the DisPutin, and dough-face Liz Truss as results of Brexit ..... We didn't fail to train enough doctors and nurses for the NHS for 30 years at least as a prequel we looked into a Brexit future and imagined, did we? I'm sure something would be better without Brexit, but everything comes at a price.

[Devongone]

And now apparently Jeremy Hunt has beaten Dobbie the House Elf in the race to become Chancellor. The combination of being an elf, fictional and dead was slightly too much in Lizzie Truss's eyes for her to put her weight behind Dobbie.

Dancing either come home now whilst you still can or stay in Spain forever.

This surely is the day the music died. Bye bye.

Shantih Shantih Shantih

and no full stop.

Throw your soup at the sunflowers, that'll teach Van Gogh.

[Dancingwilldoit]

No contest Dev I'd stay here and claim political asylum. Unless they put the whole cabinet and pm in the asylum first where they should be, I'll wait.

[Devongone]

If you spent weeks telling everybody you were going to get a job done in a particular way, then you appointed someone to do it and he followed your orders exactly .......... when it all went tits would you feel sacking him was the first step to take?

But then when you join a party that almost literally worships the markets you can't really moan when it turns out the markets are a shoal of Great White Sharks.

Spain has still got a supposed socialist in charge, hasn't it?

If your asylum claim was successful, do you think there'd be a flood of small boats from Eastbourne and Worthing heading for the Bay of Biscay?