Dancing, we are on the same hymn sheet.
It is relatively easy to set yourself up to be hard to beat. San Marino can sometimes avoid a hammering from Italy.
Unfortunately for your defence to work really well your attack has to carry some threat ...... or eventually the whole team becomes overwhelmed. (Equally the attack is not going to work well without some support from behind.) We are poor at best in ALL areas of the field.
Angel makes a mistake for the goal. There will always be individual errors, but they don't always have to mean goals, and they needn't mean defeat. But one goal against is a mountain too high for us. We are lucky to be where we are and should be thankful to Coventry for being so bad.
We currently effectively have no goalie, our centre backs are past it and slow, our full backs have been injured almost all season, in midfield we have inconsistency with Nolan and Gardner whilst Angel might or might not find his game again, up front we have Ched who has failed so far, SEB who is clinically dead, a proven goalscorer in Dennis who now doesn't and perhaps a quick young winger who only occasionally gets on the field. Sprinkling a few random imported youngsters over this lot is about as effective as using Hundreds and Thousands.
A team has to carry an attacking threat. It has to have ways to score. Do we have a big physical centre forward, a tall heading machine, a darting goal poacher, a mazy dribbler, a shoot-on-sight merchant, a flying winger, a tricky one? Do we hit a long ball, a dangerous cross, or a bewildering maze of short passes (and if it is the latter can we actually do that?) or do we press for dead ball kicks and get the defenders up? If you don't know how you expect to score you haven't got a plan to win a game, you're hoping something will turn up, whilst the opposition haven't registered.
Matt's right about next season. Look how Portsmouth are struggling to get up, and they're miles better than us. Accrington, Luton and Wycombe have all whopped us. As Dancing says the basis of our team NOW has to be players who might be at Chesterfield next season, because if Mr Caldwell thinks he'll be allowed to ditch the lot and start again with proven names, Mr Carson needs to start him on a financial re-education programme sharpish.
Earlier in the season I was delighted we seemed to have so many young players in and around the fringes of our squad. We can't play or win for toffee and none of them is even near a game. SHAME ON YOU GARY CALDWELL!
It is relatively easy to set yourself up to be hard to beat. San Marino can sometimes avoid a hammering from Italy.
Unfortunately for your defence to work really well your attack has to carry some threat ...... or eventually the whole team becomes overwhelmed. (Equally the attack is not going to work well without some support from behind.) We are poor at best in ALL areas of the field.
Angel makes a mistake for the goal. There will always be individual errors, but they don't always have to mean goals, and they needn't mean defeat. But one goal against is a mountain too high for us. We are lucky to be where we are and should be thankful to Coventry for being so bad.
We currently effectively have no goalie, our centre backs are past it and slow, our full backs have been injured almost all season, in midfield we have inconsistency with Nolan and Gardner whilst Angel might or might not find his game again, up front we have Ched who has failed so far, SEB who is clinically dead, a proven goalscorer in Dennis who now doesn't and perhaps a quick young winger who only occasionally gets on the field. Sprinkling a few random imported youngsters over this lot is about as effective as using Hundreds and Thousands.
A team has to carry an attacking threat. It has to have ways to score. Do we have a big physical centre forward, a tall heading machine, a darting goal poacher, a mazy dribbler, a shoot-on-sight merchant, a flying winger, a tricky one? Do we hit a long ball, a dangerous cross, or a bewildering maze of short passes (and if it is the latter can we actually do that?) or do we press for dead ball kicks and get the defenders up? If you don't know how you expect to score you haven't got a plan to win a game, you're hoping something will turn up, whilst the opposition haven't registered.
Matt's right about next season. Look how Portsmouth are struggling to get up, and they're miles better than us. Accrington, Luton and Wycombe have all whopped us. As Dancing says the basis of our team NOW has to be players who might be at Chesterfield next season, because if Mr Caldwell thinks he'll be allowed to ditch the lot and start again with proven names, Mr Carson needs to start him on a financial re-education programme sharpish.
Earlier in the season I was delighted we seemed to have so many young players in and around the fringes of our squad. We can't play or win for toffee and none of them is even near a game. SHAME ON YOU GARY CALDWELL!