I hate being right. It only happens when I suspect something bad. I didn't think it would be five, but I did expect to lose easily. Our weaknesses were matched up against their strengths. I've spent months pointing out that against certain teams the combination of Hird and Evatt would be exposed without a proper defensive midfielder tackling just in front of them.
Unfortunately it also seems however good a player CO'G really might be the team only gets worse and more toothless for his inclusion. But injuries forced Jack's hand and demonstrated exactly how weak we are. It was pure rubbish of fans and our players alike to propose we were never a bottom of the league team. We were by quite a margin and when stretched we still are - that's all. In fact nothing has really changed, except we can all now see that the king is in the all together.
My opinion hasn't really changed. We have to get to the window vaguely in touch with the rest, and we have to recruit wisely and quickly and mould new recruits into the current not-quite-a-team. If DA doesn't provide a war chest then Jack probably has to sell Dennis and that will probably provide him with enough only to recruit from non-league sources and loans. Is that going to be good enough?
Above all we have to inject some pace and some power into the team AND sign a keeper. It looks as though Matt was right all along that we needed a Fourth keeper to start the season - he obviously read the danger signs about Tommy!
How a professional manager left us with a squad lacking so many obvious attributes baffles me, but at least 5-1 at Stevenage might add a spoonful of realism to those play-off hopes. We need to be 22nd. To do it we have to start scoring more and conceding fewer. It sounds so simple, but we really have given a good man in Jack Lester a very tough assignment ........ and our ownership issues are not going to help him.
Unfortunately it also seems however good a player CO'G really might be the team only gets worse and more toothless for his inclusion. But injuries forced Jack's hand and demonstrated exactly how weak we are. It was pure rubbish of fans and our players alike to propose we were never a bottom of the league team. We were by quite a margin and when stretched we still are - that's all. In fact nothing has really changed, except we can all now see that the king is in the all together.
My opinion hasn't really changed. We have to get to the window vaguely in touch with the rest, and we have to recruit wisely and quickly and mould new recruits into the current not-quite-a-team. If DA doesn't provide a war chest then Jack probably has to sell Dennis and that will probably provide him with enough only to recruit from non-league sources and loans. Is that going to be good enough?
Above all we have to inject some pace and some power into the team AND sign a keeper. It looks as though Matt was right all along that we needed a Fourth keeper to start the season - he obviously read the danger signs about Tommy!
How a professional manager left us with a squad lacking so many obvious attributes baffles me, but at least 5-1 at Stevenage might add a spoonful of realism to those play-off hopes. We need to be 22nd. To do it we have to start scoring more and conceding fewer. It sounds so simple, but we really have given a good man in Jack Lester a very tough assignment ........ and our ownership issues are not going to help him.