I think when we have to go back 50 years to find a positive behind losing the opening game we are running the bathwater deep and getting the sharp knives out of the cutlery drawer.
Certainly decisions, behind which DA was the driving force, have landed us where we are with the history of successes and failures he manufactured for us. Equally certainly that history has now landed us at a level at which being poorly financed is very much the norm. Orient and Salford were unusual in the level of backing behind them last season.
My main bone of contention with Sheridan is over the players he could have got for nothing or next to it if he'd even bothered knowing about them, AND those to whom he has given contracts instead. The team we put out on Saturday wasn't poor; poor was a distant dream of riches only to be imagined. The team's shape was apparently remarkable by its absence and its personnel wholly unremarkable in any positive sense.
Our manager has been lax to the point of somnolent and appears to have recruited only to create a louche convivial atmosphere. Though I'm sure we've got a few lads who'll be a laugh around a bar, our performance in friendlies was largely abyssmal and those tried out, like Bennett, from Sheffield Utd, who impressed, have not been offered anything. We reached the season crippled by injuries having learnt little about our team beyond the urgent need to change it, an impression amply illustrated in our first competitive game.
My guess tonight is we'll try to snatch a win courtesy of parking a bus called Will Evans. Should we succeed it is almost certain he will also be expected to notch the winning goal. I used to be a supporter; now I'm merely an observer. My heart's no longer in it.
Certainly decisions, behind which DA was the driving force, have landed us where we are with the history of successes and failures he manufactured for us. Equally certainly that history has now landed us at a level at which being poorly financed is very much the norm. Orient and Salford were unusual in the level of backing behind them last season.
My main bone of contention with Sheridan is over the players he could have got for nothing or next to it if he'd even bothered knowing about them, AND those to whom he has given contracts instead. The team we put out on Saturday wasn't poor; poor was a distant dream of riches only to be imagined. The team's shape was apparently remarkable by its absence and its personnel wholly unremarkable in any positive sense.
Our manager has been lax to the point of somnolent and appears to have recruited only to create a louche convivial atmosphere. Though I'm sure we've got a few lads who'll be a laugh around a bar, our performance in friendlies was largely abyssmal and those tried out, like Bennett, from Sheffield Utd, who impressed, have not been offered anything. We reached the season crippled by injuries having learnt little about our team beyond the urgent need to change it, an impression amply illustrated in our first competitive game.
My guess tonight is we'll try to snatch a win courtesy of parking a bus called Will Evans. Should we succeed it is almost certain he will also be expected to notch the winning goal. I used to be a supporter; now I'm merely an observer. My heart's no longer in it.