So Tshimanga made and scored the penalty, scored the second and made team of the week in the Non-League Paper, so somebody thought he did more than just get on the end of two lucky moments. And he had a lot of moments for me not to read much into with a moderate Oxford City side last season that he and his goals kept halfway up the division.
I might also yet again mention Nassim L'Ghoul who is yet to start for Dover, but on Saturday was Man of the Match having turned the game round for his side in the thirty minutes he was on the field. His form last season shouted out for a bigger club to come in, but Dover, who have no money, got him. He might not have wanted to move north, but as he's French I'm guessing it was football he was after not the white cliffs.
Like Dancing I think we are suffering from Andre-Previn syndrome. We're looking for all the wrong players in all the wrong places.
Unfortunately combining the very different Orient and Salford experiences makes Matt's research uninformative in my opinion. All they had in common was promotion. Salford were new to the division, Orient had had a year getting used to it. Neither flew out of the traps, which we were surely aware of as we trapped and soon tripped. The most significant point about Orient is they did not lose until September, so they had played double figures in games BEFORE they lost one.
I don't hold out great hopes for us. I do hope our manager can overcome his own stubbornness and quickly admit that his team needs reinforcements from outside the EFL, but I'm not holding my breath. It looks to me as though we wasted the close season. Our recent experience suggests if we're struggling after the first ten games, then we go down. By Saturday night we'll have played five. And throw in the extra worry that EFL teams can still make signings and rumours are that huge teams with crowds of up to 10,000 are viewing Boden, one of our very few assets.
The way back to the EFL is not going off to a quick or slow start, it is recruiting well and making a team from players eager to prove themselves. How many of our players feel the need to prove themselves, and how many are just serving out their remaining years in the game?
I might also yet again mention Nassim L'Ghoul who is yet to start for Dover, but on Saturday was Man of the Match having turned the game round for his side in the thirty minutes he was on the field. His form last season shouted out for a bigger club to come in, but Dover, who have no money, got him. He might not have wanted to move north, but as he's French I'm guessing it was football he was after not the white cliffs.
Like Dancing I think we are suffering from Andre-Previn syndrome. We're looking for all the wrong players in all the wrong places.
Unfortunately combining the very different Orient and Salford experiences makes Matt's research uninformative in my opinion. All they had in common was promotion. Salford were new to the division, Orient had had a year getting used to it. Neither flew out of the traps, which we were surely aware of as we trapped and soon tripped. The most significant point about Orient is they did not lose until September, so they had played double figures in games BEFORE they lost one.
I don't hold out great hopes for us. I do hope our manager can overcome his own stubbornness and quickly admit that his team needs reinforcements from outside the EFL, but I'm not holding my breath. It looks to me as though we wasted the close season. Our recent experience suggests if we're struggling after the first ten games, then we go down. By Saturday night we'll have played five. And throw in the extra worry that EFL teams can still make signings and rumours are that huge teams with crowds of up to 10,000 are viewing Boden, one of our very few assets.
The way back to the EFL is not going off to a quick or slow start, it is recruiting well and making a team from players eager to prove themselves. How many of our players feel the need to prove themselves, and how many are just serving out their remaining years in the game?