Hope you are feeling better Dancing. By all accounts Evans was also way off it on Saturday. As he is the mainstay of our defence that probably made the result inevitable irrespective of Sheridan 's latest random team selection.
What Saturday painted in bold colours was that Sheridan keeps harking back to a team that might have been decent seven years ago, but is now largely in its dotage. Jalal has had it, Weir never much had it to lose, Buchanan was past it at Sixfields, Smith and Weston can still do a job but they are both at the fag end of their careers and we've got McGlashan because he'd nowhere else to go, Gerrard wasn't there because he is no longer anywhere and even though Denton may not be weighed down by years but he looks my age ……….. The young up and coming twenty somethings other teams field alongside the occasional oldie must be aching to play us!
We might line up
Coddington
Yarney
Evans
Hollis
Sheridan
Mandeville
Maguire
Rowley
Boden
Fondop-Talom
Amantchi
and at least we'd look as though we might last ninety minutes.
In reality of course you'd probably draft in an older head to excellent effect but the point is we don't need to be so geriatric. As Matt says mathematically the play-offs, like relegation, remain in sight, but if we look at other clubs who are doing well, like Solihull we find that they are still looking to bring players in, whilst we do what ………….. resurrect the desolate Weir ……… For several years we have passed up the opportunity to scout and recruit talent within easy reach. Meppen-Walter gets highly rated every week and bags plenty of goals from the back - two years ago he was getting similar ratings and doing the same for Glossop. Where were we? At the moment Ilkeston are doing well, are we running a rule of their talent? Are we asking if there might be a new Lee Gregory at Staveley getting them to the top of their league.
We won't be gaining ground on the play-offs because we only think we are trying. Other clubs make the most of tiny budgets recruiting and refreshing their playing resources. We are some kinda dinosaur dropped in amongst them. They are quicker and brighter than us and all the tinkering in the world will do no more than keep us in the relegation zone.
What Saturday painted in bold colours was that Sheridan keeps harking back to a team that might have been decent seven years ago, but is now largely in its dotage. Jalal has had it, Weir never much had it to lose, Buchanan was past it at Sixfields, Smith and Weston can still do a job but they are both at the fag end of their careers and we've got McGlashan because he'd nowhere else to go, Gerrard wasn't there because he is no longer anywhere and even though Denton may not be weighed down by years but he looks my age ……….. The young up and coming twenty somethings other teams field alongside the occasional oldie must be aching to play us!
We might line up
Coddington
Yarney
Evans
Hollis
Sheridan
Mandeville
Maguire
Rowley
Boden
Fondop-Talom
Amantchi
and at least we'd look as though we might last ninety minutes.
In reality of course you'd probably draft in an older head to excellent effect but the point is we don't need to be so geriatric. As Matt says mathematically the play-offs, like relegation, remain in sight, but if we look at other clubs who are doing well, like Solihull we find that they are still looking to bring players in, whilst we do what ………….. resurrect the desolate Weir ……… For several years we have passed up the opportunity to scout and recruit talent within easy reach. Meppen-Walter gets highly rated every week and bags plenty of goals from the back - two years ago he was getting similar ratings and doing the same for Glossop. Where were we? At the moment Ilkeston are doing well, are we running a rule of their talent? Are we asking if there might be a new Lee Gregory at Staveley getting them to the top of their league.
We won't be gaining ground on the play-offs because we only think we are trying. Other clubs make the most of tiny budgets recruiting and refreshing their playing resources. We are some kinda dinosaur dropped in amongst them. They are quicker and brighter than us and all the tinkering in the world will do no more than keep us in the relegation zone.