13-02-2023, 13:53
Grant Smith is a country mile better than Fitzsimmons. When you see a good keeper you can see, feel and hear his relationship with the back four/three. If he climbed on the crossbar Fitzsimmons would look like Dai Bradley in Kes.
We have several good players, but we don't do some of the things which are obvious to other teams. For a start EVERYONE knows you have to push forward on Nemane. You have to put him on the back foot or he'll do it to you ....... and he did it to us. Notts County weren't that good, they were there for the taking IF we'd spent less time trying to exploit an appallingly poor referee and more time creating chances. We wanted to be given a goal rather than going out and getting one.
It wasn't down to the ref' we lost but he never gave the impression of being in charge, or knowing what he was doing. I can understand why Dancing gets so frustrated. But some of our behaviour was difficult to forgive.
We have several good players, but we don't do some of the things which are obvious to other teams. For a start EVERYONE knows you have to push forward on Nemane. You have to put him on the back foot or he'll do it to you ....... and he did it to us. Notts County weren't that good, they were there for the taking IF we'd spent less time trying to exploit an appallingly poor referee and more time creating chances. We wanted to be given a goal rather than going out and getting one.
It wasn't down to the ref' we lost but he never gave the impression of being in charge, or knowing what he was doing. I can understand why Dancing gets so frustrated. But some of our behaviour was difficult to forgive.