Taylor has missed one game. Waldron and Coker were hardly mainstays in the team last season.
I reckon we could play 'yes but' for the rest of the morning Dan and we probably won't reach agreement, so we'll just have to see how things unravel. Have a good day mate.
Looking at the Gateshead side that beat us at home last season, compared to the one that beat us on Saturday, I can only see 2 players that played in both - so how come they managed to cope ok?
There are indeed no excuses for the poor start to the season and it's about time the self pitying rhetoric was abandoned along with all the excuses. There comes a time in every football manager's tenure when it had to be recognised that he has taken the team as far as he can and maybe this is the case here. The next few games are critical.
From whom? You may be confusing excuses with reasons. Football isnāt an exact science and there are so many factors affecting performances. Todayās society throw their toys out of their prams the minute things donāt go their way. The throwaway society has created this constant flux.
Snap (sentiment-wise)From whom? You may be confusing excuses with reasons. Football isnāt an exact science and there are so many factors affecting performances. Todayās society throw their toys out of their prams the minute things donāt go their way. The throwaway society has created this constant flux.
Careful what you wish for.
For the record I thought our line up, tactics and performance were dreadful Saturday
We weren't exactly setting the league alight before the departure of Cardwell and Kensdale hence my use of the word 'excuses'. It seems clear that there is a general malaise hanging over the club at the moment. Maybe expectations were too high and reality is biting.
We have one of the lowest turnovers of players in the division I believe.. didnāt someone post the table?
Despite being a Maher fan, all the way back to his playing days, and wishing him every success as a manager, I am becoming increasingly exasperated. He needs to show he is not a one trick pony and adopt a more appropriate style for the players we have and the league we are in. Personally I hope he does. He worked miracles, with all the issues, to bring us hope but, the aspiration has not materialised into reality. I still want it to be Maher that brings the success but, my support for him will not be governed by sentiment.
I haven't looked at the Heed side to compare - maybe when recruitment was done as well - 4 of our starting 11, over a third of the team, have come in after the start of the season.
By more appropriate for the league we are in, do you mean a play it out from the back style like Gateshead or York?
Maybe of squad, as we had such a small squad last season we didn't lose many non loan players. But the starting 11 on sat was very different.
The York game might be excused as it was our opener and we didn't look fit and did not adopt our usual, of last season, high press and we allowed them to play it out from the back. Gateshead, likewise, our press was poor and not helped with one up top. I have never said we should not play out from the back but, we have certainly done it too much and stupidly. Playing out from the back draws the opposition forward and then the ball can be passed to the spaces created. We play out from the back when their attackers are already forward and it puts us instantly under pressure in the worst area.
Our recruitment has generally been geared towards it, and signing players who are comfortable enough doing it, or showing the potential to become comfortable.
Then perhaps at the very least we need to persist with the formation and players we played against solihull to win so convincingly. Don't agree with resting the players. They're fit and more than capable. We saw that last season.
