Mature calm reflections

What an absolute shambles of a performance.

First, fair play to Orient. A proper football team. Didn’t let their heads go down when we were clobbering them in the first 15. Worked hard for each other on and off the ball. Showed a fantastic spirit and togetherness, Didn’t allow our frequent shithousery ro affect them. Great set of supporters. Thoroughly deserved the win and could have put Seven or eight past us if they had finished better.

Then there is us. Pathetic. Every time I watch this team I think they cannot come up with anything more to disappoint and annoy me, and every week they manage to come up with the goods. From front to back we are the worst defensive team in the Football League. We’ve learned nothing over the whole season, indeed nothing over the past two seasons. Embarrassing individually and collectively.

Although Orient is one of the better away trips, it’s still a long way to go to endure that kind of spineless performance. We deserve better, much better.

I’m now going out to spend an evening with a couple of the kids playing Golf at the Camden Junkyard. I will not be surprised to see some of the payers there - as exhibits.

 

That was very mature, but you could have got a lot more angry to be honest. Most of us are!.

 

Chalk and cheese from last week.

 

A large part of that is Bolton were completely unprepared for our injury and suspension led enforced formation change. They weren't expecting 4 at the back with Humphrys and Jalo attacking both sides and the goals left them she'll shocked and unable to recover.

Sadly that element of surprise has gone and Leyton Orient did their homework on how to beat us.

Oh well, one win in seven for the dreamy beautiful new boss. Can't wait for next season

 

If leyton orient did there homework so well why did we go 2 up? The defence and flavell let us down.

 

Because the homework is how to beat our shambolic defence. You don't really need to worry about Barnsley scoring goals, you just need to know how to stroll through the defence. Birmingham didn't because we were forced to play a completely different setup to what they expected. In fact didn't they score almost immediately after we went back to our usual 3 at the back on Saturday?

 

I would add the midfield too.

 

But I read it as Bolton won because they didn't expect our change and a back 4. Today was the same we conceded 4 goals 2nd half one long ball and the defence was ****** we must have the slowest defence in the league. Bland was a liability. Connell was poor 2nd half infact they all were.

 

Russell and Phillips anonymous that 2nd half connell very poor half too.

 

Behave, for a team that gets as many ‘ dodgy’ yellows as we do, it doesn’t stack up. I’m not saying we don’t use certain tactics at times but to label us as shithousery is way wide of the mark. Indeed, how many times have posts on here moaned about us not being more ‘streetwise’ better at ‘game management’ etc etc. I’ve seen us at the end of of too many ‘shithousery’ tactics to believe were not anything like that. Did you notice the ref blow a few seconds short of the allotted 7 minutes stoppage time despite their being quite a number of stoppages and delays in by the opposition getting the ball back in play, during those 7 minutes. Nar, we are a few things that are not good this season, ‘shithousery’ certainly isn’t one of them

 

From absolute calm to enraged, was enjoying my afternoon & then , total despair. YOOOOO BBBBLLLLUMMMMIN REDDDDZ.

 

A lot to work on.

I'm as disappointed as anyone else.

We seem unable to play well in two halves of football. Last week was exception, today was more of the same sadly.

 

Indeed.

 

I wasn't there. Got it out of my system now. Were we good or crap?

 

Both, but mostly the latter

 

Midfield??

 

I’m relaxed about it

 

What was peoples thoughts on the 2nd looked offside to me? Great finish mind. irrelevant now like.

 

It's quite simple really their really experienced manager made changes in the 2nd half that his players understood and made work and our really inexperienced head coach and his players didn't have an answer.. That's what having a decent experienced manager with an half decent squad gives you sadly we have neither at the minute.