We're all guilty of wanting it yesterday. Yes, we're not delivering right now. I watched tonight on telly. We've matched a team away from home that are well drilled, have had tactical/managerial stability for a prolonged spell and that will go up. We've done it after losing hundreds of career appearances and management over the summer. In my eyes we're only one good signing from going on the kind of run we did once upon a time when near bottom of this division. There's harmony. There's drive. There's ability. Sign one player who joins this mess up and all this negativity right now will look silly. We've got the parts but the oil is on back order.
Tonight was watching Poya Handbags dream eleven v Peterborough away. In every way barring the result.
I agree they’re bang average but Birmingham aside there’s nobody in the division that’s particularly good this season so I can’t agree there’s ‘no way’ they’ll go up. Who do you think will strengthen more in January? Us or them? Them or Wycombe? Wycombe might have new owners with cash but they dont have the Hollywood Disney pull - Wrexham will have money to spend; and anyone they go for will go to them if only to be part of the circus. The rest are also rans and absolutely bang average - we could finish top six or bottom half. None of the teams from fourth to seventh above us are special, we certainly aren’t, and those below us down to about twelfth could go on a run. I don’t fancy us to get too much out of Birmingham, Exeter away is tough if only due to the horrendous distance travelled in their legs. Even Leyton Orient at home doesn’t look appealing. We could perceivably be bottom half by Christmas; we will do very well to be top ten still I’d argue. But we could beat Exeter and Orient, get a point or three from Brum and start a great run. It’s possible - the league is dross. We just happen to also be dross and no better than average on any given day. But as I say - so are the rest, apart from Birmingham at the top and the current bottom three who are woeful. Not that we beat all them, but even we managed to see off two of them…
Where was the drive apart from the first 5 to 10 minutes there was no drive in evidence and the only ability on show was the ability to hit the first defender on nearly every cross and set piece.
We didn't move enough whilst it was cold and stuck our fingers up our arses. Whilst our back was turned Wrexham shafted us...literally. what can you say?
Wish I shared your optimism. I see a team that’s miles away from making the top 6, one that needs 2 or 3 top players through the door in January and half a dozen deadwood players going the other way. A club that’s skint with a dwindling, disillusioned fanbase. First thing I’d do though to try and improve things is get Luca Connell off set pieces……
Im not sure we are building. We have seen a steady decline last few years. I don't see that we signed anyone that was an upgrade from last season. Maybe the stats prove it, i don't know. But we don't look one player away from success right now and i dont know whether we have the ambition + ability + money to solve it in the transfer window. We will likely see another set of outgoings in the summer which challenges the question of building or not.
We’re not one player away at all. It’s gonna be over before the window opens. Everyone has a game in hand on us, our home record is abysmal and it sums up where we are when Birmingham are six points in front of us with three games in hand. That league table makes me sick. Not because I’m arrogant to think we should be in the top six, because I’m not, but because I only can see us sliding down the table now. We have a manager who is definitely a backwards move from Neill Collins, our summer buzzed off a player who has made two appearances and now coaches corners we don’t score from, a sporting director who’s recruitment is absolutely ***** and a board who seem to be getting more clueless as time goes on. I said it last night that we’ll be lucky to finish 10th. On reflection, that might be too optimistic.
Momentum takes you a long way though mate. I thought they were poor going forward and their tactic appear to be shoot from the edge of the box (which worked) but they were very sound defensively. They did the ugly well. An Ian Dowie of football teams, if you like. I think that’s why people think we played so badly as we couldn’t break them down. That was more us than them. I fancy them to remain in the top six. not saying we played well by the way as the wrong option was taken too many times and the defending for the goal was criminal. I think they wore us down.
[QUOTE="Chef Tyke, post: 3384154, member: 6617" I think they wore us down.[/QUOTE] very true I can’t help but think that part of any team’s plan against us is to be patient and keep it simple. We will give chances up and offer encouragement to the opposition. They will have chances to win games against us and one goal is vital as we don’t have much comeback and lack concentration over 100 mins. Even more in the latter stages as we revert to a more defensive line up. The headline of “Battling Barnsley” seems to have been traded for “Narrow Defeat”.
