Darthblade
Well-Known Member
My biggest surprise is that so many people are surprised about us being beaten yesterday.
I don't profess to be a footballing genius, however, as soon as I saw the squad yesterday, it was pretty clear that we would not win the game. The fact that we were butt fu**ed by an ordinary league 1 side was somewhat disturbing, but there was no way that the squad picked was going to get a result from that game, nor will it get a result against the majority of agricultural L1 sides.
The ONLY possible positive that can come from this embarrassing mauling, is that hopefully, NA has learned the significant and obvious deficiencies in the squad and will be in big Jims office right now demanding the funds that will help him in the transfer market ...... preferably before Saturday !!
The Sharp & Adams front-line is never going to work in this league and the inclusion of Baxter in CM meant that the midfield would not work in L1 either.
The defence including Collins, McEvely and Mcfadzean was simply a disaster waiting to happen and George Long needs a strong confident defence in front of him in order to get some confidence.
Woolford, at this stage, does not seem to bring anything we don't already have, and with few options on the bench since Scougal & Reed are proven to be lightweight in L1, NA was found wanting in his first attempt for a while, back in the agricultural wilderness of L1 .
In short, Nigel's first test was an embarrassing failure; his confidence in players who have been proven to be underperformers in League 1 has been demonstrated to be a significant error of judgement and I can only hope that the surgeons knife will be wielded both quickly and dramatically on this squad or we will be continuing our residency in the footballing wilderness for another season.
I was "told off" last season on here for being too pessimistic and advised to wait until we had played 10 games to see what happened. My point here, is that after those 10 games had passed, we were already playing "catch up" to the automatic teams and regrettably, a poor start really does take some making up if two or three teams make a good start. You do have to have an exceptional squad to make up for a bad start and the question that you have to ask yourself is ..... do we actually have an exceptional squad at L1 level, not in terms of skill and potential, but in terms of effectiveness in this league !?
I would venture to suggest the answer is no .....
UTB & FTP
I don't profess to be a footballing genius, however, as soon as I saw the squad yesterday, it was pretty clear that we would not win the game. The fact that we were butt fu**ed by an ordinary league 1 side was somewhat disturbing, but there was no way that the squad picked was going to get a result from that game, nor will it get a result against the majority of agricultural L1 sides.
The ONLY possible positive that can come from this embarrassing mauling, is that hopefully, NA has learned the significant and obvious deficiencies in the squad and will be in big Jims office right now demanding the funds that will help him in the transfer market ...... preferably before Saturday !!
The Sharp & Adams front-line is never going to work in this league and the inclusion of Baxter in CM meant that the midfield would not work in L1 either.
The defence including Collins, McEvely and Mcfadzean was simply a disaster waiting to happen and George Long needs a strong confident defence in front of him in order to get some confidence.
Woolford, at this stage, does not seem to bring anything we don't already have, and with few options on the bench since Scougal & Reed are proven to be lightweight in L1, NA was found wanting in his first attempt for a while, back in the agricultural wilderness of L1 .
In short, Nigel's first test was an embarrassing failure; his confidence in players who have been proven to be underperformers in League 1 has been demonstrated to be a significant error of judgement and I can only hope that the surgeons knife will be wielded both quickly and dramatically on this squad or we will be continuing our residency in the footballing wilderness for another season.
I was "told off" last season on here for being too pessimistic and advised to wait until we had played 10 games to see what happened. My point here, is that after those 10 games had passed, we were already playing "catch up" to the automatic teams and regrettably, a poor start really does take some making up if two or three teams make a good start. You do have to have an exceptional squad to make up for a bad start and the question that you have to ask yourself is ..... do we actually have an exceptional squad at L1 level, not in terms of skill and potential, but in terms of effectiveness in this league !?
I would venture to suggest the answer is no .....
UTB & FTP
