I think the kick up the arse should have come after one of the many previous defeats.Maybe .. Just maybe this is the kick up the arse the players have needed.. If I was pressley I would play highlights of this game before every match.. Just can't get over the lack of effort shown yesterday.. Suppose we will see on wednesday
While I agree SISU have much to answer for, the knee jerk reaction of blaming them when sh!t hits the fan is silly.
Joy is the owner of SISU and puts her faith rightly or wrongly in waggot and SP to sort the football side out while she focuses on making us a break even club.
I would of course like more investment, but there are managers and directors of football do far better things on a smaller budget than SISU give our football management team.
Sisu are bad, but let's not hide behind them to excuse goalkeepers loosing their heads. Captains thinking they are Messi from the penalty spot and players who have been signed who frankly are dire.
Worcester were well in control even at 11 vs 11. Every chance Worcester would have still have won had it remained that way.
At 11 vs 10 it just should have been about 5-1 to Worcester. Can't believe I am saying that, but we were totally and completely outplayed by a Conference North side.
This has to be one of the worst ever results in our entire history.
Watching that game there I honestly don't think the game would have been any different had we had all 11 players on the pitch.
Replace who? No manager would do well with the squad we have not pressely's fault sisu are ripping the club apart
Can't hide behind budgets now can he
Can't hide behind budgets now can he
Can't hide behind budgets now can he
The day started poorly and got worse
Was in the stadium early and saw the two keepers warming up with oggy .... neither looked confident, both dropped simple catches and the kicking was average at best, some was awful.
The Worcester lads came out as a team and warmed up as a team, there was a togetherness. Our lads ambled out stood doing little passes for 5 minutes and then did a couple of drills that looked poor in quality, then ambled off. Set the scene for what was to follow. Said to my lad then that it all felt wrong and I thought that it was going to be a bad day
Worcester took 10 seconds to have a crack at goal it was best part of 20 minutes before we even got in to their penalty box. By that time Worcester had had several good chances
They pressed high up with plenty of energy and no little skill. Their passing was decent and progressive ours was deliberate and unimaginative. They won tackles, got their foot in we stood off and let them play. The one thing you know you have to do against a non league side is to win your battles on the pitch, I can not think of one player for CCFC who did that. Even Reda didn't get his own way against their No9. The centre forward looked lumbering and round but got his body in the way, fought for every ball, played some decent lay offs and worked himself in to the ground
The passing for CCFC was generally slow and deliberate and even short 10yd passes found touch rather than the man...... Worcester had players clipping passes the width of the pitch and even before the sending off always had a man free in space. In short WCFC played the better football through out
The sending off was ridiculous, what the hell was Burge thinking off, yes he got tripped but what he did next was inexcusable. BUT it was not the reason we lost this game. We were lucky not to concede before the penalty and defensively looked weak and out of sorts. BUT where was the midfield? there was no leadership no strength no guile no pace ..... nothing in the middle of the park. Yes Maddison showed a few good touches but lets be honest he was going to stand out just doing simple things well in the team that surrounded him.
Reda, I think tried too hard tried to do it all himself tried to drag the team through by his effort ...... and ended up not being that effective because of it. Nothing wrong with a centre half taking a penalty but surely his manager could see Reda was trying too hard and failure beckoned. I felt that the penalty was soft in the first place.
I do wonder if the off field stuff is getting to the players? I do wonder why it is that SP's message is not clear and bought in to by the players? I do wonder why performance levels of the players are dropping? I do wonder what long term damage is being done to the young players because of the pressure put on them?
I could go on...... Yesterday was not about investment because the players we had should have been good enough. Nor was it just a bad day at the office because these kind of performances are becoming too regular, 20 minutes against Posh does not make us a good team. There is something fundamentally wrong in how we set up and approach games, the desire and commitment doesn't have the edge it needs, there are deficiencies throughout the team. The first question that SP has to answer is "how do I improve what I am doing?" because unless he can adapt and get his message across clearly in a way the players commit to then I do not see how he solves this
Yes they are in it together but SP controls this. Yes there are restricted things you can do once the players get on the pitch but he has the power to set the scene and make substitutions. Yes he can talk about players taking responsibility but that starts with him doing exactly that. He identifies the players, he has benefitted from an academy that was progressing players before he got here, but its his team ........ and its not working
Yesterday was the latest in a long line of embarassments that CCFC put their fans through...... so few good days of late
Finally well done to Worcester City, they thoroughly deserved their win and showed many of the qualities we are missing at present. 2:1 did not flatter them
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