That's the bit that is so galling - we just need a nudge in the right direction to have a real go this season. The timing of the Ricoh move (Wasps issue aside) gave/gives a real opportunity to have a crack at it. I actually think it's the manager's job to sort out the formation / player selection to get us moving now. If he can't get a system sorted to utilise Nouble and Jackson with the players at his disposal (not world beaters, but neither are the rest of our league) then I will ultimately blame him this season if we are not up there. That said I still blame our owners a lot more for our overall position. Not given up on SP by a long way - but he only needs to read our forum to see where most of our team's problems are coming from - certain midfielders who will only score 1-2 goals a season (at best) and a lack of quality balls into the box.
Couldn't agree more with this post. With a bit of investment and a real hard nudge in the right direction we would be a banker for top 2. It's a real bad league.
Look at today, rochdale were wank. Some decent moves but essentially just long punts up field and scored a penalty to win it. I don't like alsopp but I don't recall him making many saves. Alright they hit the post but we defended that cross like a pub team.
We have had so much money in over the last year and up front we have a 6 month loan and a 1 year unheard striker for the last 2-3 years. Both don't look too bad don't get me wrong but with keeping Clarke and Wilson we would of ran circles round their imo fat overweight defenders.
It really hurts me to lose to a wank rochdale side who had no real stars and not set possession. Played hoof ball and won by a shitty penalty. But they won and fair play. We should be better than that but we lost.
I will say one thing for the side today they gave absolutely everything they had but it wasn't good enough that's all. It lacked quality especially in the final third. SP seemed to admit this in his interview.
We were 1-0 against scunthorpe and 3rd a few days ago and now we lost both games against 2 poor teams who have both come from league 2 a few games ago. To quote SP "if we ever want to be anything we need to win games like this" well why didn't we? Are rochdale genuinely just better than us? Was their tactics better than ours? Was there players any better than ours? Is their manager better? My answer is always no so why the hell did we lose?
Anyway rant over.
P.S thanks to ccfcway for the stats. I didn't know them but easy enough to check and back up. Always been our problem. We are always on goal difference 0. We always win a few draw a few and lose a few. Mid table is the norm. Sad really.
Look at the first 8 games so far this season. No game has been played with more than 1 goal in it either way. That's tells you everything you need to know about us.
