BFC_53
Well-known member
At this rate, our red card tally will have overtaken our goal tally by the third week in November.
Chucking away games due to ill discipline or poor judgement is a sign of a team just not being good enough. If we are going to continue in this way, we can kiss goodbye to league 1 football whoever the manager is. And the manager isn't blameless of course.
Unfortunately, the number of questions are growing by the week with no real answer to last week's questions. Why is Robson continuing to take set pieces when he's useless at it? Why have we not done anything about our left side of defence which is shining like a beacon to all other manager and screaming "Test me out, I'm there for the taking".? Why did our recruitment not include at least one player with leadership credentials?
On tonight's game, I ended up feeling a bit sorry for the players left (only a bit!), because I felt they did their utmost to get us something, and actually really should've. The question for Critchley is, if those nine men can put their heart and souls into it for half an hour in adverse conditions, why can't the eleven that start. Our effort and urgency got better every time a red card was issued, and thats the sole reason we did ok and created several very good chances with two men less. It's so frustrating because if that effort and urgency and tempo had been there from the start, there's no doubt in my mind we would've won - Wimbledon were utterly dreadful.
I'm not even going to pass comment on each player individually, it's difficult to tell anything from that due to the changing circumstances. I will just say that we have still to find the right combination up front, and I'm starting to think there isn't one. We've brought in players because they're decent, with little or no consideration to whether they'll compliment each other or fit into a system the manager seems to prefer.
I think the nine that finished can say they did their best in the second half, but some of them need to ask themselves whether they did their best in the first half. Actually, the manager needs to be asking them that and dropping the ones that didn't. But does he have a hard enough nose. I'm not sure. I think he'll get more time, but each game is another one that passes where he fails to prove he knows what the problem is. I hope he gets it right, I really do. But it is definitely hope rather than expectation right now.
Chucking away games due to ill discipline or poor judgement is a sign of a team just not being good enough. If we are going to continue in this way, we can kiss goodbye to league 1 football whoever the manager is. And the manager isn't blameless of course.
Unfortunately, the number of questions are growing by the week with no real answer to last week's questions. Why is Robson continuing to take set pieces when he's useless at it? Why have we not done anything about our left side of defence which is shining like a beacon to all other manager and screaming "Test me out, I'm there for the taking".? Why did our recruitment not include at least one player with leadership credentials?
On tonight's game, I ended up feeling a bit sorry for the players left (only a bit!), because I felt they did their utmost to get us something, and actually really should've. The question for Critchley is, if those nine men can put their heart and souls into it for half an hour in adverse conditions, why can't the eleven that start. Our effort and urgency got better every time a red card was issued, and thats the sole reason we did ok and created several very good chances with two men less. It's so frustrating because if that effort and urgency and tempo had been there from the start, there's no doubt in my mind we would've won - Wimbledon were utterly dreadful.
I'm not even going to pass comment on each player individually, it's difficult to tell anything from that due to the changing circumstances. I will just say that we have still to find the right combination up front, and I'm starting to think there isn't one. We've brought in players because they're decent, with little or no consideration to whether they'll compliment each other or fit into a system the manager seems to prefer.
I think the nine that finished can say they did their best in the second half, but some of them need to ask themselves whether they did their best in the first half. Actually, the manager needs to be asking them that and dropping the ones that didn't. But does he have a hard enough nose. I'm not sure. I think he'll get more time, but each game is another one that passes where he fails to prove he knows what the problem is. I hope he gets it right, I really do. But it is definitely hope rather than expectation right now.
